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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 22, 2025

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Feb. 22: Netanyahu delays planned prisoner release until Hamas ends ‘demeaning ceremonies’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

PM alleges terror group violating deal, demands guarantees after caskets of murdered Bibas kids put on display in Gaza, captives forced to watch others go free for propaganda

11:29 pm

Netanyahu says prisoners will not be freed until hostages released without Hamas hoopla
10:51 pm

Israel has decided to free Palestinian prisoners -- reports
10:14 pm

Report claims prisoner releases may begin within half-hour

Relatives and friends of Eliya Cohen, 27, celebrate as they watch the TV broadcast of his release by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, February 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Families, friends elated at return of four Oct. 7 hostages: ‘Unforgettable moments’

Relatives express relief at appearance of Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen and Tal Shoham, call for all captives to return: ‘Everyone needs to feel what we are feeling’

Israeli hostages released February 22, 2025 (left to right): Tal Shoham, Avera Mengistu seen on stage in Rafah (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo); Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert on stage in Nuseirat (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo); Hisham al-Sayed in Gaza (X screenshot)

5 handed over in propaganda ceremonies, 1 without fanfare

Hamas frees final 6 living hostages in phase 1 of deal; all reunite with family in Israel

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

October 7 captives Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen back after over 500 days in Hamas captivity; Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed return after decade in Gaza

Israelis in Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, watch a big screen showing the releases of hostages Avera Mengistu and Tal Shoham from Hamas captivity in Gaza, February 22, 2025. (Roya Lavi / Hostages Families Forum)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 22: Day 505 – 6 gaunt hostages released by Hamas, 2 after a decade

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shiri Bibas, who was abducted and taken to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)

Israelis line up overnight at side of the road to honor convoy

Shiri Bibas’s body returned to Israel; officials assess she was ‘brutally’ murdered with sons in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Announcement comes after Hamas finally delivers body overnight, a day after her 2 young sons were determined to have been murdered in cold blood by terrorists in Strip

Shiri Bibas (Courtesy)

After Hamas sends wrong body, Bibas family says priority is getting Shiri back, not revenge

Ariel and Kfir Bibas (Hostage Family Forum)

IDF: Captors murdered children Ariel and Kfir Bibas ‘in cold blood’ with ‘their bare hands’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Spokesman said Yarden Bibas insisted he tell the world the horrific truth; Hamas professes surprise after body of Gazan woman sent to Israel in place of Shiri Bibas; Israel demands Shiri be returned immediately

Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas (Hostages Families Forum)

New York, Rio de Janeiro landmarks lit orange to honor murdered Bibas family

Top row (L-R) Tsahi Idan and Ohad Yahalomi; Bottom row (L-R) Itzik Elgarat and Shlomo Mantzur (Courtesy)

These are the 4 hostages set to be released late Wednesday; all are believed to be dead

Ohad Yahalomi was injured in gun battle with terrorists; Tsahi Idan saw his daughter die in his arms; Itzik Elgarat told his brother ‘This is the end’; Shlomo Mantzur was murdered on Oct. 7

US President Donald Trump speaks at the Governors Working Session in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Says Netanyahu 'angry,' wants to go back into Gaza

Trump: I really am fine with any decision Israel makes — continue truce or resume war

US president calls killing of child hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas ‘so barbaric’; says he’s not forcing Gaza plan to expel locals to Jordan, Egypt; wonders why Israel ever left Gaza

From left to right: Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa; Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani; United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; Emir of Kuwait Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan; Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi; Jordan Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah; and UAE's National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nahyan. The leaders pose for a picture during their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 21, 2025. (Saudi Ministry of Media via AP)

Arab leaders discuss backing ‘the Palestinian cause’ at meeting on Trump’s Gaza plan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians walk past tents lining the streets amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, February 18, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

Trump administration approves funds for Gaza aid, Red Cross after initial freeze

By Jonathan Landay and Simon Lewis

Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University, January 21, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Exclusive

Gaza captor told hostages that Hamas collaborates with US campus protesters, lawsuit alleges

Case filed by three former hostages against US nonprofit says member of terror group who held them claimed to be working with ‘allies’ at universities and in the media

This screenshot from the trailer for 'Gaza: How to Survive A War Zone' shows narrator Abdullah Al-Yazouri, whose father is a Hamas deputy minister. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

BBC pulls Gaza documentary after star revealed as son of Hamas minister

Marissa Nuckels

Deradicalize the future: Free Gaza and the world from Hamas

The greatest challenge is ensuring that a new Hamas does not rise in its place. This is what ’total victory would actually look like

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

In the shadow of death, we choose kindness

In requiring us to bury the dead with lovingkindness, the Torah allows us to start our own journey back into the realm of the living

Henry Hamra holds a Torah scroll as he tours the al-Franj Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus, February 18, 2025. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

‘Excited Jews are coming back’: US Jewish group receives warm welcome in Syria

Delegation of American Jews visits Damascus for first time since Assad regime’s fall, finding hospitality but Jewish sites in disrepair

Suspect in Berlin stabbing is Syrian who wanted to ‘kill Jews,’ police say

By AFP

19-year-old asylum seeker stabbed 30-year-old Spanish man in the neck near Berlin Holocaust memorial; police find suspect with bloody hands and Quran

Police officers work at the cordoned off scene where a person was stabbed near the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin on February 21, 2025. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Police apprehend a suspect at the scene where a person was stabbed near the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany on February 21, 2025. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Man wounded in stabbing by Berlin Holocaust memorial; suspect arrested

By Pierrick Yvon

Security forces and bomb disposal units at the scene of a bus explosion in Bat Yam on February 20, 2025. (Oren Ziv/AFP)

Bus driver got passengers off minutes before bomb detonated Thursday night – report

Israeli TV says woman alerted driver to suspicious item aboard bus, after terrorist attempted to conceal bomb under seat before alighting

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a briefing with military officers in Tulkarem, February 21, 2025 (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

In visit to Tulkarem, Netanyahu calls to expand West Bank counterterror operation

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Prime minister’s rare visit comes in wake of bus bombings in central Israel; Palestinian Authority condemns Netanyahu’s ‘storming’ of refugee camp

French National Rally leader Jordan Bardella (L) meets Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli in Washington on February 21, 2025 (Bardella/X)

Diaspora minister Chikli meets French far-right leader at US conservative conference

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jordan Bardella hails ‘fruitful discussions’ with Likud minister, who has been working to curry favor with European far-right factions long boycotted by Israel

Steve Bannon gestures toward a crowd in Oxon Hill, Maryland, February 21, 2025. (X screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Trump ally Steve Bannon appears to perform a Nazi salute at conservative conference

By Jill Colvin and Adriana Gomez Licon

Analysis

Money talks: Trade keeps Israel-UAE relations afloat despite Oct. 7 and Gaza war

Commerce between the two Abraham Accords signatories has grown 11% year over year, but maintaining ties has been a diplomatic tightrope

Illustrative: People visit the Israeli stand at the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

More Headlines

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. (L), speaks with the media during his first official arrival at the Pentagon as secretary, in Washington on January 27, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump fires top US general in major shakeup of military leadership

The US Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, February 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

US Supreme Court deals severe blow to lawsuit by Holocaust survivors against Hungary

By Mark Sherman

Hadi Matar, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, stands in Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie found guilty of attempted murder

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

A protester hoists a framed portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in front of Lebanese troops during a riot organized by the terror group outside the airport in Beirut, Lebanon, February 15, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro / AFP)

Iran’s parliament speaker, foreign minister to attend funeral of Hezbollah’s Nasrallah

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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