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What Matters Most On Monday, February 24, 2025

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Yoav Avital (right) and the late Ariel Bibas, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. (Spokeswoman, Kibbutz Nir Oz)

Inside story'Why hasn't he come back?'

‘He isn’t dead, he’s in his room’: Ariel Bibas’s 5-year-old friend struggles with his loss

Yoav Avital, who grew up with Ariel, asked to invent a potion that could bring his friend back, dictated a letter imagining Ariel ‘flying over Gaza’ to ‘fight the bad guys with a bow and arrow’

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, January 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Hamas says no negotiations until 602 prisoners released

In first, Witkoff says US looking to extend hostage deal’s current phase

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Trump envoy will head to region this week, as agreement veers off original framework, but he insists it is still possible to get back on track with phase two negotiations

Hundreds gather in New York’s Central Park for a rally urging a continuation of the Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal until all captives have been returned to Israel, February 23, 2025 (X screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law).

Hundreds in NYC’s Central Park urge continuing hostage release-ceasefire deal

Shiri Bibas (left) and her sons Ariel, 4, (top-right) and baby Kfir, who were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 and murdered in captivity. (Courtesy/Foreign Ministry)

Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas to be buried in closed ceremony Wed.; public urged to line funeral route

Eulogies at funeral near Kibbutz Nir Oz will be live-streamed; sister says Yarden Bibas struggling to come to terms with horrible news of his wife and young sons’ murder in captivity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an IDF cadets graduation ceremony in Holon, February 23, 2025. (Haim Zach/ GPO)

Holding up photo of Bibas family, PM says Israel must ‘remember what we’re fighting for’

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Promoted LivestreamJPPI

Rebuilding Northern Israel

When Israel’s north emptied after October 8, Nissan Zeevi of Kfar Giladi stayed. Now he wants to bring families back. A story of fear, resilience, and the fight to rebuild the Galilee.

US backs Israel’s decision to push off release of 602 Palestinian security prisoners

By ToI Staff, Reuters and Jacob Magid

White House says Trump supports Israel’s choices on Hamas, delay is ‘appropriate response’ to ‘barbaric treatment’ of hostages and ‘hideous parade’ of Bibas boys’ coffins

US President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort; Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, February 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Volunteers prepare food for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 19, 2024. (AFP)

New study: There was no famine in Gaza… according to famine review groups’ own data

By Jeremy Sharon

Israeli hostages Tal Shoham left, and Avera Mengisto are put on stage by Hamas in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 24: Hostage deal said on brink of collapse amid logjam over ending ceremonies

Report points to progress on proposal to send bodies via Egypt * Court cancels hearing in Netanyahu criminal trial after closed-door briefing with IDF intelligence chief

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EU delegation cancels trip to Jerusalem, West Bank after Israel banned 4 participants
9:11 pm

'Gaza must never be again a terror haven,' EU foreign policy chief says
9:08 pm

Sa'ar urges European counterparts not to trust Syria's new 'Jihadist Islamist' leaders

from the blogs

A narrow bridge to freedom: Flee, flee Palestine

Above all, my friend in Gaza tells me one thing: he wants to leave. Yet, for the world, Palestinians outside of refugee camps have no value.

A man surveys damage caused during the recent war in Metula, on the Israeli border with Lebanon, January 2, 2025. (Yossi Zamir/ Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'There is nothing to return to'

As northerners sent home, hard-hit Metula says more time needed to heal war wounds

By Diana Bletter

With main street a construction site, the school in ruins and most residents still reticent to return, Mayor David Azoulay wants the government to wait until July to reopen the city

Netanyahu trialCourt limits PM's primary testimony to 14 more hearings

Court nixes hearing after PM cites ongoing discussions of ‘foundation of our existence’

By Jeremy Sharon

After describing ‘historic turning point,’ Netanyahu to meet ministers Tuesday morning instead; judges agree to discuss reducing premier’s testimony from 3 hearings per week to 2

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at Tel Aviv District Court to testify in his criminal trial, February 24, 2025. (Moti Milrod/POOL)

A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows an Israeli army tank stationed on a hill overlooking northern Gaza on February 12, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

IDF raises readiness along Gaza border, while ending civilian restrictions in north

By Emanuel Fabian

Relatives of recently freed hostages Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen, and Omer Shem Tov hold a press conference at the Rabin Medical Center on February 23, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Families Forum)

Shackled, starved, alone in tunnels: Families of freed hostages share new details

By Jessica Steinberg

Father of Hisham al-Sayed says he returned a shell of a person after a decade in Hamas captivity; Netanyahu speaks to freed captives Sagui Dekel-Chen and Ohad Ben Ami

Sha’ban al-Sayed speaks at a press conference at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Ichilov, on February 23, 2025 following his son Hisham al-Sayed's release from Hamas captivity. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Father of ex-hostage Hisham al-Sayed demands outrage from Arab world over son’s condition

By AFP and ToI Staff

Father of Israeli Bedouin Muslim family accuses Hamas of violating the teachings of Islam by exploiting his son, who ‘has mental problems,’ calls for intensifying efforts to free all hostages

Even against beasts, the IDF must uphold its values

The soldiers who allegedly abused a Hamas prisoner must be prosecuted, not for the terrorist’s sake but to preserve Israel’s high moral ground

The end of liberal democracy in Europe?

With the erosion of a secure middle class, the far-right AfD party’s success is not a retreat to Germany’s past – it is about survival

Left: Nael Obeid (social media); Right: A crowd gathers around a bus carrying released Palestinian prisoners as it arrives in the West Bank city of Beitunia, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Terrorist behind deadly bombing falls to his death a week after release under Gaza deal

By Charlie Summers

Hamas’s Nael Obeid was jailed for 2003 Cafe Hillel bombing in Jerusalem; 7 fatalities included Dr. David Applebaum, hospital emergency room head, and his daughter Nava, on the eve of her wedding

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech at the opening of the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on February 24, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

UN chief ‘gravely concerned’ over Israeli settler violence in West Bank

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert holds up the map he presented to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2008 for a two-state solution in a BBC documentary that aired in February, 2025. (Screencapture/ BBC)

Olmert reveals for first time map of Palestinian state he offered Abbas

Former PM shows documentary-makers diagram that inspired legend of Palestinian leader’s hastily sketched copy presented to officials in Ramallah in failed peace bid

Images depicting the Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah, center left, and his late cousin and heir-apparent, Hashem Safieddine, are displayed during their funeral ceremony at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, February 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Tens of thousands shout ‘Death to Israel’ at Nasrallah funeral, as Israeli jets fly overhead

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

In address to packed Beirut stadium from hidden location, terror leader’s successor vows to uphold his legacy, threatens Israel and US, as IDF hits Hezbollah targets across Lebanon

An Israeli tank drives towards the Jenin camp in the West Bank, February 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 24: Day 507 – Tanks in the West Bank and IAF buzzes Nasrallah funeral

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Explosions are seen in footage published by the IDF on February 23, 2025, of the September 27, 2024, airstrike on Beirut, Lebanon, that killed longtime Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. (Israel Defense Forces)

On day of Nasrallah funeral, IDF publishes videos of strike that killed him

By Emanuel Fabian

Opening the archives

Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele

Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them

From the trials of Adolf Eichmann, which will be examined in 'Eichmann -- The Devil Speaks,' the first series produced by Tadmor Entertainment and MGM (Courtesy GPO)

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and his party's main candidate for Chancellor, addresses supporters in Berlin after the first exit polls in the German general elections were announced on TV, February 23, 2025. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)

Conservatives win German vote, far-right comes 2nd with strongest result since WWII

Likely chancellor Merz accuses Trump of being ‘largely indifferent to the fate of Europe’; AfD makes record gains but all other parties have vowed to keep it out of power

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets Germany's then-opposition leader, now Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu, Sa’ar congratulate German conservatives leader on election victory

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