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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 25, 2025

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Feb. 25: Freed hostages urge PM to bring captive fathers home to their children

Confirming deal with Hamas, Israeli official says bodies of four hostages to be returned on Wednesday * Knesset illuminated by orange lights in memory of murdered Bibas family

10:53 pm

Israeli official says hostages' remains to be released on Wednesday
10:25 pm

Hamas: Deal reached for 'simultaneous' release of 4 slain hostages, 602 Palestinian prisoners
9:41 pm

After US envoy Witkoff delays visit to region, sources say he'll likely make trip next week

Freed hostage Agam Berger (right) reunites with her parents Shlomi and Merav at an IDF facility next to the Gaza border on January 30, 2025. (IDF)

Freed hostage on deal debate: ‘We felt like our lives weren’t worth enough’

Agam Berger says she had access to radio until four hostages were rescued by Israeli forces; family of Bar Kuperstein says hostages released Saturday confirmed he is alive

Freed hostage Eliya Cohen (left) reunites with family members at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, February 22, 2025. (Haim Zach/GPO); National Security Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. January 17, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Released hostage says Ben Gvir’s comments worsened conditions in captivity

Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen with his wife Avital aboard an IDF helicopter en route to the hospital soon after his release from 498 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, February 15, 2025. The whiteboard message refers to the then-73 hostages still held in Gaza, and urges 'return all of them to us.' (IDF)

Ex-hostage urges Netanyahu to set politics aside and finally visit ravaged Nir Oz

In this image courtesy of DVIDS, a US Air Force Airmen offloads a THAAD launcher from a C-17 GlobeMaster III at Nevatim Air Base, Israel, for an exercise, March 1, 2019. (Robert DURR / DVIDS / AFP)

Trump rips up Biden memo aimed at Israel on rights abuses using US arms

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

President rescinds National Security Memorandum-20, which had required reports to Congress on how weapons being used, as part of progressive bid to curb military aid to Jerusalem

Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport, where flights are delayed during a nationwide strike demanding the government reach a hostage release deal, September 2, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel optimistic US will ‘soon’ ease travel advisory, officials say

Senior Hamas official: I wouldn’t have backed Oct. 7 if I’d known outcome for Gaza

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Moussa Abu Marzouk says ‘impossible’ to call Gaza war a victory for terror group, says he’s open to discussing its disarmament; Hamas: Words taken out of context, don’t represent us

Hamas politburo member Moussa Abu Marzouk, front, attends the funeral of Saleh Arouri, in Beirut, Lebanon, January 4, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

A former Palestinian prisoner released by Israel is cheered by a crowd after stepping out of a bus in the West Bank city of Ramallah on February 8, 2025.(Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Families of terror victims anguished over release of loved ones’ murderers

By AFP and ToI Staff

People pay their respects as the coffin of hostage Oded Lifshitz, killed in Hamas captivity, makes its way from Rishon Lezion, February 25, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 25: Day 508 – Is Hamas’s show of force in Gaza backfiring?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Hamas said weighing quiet handover of slain hostages for delayed prisoners

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Report says terror group could transfer bodies to Egypt to be ID’d before inmates set free in two groups, as official warns ceasefire on ‘brink of collapse’ if logjam persists

International Red Cross vehicles move carrying Israeli hostages, Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem and Omer Wenkert, after they were handed over by Hamas in Gaza Feb. 22, 2025. (AP/Mohammad Abu Samra)

Gazans, including young children, and Hamas gunmen gather shortly before the release of three Israeli hostages in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on February 22, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Israel said to offer to free prisoners if Hamas returns 4 bodies without ceremony

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a meeting of his Religious Zionism parliamentary faction, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich claims credit for decision to delay release of Palestinian prisoners

This November 4, 2020, satellite photo by Maxar Technologies shows Iran's Fordo nuclear site. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Report: Iran deploying air defenses to brace for possible US-Israeli strike

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Britain’s Telegraph quotes an Iranian source who says ‘everything has been on high alert’; Iran says it will not compromise with US on nuclear issues under pressure, sanctions

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

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

By Jeremy Sharon

Saadia Mascarini

Why is Meir Kahane trending on social media?

The resurgence of the radical extremist’s ideas in pro-Israel discourse reveals much about current Jewish fears and frustrations

Of course, they didn’t know Hamas was banned. How could they?

British media quote Hamas as if it’s a legitimate source of information, leaving out its status as a sanctioned terror group

People wave orange handkerchiefs in honor of the Bibas children as they demonstrate for the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza since Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught on Israel, in Buenos Aires on February 24, 2025. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)

Buenos Aires Jews hold massive demonstration on behalf of Bibas family

By Michelle Mendeluk

Some 15,000 take to the streets to commemorate the dual Israeli-Argentine citizens killed and held captive by Hamas, and to thank President Javier Milei for his support for Israel

Illustrative: A demonstrator holds up a placard with Prime Minister Netanyahu behind bars and Italian for, 'Criminal against humanity, let's arrest him now,' at an anti-Israel rally in Rome on November 30, 2024. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Inside story

Doxxing soldiers, but failing to put them in dock: Hind Rajab group has some on edge

Organization run by Hezbollah backers has failed to realize its goal of having IDF troops arrested abroad, but may be making inroads in the court of public opinion

Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan speaks during a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

EU delegation scraps trip to Jerusalem, West Bank after Israel bars 4 participants

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Interior Ministry denies entry at airport to lawmakers and staffers, one of whom has called Israel a ‘terrorist state’

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, center, speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU-Israel meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium, February 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

In talks aimed at mending ties with EU, Sa’ar says Israel open to extending Gaza truce

By Lazar Berman, Reuters and ToI Staff

European Parliament member Rima Hassan speaks during a rally in central Paris on May 29, 2024, to protest an Israeli strike on a camp in Rafah. (Zakaria Abdelkafi/ AFP)

Israel denies entry to EU politician who backs boycott, sanctions, armed struggle

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

A protest on a university campus in the UK in February 2024. (CST Campus Report)

Facing 66% rise in academic boycotts, Israeli universities gear up to fight back

Boycotts of Israeli institutions and researchers won’t stop anytime soon and Israel needs to adapt to the situation, report finds

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators from CUNY at a rally near Bryant Park, New York City, November 9, 2023. (Luke Tress)

NYC university system’s faculty union backtracks after Israel boycott vote

Barnard College in New York City, as seen on August 29, 2024. (Philissa Cramer via JTA)

Barnard College expels 2 students who disrupted Israel history class last month

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: Ambassadors vote on a resolution during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, February 24, 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

Joining US, Israel votes against UN motion condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine

Jerusalem shifts stance following Trump’s attack on Zelensky, syncing up with US, Russia and North Korea to oppose measure affirming support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity

Felix Hasson. (Courtesy)

Case could extend Title II to music venues, sports, bookstores

High-ranking gamer banned for pro-Israel stance could forge new legal precedent for US Jews

Lawsuit against gaming competitions that shut out a Zionist Jewish competitor aims to open a new front in the court battles over antisemitism and anti-Israel activism

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, during a discussion in the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, December 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Effort to remove AG will start in next few weeks, claims communications minister

Shlomo Karhi says ‘an actual impeachment process will begin’ in 2-3 weeks, but spokesman for Justice Minister Levin says he doesn’t know ‘anything new about the matter’

Israelis cast their votes at a voting station in Tel Aviv, during the Knesset elections, March 23, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Study finds ‘consistent recovery’ in Likud’s prospects as voters return to PM’s party

L: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations event in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) R: Leader and top candidate for chancellor of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz addresses a press conference following a CDU party leadership meeting at the party's headquarters, the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus, in Berlin, on February 24, 2025, (Ina Fassbender/AFP)

German election winner says he’ll ensure Netanyahu can visit despite ICC warrant

Friedrich Merz vows to ‘find a way’ for PM to travel to and from Germany without arrest; premier hails Merz for ‘openly defying ICC’s scandalous decision’ to accuse him of war crimes

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)

German election winner Merz urges harder line on immigration, independence from US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

German actors and actresses hold photos of Israeli hostage David Cunio upon arrival at the opening of the International Film Festival, Berlinale, in Berlin, February 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Hong Kong director Jun Li chants, 'From the river to the sea'

Jeers for Israel and a top award for a doc about hostages at Berlin film festival

By Toby Axelrod

As ‘Holding Liat’ wins top documentary prize and ‘Letter to David’ sees its world premiere, Berlinale organizers try to prevent repeat of last year’s unmitigated anti-Israel displays

Jewish Hollywood group pans bid for Oscar attendees to wear pro-Gaza pin

Rose Girone in January 2025 (Screen grab/Fox5)

Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

Born in Poland, her family moved to Hamburg; in 1939 she fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, where she credits knitting as helping save her family before they moved to the US

More Headlines

A women standing beside a memorial monument in the Mishor Hagefen neighborhood of Ofakim, southern Israel, that was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, photographed on September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

State comptroller urges PM to finish review of southern communities eligible for aid

Bank of Israel main offices in Jerusalem, on August 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Central bank holds borrowing costs steady, despite subdued growth, jumping inflation

By Sharon Wrobel

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