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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 27, 2025

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

‘Bitter news’: Israel confirms identities of 4 bodies of hostages returned from Gaza

Remains ID’d of soccer-loving Itzik Elgarat, ‘passionate sportsman’ Ohad Yahalomi, ‘cheerful polymath’ Shlomo Mantzur, and ‘beloved’ Tsahi Idan; Herzog: ‘Israeli hearts ache’

People pay their respects along the convoy carrying the bodies of hostages Shiri Bibas, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, in Rishon LeZion, February 26, 2025. (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 27: Day 510 – 4 more hostage bodies arrive home, after Bibas burial

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

This handout photo shows Israelis lining a highway in southern Israel as police transport the remains of slain hostages to the national forensic center in Tel Aviv, February 27, 2025. (Israel Police)

After logjam, Hamas releases 4 hostage bodies to Israel in quiet, late-night transfer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for his trial at the Tel Aviv District Court on February 19, 2025. (Tamar Matsafi/ POOL)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 27: Court approves PM’s request to reduce his testimony from 3 to 2 times per week

Hundreds attend far-right Jerusalem rally calling to ‘remove Arabs from Gaza’ * Israeli official says IDF won’t withdraw from Philadelphi Corridor as ceasefire stipulates

7:57 pm

Likud: AG targeting Netanyahu's aides with Qatar probe because corruption cases against PM crumbling
7:55 pm

Indirect Israel-Hamas talks on hostage deal's second phase have begun in Cairo — Egypt
7:51 pm

Jerusalem court approves PM request to reduce his testimony from 3 to 2 times per week

Body of woman sent instead of Shiri Bibas returned to Gaza

Over 600 Palestinian prisoners, including terrorists, freed as Hamas returns 4 slain hostages

By Charlie Summers

More than 100 murderers and life-termers released, most of them deported via Egypt; 445 post-Oct. 7 detainees returned to Gaza; dozens of detainees released to West Bank, Jerusalem

A former Palestinian prisoner, released as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner exchange, is carried on a person's shoulders upon arrival in Ramallah on February 27, 2025. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Gazan detainees seen in a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gazan medical worker detainees ‘subjected to torture, beatings, medical neglect’ – report

By Jeremy Sharon

Promoted CampaignIDFWO

On Yom HaZikaron, help the orphans of Israel’s fallen heroes

39 pregnant widows brought new lives into the world during this war. IDFWO ensures they never walk alone—because their journey begins anew, and so does our work.

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

Anti-Israel activists at Barnard College invade campus building, injure employee

Protesters at Columbia University affiliate demand college revoke expulsion of 2 protesters who disrupted Israeli professor’s class

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Almost 2/3 of American Jews oppose Trump’s Gaza displacement plan – survey

Poll shows major gaps between views of Israeli and US Jews on issue; only a third of respondents say they have strong trust that Trump will fight antisemitism

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump listen as US President Donald Trump speaks at the Liberty Ball, part of the 60th Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

New book: Kushner, Ivanka refused to back Trump after his post-Oct. 7 criticism of Israel

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Protesters demonstrate near the Israeli Consulate during the Democratic National Convention Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Poll finds share of US Democrats backing Israel dwindling to 33%

from the blogs

Trump’s Gaza plan is dead, long live the Trump plan!

The ’Middle East Riviera’ pipedream should be ditched in favor of a proposal that could jumpstart Saudi ties with Israel

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers a speech at the opening of the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 24, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

UN rights head says forced transfer, annexation in Palestinian territories ‘unlawful’

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Ben Gvir laments not serving in government at same time as Trump: ‘Missed opportunity’

Former police minister hits out at PM for not acting on US president’s call to relocate Gazans, reveals he bucked Biden pressure on gun handouts, prison conditions and Temple Mount

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends an event to deliver weapons to local volunteer security group members in Ashkelon, October 27, 2023. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Mitchell D. Silber

‘Close call’ vs. ‘call to action’: A US Jewish threat detection system is urgent

Local security initiatives have been effective at protecting the community, but trusting in luck is risky; we need a systematic network of protection

We don’t want you to ‘include’ us, but thank you

Forget Jewish Disability Awareness Month – the reason I can’t go to that trendy restaurant is not my wheelchair, it’s the freaking stairs!

A screenshot showing the mistranslation of the BBC's subtitles in the documentary 'Gaza: How to Survive A War Zone.' (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

BBC Gaza documentary translates ‘Jihad’ to ‘resistance,’ ‘Jews’ to ‘Israeli army’

In fresh scrutiny of controversial film, report accuses broadcaster of ‘whitewashing’ terror support with what an Israeli diplomat calls ‘intentional mistranslations’

A Palestinian man holds a baby as a medic administers a polio vaccine at a camp for displaced people in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on February 23, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Gaza polio vaccination drive reached 600,000 children in five days, WHO says

By AFP and ToI Staff

This undated handout image released by the Hamas Media Office on January 30, 2025, shows the slain Hamas terror leader Mohammed Deif. (Hamas Media Office / AFP)

ICC cancels warrant for Hamas military leader Deif, weeks after group confirms death

By ToI Staff and AFP

Fictitious exchange between an Iranian agent and potential Israeli recruit, shown in an Israel Police video warning civilians against partaking in Iranian espionage schemes, shared on February 27, 2025. (Screenshot/Israel Police)

Israeli man indicted for carrying out activities on behalf of Iranian agents

By Charlie Summers

26-year-old resident of Petah Tikva graffitied Hamas inverted red triangle and pro-Iranian messages for pay; agents sought photos of Shin Bet chief’s home, army bases

At the Rahat Film Festival, February 17, 2025. (courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

In Rahat, an Israeli Jew and a Bedouin mom of 7 have founded a local film festival

By Jessica Steinberg

In its third year, the Rahat Film Festival is slowly gaining momentum by introducing audiences to such films as ‘Eid,’ the first Ophir award-winner by a Bedouin filmmaker

Interview

Any conscription law on Haredim ‘must be temporary,’ says Religious Zionism MK

Michal Woldiger tells The Times of Israel legislation can be extended if it succeeds in boosting enlistment, but if it fails, ‘then something else needs to be done’

Religious Zionism MK Michal Woldiger, during the Religious Zionism primaries, at a polling station in Jerusalem, August 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Likud MK Ariel Kallner speaks during a protest in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Likud MK presents plan for alternate October 7 commission of inquiry

Rachel Neiman, a spokesperson at the National Library of Israel, examines a 15th-century manuscript featuring Mezukak Shivatayim ('Distilled Sevenfold'), a previously lost commentary on Maimonines’s Misheh Torah is on display at the National Library of Israel in February 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Original work authored by Rabbi Yosef Kimchi around 1380

Lost & found: Early commentary on Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on display in Jerusalem

By Rossella Tercatin

Now housed at the National Library, 15th-cent. Mezukak Shivatayim extensively quotes Jewish sages whose works are unknown to scholars, opening the way to recover thinkers’ lost wisdom

A view of the skyline of Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv during the sunset, March 5, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

Real Estate Israel

High prices, construction putting pressure on Tel Aviv rental market

Interest in renting homes in the country’s business hub has declined since the war, and some owners are cutting prices, agents say

Renen Schorr, founder of Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School died suddenly on February 26, 2025. (Credit Yossi Tzveker)

Obituary

Director Renen Schorr, influential founder of Sam Spiegel Film School, dies at 72

By Jessica Steinberg

After winning three Ophir awards for ‘Late Summer Blues,’ filmmaker wanted to make a change in Israeli film culture

Michelle Trachtenberg arrives at The Art Of Elysium Heaven Gala at Hangar 8 on Saturday, January 10, 2015 in Santa Monica, CA. (Omar Vega/Invision/AP)

ObituaryJewish actress Michelle Trachtenberg dies at 39; no foul play suspected

By AP and JTA

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Paramedics in Ramle take a shooting victim to a nearby hospital on February 25, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Three people shot dead in two separate incidents overnight in Ramle, Nazareth

By Charlie Summers

Cypriot women demonstrate on September 16, 2021 in front of Nicosia's supreme court, in support of a young British woman who alleged she was raped by up to 12 Israelis in a hotel room in the seaside party resort of Ayia Napa in July 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)

European Human Rights Court: Cyprus failed UK woman who claimed Israeli gang rape

By Reuters and ToI Staff

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's Natanz nuclear site, on April 14, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iran’s enriched uranium stock jumped since December, UN watchdog warns

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Members of Lev Tahor prepare to depart their compound in eastern Sarajevo, on February 3, 2022. (Courtesy/Davorin Sekulic/Klix.ba)

Belize to return Lev Tahor Jewish sect leader, 2 others to Guatemala

By Reuters and ToI Staff

FILE: Lebanese wave a Hezbollah flag in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on February 18, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF strike kills senior Hezbollah member involved in weapons smuggling to terror group

By ToI Staff and AFP

A bouquet of white flowers placed outside the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured, in Washington, February 7, 2025. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Trump administration says it’s slashing 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Mark Sherman and Matthew Lee

Nick Rondoletto, left, and Doug Thorogood, a couple from San Francisco, wave a rainbow flag and hold a sign against a ban of transgendered people in the military at a protest in the Castro District on July 26, 2017, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Olga R. Rodriguez/File)

Trump moves to bar trans people from US military unless they obtain waiver

(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)

Russian, US diplomats meet in Istanbul for talks to repair diplomatic ties

By Jonathan Spicer and Mark Trevelyan

FILE: Washington Post owner and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks during a ceremony near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, marking the one-year anniversary of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi death, October 2, 2019. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)

Bezos restricts Washington Post opinion page, prompting section editor to resign

By Laurie Kellman

A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing February 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Texas child dies of measles, the first US death from the disease in a decade

By Devi Shastri

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