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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 8, 2026

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US plans to start 2nd phase of Gaza deal before Hamas disarmed, last hostage’s body returned

Trump plans to unveil Board of Peace and other bodies involved in Strip’s postwar management next week after monthlong delay, hopes to begin decommissioning program in coming weeks

Hamas gunmen search for the remains of Israeli hostage Ran Gvili in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, January 7, 2026. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Tents are crammed together in a displaced Palestinians camp along the beach of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 8: Day 825 – US works to fill seats on Board of Peace for Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

A screenshot from a video uploaded to social media by an IDF soldier in December 2025 showing him firing a volley of bullets. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF soldier filmed firing volley of shots toward Gaza gets 20 days in prison

Thousands of Iranians protest in Tehran on January 8 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 8: US Treasury secretary says Iran facing precarious moment, economy in trouble

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Settlers reportedly attack Arab Israeli bus driver in West Bank using club inscribed with ‘revenge’ * Israel proposed using PA funds to cover cost of Gaza rubble clearing or GHF operations — official

9:49 pm

Trump: 'My own morality' is only restraint on global power
9:45 pm

Trump says no pardon for Sean 'Diddy' Combs
9:43 pm

US Treasury secretary says Iran facing precarious moment, economy in trouble

This photograph taken during a press tour organized by the Lebanese army shows soldiers standing near an abandoned tunnel (unseen) said to have been used by Hezbollah, in a mountainous valley on the outskirts of the southern village of Zibqin, on November 28, 2025. (Anwar Amro / AFP)

Lebanon says Hezbollah disarmed in south; Israel: Efforts ‘encouraging’ but insufficient

By Lazar Berman, Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies

Beirut’s announcement marks potential milestone after 2024 truce; Jerusalem: Hezbollah ‘rearming faster than it is being disarmed’; Lebanon again calls for Israeli withdrawal

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Jillian Siegel, Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia, listens to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, January 8, 2026. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia to form royal commission into antisemitism after Bondi terror shooting

By Agencies and Zev Stub

Prime Minister Albanese says probe, country’s most powerful form of government inquiry, will look at what drives antisemitism as well as circumstances surrounding deadly attack

Gefen Bitton (Courtesy)

Gefen Bitton, Israeli critically wounded in Bondi attack, to be flown to Israel

Analysis

Why what happens next in Venezuela matters to Israel

Events in Caracas may ripple out to Tehran, and the extent of US involvement in Venezuela will likely affect how much attention Trump pays to the Middle East

Women who are members of Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard attend a women's march to demand the return of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, January 6, 2026, three days after US forces captured him and his wife. (AP/Matias Delacroix)

A local walks past a mural featuring oil pumps and wells in Caracas, Venezuela, January 6, 2026. (AP/Matias Delacroix)

US seizes 2 oil tankers linked to Venezuela, including one tied to Hezbollah

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a ceremony for outgoing Supreme Court Justice Yosef Elron at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset gives initial OK to bill ending AG’s authority over ministry legal advisers

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Likud MK says bill would strengthen ‘independence’ of ministry legal advisers, who now report to attorney general, not the ministries they serve

Left: Jonatan Urich arrives for a court hearing in the so-called Qatargate investigation at the Central District Court in Lod, January 6, 2026. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a 40-signatures debate in the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court reinstates ban on Urich speaking with Netanyahu, working in his office

By Jeremy Sharon

Balázs Berkovits

Why antizionism is spreading – and why it endangers Jews everywhere

Pseudo-critical theories have reimagined Jews as white oppressors. It’s time for an organized anti-antizionism movement

Australia must answer this question before it investigates Bondi

Without recognizing the harm this one thing does to Jews, the commission of inquiry into the massacre will be worthless

Reuben Glassenberg

Family history, forgetting, and the American Dream

My ancestors, perhaps ashamed of how my great-great-grandfather died, may have wanted to erase his memory. I insist on remembering him

Barry Finestone

Why Jews mourn Jewish strangers

With a shared story and trauma accumulated across millennia, someone who lives – and suffers – on the other side of the world can feel like family

Netanyahu says Negev is ‘out of control’ while touring south amid Jewish-Arab tensions

By Charlie Summers and Lazar Berman

As PM dashes Bedouin leaders’ hopes by backing police crackdown, Herzog holds ’emergency meeting’ with Jewish and Arab mayors to urge calm after Bedouin man shot dead by officer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the Negev with ministers and top security officials, January 7, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Vance again downplays rising right-wing antisemitism as fringe influencers gain ground

By Andrew Lapin

US VP calls ‘to reject all forms of ethnic hatred… antisemitism, anti-Black hatred, anti-white hatred,’ when asked if conservatives should jettison those espousing Jew hatred from their ranks

US Vice President JD Vance speaks with Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, November 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Jake Lang (right), who was charged with eight counts of assaulting officers on January 6, 2021, before his pardon, threatens DC Metropolitan Police officers during a rally and memorial march marking five years since the storming of the US Capitol, on January 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter performs Nazi salute, throws chocolate coins at anti-AIPAC protest

By Grace Gilson

Pro-Israel protesters march to demonstrate at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England, on November 6, 2025, ahead of the UEFA Europa League league-stage football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

UK Jewish groups call for ouster of cop who banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from soccer match

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Palestinians walk amid buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations in Gaza City, January 6, 2026. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

2 reported killed as IDF says it hit ‘senior’ Gaza terrorist after Hamas fired at troops

By Stav Levaton and Agencies

Army doesn’t immediately identity target, says strike was in response to ‘blatant violation’ of truce; Palestinian media reports home in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood was hit

Search operations to recover the body of the last Israeli hostage, slain police officer Ran Gvili, in Gaza City on January 7, 2026. (Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea / Anadolu via Reuters)

Hamas, Red Cross resume search for last hostage’s remains in Gaza City

By Noam Lehmann, Reuters and ToI Staff

Michele Weiss, the mayor of University Heights, Ohio, (left) and Justin Brasch, the mayor of White Plains, New York. (Courtesy Michele Weiss and Justin Brasch via JTA)

Profile

As Zohran Mamdani takes office, two US cities see first-time Orthodox Jewish mayors

By Grace Gilson

Michele Weiss and Justin Brasch are inaugurated in University Heights, Ohio, and White Plains, New York, respectively, pledging to improve life for all their constituents

Jewish moderate Menin confirmed as NYC speaker, a potential counterweight to Mamdani

Screen capture from video of a Breads Bakery in New York, 2022. (YouTube)

Workers at NY’s Israeli-owned Breads Bakery unionize, call to end ‘support of Palestine genocide’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Statement says over 30% of employees see their ‘struggle for fair pay, respect as connected to struggles against genocide and forces of exploitation,’ blast business’s ‘Zionist projects’

'We're encouraging people to take small steps'

Israeli researcher trots out proof that walking more needn’t increase commuting time

By Diana Bletter

Prof. Jonathan Rabinowitz of Bar-Ilan University touts health benefits of hoofing it while campaigning for transportation apps to add option for routes with more time on foot

People walk in the rain on Jaffa Street in central Jerusalem, November 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A large banner portraying an image of a Palestinian fighter and an anti-Israel slogan in Hebrew is erected in Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, on December 31, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran executes a man convicted of spying for the Mossad

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Convict accused of relaying sensitive information to Israeli spy agency’s officers in return for financial rewards; Iran executed at least 1,500 people in 2025, rights group says

Illustrative image of a sleeping woman ( GeorgeRudy, iStock by Getty Images)

'Sleep is deeply rooted in evolution'

Israeli study traces need for sleep over millions of years of evolution

By Diana Bletter

Bar-Ilan University research shows even jellyfish and sea anemones repair DNA during repose, underscoring the fact that a good snooze is an essential evolutionary tool for health

Portrait of then-mayor of Jerusalem Uri Lupolianski. July 30, 2008. (Daniel Dreifuss / Flash 90)

Obituary

Uri Lupolianski, only ultra-Orthodox mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 74

Lupolianski, who founded the Yad Sarah medical equipment charity and was convicted in Holyland affair, suffered a recent deterioration in health

More Headlines

Agudat Yisrael head Yitzhak Goldknopf arrives for a meeting being held by the faction's rabbinic leadership on the Haredi draft exemption bill, in Jerusalem on January 7, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Haredi rabbis end key meeting on IDF conscription bill without issuing decision

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In rare move, Knesset panel moves to overturn Smotrich’s $150 VAT exemption order

By Ariela Karmel

Residents flee the Sheikh Maqsoud and Achrafieh neighborhoods after clashes broke out between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in a contested area of the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, January 7, 2026. (AP/Omar Albam)

Civilians flee Aleppo as clashes between Syrian government and Kurdish forces escalate

AI humanoid robots developed by Israeli startup Mentee Robotics. (Courtesy of Mentee Robotics)

Mobileye buys Israeli AI humanoid startup for $900 million in bid for robotics

By Sharon Wrobel

Alan Jackson, the attorney for Nick Reiner, arrives in court for Reiner's arraignment on murder charges for the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, January 7, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Arraignment of Rob Reiner’s son, accused of parents’ murder, delayed after attorney quits

By ANDREW DALTON

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters, in New York City, on September 23, 2025. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

Trump withdraws US from 66 global organizations and treaties in broad pullback

A squad of German soldiers marches through a street in Paris, France, October 24, 1940, while others walk along looking at the shops. (AP Photo)

French author sued for libel by her relatives over Nazi ‘collaborator’ family novel

By Alexandre Marchand

The Warner Bros. water tower is seen at Warner Bros. Discovery Studios in Burbank, California, December 5, 2025. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Warner Bros. rejects Paramount takeover, tells shareholders to stay with Netflix bid

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and Michelle Chapman

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