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What Matters Most On Friday, January 9, 2026

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In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting, in Tehran, Iran, January 3, 2026. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei digs in amid protests, vows not to back down in face of ‘vandals, saboteurs’

Islamic Republic’s supreme leader says Trump, who’s threatened to hit Iran if demonstrators are killed, has hands ‘stained with the blood of Iranians’ and will be ‘overthrown’

Internet, phone lines cut across Iran as thousands rally in Tehran; death toll at 45

Trump again threatens Iran with ‘hell’ if it kills protesters amid violent crackdown

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Iran not seeking war with Israel and US but is ‘ready for it,’ says Iranian FM amid unrest

By AP

An anti-government protester holds up a photo of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Iranian shah, during a mass demonstration against the regime in Tehran on January 9, 2026. (Screen capture/X)

LiveUpdated 5mo ago

Jan. 9: After initially believing Iran protests weren’t threatening regime, US reportedly reassessing

Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi warns of possible Iran ‘massacre’ during internet shutdown * Trump says US will strike Islamic Republic if it kills protesters: ‘Iran is in big trouble’

11:52 pm

Iran tells UN: US to blame for 'violent' protests
11:48 pm

Case against PM's chief of staff said to strengthen, with AG to decide whether to order police probe
11:18 pm

Trump says US will strike Iran if regime kills protesters

Iranian protesters seen marching and torching regime-owned vehicles, statues and structures in Tehran on January 8, 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘All are in the streets’: Iranians defiant as protests grow despite crackdown

By AFP

‘We know that if we go out there, we might not survive, but we are going and we will go out there to have a better future,’ demonstrator says as protests swell

Mourners hold posters of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini during a funeral ceremony of unknown soldiers who were killed in the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war whose remains were recently recovered from the battlefields, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisAs unrest in Iran spreads, leaders face legitimacy crisis with no easy way out

By Parisa Hafezi

Palestinians look for their belongings amid the debris of a collapsed house previously damaged at the Maghazi refugee camp in the central of Gaza Strip on January 5, 2026. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Hamas says 13 killed by IDF strikes after failed rocket attack from Gaza at Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

IDF and Shin Bet say strikes ‘precisely’ targeted terrorists and infrastructure in response to attempted attack; terror group’s civil defense agency claims 5 children killed

Illustrative: Displaced Palestinian children look at the first supermoon of the year, the 'Wolf Moon,' as it rises over the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on January 3, 2026. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

IDF detects failed rocket launch from Gaza, amid diplomatic moves toward phase 2 of truce

By Stav Levaton, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians walk through the ruins of destroyed buildings as the sun sets over Gaza City, January 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

US court dismisses lawsuit by Palestinian Americans demanding to be rescued from Gaza

Anti-Zionist protesters outside a synagogue in New York City, January 8, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Protesters chant ‘we support Hamas’ near New York City synagogue, Jewish school

Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian students and others gather outside of Cooper Union in Manhattan to protest the school's stance on Israel on May 9, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

New York’s Cooper Union settles campus antisemitism case, pledges reforms

By Jonathan Stempel

File: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro watches warm ups before an NFL football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions on November 16, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Josh Shapiro to seek 2nd term as Pennsylvania governor as 2028 presidential race looms

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut, south of Jerusalem in the West Bank, on December 7, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Interview'The violence is horrible, morally and ethically wrong'

Leading Religious Zionist rabbi: Extremist settler violence must be stopped from the pulpit

By Rossella Tercatin

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, discusses the challenges facing his community and the country as a whole

Israel proposed using PA funds to cover cost of Gaza rubble clearance — official

Settlers wound 3 Palestinians, torch cars in latest West Bank attack; 3 arrested

By Noam Lehmann and Stav Levaton

You can do God’s will without a burning bush

Even without a dramatic reveal showing how much our actions matter, we are responsible for doing the good within our reach (Shemot)

Michael Feldstein

How we made the ‘shidduch’ crisis worse

Before the now common rigid gender separation, Orthodox couples like my wife and me met organically. Here are 3 ways to improve the current culture of dating

A Border Police officer patrols near a mosque in the southern Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana on December 31, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'The shows of power don’t serve any sort of security'

As police besiege Bedouin town, Arabs say they — not criminals — are in the crosshairs

By Charlie Summers

With killings rampant in the north, Ben Gvir sends heavily armed cops south to Tarabin, where they have used West Bank-style tactics to deadly effect, sparking anger and deepening mistrust

Man found shot dead near Shfaram; killers said to send footage of murder to family

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Government backs bill subordinating police internal affairs unit to justice minister

By Jeremy Sharon

Police officers fatally shoot Arab Israeli man, say he posed threat to their lives

By Charlie Summers

llustrative photo of security personnel at Ben Gurion Airport. (Meir Partush/Flash90)

Jewish American academic denied entry to Israel for being a ‘left-wing anarchist’

By Jeremy Sharon

Incident is latest in series of deportations of foreign nationals, including Jews, for pro-Palestinian activities in West Bank, coordinated by Population Authority and police

The High Court of Justice holds a hearing in Jerusalem on a petition against the Knesset Finance Committee’s decision to transfer funds to ultra-Orthodox schools that don't teach core subjects, January 8, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘It was a ruse’: High Court judge rails at transfer of funds to Haredi schools

By Jeremy Sharon, Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

At hearing on petitions against payment of NIS 1 billion to ultra-Orthodox institutions, judges slam ‘illegal’ release of cash before oversight committee gave required okay

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Veselin Toshkov

Nickolay Mladenov, US pick for Gaza board, has won Israelis’ and Palestinians’ trust

Bulgarian diplomat, tapped as secretary-general of Trump-chaired ‘Board of Peace,’ was received well by Jerusalem and Ramallah alike for 2015-2020 work as UN Mideast peace envoy

The United Nations Middle East special envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2020. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with former UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov, who is slated to serve as a Board of Peace envoy to Gaza, in his Jerusalem office on January 8, 2026. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu meets with former UN Mideast envoy tapped to represent Board of Peace

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump points to the crowd as he walks off stage after speaking to House Republican lawmakers during their annual policy retreat, Jan. 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says only limit on his power is his ‘own morality’

By AFP

In interview with New York Times, US president says he does not need international law, calls for ownership of Greenland, and says his family can conduct foreign business deals

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, January 7, 2026. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope denounces ‘zeal for war,’ laments West Bank violence in foreign policy speech

By Nicole Winfield

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Right), Democrat of New York, speaks alongside Senator Tim Kaine (Left), Democrat of Virginia, during a press conference after a US Senate vote on a War Powers Resolution blocking further US military action in Venezuela at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 8, 2026. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

US Senate pushes back on Trump’s military threats against Venezuela with war powers vote

By STEPHEN GROVES and JOEY CAPPELLETTI

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the hilltops of the al-Rihane mountain in southern Lebanon on January 9, 2026 (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah, day after Lebanese army said it had disarmed terror group in south

By Stav Levaton and Agencies

No immediate reports of casualties; as Araghchi visits Beirut, Lebanon FM urges Iran to find ‘new approach’ on Hezbollah

Syrian Internal Security Forces secure the streets as they enter the Ashrafiyeh neighborhood of the city of Aleppo, northern Syria late on January 8, 2026, following heavy clashes with the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) forces. (Bakr ALkasem / AFP)

Syria announces ceasefire after days of clashes with Kurdish fighters in Aleppo

By AP

At least 21 people have been reported killed in clashes that have seen tens of thousands of civilians displaced amid an impasse in political talks

Residents flee from the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsud and Achrafieh in the city of Aleppo, northern Syria, on January 8, 2026, amid intense clashes between government forces and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Israel condemns Sharaa regime’s ‘attacks against Kurdish minority’ in Syria’s Aleppo

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Residents wave Somaliland flags as they gather to celebrate Israel's recognition of Somaliland in downtown Hargeisa, December 26, 2025. (Farhan Aleli/AFP)

Somaliland official confirms talks with Israel on hosting a military base

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Despite apparent reversal on base, Somaliland official and Israeli FM Sa’ar stress that agreement to establish diplomatic ties didn’t include resettlement of Gazans

People protest against Israel’s recognition of the Republic of Somaliland in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Hundreds protest Israeli recognition of Somaliland in Mogadishu

A woman wearing a Palestinian flag pushes a stroller on a crosswalk outside EU headquarters in Brussels, May 26, 2024. (AP/Virginia Mayo)

Interview'There are no unimportant' countries in Europe

Europe’s harshest Israel critics aren’t driven by Islamism or antisemitism, report suggests

Study to be released before International Holocaust Remembrance Day finds diplomatic failures, national narratives and virtue signaling in countries leading charge against Israel

People walk along the beach in Tel Aviv during an unseasonably warm day on January 8, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Israel sees highest January temperature in 66 years

29°C (84°F) measured in central Israel’s Ein Hahoresh; Meteorological Service warns of floods, strong winds as regular winter weather returns Friday

Common two-banded seabream fish swim in the protected area of France's Porquerolles National Park on June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag,)

Oceans soaked up record amount of heat in 2025, study shows

By AFP

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey talks during a news conference after winning a third term in the city's ranked-choice voting election, November 5, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)

Jewish mayor of Minneapolis returns to the spotlight after deadly ICE shooting

By Grace Gilson

Protesters clash with federal agents outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on January 8, 2026. (Octavio JONES / AFP)

Protesters, law enforcement clash in Minneapolis after immigration agent kills woman

By Octavio Jones

Cyera cybersecurity startup founders Yotam Segev (left) and Tamar Bar-Ilan. (Courtest of Cyera)

AI security boom triples valuation of Israeli cyber startup to $9 billion within a year

By Sharon Wrobel

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the monument 'Motherland' at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, on January 27, 2025, marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from Nazi blockade in World War Two (Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool/ AFP)

Russia accused of Holocaust distortion over ‘Genocide of the Soviet People’ memorial day

Freed hostage David Cunio reunites with his twin daughters Emma and Yuli, both also former hostages freed in November 2023, at Sheba Medical Center, October 13, 2025. (Shauli Lendner/GPO)

Homeward boundIsraelis pick ‘homecoming’ as Hebrew word of the year

A residential building burns after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia says it used new Oreshnik ballistic missile in major attack on Ukraine

By SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV

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