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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 15, 2026

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Ali Shaath, head of the Palestinian technocratic committee for managing the Gaza Strip, offers condolences to a Palestinian family, in Cairo on January 15, 2026. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 15: Palestinian official says Israel held chair of Gaza technocratic c’tee at border for over 6 hours

By Michael Bachner, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Senior Hamas official confirms death of commander in armed wing, condemns ‘dangerous escalation’ * Netanyahu said to have asked Trump to push off on strike * US claims Iran called off 800 executions

9:51 pm

Gaza technocratic committee holds 1st meet in Cairo, but diplomat says Israel hobbling it out of the gate
9:45 pm

US judge to restrict Trump efforts to deport anti-Israel campus activists
9:36 pm

After meeting Trump, Venezuela's Machado says she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize medal

In this photo obtained by The Associated Press, Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2026. (UGC via AP)

UN Security Council to meet on demonstrations

Iran’s nationwide protests appear smothered, with fate of potential US action unclear

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Oil prices fall as chance of conflict seems to recede; Tehran says protester’s execution called off; Iran’s airspace reopens after closing for several hours

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press upon returning to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, January 13, 2026. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Poll: Most Americans think Trump has ‘gone too far’ with foreign interventions

By Linley Sanders

A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrives at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar on April 9, 2016. (Staff Sgt. Corey Hook/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Some US personnel told to leave Qatar base as Iran touts ‘peak readiness’ for conflict

By Agencies, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Analysis

Iran’s regime still looks likely to survive protests but has no answers for public anger

Massive unrest comes as regime is weak and vulnerable but doesn’t yet show signs of cracking; the main question now is how Trump enforces his red lines

Anti-Iranian regime protesters demonstrate outside the Iranian Embassy, central London, on January 12, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)

US President Donald Trump (left) speaks during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, January 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci); Reza Pahlavi, an Iranian opposition figure and son of the deposed shah, holds a press conference in Paris on June 23, 2025. (Joel Saget/ AFP)

Trump says Iran’s Reza Pahlavi ‘seems very nice’ but unsure if he can garner support

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Anti-Iranian regime protesters hold up a portrait the last shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, as they take part in a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy in central London on January 10, 2026. (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

AnalysisIran protests show bitter schism among exiled opposition factions

By John Irish, Vitalii Yalahuzian and ANGUS MCDOWALL

Screen capture of a US Embassy in Jerusalem security alert on travel to Israel, issued January 15, 2026. (US Embassy Jerusalem)

US, Britain issue travel warnings for Israel; several countries tell citizens to leave Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Alerts cite ‘regional tensions’ as Washington weighs strike on regime; UK shuts Tehran embassy; Lufthansa group says it will limit flights to Israel so crew won’t have overnight stay

Illustrative: A Starlink satellite-based broadband system is seen in Ukraine on September 29, 2022. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

Free Starlink access seen as game changer in helping Iran protesters get their message out

By AP

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, January 14, 2026, in Washington, DC. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Reports suggest US may strike Iran in coming days, as Trump says killing is ‘stopping’

By Agencies, Stav Levaton, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

In this December 10, 1978, file picture, demonstrators hold up a poster of exiled Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini during an anti-shah demonstration in Tehran at the Shayah monument, which was built to commemorate the monarch's rule and was a symbol of his power. (AP/Michel Lipchitz)

What Matters Now podcast

Podcaster Mitch Ginsburg: Escape from Tehran, an untold 1979 Israeli caper

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Mitch Ginsburg

On February 20, 1979, the last 33 Israeli officials left in Iran miraculously come back to the Jewish state. Their families had been told they were unlikely to return alive

People hold posters of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a funeral ceremony for a group of security forces, who were killed during anti-government protests, in Tehran, Iran, January 14, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

AnalysisScale of protests and violence in Iran echoes chaos around 1979 Islamic Revolution

By Jon Gambrell

A photograph shows tent shelters housing displaced Palestinian families set up along the shore in Gaza City as strong winter winds sweep the Palestinian enclave on January 13, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

US promises 'demilitarization,' though Hamas hasn't agreed

US launches Gaza plan’s 2nd phase as Palestinian technocratic government unveiled

By Jacob Magid, Noam Lehmann, Lazar Berman and AFP

Last hostage’s mom says move jeopardizes efforts to return her son, as Witkoff warns Hamas on matter, Netanyahu says ‘declarative’ move to stage 2 won’t harm repatriation efforts

Ali Shaath. (Courtesy)

Former deputy PA minister to lead technocratic committee slated to administer Gaza

By AFP

Inside story

US bullish as bodies tasked with replacing Hamas take shape, despite disarmament hurdle

Trump aides insist Hamas is indicating it’s prepared to give up weapons and say they’re committed to bringing back last hostage’s body, but will not wait to advance Gaza peace plan

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, January 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

People walk past a poster by artist TVBOY depicting President Donald Trump wearing a construction worker outfit and holding a placard reading in Spanish: My Gaza is your Gaza, is posted on a street in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Gregorio Borgia/AP PHOTO)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 15: Day 832 – Trump wills Gaza plan forward, despite Hamas noncompliance

By Jessica Steinberg, Biranit Goren and Sue Surkes

Eran Shamir-Borer

Another attack on the rule of law: Now it’s the IDF’s turn

A proposed law giving the chief of staff control over the top military lawyer would open the door to illegal orders and expose soldiers to prosecution abroad

More Jewish children, not another campus

Parents limiting their family size for financial reasons surely could have benefitted from 100 million dollars worth of day school tuition assistance

Analysis

Mamdani remarks on synagogues highlight fault line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism

New York mayor is quick to call out discrimination against Jews, but only when Israel is not involved, exemplifying a dilemma that US Jews face in politics, courts and education

Jewish counter-demonstrators at a protest outside a New York City synagogue, November 19, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Congregants search through the remains of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, which served Pasadena for over 100 years and was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, as wildfires cause damage and loss through the LA region on January 11, 2025 in Pasadena, California (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

Anti-Zionist graffiti defaces rubble of Pasadena synagogue destroyed in wildfire

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A man does a Nazi salute before trying to burn down a synagogue in Giessen, Germany, January 13, 2026. (Security camera screenshot)

German police arrest man suspected of trying to torch synagogue

By Zev Stub and AFP

Damage sustained during a fire, January 10, 2026, at Beth Israel Congregation, in Jackson, Mississippi. (Beth Israel Congregation via AP)

Mississippi synagogue arson suspect hid extremism behind ‘scripture-backed fitness’ persona

19-year-old suspect posted an antisemitic cartoon on Instagram shortly before he torched the home of the US state’s largest and oldest Jewish congregation

Burnt debris from a fire at the Beth Israel Congregation glints in the sun on January 12, 2026, in Jackson, Mississippi. (AP/Sophie Bates)

Decades after KKK bombing, congregant sees Mississippi synagogue burn again in arson attack

By Sophie Bates and Kendria Lafleur

Boards cover the charred remains of the Beth Israel Congregation library, in Jackson, Mississippi, January 12, 2026. (AP Photo / Sophie Bates)

Lipstadt partially recants comment linking US synagogue fire to anti-Israel movement

By Andrew Lapin

Analysis

Donald Trump rejected antisemitism. That doesn’t necessarily mean MAGA will

Regarding antisemites, the US president said, ‘I think we don’t need them. I think we don’t like them.’ But just because he believes something doesn’t guarantee his voters do, too

US President Donald Trump points as he boards Air Force One for a trip to Detroit, January 13, 2026, in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Dvori family home in Kibbutz Be'eri, southern Israel, January 13, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Kibbutz Be’eri chooses single burned-out house to bear testimony to October 7

Home on community’s periphery belongs to the Dvori family, who were overseas when Hamas went on killing spree; other wrecked structures scheduled for demolition

A screen capture of the earthquake alerts activated in several locations in southern Israel as a 4.2-magnitude quake was recorded near Dimona, on January 15, 2026. (Screenshot/Red Alert app)

4.2-magnitude earthquake recorded in southern Israel; no reports of injuries

Epicenter of quake identified near Dimona, setting off warning sirens and sparking fears of missile attack among some residents amid heightened tensions with Iran

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers climb on the rubble next to the entrance of a tunnel in Rafah, Gaza Strip, December 8, 2025. (AP/Sam Mednick)

IDF says 6 gunmen killed Tuesday in Rafah firefight after ‘serious violation’ of truce

By Stav Levaton, Noam Lehmann, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Weapons found on bodies of suspects after they approached forces on the Israel-controlled side of the Yellow Line, sparking a clash and airstrikes in the area

Prof. Gabriel Barkay, co-director of the Temple Mount Sifting Project, on May 30, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Obituary'He left a big void in the archaeology world'

Archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, pioneer of Temple Mount research, dies at 81

By Rossella Tercatin

Discoverer of the Ketef Hinnom scrolls and founder of Temple Mount Sifting Project was a larger-than-life figure who stirred controversy, loved Jerusalem and made the city his mission

French President Emmanuel Macron (center) stands in front of members of the French Republican Guard holding portraits of French citizens killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities, during a ceremony at the Invalides memorial complex in Paris, on February 7, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

French publisher withdraws textbooks that called Oct. 7 victims ‘Jewish settlers’

By AFP

Macron criticizes the books for ‘falsification of the facts’ as publishers launch internal investigation

Screen grab taken from the UK's Parliament TV of Chief Constable of West Midlands Police Craig Guildford giving evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on soccer policing, January 8, 2026. (House of Commons/PA Images via Getty Images)

Anger in UK as police chief blames AI for false evidence used to ban Israeli soccer fans

By AFP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Blue and White party chair Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, December 29, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition leaders claim new Gantz campaign against Arab parties is hypocritical, aids PM

By Ariela Karmel

Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on January 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (Screenshot via JTA)

Oklahoma board to vote on religious Jewish charter school, teeing up potential battle

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Israeli Mariia Seniuk competes during the women's Free Skating event of the ISU Figure Skating European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, January 31, 2025. (Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP)

With clock ticking, Israel moves to resolve passport crisis for Winter Olympians

Then-IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi at a ceremony marking Remembrance Day at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, May 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Herzi Halevi gives testimony in Bild leak affair probe

An American flag is displayed on the facade of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, January 14, 2026. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Trump reiterates desire for Greenland following high-stakes diplomatic meeting

By Nandita Bose, Simon Lewis and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen

Illustrative: Playtika at high-tech development centers in Herzliya, October 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Playtika cuts 15% of its workforce amid shift to leaner teams that rely on AI

By Sharon Wrobel

NFL player Azeez Al-Shaair, a longtime pro-Palestinian advocate, in a postgame interview, January 12, 2026. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)

NFL linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair wears ‘stop the genocide’ eye black in postgame interview

By Joseph Strauss

An Image of Syrian banknotes being counted out by a machine at a bank in Damascus on February 28, 2012. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Qatari company to acquire major stakes in Syrian banks

By Timour Azhari

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