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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 21, 2026

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US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Netanyahu accepts invite to Trump’s Board of Peace; Europe formulating common position

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Egypt announces participation; Witkoff says Putin expected to join; Sweden and Norway reject invitations; Italy said to believe joining the board would violate its constitution

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (right) welcomes his US counterpart Donald Trump upon arrival at the presidential terminal in Abu Dhabi on May 15, 2025. (Giuseppe Cacae/AFP)

UAE, Belarus accept offer to join Trump’s Board of Peace; Norway, UK voice concerns

By Agencies, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks to ultra-Orthodox troops of the Nevatim Airbase's ground defense unit, in southern Israel on January 21, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 21: IDF chief tells Haredi troops expanding enlistment ‘an operational necessity’

‘There’s a feeling that this isn’t heading in the right direction,’ official tells ToI * 8 Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, announce joint decision to join Board of Peace

9:32 pm

Arab diplomat: Turkey, Qatar filling vacuum in Gaza created by Israeli refusal to involve PA
9:14 pm

Denmark says Trump sending 'positive messages' on Greenland
8:43 pm

Trump says agreed 'framework' for US deal over Greenland

A woman recites prayers from a flyer distributed by the Temple Mount Yeshiva after police allowed Jewish worshipers to bring the liturgical material up to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on January 21, 2026. (Courtesy/Beyadenu)

In first, police let Jewish visitors take printed prayers onto Temple Mount

By Charlie Summers

Police confirm change to longstanding ban on non-Muslim prayer, which comes weeks after Ben Gvir confidant appointed as Jerusalem’s top officer; Jewish activists laud policy

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Reporter's notebook

Staring at rocks and glowing ducks on the other side of the planet

A first-time visitor’s reflections on Japan, a land of contradictions that you might say is at the opposite end of the first-world spectrum from Israel. But that’s far from the full story

Trees propped up to prevent damage at the Kinkaku-ji Buddhist Temple in Kyoto, Japan (David Horovitz / Times of Israel)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the planned autopsy of babies who died in a daycare, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

High Court nixes autopsies of babies found dead at daycare as Haredim riot in protest

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Elderly man assaulted as ultra-Orthodox rage against ‘desecration’ of infants who died at unlicensed Jerusalem daycare; teen protester blocking road is run over, moderately injured

The scene after a Haredi teen was hit by a bus and killed on Route 3533 at the Aluma Junction near Komemiyut on January 21, 2026 (Magen David Adom)

Haredi teen hit by bus and killed; police suspect driver of reckless manslaughter

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Lt. Col. Avigdor Dickstein (left), who is in charge of encouraging ultra-Orthodox enlistment, and Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb (right), head of the IDF Personnel Directorate’s Planning and Personnel Management Division, at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee’s Subcommittee for IDF Human Resources, May 21, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

30,000 Israelis designated as draft evaders, but true figure is higher, IDF says

Analysis

Trump’s Gaza push is a recipe for Hamas’s revival, but Netanyahu is unwilling to stir the pot

As phase 2 coalesces with Turkey and Qatar in key positions, disarming the Gaza terror group seems increasingly unlikely, but the PM is betting it’s smarter to go along than go against the US president

US President Donald Trump (left) greets Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, October 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Relatives, friends and supporters of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, whose body remains in Gaza, attend a Shabbat service at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, calling for the return of his body, on January 16, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Trump says ‘we think we know’ location of Ran Gvili, the last hostage in Gaza

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Parents of slain policeman: US president’s remarks show Hamas ‘deliberately violated’ ceasefire by not returning all captives; Trump suggests his Board of Peace ‘might’ replace UN

Undated photo of Ashgara Mengistu. (Israel Police)

Brother of former Hamas hostage found alive after going missing for three days

Shaike Komornik

Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace: Vision or mirage?

A postwar governing body that has no Saudi buy-in and ignores Hamas’s shadow power is unlikely to deliver either stability or security

Zubin’s boycott

Shunning the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is both hypocritical and counterproductive: Mehta is punishing the liberal music-lovers who most agree with him

A political drawing depicting the trial of Aaron Sapiro (at right) v. Henry Ford. (Courtesy of Gaylen Ross and Carol King)

'People know Henry Ford, but they don't know what happened'

New documentary depicts the lawsuit that humbled Henry Ford – and revved up US Jewry

By Rich Tenorio

After its world premiere at the Miami Jewish Film Festival on Sunday, ‘Sapiro v. Ford’ is making the Jewish festival rounds

A US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron lands at an unnamed base in the Middle East, January 18, 2026. (CENTCOM/X)

Trump still pushing aides to draw up ‘decisive’ military options against Iran — WSJ

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Options said to include actions aimed at toppling regime; Iran says it would fight back ‘with everything we have’; Amnesty warns Iran plans to execute protester on Wednesday

In this Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, photo made available by U.S. Navy, a helicopter lifts off of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it transits the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln sent to the Mideast in May over tensions with Iran transited the narrow Strait of Hormuz for the first time on Tuesday. The ship previously had been in the Arabian Sea outside of the Persian Gulf. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Stephanie Contreras/U.S. Navy via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 21: Day 838 – US amasses firepower in region amid Iranian tension

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, attends the presentation of his candidacy for United Nations secretary-general, in Buenos Aires on December 22, 2025. (Juan Mabromata/AFP)

Standoff with Iran over nuclear inspections cannot last forever, says IAEA chief

By Dave Graham and Francois Murphy

Rafael Grossi says UN watchdog hasn’t been able to inspect the nuclear sites bombed by Israel and US, warns he could ultimately declare Tehran in ‘in non-compliance’ with NPT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gestures as she delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 20, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

EU seeks to tighten ban on drone exports to Iran after deadly crackdown

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Spy thriller 'Tehran' aired on Apple TV on January 9, 2026, as street protests raged in Iran (Courtesy)

Reality TV?‘Tehran’ premieres on Apple as nationwide protests rock Iran

By Jessica Steinberg

This composite image shows former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot (left), former prime minister Naftali Bennett (center) and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at a march in support of conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, in Jerusalem on January 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Report: Eisenkot proposes merger with Lapid, Bennett for mega-slate ahead of election

Israeli TV says former IDF chief believes electoral alliance could net 40 seats in general elections, overtaking Likud as largest party; Bennett challenges Netanyahu to debate

Avi Slama, the newly elected mayor of Netanya, celebrates his victory after the polls close in the Netanya mayoral election at his campaign headquarters in Netanya, January 20, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Likud candidate wins special mayoral vote in Netanya after longtime mayor’s death

Former President of the Supreme Court Asher Grunis attends the swearing in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the president residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court president Asher Grunis rushed to hospital in serious condition

Judge, 81, led court between 2012-2015 and is chair of Senior Appointments Advisory Committee, which was to convene on Thursday to discuss Netanyahu’s nominee for Mossad chief

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (courtesy) / A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, January 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What Matters Now podcast

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Inside the technocratic council set to rule Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

The head of Realign for Palestine weighs in on the announced members of the Trump Board of Peace and says, ‘Do not give in to the Qataris and Turks on Hamas’

Tawfik Tirawi during an interview in 2022 (YouTube screenshot)

Former Palestinian official accuses Palestinian Authority of institutional corruption

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Settlers attend the inauguration ceremony of a newly legalized Jewish settlement, Yatziv, adjacent to the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour, in the West Bank, January 19, 2026. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

Settler movement celebrates speedy legalization of outpost

By AP and ToI Staff

Yatziv becomes a settlement within a month amid Smotrich-led drive to pepper West Bank with Israeli communities and prevent a Palestinian state

Noam Bettan, Israel's 2026 Eurovision contestant, poses for a photo in Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, January 21, 2026. (Yael Abas Guisky/Flash90)

Israel taps Noam Bettan to represent country at 2026 Eurovision

Singer born to French immigrant parents says it’s ‘truly a privilege’ to represent Israel, likens having to perform before a hostile crowd at contest to ‘entering the lion’s den’

Interview'We're not here to be the mainstream, we’re here to push it'

Dismissing nationalists and anti-Zionists, NIF’s interim CEO champions liberal democracy

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Mickey Gitzin steps up to helm the New Israel Fund, an established but fast-growing NGO navigating the tricky progressive, pro-Israel terrain post-October 7

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People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Number of UK schools marking Holocaust Remembrance Day drops nearly 60% since Oct. 7

Mark Dreyfus speaks in Parliament House on January 19, 2026, in Canberra, Australia. (Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images via JTA)

Mourner’s Kaddish recited in Australian parliament for Bondi Beach attack victims

By Grace Gilson

Screenshots show items supporting terrorist groups on display at a youth center, in New York City, January 18, 2026. (Screenshot/Instagram)

Terror group paraphernalia sold at fundraiser in New York youth center

Interior of the Bet El Sephardic synagogue in Buenos Aires. (Horacio Literat/ACILBA, the Moroccan Jewish Association of Argentina)

Argentina’s chief Sephardic rabbi reaffirms ban on local conversions, sparking outcry

By Juan Melamed

Syrian government troops are seen at an abandoned checkpoint between government-controlled Raqqa and Hassakeh, controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in northeastern Syria, January 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Syrian military, Kurdish-led forces announce new truce after collapse of first deal

By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL

Portuguese police detain a woman who was protesting against a demonstration against 'uncontrolled immigration' called by Portuguese far-right party Chega in Lisbon on September 29, 2024. (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP)

Portuguese police arrest 37 suspected ultra-right operatives for hate crimes

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