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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 22, 2026

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Paraguay's President Santiago Pena (second from left), Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (fifth from left), Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani (center right), Argentina's President Javier Milei (sixth from right), Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (fourth from right), Bulgaria's former Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov (third from right), Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (second from right) and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev pose with US President Donald Trump (center) holding a signed founding charter at the 'Board of Peace' meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2026. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

Gaza technocratic committee head: Rafah to reopen next week

Flanked by world leaders in Davos, Trump launches his Board of Peace

By Lazar Berman, Agencies, ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

Trump, joined by Muslim leaders, declares: ‘We have peace in the Middle East’; many Western allies stay away amid concerns that body set up to deal with Gaza could usurp role of UN

Arab leaders attend a multilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump to discuss the situation in Gaza, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 23, 2025. (Reuters)

8 Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, accept invite to join Board of Peace

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

Gaza oversight officials say Rafah Crossing to reopen in both directions next week

By Nava Freiberg and Lazar Berman

Israel makes no announcement, but official says topic to be discussed during Sunday cabinet meeting; Board of Peace Gaza envoy says working to ‘expedite the search’ for last hostage

A truck carrying humanitarian aid crosses the Egyptian gate of the Rafah crossing, heading for inspection by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP/Mohamed Arafat)

Sgt. Maj. (res.) Asael Babad, who died on January 22, 2026, after being wounded in a Hamas attack on October 19, 2025 in southern Gaza's Rafah. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reservist injured in Hamas attack in southern Gaza succumbs to wounds

By Emanuel Fabian

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for the EU summit in Brussels, January 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Harry Nakos)

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Jan. 22: European Union demands Board of Peace mandate be narrowed to focus just on Gaza

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Tens of thousands march against failure to curb crime in Arab society, pressure Arab party heads into agreeing to work to revive Joint List * US said to mull complete military pullout from Syria

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Arab diplomat: Turkey, Qatar filling vacuum in Gaza created by Israel’s snub of PA

Diplomat says nations like Saudi Arabia and UAE had been open to being involved in Strip, but want PA to have a role there so the enclave and West Bank will have unified Palestinian leadership

US President Donald Trump gestures during a photo during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani watch. In back are the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Netherland's Prime Minister Dick Schoof. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a memorial service at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney on January 22, 2026, part of the national day of mourning for the victims of the Hanukkah Bondi Beach shooting. (Steven Markham / AFP)

At memorial, Albanese says he’s ‘profoundly sorry’ for not preventing Bondi Beach attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Australia marks national day of mourning for last month’s Hanukkah massacre, including ‘Light Will Win’ event at Sydney Opera House with candle lightings and tributes to 15 victims

US President Donald Trump talks to media after a meeting during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Trump: Hamas will be ‘blown away very quickly’ if it doesn’t disarm in coming weeks

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

‘That’s what they’ve agreed to, they’re going to do it,’ US president says at Davos forum, while claiming ’59 countries’ are looking to ‘come in and take out’ the terror group

Palestinian employees working for the Egyptian Committee for Gaza Relief gather around a body bag carrying two bodies at Nasser Hospital in Gaza City on January 21, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Palestinians say Israeli attacks in Gaza kill 11, including 3 journalists, 2 children

By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Analysis

Rossella Tercatin

Jerusalem daycare deaths put spotlight on longstanding gaps in Haredi early childhood care

Data from 2022 suggests that hundreds of unlicensed nurseries for ages 0-3 operate in Israel amid a countrywide lack of educational and security standards

Children learn about the customs of Rosh Hashanah at a kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh, central Israel, October 1, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

'We need to push the cart along until the messiah comes'

New recordings indicate Haredi rabbis see conscription law merely as way to buy time

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

In leaked conversations, ultra-Orthodox leaders admit bill will eventually be canceled by High Court, but insist no members of community will be forced to serve in IDF

Rabbis Dov Lando (left) and Moshe Hillel Hirsch (center) attend an anti-enlistment conference organized by the Vaad HaYeshivot (Yeshiva Committee), July 31, 2025. (Shuki Lehrer)

AnalysisHaredi draft exemption marching ahead, but contentious bill still faces uphill battle

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Palestinians in Israeli jails face ‘conditions unfit for human beings,’ state agency says

The Public Defender’s Office finds widespread abuses against Palestinian detainees, including systematic violence, food deprivation, medical neglect, and unsanitary conditions

Handcuffed Hamas terrorists sit next to a picture of Palestinians walking past destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli flag, in a prison in central Israel, May 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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By Jessica Steinberg and Jeremy Sharon

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An impossible choice: Which injustice to fight first

As a Palestinian, I should not have to decide if a child freezing in Gaza matters more than a pregnant woman stuck for hours at a checkpoint

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A first step: Jewish prayer is returning to the Temple Mount

For the first time in 2,000 years, Jews are allowed to pray with printed pages at our holiest site. We will not settle for anything less than full freedom

This photograph taken during a tour for foreign media shows a videographer taking images of the wreckage at the Al-Aqsa Mosque that was damaged during recent public protests, in Tehran on January 21, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

‘They were shooting at their backs’: A glimpse into Iran’s brutal protest crackdown

Speaking from Istanbul, a protester says it was ‘too dangerous’ to go to a hospital after he was wounded, since police were waiting to detain and interrogate anyone with injuries

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks to Israeli Air Force pilots and air personnel at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, January 21, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Amid Iran tensions, IDF chief says military ready to act ‘against any enemy’

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AP

In this photo obtained by The Associated Press, Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)

First official death toll of recent Iran protests 3,117, state TV says

By Jon Gambrell

San Diego Jewish groups decry rabbi’s ‘disinvitation’ from Martin Luther King Day event

By Grace Gilson

Hanan Leberman asserts he was excluded due to connection to Israel; organizers say he was asked not to speak over ‘potential disruption related to Zionism’

Rabbi Hanan Leberman leads attendees at the AJC Global Forum in the singing of Tfila Leshlom Hamedina at the Davidson Plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem in June 2018. (Screenshot via JTA)

Swastikas found at a Brooklyn playground, in New York City, January 21, 2026. (Courtesy/Boro Park Shomrim)

Swastikas sprayed on Brooklyn playground used by Jewish children 2 days in a row

University of Pennsylvania signage is seen in Philadelphia, May 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Penn slams Trump administration demand for list of Jewish staff in antisemitism probe

By Grace Gilson

File: Students at Tel Aviv University rally against violence within Arab communities, January 12, 2026. (Erik Marmor/FLASH90)

Arab society stages nationwide strike over police failure to curb violent crime

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Starting in northern towns, strike spreads to many Arab locales as Sahknin mayor accuses PM of not caring; Ben Gvir ridicules the protest action, says leaders back criminals

Police officers at the scene of an incident in which a fellow officer was set on fire at a gas station in Kiryat Bialik, northern Israel, on January 22, 2026. (Israel Police)

Policeman set on fire, moderately wounded at northern gas station

Officers were responding to man threatening to commit suicide when he doused one with gasoline and lit it; 2 others lightly injured; 33-year-old suspect arrested

Smoke and sparks ascend from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the southern Lebanese village of Kfour on January 21, 2026. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Wave of IDF strikes target Hezbollah arms depots, operatives in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Airstrikes target border crossings with Syria used for smuggling; operative who blocked Lebanese army from dismantling weapons site last month and weapons smuggler killed

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during a meeting on the sidelines of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump announces Greenland deal ‘framework,’ backing off threats of force and tariffs

By AFP

US president silent on whether agreement will give America control of the Arctic island; NATO chief says ‘there’s still a lot of work to be done’

US President Donald Trump addresses the audience during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump says he won’t use force to seize Greenland, but insists only US can defend it

By Josh Boak, Will Weissert and AAMER MADHANI

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Andrew Tate (R) and his brother Tristan (2R) speak to the media as they arrive in Romania back from US, in Bucharest March 22, 2025. (Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP)

Andrew Tate distances himself from singing ‘Heil Hitler’ song; others double down

By Joseph Strauss

Former hostage Rom Braslavski speaks to the media as he enters the Tel Aviv police station to give testimony on an alleged assault he suffered in the city, January 21, 2026. (Screenshot/Ynet)

Ex-hostage Rom Braslavski gives police testimony on alleged assault outside club

Antisemitic graffiti reading 'Rat' and 'Jew' is seen on an Ireland road, around December 31, 2025. (Screenshot via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Survey finds half of Irish adults don’t know 6 million Jews were murdered in Holocaust

By Grace Gilson

Combat veterans suffering from PTSD protest in Jerusalem, January 21, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man injured in hit-and-run at Jerusalem protest for soldiers with PTSD; driver arrested

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

FILE - Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listen during the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

US House advances contempt motion for the Clintons in Epstein probe

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