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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 24, 2026

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (left) meets with US CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper at the Israeli military's headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 24, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Visiting CENTCOM chief meets top IDF generals amid US military buildup in Mideast

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Witkoff, Kushner also visit for talks with PM; senior Iranian official says ‘everything is on high alert’ as Islamic Republic readies for potential US attack, threatens response

Illustrative: An Air France plane is parked at the Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 14, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

KLM cancels weekend flights to Tel Aviv, amid Iran tensions

Palestinians walk along a street market in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 24: Hamas delegation meets Turkish intel chief to discuss Gaza ceasefire

Thousands protest the government, demand return of Ran Gvili’s body at demonstrations across Israel * White House confirms Witkoff, Kushner in Israel to meet with Netanyahu on Gaza

9:23 pm

Hamas delegation meets Turkish intel chief to discuss Gaza ceasefire
7:58 pm

Report: Four injured in settler attack on home in Birzeit, near Ramallah; three Palestinians said arrested
6:59 pm

Report: Netanyahu barred Herzog from being on stage during Trump's Board of Peace event in Davos

Then-commander of the ground forces of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, attends a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran, Iran, on April 17, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran Guards have ‘finger on the trigger,’ chief of force says as US fleet heads to region

By AP

Gen. Mohammad Pakpour warns Israel and US ‘to avoid any miscalculation,’ claiming the Islamic Republic ‘stands more ready than ever’

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

Scale of Iran’s bloody crackdown comes into focus even as internet is out

By Jon Gambrell

This photograph taken during a tour for foreign media shows an Iranian national flag installed on the Beheshti Mosque that was damaged during anti-regime protests that were brutally repressed by the Islamic Republic, in Tehran, Iran, January 21, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

UN rights body condemns Iran’s ‘brutal repression’ of protests, mandates probe

By Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin

Ran Gvili's family: Pressure Hamas, not Israeli government

Witkoff and Kushner meet Netanyahu as US seeks to advance its Gaza peace plan

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Israeli official said to slam Witkoff as ‘lobbyist for Qatar’ amid spat with US over Rafah crossing; family of last hostage says 2nd phase mustn’t start before his body is returned

US envoy Steve Witkoff (left) and US President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (right) flank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting on October 9, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

People walk past trucks loaded with aid waiting to cross into Gaza from the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing on January 19, 2025. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Diplomat: Bigger issue is expanding access to shelter

Rafah crossing reopening was ‘imposed’ on Israel by Gaza mediators — officials

Arab diplomat says mediators understood Israel wouldn’t agree to reopen border on its own, decided to make announcement anyway, letting Jerusalem know ahead of time, but not consulting

Palestinians walk along a street market in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF says strike targeted 2 Gazans who crossed Yellow Line, planted bombs near troops

By Emanuel Fabian and Noam Lehmann

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz shake hands after reviewing an honor guard before an intergovernmental summit between Italy and Germany, at Villa Doria Pamphilj in Rome on January 23, 2026. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)

Leaders of Germany, Italy say they can’t join Trump’s Board of Peace in its current form

Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni both cite constitutional objections to joining initiative, which the EU’s foreign policy arm warns the US president will have too much power over

IDF chief tells parents of last hostage Ran Gvili there’s ‘room for optimism’

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

Supporters demand no progress on Gaza ceasefire before Gvili’s body is returned; family says they are encouraged by continued, ongoing support from the public

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks with Itzik and Talik Gvili, the parents of slain hostage Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, across the road from Hostages Square, January 23, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

A father in the shadows: How hostage Liam Or-Nassar’s heritage was hidden to protect him

When the Jewish-Arab family realized their son had been kidnapped on Oct 7, Ramzy Nassar decided Liam’s part-Arab identity must be concealed, to prevent Hamas from treating him as ‘a son of a traitor’

Released Gaza hostage Liam Or-Nassar is embraced by his father Ramzy Nassar at the Hatzerim airbase, early November 30, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

In this undated picture, Yaniv Levy (right), Director of the National Sea Turtle Rescue Center, in Yannai, central Israel, checks the health of a loggerhead sea turtle, helped by staff member Guy Ivgy. (Erez Ehrlichman, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Visitors to 'learn how Israel is saving turtles'

Marking a global first, Israel’s new Sea Turtle Rescue Center comes out of its shell

Complex with world’s only breeding group to open next month with guided tours that will showcase researchers’ efforts to stave off the animals’ extinction

Are we laughing yet?

Qatar, Turkey, Azerbaijan…the heads of these states are going to turn Gaza into a safe, sunny, peaceful, democratic entity. You’ve got to be kidding

Canada’s test is whether it will live in truth

The prime minister promotes a vision of ’values-based realism’ while tolerating antisemitism at home and indulging authoritarian regimes abroad

A playground by Tel Aviv's Kikar HaMedina which sits on a plot of land once purchased by Iran (Google Street View)

Benched ambitions

Iran’s tiny Tel Aviv outpost: City playground has surprising owners

With social media quiz, municipality draws attention to the fact that a small park near the city center is built on a plot purchased by pre-revolutionary Iran for an embassy

The Reel Schmooze podcast

Jafar Panahi’s defiant tragicomedy ‘It Was Just an Accident’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

Jordan Hoffman and Amanda Borschel-Dan on the Oscar-nominated film, plus a look at the master filmmaker’s brilliant ‘Taxi’ from 2015

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (left) seen after receiving the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2024 (Karlspreis) on May 9, 2024, in Aachen, western Germany. (Ina Fassbender/AFP); Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun arrives at a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, November 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US antisemitism envoy feuds with prominent European rabbi, drawing praise from Elon Musk

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Pinchas Goldschmidt attributes rise of far right ‘to the insecurity felt by the so-called old Europeans’ over Mideast migrants, as Yehuda Kaploun says mass migration to blame for growing Jew hatred

Gag order placed on investigation of top PM aide’s alleged bid to scupper Bild probe

Court accepts police appeal to put sweeping ban on publishing material from investigation of late-night meeting between Braverman and Feldstein that could expose Shin Bet methods

Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, at the Tel Aviv District Court ahead of the premier's testimony on December 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

A line of interfaith leaders protest Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, Jan. 23, 2026. Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman was arrested and briefly detained during the demonstration. (Courtesy of Rabbi Aaron Weininger via JTA)

Minnesota rabbi among dozens arrested in faith leaders’ anti-ICE protest

By Andrew Lapin

Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman briefly detained while trying to disrupt operations at airport that fellow rabbi says ‘is being used to deport folks’

California State Senator Scott Wiener is shown at a Halloween event while campaigning in San Francisco, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

After accusing Israel of genocide, Scott Wiener steps down as Calif. Jewish Caucus co-chair

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Noah Wyle in HBO's 'The Pitt.' (Warrick Page/MAX via JTA)

Scars that linger

HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ pays homage to 2018 Tree of Life shooting

Dr. Robby Robinavitch, played by Noah Wyle, treats a patient who survived the attack; she later thanks a Hijab-wearing nurse for the Muslim community’s support after the shooting

An Israeli family seen in their safe room in central Israel during an Iranian missile attack on June 15, 2025. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Real Estate Israel

As Iran threat returns, private safe rooms factor again into cost of living

Homes with their own bomb shelters can cost as much as 10% more than those without, though some price-sensitive renters are willing to forgo the convenience

More Headlines

Guy Hever at 17. The 20-year-old soldier exited a guard post on the Golan Heights and vanished without a trace. (Courtesy of Rina Hever)

Police free 5 suspects arrested over disappearance of IDF soldier nearly 3 decades ago

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, right, poses for a photo with Eric Trump, son of US President Donald Trump and a lead executive of the family's cryptocurrency enterprise, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. (Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi via X)

Somaliland leader makes business pitch at Davos dinner with Trump’s son, Israel’s president

By David Gauthier-Villars

A car is damaged after exploding on Route 65, close to the northern Arab town of Ar'ara, January 23, 2026. (Screen capture: X/Asslan Khalil)

Three hurt in car explosion near northern Arab town; police suspect criminal motive

The coffins of seven British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, are driven through the town of Wootton Bassett, England, after repatriation to Britain, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

UK’s Starmer urges Trump to apologize for ‘appalling’ remarks that NATO allies shirked battle

Illustrative: A vehicle of the German judiciary drives into the premises of the courthouse of the higher regional court in Dresden, eastern Germany, on August 5, 2025. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)

Germany begins trial of eight neo-Nazi ‘Saxonian Separatists’

By AFP

Members of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrive at the Kurdish-held city of Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobane on January 23, 2026, after they withdrew from the Al-Aqtan prison in the Raqa province of Syria. (AFP)

Syrian government, Kurdish forces agree to extend ceasefire by 15 days

By AFP

A Nashville Department of Transportation truck applies salt brine to a roadway Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. ahead of a winter storm expected to hit the state over the weekend. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Tens of millions across US brace for massive winter storm, heavy snow, freezing rain

By EMILIE MEGNIEN, Jeffrey Collins and Jamie Stengle

From left: David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz appear at the premiere of the Netflix docuseries 'Beckham' in London, Britain, on October 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer)

Brooklyn Beckham cuts contact with parents David and Victoria amid spiraling family feud

By AP and ToI Staff

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