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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 25, 2026

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The site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Dounine, on January 25, 2026. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 25: IDF says Hezbollah commander killed in Lebanon strike

US official says IDF op to recover Ran Gvili’s remains should last several days, allowing for gate to reopen by end of week * 17-year-old shot dead in south, 16-year-old moderately wounded

10:07 pm

Israel says Rafah Crossing to reopen when IDF finishes current search for last hostage body
10:00 pm

17-year-old shot dead in south, 16-year-old moderately wounded
9:43 pm

UN Palestinian refugee agency says demolished HQ set on fire

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

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

Iranian telecom head claims internet to soon be restored after protest blackout

By AFP

Commuters wait for their train at a metro station in Iran's capital Tehran on January 24, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s internet shutdown brings major costs as online businesses severed from world

By Ramin Khanizadeh

Illustration of a rendering of slab 28 of the Southwest Palace in Nineveh (modern Mosul), Iraq, showing a city that research says may be Jerusalem, superimposed on a picture of the slab taken in 1990 by John Russell. (Trustees of the British Museum, John Russell; Illustration by Times of Israel staff)

'It fits with both Sennacherib's account and the Bible'

Smashed by ISIS, a 2,700-year-old carving may have been the earliest-known depiction of Jerusalem

By Rossella Tercatin

New research suggests a long-overlooked bas-relief in King Sennacherib’s palace in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, destroyed with other priceless artifacts, showed the Temple Mount and Bible’s King Hezekiah

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Netanyahu said to have barred Herzog from appearing at Trump’s Board of Peace unveiling

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Report says PM refused repeated US requests to have Israeli president on stage in Davos, amid Jerusalem’s major qualms about makeup of Gaza oversight panel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and President Isaac Herzog at a state memorial ceremony for victims of terror, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, May 13, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hamas terrorists search for the remains of Israeli hostage Ran Gvili in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, January 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 25: Day 842 – US proposes vision of ‘New Gaza’ even as Hamas still rules

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

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)

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

Ghassan al-Duhaini, the new commander of the Abu Shabab militia, inspects troops in a video released by the group on December 5, 2025. (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel giving Gaza’s anti-Hamas militias weapons, intel, food, medical care — report

Henry Greenspan

The loss of loss

In rebranding for the next generation, Holocaust programming treats survivors as heroes and sidesteps the main point: mourning the millions lost to Jewish genocide

Quitting the UN Climate Convention threatens our national security

From power grids to digital sovereignty, withdrawal would erode Israel’s ability to withstand war, cyber threats and future disruptions

Talyah Ginsberg

Dry January and the art of wanting something you’re not allowed to want

I gave up alcohol. And sugar. No chocolate. No biscuits. No cake. No ice cream. No emergency spoonful of Nutella eaten straight from the jar. And I have 6 days to go…

Sorry, Mr. Chomsky, I no longer agree: My journey out of anti-Zionism

The more I learned, the more I realized I couldn’t accept the way my leftist intellectual heroes relate to Jews and Israel

Footage posted to social media allegedly shows Israeli settlers burning two vehicles north of Ramallah, early on January 25, 2026. (Screenshots/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Wave of settler attacks reported across West Bank villages over weekend

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Israelis said to have set vehicles ablaze, sprayed graffiti and attacked residents, with several Palestinians hospitalized in separate incidents

Illustrative: A suspect is handcuffed in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Report: Soldier arrested for faking kidnapping of Palestinian, demanding ransom

Illustrative: A police car in Herzliya, August 15, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Palestinian driver critically injured near Ramallah; police say he sped at officers

By Noam Lehmann

Arab activist: Struggle against crime is for 'whole country'

Thousands across Israel protest against government, demand return of Ran Gvili’s body

‘Deals need to be fulfilled,’ says Gvili’s mother at hometown rally, urging government not to move forward with Gaza deal’s second phase until her son’s remains are back in Israel

Anti-government protesters gather in Tel Aviv's Habima Square, on January 24, 2026. (Yair Palti/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

US President Donald Trump talks to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington, December 5, 2025. (Dan Mullan/Pool Photo via AP)

Amid escalating spat, Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs over China trade deal

By AP

Threat comes as tensions rise between Washington and Ottawa over Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, repeated suggestion that Canada become the 51st American state

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, left, during a signing ceremony on the US-led Board of Peace at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Trump’s Greenland ambitions strain MAGA ties with Europe’s far right

By AP

US federal immigration officers deploy pepper spray at observers after a shooting, January 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

US immigration officers kill man in Minnesota, apparently falsely saying he brandished a gun

By AP

Video shows ICU nurse Alex Pretti, 37, was holding a phone, not a firearm, when officers accosted him and then shot him dead; local cops describe him as a lawful gun owner

Planes move on the tarmac at the Nashville International Airport during a winter storm, January 24, 2026. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Brutal US travel day as more than 13,500 flights canceled amid massive winter storm

By AP and Sharon Wrobel

Widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain from southern Rocky Mountains to New England result in largest flight cancellation event since pandemic, including those to and from Tel Aviv

Analysis

Andrew Silow-Carroll

From Alfred Dreyfus to Josh Shapiro: How the ‘dual loyalty’ charge shadows Diaspora Jewry

A question put to the Pennsylvania governor by Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential vetting team highlights how a historic antisemitic trope collides with modern attachment to Israel

Then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, center, attends a Commemoration Ceremony in Schenley Park, in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, on October 27, 2021, three years after a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Wearing traditional costumes, children take part in the 40th annual Christmas parade heading toward the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, Israel, December 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

'The holidays helped, but they didn't change the situation'

Once a bustling pilgrimage site, today’s decaying Nazareth is a city in crisis

By Eliyahu Freedman

Residents of Jesus’ hometown, now an Arab Israeli political epicenter, say a brief resurgence from Christmas tourism isn’t a meaningful fix to fiscal crisis and rising crime

Man shot dead in Nazareth as Arab protests mount over surging gang violence

By Charlie Summers

Protesters demonstrate outside The Old Bailey court in London, where four Palestine Action activists are to appear in court charged over a break-in at RAF Brize Norton on June 20 in which aircraft were damaged with spraypaint, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

86 arrested after breaching London prison grounds in support of Palestine Action

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police say activists blocked staff from moving at Wormwood Scrubs while demonstrating for hunger striker held over alleged crimes linked to banned anti-Israel group

FILE: Police officers patrol the King's Cross train station, in London, November 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK moves to create its own FBI-style national law enforcement agency

The Soreq B desalination plant in central Israel. (Itay Dodi, Water Authority)

Desalination plant in central region goes into full operation

Soreq B in Rishon Lezion will produce 200 million cubic meters of desalinated water annually; with other plants, will meet 70-80% of the country’s potable water needs

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the village of Sohmor, in southern Lebanon on January 15, 2026. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

IDF: Wave of strikes targets Hezbollah operatives, infrastructure across Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says it killed terror operative at arms manufacturing site, artillery commander; Lebanese authorities say 2 dead

A photograph released by the Lebanese government press office on December 19, 2025 show Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam speaking during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon. (HANDOUT / Lebanese Government Press Office / AFP)

Lebanese PM says international force needed after UNIFIL disbands at end of 2026

By AFP and ToI Staff

Natalie Portman attends the premiere of "The Gallerist" during the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Jewish stars Natalie Portman, Seth Rogen debut new comedy films at Sundance festival

By Lindsey Bahr

Portman stars in art world thriller-comedy ‘The Gallerist,’ alongside Jenna Ortega, popstar Charli XCX; Rogen, Olivia Wilde feature in ‘The Invite,’ about a failing marriage

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Iran's security chief Ali Larijani (C) and Iran's ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani (R) attend a ceremony marking the first anniversary of Israel's assassination of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27, 2025. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Daughter of top Iranian official who led regime crackdown fired from US medical school

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

Police Supt. Rinat Saban arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing on National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's refusal to sign off on her promotion on January 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cop whose promotion is being blocked by Ben Gvir accuses him of threatening officers

By Charlie Summers

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz (left) speaks next to Minister of Foreign Affairs Fernando Aramayo Carrasco and Germany's Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Johann Wadephul (right) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, November 10, 2025. (Rodrigo URZAGASTI / AFP)

US pressing Bolivia to expel suspected Iranian spies, blacklist IRGC and proxy groups

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

Former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station in Baghdad on November 11, 2025 during Iraq's parliamentary elections. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq’s Iran-linked Shiite bloc nominates former premier for prime minister

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