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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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The body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili (right) is seen after being located by Israeli troops at a cemetery in eastern Gaza City, January 26. 2026. (Courtesy)

All of them are home now: Body of last hostage Ran Gvili found in Gaza, returned to Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Jessica Steinberg, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

In historic moment for country, policeman killed fighting Hamas invaders on October 7, 2023, is returned for burial after 843 days. Hostage forum hails him as ‘first to go in, last to return’

A woman walks by chairs with photos of Ran Gvili, the final hostage in Gaza who was killed while fighting Hamas militants during the October 7, 2023 attack and whose remains have been recovered, in a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 27 – Final hostage returns home. Inside Operation Courageous Heart

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir joins troops in Gaza City for a ceremony honoring slain hostage Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, after his body was recovered in Gaza City, on January 26, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

PM: Gvili’s return an ‘extraordinary achievement’; Trump: Amazing job; leaders remove hostage pins

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, Jacob Magid and Noam Lehmann

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

US official: Those who give up guns will be granted amnesty

Trump: Hamas ‘worked hard’ to return body of last hostage; now it must disarm

By Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

US official argues recovery of Ran Gvili’s remains demonstrates benefits of cooperation between Israel, Qatar, Turkey and Egypt; says over 25 countries have joined Board of Peace

Hamas police forces deploy in Gaza City on October 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Hamas said to seek role in Gaza for its police officers, whom Israel views as terrorists

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 26, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM after Gvili’s return: Next phase in Gaza is not reconstruction, it’s demilitarization

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

The clock in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv stops counting on January 27, 2026, after the return of final hostage Ran Gvili. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

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Jan. 27: Lapid says PM can’t ‘take credit’ for hostages’ return without ‘responsibility for the dead’

Netanyahu defends IDF conscription legislation as ‘a real bill’ that will boost Haredi enlistment * Following alarm, IDF says Jordanian soldiers approached border but didn’t enter Israel

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Trump calls Erdogan for 2nd time in days to discuss Gaza and Syria
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Netanyahu: Around 50 people will be allowed daily into Gaza through Rafah
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Bismuth says legislation regulating Haredi enlistment is ready for committee vote

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'He saved the people of Israel. Now he's united the country'

‘Our pride is greater than our sorrow’: Family of Ran Gvili hails his heroism, Israel’s strength, as body comes home

Gvili’s parents, Itzik and Talik, express pain and gratitude as their son’s body returns to Israel for burial, marking a bittersweet end to the 843-day ordeal of the hostages in Gaza

Police chief Daniel Levy (left) and Itzik Gvili (center) at an Israel Police ceremony for Gvili's slain hostage son, police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, at the IDF's Nahal Base, on January 26, 2026. (Israel Police)

IDF troops stand by the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, after it was located at a cemetery in eastern Gaza City, on January 26. 2026. (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

Jessica Steinberg

The Gvili family’s hopeful, dignified struggle to bring Ran home

Clinging to ‘that tiny bit of hope,’ the family had continued to speak of their son in the present tense, and never stopped battling for his return

Op-ed: Day 843 of the war

With Ran Gvili’s return, Israel’s leadership fulfills sacred obligation to the nation it failed on Oct. 7

Hamas is not destroyed, and aims to recover. But the war’s other essential goal, the return of all the hostages, has been achieved — to the very last one

Clockwise from top left: IDF troops operate at a cemetery in Gaza City during a successful search for the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, in footage released on January 26, 2026; IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor and other officers and troops salute Gvili's body after it was located. (Israel Defense Forces); Master Sgt. Ran Gvili (Courtesy); Gvili's body is seen surrounded by Israeli troops (Courtesy).

The top of the Times of Israel's homepage on the afternoon of January 26, 2026. (Times of Israel)

After 843 days, with return of Ran Gvili’s body, Times of Israel takes down its ‘Israel at War’ counter

People visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre in Re'im, January 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A nation under strain: Official data tracks rise of depression, stress in year after Oct 7

By Stav Levaton

Elie Wiesel arrives for a round table discussion on Capitol Hill, March 2, 2015, in Washington, DC. (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Interview'It speaks of his anger at the betrayal by mankind'

New documentary reveals saga behind Elie Wiesel’s world-famous Holocaust memoir ‘Night’

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,’ airing on PBS in the US on January 27, filmmaker Oren Rudavsky examines the Nobel laureate through his ‘lifelong attempt to give his life meaning’

Ceremonies held worldwide to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Vanessa Gera

On eve of International Holocaust Day, UN rights chief urges world to reject hatred

By AFP

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

When the yellow ribbons start to fade

With the return of Ran Gvili, the deepest wound in Israeli society can begin to heal – but only if we understand how October 7 happened

In these dark days, remembrance is not enough

When US democracy was strong, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was just a reminder of past atrocities. Times have changed

Menachem Rosensaft

German trains brought Jews to their death at Bergen-Belsen. They can’t be allowed to disturb the site.

Deutsche Bahn, the German railway system, has proposed a high-speed line that would run just meters from the Nazi concentration camp

Richard K. Lowy

Why firsthand testimony still matters 81 years after Auschwitz’s liberation

We have the numbers and the photos. What we most need to hear is how quickly the unthinkable became routine – and how easily ordinary people adjusted to it

Holocaust survivor Ilana Shalem-Kantorowics, born in the Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, holds a photo of her with her mother Lola taken in the Bergen-Belsen refugee camp in 1946, in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 26, 2026. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Born in a concentration camp, a Holocaust survivor tells her story for the first time

By Melanie Lidman

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem, one of the youngest living survivors, opens up about the romance her parents shared in captivity, and her miraculous birth and survival

A photograph shows Iranian newspapers showing missiles and US President Donald Trump at a kiosk in Tehran on January 27, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Trump briefed that Iran regime’s hold on power at ‘weakest point’ since 1979 – report

By ToI Staff and AFP

New York Times report comes as US president moves significant forces within striking distance of Iran; Trump says Tehran is looking to ‘make a deal,’ find diplomatic off-ramp

Hezbollah supporters chant slogans while holding portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally to show their solidarity with Iran, in the southern suburb of Beirut on January 26, 2026. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Hezbollah chief: ‘When Trump threatens Khamenei, it’s our duty to confront this threat’

By AFP and Noam Lehmann

A handout picture obtained from Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah Media Center shows what they say is their targeting of CHIOS LION, a Liberia-flagged crude oil tanker, by unmanned surface vessels in the Red Sea on July 15, 2024. (ANSARULLAH MEDIA CENTRE / AFP)

Houthis threaten new Red Sea attacks as US aircraft carrier heads toward Iran

By AP and ToI Staff

A Hamas operative stands guard as Egyptian workers accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) use a digger as they search for the remains of hostages in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern of Gaza Strip on December 1, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Analysis

The last hostage is home, but Israel still faces being shackled by Trump’s plan for Gaza

With Rafah Crossing opening over Netanyahu’s head and Board of Peace taking charge, Jerusalem could retain say over Strip by convincing president that a fresh op to disarm Hamas is the only way forward

IAF decals are placed on newly arrived F-35 fighter jets in a photo released March 16, 2025 (Israel Defense Force)

Israel seeking new 10-year security deal with the US, senior defense official says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Protesters rally in support of the hostages in Central Park, New York City, June 8, 2025. (Luke Tress/ Times of Israel)

Analysis

Ran Gvili’s return marks the end of a movement that united Jews across the globe

In an era of polarization, a movement linking Jewish people across differences seemed unlikely, but ‘Bring Them Home’ activism showed they can still come together

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks during a news conference in Blaine, Minnesota, January 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Minnesota gov. invokes Anne Frank while decrying ICE, draws rebuke from Holocaust Museum

By JTA and ToI Staff

Without naming Walz, museum notes Anne Frank ‘was murdered solely because she was Jewish,’ says drawing ‘false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable’

A person holds a sign of Alex Pretti during a protest outside the office of US Senator Amy Klobuchar on January 26, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

US Jewish groups speak out against latest ICE killing in Minneapolis

By Grace Gilson

US President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, January 22, 2026, after returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos.(Luis M. Alvarez/AP)

Trump attempts to pivot in face of backlash over Minneapolis killing

By Roberto Schmidt and Sebastian Smith

Analysis

As Arab parties answer call for unity, Ra’am seeks to retain role as coalition kingmaker

Factions look to reunify as ‘Joint List’ so as to pool power for community wracked by deadly crime, but Islamist party wants to keep its plans to expand its base and return to government

MK Mansour Abbas at the Knesset on November 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance drives through the streets of Haifa, northern Israel, on October 23, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Man killed, another wounded in shooting in northern town of Yarka

By Charlie Summers

Israeli soldiers detain Palestinian Khairi Hanoun during a protest against expansion of Israeli settlements, in the village of Shufah in the West Bank, Tuesday, September 1, 2020.(AP/Majdi Mohammed)

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Less than 1% of complaints against soldiers in West Bank lead to charges, data shows

By Jeremy Sharon

Few investigations opened, and decisions on whether to probe allegations are often long delayed even in cases of deadly shootings, research by Yesh Din organization finds

Illustrative: A settler uses his phone to record Palestinians and foreign volunteers as they harvest olives in the Palestinian village of Turmusaya, near Ramallah in the West Bank, October 28, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Rome summons Israeli ambassador after Italian police held at gunpoint in West Bank

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, November 3, 2025. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Despite boycott, High Court chief says he still extends a hand to Justice Minister Levin

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

In a rare interview on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Isaac Amit vows legal system will ‘continue on our path’ despite attempts to weaken it

Eran Nahon, chief legal adviser in the Israel Prison Service, attends a hearing regarding sexual abuse claims at Gilboa Prison in the Knesset, Jerusalem on August 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Ben Gvir said seeking to name ally as police top lawyer; commissioner objects

By Charlie Summers

Illustrative: A trio of skyscrapers in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. October 11, 2019. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Azerbaijan arrests 3 men for planning attack on Israeli embassy at behest of ISIS

By Lazar Berman and Reuters

Authorities say men obtained weapons and planned to attack the mission in Baku on the basis of religious hostility

More Headlines

Jennifer Mnookin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, has been chosen to lead Columbia University beginning in July 2026. (Max Gerber/ University of Wisconsin via JTA)

Columbia selects Jennifer Mnookin, Jewish U of Wisconsin chancellor, as next leader

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: A police officer in Bnei Brak on October 18, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Six-month-old infant dies in unclear circumstances at unlicensed Bnei Brak daycare

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Palestinians rush toward trucks carrying aid as they drive through Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, November 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Police probing suspected large-scale Israeli smuggling ring into Gaza, court reveals

By Charlie Summers

An undated photo of crime boss Yaniv Zaguri in an Israeli court. (Screenshot: Channel 13)

‘A plot written in blood’: Mob boss gets 3 life sentences for killing witnesses

By Charlie Summers

Illustrative: Lebanese soldiers inspect the scene following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Dounine on January 25, 2026. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

IDF says 3 Hezbollah operatives killed in separate strikes in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at a Knesset session on antisemitism, January 26, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At Knesset antisemitism event, European lawmakers blame Islamism, policy failures

"Moshko" the Jew dances with the devil in a Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas pageant held in New Jersey January 11, 2026. (Screenshot via Facebook via JTA)

NJ church says antisemitic character in pageant was taken ‘out of context’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Team at Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Upwind Security. (Courtesy)

Israeli-founded cyber startup raises $250m, attains unicorn status at $1.5b valuation

By Sharon Wrobel

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, leaves federal court during the trial of Sean 'Diddy' Combs in New York, June 13, 2025. (AP/Michael R. Sisak)

Kanye West apologizes for his antisemitism — again; Jewish groups mostly mum

By Andrew Lapin

“Neshama,” Marcella Pixley’s novel-in-verse, won the gold medal for Jewish children’s literature for middle-grade readers from the Association of Jewish Libraries. (Candlewick via JTA)

Tales of ghosts, grief and Shabbat joy win top prizes in Jewish children’s literature

By Penny Schwartz

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