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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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A poster of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili is seen at a rally calling for Hamas to return his remains from Gaza, in the southern Israeli community of Meitar, December 13, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 28: Eulogizing last returned hostage Ran Gvili, Herzog says nation can now ‘slowly begin’ to heal

By Shira Silkoff, Ben Sales and ToI Staff

US to offer funds for Hamas ceding its guns * Supreme Court president slams leaders’ ‘blatant disregard for the rules of law’ * Report: PM turned down 11 chances to kill Sinwar in 2023

10:02 pm

Government reportedly demolishes home belonging to relative of slain hostage Youssef Ziyadne
9:58 pm

Despite Bank of Israel opposition, MKs advance bill setting deficit ceiling at 3.9%
9:54 pm

State budget advances after passing first reading in Knesset with partial Haredi support

US President Donald Trump waves as he walks across the South Lawn after arriving on Marine One at the White House in Washington, DC, January 27, 2026, following a trip to Iowa. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump: Time running out as ‘massive armada’ heads to Iran, next strike will be ‘far worse’

By Agencies, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Iran’s Araghchi says not in contact with Witkoff, but intermediaries holding consultations; watchdog says 6,126 killed in crackdown, further 17,091 possible deaths under investigation

A handout picture provided by the Iranian president's office on August 30, 2025, shows President Masoud Pezeshkian speaking during a televised interview in Tehran. (Iranian Presidency/AFP)

Iranian president says US threats ‘will achieve nothing other than instability’

An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151, prepares to launch from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) on January 22, 2026, in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman)

Amid Iran tensions, US announces multi-day aerial military drill in Middle East

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

US President Joe Biden (right) is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 18, 2023, in Lod. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Netanyahu: Israeli soldiers lost their lives in Gaza due to Biden-era arms embargo

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

In incendiary allegation, premier says IDF ‘didn’t have enough ammunition,’ but ’embargo’ ended when Trump took office; furious Biden aides say claim ‘categorically false,’ PM ‘ungrateful’

Then-president Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 28 – PM makes explosive charges on Biden-era arms embargo

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Journalists film while standing before destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip on October 9, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

High Court avoids decision on press access to Gaza, tells state to update it in March

By Jeremy Sharon

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Netanyahu’s incendiary accusation against Biden underlines need for the state inquiry he opposes

Unprompted, the PM alleges that an arms embargo instituted by the previous US administration directly caused the loss of soldiers’ lives. It’s a charge he’s never made before, and it finds no echo in the IDF’s war probes

Troops of the IDF's Givati Brigade operate in the Yabna camp of southern Gaza's Rafah, June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

After 843 days, 12 hours, 6 minutes, Hostages Square clock goes dark with Ran Gvili’s return

Emotional Tel Aviv ceremony, heavy with symbolism, commemorates end of digital count-up marking hostages’ time in Gaza after return of final captive’s body

The clock in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv stops counting on January 27, 2026, after the return of final hostage Ran Gvili. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of American-Israeli hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, speaks at a J Street event on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 21, 2024. (Jacob Magid/The Times of Israel)

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, father of former Israeli hostage, to join Columbia University faculty

A protester holds a placard with a dove carrying a yellow ribbon, symbolizing solidarity with the hostages taken by Hama-led terrorists during the October 7, 2023 attack, during a demonstration calling for their release outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 4, 2025 (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Jewish world sheds symbols of support, marking first day without hostages in Gaza

By JTA and Luke Tress

Thomas Weber and Yael Ben Moshe

Holocaust ceremonies can actually foster extremism

Exposure to dramatic descriptions of suffering does not automatically produce moral sensitivity or democratic commitment, especially in times of collective fear

Shayna Goldberg

Sunny…with a chance of missiles

The news is often crushing, so we have learned to appreciate what we can: The return of Ran Gvili’s body and sunshine after tense nights of waiting for Iran

Aviram Bellaishe

Want to cripple Iran? Follow the money to Baghdad

Billions of Iraqi dollars flowing to Tehran are sustaining Iran’s oppressive regime. The US can – and must – turn off the tap

Nicole Wilson-Spiro

Leket and the multiple miracles within manna

The food rescue organization attains the logistical efficiency that makes its timely deliveries possible (OK, not as miraculous as God in the wilderness, but close)

Health workers move a woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a deadly terror shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Hospital staff changed Bondi attack victim’s name to hide Jewish identity, reports say

According to local media, medical records for Rosalia Shikhverg were altered to say ‘Karen Jones,’ apparently for her protection

A person walks outside BBC headquarters in London, November 10, 2025. (AP/Kin Cheung)

BBC fails to mention Jews in some Holocaust Remembrance Day coverage, sparking outrage

A menorah is pictured after the seventh candle is lit for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah as mourners stand next to floral tributes laid out in memory of the victims of a shooting attack at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, December 20, 2025. (David Gray / AFP)

20 Jews murdered, 815 severe antisemitic attacks took place worldwide in 2025

This photo, taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945, shows a group of children behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo)

Holocaust Remembrance Day'This connected them to their identities as human beings'

Counting the days: How Jews clung to the Hebrew calendar as Nazis tried to erase it

A new exhibition at Yad Vashem highlights the extraordinary efforts made, often at risk of death, to preserve and mark the Jewish holidays during the darkest of times

Illustrative: A group of Soviet partisans singing during a lull in the fighting. (Photographed by Yakov Davidson. Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Israel/Photo Archive)

Family's massacre turned a quiet man into a vengeful fighter

In WWII, legendary Jewish partisan ‘Uncle Misha’ took out Nazis while carrying a tune

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New book ‘Partisan Song’ packs an action-filled punch as it tells the story of Moshe Gildenman, a nearly-forgotten Jewish guerrilla warfare leader against the Nazis in Ukraine

Zelensky, flanked by Ukrainian rabbis, marks Holocaust Remembrance Day at Babyn Yar

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference in Jerusalem on January 27, 2026. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Bennett: A good leader glorifies his people, not just himself

Netanyahu: No Gaza rebuild before Hamas disarms, Israel will keep ‘security control’ over Gaza

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

In press conference, PM also celebrates return of final slain hostage, addresses threat of Iran attack, urges against early elections, claims innocence on Qatargate, ducks responsibility for Oct. 7

Palestinian children, many of whom are part of displaced families, sit on the floor as they attend class, at the UNRWA Deir al-Balah Joint School, west of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on December 6, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

UN launches push to return Gazan children to school in aftermath of war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: If Saudis want deal, we expect them not to align with anti-Israel forces

By Lazar Berman

As MBS cozies up to Turkey and Qatar and turns away from UAE, PM says he is following realignment closely and accuses Riyadh of ‘nurturing all kinds of forces that attack Israel’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference in Jerusalem on January 27, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 22, 2026. (Ramil Sitdikov / POOL / AFP)

Abbas signs decree seen aimed at barring Hamas from participating in local elections

Iranians attend the funerals of security personnel killed in protests in Tehran on January 14, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Inside Story

Iranians say Tehran labeling those it killed as regime forces, in bid to cover up crimes

By Nava Freiberg

In accounts shared with ToI via activists, relatives report government efforts to paint slain protesters as Basij militia members, seemingly looking to justify atrocities amid ongoing crackdown

Iranian rabbis and Jewish community members attend an anti-Israel gathering in the wake of the October 7 Hamas-led massacre, in Tehran, Iran, October 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Several of Iran’s Jews detained over protests, community says it’s a mistake — report

An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US and anti-Israel banner hanging on a building in Palestine Square in Tehran on January 27, 2026 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran executes man accused last spring of spying for Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Likud MK says legislation regulating Haredi enlistment is ready for committee vote

‘We are reaching the finish line,’ boasts Boaz Bismuth, urging fellow lawmakers to pass controversial bill in its final two readings despite objections of IDF brass, AG and others

MK Boaz Bismuth chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, January 27, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against Haredi conscription outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, January 4, 2026. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Up to 80% of all draft evaders are ultra-Orthodox, IDF general tells Knesset

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

NYC Council probing pro-terror event, speaker vows ‘zero tolerance,’ after ToI report

Group hosting event that sold merchandise for Hamas and Hezbollah has received $265,000 in discretionary funds from local lawmakers, may have future donations blocked, report says

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

‘Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally’: Trump antisemitism envoy refutes Walz ICE comparison

By Andrew Lapin

A man is tackled to the ground after spraying an unknown substance on US Rep. Ilhan Omar during a town hall on January 27, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Man arrested after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at Minneapolis event

By LAURA BARGFELD and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

Lore Segal gestures during an interview in New York, February 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

'She came closer than anyone to the Great American Novel'

NYC exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a Holocaust child refugee and skeptic of easy truths

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

‘And That’s True Too,’ on display through April 15, traces the New Yorker contributor’s arc from Kindertransport to the Big Apple, where she dazzled with novels, short stories and kids’ books

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The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 85 seconds to midnight, is displayed during a news conference at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 23, 2026, in Washington, DC. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

‘Doomsday Clock’ set to closer to midnight than ever as conflicts rage

Right to left: Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, Leo Terrell, head of US President Donald Trump's special team to combat antisemitism, and former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, at the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, January 27, 2026 (Courtesy/Guy Sidi)

Israel’s antisemitism confab welcomes far-right pols, but draws less fire than last year

Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Karadi, director general of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INDC) speaks at the 2026 Cybertech conferece in Tel Aviv, Jan. 27, 2026. (Courtesy of Gilad Kavalerchik)

Fought without a single bullet: Official warns of coming ‘AI-driven cyber war’

By Sharon Wrobel

US Customs and Border Patrol Commander at Large Gregory Bovino speaks during a news conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Brandon Bell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

US Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino decries comparisons of ICE to Gestapo

By Grace Gilson

Holocaust survivor Chana Sandouvsky shows her A-14147 number tattoo from Auschwitz in her home in Kiryat Bialik on April 16, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Survey: Technological and other gaps leave more Holocaust survivors forgoing medical care

By Diana Bletter

Footage allegedly shows settlers setting fire to property in the Palestinian enclave of Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank, January 27, 2026. (X; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Several Palestinians reportedly wounded during settler attacks in southern West Bank

By Noam Lehmann

The Department of Internal Police Investigations in Jerusalem, July 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Two police officers suspected of fabricating evidence, interfering with probe

By Charlie Summers

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa shake hands during their meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on October 15, 2025. (Alexander Zemlianichenko / POOL / AFP)

Syrian leader to meet Putin for second time, as Russian presence in country dwindles

By AFP

Illustrative: Anti-Israel activists face police forces at the university campus of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2024. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

UN experts slam trespassing convictions for Swiss students over anti-Israel sit-in

Amy Winehouse performs 'Rehab' during the 2007 MTV Movie Awards Show at Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

Amy Winehouse’s friends exploited her dad by selling late singer’s items, lawyer says

By AFP

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