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What Matters Most On Friday, January 30, 2026

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US President Donald Trump arrives for the premiere of first lady Melania Trump's movie "Melania" at The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, January 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Trump confirms talks with Tehran, is reportedly mulling raids by troops on Iranian facilities

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

NYT says options under consideration aimed at causing further damage to nuclear and missile programs, weakening Khamenei; report notes ‘unclear’ who would run Iran if supreme leader fell

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

PM holds briefing on ‘classified topic’ as Trump decision on Iran strike said expected in days

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Mourners attend the funeral of Razi Moussavi, a senior commander in the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who was killed on December 25 in an alleged Israeli strike in Syria, in Tehran, on December 28, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

EU lists Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terror group over protest crackdown

By Agencies and Lazar Berman

Illustrative: This picture taken on June 8, 2025, shows a tunnel at the European Hospital during an embed organized by the Israel Defense Forces, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Sharon Aronowicz/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 30: IDF says Hamas commander captured after attempting to flee south Gaza tunnel

PM will likely be questioned in probe into alleged misconduct by top aide — report * Military: South Lebanon airstrikes targeted Hezbollah infrastructure, heavy machinery

8:31 pm

US journalist Don Lemon charged with civil rights crimes over Minnesota protest
8:27 pm

Anti-Zionist protesters disrupted Israel critic Ezra Klein with genocide accusations, video shows
6:56 pm

Putin receives top Iranian security chief Larijani

This frame grab from videos taken between January 9 and January 11, 2026, and circulating on social media purportedly shows images from a morgue with dozens of bodies and mourners after crackdown on the outskirts of Iran's capital, in Kahrizak, Tehran Province. (UGC via AP)

Inside Story

‘Standing over ER workers’ heads with a gun’: Iranians describe brutal protest crackdown

By Kareem Chehayeb and Sarah El Deeb

Witnesses recall determination to oust Islamic Republic at height of demonstrations, which were met with state brutality that pursued protesters into hospitals

Iranians walk past a billboard showing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with anti-US rhetoric in Tehran on January 27, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest, sources say

By Parisa Hafezi

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

WHO decries attacks on Iranian hospitals, medical staff during protest crackdown

By AFP

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From left to right: Neel Vicente, Reign Arpon and Prince Justice, children of foreign workers fighting to enlist in the IDF, January 15, 2026. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

'I'm the most Israeli a person can be'

With IDF hurting for manpower, children of foreign workers step up fight to enlist

By Stav Levaton

A High Court petition on behalf of 50 teens born and raised in Israel, but barred from serving in the army, argues that the law requires they be drafted alongside their peers

South Africa expels Israel’s top envoy; Jerusalem reciprocates

Pretoria accuses Israeli diplomat of insulting president, failing to notify government of visits by Israeli officials; both sides declare envoys personae non gratae

An anti-Israel activist protests outside the Israel Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, October 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Trump claims ‘it looks like’ Hamas will disarm; Witkoff: They’ll give up their AK-47s

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Assessment comes hours after senior member of terror group insisted otherwise; 15 Palestinian bodies held by Israel transferred to Gaza after IDF returned last hostage’s Ran Gvili’s remains

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on January 24, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Less than a third of Israelis say country won the war against Hamas in Gaza, poll finds

By ToI Staff and Tal Schneider

David Parsons, Senior Vice President, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (Courtesy)

Lazar Focus podcastDavid Parsons: Why Christian Zionists support a strong Israel

By Lazar Berman

Inside story

Board of Peace proposal appears to relegate Gaza panel with Turkey, Qatar to ‘advisory’ role

Draft resolution seems to back PM’s claim that Gaza Executive Board made up of regional players will have less pull than separate panel of White House-linked figures; ex-UN envoy Mladenov given wide power

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)

Jared Firestone of Israel competes during the men's skeleton race heats at the 2025 IBSF World Championships at Mt Van Hoevenberg on March 6, 2025, in Lake Placid, New York. (Al Bello/Getty Images/AFP)

Interview'After Oct. 7, I needed to get out there and rep Israel'

How ‘Jewish Jet’ Jared Firestone slid his way into the 2026 Winter Olympics

After pursuing the dream for more than a decade, the skeleton athlete and Florida native will represent Israel on the Olympic stage: ‘I always wanted to try to do something different’

Screen capture from an interview with an Iranian Mossad agent, which aired on January 29, 2026. (Uvda/Channel 12)

Iranian Mossad agent details role in internal attacks on regime during 12-day war

Unnamed operative tells Israeli TV that he led a team that used smuggled weapons to carry out preemptive strike; PM’s office: Fordo attack plans were drawn up but shelved because of Oct. 7

Four generations of family spend time together in the park. (iStock)

It’s gotta be the genes: Israeli study finds genetics play key role in human longevity

Doctoral student at Weizmann Institute says researchers wanted to figure out how much genes and ‘everything else’ contribute to our lifespans, determining that latter ‘is around 50% of the pile’

from the blogs

Shame on the US: Abandoning Syria’s Kurds imperils the entire region

By Qanta A. Ahmed

America appears to have a new doctrine in Syria: accommodate Islamists, appease Ankara, and expose vulnerable minorities

Shira Lankin Sheps

Standing at the edge of the sea

Months of probing the Torah’s Exodus while producing a new Haggadah confirmed the cycle of Jewish history for me: Persecution. Crisis. Singing anyway (Beshalach)

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

The beginning of the beginners: Our storm shelter

If only all communal prayer services were run the way I learned to pray with my 1970 summer campers: no hard and fast rules, delving into each word, singing together

Mourners, some raising guns in the air, carry the body of a Palestinian killed the night before in an Israeli strike, during a funeral in Gaza City on July 29, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

IDF believes 70,000 Gazans killed in war, as claimed by Hamas; civilian-combatant ratio unclear

By Emanuel Fabian

Figure, acknowledged by senior military official, doesn’t include those under rubble, who Hamas says make up 10K more; Israel largely rejected Hamas tolls during war

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (3rd L) and Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, the IDF's point man in the hostage negotiations (2nd R) watch the release of Israeli-US soldier Edan Alexander at the military's hostages and missing persons headquarters on May 12, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

‘We did not assess all would return’: IDF shutters its Hostages HQ 846 days after Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Senior officer says it took until late 2024 to confirm 251 were abducted during attack; more rescue ops were planned but were ‘increasingly operationally complex’ to carry out

Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad hostage Sasha Troufanov speaks with the BBC, in an interview aired on January 29, 2026. (BBC screenshot)

Freed captive Sasha Troufanov reveals sexual harassment during Gaza captivity

An entrance of the Chabad world headquarters after a suspect rammed a vehicle into its doors, in New York City, January 29, 2026. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)

Suspect in Chabad HQ ramming charged with hate crimes; had previously attended event there

Driver named as Dan Sohail, from New Jersey; NYPD says he went to social gathering at site 10 days ago; detective: He was likely ‘attempting to connect’ with Jewish community

The entrance to Park East Synagogue, with dueling protesters on each side, separated by police, in New York City, November 19, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC Council launches antisemitism task force; new bill would limit synagogue protests

People walk past an Apple store at the Huangpu district in Shanghai, China, on January 20, 2026. (Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

Apple buys Israeli startup, reportedly for $2 billion, that reads facial ‘micro movements’

In its second-largest ever acquisition, US tech giant acquires Q.ai amid effort to break into wearables market; 30% of firm’s staff were called up to reserve duty on Oct. 7

Antisemitic and anti-Israel content found on the social media platform UpScrolled. (Screenshot via JTA)

TikTok deal with pro-Israel Larry Ellison spurs exodus to Palestinian-founded app UpScrolled

By Grace Gilson

View of Jerusalem's Begin Highway and surrounding areas, as seen from a helicopter, on October 12, 2025 (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

'This is a transportation revolution in the city'

Ambitious Jerusalem building plans may include future subway, planner says

At conference on urban planning in the capital, officials optimistic on housing and transportation issues as mayor reveals plan to save green areas threatened by development

Housing snapshot January 2026: After brief wartime lull, home prices back on the rise

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, September 11, 2025, as Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich looks on. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Analysis

The missing Palestinian question: Facing pivotal election, few talking about West Bank’s future

As first national vote since Oct. 7 nears, neither leading candidate for PM is offering an overarching vision for Israeli-Palestinian relations or pledging big moves in West Bank

A view of Batn al-Hawa, a section of the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, on December 19, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Palestinians face fresh slew of evictions in Silwan, after court dimisses appeal

By Charlie Summers and Reuters

Settlers, accompanied by IDF soldiers, appear to steal livestock from the Palestinian hamlet of Khirbet al-Halawa, in the enclave of Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank, January 27, 2026. (X video screenshot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

CCTV shows IDF troops escorting settlers said to be stealing Palestinians’ livestock

By Noam Lehmann and Emanuel Fabian

Roberta Tarnove at a shooting event with Bullets & Bagels. (Courtesy Roberta Tarnove via JTA)

'I'm very sad. He certainly had every right to carry a gun'

After Alex Pretti killing in Minneapolis, Jewish gun owners confront 2nd Amendment tensions

By Grace Gilson

The shooting by ICE agents has spurred debate over whether the Trump administration’s response to armed protesters may be at odds with protections traditionally cherished by conservatives

Students and parents at the Upper East Side's Town School celebrate the school's third annual Shabbat. (Pierangelo Rossi via JTA)

'There is real excitement from families who are not Jewish'

Oct. 7 spurred this NYC secular private school to start holding an annual Shabbat gathering

By Jackie Hajdenberg

After the Hamas atrocities and the wave of antisemitism that followed, Jewish students at the Town School sought an affinity group of their own – and have been met with enthusiasm

More Headlines

Right-wing activist Mordechai David blocks the vehicle of former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak outside a conference held by the Movement for Quality Government in Tel Aviv, January 28, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Cops reportedly probing right-wing agitator who blocked ex-judge Aharon Barak’s car

A homeless person in the streets of Jerusalem, December 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Almost 2 million Israelis below poverty line, including 1 in 4 kids – latest annual report

After a long career at the Anti-Defamation League, Aryeh Tuchman has left for a senior role at the Nexus Project, an antisemitism watchdog group that is often critical of the ADL. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

Senior ADL antisemitism researcher leaves to lead effort at rival watchdog Nexus

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Mosab Abu Johar, who was shot dead on January 29, 2026, in Nazareth. (Courtesy)

Man shot in Nazareth succumbs to wounds in Arab community’s 25th homicide of 2026

By Charlie Summers

Men deliver UN World Food Program (WFP) aid in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen, September 21, 2018. (Hammadi Issa/AP)

Houthi harassment forcing World Food Program to shut in north Yemen, officials say

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ghali performs for Dystinct at Fabrique, Milan, Italy, November 3, 2025. (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images/JTA)

Italian leaders react coldly to anti-Israel rapper’s planned Winter Olympics set

By Grace Gilson

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