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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 31, 2026

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An Israeli airstrike in the west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 31, 2026. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

32 Gazans said killed in wave of strikes as IDF responds to truce violation

By Emanuel Fabian, Noam Lehmann and Reuters

Military says it targeted Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, weapons sites after gunmen emerged from Rafah tunnel; strikes are among the deadliest since October ceasefire

The flag of Egypt sways in the wind on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip on September 9, 2024. (AFP)

Israel confirms Gaza’s Rafah Crossing will reopen Sunday to pedestrians in both directions

By Emanuel Fabian

Former hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen with two of his daughters at the final Kibbutz Nir Oz rally on January 31, 2026 (Uriel Even Sapir/Hostages Forum)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 31: Nir Oz community holds its final hostage rally, after 120 weekly protests

Organizers: 40,000 at Tel Aviv Arab-Jewish march over violent crime epidemic * Settlers said to chop down, burn olive trees in Palestinian village as it’s raided by IDF

10:20 pm

Footage from fatal shooting in Lod shows black-clad man cocking rifle in broad daylight
9:39 pm

Trump: Iran 'talking to us, and we'll see if we can do something'
9:35 pm

Ayman Odeh to ToI: Mixed Arab-Jewish protest over crime can be 'turning point'

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays at the grave of the late Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Khomeini, commemorating the 47th anniversary of his return from exile during 1979 Islamic Revolution, just outside Tehran, Iran, January 31, 2026. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei makes first public appearance in weeks as Iran makes new threats against US, Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tehran again blames US, Israel and the Europeans for fomenting unrest; official confirms children were among those arrested in anti-government protests

In this photo obtained from the US Department of Defense, the US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (IKE) transits the Strait of Hormuz on November 26, 2023. (Ruskin Naval / US Department of Defense / AFP)

ExplainerWhat to know about the Strait of Hormuz as Iran plans military drill amid US tensions

By Jon Gambrell

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 targets injured at hospitals in crackdown on protesters

By AFP and AP

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the rubble of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment site on December 3, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite images indicate Iran working to salvage nuclear materials from damaged sites

By AP and ToI Staff

Experts say new roofs at Isfahan, Natanz likely part of effort ‘to assess whether key assets, such as limited stocks of highly enriched uranium, survived the strikes’ by Israel and US

US President Donald Trump speaks before signing executive orders in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2026. (Annabelle GORDON / AFP)

Trump says he’s given Iran deadline to accept deal before potential strike

By Agencies, Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Attendees at the Kabbalat Shabbat service at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square on January 30, 2026. (Ben Sales/The Times of Israel)

‘We kept our promise’: Final Shabbat service held at Hostages Square

After return of body of last hostage Ran Gvili, former captive Omri Miran tells crowd of hundreds that ‘to rise up and rehabilitate, we need to be together’

Ninette (left) and Viviane Dreyfus with Edgar outside the Martinez Hotel in Marseille, where ‘Tout Paris’ exiles gathered to exchange wartime gossip. (Courtesy of John Jay and Lady Swaythling and her family)

Interview'The whole world of my childhood was falling apart'

Nazi-era teen girl’s diary charts unraveling of France — and her prominent Jewish family

By Robert Philpot

Released in the UK on Jan. 22, ‘Ninette’s War’ by journalist John Jay examines darkest chapter in French history through a Dreyfus scion’s diary entries, family papers and interviews

You don’t have a numbers problem. You have a truth problem

The Gaza death toll debate was never about math, it was about who gets to decide what counts as reality

A watermelon is a capacious fruit

For Holocaust survivors, Israeli-grown fruit was a miraculous symbol of survival. Is the melon big enough to carry other meanings?

US Army AH-64E Apache helicopters are pictured at Joint Base Andrews, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

US approves $6.7 billion arms sale to Israel, $9 billion Patriot missile deal for Saudis

Footage posted to social media shows a fire during a reported settler attack on the Bedouin hamlet of Ma’azi Jaba’, near Ramallah in the West Bank, on January 30, 2026. (Screenshots/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two Palestinians said wounded by settler arson attack in West Bank

Resident of hamlet near Ramallah says locals earlier warned Israeli security forces of potential attack, but troops left before assailants arrived; no immediate comment from IDF

A woman raises flowers, with red marks visible on her hand, as Arab protesters gather in Sakhnin in northern Israel, on January 22, 2026, to protest what they say is police inaction on curbing soaring violent crime in the community. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Arab leaders gear up for Tel Aviv rally against deadly crime, urge mass participation

By Charlie Summers

After tens of thousands turned out against organized crime in Sakhnin, leading Arab umbrella group seeks to capture attention of Jewish Israelis at Habima Square on Saturday

A screenshot of a video showing an IDF airstrike targeting a Hezbollah operative in the southern Lebanese town of Seddiqine on January 30, 2026. (Screenshot/Israel Defense Forces)

IDF launches series of airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says the strikes killed a Hezbollah operative, destroyed infrastructure and heavy machinery belonging to Lebanese terror group

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, Kurds agree on integration deal; US hails ‘historic milestone’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Movie poster for 2024's 'A Real Pain.' (courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

Comic neuroses in Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘A Real Pain’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

Jordan Hoffman and Amanda Borschel-Dan review the newly released ’33 photos from the Ghetto’ and take a second look at Eisenberg’s 2024 hit that earned Kieran Culkin an Oscar

A staff member assists a resident of the Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, on June 6, 2025. (Saul Martinez for The Washington Post via Getty Images/JTA)

Jewish seniors offer to hide carers as 350,000 Haitians face deportation from US

By Andrew Lapin

CEO of Florida aged care home says residents, some of them Holocaust survivors, share ‘kindred bond’ with Haitian staff, who will lose right to work and live in US from Tuesday

Top US attorney in Minnesota was once on board of Jewish group now protesting ICE

By Andrew Lapin

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists hold up a sign reading "Nazi normalizer" and shout to interrupt an event featuring Jewish New York Times journalist Ezra Klein, at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, on January 30, 2026. (X screenshot)

Anti-Zionist protesters disrupt Israel critic Ezra Klein with genocide accusations

Demonstrators claim the NYT journalist is a ‘Nazi normalizer’; ahead of disruption, campus branch of Students for Justice in Palestine had denounced Klein as a ‘Zionist pig’

File: Then-US president Joe Biden gestures during a presidential debate with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

‘Free Palestine’ activist tried to assassinate Biden in 2024 over Gaza, US feds say

Adam Hall allegedly brought revolver to presidential debate but failed to enter the event, the latest case of political violence tied to the American anti-Israel movement

US Justice Department releases massive new batch of Epstein documents

By Eric Tucker, Michael R. Sisak and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

More than 3 million pages, thousands of videos and images released, detailing the late financier and sex offender’s ties to figures including Trump, Elon Musk and ex-prince Andrew

Documents included in the US Justice Department release of files related to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are photographed on January 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Former UK prince Andrew seen kneeling over an unidentified woman in an undated photo from the Epstein files released January 30, 2026. (US Department of Justice)

Image shows Andrew on all fours over a woman as ex-prince dogged again by Epstein scandal

US first lady Melania Trump walks from the stage after speaking before the premiere of her movie "Melania" at The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, January 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Variety calls it a 'shamless infomercial'

After lavish DC debut, Melania Trump’s atypical, criticized documentary opens worldwide

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Amazon-backed film about US first lady gets nasty reviews while underscoring Donald Trump’s business alliances and marking a return for disgraced director Brett Ratner, who said he moved to Israel in 2023

Yona Elfassi (L), founder of Limud Darija, with students at an event, in a video published on October 25, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/Limud Darija)

Moroccan language course revives lost Jewish culture while bridging Mideast divide

By KYLE DESROSIERS-LEVINE

Yona Elfassi, one of the few remaining Jews in Morocco, teaches Darija to Moroccan Diaspora Jews, inspiring Muslims in the country to reach out to learn Hebrew

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A woman holds a bottle of baby formula as she feeds her infant son in San Antonio on May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Health Ministry recalls another batch of Nutrilon baby formula after toxin findings

By ToI Staff and Agencies

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the UNA-UK conference to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN, at Methodist Central Hall, the site of the inaugural UN General Assembly, in London on January 17, 2026. (Toby Shepheard / AFP)

Guterres warns UN faces ‘imminent financial collapse’

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