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A view of the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip, February 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

Rafah Crossing opens after over a year, with limited pedestrian passage to start Monday

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

COGAT says ‘pilot program’ assessing operation of crossing, as Palestinian security officers join EU mission on Gazan side of border gate to oversee mechanism

Palestinian patients wait at Rafah Crossing to leave Gaza as part of a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 2, 2025. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 1 — Rafah Crossing is readied for Gazans to pass through

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

In direct threat, Khamenei warns of regional war if US attacks Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Supreme leader says Washington knows that conflict would spread, Iranians not afraid; in tit-for-tat, Tehran’s parliament designates European armies as terrorist organizations

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him waving during a meeting with Iranian people in Tehran on February 1, 2026, ahead of the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media aboard Air Force One as he travels from Washington, DC, to West Palm Beach, Florida, on January 31, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump says Iran ‘seriously talking’ with US as Tehran looks to avert strikes

By Jacob Magid and AFP

US ambassador to Israel says Trump not making ’empty threats’ toward Iran

By Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff

Mike Huckabee tells Israeli TV that decision on US strike on Iran yet to be made; says embassy surprised by cancellation of flights to Israel; vows Turkey won’t receive F-35s

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Channel 12, in an interview that aired January 31, 2026. (Screenshot)

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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)

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Feb. 1: Hamas claims it ambushed, killed Israeli-backed gang members in Gaza

Iran’s FM ‘confident’ of nuclear deal as US said to bolster air defenses across Mideast * Israel Police reportedly blocking IDF from detaining Haredi draft evaders

9:42 pm

Hamas claims it ambushed, killed Israeli-backed gang members in Gaza City and Khan Younis
8:19 pm

IDF troops reportedly prevented West Bank Bedouins from rebuilding homes damaged in settler attack
8:11 pm

IDF says airstrike killed Hezbollah engineering commander in south Lebanon

Government hostage point man Gal Hirsch speaks to The Times of Israel from his Bnei Brak headquarters, January 30, 2026. (Prime Minister's Office)

Interview'You’re giving Sinwar exactly what he wants'

PM’s hostage czar Gal Hirsch says Biden pressure ‘screwed up’ deal talks, protests aided Hamas

By Lazar Berman

Netanyahu ally who headed up effort tells Times of Israel that Sinwar wanted to stretch talks out for 10 years — and killing him was key to finally clinching the agreement that brought everyone home

‘Shame on you’: Former hostage, families hit back at government’s captives point man

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Freed captive Or Levy and others lash Gal Hirsch, who led official campaign for hostages’ return, after he said weekly protests assisted Hamas, created unnecessary ‘urgency’

Government hostage pointman Gal Hirsch speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on January 27, 2026. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is at right. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

L-R: Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025 (Democracy Now screenshot/Youtube); A resurfaced photo from 2016 shows Abu Safiya wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group. (Medical services – Gaza Strip)

Resurfaced photo shows detained Gaza hospital director wearing Hamas uniform

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is a colonel in Hamas’s Military Medical Services; he has been in Israeli custody since December 2024, but not accused of specific acts of terror

An archived version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's children's site which includes a map labeling the entirety of Israel as 'Palestine.' (Screenshot/WaybackMachine)

After complaints, Encyclopaedia Britannica edits kids’ entries that erased Israel

After being flagged by UK Lawyers for Israel, site appears to remove map, change wording that asserted ‘Palestine’ extended from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea

from the blogs

Trump wants Gaza to be his legacy. Netanyahu wants it to fail

The White House’s 20-point plan is deeply imperfect, but modest success is still possible if humanitarian priorities prevail over political sabotage

Claire E. Sufrin

O ye of Jewish faith: Josh Shapiro for president?

When the Pennsylvania gov. uses a distinctly un-Jewish term for his Jewishness, he is speaking in a language Christian American voters understand

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Israeli politics in the age of election ‘slopaganda’

Likud’s viral fabricated Bennett-Lapid post shows just how urgent it is for authorities to pass carefully crafted rules limiting AI in political campaigns

Thousands of people attend a protest against violence in the Arab community in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab, Jewish protesters turn out in record numbers for Tel Aviv anti-crime demonstration

By Charlie Summers

Head of Arab group lambasts police, gov’t in rare Hebrew speech to raise issues of violence and perceived neglect before Jewish audience; Odeh: Protest may be ‘turning point’ in Jewish-Arab ties

The perpetrator of a fatal shooting in Lod is seen on video before shooting three men in a car, killing one, on January 31, 2026. (Screenshot/X)

Man shot dead after car chase through downtown Lod

By Charlie Summers

A sign for credit agency Moody's, on August 13, 2010, in New York. (AP/ Mark Lennihan)

Moody’s boosts Israel’s credit outlook to stable as ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon hold

By Sharon Wrobel

While the rating agency revises its outlook from negative to stable, it keeps Israel’s Baa1 credit rating in place, warning of fragile ‘geopolitical and security environments’

This handout picture released by the Saudi Royal Palace shows Saudi Arabia's Prince Khalid bin Salman, the second son of the reigning monarch, taking the oath as defense minister at al-Salam Royal Palace in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on September 27, 2022. (Bandar AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP)

Report: Saudi defense minister tells US not striking Iran would ’embolden’ regime

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Source tells Times of Israel that Prince Khalid bin Salman was urging Washington to have a clear plan and objectives of what it wants to achieve before taking any action

The aftermath of an explosion at a residential building in Bandar Abbas, Iran, January 31. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 blasts rock Iran, killing at least 5; Israeli officials deny any involvement

A picture of David Bennett, the son of former prime minister Naftali Bennett is seen among pictures of alleged victims of the Iranian crackdown on protests in Iran (X/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian dissidents use photo of ex-PM Bennett’s son in graphic of victims killed in protests

Rep. Ritchie Torres, a pro-Israel Democrat, is facing two challengers who are taking aim at his support for Israel and, at times, the Jews in their Bronx district. (Collage by Grace Yagel/ JTA)

'Torres is bought and controlled by Zionist influencers'

Ritchie Torres’s primary challengers criticize his pro-Israel views, take aim at ‘rich Zios’

By Joseph Strauss

15th Congressional District candidate Jose Vega has made Riverdale, which is packed with synagogues, a focus of his campaign, as other progressive challengers slam AIPAC funding

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US Border Patrol field leader Gregory Bovino arrives for a news conference on January 20, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

‘Chosen people’: Controversial US Border Patrol officer said to mock Jewish prosecutor

Protesters hold placards and wave Palestinian flags during a pro-Palestine protest in central London on January 31, 2026. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Prominent UK activist arrested at London protest for ‘Globalize the intifada’ sign

By AFP and ToI Staff

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)

Despite threats from Trump, parliamentary majority in Iraq backs Maliki as PM

By AFP

US President Donald Trump (R) walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they arrive at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Last US-Russia nuclear weapons pact set to end, with Trump mum on extension

By Shaun Tandon

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