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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Adam Boehler

Yael (R) and Adi Alexander, parents of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, who is held in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists, walk back into the West Wing of the White House after talking to reporters on December 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
April 20, 2025, 8:40 am
Father of US-Israeli hostage hopeful son still alive, calls for direct talks with Hamas
Adi Alexander’s comments come after Hamas claimed it doesn’t know Edan’s fate; desperate father urges US to speak with terror group as other negotiations seem ‘stalled’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
US hostage envoy Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony at the State Department in Washington on March 6, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)
April 17, 2025, 8:28 am
US envoy: I’m sure Edan Alexander is in a decent place; we’ll come for Hamas if he’s harmed
Adam Boehler says he could resume direct talks with Hamas, after they fell apart in March amid Israeli pushback; claims offer he made in those talks was coordinated with Jerusalem
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: US President Donald Trump listens as Adam Boehler, CEO of US International Development Finance Corporation, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)
April 10, 2025, 11:49 pm
Report: US envoy held direct talks with Hamas to try to give Trump win before speech
Adam Boehler sat with terror leaders three times in attempt to free Edan Alexander before address to Congress, NY Times says, but Hamas refused until it was too late
By Lazar Berman
Protesters march for the release of hostages from Gaza and against efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, on Route 1 outside Jerusalem, March 18, 2025. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 19, 2025, 1:14 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 19: Day 530 – US fully supportive of Gaza strikes, but Trump stays silent
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses White House support for Israel’s strikes, the latest on US hostage envoy Adam Boehler, and US payments to the Palestinian Authority
By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid
US presidential envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony to raise the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag at the State Department, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
March 17, 2025, 3:02 pm
Embattled US hostage envoy hosts summit for global counterparts in Big Sky, Montana
Attendees, some of whom double-checked event was still on after Boehler withdrew nomination to become presidential envoy, to sign joint statement on collaborating against hostage taking
By Jacob Magid
US hostage envoy Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony at the State Department in Washington on March 6, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)
March 15, 2025, 5:05 am
Boehler pulls his candidacy to serve as US presidential envoy for hostage affairs
US official tells ToI that Adam Boehler will continue to assist Witkoff’s efforts to secure the release of hostages from Gaza, amid anger in Israel over his direct talks with Hamas
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv Distrcit Court before a hearing in his corruption trial, March 12, 2025. (Yair Sagi/Pool)
March 14, 2025, 9:58 pm
Report: Netanyahu, Dermer worked to stop US-Hamas deal to free only American captives
PM and senior minister said to have leaked Boehler-Hamas talks so Hamas would up the ante; US official says they are ‘afraid it will become clear’ who doesn’t want a hostage deal
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump speaks alongside former hostage Noa Argamani (left) and hostage envoy Adam Boehler (right) during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Angela Weiss / AFP)
March 14, 2025, 5:59 am
Boehler to continue assisting Witkoff’s efforts in Mideast amid reports of sidelining
US official seems to deny hostage envoy has been removed from involvement in efforts to release Gaza captives, as demanded by Dermer, amid anger in Israel over direct talks with Hamas
By Jacob Magid
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic who was kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023, speaks in a clip aired November 13, 2023, by Iraq's Al Rabiaa satellite TV network. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 12, 2025, 1:43 am
Trump’s hostage envoy visited Iraq to push for release of Israeli captive — sources
Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov believed to be held by Iran-backed militia; sister says Trump administration has done more in a few weeks than Biden’s did in two years
By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Illustrative: US President Donald Trump listens as Adam Boehler, CEO of US International Development Finance Corporation, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)
March 11, 2025, 3:17 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 11: Day 522 – Gaza talks proceed as Israel smarts from US-Hamas meetups
As all sides meet in Qatar, diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman unravels the tangled web of direct — and/or indirect? — negotiations that may lead to an extended ceasefire
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with the media on a military airplane as he flies to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 10, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP)
March 11, 2025, 1:35 am
US envoy Boehler’s Hamas meetings were a ‘one-off’ that ‘hasn’t borne fruit,’ Rubio says
Israeli negotiators head to Doha to discuss extending truce in return for further hostage releases; families urge return of all captives in a single phase
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Steve Witkoff, White House special envoy for the Middle East, accompanied by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaks with reporters at the White House, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)
March 10, 2025, 7:26 pm
Ahead of Doha talks, Witkoff says ‘deadlines’ key for deal on ceasefire’s next phase
Trump envoy says all on the table if Hamas agrees to disarm and leave Gaza; Israeli delegation heads to Doha with Witkoff proposal on the agenda; Hamas says it’s showing ‘flexibility’
By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a news conference in the East Room of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
March 10, 2025, 6:16 pm
After Trump turns against Zelensky and other allies, could Israel be next in line?
Overjoyed by US president’s return to White House, Netanyahu is determined to avoid any daylight between him and country’s ‘best friend,’ but cracks have emerged over hostage talks
By Lazar Berman
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic who was kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023, speaks in a clip aired November 13, 2023, by Iraq's Al Rabiaa satellite TV network. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 10, 2025, 3:16 pm
US reportedly warns Iraq of consequences if it doesn’t ensure kidnapped Israeli freed
Trump envoy Adam Boehler tells Iraqi PM there will be political, economic repercussions if academic Elizabeth Tsurkov remains captive, Qatari paper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reports
By Lazar Berman
US hostage envoy Adam Boehler in a CNN interview on March 9, 2025. (CNN screenshot)
March 10, 2025, 2:12 pm
Meet Adam Boehler, Trump’s complacent, confused and dangerously naive hostage envoy
Hamas leaders must be laughing in disbelief after their interactions with a man who says he tries to identify their ‘human elements’; nobody’s laughing in Israel, least of all the families of the hostages
By David Horovitz
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