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Ran Gvili

The last rally for Israeli hostages, in Central Park, New York City, February 1, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 2, 2026, 2:40 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 2 – Devoted NYC protesters hold final hostage rally
NY correspondent Luke Tress discusses end of weekly demonstrations in NYC’s Central Park, latest on Chabad HQ ramming and NY City Council efforts to combat antisemitism
By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress
Attendees at the Kabbalat Shabbat service at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square on January 30, 2026. (Ben Sales/The Times of Israel)
January 30, 2026, 8:20 pm
‘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’
By Ben Sales
President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
January 29, 2026, 2:52 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 29 – Why Netanyahu picked a new fight with Biden
Tol editor David Horovitz discusses the motivation and consequences of the PM’s bombshell accusation against the previous US administration, plus Trump’s Iran thinking and Gaza phase two
By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz
Shira Gvili, sister of Israeli hostage Ran Gvili, whose remains were finally brought back to Israel on January 26, reacts by the casket during his funeral in the southern town of Meitar on January 28, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg / POOL / AFP)
January 28, 2026, 7:34 pm
Grieving family lays last hostage Ran Gvili to rest, closing chapter for anguished nation
‘All the laughter is gone,’ sister says in tearful eulogy as family tells mourners of pride in policeman killed in Oct. 7 attack; Herzog: Healing can now begin; PM attends funeral of a hostage for first time
By Jessica Steinberg
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)
January 28, 2026, 1:23 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 28 – PM makes explosive charges on Biden-era arms embargo
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman reports on a rare, wide-ranging press conference held by the premier, noting Israel’s two remaining goals for Gaza and chances of Saudi normalization
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
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)
January 27, 2026, 10:03 pm
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
By Stav Levaton
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)
January 27, 2026, 7:09 pm
Jewish world sheds symbols of support, marking first day without hostages in Gaza
President Herzog removes his yellow pin, as does Israel’s UN ambassador; parents of murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin remove masking tape counting days since Oct. 7
By JTA and Luke Tress
A woman walks by chairs with photos of Ran Gvili, the final hostage in Gaza who was killed while fighting Hamas militants during the October 7, 2023 attack and whose remains have been recovered, in a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
January 27, 2026, 1:20 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 27 – Final hostage returns home. Inside Operation Courageous Heart
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on the recovery of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, including the struggle to find accurate intel and background on the terrorists who held his remains
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
The top of the Times of Israel's homepage on the afternoon of January 26, 2026. (Times of Israel)
January 27, 2026, 12:14 pm
After 843 days, with return of Ran Gvili’s body, Times of Israel takes down its ‘Israel at War’ counter
Hamas is not destroyed, ToI’s editor stresses, but with the last hostage returned – formally completing the first phase of Trump’s Gaza plan – ‘the war in its current form is over’
By ToI Staff
Police chief Daniel Levy (left) and Itzik Gvili (center) at an Israel Police ceremony for Gvili's slain hostage son, police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, at the IDF's Nahal Base, on January 26, 2026. (Israel Police)
January 26, 2026, 11:06 pm
‘Our pride is greater than our sorrow’: Family of Ran Gvili hails his heroism, Israel’s strength, as body comes home
Gvili’s parents, Itzik and Talik, express pain and gratitude as their son’s body returns to Israel for burial, marking a bittersweet end to the 843-day ordeal of the hostages in Gaza
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir joins troops in Gaza City for a ceremony honoring slain hostage Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, after his body was recovered in Gaza City, on January 26, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 26, 2026, 10:28 pm
PM: Gvili’s return an ‘extraordinary achievement’; Trump: Amazing job; leaders remove hostage pins
Netanyahu, President Herzog, Yair Lapid symbolically remove their hostage pins, with opposition leader calling it ‘one of the happiest and saddest things I have ever done’
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, Jacob Magid and Noam Lehmann
IDF troops stand by the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, after it was located at a cemetery in eastern Gaza City, on January 26. 2026. (Courtesy)
January 26, 2026, 8:01 pm
The Gvili family’s hopeful, dignified struggle to bring Ran home
Clinging to ‘that tiny bit of hope,’ the family had continued to speak of their son in the present tense, and never stopped battling for his return
By Jessica Steinberg
The body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili (right) is seen after being located by Israeli troops at a cemetery in eastern Gaza City, January 26. 2026. (Courtesy)
January 26, 2026, 7:13 pm
All of them are home now: Body of last hostage Ran Gvili found in Gaza, returned to Israel
In historic moment for country, policeman killed fighting Hamas invaders on October 7, 2023, is returned for burial after 843 days. Hostage forum hails him as ‘first to go in, last to return’
By Emanuel Fabian, Jessica Steinberg, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Clockwise from top left: IDF troops operate at a cemetery in Gaza City during a successful search for the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, in footage released on January 26, 2026; IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor and other officers and troops salute Gvili's body after it was located. (Israel Defense Forces); Master Sgt. Ran Gvili (Courtesy); Gvili's body is seen surrounded by Israeli troops (Courtesy).
January 26, 2026, 6:43 pm
With Ran Gvili’s return, Israel’s leadership fulfills sacred obligation to the nation it failed on Oct. 7
Hamas is not destroyed, and aims to recover. But the war’s other essential goal, the return of all the hostages, has been achieved — to the very last one
By David Horovitz
Talik Gvili, mother of the deceased hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, December 10, 2025. Ran Gvili's body was located by the IDF and returned to Israel on January 26, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
January 26, 2026, 3:05 pm
Speaking days before his body was found, Ran Gvili’s mother said she trusts Israel to bring him home
Talik Gvili believes the US and Israeli governments are doing all they can to secure release of Ran’s body before Gaza ceasefire moves into second phase
By Jessica Steinberg
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