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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Jacob Magid

Jacob Magid

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Cover of TIME Magazine announcing US President-elect Donald Trump as the 2024 Person of the Year, obtained on December 12, 2024. (Platon for Time/Time Magazine/Time Person of the Year/AFP)
December 12, 2024, 10:55 pm
Trump says Netanyahu knows he wants Gaza war to end; won’t commit to 2-state solution
Speaking to Time magazine after being again named ‘Person of the Year,’ president-elect avoids backing his own ‘deal of the century,’ doesn’t come out against West Bank annexation
By Jacob Magid
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 12, 2024. (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP)
December 12, 2024, 8:59 pm
Netanyahu ‘ready’ to reach hostage deal and sides are ‘close,’ says top Biden aide
In Tel Aviv, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he will now head to Doha, Cairo aiming ‘to close this deal this month,’ backs Israeli military activity in Syria
By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
Hostage family members speak to the media after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, December 8, 2024. (Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 12, 2024, 1:32 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 12: Day 433 – US security adviser arrives for renewed hostage talks
US bureau chief Jacob Magid and political correspondent Tal Schneider discuss the latest round of negotiations, Israel in the Syrian buffer zone, and the PM’s second day on the stand
By Jessica Steinberg, Jacob Magid and Tal Schneider
Palestinians inspect the damage in a building targeted by an Israeli air strike early on December 12, 2024 near the Nuseirat refugee in the central Gaza Strip, amid the continuing war between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
December 12, 2024, 2:29 am
Report: PM was warned while hospitalized months before Oct. 7 that Israel was exposed
Hamas reports 58 killed in strikes; IDF says terrorists trying to steal aid among those hit * Trump says Netanyahu knows he wants Gaza war to end, avoids backing his own 2020 two-state offer
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 11, 2024, 9:22 pm
Sullivan heads to Israel for Biden administration’s likely final hostage deal push
Katz assures Austin there’s a real chance for a deal that frees all hostages, but Arab mediator tells ToI optimism out of Jerusalem exaggerated, with main dispute not yet solved
By Jacob Magid
Released hostage Judith Raanan, left, meets with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida, December 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
December 11, 2024, 12:08 pm
1st hostage to return from Gaza meets Trump, urges him to do all he can to free captives
Judith Raanan, taken with teen daughter while visiting Nahal Oz and released two weeks later, gives US president-elect a painting and tells him about her time in captivity
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (left) and Shin Bet security services Director Ronen Bar at the special operations room overseeing a mission to release hostages in the Gaza Strip, June 8, 2024. (Shin Bet security services)
December 10, 2024, 10:03 pm
Security chiefs discuss hostage deal in Cairo as Israel sees growing chances
Senior Israeli official believes Hamas has changed mind on truce, which may be possible before Trump inauguration; White House says terror group’s isolation may bring it to table
By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
Israeli soldiers on the border fence with Syria, near the northern Israeli town of Majdal Shams. December 9, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
December 10, 2024, 4:23 am
UN slams ‘violation’ of 1974 Syria disengagement deal as Israel acts in buffer zone
US defends Israeli decision to fill vacuum after Syrian soldiers fled posts along border, but stresses measure must be temporary; Iran condemns ‘flagrant violation’
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 9, 2024, 10:38 pm
Smotrich: Saudi normalization deal won’t happen if it requires Palestinian state
‘If that’s a deal breaker, the deal will sink,’ far-right minister tells Bloomberg; also tells reporters fall of Assad gives Israel opportunity to occupy and resettle Gaza
By Jacob Magid and Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with relatives of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, December 8, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
December 9, 2024, 12:44 am
Netanyahu tells hostage families fall of Assad regime could advance negotiations
Trump says he believes there are ‘far fewer hostages’ alive than thought; senior Biden official says Syria situation has ‘dramatically changed balance of power’ and could help deal
By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a news conference with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad, Iraq, December 6, 2024. (Hadi Mizban/AP)
December 8, 2024, 12:59 pm
Iranian foreign minister meets with Hamas leaders in Doha
Terror group appears to elevate head of its Shura Council chief Muhammad Darwish, having him lead meetings with foreign ministers from Iran and Turkey upon Hamas’s return to Qatar
By Jacob Magid
US President Donald Trump meets with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, July 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
December 7, 2024, 1:41 am
Trump aides asked Qatar to recall ousted Hamas chiefs in bid to revive hostage talks
Sources tell ToI that after Biden requested terror leaders’ expulsion, president-elect’s team urged reversal of move, deeming Doha’s mediation critical to get a deal before Jan. 20
By Jacob Magid
US Ambassador Jack Lew speaks in an interview with Kan news on December 5, 2024. (Kan screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 6, 2024, 2:52 pm
US envoy: Israel shouldn’t make ‘small things into big things’ in tenuous Lebanon truce
On Gaza, Jack Lew argues Netanyahu’s vocal demands on Philadelphi ‘distracted’ from Hamas intransigence; says ‘there is no arms embargo on Israel’ after PM’s insinuations otherwise
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Campaigning for a second term, former US President Donald Trump speaks before prominent Jewish donors at an event titled "Fighting Antisemitism in America" at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington DC, September 19, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)
December 6, 2024, 6:31 am
Trump nominations set stage for fresh clash between annexation, normalization backers
US president-elect returns to office with plans to expand Abraham Accords, but those pushing for Israel to annex West Bank are still bullish about doing so over next four years
By Jacob Magid
Anti-government fighters gesture as they check a Syrian military jet after they took over an airbase near the central city of Hama, on December 6, 2024. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
December 6, 2024, 1:20 am
Dec. 6: Syrian officials said to flee government buildings in southern Sweida province
Unconfirmed report: IDF recently struck chemical weapons cache in Syria * Sara Netanyahu formally recognized as crime victim over flares thrown at home when she wasn’t there
By Jacob Magid and Elana Kirsh
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