Federal investigators have obtained DNA from a glove discovered near the Tucson home of Nancy Guthrie, raising the possibility that authorities may have genetic evidence linked to the armed individual seen at the 84-year-old’s door on the night she vanished.
Law enforcement officials told The New York Post that the development could mark a significant breakthrough in the Feb. 1 disappearance of the mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, potentially providing investigators with DNA connected to their leading suspect.
“The one with the DNA profile recovered is different and appears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video,” an FBI spokesperson told Fox News, which first broke the story.
The glove in question was one of 16 recovered by investigators during the course of the probe. It is believed to be the same glove that FBI evidence teams were seen collecting from the side of a road roughly two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s residence, according to observations previously reported by The Post.
Authorities told Fox News that the glove appears consistent with the black nitrile gloves worn over another pair of gloves by the masked suspect captured on Guthrie’s Nest doorbell camera. Officials emphasized, however, that there is no definitive confirmation that the glove belonged to the suspect, only that it resembles the gloves visible in the surveillance footage.
FBI forensic specialists are now in the process of verifying the DNA findings before submitting the profile to the national crime database in an effort to determine whether it matches any known individuals.
According to an FBI spokesperson, once DNA is received by the bureau, it generally takes about 24 hours to upload it into CODIS, the agency’s nationwide DNA index system.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Sunday that testing is still underway at a private laboratory in Florida and that final DNA results have not yet been completed.
Nanos told Fox News that certain DNA samples were given priority for analysis, though he declined to provide specifics about which items were expedited or when results are expected. The FBI has indicated it will continue assisting in the investigation according to the timeline established for processing the evidence.
President Donald Trump announced that he will reveal this Thursday that member nations of the Board of Peace have pledged more than $5 billion for humanitarian relief and rebuilding efforts in Gaza, along with thousands of personnel for a U.N.-approved stabilization mission.
In a message posted Sunday on Truth Social, Trump said participating countries have agreed to fund large-scale reconstruction and to provide manpower for an international force and local policing units aimed at maintaining order in the Palestinian territory.
“On February 19th, 2026, I will again be joined by Board of Peace Members at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., where we will announce that Member States have pledged more than $5 BILLION DOLLARS toward the Gaza Humanitarian and Reconstruction efforts, and have committed thousands of personnel to the International Stabilization Force and Local Police to maintain Security and Peace for Gazans. Very importantly, Hamas must uphold its commitment to Full and Immediate Demilitarization. The Board of Peace will prove to be the most consequential International Body in History, and it is my honor to serve as its Chairman,” Trump wrote.
In the same post, Trump highlighted what he described as the board’s rapid progress and broader aspirations beyond Gaza.
“The Board of Peace has unlimited potential. Last October, I released a Plan for the permanent end to the Conflict in Gaza, and our Vision was unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council. Shortly thereafter, we facilitated Humanitarian Aid at record speed, and secured the release of every living and deceased Hostage. Just last month, two dozen distinguished Founding Members joined me in Davos, Switzerland, to celebrate its official formation, and present a bold Vision for the Civilians in Gaza, and then, ultimately, far beyond Gaza — WORLD PEACE!” he said.
The establishment of the Board of Peace was backed by a United Nations Security Council resolution and forms part of the administration’s broader strategy to conclude the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Israel and Hamas signed onto the framework last year, with a ceasefire taking effect in October. Despite the agreement, each side has repeatedly accused the other of breaches. Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that more than 590 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the territory since the truce began, while Israel says four of its soldiers have died in attacks by Palestinian militants during the same period.
Several key regional players — including Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel and Indonesia — have joined the board. However, major global powers and longstanding Western allies of the United States have shown greater reluctance.
Trump did not specify which countries are responsible for the financial pledges or which will supply troops for the stabilization mission. Indonesia’s military said Sunday that as many as 8,000 personnel could be prepared by the end of June for possible deployment to Gaza in a humanitarian and peacekeeping role, marking the first concrete troop commitment received by the administration.
Reconstruction in Gaza is expected to be an enormous undertaking. Estimates from the United Nations, World Bank and European Union place the cost of rebuilding at approximately $70 billion. After more than two years of Israeli military operations, vast sections of the territory have sustained severe damage.
Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, an armed international stabilization force would be responsible for maintaining security and ensuring the disarmament of Hamas — a central condition set by Israel. To date, only a limited number of countries have signaled willingness to participate in such a force.
The U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement reached on Oct. 10 sought to end more than two years of fighting between Israel and Hamas. While large-scale combat has diminished, Israeli forces have continued conducting airstrikes and have frequently opened fire near areas under military control.
It remains uncertain how many of the more than 20 Board of Peace members will attend Thursday’s gathering. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with Trump at the White House last week, is not expected to participate.
Initially viewed as a mechanism focused primarily on resolving the Gaza conflict, the Board of Peace has since evolved into what Trump describes as a platform with a broader global mission. The initiative appears to reflect a wider effort by the United States to reshape international diplomacy and operate outside traditional United Nations structures as Trump seeks to redefine the post–World War II global framework.
Many leading U.S. allies in Europe and elsewhere have declined to join the board, expressing concerns that it could serve as a parallel body to the U.N. Security Council.
Trump also confirmed that Thursday’s event will be held at the U.S. Institute of Peace, which the State Department announced in December would continue operating under the name Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace.
The institute’s headquarters has been the focus of ongoing legal disputes after the administration took control of the building last year and dismissed nearly all of its staff, prompting lawsuits from former employees and executives of the nonprofit organization.
Former chief rabbi Rav Yitzchok Yosef strongly denounced the rioters who clashed with security forces in Bnei Brak, saying their actions constitute a desecration of Hashem’s Name and have no place within the Torah community.
In a sharply worded statement responding to the disturbances that erupted in the city in recent hours, the former Rishon Letzion declared that the behavior of the violent demonstrators must be unequivocally rejected.
“We must strongly condemn the handful of rioters who are desecrating G-d’s Name. The Torah of Yisroel teaches ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace. There is no place among us for such conduct. They must be denounced and cast out from our camp.”
The Chief Rabbi emphasized that the path of Torah is defined by dignity, restraint, and peace, and that those who engage in violence and public disorder stand in direct opposition to those values.
The unrest reportedly began after female soldiers entered Bnei Brak, leading large crowds to gather in protest. Clashes later broke out between demonstrators and police.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the incidents were the actions of “a small extremist minority that does not represent the broader chareidi public,” while opposition leader Yair Lapid stated that “there must be a wave of arrests.”
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Rav Shlomo Moshe Amar declared during his weekly shiur that it would be preferable to dismantle the official Rabbinate altogether rather than permit women to take rabbinical certification exams, following a High Court ruling requiring their inclusion.
Speaking at his regular class at the Ner HaTorah Beis Medrash on Rechov Bar-Ilan in Yerushalayim, Rav Amar addressed the court’s decision to reopen the Rabbinate examinations after a prolonged suspension and to allow women to sit for the tests.
The renewed examinations come after a period during which they were not administered, largely due to the High Court’s directive mandating that women be integrated into the process.
Expressing deep anguish, Rav Amar said: “In the High Court sit several people who themselves are close to these Reform views, and they think that this is the correct path.
“So about twenty-something years ago, twenty-five years ago, they filed a petition to appoint a woman as a neighborhood rabbi. Since then, no neighborhood rabbis have been appointed. Even our own people who are involved, instead of finding a way to act, they refrain. Since then there are no neighborhood rabbis. Now also city rabbis — most cities do not have rabbis at all. And so it remains. Now they have invented a new invention — it is not new, only now they went to the High Court — and the High Court said that a woman has the right to be tested for the rabbinate and for judgeship. And I hear voices saying that for a long time there were no exams, so they are under pressure — what will be? If we do not hold exams, we will not have rabbis. So they say, let them have permission to be tested, but we will not appoint them.”
Rav Amar voiced strong backing for the current Chief Rabbis and urged them to remain steadfast. He said: “I say, with respect to their honor, thank God I heard that the Chief Rabbis — both the Rishon Letzion, Rav Dovid Yosef, and the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Rav Kalman Ber — both oppose this with all firmness. They say it is better that there be no exams than that there be exams and we allow a woman.
“But there are those around who are trying to weaken them and fight them. I come to strengthen their hands, that it should not enter their minds, Heaven forbid, even in thought — this is literally an idolatrous thought. It is an idolatrous thought. If, Heaven forbid, they allow them to be tested, in the end they will appoint them. It is better that from now they stop, and that this not come about through us. And even if it causes there to be no rabbis, and even if it causes there to be no rabbinical courts, and even if it causes there to be no Rabbinate at all in Israel. Then we will establish a private rabbinate. There will be private community rabbis, as there were abroad — every community appointed its own rabbi — until God has mercy and they understand what they are doing. I am certain we will not even reach that. We will overcome them, only we must not be afraid.”
He continued with a direct appeal to the Chief Rabbis: “I say to the Chief Rabbis: Stand firm. God has given you great and important positions. The responsibility for the people of Israel rests on your shoulders. Do not place your eyes or your hearts on anyone. Place God before your eyes. Stand firm and do not agree under any circumstances that there be exams for women — not in the rabbinate and not in anything. All matters of the rabbinate belong to men. This is not a shame and not a humiliation for women. It is the honor of a woman — each person with his banner and each person with his camp.
“We will not surrender. We will stand on guard. What the Torah preserved for five thousand years, and for two thousand years in exile we did not allow any woman — except the Reform, and they brought much destruction to the people of Israel, much destruction to the world.
“Shall we listen to them? Heaven forbid. We will try to bring them back, to draw them close as we love to do. ‘Let sins cease’ — not sinners; sinners should repent. But the sins, the transgressions, should cease.
“But to surrender, Heaven forbid — there will be no exams under any circumstances. And woe to the one who lends his hand, God save us, he destroys generations, the rabbinate for generations. This is the true destruction. It is destruction from within and from without. We must stand on guard and be careful. ‘One who comes to purify himself is assisted,’ and God assists us — I have no doubt.”
Rav Amar concluded by reiterating that, in his view, maintaining traditional Torah standards takes precedence even over the continued operation of the official Rabbinate itself.
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As part of its intensified campaign against cash transactions and the black-market economy, the Israeli government is advancing a proposal that would sharply limit the ability to exchange checks for cash, a move expected to significantly impact gemachs and other non-bank lending institutions.
During deliberations over the Arrangements Law, the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is set to examine an amendment that would restrict the conversion or cashing of checks and promissory notes to a maximum of 6,000 shekels.
If approved, any amount above 6,000 shekels could not be paid out in cash, except for a small portion amounting to up to 10 percent of the value of the check.
According to the explanatory notes accompanying the proposal, “The practice of discounting promissory notes for cash constitutes a significant risk factor for tax evasion and money laundering through financial entities.”
In order to close what lawmakers describe as a regulatory loophole, the amendment would also revoke the full exemption that supervised financial institutions have enjoyed until now. Loans issued through check-discounting arrangements would be brought under the same strict cash limitations.
The proposed change is expected to create particular turbulence within the chareidi community, where gemachs serve as a primary financial backbone. The widely used model of providing cash in exchange for a postdated check to address urgent liquidity needs would become unlawful for sums exceeding the new threshold.
Despite the far-reaching nature of the proposal, the legal advisory team to the committee has expressed doubts about whether the broader Cash Law has achieved its original objective of curbing unreported capital.
The briefing paper also notes a lack of consistency in the framework, pointing out that while a business owner may still receive a cash loan from a regulated institution, that same individual would not be permitted to discount a check under similar conditions.
{Matzav.com}A senior Hamas official has drawn widespread condemnation after claiming in a televised interview that Israel staged the October 7 Nova music festival massacre and that Israeli forces were responsible for the killings.
The remarks were made by Osama Hamdan, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, during an interview broadcast by Norway’s NRK television network. According to summaries circulated by blogger Yehuda Teitelbaum, Hamdan denied that Hamas murdered civilians during the October 7 attacks and advanced a series of conspiracy claims about the events of that day.
Hamdan asserted that the massacre at the Nova festival was carried out by Israeli forces, claiming the attack was conducted by Israeli troops who fired from helicopters under the pretext that they were targeting Hamas gunmen. He further alleged that individuals wearing Qassam Brigade symbols at the festival should be investigated.
Throughout the interview, Hamdan insisted that Hamas never deliberately targeted civilians, hospitals, schools, or mosques. He argued that all such accusations are false and maintained that responsibility for civilian deaths lies entirely with Israel.
He also claimed Hamas holds democratic legitimacy because it won Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, while acknowledging that those were the last elections held and that a significant portion of Gaza’s current population was not yet born at the time.
Hamdan maintained that Palestinians in Gaza are free to criticize Hamas and denied the existence of fear or repression in the territory, contradicting numerous reports and testimonies from Gaza residents describing harsh internal crackdowns.
When asked what responsibility Hamas bears for the devastation in Gaza, Hamdan placed full blame on Israel and refused to acknowledge any role by Hamas in triggering the war.
He openly defended beatings, torture, and public executions of Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel, describing such actions as legal, moral, and consistent with Palestinian law, including executions carried out within 48 hours.
Hamdan categorically rejected the idea of disarmament, stating that Hamas would relinquish its weapons only after a full Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines, the implementation of a mass “right of return,” and international guarantees—conditions he described as non-negotiable.
Asked whether Hamas would attack Israel again despite the destruction in Gaza, Hamdan declined to rule it out, affirming that the “resistance will continue.”
In February 2025, he said Hamas would rebuild and expand its capabilities in Gaza so it could “attack Israel at any time we want.” He also stated that anyone seeking to replace Israel’s role would be treated as Israel, adding that issues related to weapons, leadership, and the resistance movement are not open for discussion.
His remarks mirror earlier statements he made in December 2023, one month after the massacre, when he told a Lebanese television channel that a “war of liberation is coming,” adding that it would not be “just another October 7” and that he did not believe it was far off. When asked whether he regretted the October 7 attacks, he responded, “Regret crushing an entire division of the occupation army?” He also claimed that all 1,200 people killed near the Gaza border “belonged to the occupation army” and said at the time, “We do not regret October 7.”
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The government on Sunday approved a landmark plan to begin formal land registration proceedings in Judea and Samaria for the first time since 1967, a move officials describe as a major shift in civilian administration in the area.
The proposal was advanced by Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Finance Minister and Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich, and Defense Minister Yisroel Katz. It calls for restarting official land registry operations, commonly referred to as the “Tabu,” canceling outdated Jordanian-era laws, and unsealing land records that have remained closed for decades.
The decision is being viewed as one of the most far-reaching changes to civilian governance in Judea and Samaria since the Six-Day War. According to the government, the objective is to bring clarity to land ownership, curb fraudulent claims, and strengthen Israel’s administrative control in the region.
Under the resolution, the Land Registration and Rights Authority within the Justice Ministry will be empowered to oversee the new regulatory process. The agency will receive a dedicated budget and additional personnel to implement the plan.
Among the practical implications of the move is the formal registration of extensive tracts of land in Judea and Samaria under the state’s name.
In an official statement, the government said the renewed procedures will enable a transparent and comprehensive review of property rights, help settle legal disputes, and facilitate organized infrastructure development and land marketing. The statement also noted that the decision comes in response to land regulation efforts advanced by the Palestinian Authority in Area C.
Katz emphasized, “The renewal of the land regulation in Judea and Samaria is a vital security and governance move aimed at ensuring Israel’s control, enforcement, and full operational freedom in the area. Land regulation prevents unilateral actions, reduces attempts at illegal land seizures, and disrupts terrorist infrastructure that undermines stability and security. This is a necessary step for creating operational and legal certainty, enabling the IDF and the security forces to act decisively to protect Israeli citizens and safeguard national interests. I thank Ministers Smotrich and Levin for their cooperation.”
Smotrich added, “We continue the settlement revolution and the holding of all territories of our land. For the first time since the Six-Day War, we are restoring order and governance to land management in Judea and Samaria. Regulated land arrangements prevent disputes, create legal certainty, prevent unilateral actions, and enable lawful and responsible development. The State of Israel is taking responsibility for its land and is acting according to the law, transparently and decisively.”
Levin concluded: “The proposal that was approved represents a true revolution in Judea and Samaria. The Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. The Israeli government is committed to deepening its hold over all its parts, and this decision reflects that commitment. I thank my friends, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defense Minister Israel Katz, for advancing this proposal, and the professional staff in their offices who helped bring it to fruition.”
