Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the Sharm el-Sheikh peace conference hosted by President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

President Donald Trump called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East on Monday during a global summit on Gaza's future, trying to advance broader peace in the region after visiting Israel to celebrate a U.

World leaders are gathering in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to mark the beginning of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

In a pivotal biblical story — retold each Rosh Hashana, marking the Jewish new year — God orders Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Abraham agrees, binds Isaac to an altar and is stopped before killing his son by an angel who says Abraham has passed a test of faith.

The conference has been billed as aimed at ending the war in Gaza. The president of the Palestinian Authority was expected to attend, but Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he would not.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Egypt to attend the signing ceremony of the peace plan for Gaza on Monday.

In an emotional and historic exchange on Monday, Hamas released the final 20 living hostages held since the Oct. 7 terror attack, while Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under a U.S.-brokered cease-fire deal that President Donald Trump called “the dawn of a new Middle East.

President Donald Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset on Monday following the release of all living hostages from Hamas custody in Gaza.

Hamas will release the final 48 hostages, including about 20 believed to be alive, the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel