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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 539

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The people and the land
Justice Minister Yariv Levin addresses the Knesset plenum during a debate over legislation to overhaul Israel's judicial appointments process, March 26, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
Jeremy Sharon
Analysis
Jeremy Sharon
Judicial appointments law is Levin’s victory in fight to handpick ideological hardliners
Despite several staunch conservatives on the Supreme Court, the justice minister long sought to install an advocate of uncompromising judicial restraint on the bench; now he can
A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)
Clocks in Israel leap forward an hour as daylight saving time begins
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (to his right) and other ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a law to remake Israel's judicial appointments process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Judicial overhaulKnesset passes law greatly boosting political control over appointment of judges
By Sam Sokol
France's National Rally leader Jordan Bardella (right) and Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli at the international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Right-wing politics take center stage at Israel’s controversial antisemitism confab
By Zev Stub
France's National Rally leader Jordan Bardella (right) and Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli at the international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 28, 2025, 4:21 am
Right-wing politics take center stage at Israel’s controversial antisemitism confab
Amid boycotts due to inclusion of far-right EU lawmakers, Jerusalem event features appearances from Bosnian leader facing arrest warrant and sanctioned ex-Paraguay president
By Zev Stub
A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)
March 28, 2025, 3:14 am
Clocks in Israel leap forward an hour as daylight saving time begins
People in Israel got an hour less sleep overnight Thursday-Friday as 2 a.m. became 3 a.m.
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Yariv Levin addresses the Knesset plenum during a debate over legislation to overhaul Israel's judicial appointments process, March 26, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
March 27, 2025, 10:09 pm
Judicial appointments law is Levin’s victory in fight to handpick ideological hardliners
Despite several staunch conservatives on the Supreme Court, the justice minister long sought to install an advocate of uncompromising judicial restraint on the bench; now he can
By Jeremy Sharon
Mourners gather to pay their respects next to a makeshift memorial for Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on February 26, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
March 27, 2025, 8:35 pm
‘We love you the most’: Orange-tinted Bibas family gravestone unveiled
Headstone erected one month after funeral above shared casket recalls Shiri as ‘funny and sensitive,’ Ariel as ‘a child of light and love’ and Kfir for ‘loving hugs and cuddles’
By ToI Staff
Incoming IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin speaks at a handover ceremony at an army base in Tel Aviv, March 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 27, 2025, 8:34 pm
Entering role, new IDF spokesman Effie Defrin seeks to bolster trust in army
Popular outgoing spokesman Hagari says public trust ‘is most important asset’; urges ‘all parts of society’ to enlist, in comments aimed at ultra-Orthodox
By Emanuel Fabian
(L-R): Former hostage Aviva Siegel, her daughter Shir and husband, recently released hostage Keith, celebrate the opening of the Keit Siegel Pancake House at Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 7:54 pm
‘More than the taste’: Israelis flock to former hostage Keith Siegel’s Pancake House
Line snakes around kosher Tel Aviv pop-up joint that celebrates US-born captivity survivor’s signature hotcakes, as family appeals to public for support in adapting to new normal
By Deborah Danan
The Ashdod oil refinery in 2014. (Ilan Malster)
March 27, 2025, 6:41 pm
Oil refineries, phosphate mines, perform worst on environmental impact index
12th annual index scores environment risk posed by 125 large industrial plants belonging to 46 public and government companies
By Sue Surkes
The plenum hall of the Knesset during a vote on a law to remake Israel's Judicial Selection Committee, March 27, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 2:20 pm
Critics petition court to nix judicial appointments law they say politicizes bench
Yesh Atid and two government watchdog groups argue new law undermines democratic rule in absence of any check on government power other than judiciary
By Jeremy Sharon
Archaeologists discovered a 1200-year-old clay jug depicting camels at Yatir Forest in the Negev. (Emil Aladejm, Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 27, 2025, 1:19 pm
Archaeologists in Negev unearth 1,200-year-old jug decorated with camels
Artifact daubed with red pattern and trio of animals, considered advanced for its time, discovered near olive press in Yatir Forest
By Rossella Tercatin
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (to his right) and other ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a law to remake Israel's judicial appointments process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 12:11 pm
Knesset passes law greatly boosting political control over appointment of judges
Legislation changing composition of Judicial Selection Committee approved 67-1 after opposition lawmakers boycott final vote. ‘Collapse of the last brake on democracy,’ says Yesh Atid
By Sam Sokol
In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)
March 27, 2025, 3:48 am
US detains, revokes visa of Turkish student at Tufts who co-wrote an anti-Israel op-ed
Department of Homeland Security accuses Rumeysa Ozturk of ‘engaging in activities in support of Hamas’ after piece in school paper called for divesting from Israeli firms amid war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (center) and MK Nissim Vaturi (right) attend a protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of assaulting a Hamas terrorist, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 2:43 am
Lawmakers who broke into IDF base during far-right riot to be investigated by police
Two of the coalition members say they’ll refuse to answer summons; Eliyahu, Vaturi and former MK Sukkot echo conspiracy that ‘deep state’ targeting them, rail at attorney general
By ToI Staff
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 26, 2025. Poster reads 'Checks and balances.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 1:29 am
Thousands protest outside Knesset ahead of final votes on controversial judicial bill
Some opposition MKs join anti-overhaul protesters; rally organizers accuse government of ‘declaring war on the people’; bar association chief: ‘They won’t break democracy’
By ToI Staff
From 'Holding Liat,' the documentary about a family in the October 7, 2023 aftermath that won Best Documentary Feature at the Berlinale in March 2025. (Courtesy)
March 26, 2025, 11:43 pm
Berlinale-winning documentary about hostage family gets global sales deal
Darren Aronofsky-produced ‘Holding Liat,’ on an Israeli-American family fighting for their loved ones’ release from Gaza captivity, shows the complex side of Oct. 7 anguish
By Jessica Steinberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 26, 2025, 5:18 pm
‘Democracy isn’t in danger,’ Netanyahu tells Knesset in tirade against ‘deep state’
‘The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release our hostages, the more powerful the pressure we will exert,’ says PM, threatening to seize territory in Gaza
By Sam Sokol
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