Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy Your Privacy Rights

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Voting at the Israeli embassy in London, March 5, 2015 (photo credit: Arieh Miller)

Israeli elections begin Wednesday — everywhere but Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

Some 5,000 Israeli diplomats in nearly 100 missions across the globe get a head start on voting, ahead of the April 9 national ballot

Cybersecurity researchers find security flaws in Likud, Labor party Android apps

By Shoshanna Solomon

Likud campaign tries to portray Gantz as mentally unstable

Facebook removes 30 fake profiles, most of them backing Netanyahu

Israeli troops take up positions near the Gaza border on March 26, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Tense calm returns to Israel’s south after night of strikes, rockets at Ashkelon

By Judah Ari Gross

Schools in Gaza-adjacent communities and cities open, reportedly amid ‘calm for calm’ agreement, after days of conflict sparked by projectile that destroyed central Israel house

Protesters in south call for stepped-up response to Gaza violence

Pictures show Hamas leader’s office leveled as Gazans take stock of damage

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli air raids resume, Gaza rockets fired at Ashkelon as calm disintegrates

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at the David's Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Over half of Israelis unhappy with response to Gaza rocket fire, polls say

By Stuart Winer

Surveys by two broadcasters find despite disappointment over handling of attacks, more voters want Netanyahu to lead the country than Gantz

AnalysisGaza escalation holds both promise and perils for Netanyahu

A picture taken on March 26, 2019, shows an excavator clearing debris next to the destroyed office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City that was targeted the night before by an Israeli air raid. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Israel media reviewTest or toast: 7 things to know for March 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Reporter's notebook

Netanyahu’s post-election gambit? Protect me and I’ll annex the settlement blocs

Pompeo has rushed to declare that Trump’s Golan recognition is no precedent. The PM has indicated he sees things differently. Does he have a settlements-for-immunity idea in mind?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants an olive tree at the Netiv Ha'avot neighborhood in the Elazar settlement in the West Bank, on January 28, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

US says Golan recognition doesn’t apply to other cases

US envoy says Trump understands why Israel needs to hold West Bank

Israel says US Golan recognition helps pave way for keeping other captured lands

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (back to camera) welcoming the rescued Air France passengers and crew including pilot Michel Bacos (left) coming off an Israel Air Force Hercules plane at Ben Gurion Airport, July, 1976 (Moshe Milner, Israel Government Press Office)

French pilot who stayed with hijacked Israelis, Jews at Entebbe dies aged 95

Tributes pour in for Michel Bacos, who refused the terrorists’ offer of release and, with his crew, remained captive with the plane’s Jewish hostages

Palestinian protesters take part in a night demonstration near the fence along the border with Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 19, 2019. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Fresh clashes along Gaza border as Egyptian mediators race to broker truce

High-level delegation from Cairo working to reach ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas before the weekend, when large-scale protests are expected

8:00 pm

Hamas cancels school on Saturday so Gaza kids can join border protests
7:47 pm

Italy says migrants hijacked rescue tanker off Libya
7:43 pm

3 Gazans reported injured by IDF fire at border protests

A convoy of UN vehicles drive through damaged buildings in the Syrian town of Quneitra, in the Golan Heights on March 26, 2019. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

At UN, European states reject Israeli sovereignty over Golan

By AFP and ToI Staff

Belgium, UK, France, Germany and Poland say no change in stance on strategic plateau after Trump recognition, warn move could have negative consequences

Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari addresses the United Nations Security Council, at UN headquarters, January 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

After US recognition, Syria requests UN Security Council meeting on Golan

By AFP

Supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah via a video link in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, March 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Slamming Golan recognition, Hezbollah chief predicts West Bank is next

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat-Minnesota, in the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 12, 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Ilhan Omar knocks Netanyahu, AIPAC speakers for obsessing over her

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Under fire for use of anti-Semitic tropes, freshman Dem. says PM devoted more time to her than Pittsburgh massacre, far-right violence, and is ‘in an alliance’ with ‘KKK of Israel’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from Israel via video link at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington on March 26, 2019. ( Jim Watson/AFP)

At AIPAC, Netanyahu joins chorus against Omar: It’s not about the Benjamins

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisAt AIPAC, Republicans and Democrats spar on what defines anti-Semitism

The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress gala dinner at the Dan Arcadia Hotel in Herzliya, March 18, 2019. (The Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

At swanky philanthropy conference, politics is the elephant in the room

By Simona Weinglass

The rock-cut dovecote discovered at the Hasmonean-era site in Jerusalem's Sharafat neighborhood. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Large Hasmonean-era agricultural village found under Jerusalem Arab neighborhood

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Impressive, multi-generation burial chamber and large dovecote point to well-heeled settlement in rural area, near today’s Biblical Zoo

A shoe belonging to two-year-old Hinda Cohen, who was killed at Auschwitz on March 27, 1944. Her father Dov etched the date on the sole upon discovering his daughter was taken during a 'Children's Aktion.' (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Yad Vashem to break ground on new artifacts center on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Shakespeare’s birds

There’s no telling how much havoc people can wreak by calling very different animals by the same name

Holly Rosen Fink

’The Yiddish is everything’

An interview with Yenta on why this production is so much more than just another ’Fiddler’

The embassy, the Iran deal, and the good in Jerusalem

Can we leave the peace process to those who may penalize Israel for no more than having the audacity to survive in a dangerous neighborhood?

Michael Steinhardt sexually harassed me

Jewish organizations must be willing to turn down money from donors who abuse their power at the expense of employees’ dignity

Abby Joseph Cohen, advisory director and senior investment strategist at Goldman Sachs (YouTube screenshot)

Interview

Shoshanna Solomon

Immigrants are key to economic growth, Goldman guru says

US economy is stronger than Europe’s and Japan’s because of its faster-growing population – largely thanks to immigration, according to Wall Street strategist Abby Joseph Cohen

Conservative MP Oliver Letwin arrives at the Cabinet Office on Whitehall in London on March 22, 2019.(Tolga AKMEN/AFP)

Analysis

Meet UK lawmaker Oliver Letwin, the policy guru behind Brexit breakthrough bid

Conservative backbencher, who is Jewish, submitted controversial amendment allowing MPs, rather than the government, to drive the exit process from European Union

Ayala, 11, a student with a cognitive disability, communicates via a computer screen with her teacher, Rivka Dimant, in a school at Aleh Negev, a campus for Israelis with disabilities, October 25, 2018. (Ben Sales via JTA)

This new town will be the first fully disability-inclusive community in Israel

More Headlines

A cargo ship is docked during the inauguration ceremony of the newly built extension in the port of Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman, southeastern Iran, near the Pakistani border, December 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran looks to remote port to beat US sanctions

By AFP

This picture taken on January 31, 2019, shows a view of the SSCV Thialf crane vessel after laying the newly arrived foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) west of Haifa. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

Jordanian lawmakers urge canceling $10 billion natural gas deal with Israel

In this Aug. 4, 2017 file photo, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., talks to constituents before a Republican Senate forum in Pelham, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Alabama congressman quotes Hitler, compares Democrats to Nazis

By JTA

Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, and Orly Ades, the committee's director general, seen on February 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Central Elections Committee: No anonymous electioneering via SMS messages

Empire actor Jussie Smollett, center, arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court Building for his hearing on Thursday, March 14, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)

Jussie Smollett’s attorneys say all criminal charges dropped

By AMANDA SEITZ and Michael Tarm

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, on October 29, 2018 in which eleven Jews were killed while at Shabbat services. (AP/Matt Rourke)

After synagogue attack, Pittsburgh tries again to curb guns

By Michael Rubinkam

Salomon Koninck's 1639 "A Scholar Sharpening His Quill, (Photo US District Attorneys Office)

FBI to return Nazi-stolen art to Jewish collector’s heirs

By AFP

Illustrative: IDF forces operating in the Dheisheh refugee camp, in a photo released on July 23, 2018. (IDF Spokesperson)

Palestinian said killed in overnight clashes with IDF troops in West Bank

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, center, delivering the opening prayer in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, March 25, 2019. (YouTube)

Democrats, Muslim lawmaker decry Christian prayer in Penn. House as divisive

By MARK SCOLFORO

From Kolben Dance's newest piece, 'Orpheus,' premiering April 7, 2019 as part of the Jerusalem Arts Festival (Courtesy Kolben Dance)

Sites and soundsFor 18th time, Jerusalem opens its doors to Arts Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

The Defense Ministry building in Tel Aviv, August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Defense Ministry rebukes Israeli spy tech company for unlawful exports

In this photo from September 14, 2005, Donald Trump, left, talks on his cellphone with Felix Sater, right, outside after speaking at the Bixpo 2005 business convention at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colorado. (Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post via AP)

Soviet-born mobster accused of trying to launder cash through Trump projects

By Michael R. Sisak

View Edition by Date

February	March 2019					April
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
Your Privacy Rights
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.