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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 27, 2024

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File - Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion casts his vote at a polling station in Jerusalem, during the municipal elections on February 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 27: Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion reelected; exit poll: Tel Aviv’s Huldai set to retain power

Municipal election turnout 49.5% * Meron air control base hit by Hezbollah missile, no harm to capabilities * Biden: Hard-line coalition harms Israel; PM: We have significant support

9:17 pm

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel: Despite difficulties of war, Israel came out to vote today
8:46 pm

British maritime security firm receives report of warship firing on merchant vessel off coast of Yemen
8:14 pm

Voting stations close as councils begin to tally results of low-turnout local elections

A woman rides a scooter past a graffiti calling for the return of the hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, in Kfar Saba, Israel, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hamas: 'Big gaps'; Qatar 'optimistic' but 'no breakthrough'

‘Premature’: Biden optimism on Gaza truce breakthrough met with pushback, surprise

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli officials say they were caught off guard by comments from US president; report suggests high-value security inmates could be released for female soldiers

US President Joe Biden, left, eats ice cream with comedian Seth Meyers at Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in New York. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden says hoping for Gaza ceasefire by next week: ‘We’re close, it’s not done yet’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pictures of hostages held by terror groups in Gaza since October 7, in Tel Aviv, February 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli officials: Hamas is signaling rejection of latest hostage deal proposals

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at north in fresh barrages after Baalbek strike

By Emanuel Fabian

No injuries or damage reported by Israel as terror group says sensitive air control base targeted in response to rare Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon a day earlier

Rockets launched from Lebanon are seen being intercepted and impacting near Mount Meron in northern Israel, February 27, 2024. (Screenshot: X)

This picture taken from an Israeli position along the border with southern Lebanon shows rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel on February 26, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Hezbollah fires barrage of 60 rockets at Golan; IDF eliminates terror commander

By Emanuel Fabian

Ayelet Samerano reacts as she screens the video of her son's body being kidnapped to Gaza by an UNRWA social worker, during a UN Watch summit in Geneva, February 26, 2024. (Screenshot: Hostages Families Forum; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'Bring him back to me'

Mother whose son’s body was seized by UNRWA staffer urges UN head to meet in Geneva

‘How can the UN pay this man who dragged my son’s limp body along the ground?’ Ayelet Samerano asks at UN Watch event, showing video of worker’s role in Oct. 7 attack

Tiny, 3,000-year-old gold pendant found in the Ophel area in Jerusalem, thought to be of Phoenician origin. (courtesy AIBA/Reese Zoellner)

Tiny First Temple-era Phoenician pendant is ‘earliest gold artifact’ found in Jerusalem

By Gavriel Fiske

Just 4 millimeters on a side, the item could provide evidence that Phoenicians were in Jerusalem 3,000 years ago, archaeologist says

A new, local strategy for governing Gaza

Empowering clans to run life in the Strip will require a re-education process, ousting UNRWA, and regional and US cooperation

A pivot point for the Haredi draft

With an April deadline for a resolution looming, the power of the purse can impel change – if political conditions allow

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

No longer afraid of sparking war, Israel takes gloves off against IRGC in Syria

Since Oct. 7, the IDF has upped the pace of attacks and hit senior Iranian officers, seeing little to lose in countering Tehran’s entrenchment. It seems to be working, experts say

A man checks the damage in an apartment in a residential buildling that was reportedly targeted by Israeli air strikes in the Kafr Sousa district of the Syrian capital Damascus on February 21, 2024. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

A student looks at Iran's domestically built centrifuges in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

IAEA warns Iran building up uranium stockpile, still barring senior monitors

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN

This handout photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on February 27, 2024, shows soldiers casting their municipal elections ballots at a polling site in the Gaza Strip, amid the war there against Hamas. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israelis vote in most of country for twice-delayed local elections under shadow of war

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Elections for cities, towns, regional councils held amid Hamas war, conflict in north; extra absentee ballots mean results only likely Wed.; in some border areas, no vote till Nov.

Families of hostages set up booths next to polling stations during local elections on February 27, 2024, reminding voters to 'Choose the hostages' (Courtesy Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 27: Day 144 – Israelis cast votes in local elections, amid war

InterviewMeet the Haredi entrepreneur running for a historic seat on the Jerusalem city council

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

A Hamas tunnel in the central Gaza Strip, in a handout image published by the IDF on February 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it uncovered major Gaza tunnel passing under hospital, university

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Network stretching from central Strip to Gaza City’s Zeitoun destroyed by combat engineers; 5 troops seriously injured in battles Sunday, dozens of terrorists killed in fighting

Displaced Palestinians walk next to the border fence between Gaza and Egypt, on February 16, 2024, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Report: Security chiefs visited Cairo, pledged Gazans won’t be pushed into Egypt

File: The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the UN, delivers its order South Africa's request for provisional measures against Israel over its actions in the Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (International Court of Justice)

Israel reports to ICJ in The Hague on actions taken to comply with court orders on Gaza

By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies

Amid South African accusation of genocide, judges instructed Jerusalem last month to specify efforts to protect civilians; details of report not released to public

A Palestinian flag flies outside the United Nations' highest court during historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, February 21, 2024, into the legality of Israel's 57-year rule of West Bank and east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Israel accused of breaking international law as ICJ hearings on West Bank wrap

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

‘Cosmetic’ PA reshuffle seen as bid by Abbas to hold power, avoid demanded reforms

Ramallah’s new prime minister is likely to be another loyalist to the PA president, who appears to be trying to preempt US pressure for structural changes to revitalize the body

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, chairs a session of the weekly cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, April 29, 2019 (Majdi Mohammed / AP)

IDF troops operate in the West Bank, early February 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Islamic Jihad commander, 2 other gunmen killed by troops in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Dr. Ruth Gottesman speaks at a Albert Einstein College of Medicine event at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan, May 17, 2016. (Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish philanthropist gives $1 billion to Bronx med school, waiving all future tuition

Dr. Ruth Gottesman says she hopes donation will help Albert Einstein College of Medicine students ‘find new ways to prevent diseases and provide the finest health care’

Gantz, Eisenkot present plan to expand draft to Haredim, Arabs: ‘Majority must serve’

Cabinet members warn they won’t back extension of blanket draft exemptions; suggest alternate service tracks at ‘recognized security, emergency and charity organizations’

Ministers Benny Gantz (L) and Gadi Eisenkot present an outline for the draft of Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli army during a press conference in the Knesset, February 26, 2024. (Sam Sokol)

Protesters demanding ultra-Orthodox military conscription demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court orders the government to explain why its refusal to draft Haredim is legal

By Jeremy Sharon

Obituary: 1936-2024

Charlie Summers

Lord Jacob Rothschild, upheld family’s legacy to benefit UK, Israel, Jews worldwide

The Oxford-educated aristocrat took great pride in his philanthropy in Israel, in particular the new National Library, described himself as ‘deeply conscious of his Jewish roots’

Lord Jacob Rothschild arrives for a reception hosted by Britain's Prince Charles at Clarence House in London, July 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Filmmakers Ben Russell (L) and France's Guillaume Cailleau (2ndL) stand on stage while receiving the Encounters Award for Best Film for their film "Direct Action" during the awards ceremony of the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival, on February 24, 2024 in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)

Germany to probe Berlin film festival after winners assail Israel over war in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Government spokeswoman criticizes speakers at Berlinale for not mentioning Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack, following remarks that were denounced as antisemitic

Israeli director Yuval Abraham (L) and Palestinian director Basel Adra speak on stage after having received the Berlinale documentary award for 'No Other Land' during the awards ceremony of the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival, on February 24, 2024 in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)

Israeli journalist rails at West Bank ‘apartheid’ in Berlinale acceptance speech

By Toby Axelrod

Armed gunman Stephan Balliet, on a street in Halle, Germany, during a shooting outside a synagogue in that city which killed two, October 9, 2019. (Screenshot/Andreas Splett/ATV-Studio Halle/AFP)

German synagogue attacker gets 7 more years for taking hostages in failed jailbreak

By AP

US President Joe Biden (right) is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 18, 2023. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

Andrea Shalal, Nandita Bose and Kat Stafford

Biden’s campaign expected anger over handling of Gaza war to fade by now. It hasn’t

9 months before election, Democratic party and campaign officials say president’s opposition to a permanent ceasefire until Hamas beaten is irking Black Americans, Muslim activists

Nothing grows along a watercourse at Evrona Nature Reserve in southern Israel, where soil was contaminated by a 2014 leak of crude oil (see the dark patches beneath the soil crust), February 14, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Nature authority to remove 30,000 cubic meters of oil-soaked soil at southern reserve

Move follows years of post-spill research and failure of other methods to draw out crude oil that flooded out of broken pipe into Evrona Nature Reserve near Eilat in 2014

More Headlines

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2022. (Flash90/File)

Israel’s central bank pauses rate cuts, amid ongoing uncertainty over war’s impact

By Sharon Wrobel

Haymanut Kasau, 9, who went missing on February 25, 2024, from a Jewish Agency absorption center in Safed, northern Israel. (Courtesy)

Police launch massive manhunt to find 9-year-old Safed girl missing since Sunday

By Michael Horovitz

The undated wanted photos provided by German Federal Criminal Police show from left, Burkhard Garweg, Ernst-Volker Wilhelm Staub, and Daniela Klette who are suspected of being members of the RAF group. (BKA via AP)

After 30 years, Germany arrests fugitive member of Baader Meinhoff gang

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Yair Golan attends a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, on February 6, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ex-deputy IDF chief Yair Golan enters Labor party leadership race

By Michael Horovitz

File - Israel Police chief Kobi Shabtai speaks to a meeting of the Knesset National Security Committee on October 22, 2023. (Dani Shem Tov/Knesset)

Police chief says unruly protesters to blame for violence at anti-government rally

Illustrative. Police officers in Rishon Lezion on July 03, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Couple charged with assaulting, stabbing 12-year-old after luring her to Haifa home

Illustrative: An Egged bus (Jose HERNANDEZ Camera 51 / Shutterstock.com)

16 injured, several seriously, as bus overturns en route to Beersheba

Rabbi Krawatsky (R) faces allegations for child sexual abuse at Camp Shoresh. He continues to work with children. (Camp Shoresh Pinterest/Youtube)

Baltimore rabbi found liable for sexually abusing 2 boys at summer camp

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner, left, president Monica Garcia, center, and executive officer Jefferson Crain listen to testimony from attendees at the school board headquarters, January 29, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Teachers union pulls backing for LA school board hopeful who praised antisemitic book

By jacob gurvis

Shelly Weiss (Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))

Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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