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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 28, 2024

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Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion speaks to the media after winning a second term in office, Jerusalem, early on February 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

War-weary Israelis stay away from polls

Jerusalem’s Moshe Lion, Tel Aviv’s Ron Huldai cruise to victory in mayoral races

As election results roll in, Holon’s veteran mayor loses seat after 30 years while Beit Shemesh and Haifa will go to run-off races after no winners emerge

Israelis cast their votes at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Voter turnout suffers as many stay home for municipal elections amid Gaza war

Reporter's notebookIn Tiberias, Haredi locals cheer for defeat of their secularist nemesis’s comeback bid

By Canaan Lidor

A woman and her children walk past a wall with photographs of hostages who were kidnapped during the October 7 Hamas-led cross-border terror onslaught in Israel, seen in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Leo Correa/AP)

Israeli official: 'Progress is slow and the gaps are large'

Hamas said to deride deal outline as ‘Zionist document’ as Qatar sees ‘race against time’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Qatari mediators said to relay broadly negative response by terror group to 6-week truce framework; TV report details US formula for 40-for-400 hostage-prisoner exchange

Released hostage Sharon Alony Cunio speaks as crowds gather before the start of a four-day march to Jerusalem calling for the release of the hostages held by Hamas, on February 28, 2024, at the site of the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Hostage families set out on four-day march from Supernova massacre site to Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

IDF footage of a strike in southern Lebanon on February 28, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 28: In response to attacks, IDF launches strikes on Hezbollah posts in southern Lebanon

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Military also reportedly carries out airstrikes in Syria * Sidelining Ben Gvir, war cabinet said to reject Ramadan restrictions on Arab Israelis at Temple Mount

10:00 pm

UK government increases security funding for Jewish community
9:47 pm

Hamas official: Permanent ceasefire not a condition for first phase of hostage deal
9:34 pm

Humorously morose comedian Richard Lewis, recent star on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' dies at 76

Illustrative: a volunteer asks people to vote 'uncommitted,' instead of for US President Joe Biden, outside of McDonald Elementary School in Dearborn during the Michigan presidential primary election on February 27, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP)

Campaign protesting Biden’s support for Israel makes impact in Michigan primary

By JTA and ToI Staff

Group called Listen to Michigan jubilant as tens of thousands vote ‘Uncommitted’ in line with its call to punish US president for backing Israel in war on Hamas

File: This combo image shows US President Joe Biden, left, January 5, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, January 19, 2024. (AP Photo)

Biden and Trump win Michigan, but ‘uncommitted’ votes a concern for Democrats

By Seung Min Kim and Corey Williams

This composite image shows Maj. Iftah Shahar (R) and Cpt. Itai Seif of the Givati Brigade's Tzabar battalion, who were killed fighting in the Gaza Strip on February 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two IDF soldiers killed in Gaza; foreign nations airdrop civilian aid into enclave

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israel says no limit set on truck deliveries to Strip; hostage release negotiations continue in Qatar as families of captives march to Jerusalem

Menachem Bombach

The more Haredi men enlist, the easier it is for others to join them

If you’re ultra-Orthodox, male, and not truly studying Torah all day long, it’s time to think of the IDF

Nathaniel Helfgot

For Israel to accept a Palestinian state, Israelis must first feel safe

Given the historically hollow international guarantees of Israel’s security, building trust is the first step – once the war is over and the hostages are home

Natan Kohn-Magnus

Jon Stewart’s plan for Mideast peace is delusional

I served with the IDF in Gaza, and I’m here to set the record straight. Again

Shayna Goldberg

The kids had no school, and the adults a day off. It was Election Day in Israel, and we slept in, went to the beach, and breathed a little

Op-ed: Day 145 of the war

Half of Israel stays away from democracy * Friction helps Biden and the PM * SIMs signs

In an Israel grappling with the trauma of Oct. 7 and the war, it is understandable that local elections were not a priority. But it’s a shame, nonetheless, that so many didn’t vote

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)

A truck in flames following an alleged Israeli airstrike near the Syrian town of Qusayr, February 25, 2024. (X screengrab: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb 28: Day 145 – Israel’s conflict with Iran comes into focus in Syria

Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani on the PA government’s resignation; reporter Canaan Lidor on Tiberias as a political microcosm, and a stand taken by South African Jewry

Iranian women attend an election campaign rally ahead of the March 1, parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections as a representation of the Israeli flag is placed on the ground, in Tehran, Iran, February 27, 2024. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Public frustration at unrest and poor economy threatens turnout in Iran elections

By AP

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) speaks with commanders at the Central Command HQ near Jerusalem, February 27, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant: Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas hope to turn Ramadan into ‘2nd stage of October 7’

By Emanuel Fabian

In apparent jab at Ben Gvir, defense minister warns against ‘irresponsible statements,’ as police minister seeks unprecedented restrictions on Arab Israelis at Temple Mount

View of an Israeli military base in Meron, northern Israel, February 27, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Hezbollah will halt fire if Hamas okays Gaza truce, sources say

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks during an assessment in northern Israel, February 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief warns Hezbollah to pay ‘very high price,’ as fresh barrage fired at north

By Emanuel Fabian

US President Joe Biden talks with Seth Meyers during a taping of the 'Late Night with Seth Meyers,' February 26, 2024, in New York. (AP/Evan Vucci)

US announces $53 million aid package for Palestinians

Biden: To survive, Israel must take opportunity for peace, security with Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Singling out Ben Gvir, president warns ‘incredibly conservative government’ will cost Israel global support; Netanyahu pushes back, says ‘we have significant successes’

US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen gives a press conference a day ahead of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings in Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 27, 2024. (Andre Penner/AP)

Yellen sends Netanyahu letter warning of war’s economic toll on Israel, Palestinians

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden (2nd right) speaks during a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 27, 2024. From left, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, of Louisiana, US Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden, and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Biden implores Congress to avoid government shutdown, send aid to Israel, Ukraine

By AP and ToI Staff

Demonstrators carry placards during a protest following the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, on February 16, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Inside story'Even ordinary Jerusalem passersby realize it was a murder'

Mourning Navalny, Russian expats hope to invigorate Israeli opposition to Putin

Memorials to the leading Kremlin critics have popped up across the country, eliciting interest and sympathy, even as Russia’s embassy in Tel Aviv allegedly tries to squelch support

UK government boosts security after lawmakers targeted for stances on Israel-Hamas war

By AFP

MPs should not ‘have to accept that enduring hate crimes, harassment, or threats [are] part of the job,’ interior minister says after surge in antisemitism and Islamophobia

In this handout photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, September 13, 2023. (Maria Unger/UK Parliament via AP)

British singer Charlotte Church performs during a Greenpeace protest against drilling for oil in the Arctic, outside the Shell Centre, London, August. 26, 2015. (Frank Augstein/AP)

From our partnerCharlotte Church says she is ‘no way antisemitic’ after leading ‘from the river’ stunt

A view shows 'Tunnel Boring Machine, 2022' by artist Teresa Solar, during a press day at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in Venice on April 19, 2022. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)

Thousands of artists ask Venice Biennale to exclude ‘genocidal’ Israel over Gaza war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An image of the illegal West Bank outpost of Tzon Kedar Farms / Mitzpe Yehuda from 2020 which was legalized by the government in February 2023. (Screen capture/Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘A giant gift’: Settler leaders hail IDF approval of borders for new W. Bank settlement

By Jeremy Sharon

Planning proposals for now-legalized outpost seek some 3,600 housing units; ‘We will continue the settlement momentum throughout the land,’ says Smotrich

Ariel Danino. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gallant extends administrative detention of settler activist by three months

Ruins of a Philistine temple in the biblical city of Gath. (Aren Maeir)

Archaeologists dig up clues on Philistines from psychedelic plants in ancient temples

By Ariella Oldfield

New study examines remains of food, seeds, flowers found in Gath that were used in ancient Greece in worship of female deities, indicating foreign influences on Philistine culture

Screen capture from video of members of the Phoenix battalion at a farewell ceremony in Kibbutz Nir. (Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Job done? Retired reservists’ Phoenix tank unit disbands, for now

Customers line up at the opening of the first Israel branch of US fast-food burger chain Shake Shack in Tel Aviv on February 27, 2024. (Sharon Wrobel/Times of Israel)

Israelis line up for smash burgers as Shake Shack opens first eatery in Tel Aviv

By Sharon Wrobel

The New York-based burger chain has partnered with Israeli retailer Fox-Wizel and restaurant operator Yarzin Sella to open 15-plus branches across Israel

City Transformer's foldable electric vehicle (City Trasnformer)

‘A game changer’: Israel-based firm’s foldable electric car to hit roads in July

By Michael Horovitz

David Lubin, in the light blue shirt, attends the funeral of his daughter Rose Elisheva Lubin at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on November 9, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'Rose would have stepped up; now I'm obligated to'

Father of lone soldier killed in Jerusalem stabbing attack runs for Georgia state Senate

By Jackie Hajdenberg

David Lubin is challenging incumbent progressive democrat Sen. Sally Harrell after she failed to back the state’s adoption of the IHRA antisemitism definition

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Avraham Shohat gives a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office as he released his report regarding the budget for Israeli university students on July 16 2007 in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

ObituaryAvraham ‘Baiga’ Shochat, first mayor of Arad and Rabin’s finance minister, dies at 88

One of the 10 operating rooms in a new 'mini-hospital' for ambulatory surgery at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center-Ichilov Hospital, February 2024. (Jenny Yerushalmi)

Surgery without a stay: Ichilov hospital unveils new operating rooms to cut wait times

By Renee Ghert-Zand

This undated photograph released by the US military's Central Command shows what it is described as the vessel that carried Iranian-made missile components bound for Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the Arabian Sea. (US Central Command via AP)

4 captured on Red Sea dhow to face US court over transporting Iranian-made weapons

By Denise Lavoie

Houthi supporters attend a rally against the US-led strikes against Yemen and in the support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, February 16, 2024. Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in an American airstrike, is in the photo. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

US official: Iranian and Hezbollah operatives in Yemen are aiding Houthi attacks

By AFP

Ruth Fein, the first woman to chair Boston's Combined Jewish Philanthropies, enjoys a boat ride in Lake George, Massachuseets. (Michael Fein via JTA)

Ruth Fein, ‘absolute giant of the Boston Jewish community,’ dies at 96

By Penny Schwartz

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell arrives at a Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on February 19, 2024. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)

EU foreign policy chief doubles down on claim Israel helped create Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

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