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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 3, 2024

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Family and supporters of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for their release, in Paris Square in Jerusalem, March 2, 2024 (Eilat Markovitch / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Gallant: We won't stop fighting until Hamas dismantled

Israel won’t send team to Cairo, said to believe Sinwar seeks escalation on Ramadan

By Lazar Berman

Hamas refuses to provide list of living hostages, still reportedly insisting on end of war as condition for hostage deal

Families of the Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and their supporters protest for the captives' release in Jerusalem, March 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hamas refuses to provide info on wellbeing of hostages as Cairo talks commence

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and their supporters protest for the captives' release, in Jerusalem, March 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

US says Israel has agreed to framework for Gaza truce, ball is in Hamas’s court

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Officials including Education Minister Yoav Kisch and Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi visit children in their classroom on the first day of school since the October 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel, in the southern city of Sderot, March 3, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

‘It’s a bit stressful’: Schools in Sderot reopen after five months of war

By Gavriel Fiske and Stuart Winer

Officials say 55%-60% return to studies in Gaza border town, where 200 soldiers help secure streets; but some residents still fear going home

Workers unload bags of humanitarian aid that entered Gaza by truck through the Israel's Kerem Shalom Crossing on February 17, 2024, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

'We expect to see much more aid reaching northern Gaza'

After deadly aid incident, Israel to try new methods of delivery to north Gaza this week

By Lazar Berman

Official says convoys could be secured by IDF and enter from northern Israel-Gaza border, days after dozens die as crowd swarms trucks delivering food, medicine

This image grab from a handout video released by the Israeli army on February 29, 2024, shows what the army says are Gazans around aid trucks in Gaza City. (Israeli Army / AFP)

IDF vows probe of deadly Gaza aid chaos, rejects claim it deliberately hurt civilians

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Reuters

Aid for Gaza is loaded onto a US Air Force cargo plane ahead of an airdrop over the enclave, March 2, 2024. (US Central Command photo)

US makes first Gaza aid airdrop, says delivery contains 38,000 meals

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Official stresses nothing can replace land-based deliveries; Biden announced aerial support after chaotic incident that saw dozens of Palestinians killed while swarming aid trucks

L-R: Sgt. Dolev Malka, Sgt. Afik Tery and Sgt. Inon Yitzhak, killed in the southern Gaza Strip on March 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Three soldiers killed in Gaza as troops keep up raids on Hamas sites and gunmen

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

14 other soldiers wounded by blast in booby-trapped building in Khan Younis; rare long-range rocket barrage fired toward Beersheba area, causing no damage

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an event in Selma, Alabama, on March 3, 2024. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 3: US VP Harris cheered over ‘immediate ceasefire’ call, clarifies she means 6-week truce

By ToI Staff and Ricky Ben-David

Gantz arrives in US for high-level talks * Soldier killed fighting in Gaza, bringing ground op toll to 246 * Israel not sending team to Cairo talks as Hamas digs in

9:58 pm

US VP Harris calls for ‘immediate’ implementation of 6-week ‘ceasefire currently on the table’
9:36 pm

IDF says it struck Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon after rocket fire on Israel
9:28 pm

Protesters rally outside Red Cross office in DC demanding hostage deal

TV writer Hen Avigdori at the Knesset on February 26, 2024 (Courtesy)

Interview'I can't say, See you guys, it's your problem now'

With wife and daughter freed from Gaza, TV writer continues fight for other hostages

By Jessica Steinberg

Comedy veteran Hen Avigdori remains part of the struggle to bring the remaining abductees home

Everyone must serve

Defense Minister Gallant has boldly raised the question of ultra-Orthodox IDF service in light of October 7. It behooves us all to keep the conversation going

The one topic that enrages the world

Where are 20 million people malnourished and 8 million displaced – and how come no one cares if it’s not in Gaza?

Marchers calling for the return of the hostages in Gaza head toward Jerusalem at the end of a four-day march, on March 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'Israel will never forgive itself if they don’t come back'

Thousands rally in Jerusalem after four-day march for hostages’ return

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Led by relatives of captives, demonstrators complete trek from Kibbutz Re’im, swelling to 15,000-20,000 people as they reach the capital, protest in city’s Paris Square

Yoav Harlev and hundreds of others demonstrate on behalf of the Hamas-held hostages on the El Curtola highway overpass on the 100th day of the Israel-Hamas war, January 14, 2024. (Thomas Smith/Bay Area Telegraph)

Inside Story'Israelis, Jews, non-Jews, all come to support us'

Bay Area Jews come together with grassroots effort to fight post-Oct. 7 anti-Israel bias

By Natan Galula

Stepping up against antisemitism on the streets and in schools, Jewish Californians and Israeli expats discover a dormant community that was waiting to be galvanized

Israel says it will edit song lyrics to avoid being disqualified from Eurovision

Reworked song, titled ‘Hurricane,’ slated to be revealed next week, still needs approval of EBU; Iceland decides against sending Palestinian singer to represent it

Eden Golan, winner of the reality show 'Hakochav Haba' (Rising Star) on February 6, 2024. (Koko/Flash90)

Interview

EU envoy: Peace efforts can be advanced even if parties not currently interested

Sven Koopmans speaks to ToI about Brussels’ plans for a Preparatory Peace Conference, in which global actors will advance proposals for a comprehensive solution to the conflict

The European Union’s Middle East peace envoy Sven Koopmans in, August 2022. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Minister Benny Gantz with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, December 16, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu said fuming over Gantz trip to US planned without his approval

By ToI Staff and Reuters

War cabinet minister, main political rival of PM, to meet VP Harris, top officials; in tense call between the two, premier reportedly snarks: Israel ‘has only one prime minister’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends the funeral of Rabbi Yitzhak Zeiger, who was killed in a terror attack near Eli, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Security agencies withdraw from briefings led by Ben Gvir over confidentiality concerns

Illustrative: Swiss Police officers of the canton of Zurich seen in Davos on May 23, 2022. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Teen stabs Jewish man in Zurich, reportedly shouts ‘Death to the Jews’

Victim, an ultra-Orthodox man in his 50s, seriously injured in attack; police say they are looking at all lines of investigation, haven’t ruled out racist assault

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on February 5, 2024 (Nasser Nasser / POOL / AFP)

Palestinian leader Abbas to visit Turkey’s Erdogan for talks on Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Reconciliation between PA president’s Fatah party and Hamas terror group also on the agenda for Tuesday, says Turkish foreign minister

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 3: Day 149 – Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the ‘other’ bad guys in Gaza

A US Air Force cargo plane heads for an airdrop of aid over Gaza, March 2, 2024. (US Central Command photo)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 2: Day 148 – Why US-airdropped aid to Gaza is a drop in the bucket

This picture taken on February 27, 2024, shows the Rubymar cargo ship sinking off the coast of Yemen. (AFP)

After sinking ship, Houthis vow to destroy more British vessels in the Red Sea

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Officials says London ‘is a rogue state that attacks Yemen and partners with America in sponsoring ongoing crimes against civilians in Gaza’

Belize-flagged cargo ship Rubymar, damaged in a February 19 missile strike claimed by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, floats in the Red Sea. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

Cargo ship sunk in Houthi strike poses Red Sea environmental risk, US military says

By AFP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Gaya Zubery speaks to Channel 12 at Tel Hashomer's Shiba Medical Center in a report broadcast March 1, 2024. (Screen capture: Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘I didn’t want to be a hero,’ says only female soldier severely wounded in Gaza

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israeli stabbed in alleged terror attack in Palestinian town; suspect arrested

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Israel Police car in Tel Aviv on April 12, 2020. (joseh51camera/iStock by Getty Images)

Two women found killed within hours in north

Belgian Police patrol the Grand Place in central Brussels, October 17, 2023. (Martin Meissner/AP)

Belgian police arrest adult, 3 minors over jihadist plot messages

By AFP

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