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What Matters Most On Monday, March 4, 2024

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Illustrative: Israelis rally for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at the Knesset on March 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 4: White House accuses some ministers of creating ‘obstacles’ to getting aid into Gaza

US urges Hamas to accept temporary truce * Gantz meets with senior US officials in Washington * IDF releases recordings of UNRWA staff accused of participating in Oct. 7 attack

9:51 pm

Hezbollah rocket damages utility pole, causing blackouts in several northern towns
9:48 pm

VP Harris meets Gantz in DC, expresses 'deep concern' on humanitarian crisis in Gaza
9:36 pm

Houthi minister: Ships entering Yemeni waters must now obtain permit

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

Monday meet with Gantz expected to include similar criticism

Urging 6-week ‘ceasefire,’ US VP Harris says Israel not doing enough to get aid to Gaza

By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

‘People are starving. Conditions are inhumane’: In harshest comments by administration, vice president slams ‘unnecessary restrictions’ on relief, tells Hamas to accept truce terms

Left: US President Joe Biden at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, March 28, 2023. (AP/Carolyn Kaster); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool photo via AP)

Netanyahu’s office denies report Biden wouldn’t take phone call after Gaza aid chaos

By Lazar Berman

Palestinians sit in a vehicle loaded with sacks of humanitarian aid outside the distribution center of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 3, 2024. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 4: Day 150 – Israel pushes aid into Gaza. So why isn’t it delivered?

Israeli security forces in Kiryat Shoma evacuate a wounded Thai man after he was hit by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Foreign national killed, 7 hurt in anti-tank missile attack from Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Two victims listed in serious condition following strike on Thai laborers working in orchard near border community of Margaliot

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Irit Lahav sits at her temporary home in Kiryat Gat on February 14, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Inside story'October 7 changed everything'

Their dovish hopes clipped, some Gaza border residents make peace with becoming hawks

By Canaan Lidor

Civilians who followed Hamas into Israel to loot and vandalize communities on October 7 showed their true faces, says one Nir Oz survivor who no longer sees conciliation as possible

Who does Bibi think he’s hurting when he tells the embassy not to help Gantz?

I used to work at the Israeli DC embassy, so I can tell you how impossible it is for the diplomatic corps to do its job when it’s cut out of the loop

Defund the draft dodgers

There is no legal basis for sending tax shekels to yeshivas filled with students who are required by law to report for army duty

Hamas official: 'The ball is in Israel’s court'

Egypt claims progress in hostage talks with Hamas as Sinwar said to go silent

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF says it eliminated the Palestinian Islamic Jihad cell responsible for firing rockets at Be’eri and Hatzerim; efforts to send aid to northern Gaza continue with unclear results

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's Gaza Strip chief, waves to supporters in Gaza City, on April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in Gaza City's Zeitoun, in a handout image published by the IDF on March 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Gaza airstrike takes out senior Hamas recruiter as IDF raises troop death toll to 246

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Sgt. Maj. (res.) Dennis Yekimov, 33, killed in Khan Younis Saturday; military wraps up 2-week operation to retake previously conquered Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City

A truck enters Gaza at an unknown location carrying 50 incubators for hospitals, March 3, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel says 50 incubators for hospitals enter Gaza Strip

Palestinian security prisoner Omar Atshan hugs his mother after being released from an Israeli prison, in Ramallah on November 26, 2023. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

UNRWA said to accuse Israel of abusing Gazan detainees

Jewish actress told not to leave London theater due to pro-Palestinian rallies

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Tracy-Ann Oberman, who campaigns against antisemitism, reveals she was advised to stay indoors after performance; security has already been boosted due to death threats against her

Screen capture from video of Jewish actress Tracy-Ann Oberman speaking with Sky News, February 2024. (Sky News. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinians inspect the debris of the house of Moaz al-Masry, a Palestinian accused of killing a British-Israeli woman and her two daughters in the West Bank last year, after it was blown up by Israeli troops in Nablus on March 4, 2024. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

IDF guts Nablus home of Hamas terrorist accused in killing of Dee family

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

As troops operate in West Bank city, Jewish pilgrims try to reach shrine without military coordination; Palestinian teen killed, Border Police officer hurt in clashes near Ramallah

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (left), IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (center) and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (right) meet to coordinate planning ahead of Ramadan, March 3, 2024 (IDF Spokesman)

A week before Ramadan, IDF and police meet to hash out Temple Mount security plan

El Cajon, California, Mayor Bill Wells speaks at a vigil in memory of Dr. Benjamin Harouni, a Jewish dentist who was murdered at his practice on February 29, 2024, in El Cajon, March 3, 2024. (Screenshot from video via JTA)

Calls mount to investigate killing of San Diego Jewish dentist as a hate crime

By JTA and ToI Staff

Benjamin Harouni allegedly shot dead by 29-year-old Mohammed Abdulkareem; multiple Jewish advocacy groups demand police look at antisemitism as motive; mayor vows to ‘get to truth’

Ilan-Reuben Abramov, 27, is seen approaching pro-Palestinian protesters armed with a nail gun on March 3, 2024 in the Jewish neighborhood of Thornhill outside Toronto, Canada (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).

Canada man arrested for threatening pro-Palestinian activists with nail gun

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

French soldiers patrol in Paris, March 3, 2024. French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man near a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late Saturday. (AP Photo/Nicholas Garriga)

Jewish man attacked outside Paris synagogue; another stabbed in Zurich

Aliza Avitan stands in the entrance to her home in Sderot after returning to it for the first time in nearly five months on February 29, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookWhen a traffic jam is cause for celebration

No longer a ghost town, Sderot welcomes returnees and a renewed sense of normalcy

By Canaan Lidor

Traumatized but determined, thousands have moved back to a city scarred by rocket fire and full of painful memories, where they hope to rebuild their lives

Education Minister Yoav Kisch, center, and Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi, to his right, visit Amit Haroe Elementary School in Sderot on the first day of school since October 7th massacre, March 3, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Reporter's Notebook

In Sderot, a first day of school for ‘the second time’

By Gavriel Fiske

Audio aired of hostage calling for help days before mistaken IDF killing

Canine-mounted camera captures Alon Shamriz yelling ‘please help’ between bursts of gunfire, and trying to alert troops to save him and fellow hostages Yotam Haim and Samar Talalka

Alon Shamriz. (Courtesy)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road during a protest against drafting of Haredim to the IDF, on Route 4 near Bnei Brak, March 3, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

‘We will die and not enlist’: Extremist Haredim block major highway for hours

Policewoman caught on video violently kicking demonstrator, as issue of ultra-Orthodox draft exemption returns to limelight

File: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a press conference in Jerusalem, December 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Gallant on ultra-Orthodox draft: ‘We need manpower now — it’s math, not politics’

Analysis

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Equal but different: The specific health considerations of female combat soldiers

While serving on the front lines against Hamas alongside their male IDF comrades, women must contend with the medical realities of their biology

Female members of IDF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, January 01, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

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File: Police at the scene of a murder in Jadeidi-Makr on October 7, 2022. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in northern village, in third Arab Israeli homicide in a day

A woman fills out her ballot as a policeman walks past during the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 1, 2024 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi).

Hardline conservatives secure bulk of parliamentary seats in Iran election

By AP

Eyal Waldman speaks in the Knesset Science Committee in Jerusalem, March 3, 2024, breaking down when talking about his daughter, who was murdered by Hamas on October 7. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Israel Prize nominee accuses Netanyahu associate of sabotaging his award

Four rare Bar Kochba Revolt-era coins found in the Judean Desert, in an undated photo. (Oriya Amichai/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Rare coin engraved with the name ‘Eleazar the Priest’ found in Judean Desert

By Gavriel Fiske

Republican presidential candidate and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event in Portland, Maine, Sunday, March 3, 2024. (AP/Reba Saldanha)

Haley snags DC primary, notching symbolic first win ahead of Super Tuesday

By Gram Slattery

This composite image shows an Iranian military workshop before (left, October 11, 2022) and after (right, February 3, 2023) a drone strike in Isfahan, Iran. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iran claims it executed Mossad ‘terrorist’ for drone attack on Isfahan arms facility

By AFP and ToI Staff

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