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What Matters Most On Friday, March 8, 2024

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US President Joe Biden, left, and first lady Jill Biden walk towards guests on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One at the White House in Washington, Friday, March 8, 2024, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Philadelphia for a campaign event. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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March 8: Biden calls for PM to do more on aid after saying he needs ‘Come to Jesus’ talk

By Jacob Magid and Elana Kirsh

President caught on hot mic saying he told PM they’re going to have a blunt conversation at some point * UK FM says temporary Gaza harbor will take time, urges Israel to open Ashdod

9:48 pm

UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links
9:09 pm

Asked to comment on 'Come to Jesus' hot mic, Biden chides reporters for 'eavesdropping,' says that PM should do more on aid
8:30 pm

Blinken discusses hostage talks, Gaza aid with Saudi counterpart

File: Yemeni Jewish Rabbi Yahia Yussef Mussa (C), sporting a chequered Keffiya, poses for a picture with unidentified young relatives outside his apartment in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on January 18, 2010. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

ExclusiveYemen's Jews: The final chapter

How an Arab country helped Israel rescue Yemen’s last Jews, and settle them in Cairo

By Shalom Yerushalmi

In 2021, nearly 100 Yemenite Jews were evacuated from a secure compound in Sana’a amid civil war. But one of them, Salem Levi Marhabi, was forced to stay; he is still held in a Houthi prison

Conduct by Netanyahu aides 'shocked' UK Foreign Office

Report: PM’s refusal to coordinate diplomatic immunity put Gantz at risk of arrest in UK

British authorities ensured visiting war cabinet minister had the necessary protections after the Foreign Ministry, on Netanyahu’s orders, ceased working with them, TV report says

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz (L) meets with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (R) and UK National Security Adviser Tim Barrow (C) in London on March 6, 2024. (David Cameron/X)

This handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (C) and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi meeting at the 'Bahad 1' military base in southern Israel, March 7, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant takes public swipe at Netanyahu after scathing report on Meron disaster

Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni, Shimon Matalon, Elazar Mordechai Goldberg, Moshe Bergman and Daniel Morris; 5th row (L-R): Ariel Achdut, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Hanoch Slod, Yedidya Fogel, Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Moshe Tzarfati, Nahman Kirshbaum and Eliyahu Cohen.

Day after Meron inquiry rebuke, PM’s office says cabinet to mull acting on findings

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US President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday March 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Announces temporary pier on Gaza coast; no US boots on ground

Biden in SOTU pledges to free hostages, warns Israel not to use aid as bargaining chip

US president says Israel has right to go after Hamas, but laments majority killed in Gaza weren’t terrorists, says two states only way to guarantee Israeli security, Saudi deal

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

Biden and Trump gear up for likely rematch in 2024 presidential elections

By Bill Barrow and Will Weissert

A Palestinian fisherman arrives with a boat at the port Gaza City early on December 1, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

US to build pier off Gaza coast that will enable maritime aid shipments — officials

Project, which will be announced in Biden’s SOTU address, will see deliveries inspected in Cyprus before docking in Gaza once temporary structure is built in coming weeks

Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides (L) and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (R) shake hands at the presidential palace in Nicosia on March 8, 2024. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / POOL / AFP)

Visiting Cyprus, EU chief says pilot ship to set sail Friday on aid corridor to Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

A convoy of 30 vehicles driven by Israeli activists from the 'Standing Together' movement, gather in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon near the border with the Gaza Strip on March 7, 2024, in a show of support for Palestinians. (Jack Guez/AFP)

In show of solidarity, left-wing activists attempt to deliver aid to civilians in Gaza

By AFP

CIA chief makes covert trip to region to try and salvage talks

US says Hamas holding up 6-week ceasefire by refusing to release vulnerable hostages

Biden officials insist deal still possible amid deadlock, reveal truce would let civilians return to north Gaza; add there’s no hard deadline but want agreement before Ramadan

A man puts of photographs of the Israelis still held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at 'Hostage Square' in Tel Aviv, March 4, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman attends a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Former Shin Bet chief: Government repeatedly rejected plans to kill Hamas’s Sinwar

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Esther Cunio is forced to pose for a photo with a Hamas terrorist who invaded her home at Kibbutz Nir Oz during the terror group's onslaught in southern Israel, October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Grandma survived Oct. 7 by talking Messi, calls on soccer star to help free her grandsons

By ToI Staff and JTA

In this screenshot taken from video released by the IDF on February 29, 2024, Palestinians surround aid trucks in northern Gaza. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF’s probe into aid chaos says it fired shots at Gazans nearing troops – not trucks

By Emanuel Fabian

12,000 Palestinians swarmed convoy in Gaza City in Feb. 29 incident, leading to many being crushed and run over; soldiers only fired at those who ‘posed a threat,’ says military

Border Police officers visit the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2024. (Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90)

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Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

UN rights chief says settlement expansion a war crime, prevents Palestinian state

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Prof. Haim Sompolinsky, winner of The Brain Prize for 2024. (Kris Snibbe/Harvard University)

InterviewSon of Holocaust survivors to get prize in birthplace, Denmark

Physicist Haim Sompolinsky first Israeli to win largest brain science research prize

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hebrew University and Harvard professor is a pioneer in theoretical and computational neuroscience, which studies the complex circuits and systems that enable our brains to function

Karen Miller Jackson

What will convince Haredim to join the IDF?

We must deepen the sense of national loyalty so that all Israeli citizens embrace the call to serve the Jewish nation (Vayakhel)

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

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The answer to whether women are ’up to the job’ is clearly a resounding Yes! So why aren’t more of them in policy-making positions?

The war has proved once again: Israeli heroines are everywhere

In honor of International Women’s Day, we thank the women who fight on the front lines – and closer to home

Susannah Dainow

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By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

Just back from a speaking tour at US colleges, ToI’s senior analyst describes increased ostracism of Jewish students on campus – and an unexpected rebound effect

Demonstrators rally during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Zachary Marschall (Courtesy via JTA)

Meet the Jewish conservative leading campus antisemitism investigations in the US

By Andrew Lapin

Zachary Marschall is responsible for at least 12 of 79 investigations opened so far and is particularly galled by DEI, which has become source of frustration for Jews who don’t fit in

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By AP

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By JTA and ToI Staff

Dr. Federica Gigante of Cambridge University with a medieval Islamic astrolabe dating from the 11th century which has Hebrew additions, in an undated picture. (Federica Candelato/courtesy)

'Someone was following his instructions here'

Medieval Islamic astrolabe found to have layers of Hebrew inscriptions

By Gavriel Fiske

Device found in Italy and dated to 11th-century Spain seems to have Jewish addendums exactly as recommended by medieval sage Abraham Ibn Ezra

Protesters hold placards and an Israeli flag during a demonstration denouncing the South African government's silence on abuse of hostages held by Hamas, in Johannesburg on March 8, 2024. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

South African Jewish women rally against government’s silence on abuse of hostages

By AFP and ToI Staff

Marking International Women’s Day, protest organizer says Jewish women held to extra burden of proof, calls out hypocrisy of president for not speaking out for captives

The UN Security Council holds a meeting on the Russia-Ukraine war, at UN Headquarters in New York City on February 23, 2024. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

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A Palestinian security prisoner gestures among supporters and relatives after being released from an Israeli jail in exchange for Israeli hostages freed by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, in Ramallah, the West Bank on November 28, 2023. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

UN torture expert probing alleged Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian detainees

By Reuters and ToI Staff

After rewriting disqualified song, Israel gets final approval to appear at Eurovision

Kan public broadcaster next week to reveal ‘Hurricane’, which received nod from EBU after it barred the original submission, ‘October Rain,’ over charges it was too political

Eden Golan after winning the reality show 'Hakochav Haba' (Rising Star) and the right to represent Israel at the Eurovision, February 6, 2024. (Koko/Flash90)

Supporters of Malky Berkowitz say they are launching a “mikvah strike” — a form of protest that leverages Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic for Malky's husband to give her a divorce. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg. Images courtesy of Adina Sash via JTA)

US Orthodox women activists pledge ‘sex strike’ in protest of religious divorce refusal

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Form of protest leveraging Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic aimed at supporting Malky Berkowitz, 29, whose husband has refused her a ‘get’ for four years

Representatives of the Reservists’ Wives Forum meet with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (left) in early 2024. (Courtesy)

International Women's Day

Fired during war, reservists’ wives band together to battle for job security

By Sharon Wrobel

Spouses of reserve troops create forum to help each other with employment rights and petition the government to ease their economic burden as their husbands take up arms

Still underrepresented, share of women in Israeli tech workforce stagnates

By Sharon Wrobel

French TV host Ruth Elkrief delivers a speech during the NextRadioTV group press conference in Paris, on September 2, 2015. (Thomas Samson / AFP)

'It's the first time in my life I can speak like this'

Why French journalist Ruth Elkrief ‘came out’ as Jewish after October 7

By Shira Li Bartov

The veteran newswoman landed in the middle of France’s debate on antisemitism and Islamophobia – and thanks to fallout from her comments, she’s also landed under police protection

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This picture taken from northern Israel shows an Israeli Air Force fighter jet flying over the border area with south Lebanon on March 6, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Hezbollah fires rocket volleys at north, hits home with anti-tank missile

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Thousands of runners take part in the annual Jerusalem marathon, on Jaffa Street in Jeruslem, on March 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Record 40,000 run in 13th annual Jerusalem marathon, with spotlight on hostages

By Michael Horovitz, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Fire breaks out at Iran's Aftab oil refinery in the port city of Bandar Abbas, killing at least one person and injuring several more, on March 7, 2024. (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran reports one killed, several injured in oil refinery blaze

Celtic's Israeli striker Liel Abada attends a team training session at the Celtic Training Centre in Lennoxtown, north of Glasgow on October 24, 2022. (ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP)

Israeli soccer player exits Scottish team after pressure over pro-Palestinian displays

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranians protest the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (Photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Middle East Images/AP)

UN accuses Iran of using ‘disproportionate’ violence during Mahsa Amini protests

By Jon Gambrell

Adam Sandler poses for media at a photo-call for the movie 'Spaceman' during the International Film, Festival Berlinale, in Berlin, Wednesday, February 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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