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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 12, 2024

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US President Joe Biden speaks about the costs of living during an address at the YMCA Allard Center in Goffstown, New Hampshire, March 11, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Biden mulling conditions on Israel military aid if Rafah assault goes ahead — report

Four US sources tell Politico that an offensive against southern Gaza city, where more than 1 million displaced Gazans are sheltering, could prompt strong reaction

US President Joe Biden looks on before speaking about the costs of living during an address at the YMCA Allard Center March 11, 2024, in Goffstown, New Hampshire. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Biden says no plans to address Knesset amid deepening public spat with Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is interviewed on Fox News on March 11, 2024 (Screen grab)

US criticism of Israel encourages Hamas, Netanyahu says in Fox News interview

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Minister Israel Katz attends a United Nations Security Council meeting about the conflict in the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York on March 11, 2024. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

'Please try your utmost to stop this living hell on earth'

Katz decries UN’s ‘silence’ on Hamas attacks at meeting on Oct. 7 sexual violence

US envoy says report ‘confirms what we have known for months’ about terror group’s conduct, calls it ‘a gross affront’ to treat ‘these atrocities with suspicion and skepticism’

A handout picture released by the Press Service of Jordan's Queen Rania on March 11, 2024, shows her speaking in an exclusive CNN interview about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. (Photo by Queen Rania's office)

Jordanian queen claims humanitarian crisis in Gaza is ‘deliberate’

UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza City, February 8, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/ Times of Israel)

IDF seeking to force UNRWA dissolution in Gaza, to be replaced by alternative

By Emanuel Fabian

'Toxic discourse'

JTA and ToI Staff

US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations

Guernica staffers quit, calling piece by Joanna Chen that is highly critical of Israel ‘a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’; critics lament anti-Israel extremism in literary world

Joanna Chen (Heidi Levine)

Ynon Kreiz and Anat Fabrikant attend the 96th Annual Academy Awards on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Mike Coppola / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Bring them homeEx-Olympic sailor wears hostage dog tags on Oscars red carpet

Promoted Video

Sheba Medical Center hosts Ambassador Jack Lew at the hospital

His presence strengthens the solidarity between the United States and Israel, and demonstrates the shared goal of advancing healthcare on a global scale.

Staff Sgt. Itay Chen (Courtesy)

IDF: Soldier Itay Chen was killed during Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught, body held in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Military chief rabbi declares death of tank crew member stationed at border, a dual US-Israeli citizen, based on findings and new intelligence information

Palestinian prepare to break their fast during the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan sitting amid the ruins of their family house in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on March 11, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by AFP)

Qatar says Gaza truce not close, but hope remains; working on permanent ceasefire

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A UN aid convoy enters north Gaza via a new military road used by the IDF along the Gaza border, March 11, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

March 12: Israel confirms UN aid convoy entered north Gaza via new military road

UN says it delivered food for 25,000 using route that runs along Gaza border fence * IDF strikes 2 Syrian army sites where Hezbollah operates * US troops en route to build Gaza aid pier

10:31 pm

Palestinian teen shot dead by cops in Jerusalem clashes; police: He shot a firework toward them
9:47 pm

COGAT confirms UN aid convoy entered north Gaza via new military road
9:45 pm

New poll shows anti-Netanyahu bloc with 74 seats, Smotrich's Religious Zionism still out

File - Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, professor of social work and law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, during a presentation. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Hebrew University suspends senior lecturer who called for abolishing Zionism

By Gavriel Fiske

Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a longtime Israel critic, also questioned whether Hamas committed atrocities on October 7

Marwan Issa: Shadowy Hamas ‘chief of staff’ who was a key mastermind of Oct. 7 attack

By Shira Silkoff

Terror group’s No.3, targeted by Israel in Sunday air strike, turned Qassam Brigades into organized force; first arrested in 1987, he has survived several assassination attempts

Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified.

Left: Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified. Right: An IDF strike early March 10, 2024, on a tunnel where Issa was believed to be hiding. (Social media; Israel Defense Forces)

IDF airs footage of strike on Hamas’s No. 3, but says still unclear if he was killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a video statement on March 11, 2024 (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu says Israel coming for Hamas leaders amid speculation senior terrorist killed

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

Bloody hands, bloody fools

That symbol the Hollywood glitterati sported is rooted in the horrific lynching of two Israeli men by a Palestinian mob

Eric Cohen and Elliott Abrams

A classical Jewish education to rekindle the American spirit

Our new school will revive the lost art of training young minds, hearts, and souls in the best that Western civilization has to offer

(L-R) Defense Intelligence Agency Director Jeffrey Kruse, FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director William Burns, National Intelligence Director Avril Haines, US Air Force Lieutenant General Timothy Haugh and Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Brett Holmgren testify before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on March 11, 2024. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Amid distrust, Netanyahu government 'may be in jeopardy'

US assessment: Hamas likely to pose armed threat to Israel ‘for years to come’

Intel report says IDF ‘will struggle to neutralize’ terror group’s tunnel network in Gaza, predicts massive Israeli protests calling for elections and demanding Netanyahu resign

Muslim worshippers next to the Dome of Rock in the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 10, 2024. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

IDF announces terms for West Bank Palestinians’ entry to Temple Mount during Ramadan

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

Military liaison COGAT says visitors will allowed in for Friday prayers with a permit, limited to children under 10, men over 55, and women over 50

Illustrative. Palestinian children receive cooked food rations as part of a volunteer youth initiative in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 5, 2024. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

IDF said to transport Gazan orphans to West Bank via Israel without cabinet’s OK

Illustrative: IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank in a photo cleared for publication on March 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Soldiers kill would-be suicide bomber ‘en route’ to carry out attack in Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Commandos shoot Palestinian man in Zeita, close to West Bank security barrier; top security official quoted as saying ‘large terror attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted tonight’

Chairman of the West Bank sub-committee of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee MK Tzvi Succot gestures to Labor MK Gilad Kariv to leave a hearing on alleged unlawful activity of civil rights and pro-Palestinian activists in the West Bank, March 12, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Tempers flare in controversial Knesset hearing on West Bank civil rights activists

By Jeremy Sharon

A view of the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank, on July 1, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Construction begins on large new settlement neighborhood west of Ariel

By Jeremy Sharon

As first ship sails, Israel to inspect all aid from Cyprus; aid groups will distribute

By Lazar Berman

Official says increasing humanitarian aid to Gazans is crucial for international legitimacy during war; IDF to ensure no attacks or looting at new jetty built to accept goods

A ship, left, belonging to the Open Arms aid group departs from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Gaza with some 200 tons of rice and flour, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

A ship belonging to the Open Arms aid group with aid on a platform ferrying some 200 tons of rice and flour to Gaza, departs from the port from southern city of Larnaca, Cyprus, March 12, 2024 (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

First ship carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza sets sail from Cyprus port

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A youth sits by a damaged vehicle outside a destroyed building in the aftermath of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the city of Baalbek in east central Lebanon on March 12, 2024 (Photo by AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah sites deep in Lebanon; 100 rockets fired at north

By Emanuel Fabian

Houthi supporters attend a rally against the US airstrikes on Yemen and the Israeli offensive against Hamas in Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis target US ship in Red Sea as they threaten to ramp up attacks during Ramadan

Illustrative - Police stand by during a rally under the motto "Defend Democracy" against right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism as rain falls in front of the parliament in Vienna, Austria on January 26, 2024.(Photo by Joe Klamar / AFP)

Terror suspects arrested in Europe had images of Jewish, Israeli targets — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, center, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaks in front of civic and faith leaders outside City Hall, May 20, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

US government delegation cuts short Saudi trip after rabbi is asked to remove kippah

By AFP

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who chairs the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, says ‘no one should be denied access to a heritage site… simply for existing as a Jew’

Girls from bereaved families celebrate their bat mitzvahs in a group event in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Rebecca Kowalsky)

Dozens of bereaved girls gather for group bat mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem

By Ariella Oldfield

New York-based family of Ruth Werthenschlag, 12, sponsors joint event for those who have lost immediate family members to terrorism, accidents, and illnesses

Pre-WWII, there were 140,000 Dutch Jews; today, 30,000

Netherlands’ first Holocaust museum finally opens, with a side of anti-Israel protests

By Matt Lebovic and JTA

Israeli president and Dutch king attend dedication of long-awaited institution that presents history in victims’ own words, opened 80 years after murder of 75% of Dutch Jews

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

'Markets tend to look forward'

Market optimism: Despite war uncertainty, Israeli stocks and shekel attract investors

By Sharon Wrobel

Even as Gaza conflict continues into its 6th month, investors flock to buy local assets seen as cheap relative to those in global markets amid hopes for postwar recovery

Then Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a prayer for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Rachel's Tomb on October 25, 2023 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90 )

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 12: Day 158 – Tel Aviv markets optimistic; rabbinical threat over Haredi draft

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Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a Shas party election rally at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem on February 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Watchdog group calls for removal of chief rabbi for politicizing judicial role

Moroccan-born liturgical singer Gabriel Ohayon is in Israel to perform with the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod in March 2024 (Courtesy)

Israel a ‘place of strength’: Visiting liturgical singer mulls relocating from France

By Jessica Steinberg

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich: IDF chief ‘taking advantage’ of wartime backing to promote officers

Police officers stand guard at the Synagoge Agudas Achim in Zurich, on March 3, 2024, after an Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed, late on March 2, 2024. (Arnd Wiegmann/AFP)

Antisemitism in Switzerland nearly tripled by Hamas-Israel conflict, study shows

By Reuters and ToI Staff

This picture taken in November, 1984, in Damascus shows Rifaat Assad, the banished younger brother of former Syrian president Hafez Assad. (Philippe Bouchon/AFP)

Switzerland to try Assad’s uncle for alleged war crimes in Syria in 1982

Image from video provide by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on March 18, 2023, shows warships during a Russia, China and Iran joint naval exercise in the Arabian Sea. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Iran, Russia and China to hold joint naval drill in northern Indian Ocean

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