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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 13, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers an address by video to an AIPAC conference, March 12, 2024 (GPO screenshot)

‘Very senior’ Israeli official accuses US government of seeking to oust Netanyahu

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

After AIPAC speech alleging allies oppose Israel’s right to defend itself, PM said to be ‘fuming’ at US intel report that cited public distrust in him, predicted he may lose power

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)

By 44% to 30%, Israelis prefer Trump to Biden as next US president

Illustrative: Jewish Democratic Council of America activists join the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice outside the US Capitol, May 17, 2022. (Jewish Democratic Council of America via JTA/ File)

The Jewish Democrats’ plan to get Joe Biden reelected by targeting independent voters

A UN aid convoy seen along a new military road used by the IDF that stretches from the border near the southern community of Be’eri to the coast of the Strip, March 11, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

UN and Morocco deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza via land routes through Israel

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

World Food Program convoy enters northern Strip on new military road; Moroccan food supplies arrive at Ben Gurion Airport before being given to Red Crescent at Kerem Shalom Crossing

Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 13: Day 159 – By land, air and sea, humanitarian aid rushed to Gaza

People walk past the damaged Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on February 15, 2024. (AFP)

US looks for alternatives as Congress mulls making UNRWA funding freeze permanent

By Reuters, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Op-ed: Day 159 of the war

And the Oscar for incendiary misdiagnosis of the cause of a massacre of Jews goes to…

Jonathan Glazer got it wrong * Israel and its essential ally, openly and untenably at odds * 10 thoughts on the war

Director Jonathan Glazer accepts the award for Best International Feature Film for "The Zone of Interest," onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 10, 2024. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Jonathan Glazer poses with the award for best international feature film for 'The Zone of Interest,' in the press room at the Oscars on March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech against Israel prompts fierce Jewish reactions

By Andrew Lapin

Promoted Article

Tel Aviv University’s New Academic Integration Tracks Welcome Olim

TAU partners with Israel Student Authority to launch new degree options for recent immigrants

Analysis

After avalanche of Netanyahu criticism, US looks to keep rift from widening further

Top Biden aide swats away talk of ‘red lines’ on Israel, slams reporters for not taking Hamas threat seriously, while quietly summoning Israeli envoy to press him on aid holdup

US President Joe Biden (L), Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (C) and White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in the East Room of the White House on March 12, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Israeli soldiers stand by an Egyptian truck bringing in humanitarian aid supplies into the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, February 6, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/ AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 13: Israel will try to ‘flood’ Gaza with aid from multiple entry points, says IDF

Gallant says there is ‘no safe place in Gaza for terrorists’ * Knesset passes contentious war budget in 62-55 vote * Two killed in IDF strike on Hamas operative in Lebanon

9:48 pm

Israel will try to 'flood' Gaza with aid from multiple entry points, says IDF spokesman
9:24 pm

Nasrallah says even if Israel enters Rafah, 'you have lost the war'
8:59 pm

IDF says it struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon

Tanya Hoshovsky

(Not so) proudly South African

My beloved country, we always prayed together for a better future. Why are you abandoning your Jews now?

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Spoiler alert: It’ll never be enough

As a left-wing Israeli, I won’t give up on my ideals of peace – and I also don’t accept the world’s willingness to leave Israel in the dust

David-Seth Kirshner

Room for two, please

Can’t celebrities and elected officials support more than one cause at a time? There’s room on our lapels and in our hearts for more

Stop saying Hamas is Amalek

When rabbis call for indiscriminate killing and war crimes, I cannot remain silent, for the Torah demands mercy and kindness, even when we are at war

Illustrative: People walk in front of Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, on the first day of Ramadan, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Palestinian boy, 13, shot dead by police in Jerusalem after firing fireworks at them

Teen identified as Rami Hamdan Al-Halhouli of the Shuafat refugee camp; Border Police boost presence in capital amid Ramadan tensions

Illustrative - Border Police officers stand guard as Palestinians walk by in Jerusalem's Old City on the first day of Ramadan, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Thousands of police to deploy in Jerusalem’s Old City for Ramadan prayers on Friday

By AFP and ToI Staff

File: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks at Tel Aviv University, September 28, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Attorney general scolds Ben Gvir for meddling in probe of officer who shot teen

Police and security personnel at the scene of a stabbing attack at the 'Tunnels Checkpoint', near Jerusalem, on March 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Two lightly injured in stabbing at West Bank checkpoint, assailant shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian

Attacker, identified as Palestinian teen, accused of knifing guard and IDF cop on bypass road into capital; police chief says tensions rising ahead of Friday Ramadan prayers

The Israel Defense Forces operates in the West Bank, March 13, 2024. (IDF)

Palestinians say 4 shot dead by security forces in Jenin, near Jerusalem

File: Blue and White leader Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) and New Hope leader Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar announce a merger of their parties, July 10, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Sa’ar splits from Gantz’s National Unity party, demands seat in war cabinet

‘Our voice, the voice of the statesmanlike right, is more essential today than ever,’ says New Hope leader; ‘Thank you and good luck,’ responds Blue and White chief

MK Yisrael Eichler (L) speaks to MK Moshe Gafni during a discussion on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 12, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lawmakers spar over amended 2024 budget ahead of Knesset vote

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

In this combination of photos, US President Joe Biden, left, speaks on August 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former president Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, New Jersey. (AP Photo)

Biden and Trump lock up nominations, setting the stage for grueling election rematch

By Steve Peoples

US president celebrates primary win, says predecessor’s campaign ‘threatens the very idea of America’; Trump mocks Biden’s age: ‘I’m his only opponent other than life, life itself’

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome, Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Trump admires Hitler, is infatuated with Putin, former staff claim in new book

Netanel Divker at the Royal Hotel near the Dead Sea on March 5, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'I can’t feel safe in Sderot without the answers'

At Dead Sea hotels, lasting mental, physical traumas delay homecoming for some evacuees

By Canaan Lidor

Despite challenging conditions, some displaced have rejected government incentives to return, citing lingering security concerns, while others still have no homes to go back to

Jammed hostage talks advancing as Hamas softens under Qatari pressure — diplomat

Arab official says terror group has accepted modified version of framework deal already agreed to by Israel, but sides still need to sign off

An activist in Tel Aviv calls for the government to agree to a deal releasing hostages held in Gaza, on March 12, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

File. Rescued hostage Louis Har speaks to Channel 12, March 12, 2024. (Screenshot)

Hostage rescued in daring op describes long days in Gaza, struggle of reacclimating

Ron Hassner, chair of the Israel studies program at the University of California, Berkeley, is holding a one-man sit-in in his office to press the university to better address tensions among students heightened by the Israel-Hamas war. (Courtesy Hassner via JTA)

'Their conflict management puts the onus on Jewish students'

An Israel studies professor at Berkeley is staging a sit-in for his Jewish students

By JTA and ToI Staff

Ron Hassner tells pupils he won’t leave his office until the school takes sufficient steps to protect them amid intense anti-Israel protests during the ongoing Gaza war

Feds probing NY school over antisemitic slurs slung at Jewish basketball squad

By Andrew Lapin

Firefighters douse a burning car after it was hit in a reported Israeli drone attack in Lebanon's southern area of Tyre on March 13, 2024. (AFP)

Hamas terrorist behind global attack plots killed in strike near Tyre, Israel says

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF calls Hadi Mustafa a ‘central figure’ who organized terror activity against Israelis and Jews, but Hamas source claims he was not a senior operative; Syrian passerby also killed

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam on March 12, 2024. (AFP)

IDF says some 4,500 Hezbollah targets hit, 300 operatives killed since start of war

By Emanuel Fabian

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Relying on local clans to run postwar Gaza should be off the table, experts warn

Seeking alternatives to Hamas and PA, Israel has proposed handing over civilian affairs to local families, a solution that failed in the past and is unlikely to work today

Illustrative: Masked and armed members of the so-called 'People's Protection Committees' patrol the streets of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on March 6, 2024. (AID KHATIB/ AFP)

Inside storyAbbas to appoint economist Mohammad Mustafa as next PA prime minister — officials

IDF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

NGOs plan to sue Denmark to halt its weapons exports to Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Rabbi Abraham Cooper attends the morning prayers at the Bahrain synagogue, June 25, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Riyadh says demand that US delegation chair remove kippah an ‘unfortunate incident’

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Saudi Embassy in DC says request was made of Rabbi Abraham Cooper, chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, due to ‘misunderstanding of internal protocols’

A neo-Nazi speaker is blurred out and his microphone is cut off as he speaks during a city council meeting in Evanston, Illinois, February 22, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube/ JTA/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'Is this the new normal?'

Seizing on Israel-Hamas war, US white supremacists up antisemitism after Oct. 7

By JTA and ToI Staff

According to watchdogs, increasingly open and aggressive expressions of Jew-hatred predated the Oct. 7 massacre – and then spiked further following it

Employees seen inside the TikTok Inc. building in Culver City, California, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

'Social media is driving antisemitism, TikTok is the worst'

Major US Jewish group backs bipartisan bill that could see TikTok banned

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Jewish Federations of North America says it supports the proposed law due to concerns of antisemitism proliferating on the platform

People work inside the TikTok Inc. building in Culver City, California, on March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

As Congress weighs ban, Trump says TikTok a threat, but kids will ‘go crazy’ without

By David Shepardson

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View of the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel, on February 19, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

3.8-magnitude quake jostles north; no injuries or damage reported

St. Andrew's Church on Bible Hill, Jerusalem. (Tzafit Shelef, Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel)

Jerusalem mayor reverses support for large development at Bible Hill nature spot

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during an interview with Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group in Moscow, Russia, March 12, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin tells West he is ready to use nukes, but doesn’t think they will be needed

A construction site in the luxury residential neighborhood Ir Yamim in the coastal city of Netanya, on January 14, 2024. (Shahar Yaari / Flash90)

Apartment sales jumped 14% in January amid ongoing war, new figures show

By Sharon Wrobel

Groves of olive trees in the lower Galilee, northern Israel, February 7, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Impact of olive oil shortage on Israel could have been averted, industry chief says

Emergency teams respond to a car accident on Route 60 in the West Bank, March 13, 2024. (Magen David Adom)

3 killed after car crashes through guardrail on West Bank road

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