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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 14, 2024

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

IDF: Civilians in Rafah will be evacuated to ‘humanitarian islands’ before ground op

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army says it killed Hamas commander in strike on UNRWA warehouse in Gaza’s southernmost city, where Gallant hints troops could soon enter: ‘We will reach everyone’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Blinken: Protecting civilians must be ‘job number one’ for Israel in Gaza

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Palestinians walk at a makeshift market next to building rubble during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 12, 2024. (AFP)

US would support limited, pinpoint IDF op against high-value targets in Rafah — report

The commander of the 98th Division, Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, speaks to the press from the Gaza border, March 13, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Smotrich says Goldfus a 'brave warrior,' more like him needed

In rare critique, IDF general says politicians must ‘be worthy of us’

By Emanuel Fabian

Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus says military won’t ‘run from responsibility,’ calls leadership to ‘push away the extreme’; is called for ‘clarification conversation’ with chief of staff

The commander of the 98th Division, Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, speaks to the press from the Gaza border, March 13, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 14: Day 160 – General’s mic drop as Blinken gives IDF new ‘orders’

Brig. Gen. Amit Saar, head of the Military Intelligence research department, speaks at a Gazit conference in Tel Aviv, December 5, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90/File)

Report: Top IDF intelligence officer says he will quit over October 7 failures

By Emanuel Fabian

Activists block a road and light flares while holding photos depicting the faces of Israeli women who are being held hostage in the Gaza Strip, during a protest demanding their release from Hamas captivity, in Tel Aviv on March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)

March 14: Thousands in TA rally for hostage deal, new elections in separate protests

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Israelis criticize Schumer over call for elections * Houthi rebels threaten to expand Indian Ocean attacks * US finalizes Security Council Gaza resolution

10:22 pm

At least 11 killed while waiting for aid, Hamas claims
10:00 pm

Al Jazeera report claims dozens killed by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid in Gaza
9:32 pm

US finalizes Security Council resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire through hostage deal

Promoted Program

Everyone Counts: The #BringThemHomeNow Educational Toolkit

A growing collection of values-based resources for learning and action for all ages and settings, around the imperative of Pidyon Shvuyim-Hostage Release. The time to act is now.

Inside story

Awash in Qatari money, have US campuses become incubators for Doha’s interests?

The Gulf kingdom has lavished billions on US higher education as it seeks soft power, but some allege the money may also be fueling anti-Israel and anti-Jewish trends at schools

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel supporters gather for a rally at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (L), ruler of Qatar since 2013, in a meeting with Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (R) and Khaled Mashal in Doha, October 17, 2016 (Qatar government handout)

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Qatar emir proposed expelling Hamas officials in meet with Blinken days after Oct. 7

US diplomat told Thani that Doha should use its sway with terror group to free hostages in short term, but it wouldn’t be ‘business as usual’ for Hamas after war, officials tell ToI

Illustrative: Palestinians transport bags of flour as humanitarian aid arrives in Gaza City on March 6, 2024. (AFP)

Hamas said to execute leader of Gaza’s powerful Doghmush clan

Clan leader reportedly killed in family’s compound, allegedly for stealing humanitarian aid for resale and suspected ties to Israel

A Palestinian man checks a pool of blood at an UNRWA warehouse in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, following an Israeli airstrike on March 13, 2024. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Strike on UNRWA facility in Rafah took out Hamas commander who stole aid, says IDF

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Itay Regev visits the site where he and his sister Maya were kidnapped on October 7 at the Supernova music festival, January 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

'They told me to be quiet because otherwise they’d kill me'

Freed hostage Itay Regev: Gazan doctor pulled bullet from my leg without anesthesia

Regev, 19, in London to meet with British lawmakers and urge better international efforts to release remaining captives, tells BBC of horrific abuse at hands of terrorists

Meirav Leshem Gonen, whose daughter Romi Gonen is held hostage by Hamas, addresses a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 13, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Mother of Hamas hostage: War cabinet ‘delegitimizing’ Oct. 7 by not meeting families

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Nissan Kalderon poses with a photo of his only brother, Ofer, a hostage held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror group, in Ramat Gan, March 13, 2024 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The deepening despair of the families of those still held hostage in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

South Africa threatens citizens fighting in IDF with arrest if they return home

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Military says it is working on solutions to risks faced by soldiers when traveling overseas, amid broader concerns for Israelis visiting countries hostile to the offensive in Gaza

File: South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor delivers her closing remarks following a meeting with Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen (not seen) in Pretoria on March 5, 2024. (Phill Magakoe / AFP)

If this is what feminism has become, then I’m out

Just days after the UN confirmed sexual violence toward the hostages, protesters acted as if the report had never been published

Why Biden’s shift on Netanyahu matters

This profoundly pro-Israel president has showed ironclad support for Israel’s security twinned with genuine regard for Palestinian lives

Analysis

‘A statesmanlike right’: Why Gideon Sa’ar has decamped Gantz’s National Unity party

Disagreements over the conduct of the war and desire to position himself as a liberal-right alternative to PM once the war is over drove New Hope party leader’s decision to exit

MK Gideon Sa'ar attends a faction meeting of the National Unity Party at the Knesset, July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

MK Gideon Sa'ar arrives for a meeting of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee at the Knesset on October 9, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Polls show slow start for solo Sa’ar, dramatic impact for Bennett and Cohen parties

Even Egyptian passport holders charged $650 to $1,200

Gazans reportedly charged exorbitant sums by Egyptian company to leave Strip

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Fees levied to go through Rafah said to reach $10,000, making exit impossible for most Gazans; many resort to crowdfunding, while some relatives of Hamas members have already fled

Travelers crossing from the Gaza Strip enter the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave following their evacuation on December 18, 2023. (AFP)

Armed Yemeni civil servants step on a US flag as they take part in a parade following 12 days of military training in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on March 9, 2024, (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

US held indirect talks with Iran to rein in Houthi Red Sea attacks — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Washington also brought up nuclear concerns during negotiations in Oman in January; February round postponed due to Gaza ceasefire efforts

IDF most trusted institution, at 86.5%; faith in police rises

Survey: Israelis have little faith in political institutions after Oct. 7, do trust IDF

Only 23% of Jews and 19% of Arabs trust the government, according to the 2023 Israel Democracy Institute annual survey, but Arab Israelis exhibit increasing faith in police, army

Demonstrators burst into a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee to call for government action to free their relatives held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, January 22, 2024. At right is Gilad Korngold, whose son Tal Shoham was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri and is still held in Gaza (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Hadash-Ta’al chairman Ahmad Tibi argues with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a vote on the amended 2024 budget, March 13, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Following rancorous debate, Knesset passes amended wartime budget

Freshly harvested cannabis (iStock)

'Everything will be easier, with a lot less supervision'

Amid high demand, medical cannabis experts hail ‘game-changing’ relaxation of rules

By Gavriel Fiske

Estimates see upcoming Health Ministry policy changes combined with war-related PTSD cases driving a 70 percent growth in registered patients

Illustrative: Anti-Israeli demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a protest in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 2023. (Cole Burston / AFP)

After drawing protests in other cities, expo on Israeli real estate nixed in Brooklyn

Event canceled over ‘serious’ security concerns on last leg of tour, says organizer; gatherings in Teaneck, Montreal, Toronto drew criticism and protests but were not scrapped

Illustrative: Claudette Godfrey, David Leitch, Emily Blunt, Ryan Gosling, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham, Drew Pearce, Guymon Casady, and Kelly McCormick attend the SXSW premiere of "The Fall Guy" presented by Universal Pictures at The Paramount Theater on March 12, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Universal Pictures/AFP)

80 bands pull out of South by Southwest in protest of Austin festival’s Israel ties

By Andrew Lapin

Pro-Palestinian protesters call for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, at San Francisco International Airport, March 13, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hundreds block San Francisco airport terminal calling for permanent Gaza ceasefire

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Dutch volunteers Anja van der Stok, left, and Jannie Slim, right, pick lemons on a farm in southern Israel, as part of a post-October 7 solidarity tour, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Showing support for Israel, American Christians volunteer for war effort

By AP and ToI Staff

In the US, standing for the Jewish state has become a top priority for evangelicals during a presidential election year

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Surgeons at Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital remove tissue from a huge cyst in a 12-year-old girl, January 2024. (Courtesy of Assuta)

Surgeons in Ashdod remove remnants of twin from 12-year-old girl’s swollen abdomen

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90/File)

US to impose new sanctions on 2 West Bank outposts, 3 ‘extremist’ settlers – report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Ryanair plane at Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv. March 2, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

Ryanair suspends Israel flights again, blaming wartime closure of low-cost terminal

By Sharon Wrobel

Students at the entrance of the Sciences Po in Paris, France, on March 13, 2024. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Top French university rocked by domestic violence scandal, antisemitism allegations

By Jurgen HECKER

High school student Itai Levy demonstrates his prototype of a facial recognition device which could be added to IDF soldiers' equipment. (Image capture from a Channel 13 broadcast/used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Technological edgeHigh school engineering students create devices for war effort

By Gavriel Fiske

The train to Sderot is seen near the city of Sderot on July 15, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Rocket-damaged Sderot train station to reopen for first time since May

Then-Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott addresses anti-Brexit supporters in London, October 19, 2019. (AP Photo/ Alberto Pezzali, File)

UK Tories say top donor made racist remark about MP who said Jews don’t face racism

By Jill Lawless

Participants hold signs in support of TikTok outside the US Capitol Building, in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

US House passes bill that could lead to TikTok ban, citing security concerns over app

Issam Abdallah, a videographer for the Reuters news agency, poses for a selfie while working in Maras, Turkey, on February 11, 2023. (Issam Abdallah/ Reuters via AP)

UN: Reporter killed by IDF tank in Lebanon on Oct. 13 was ‘clearly identifiable’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Red paint is seen on a Eurovision sign in Malmo, Sweden, on March 11, 2024, after it was vandalized in a protest against Israel. (SVT screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Eurovision sign in Swedish host city of Malmo vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti

Illustrative: A Palestinian flag is waved in front of the Colosseum, during a rally in support of the Palestinians in Rome, January 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy refuses to deport Palestinian suspect to Israel, fearing ‘degrading treatment’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Education Minister Yoav Kisch attends a hearing of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee, January 30, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court gives Kisch, government a week to respond to Israel Prize allegations

By Jeremy Sharon

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