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What Matters Most On Friday, March 15, 2024

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US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks on the Senate floor on March 14, 2024. (Video screen capture)

Likud: Israel is a proud democracy, not a banana republic

Senate leader Schumer urges Israeli election, says Netanyahu ‘has lost his way’

Israeli, Republican officials blast majority leader as he charges PM placing political survival above good of country, constitutes an obstacle to peace, turning Israel into a pariah

File - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) departs from the Senate Chambers in the US Capitol Building on March 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

AnalysisFull text of Senator Chuck Schumer’s speech: ‘Israeli elections are the only way’

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 targets three settlers, two illegal outposts in second round of sanctions

By Jacob Magid, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Muslim devotees offer first Friday noon prayers of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan against the backdrop of the Dome of the Rock at the compound of the Al-Aqsa mosque atop the TEmple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 15, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Tens of thousands peacefully attend 1st Friday prayers of Ramadan at Temple Mount

Police report no unusual incidents after Hamas urged worshipers to ‘defend Al-Aqsa’; Islamic Waqf estimates 80,000 people took part

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) with Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Mustafa in Ramallah on March 14, 2024. (Wafa)

Abbas appoints former World Bank economist, longtime ally as next PA prime minister

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Palestinians carry away the body of a man from the morgue of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, March 15, 2024. (AFP)

IDF probe: Palestinian gunmen killed Gazans waiting for aid, army did not fire

By Emanuel Fabian

Military denies claims by Hamas health authorities that Israeli tanks and helicopters killed 21, wounded 150 others at Gaza City square

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with members of Israel's Nitzan 636 Battalion on March 14, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu maintains IDF will enter Rafah despite international pressure

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)

Aid from Cyprus to enter Gaza via new pier; EU warns of pockets of famine

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

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March 15: White House says Hamas response ‘within bounds’ of hostage deal framework

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Terror group demanding over 1,000 security prisoners in exchange for first 40 hostages * First Friday prayers of Ramadan end peacefully as 80K Muslims worship on Temple Mount

9:26 pm

Ambrey says vessel was reportedly targeted northwest of Yemen's Hodeidah
9:17 pm

Guterres meets with families of American hostages in Gaza, calls for their unconditional release
9:14 pm

Hebrew media calls into question Netanyahu's declaration that he approved IDF plan for Rafah

Hostages' families urge cabinet to seize moment

Hamas offers exchange of women, children, elderly hostages for up to 1,000 prisoners

By Reuters, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Proposal, which Netanyahu rejects as ‘ridiculous,’ would include release of female soldiers in first stage, leading up to permanent deal to end war, see IDF withdraw from Gaza

People walk by photographs of Israelis still held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv. March 14, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

People visit a tunnel installation at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on March 14, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hamas said to move toward Israel on truce deal, but PM claims demands still ‘ridiculous’

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Interview

With Iraq on his mind, US ‘savior-general’ points at a way to victory in Gaza

Hamas must be destroyed, argues ex-general and CIA director David Petraeus in Tel Aviv, and then Israel must pivot to a counterinsurgency

Retired US General David H. Petraeus speaks at the INSS conference in Tel Aviv, March 7, 2024 (Ronen Topelberg/INSS)

Destruction caused by Hamas terrorists on October 7 seen in Kibbutz Beeri on December 19, 2023. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

'Growth is impossible unless done right'

Over half of southern evacuees back home as officials prep massive rehabilitation push

By Canaan Lidor and Ariella Oldfield

About 32,000 out of 60,000 officially evacuated residents have returned to towns near Gaza, says an official working on an NIS 18 billion regional investment plan

Daniel G. Saunders

How many civilian deaths are acceptable?

To those clamoring for an immediate ceasefire: How do we stop future use of human shields, since they’ve proven so effective?

Rachel Eichler Maron

Who’s in the mood for Purim this year?

War, rape, hostages, and the rowdiest day on the Jewish calendar? I just couldn’t face all that ’happy vibe’ – until I reread Megillat Esther

Thousands in Tel Aviv rally to end military draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox

Separate march held to call for deal to free hostages in Gaza, as pressures surrounding war against Hamas pile up for Netanyahu government

Israelis protest in Tel Aviv for an end to Haredi draft exemptions, March 14, 2024. The placard at center urges an 'equality of burden' in military service. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gantz boycotts meeting on Haredi draft with PM after cabinet ignores his proposal

Sergeant Aner Shapira, who was killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 at the Supernova, was a musician and rapper, and his family has produced an album of his songs. (Courtesy)

Raps composed by Aner Shapira, killed on October 7, produced as posthumous LP

By Jessica Steinberg

Family and friends commemorate the IDF sergeant’s heroism and his music with video that includes Hadag Nachash rapper Shaanan Streett

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas starves Gazans as a war tactic

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

As humanitarian aid efforts are ramped up via land, air and sea, the IDF must decide how many of its soldiers to divert to protecting the convoys – while becoming targets themselves

Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Hamas terror group, greets supporters as he arrives at a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Israeli security forces stand guard in front of a cordoned off area at the site of a stabbing attack at a gas station at Beit Kama Junction in southern Israel, March 14, 2024. Inset: Chief Warrant Officer Uri Moyal, who was killed in the attack. (Menahem Kahana / AFP; Courtesy)

Career soldier, 51, killed in stabbing in south; terrorist shot dead by victim

By Emanuel Fabian

Stabber identified as Israeli citizen originally from Gaza; footage shows Chief Warrant Officer Uri Moyal getting up after being attacked, opening fire

From Oded Ronen's dance work titled 'The Missings,' being performed in Ulm, Germany, March and April 2024 (Courtesy)

Dances with wolves: A Tel Aviv choreographer forces audiences to face Oct. 7’s horrors

By Jessica Steinberg

Oden Ronen’s ‘The Missings’ looks at the Supernova rave massacre, while a piece by Hillel Kogan dances around the topic altogether to focus on those behind the Batsheva troupe

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)

‘Look me in the eye’: IDF general who rapped politicians had urged PM to unify country

By Michael Horovitz

In recordings aired Thursday, Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus recounts to troops meeting with Netanyahu after October 7, telling him soldiers must return to a ‘different’ Israel after war

Members of the Brothers in Arms movement protest outside the house of Housing Minister Yitzchak Goldknopf in Jerusalem on February 26, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing March 15: Day 161 – Brothers in Arms eyes politics; olive oil shortage

Belize-flagged cargo ship Rubymar, damaged in a February 19 missile strike claimed by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, floats in the Red Sea. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

Suspected attack by Houthis strikes a ship in Red Sea, crew reportedly safe

By Jon Gambrell

Security firm says tanker with armed guards aboard had a ‘near miss’ Thursday off the coast of Yemen; ship had been Israel-affiliated but changed owners in February

A composite photo showing the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Esmail Qaani (left), during a commemoration ceremony marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of Guards general Qassem Soleimani (on screen) in the capital Tehran on January 3, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP); and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivering a televised speech on February 16, 2024. (Al-Manar / AFP)

Nasrallah assures Iranians Hezbollah will fight alone if war with Israel breaks out

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Deputy President of Supreme Court Judge Salim Joubran in the court in Jerusalem on June 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Obituary

Salim Joubran, first Arab Israeli Supreme Court justice, dies at 76

Joubran served as deputy chief of court, was first Arab to chair election committee, sent ex-president Katsav to prison for rape, and ruled in favor of same-sex surrogacy rights

Captain Omer Wolf who was killed in Nir Oz on October 7, 2023. (Credit: IDF).

Those We Have Lost

Cpt. Omer Wolf, 22: Beloved commander secretly wrote beautiful songs

Killed fighting Hamas terrorists near Nir Oz on October 7

Amit Levy (Courtesy)

Those We Have LostAmit Levy, 22: Had plans to travel the world with her twin sister

Shahaf Krief (Courtesy)

Those We Have LostShahaf Krief, 17: Horse-loving high schooler and doting uncle

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Protesters who shut San Francisco bridge over Gaza war handed community service

By AP

The first Israeli branch of Dutch-owned international supermarket SPAR, set to open in Kfar Saba on March 19, 2024. (Courtesy)

SPAR to open debut supermarket store in Israel next week

By Sharon Wrobel

Haymanut Kasau, 9, who went missing on February 25, 2024, from a Jewish Agency absorption center in Safed, northern Israel. (Courtesy)

Jewish Agency offers NIS 100,000 reward for info leading to missing girl

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin talks with reporters outside the White House, October 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ex-US treasury secretary Mnuchin says he’s putting together investors to buy TikTok

By AP

Former AOL/Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin steps outside the Apollo Theater in Harlem, May 16, 2002, in New York, before handing off the reins of leadership to Richard Parsons in the company's annual meeting. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Gerald Levin, ex-Time Warner CEO who engineered disastrous mega-merger, dies at 84

By David Hamilton

SpaceX's mega-rocket Starship cuts through clouds and haze on its third test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, March 14, 2024. (Eric Gay/AP)

SpaceX nearly completes test flight of mega rocket, loses spacecraft near end

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