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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 16, 2024

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Demonstrators call for the release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 16, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 16: Protesters blocking Tel Aviv highway dispersed by mounted police, water cannons

PM: Ministers to discuss hostage-truce team’s mandate tomorrow; delegation likely to head to Qatar on Monday * Israeli official says US slowing arms shipments; US denies it

9:34 pm

After Gantz refused to attend meeting on Haredi draft, issue won't be discussed at tomorrow's cabinet meeting - report
9:14 pm

Netanyahu planning to appoint project coordinator to oversee handling of Gaza aid - report
9:00 pm

Houthis claim US, British strikes targeted Yemen's Al-Durayhimi District

Biden hails ‘good speech’ by Schumer criticizing Netanyahu, says many Americans agree

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president backs up Senate majority leader who called the prime minister an obstacle to peace and said he’d ‘lost his way’

US President Joe Biden, center, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, talk to reporters before a lunch with Senate Democrats on his budget and political agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, March 2, 2023. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

AnalysisSchumer’s speech wins some plaudits, but not all Netanyahu critics are on board

US President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a briefing at the White House, March 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Pence says he won’t endorse former boss Trump for US presidency

PM says he okayed plans for Rafah op, Hamas demands still ‘absurd’ but talks to go on

Netanyahu says delegation will travel to Qatar for ongoing negotiations after cabinet discusses latest proposals by terror group for hostage release

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a meeting of the security cabinet in Tel Aviv on March 15, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Activists protest calling for the government to find a solution to have the hostages released, outside IDF Headqurtaers in Tel Aviv, March 10, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)March 15: White House says Hamas response ‘within bounds’ of hostage deal framework

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

World Central Kitchen aid reaches the pier in Gaza to be offloaded on March 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

NGO says 1st aid ship to Gaza is unloaded, supplies being readied for distribution

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

World Central Kitchen says teams loading 240 tons of food onto 2nd boat in Cyprus, in addition to forklift and crane to help with unloading; unclear when vessel will set sail

World Central Kitchen boat off the coast of Gaza on March 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

First ship to use new sea route arrives in Gaza with 200 tons of humanitarian aid

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

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, in Tel Aviv , Israel, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hostage families rallying Saturday for global support; protesters urging elections

French envoy, relatives of those held in Gaza to address weekly gathering in Tel Aviv, after cabinet meeting on potential deal reportedly curtailed due to approaching Sabbath

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, Oct. 14, 2023. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran reportedly pushed US to broker Gaza ceasefire during secret talks in Oman

NYT reports that US in turn asked for Tehran to halt attacks by its proxies in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, which Iranian officials claim they can’t do unless fighting ends in Gaza

Illustrative: An Iranian domestically built missile is displayed in front of the portrait of the Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a rally of Iran's Basij paramilitary force in support of the Palestinians in Tehran, Iran, November 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran using European ports to hide weapons shipments to Hezbollah — report

In this picture from the official website of the Iranian Army on January 19, 2024, a missile is launched during a military drill in southern Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran Air could be banned from Europe if Tehran sells missiles to Moscow, US warns

By AAMER MADHANI

‘Zone of Interest’ producer criticizes Glazer’s Oscars speech: Lacked ‘proper context’

By Andrew Lapin

Blaming Hamas for civilian deaths, Danny Cohen says he ‘fundamentally disagrees’ with director’s remarks against Israel and that they’re a ‘distraction’ from the award-winning film

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)

A view of The Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, New York City, June 18, 2022. (Brian Logan Photography / Shutterstock.com)

NY art museum surprised to find hidden ‘Free Palestine’ message on artwork

By Michael Horovitz

Sharon Rosen Leib

After Oct. 7, would they still have moved to Israel?

US Jews owe our support to those idealists who came with dreams of raising families and building a better democratic nation

A knife to Canadian Jews

The blocking of kosher slaughter is one of the most severe blows ever dealt to the community – and it’s unquestionably antisemitic

Left: The commander of the 98th Division, Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, speaks to the press from the Gaza border, March 13, 2024; Right: IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks to the press from southern Israel, December 5, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

IDF chief ‘severely reprimands’ division commander for critique of politicians

By Emanuel Fabian

Halevi says Brig. Gen. Goldfus’s remarks in press conference ‘harmed IDF’s dignity, boundaries between political and military echelons’; Goldfus apologizes

Illustrative photo of Eshel Prison, undated. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Bedouin Israeli said to have joined Hamas in Gaza dies after found unconscious in cell

By Emanuel Fabian

Prison Service says Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima was discovered March 12 and taken to hospital; he had been detained when trying to return to Israel after sneaking into enclave in 2016

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.

Reports: Ministers told signs point to successful hit on Hamas number 3 Marwan Issa

Security cabinet informed evidence piling up that top commander is dead after Gaza strike, though terror group has yet to comment

Supporters of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis march in the capital Sana'a on March 15, 2024, in support of Palestinians, during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Huwais/ AFP)

Palestinian terror leaders, Houthi officials met to coordinate against Israel – report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An early 2024 pro-Israel rally in Melbourne, Australia. (Courtesy of Lillian Kline)

'I have never seen our community so fearful and so shaken'

Post-Oct. 7 antisemitism upends an Australian Jewish community with Holocaust history

By Nomi Kaltmann

Accused of being nefarious lobbyists, Aussie Jews are shaken by increasingly bold displays of hatred amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war

Australia to resume funding for UNRWA, pledges further aid for Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, right, with IDF Chief Herzi Halevi at a meeting with top army brass on March 11, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni / Defense Ministry)

Gallant says having PA-linked locals rule Gaza is least bad alternative to Hamas

Remarks to security cabinet anger fellow Likud members; defense minister reportedly responds by saying ‘the ones paying the price for the lack of decision-making are IDF soldiers’

People wave Palestinian, Hamas and Fatah flags during a march in support of the people in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank city of Nablus on October 26, 2023 (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Fatah slams Hamas for ‘returning Israeli occupation to Gaza’ with its Oct. 7 ‘adventure’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Hamas slams Mahmoud Abbas’s ‘unilateral’ designation of new PM

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A brown rat (Heiko Kiera/Shutterstock.com)

Rail construction in Tel Aviv may be behind a surge in rat-related disease cases

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Patients diagnosed with flea-borne typhus and leptospirosis at area hospitals have reported seeing the rodents in their neighborhoods, and even in their homes

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a prayer for the release of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, at Rachel's Tomb, near the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Chief rabbi claims his threat of Haredi exodus in case of army draft was ‘distorted’

Yitzhak Yosef does not walk back comments, but says he never meant to offend bereaved families

Prof. Ran Barkai holding a prehistoric stone tool, in his office at Tel Aviv University, on February 28, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

Interview'People have lived in Israel for at least 1.5 million years'

Intricacies and wonder of prehistoric Israel accessible through an engaging new book

By Gavriel Fiske

‘They Were Here Before Us,’ released this week, distills decades of academic work to reveal the fascinating world of early humanity

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