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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 17, 2024

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US President Joe Biden, left, and Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar arrive at a St. Patrick's Day brunch with Catholic leaders in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Live updates (closed)

March 17: Biden says there is ‘urgent need’ for aid to Gaza, deal for truce and hostage release

Security cabinet okays departure of Israeli team to Doha for talks * Trump says he’d tell Netanyahu to ‘quickly’ end war * Halevi accuses Hamas of trying to hide number 3 Marwan Issa’s fate

10:29 pm

Biden: There is 'urgent need' for aid to Gaza, deal for truce and hostage release
10:03 pm

Cousin of Hamas captive Shiri Bibas says TikTok deleted video calling for family's release
9:42 pm

Smotrich draws storm of criticism after blaming IDF chief for October 7 failures

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a memorial ceremony for Israel's fallen soldiers whose final resting place is unknown, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on March 17, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gallant urges hostage deal as government stalls over sending delegation to talks

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister says Israel obligated to exhaust every possibility including ‘the current one’; war cabinet, security cabinet slated to convene Sunday to discuss negotiations

Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri in the Knesset, Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deri panned for reportedly saying hostage talks don’t have life-saving urgency

File: Head of Mossad David Barnea attends a state ceremony marking 50 years since the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on September 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Mossad chief prepares to head to Qatar as hostage-truce deal talks due to resume

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police clash with protesters in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem at weekly Saturday night rallies

By Charlie Summers and Iddo Schejter

Protesters in both cities block major roads after speeches by hostages’ families; demonstrators in capital scuffle with police for first time since Oct. 7

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks to Border Police officers in the West Bank, March 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief says Israel in ‘multi-front war,’ urges vigilance amid Ramadan tensions

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Halevi says Israeli forces fighting both near and ‘more distant’ enemies, warns events in one area can spill over; IDF: 250 Hamas operatives killed in central Gaza the past 2 weeks

Motti and I serve in the IDF together. We couldn’t be more different

We focus on what we have in common – now I just need to bottle our ability to work together for the rest of Israeli society

Oppenheimer’s ‘very late’ bar mitzvah

The usual portrait of the ’father of the atomic bomb’ as utterly alienated from his Jewish roots needs some revision

New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar at the Knesset on March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar threatens to bolt coalition unless Netanyahu puts him in war cabinet very soon

New Hope chief cites ideological differences with Gantz as reason for splitting up National Unity, says he won’t rejoin Likud and slams handling of war: ‘There’s no concrete plan’

Ofir Akunis attending a conference in Tel Aviv, January 17, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Cabinet approves Ofir Akunis as next consul-general in New York

FILE: Then-Supreme Court judge Uri Shoham at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 2, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/pool)

PM said to scrap vote on head for civil service panel amid coalition opposition

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks to the media at a press conference in Berlin, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Germany’s Scholz urges more aid for Gaza ahead of visits to Israel and Jordan

By Reuters and ToI Staff

German chancellor warns of ‘danger that a comprehensive offensive in Rafah will result in many terrible civilian casualties, which must be strictly prohibited’

A Palestinian woman sits on a cart next to a box of food rations provided by charity World Central Kitchen at a makeshift street market in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 14, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/ AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 17: Day 163 – IDF secures first sea-drop of Gazan aid. Sustainable?

A member of US Air Force collects the cable after parachutes were dropped with humanitarian aid over the Gaza Strip, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Flying over Gaza, US military officer calls aid airdrops ‘a drop in the bucket’

By AP and ToI Staff

Dr. Or Kakhlon in his Jerusalem laboratory. (Courtesy)

'I dreamed of something impossible. Now it's happening'

Israeli scientists harness molecule to treat rare disease common in Ashkenazim

By Diana Bletter

Research team isolates GHF-201 to fight APBD, a nervous system disorder mostly found in Jews of Eastern European descent, as patients eagerly await the green light for treatment

Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (Jeff Dean/AP)

Trump warns of ‘bloodbath’ if he is not elected

By AFP

Unclear what Republican nominee means with comments; Biden administration says former president doubling down on threats of political violence

Analysis

Schumer’s rebuke of Netanyahu shows fragile line US walks on interference

US leaders, as well as American allies, are more frequently butting into the internal electoral politics of friends, and testing the waters

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 12, 2024. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 16: Day 162 – Who was Senator Schumer’s ‘howler’ speech aimed at?

An Israeli fighter jet releases flares as it flies over the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Dec. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel said to complain of slowdown in US arms deliveries amid growing rift

By Michael Horovitz

General view of the foundation of the new Reichsbank building in Berlin by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, May 5, 1934, as seen from the roof of the old Reichsbank. (AP Photo)

Germany’s central bank confronts Nazi past and vows ‘never again’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Research by Deutsche Bundesbank details how predecessor the Reichsbank financed Hitler’s war efforts, including handling gold, currency taken from concentration camp victims

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov speaks to the media at the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Foreign Ministry summoned Russia envoy over Moscow’s anti-Israel rhetoric — report

Most recently, Kremlin’s deputy UN ambassador cast doubt on Oct. 7 sexual violence report at UN Security Council meeting

An Egyptian vendor sits behind a half of a poster with a portrait of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, at a market in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt strikes deal for billions in EU funding as economy struggles

By Reuters and ToI Staff

European Union seeks strategic partnership with Cairo amid rising instability across the Middle East

Micha Biton (Dafna Talmon)

Micha Biton59-year-old father of four from Netiv Ha'asara

'You feel like an uprooted plant. You try to plant yourself somewhere you don't know to feed the basic need for water and air. It's like putting a plant that needs earth into concrete'

By Tamar Mor Sela

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File: An Orthodox rabbi checks his knife in a Kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on Jan. 15, 2021 (AP/Laszlo Balogh).

Canadian Jewish agencies sue government over rules they say curb kosher meat industry

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Muslim community members gather for the Jumʿah, a special noon service on Fridays that observant Muslims are obliged to attend, March 15, 2024, at the Islamic Society of Central Jersey in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. (John Minchillo/AP)

US schools becoming more supportive of Muslim students fasting during Ramadan

By AP and ToI Staff

A Palestinian flag flaps in the air by a message reading 'Stop bombs' projected on Big Ben (the Elizabeth Tower), at the Palace of Westminster, in London on February 21, 2024. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

Report: UK group probed for urging Muslim civil servants to spread anti-Israel views

A photographer prepares to makes photos of SpaceX's mega rocket Starship as it is prepared for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (AP/Eric Gay)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX building spy satellite network for US intel agency, sources say

By Joey Roulette and Marisa Taylor

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