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What Matters Most On Monday, March 18, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a CNN interview, March 17, 2024 (CNN screenshot)

Netanyahu says IDF will operate in Rafah 'carefully'

‘We’re not a banana republic’: Netanyahu denounces Schumer’s call for Israeli elections

By Lazar Berman

PM says ‘sister democracy’ should not face calls for leadership change, especially in wartime; asks how world forgot Oct. 7 ‘so quickly,’ slams false claims aimed at ending the war

Foreign Minister Israel Katz during a plenum session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

FM calls Schumer speech ‘unacceptable,’ tries to downplay rift with US over Rafah plans

File: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, meets with Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, March 23, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing March 18: Day 164 – Why Schumer’s speech fell on deaf Israeli ears

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip and activists protest calling for the for their release outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 17, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 18: US says Hamas added new conditions in truce talks, but deal still possible

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Biden, Netanyahu speak amid deepening rift * IDF death toll hits 250 as soldier killed in fighting near Shifa Hospital * US confirms Israel killed Hamas no. 3 Marwan Issa

9:58 pm

US says Netanyahu promised Biden to get more aid into Gaza
9:50 pm

US says Hamas return to Shifa hospital shows need for a viable alternative to control Gaza
9:34 pm

Israel yet to provide assurances it will use US military aid in accordance with international law

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell arrives for a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 18, 2024. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)

Jordan, EU foreign policy chief accuse Israel of deliberately starving Gazans

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Minister Katz rejects statements, places blame on Hamas disruption of aid efforts; UN report says famine can be averted

This handout picture shows European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (2nd-R) and Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (R) presenting signed declarations after their summit with the leaders of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy, in Cairo on March 17, 2024. (Stavros Ioannides / PIO / AFP)

Visiting Cairo, EU president says Gaza ‘facing famine,’ calls for ‘rapid’ ceasefire

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

'It is important that we arrive with significant flexibility'

Israeli delegation heads to Doha for hostage talks Monday after security cabinet okay

Negotiating team led by Mossad’s David Barnea to resume indirect talks in Qatar for temporary truce in Gaza, release of abductees taken on Oct. 7

Demonstrators call for a deal to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 17, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

As ministers meet, protesters block roads in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, urge hostage deal

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 17, 2024. (GPO)

Germany’s Scholz meets PM, calls for hostage deal with ‘longer-lasting ceasefire’

By AFP and ToI Staff

File - Weapons found at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, March 18, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF raids Gaza’s Shifa Hospital again, kills 40 gunmen including senior commander

By Emanuel Fabian

Soldier killed during operation; military says it had ‘concrete intelligence’ terror operatives regrouped in Strip’s largest medical center; 200 suspects captured

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks to the press from an army base in central Israel, March 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief says Hamas trying to hide fate of No. 3, as Gallant hints at Issa’s death

By Emanuel Fabian

This image from a video released by the IDF on March 17, 2024, shows the inside of a Hamas tunnel in northern Gaza. (Israel Defense Forces)

Army says it destroyed part of one of longest Hamas tunnel networks in north Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Trump bashes Israel’s ties with Democrats, urges ‘quick’ end to war and return to peace

Former president and current Republican candidate says Israel is ‘loyal to a fault’ for continuing to deal with Democrats after Chuck Schumer’s speech calling to replace Netanyahu

Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome Georgia. (AP Photo/ Mike Stewart, File)

Security forces are seen next to cars damaged during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, near the entrance to Kibbutz Alumim, close the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, October 9, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Cabinet approves national remembrance day for October 7 massacre, Gaza war

Cpt. Daniel Perez (IDF)

IDF: Officer Daniel Perez was killed in fighting on Oct. 7, body held by Hamas in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Families of Israelis who were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival place pictures of their loved ones outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ExplainerHow can Israel bring the arrested October 7 terrorists to justice?

By AP and ToI Staff

Daniel – a true hero

When a terrorist army fueled by hate rampaged into Israel in a killing spree, the best of our Gen Z stepped up in defense, even when it meant giving their all

On this issue, Smotrich is right

We don’t need an investigation to tell us that General Halevi failed utterly and shouldn’t be involved in deciding the IDF’s future

Entrance to a hiding complex at the Huqoq excavation site. (Emil Aladjem/ Israel Antiquities Authority)

'They were like small, underground bomb shelters'

Ancient Jewish revolt-era ‘safe rooms’ revealed in the Galilee

By Gavriel Fiske

Community excavation of Huqoq village carried out with the aid of volunteers and schools; 2,000-year-old finds at site to open to the public March 29 and April 5

Amnon Sharon painting some of his clay sculptures depicting the torture he underwent as a prisoner of war in Syria, October 1973-June 1974. (Courtesy of Israel Disabled Veterans Organization)

Interview'Life is strong. People discover they can survive'

Israeli survivor of captivity and torture in Syria exorcises his demons by sculpting clay

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Former Yom Kippur War prisoner of war Amnon Sharon shares his experiences living ‘alongside PTSD,’ criticizes public activism for release of hostages in Gaza

Ben Gvir seeks to permit Jewish visits to Temple Mount on last 10 days of Ramadan

By Jeremy Sharon

Non-Muslims usually barred from visiting highly sensitive holy site at culmination of Muslim holy month; security officials ‘discussing’ far-right minister’s request

Security forces guard Jewish visitors at the Temple Mount during Passover, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Street performers during Purim in downtown Jerusalem on March 8, 2023. (Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Jerusalem plans first Purim parade in 42 years, despite war

By Jessica Steinberg

Finance Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference at the Knesset, Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

Far-right finance minister says Halevi, senior commanders will not ‘mold the next generation of the IDF’

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, left, talks with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during a discussion and vote on the state budget at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant said to slam Smotrich for attacks on IDF chief: ‘You are harming security’

Settlement activists hold a Shabbat event at the Erez crossing on the Israeli border with northern Gaza, March 16, 2024. (Courtesy Shavei Aza and Back to Home)

Six settler activists arrested at Erez Crossing after 50 people stage Shabbat event

By Jeremy Sharon

Cabinet postpones discussion of Haredi enlistment as legal deadline looms

Unless new consensus framework can be reached by the end of the month, the government will have to enlist ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students, endangering stability of the coalition

Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road during a protest against drafting of Haredim to the IDF, on Route 4 near Bnei Brak, March 3, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

Julia Jassey speaks at a Jewish on Campus event in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Interview'We've always kept going, always found a way through'

Jewish on Campus CEO Julia Jassey: Now more than ever US Jews must stand their ground

By Cathryn J. Prince

While she sees ‘frightening’ levels and an unprecedented normalization of antisemitism, the student group co-founder believes the Golden Age of American Jewry is not dead

The front of James Fenimore Cooper Middle School, part of Fairfax County Public Schools (CC BY G. Edward Johnson, Own work).

US school district offers ‘opt out’ option for Holocaust survivor testimony

Inside Story

Kirsten Grieshaber

Germany’s Nazi past comes back to haunt it, as far-right AfD surges in polls

Many believed that with education and laws, extreme nationalism would not return, but far-right party finds strong support among disillusioned in former communist east

File: People gather to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD party, and right-wing extremism in front of the parliament building in Berlin, Germany, January 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Illustrative. In vitro fertilization (IVF) of an egg cell. (iStock by Getty Images/ man_at_mouse)

Israeli IVF clinics imported embryos with serious genetic disease, probe reveals

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Medical staff reportedly implanted embryos afflicted with hemophilia in several hopeful mothers, in latest revelation in series of Israeli IVF scandals

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FILE - A woman holds a placard with a picture of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini during a protest against her death, in Berlin, Germany, on September 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

UN fact finders deem Mahsa Amini’s death in Iranian custody ‘unlawful’

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Cecile Mantovani

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking on a visit to his campaign headquarters after a presidential election in Moscow, Russia, early Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin basks in electoral victory that was never in doubt, even amid some protest

By Emma Burrows, Dasha Litvinova and Jim Heintz

Paramedics on the scene at a suspected murder in Yafia on March 18, 2024. (MDA)

Man shot to death in Yafia, in 40th slaying in Arab community this year

A woman votes in Russia's presidential election at a polling station in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine war on March 16, 2024 (Credit: Stringer/ AFP).

Western leaders criticize Russian elections as Putin allies celebrate his sixth term

By AFP

File: A picture shows the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, during a security operation by the Kurdish Asayish security forces and the special forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces, on August 26, 2022. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Punished for the sins of their fathers, children of ISIS left to rot in Syrian camp

By Rouba El Husseini

File: Yair Golan speaks during an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv, March 2, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Labor MKs Lazimi, Kariv endorse Yair Golan for party leadership ahead of primaries

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