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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, confers with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, right, during their meeting with US President Joe Biden, left, to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Pool Photo via AP)

Sullivan: Israel intrudes more in US politics than vice versa

Biden rules out support for major Rafah op, in first call with PM in over a month

After long indicating US could back offensive if IDF ensures civilians’ safety, president says he wants a more targeted approach; White House says PM agreed to send team to discuss

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2nd R) and Roveluz Reyes, director of Engineering at Amkor Technology, during a tour of Amkor Technology in Manila on March 19, 2024. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN / POOL / AFP)

Blinken set for fresh Mideast swing to push ‘lasting peace’ amid Gaza truce talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A protester waving the Palestinian flag stands outside the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, January 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Israel slams ‘repugnant’ South African ICJ request for more Gaza measures

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat-New York, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, February 13, 2024. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Live updates (closed)

March 19: Schumer mulled calling on Netanyahu to quit amid fears Israel will become a pariah state

Dermer, Hanegbi heading to US for talks on Rafah operation * Hamas accuses Israel of sabotaging hostage talks with Shifa raid * Soldier killed in Gaza, bringing ground op toll to 251

9:59 pm

US Air Force says it conducted successful hypersonic weapon test
9:25 pm

Hamas says 15 people killed in strike on building in central Gaza
9:04 pm

Schumer says he considered calling on Netanyahu to step down, worries Israel will become a pariah under his leadership

Palestinian break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan outside their destroyed home in Rafah, Gaza Strip, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

'The first time an entire population has been so classified'

Blinken says 100 percent of Gaza population facing unprecedented food insecurity

By AFP and ToI Staff

In Manila on eve of Middle East trip, US secretary of state echoes UN-backed assessment that famine looms in war-wracked enclave

UN Palestinian refugee aid agency (UNRWA) chief Philippe Lazzarini gestures as he gives a joint press conference with Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs in Madrid on March 7, 2024. (JAVIER SORIANO / AFP)

Israel rejects UN aid agency chief’s claim he was blocked from entering Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

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Qatar ‘cautiously optimistic’ as Gaza truce talks get down to brass tacks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Mossad chief Barnea heads home after high-level meeting, leaving technical team to drill down on details of potential hostage deal, Doha spokesperson says

People walk by photographs of Israelis still held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. March 14, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel pessimistic as hostage talks begin in Doha, expected to last at least 2 weeks

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

File: Mossad Director David Barnea speaks during a Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in Tel Aviv, on September 10, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli delegation heads to Doha with clear ‘red lines’ for hostage release talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘Credence to a blood libel’: Hundreds from Hollywood denounce Glazer’s Oscar speech

Signatories echo director’s own language in saying they ‘refute our Jewishness being hijacked’ by him to falsely claim ‘moral equivalence’ between Nazis and Israel

James Wilson, from left, Leonard Blavatnik, and Jonathan Glazer accept the award for 'The Zone of Interest' from the United Kingdom, for best international feature film while Dwayne Johnson and Bad Bunny look on, during the Oscars on March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Hamas members ride on top of a humanitarian aid truck in Rafah, Gaza Strip, December 19, 2023. (AP Photo)

An aid worker's story

Headed to north Gaza, aid trucks face gauntlet of armed looters and starving civilians

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Staff member of humanitarian organization who has escorted several convoys inside Gaza says despair and violence are rising, with relief often not making it to distribution points

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.

White House confirms Israel killed Hamas No. 3 in strike last week

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 19: Day 165 – How resettling Gaza is not a quixotic passing fancy

A slightly different Purim for a very different year

This holiday of ’feasting and merrymaking’ can be a chance to focus on the Esther story’s ethical and spiritual complexities

In the face of famine in Gaza, we need different thinking

Not to improve Israel’s global reputation, not to avoid the accusation of war crimes, but because it is a Jewish precept

Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP)

Trump: Jews who vote Democratic ‘hate their religion, hate everything about Israel’

Presumptive GOP nominee again lashes out at American Jews for overwhelmingly supporting Democrats, also takes shot at ‘crying’ Netanyahu’s failed 2015 bid against Iran nuke deal

A delegation of elected officials from Latin America paying a solidarity visit to the southern Israeli city of Sderot, organized by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, March 11, 2024. (CAM, courtesy)

Latin American delegation visits Israel amid surge in antisemitism at home

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Public diplomacy initiative brings local officials from Central and South America to witness aftermath of Oct. 7 first hand, in a bid to curb rise in anti-Jewish hate

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

Incoming PA prime minister lays out plan to end corruption, reconstruct Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mohammad Mustafa presents wide-ranging blueprint for revitalization, including moves to rebuild trust, unify West Bank and Gaza and hold elections at some point

Maya Elharar, evacuated with her family from Kiryat Shmona, holds her dog in her hotel room in Tiberias, northern Israel, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Evacuees from Lebanon border harbor few hopes they’ll return home anytime soon

By Melanie Lidman

As southern evacuees trickle back, some 80,000 residents still displaced from northern Israel grapple with rockets, tight living quarters and dispersed families

An Israeli Air Force fighter jet flies over the border area with south Lebanon, in northern Israel on December 20, 2023. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

2 soldiers wounded in Hezbollah rocket attack; IDF strikes terror group’s sites

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Likud MK Ofir Katz votes in a committee meeting in the Knesset, March 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After protests, coalition refreezes bill hiking number of municipal rabbis

By Canaan Lidor

Likud members join National Unity and New Hope lawmakers in opposing legislation that would have given Chief Rabbinate control of cushy appointments and removed guardrails

Shas leader Aryeh Deri, left, walks by Ze'ev Elkin, right, in the Knesset plenum on December 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Bill swelling ranks of city rabbis resurfaces, testing wartime coalition

By Canaan Lidor

Anti-Israel activists outside a Valentine's Day comedy show in midtown Manhattan, February 14, 2024. (Luke Tress/ JTA)

'It's depressing and ridiculously sad we have to do this'

To evade anti-Israel protests, US Jewish and Israeli events keep their locations secret

As pro-Palestinian activists target institutions from delis to art galleries to a cancer hospital, event organizers prioritize attendees’ safety even at the cost of attendance

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

EU agrees in principle to impose sanctions on violent West Bank settlers

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Union’s 27 members also agree to add further sanctions against Hamas — and will act against Palestinian terror group first to avoid equating sides

Judge Khaled Kabub at the Tel Aviv District Court, November 13, 2014. (Flash90/File)

Top judge’s querying of terror suspect’s detention prompts coalition calls for dismissal

By Jeremy Sharon

File - National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks ahead of a faction meeting in the Knesset, March 18, 2024. (Sam Sokol/ Times of Israel)

Ben Gvir celebrates issuing 100,000 gun licenses since October 7

Minister asserts women were raped and murdered on October 7 ‘because there were not enough weapons,’ saying his office has given out permits to tens of thousands of women

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks ahead of a faction meeting in the Knesset, March 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir wiretap law proposal said to shield politicians from police spyware

Photos sorted with AI process by From Numbers to Names to determine the identities of people in the photos. (Yad Vashem and USHMM)

'There are several million faces that have not been analyzed'

Google engineer uses AI to identify previously anonymous faces in Holocaust-era photos

By Matt Lebovic

From Numbers to Names founder Daniel Patt says his software can provide users with 10 possible matches to any random photo in a matter of seconds

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Ryan Lavarnway, center and two others who played for Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. (Courtesy via JTA)

Israeli baseball enthusiasts launch US group to help sport’s growth at home

By jacob gurvis

Sunset over the Dead Sea coast as seen from the Ein Bokek beach, January 19, 2024. (RnDmS / Shutterstock.com)

Government preps new Dead Sea minerals tender, with lake’s endangered future in focus

On their hands and knees, a group of Jewish volunteers scrub pro-Palestinian graffiti from the sidewalk outside of Effy's Café, a kosher restaurant on the Upper West Side, March 17, 2024. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)

Kosher restaurant on NYC’s Upper West Side vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Israel Beytenu party chairman MK Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, March 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Citing wartime challenges, Liberman says Knesset recess should be canceled

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Start-up aims to help renewable energy firms locate best sites — with one click

Rabbi Chaim Slavaticki stands next to the fire-damaged Las Olas Jewish Center on March 18, 2024, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (AP Photo/Terry Spencer)

Suspect charged with arson, but not hate crime, over Florida Chabad center blaze

By Andrew Lapin

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

Illustrative - The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) responding to a call. (AETB, Getty Images)

Man with ‘kill rabbi’ tattoo gets 25 years to life for burning rabbi’s NY home in 2019

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