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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 21, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem, February 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu says it ‘will take some time’ until IDF launches offensive in Rafah

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

As Israel and US continue talks on southern Gaza city, with top Jerusalem officials set to hear American proposals in Washington, Blinken to hold discussions during visit Friday

A picture taken in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 7, 2023, shows an Israeli fighter jet dropping flares over Gaza. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

US official says Israel sent assurance it is using arms lawfully, days before deadline

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

ToI in Gaza

Amir Bar Shalom

On both sides of Gaza’s border, the IDF is remaking security from the (under)ground up

From a buffer zone to attack drones and more troops, the army plans to keep Israel safe by taking a zero-tolerance approach to tunnel building or any other disturbance

A soldier stands near the border between southern Israel and the Gaza Strip on January 31, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

US House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US speaker says House GOP weighing asking Netanyahu to address Congress

Johnson would need Schumer’s approval for joint session speech; PM talks to Republicans after being denied meet with Democrats by Schumer who says conversation shouldn’t be partisan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves following his address to a joint session of the US Congress on March 3, 2015 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 21: Day 167 – The Israeli PM is (again) a partisan issue in the US

File: A pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag near the White House during the "March on Washington for Gaza" in Washington, DC, on January 13, 2024. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

19 Senate Dems urge Biden to publicize framework for establishing Palestinian state

By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Analysis

Biden’s wished-for targeted operation in Rafah might not be out of the question

The IDF can’t lean on special forces to take out Hamas’s remaining battalions, but the Rafah fight won’t look anything like the conquest of Gaza City

US President Joe Biden speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released by the military on March 21, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

March 21: Israel said building large facility to check Palestinians returning to northern Gaza

Military says hundreds of terror operatives captured at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital * At least 10 West Bank Palestinians killed in strikes, clashes with Israeli forces in the past day

10:00 pm

IDF says suspected infiltration of settlement was a false alarm
9:49 pm

Israel said building large facility to check Palestinians returning to northern Gaza
9:40 pm

IDF image appears to show alleged Hamas operations chief among those captured at Shifa

Security forces at the scene where David Ben Avraham man was shot by troops near Elazar, in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, on March 21, 2024. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

IDF probing fatal shooting of Palestinian convert to Judaism in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Sameh Zaytoun reportedly had hands in air during ‘serious incident’ at Elazar junction; small knife later found in his bag

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)

Secretary discusses Gaza aid with Saudi counterpart, MBS

‘Gaps closing’ in hostage talks, Blinken says as he begins 6th wartime trip to region

By Jacob Magid and AFP

While in Jeddah before stops in Cairo and Tel Aviv, top US diplomat blames Hamas for not accepting earlier offer and coming back with new demands

A cartoon depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire, published March 20, 2024 in La Presse, a Canadian digital-only French-language newspaper.

Montreal daily apologizes following backlash over Netanyahu vampire cartoon

By AFP

La Presse depicts PM with pointed ears and claws, standing on deck of sailing ship ‘en route to Rafah’; online French-language newspaper later retracts cartoon

Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton, Ontario on March 20, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Canadian theater accused of stalling Jewish festival over inclusion of Israeli film

By Andrew Lapin

Main Street is shown Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah school district will take steps to address antisemitism after federal probe

By Andrew Lapin

Pamela Laufer-Ukeles

Megillat Esther, in the shadow of the female hostages

This year, the Purim story is an account of our beautiful women in captivity

Adam S. Ferziger

The dilemma of Israeli Purim

How can a nation rooted in ideas of self-rule and self-defense celebrate at a time of fragile uncertainty? Focus on hope, not victory

Ilana Fodiman-Silverman

Purim’s other half begins today

The Fast of Esther adds introspection and mindfulness in the range of emotion of the holiday, as we face the nation’s profound needs

Israel’s troubling but not catastrophic democracy score

The new ranking by a top global watchdog reflects the impact of the judicial overhaul — as well as the opposition to it

Roni Eshel, an IDF soldier who was stationed at a military base near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked on October 7, 2023. She was murdered in the onslaught. (Courtesy of Eyal Eshel via AP)

Oct. 7 radio transmission by slain surveillance soldier Roni Eshel aired for first time

Eyal Eshel mourns what he says was his daughter’s needless death, says there was a six-hour window in which she could have been saved had she not been failed by senior commanders

$From left to right: Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gil-ad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, three Israeli teenagers who were seized and kiled by Palestinians on June 12, 2014 (photo credit: IDF/AP)$

IDF: 90 Hamas gunmen killed, over 300 nabbed in raid at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital

By Emanuel Fabian

Operation at Strip’s largest medical center continues; senior officials in terror group’s emergency committee slain in Rafah airstrike

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)

Poll: Gazans increasingly happy with Oct. 7; 52% want Hamas to rule Strip after war

Survey also shows big jump in number of Gazans who want two-state solution and decline among respondents who think armed resistance is the way to achieve Palestinian statehood

File - A protester holds an Israeli flag and a sign while standing with others gathering outside the West Bank field office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Jerusalem on March 20, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

UN finds UNRWA has ‘mechanisms’ ensuring neutrality, but ‘critical areas’ require action

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

FILE - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign event, Nov. 14, 2023, in Columbia, South Carolina (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File).

2024 dark horse RFK Jr. questions need for Gaza truce, defends Israeli offensive

By Stephanie Kelly

Drawing chunk of support from voters on both right and left, Kennedy says any country but Israel would have ‘leveled’ Gaza, claims to be unworried young voters could disagree

Dancers perform a piece by Dalia Davis honoring the families of hostages held in Gaza, at a dress rehearsal prior to the annual Israeli Folkdance Festival of Boston at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Aryeh Blanshay)

'There wasn't a dry eye'

In Boston, dancers perform moving homage to families of hostages in Gaza

By Rich Tenorio

Israeli folk dance festival at MIT features unique piece by Dalia Davis, as black and gray-clad performers — including a state senator — honor those in Hamas captivity

Massachusetts cops open hate crime probe into vandalism of homes with pro-Israel signs

By Andrew Lapin

File - A worker sorts flour bags during the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza City on March 17, 2024. (AFP)

Israel said to eye giving Palestinian traders postwar reins as fighting at Shifa rages

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Wall Street Journal cites officials saying Israel put out feelers to Egypt, UAE, and Jordan on plan that would see businessmen take over aid operations and governance

Palestinians stand near a car that was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in the West Bank city of Jenin, March 20, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

West Bank drone strikes target Palestinian terror suspects, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

Three men behind deadly attacks targeted in first strike in Jenin; second strike hours later kills two more, kicking off hours-long raid of refugee camp near Tulkarem

File: Israeli security forces demolish the house of a Palestinian terrorist who carried out a shooting attack in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 16, 2023. (Hashlamoun/Flash90)

In first, High Court approves home demolition for terror attack when victim survived

By Jeremy Sharon

Explainer

How will new US sanctions impact the illegal West Bank farming outposts they target?

Measures will make it harder for the enterprises to do business, receive government support and take donations

Moshe Sharvit (left) who runs the Emek Tirzah Farm illegal outpost in the West Bank and was sanctioned by the US in March for violent activity against local Palestinians, is visited by Religious Zionism MK Tzvi Succot (right) and chairman of the Jordan Valley Regional Council David Elhayani (center) at the oustpost, February 15, 2024. (Courtesy Office of MK Tzvi Succot)

Education Minister Yoav Kisch attends an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting in the Knesset on January 30, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister backtracks, reinstates regular Israel Prize categories amid court petitions

Government undoes Yoav Kisch’s controversial February decision to only award Israel’s highest civilian honor this year in two new war-related categories

A photo provided by an anti-judicial overhaul activist shows thousands protesting in Tel Aviv with a sign reading 'The court is supreme,' September 9, 2023. (Gilad Furst)

In wake of judicial overhaul efforts, global index demotes Israeli democracy

Head of the Israel Bar Association (IBA) Amit Becher addresses an IBA ceremony, March 20, 2024. (Courtesy Israel Bar Association/Yossi Zamir)

Bar association head threatens legal action if no Supreme Court president appointed

By Jeremy Sharon

A member of the Jahalin tribe receives food aid from Israeli activists in early 2024, in the Judean Desert. (Courtesy of Rabbis for Human Rights)

'They have no electricity or gas, they have no safety net'

Praying for peace, optimistic Israeli activists deliver Ramadan food aid to West Bank

By Eliyahu Freedman

Volunteers with organizations such as Rabbis for Human Rights brave the ire of fellow Jews as they reach out to help Palestinians in need amid the ongoing war in Gaza

More Headlines

Illustrative: Pro-Israel activists march to The Hague on 11 January, 2024 (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

‘Burning object’ thrown at Israeli embassy in The Hague, suspect arrested

By Canaan Lidor and Agencies

Israeli tech employees and activists protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul at Ramat Hahayal, Tel Aviv, July 4, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli venture capital fundraising hit 8-year low in 2023

By Sharon Wrobel

A vote on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

More lawmakers push to cancel Knesset recess in light of Gaza war

US President Joe Biden at a campaign event at Strath Haven Middle School on March 8, 2024, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)

Prominent progressive Jewish donors urge Biden to end ‘unconditional’ Israel support

Dr. Aliza Lavie pictured with her new book, Iconic Jewish Women, during its launch in Jerusalem on March 18, 2024 (Credit: Lior Sade).

Iconic Jewish women gather to celebrate release of new, empowering bat mitzva book

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Activists chain themselves together as they block a road outside the Knesset in Jerusalem during a protest against the current Israeli government, March 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Demanding early elections, protesters chain themselves outside Knesset

By Sam Sokol and Shira Silkoff

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