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What Matters Most On Friday, March 22, 2024

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A Jewish man wears a costume during the holiday of Purim as he passes a mural calling for the return of the hostages kidnapped during the October 7 Hamas cross-border onslaught, March 22, 2024, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Live updates (closed)

March 22: As Israeli team heads to Doha, official says ‘no real progress’ in hostage talks

Blinken: Rafah offensive risks ‘further isolating Israel, jeopardizing its security’ * PM says he told US envoy that IDF will go into southern Gaza city with or without US support

9:46 pm

FM Katz: 'Saddened by tonight's tragic events in Moscow'
9:33 pm

Islamic State claims responsibility for Moscow concert hall attack in which at least 40 were killed
9:19 pm

IDF says 2 suspects, one armed with assault rifle, detained near West Bank settlement Fatsa'el

21% of US Muslims say October 7 assault was acceptable

Poll: Most Americans say Israel’s war is valid, but only 38% approve of conduct

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Pew survey shows 34% in US disapprove of IDF handling of war; 73% say Hamas’s October 7 attack was unacceptable; among Jews, 89% back Israel’s resort to war, 62% support handling

Troops of the Bislamach Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, in a handout image published March 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

File - Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Dermer: Israel will enter Rafah ‘even if entire world turns on us, including the US’

By DAN WILLIAMS

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl speaks during a Hanukkah reception with US President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 11, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Top US rabbi says Gaza’s plight, distrust of PM make Israel-support harder for US Jews

By Canaan Lidor

Heartfelt comments by Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl of Central Synagogue NYC at a Jewish peoplehood conference trigger criticism amid concerns for inter-communal and bilateral ties

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

‘So dangerous’: US Jews push back against Trump’s latest rhetoric on disloyalty

By AP and ToI Staff

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron arrives to attend the annual Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration at Westminster Abbey in London, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK’s Cameron: Israel obstructing flow of aid into Gaza, closing crossing on Shabbat

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Mossad chief heads to Doha as US said to pressure mediators to speed up hostage talks

By AP, Reuters and ToI Staff

Blinken meets Arab FMs in Cairo, set to attend Israeli war cabinet session; says ‘gaps are narrowing’ on truce deal

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, walks to meet with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, in Cairo, Egypt, March 21, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

During Cairo visit, Blinken says ‘progress’ made on Israel-Saudi normalization

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Netanyahu is unpopular at home. But not for the reasons US lawmakers are turning on him

Most Israelis support their PM’s overarching goals in Gaza over Biden’s, but they don’t necessarily agree with the way he is pursuing victory, and some want early elections

File - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (left), a New York Democrat, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Feb. 23, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/Israel Government Press Office)

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (right) and House Speaker Mike Johnson listen to remarks during a Hanukkah gathering at the Capitol in Washington, December 12, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer suggests he’s on board with proposal for Netanyahu to address Congress

Sara Netanyahu attends a prayer for the return of the hostages held in Gaza, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, March 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu denies complaining that freed hostages ‘didn’t even thank us’

US Jewry can look to Esther as a role model

America is not Haman’s Shushan, with its decree against the Jewish people, but that doesn’t mean there’s no assault on Jews and Judaism

Purim offers 4 ways to heal the wounds of war – when the time is right

The best antidote to hate is gifts of affection, even when the tangerines are old and the licorice stale

IDF troops at the scene of a shooting attack near the settlement of Dolev, March 22, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

7 Israelis hurt in hours-long clashes with terrorist in West Bank; airstrike kills him

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian sniper opened fire at minibus near settlement of Dolev in the early morning hours; amid manhunt, he engaged in gunbattle with troops before being killed

Muslim worshippers pray beneath the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Compound atop the Temple Mount on the second Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

120,000 Muslims worship at Al-Aqsa as 2nd Friday Ramadan prayers pass peacefully

Police deploy thousands of officers in Jerusalem’s Old City and around Temple Mount, say no ‘unusual disturbances,’ despite seeing attempts to incite violence on social media

This photo collage released by the IDF on March 21, 2024 shows what it says is some of 358 confirmed terror operatives captured by troops at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital. The IDF later admitted that due to 'human error' some of those in the picture had not yet been nabbed. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says 140 gunmen killed in the op to date

IDF: ‘Very significant’ Hamas commanders among 650 nabbed at Gaza’s Shifa hospital

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Top PIJ operatives also captured in ongoing raid at Strip’s largest medical complex; military releases drone footage of Hamas gunman waiting to ambush troops in Khan Younis

Left: 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. Right: An IDF strike early March 10, 2024, on a tunnel where Issa was believed to be hiding. (Social media; Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Assassination of top Hamas commander likely aided by US eavesdropping

Illustrative: The second vessel, left, with food aid from aid group World Central Kitchen prepares to depart for Gaza, at Larnaca port, Cyprus, March 16, 2024. (AP/Petros Karadjias)

Washington aims to complete Gaza pier to enable maritime aid by May 1, says official

By Reuters and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Is Netanyahu an obstacle to victory?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

ToI’s senior analyst on how the world worries Netanyahu won’t bring peace; Israelis worry he won’t win the war

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a gathering of Jewish leaders at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, February 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Lizzy Savetsky wears a Star of David top ahead of the United Jewish Appeal Generosity Gala in New York City, March 14, 2024. (Courtesy)

Interview'My war is on social media'

Modern-day ‘Queen Esther’ Lizzy Savetsky gets real about her Israel activism

By Jordana Horn

The social media star, former beauty queen, New York socialite and proud Zionist talks about her nonstop work and how she’s learned to drop the haters and empower fellow Jews

Jews attend a prayer for the return of the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Praying for hostages and soldiers, mass recitation of Shema held at Western Wall

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Thousands worldwide join live Fast of Esther broadcast, together with hundreds at the Wall, to pray for hostages’ return; relatives, Gaza-envelope residents, Sara Netanyahu attend

Jews attend a prayer for the return of the Israeli hostages at the Western Wall on March 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 22: Day 168 – Kotel prayer for hostages; US rabbi reports support is hard

Stand-up comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding (Maximilian Koenig)

Interview'If the Jews go down, the gays follow'

Comedian-turned-unlikely advocate for Israel is heading back to the Jewish state

Daniel-Ryan Spaulding, a non-Jewish gay stand-up comic, will be performing shows in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem following months of using his platform to speak out against antisemitism

View of the Jordan Valley from a military post near the West Bank settlement of Hemdat. The Jordanian villages of al-Balawinah and Kuraymah are seen in the distance, November 28. 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Israel appropriates 1,976 acres of land in Jordan Valley, declaring it state land

By ToI Staff and AFP

Announcement follows West Bank settlement expansion earlier in March; new status will allow for hundreds of housing units to be constructed in addition to commerce zones

Radical settler activist Neriya Ben Pazi pictured with his family at his illegal farming outpost HaMahoch in the West Bank. Another of Ben Pazi's farms, the Rimonim Farm, has received state funds through the Agriculture Ministry (Courtesy: Honenu legal aid organization)

High Court petitioned to order demolition of outpost founded by US-sanctioned settler

By Jeremy Sharon

Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Business leader says Israel needs Palestinian workers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Interview

National Unity’s Kahana: We’re not using Haredi draft to try and bring down coalition

But lawmaker insists the ultra-Orthodox must do national service, and doubles down on criticism of ‘worst government’ in Israeli history

MK Matan Kahana poses for a picture in Moshav Beit Gamliel, on July 9, 2023.(Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

InterviewLikud’s Danon dismisses Sa’ar as serious rival to Netanyahu, calls to push into Rafah

MK Yair Golan speaks during a conference hosted by Democrat TV in Jaffa, June 7, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Condemning ‘messianic’ politics, Yair Golan pledges to ‘unify all leftist parties’

Nurit Hertz will host foraging tours and plant-based meals in her Matat home during the Israeli Culinary Festival, March 27-April 12, 2024 (Courtesy Eden Saada)

At culinary festival, chefs focus on home cooking under shadow of war

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli Cuisine Festival, rescheduled to end of March from November, brings diners to favorite restaurants, markets and kitchens for home-cooked meals

A picture taken during a media tour organized by the Alma Research and Education Centre shows a dog walking past a destroyed car in the deserted northern Israeli town of Metula, near the border with Lebanon, on March 19, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

‘No other choice’: Northern border towns predict war with Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

Residents fear cross-border assault by terror group; security official in one town says ‘everything changed’ after October 7, ‘because we understood invasion is really a threat’

Smoke billowing in the northern border town of Metula as it was targeted by projectiles fired from terror groups in Lebanon, as seen from the southern Lebanon town of Marjayoun, March 21, 2024. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

IDF jets strike Hezbollah cell in south Lebanon after projectiles hit northern town

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Members of the Yemeni Coast Guard affiliated with the Houthi group patrol the sea with Palestinian flags as demonstrators march through the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, in solidarity with the people of Gaza on January 4, 2024. (AFP)

Houthis agree to ensure safe passage for Chinese, Russian ships in Red Sea — report

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Israeli conductor Bar Avni poses during a photo session at the Philharmonie in Paris on March 18, 2024. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)

Israeli conductor Bar Avni wins women’s international competition in Paris

By Andrew M. Rosemarine

ObituaryMartin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to US presidents, dies at 95

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint press conference with Ukrainian President at the Dolmabahce Presidental office in Istanbul on March 8, 2024. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

‘Be quiet:’ Israel summons Turkish envoy after Erdogan threatens Netanyahu

Israel players react at the end of the Euro 2024 qualifying play-off soccer match between Israel and Iceland, at Szusza Ferenc Stadium in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Israel crashes out of Euro 2024 soccer qualification with 1-4 loss to Iceland

By AFP

A view of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, March 17, 2020. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images via JTA)

US Jewish history museum may join Smithsonian, 4 years after bankruptcy

Ultra-Orthodox Jews during a protest in Rosh Pina, following the arrest of an Haredi man who failed to comply with the army draft, September 13, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Extremist Haredi rabbi: Army service leads to secularization, is ‘worse than death’

The newly renovated Bahai Shrine of the Bab is seen in Haifa, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

In Iran, Baha’i minority faces persecution even after death

By Stuart Williams

Paramilitary troops stand guard with riot gear to ensure security following attacks by a Muslim mob angry over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the Quran near Faisalabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistani court sentences woman to life in prison for burning pages from Quran

By AP

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