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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 24, 2024

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People sit together to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan in a mass "iftar" (fast-breaking) meal organised by members of the Barbara refugee camp, along a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 24, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 24: In first, Israel said open to talks on some Gaza civilians returning to north

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Protesters in Amman trying to march on Israeli embassy clash with riot police * PM vows to enter Rafah after Harris says she won’t rule out consequences if Israel moves ahead

9:46 pm

First 2 suspects in Moscow attack appear in court on terror charges - Russian media
9:22 pm

France raises terror alert warning to highest level after Moscow attack
9:16 pm

Rocket sirens sound in northern town of Netua near Lebanon border

Israel and Hamas continue indirect hostage talks in Qatar, amid reports of wide gaps

Hamas wants 30 security prisoners for every female soldier, Israel offering 5, says Al Jazeera; Sinwar’s deputy reportedly present; Barnea said set to fly home shortly

Demonstrators call for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip and against the current Israeli government outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, March 23, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

An anti-government demonstrator wearing a costume of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a prison jumpsuit protests outside the IDF's Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 23, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Thousands attend weekly anti-government, hostage protests with Purim themes

By Iddo Schejter, Canaan Lidor and Charlie Summers

Sgt. First Class Lior Raviv. (IDF)

IDF: Soldier killed amid raid at Gaza’s Shifa hospital; 480 terror operatives nabbed

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AP

Military announces death of Sgt. First Class Lior Raviv, 21, says more than half of those detained so far at medical center confirmed as members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad

Sgt. First Class Ilay David Garfinkel, killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank on March 22, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF names soldier killed in West Bank sniper attack; battalion chief seriously hurt

By Emanuel Fabian

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., holds a small Israeli flag as he heads to the chamber for a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, January 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

'How has he become more based than half the GOP?'

Democrat John Fetterman’s Israel support brings fans on the right, critics on the left

Many US progressives feel stunned and betrayed by the Democratic senator’s outspoken backing of the Jewish state since Oct. 7, while Republicans are also surprised – pleasantly

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As Rafah waiting game continues, 82nd Battalion expands long fight in Khan Younis

The Times of Israel joins engineers demolishing homes as armored forces move into new neighborhoods; unit commander forced to retract statements about Gaza settlements

Lt. Col. Ofir Caspi, commander of the 82nd Armored Brigade, looks out on Khan Younis, March 21, 2024 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

This image from a video posted to social media purports to show an Iron Dome interceptor missile downing a rocket fired by Hezbollah at northern Israel, early March 24, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at northern Israel as IDF strikes deep in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers patrol an area near the northern Kibbutz Kfar Blum close to the border with Lebanon on January 25, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Hezbollah claims it targeted Iron Dome battery near Kfar Blum with armed UAVs

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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Purim(s): The battles we wage

If you don’t like the megillah’s 9th chapter, remember that the Jews battle not to kill for the sake of it, but to defeat evil and the very possibility of Haman

Cancer is cruel; Princess Kate needs us not to be

When a mother of young kids needs to go public with her diagnosis to shut down internet speculation, the armchair observers have gone too far

Defense Minister gives a statement on March 24, 2024. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gallant: I won’t support Netanyahu’s Haredi draft bill without coalition consensus

Proposed outline of legislation reportedly does not include enlistment quota for ultra-Orthodox community or criminal sanctions for those who don’t serve

The fiancee of hostage Ilya Cohen, calling for his release at a protest in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Adar Eyal)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 24: Day 170 – All fronts active as Gallant heads to DC

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, right, and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin shake hands while delivering joint statements at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on October 13, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Gallant to leave for Washington Sunday at invitation of US defense chief

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (L) and Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry give a joint press conference following their meeting at the New Administrative Capital east of Cairo on March 24, 2024. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

UN chief blames Israeli ‘obstacles, chokepoints’ for looming famine in Gaza Strip

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In Egypt, Secretary General Antonio Guterres says only effective way to deliver humanitarian resources is by road, but ‘arteries are clogged’

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, center, visits the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, March 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

‘A moral outrage’: At Gaza border, UN chief decries blocked trucks, inadequate aid flow

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File: Jamie McGoldrick, United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, visits the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 5, 2020. (Said Khtaib/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 23: Day 169 – UN’s Gaza aid head: Situation slightly less desperate

An illustrative picture of Israelites reading from a scroll. (iStock photos)

InterviewBook of Esther 'presents peoplehood in its purest form'

How the Bible – and the Purim story – helped form a nation from an exiled people

By Rich Tenorio

In his bestseller ‘Why the Bible Began,’ theology Prof. Jacob L. Wright challenges conventional thought on the holy book’s history, positing that it was not all about religion

Rabbi Micah Greenland speaks to a Jewish Student Union club in a history classroom in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in early 2024. (Reuven Lebovitz)

'Since October 7, the mask is off'

ADL partners with NCSY to help US Jewish teens deal with post-Oct. 7 antisemitism

By Cathryn J. Prince

Advocacy group and Orthodox youth movement aim to provide tools to push back against Jew hatred and be a safe space for high schoolers across the country to celebrate their Judaism

Faculty delegation from Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth at Tel Aviv University, on March 19, 2023. (courtesy TAU)

'Research shows that the best antidote for trauma is action'

US academics from Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth latest group to make Israel pilgrimage

By Gavriel Fiske

Mindful of an informal boycott of Israeli academics since Oct. 7, faculty from three prestigious US schools come to tour massacre sites and take home the lessons learned

Illustrative: Palestinians who were evacuated from their homes take shelter at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 1, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

British medical NGO sets up field hospital near southern Gaza city of Rafah

UK-Med field hospital already treating over 200 patients a day and will soon include an emergency medical department with surgical facilities, organization says

A woman reacts as she comes to place flowers at the fence next to the Crocus City Hall, on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, March 24, 2024. (Vitaly Smolnikov/AP)

As Russia mourns deadly terror attack, some still don’t know if loved ones are alive

By AP

Cultural events canceled, flags lowered, and TV suspended; Islamic State affiliate claims assault, but Putin continues to blame Ukraine

A massive blaze is seen over the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, March 22, 2024. (Sergei Vedyashkin/Moscow News Agency via AP)

Zelensky says Putin seeking ways to divert blame for concert massacre near Moscow

Liat Cohen Raviv. (Dafna Talmon)

Liat Cohen Raviv49-year-old mother of two from Kiryat Shmona

'I miss going out on the balcony with a cup of coffee and seeing our promised land spread out at our feet, beautiful and peaceful'

By Tamar Mor Sela

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Investigators at the scene of a fatal shooting in the coastal city of Ashdod, March 24, 2024. (Israel Police)

Woman shot dead, two people wounded in suspected Ashdod gangland hit

Illustrative: This handout grab of a video taken and released on March 20, 2024, shows a Houthi UAV threatening commercial navigation (Etat-Major des Armees / AFP)

US military: Chinese-owned tanker hit by Houthi missile in Red Sea, 5 drones downed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian rock climbers take a break as they practice their hobby at a site in Wadi al-Ghul about 20 kilometers by road south of Bethlehem in the West Bank on March 16, 2024. (Sonia Logre/ AFP).

Palestinian climbers defy wartime obstacles to scale West Bank cliffs

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Parents wait for news about the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga students in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 9, 2024.(Sunday Alamba/AP)

200 kidnapped Nigerian students and staff released from captivity

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