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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 26, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Conditioning aid to Israel not in the cards, says spokesperson

Perplexed by ‘overreaction,’ White House says PM stirring crisis in US-Israel ties

Netanyahu choosing to ‘create perception of daylight,’ Kirby says, when US hasn’t changed position linking truce to hostage deal; US official says PM motivated by domestic politics

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to the press after a meeting with Jordan's Foreign Minister at the Foreign Ministry in Amman, on March 25, 2024. (Mohammad Hannon/ AFP)

UN chief: ‘Unforgiveable’ to not apply Security Council Gaza ceasefire resolution

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Gallant: We have no moral right to stop war

Netanyahu nixes Rafah talks after US allows UNSC resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire

By Lazar Berman

Bilateral tensions appear to reach new high as US withholds veto; Jerusalem says American decision harms war effort, undermines attempts to free hostages

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations, votes to abstain as the United Nations Security Council passed a ceasefire resolution in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first demand to halt fighting at UN headquarters, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant issues a video statement from Washington DC, March 25, 2024. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Israel pushes back on UN ceasefire call; Gallant: We’ve ‘no moral right’ to end war

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

(From left) US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Algeria's Ambassador to the UN Amar Bendjama and Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun applaud during a United Nations Security Council meeting demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, at the UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Israel: Passage of motion emboldens Hamas

UN Security Council adopts call for Gaza ceasefire, hostage release as US abstains

US argues resolution is non-binding ‘so there’s no impact on Israel’s ability to continue to go after Hamas’; indicates inclusion of call to free hostages led it to forgo veto

UN vehicles drive around buildings destroyed in previous Israeli strikes Gaza City, on March 25, 2024. (AFP)

Hamas, Palestinian Authority welcome UN Security Council’s call for a ceasefire

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A man inspects the damage to a building after overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 25, 2024. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

War-weary Gazans skeptical of UN ceasefire resolution

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield votes abstain on a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, during a United Nations Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Israeli police stand guard as relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas protest during a Purim parade in Jerusalem on March 25, 2024. (Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with Mossad chief David Barnea at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Small Mossad team said to remain in Qatar to continue talks

Blaming UN vote, Israel pulls negotiators from Qatar after Hamas rejects truce deal

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister’s Office points to ‘damage’ caused by Security Council resolution, as Gaza terror group digs in on demands Israel calls ‘delusional’

This image released by the IDF on January 20, 2024, shows the inside of a cell in a Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis where hostages were held. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas tells mediators it’s ‘sticking to original position’ on demand for full ceasefire

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of former US president Donald Trump speaking to the Israel Hayom newspaper in Florida, March 2024. (Israel Hayom. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Trump warns Israel ‘losing support’ for Gaza war, with public relations ‘in ruin’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

GOP nominee believes pics of Gaza strikes fueling antisemitic backlash in US, says he would have responded to Oct. 7 as Israel did but urges to ‘finish it up,’ while mum on hostages

This combination of file photo shows, from left, former US president Donald Trump, attorney Michael Cohen and adult film actress Stormy Daniels. (AP Photo/File)

Trump to request Stormy Daniels hush money case be either dismissed or delayed

Demonstrators block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, March 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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March 26: 4 arrested at Tel Aviv protest after hostage negotiations in Qatar break down

By Joshua Davidovich, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

IDF confirms death of top Hamas commander Marwan Issa * Air force strikes Hezbollah targets after 50 rockets fired at Israel * Released hostage Amit Soussana says she was sexually assaulted by Hamas captor

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Meeting between Netanyahu, Haredi parties on conscription law ends without agreement being reached
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Hezbollah announces death of three members killed in Israeli strikes
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Speaking at ceremony honoring Holocaust survivors

Spielberg fears repeat of history: ‘We may again have to fight for right to be Jewish’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Filmmaker deplores ‘machinery of extremism’ stirring antisemitism on campus since Oct. 7; Jews can both ‘rage against heinous acts’ by terrorists and decry deaths of Gaza civilians

Steven Spielberg speaks at a ceremony at the University of Southern California, March 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (USC/Sean Dube)

Students sit in a classroom on the first day of the new school year at the United Nations-run Elementary School at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, August 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UNRWA textbooks were pivotal in radicalizing generations of Gazans — watchdog

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Education-monitoring group says UN agency allowed incitement to be taught in its schools, and argues that staff who took part in October 7 attack were not isolated ‘bad apples’

Rabbi Chaim Danzinger reads the Book of Esther at the synagogue of Rostov-on-Don on March 24, 2024. (Courtesy of Jewish Rostov)

'The murderers were inspired by Hamas'

Russian rabbi: Moscow terror attack ‘an unquestionable imitation of Oct. 7 in Israel’

By Canaan Lidor

Grief over massacre of more than 130 revelers compounds Russian Jewish community’s sorrow over Hamas attack and leads to canceled or muted Purim holiday events

Kremlin calls Zelensky ‘peculiar kind of Jew’ as Russia blames Ukraine for IS attack

By AFP

Russia points finger at Ukraine over Moscow concert hall attack

By AFP

Putin concedes Moscow attack carried out by ‘radical Islamists,’ links them to Kyiv

By Dasha Litvinova

Furor as lawmakers approve Knesset recess despite war, Haredi enlistment controversy

After House Committee votes for six-week break, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Liberman blasts ‘disconnected elected officials who do not deserve to lead the people of Israel’

Members of the Knesset House Committee vote to approve the legislature's 2024 spring recess, March, 26, 2024. (Dani Shem Tov/Knesset)

US says Israel using weapons in line with international law, not blocking Gaza aid

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

State Department says Israel’s use of American weapons meets requirements of new national security memorandum, complies with humanitarian law

IDF troops operate inside the Gaza Strip in this undated handout photo published on March 22, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

File - UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses the UN, October 2022. (Screenshot/ YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Contentious UN rapporteur accuses Israel of several acts of ‘genocide’ in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hydro CEO Svein Richard Brandtzaeg, chair of the ethics council of Norway's $1.6 trillion wealth fund, talks to the media during the opening of a new automotive line of Norwegian aluminium producer Hydro in Grevenbroich, Germany, May 4, 2017 (Credit: (AP Photo/Martin Meissner).

Norway ethics watchdog to probe wealth fund beneficiaries over Israel-Hamas war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder are shown in New York City in June 1982. (AP Photo)

'He wasn't a comedian, but a comedy actor. He played it real'

‘Remembering Gene Wilder’ documentary salutes a Jewish comedy legend

By Stephen Silver

Recently opened in NY and LA with a further rollout in the coming weeks, the film examines the comedic actor’s relationship with Mel Brooks – and what set their two styles apart

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

Cabinet discussion on Haredi draft postponed amid marathon coalition talks

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Under pressure to finalize legislative update before ultra-Orthodox exemption law expires, Netanyahu meets with faction heads on revised draft

MK Gideon Sa'ar attends a faction meeting of the National Unity Party at the Knesset, July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gideon Sa’ar quits coalition after Netanyahu fails to appoint him to war cabinet

Illustrative: A screenshot of a video clip in which a member of the UK Border Force allegedly harasses two Israeli brothers at Manchester Airport, March 24, 2024. (X video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK probing alleged harassment of Oct. 7 survivors by Manchester airport authorities

Jewish council says 2 Israelis invited to share their experiences at Nova rave massacre were detained for 2 hours, told ‘you’re not going to do what you’re doing in Gaza over here’

A Purim rally demanding the release of Hamas hostages in Central Park, March 24, 2024. (Luke Tress / JTA)

At NY hostage rally, demonstrators wear batman masks to honor 4-year-old captive

500 attend march at Central Park to coincide with Purim festival; in Hasidic neighborhoods of Brooklyn, festive celebrations touched by war, with children dressing as IDF soldiers

Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror group lead a Purim parade in Jerusalem, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

In Israel and beyond, Purim revelry tempered by trauma, thoughts of hostages

By PHILISSA CRAMER

This picture taken on March 26, 2024, shows a view of a damaged building following an airstrike in Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor. (AFP)

IDF strikes Iran-linked operatives, assets in eastern Syria; more than 15 said killed

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Israel targets sites belonging to IRGC units involved in attempts to smuggle advanced arms to West Bank terrorists; Quds Force officer named among the dead

A fire is seen at a winery in the northern community of Avivim following a Hezbollah missile attack, March 26, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF strikes Hezbollah deep in Lebanon after missile fire on base, border community

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranian weapons smuggled into the West Bank captured by Israeli forces, in a handout image published March 25, 2024. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it foiled Iranian plot to smuggle advanced weapons to W. Bank terrorists

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Smoke trails seen in the sky as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip target Ashdod, March 25, 2024. (X video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Rockets fired from Gaza at Ashdod for first time in 2 months; no injuries or damage

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF reports 8 projectiles launched at port city, 2 intercepted, others fall in open areas; army says they were fired from area in Strip it has not yet reached

File: A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip passes through the Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel, Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Inside storyWhere’s the aid? Gaza efforts falter amid destruction, lawlessness and red tape

By Reuters and ToI Staff

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a press conference at an UNRWA school in the Al-Wehdat camp for Palestinian refugees in Amman, on March 25, 2024. (Mohammad Hannon/AFP)

UN chief calls UNRWA a ‘lifeline of hope and dignity,’ as Israel seeks alternatives

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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Baltimore port shipping suspended after ship strikes bridge, causing dramatic collapse

By Aziz El Massassi

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Russia, December 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Russia extends detention of US reporter Evan Gershkovich after a year in jail

By AP

Is Louis Vuitton selling pro-Palestinian T-shirts for $800? The internet is divided

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Spanish police officers prior to arresting an unidentified man in Barcelona, Spain, on April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain detains man with suspected Islamic State links for promoting terror online

By AFP

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