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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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This picture taken from northern Israel shows an Israeli Air Force fighter jet flying over the border area with south Lebanon on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 27: Hezbollah announces 5 more members killed following latest Israeli strikes

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

PM eulogizes Lieberman as champion of the Jewish people * AG warns state will be obliged to start conscripting Haredim next week * IDF uncovers major tunnel network in Khan Younis

10:06 pm

In 11th hour U-turn, gov't asks High Court for extension to prevent mandated Haredi draft
9:43 pm

Former US senator Joe Lieberman, first Jewish VP nominee for major party, dies at 82
9:38 pm

In bombshell filing, AG to tell High Court gov't must get ready to draft yeshiva students

Analysis

Gallant seeks to smooth over tensions after PM’s cancellation leaves him alone in DC

Defense minister stresses importance of US support between meetings with top Biden officials, who use opportunity to pass along tough messages on Gaza humanitarian aid, Rafah op

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, at far left, speaks while meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, across table at far right, at the Pentagon, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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)

Hamas hostage deal rebuff preceded UNSC vote, US says, accusing PM of playing politics

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir: Biden prefers to align with Sinwar and Tlaib than with Netanyahu

Recalls being strung up 'like a chicken,' tortured

Released hostage Amit Soussana recounts sexual assault at hands of Hamas captor

In interview with New York Times, freed captive becomes first to speak out publicly on sexual abuse, says she was forced at gunpoint to commit ‘a sexual act’ on guard

Amit Soussana, taken captive by Hamas terrorists from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023 and released on November 30, 2023. (Courtesy)

The One Dubnov Penthouse (Credit: Prosperity Real Estate)

Promoted Content

How to navigate the Israeli real estate market in 2024

For many people abroad, buying real estate in Israel is challenging. Prosperity Real Estate’s mission is to simplify this process for those looking to invest or build their home in the Holy Land

Firefighters and medics at the scene of a deadly rocket strike in Kiryat Shmona on March 27, 2024. Inset: Zaher Bashara, who was killed in the strike. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Victim named as Zaher Bashara from Ein Qiniyye

Man killed in Hezbollah barrage on Kiryat Shmona after deadly Israeli strike in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Terror group says rocket attack on northern city a response to deaths of 7 in Habbariyeh; IDF says it targeted a ‘significant terrorist’ in overnight strike

Israeli forces check a building that was hit by a Hezbollah rocket in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the Lebanon border, on March 27, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 27: Day 173 – IAF flies deep into Lebanon, Hezbollah rocket kills man

Lior Ashkenazi as 'Sol' in episode one of Hulu's 'We Were the Lucky Ones.' (Vlad Cioplea/Hulu)

Behind the scenes'It's really important to tell this story these days'

‘How many miracles can we get?’: Holocaust saga comes to life in new Hulu miniseries

Stars Joey King and Logan Lerman are joined by many Israeli cast members, including Lior Ashkenazi, Hadas Yaron and Michael Aloni, in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones,’ set in WWII Poland

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Meeting between Netanyahu, Haredi parties on conscription law ends without agreement

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Justice Minister Levin also at sit-down where reps of ultra-Orthodox parties reportedly assailed attorney general; United Torah Judaism reportedly threatens to leave coalition

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men after clashes during a protest outside the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, as a group of soldiers stands behind them, March 4, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Explainer‘We prefer dying to serving in the IDF’: Israel in battle over Haredi conscription

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police during a protest outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF commanders, Finance Ministry warn against ‘unequal’ Haredi draft bill outline

Op-ed: Day 173 of the war

Silver linings in an ongoing nightmare

When a visiting group on a solidarity mission wondered if I had any good news

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. The banner, a reference to the imperatives to see the hostages released, literally translates as: Redeeming the captives is a great commandment. Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion is third from left. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

An unfair attack on Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

We can’t tolerate murderous terrorists or ignore our people’s pain, but we can keep our hearts open to the suffering of others

Why we must embrace the UN ceasefire resolution

Ramadan will be over before we know it, and we can use the time to regroup, train, and buy some international good-will along the way

A destroyed car following an Israeli army raid on Jenin in the West Bank, on March 27, 2024 (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Three Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in Jenin drone strike, heavy clashes

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says 2 gunmen targeted by UAV, 3rd man killed after hurling explosives at soldiers in West Bank city; troops destroy vehicle containing primed explosive devices

Protesters sit in cages to symbolize Israeli hostages' ongoing captivity in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hostages’ relatives among 4 arrested at Tel Aviv protest, as truce talks break down

Members of Munder family said taken into custody after officers declare demonstration illegal when protesters begin blocking major roads

Uriel Baruch (Courtesy)

Hostage Uriel Baruch murdered by Hamas, his body held in Gaza, his family reveals

Islamic Jihad operative Nabeel Rajab Abed Shteiwi is seen being interrogated in a video released by the IDF on March 26, 2024, after he was detained by the IDF near Gaza City's Shifa Hospital. (Screenshot/Israel Defense Forces)

In interrogations, Hamas, PIJ operatives describe using Shifa hospital as terror hub

Terrorists reveal how they used ‘Shifa or schools’ as shelter, operatives disguise themselves as nurses, say Hamas has 600-1,000 members at facility, stores arms in residency ward

These images released by the IDF on March 26, 2024, show Marwan Issa (left) the deputy commander of Hamas's military wing, and Ghazi Abu Tama'a, another senior commander in the terror group, killed in an Israeli strike on March 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF confirms Marwan Issa, Hamas’s No. 3, was killed in central Gaza strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over Gaza City, Gaza Strip, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa)

‘Everyone is hungry’: 12 Gazans said drowned wading into sea to get aid packages

By AFP and ToI Staff

Op-Ed

Netanyahu desperately seeks to strengthen his base, at the expense of US ties, hostages

Since October 7, the Israeli public has understood the PM is not Mr. Security, not Mr. Responsibility and not Mr. Empathy either. And none of his tricks and shticks can change that

US President Joe Biden, right, hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ellen Graber poses with one of her cacao plants at the Volcani Center in central Israel. (Courtesy: Ellen Graber)

After surviving October 7, Israeli cocoa plants could help stave off world shortage

Chocolate-loving Ellen Graber’s ‘superhero’ seedlings, forced to fend for themselves after Hamas attack, survived 3.5 months without water or fertilizer, suggesting high resilience

Daniel Sharabi (left) and Neriya Sharabi who survived the Hamas massacre at the Supernova music festival. (Screenshot from Channel 12 News, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Oct. 7 survivors who were interrogated at UK border say they feel unsafe in England

Daniel and Neria Sharabi, who survived Hamas’s massacre at the Supernova music festival, demand an apology from UK government: ‘We were shocked at the way we were treated’

Edward Norton as Derek Vineyard, a neo-Nazi ex-con based on Frank Meeink, in the 1998 crime drama 'American History X.' (Screen capture: Youtube/New Line Cinema, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

His struggle

Neo-Nazi who inspired ‘American History X’ now an observant Jew

Skinhead convict turned anti-hate lecturer tells New York Post he embraced Jewish faith after 23andMe found he has Ashkenazi DNA

Curator Tal Kobo at the Tower of David Museum's new exhibit, 'Spirit of the Stone,' which opened March 7, 2024 (Courtesy Ricky Rachman)

Capital showcase

Exhibit looks at 100 years of Jerusalem through the eyes of its artists

By Jessica Steinberg

Set in new Tower of David pavilion in Old City and nearby Hamiffal art space, show serves up shot of history chased by exploration of the city’s complicated contemporary realities

More Headlines

Teen Yonatan Frankel and the 1,600-year-old Roman oil lamp he discovered while hiking, in an undated photo. (Yoli Schwartz/IAA)

Teen hiker stumbles on 1,600-year-old Roman oil lamp

By Gavriel Fiske

People look out toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge following its collapse after the Singapore-flagged Dali container ship collided with it along the Patapsco River on March 26, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Kent Nishimura/AFP)

Six missing from Baltimore bridge collapse believed dead

By Aziz El Massassi

The Mobileye office campus located at the Har Hotzvim tech park in Jerusalem, March 26, 2024. (Courtesy)

After seven years, Mobileye inaugurates new Jerusalem office campus

By Sharon Wrobel

People walk past the damaged Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on February 15, 2024. (AFP)

UNRWA says it has enough money to last until May after some nations resume funding

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Jerusalem apartment that is part of the Open Houses Jerusalem tours on the weekends of April 4-6 and 11-13, 2024 (Courtesy Mikaela Borseto)

Rescheduled Open House Jerusalem to launch with several tours related to Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Amit Becher, president of the Israel Bar Association (left), and Richard Lewis, president of the New York State Bar Association, sign a memorandum of understanding between the two associations, March 4, 2024 (Courtesy New York State Bar Association)

Israel Bar Association hails influence afforded by new deal with New York State Bar

By Jeremy Sharon

Colombian President Gustavo Petro attends a swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed attorney general at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Israel slams Colombian president as a ‘disgrace’ after he threatens to cut off ties

By AP and Lazar Berman

The view of Storke Tower and the University Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, September 8, 2019. (Coolcaesar via Creative Commons, via JTA)

UC Santa Barbara, where Jewish student president harassed, under discrimination probe

By Andrew Lapin

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