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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 28, 2024

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IDF troops operate in Gaza in a photo cleared for publication on March 28, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

March 28: Israel not getting every weapon it asks for, US military chief says

By Ricky Ben-David, Elana Kirsh and Jacob Magid

High Court orders halt to yeshiva funding from April 1 for students eligible for draft * PM meets with families of IDF soldiers held hostage in Gaza, says Israel won’t ‘leave anyone behind’

8:43 pm

Biden hails Lieberman's 'fierce spirit of independence,' efforts to repeal 'Don't ask, don't tell'
8:37 pm

France said to be working on UNSC resolution calling for ceasefire, recognition of Palestinian state
8:09 pm

US tells Israel it need not close bank accounts of sanctioned settlers

Obituary

Joe Lieberman, centrist senator and first Jew on major US presidential ticket, dies at 82

Veteran politician became one of most visible role models for Jewish observance in high places and was known for his attempts to build bridges in an increasingly polarized Washington

Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman waves to members of the media as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

United States Senator Joe Lieberman lights Hannuka candles with Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski and new immigrants from Ethiopia at the Jewish Agency Absorption Center in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, December 2006. Ariel Jerozolimski)

‘Matchless champion of the Jewish people’: Israeli, US officials mourn Joe Lieberman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounces the US failure to veto a UN Security Council ceasefire and hostage resolution, while hosting Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida at his Jerusalem office, March 27, 2024 (Youtube screenshot)

After canceling top aides’ trip to Washington, Netanyahu now seeking to reschedule

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

White House reveals PM’s reversal hours after he tells visiting Republican senator that he canceled delegation following US’s ‘very, very bad’ decision not to veto UN resolution

President Isaac Herzog meets a group of visiting Democratic congresspeople, March 28, 2024 (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Biden is ‘great friend of Israel,’ Herzog tells US Democrats amid bilateral tensions

By Lazar Berman

Transportation Minister tries to speak at conference in Eilat before being heckled off stage, March 27, 2024. (Channel 13, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ministers Smotrich, Regev booed off stage at Eilat conference by protesters

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Rising Above the Waves of Fear and Anger After October 7

Where can we find calm and clarity during these challenging times? Jewish tradition offers a practice that can help us pause, make wise choices, and show up as our best selves.

Obituary

Charlie Summers

Nobel-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman, who upended his field, dies at 90

Israeli-American psychologist and Holocaust survivor proved the irrationality of decision-making, arguing people’s mental biases often lead them to act against their own interests

Economics Nobel prize winner Prof. Daniel Kahneman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on June 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ponovitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Government seeks 11th hour-High Court extension to avoid mandatory Haredi conscription

By Jeremy Sharon

State requests 12 more hours to respond to petitions, minutes after AG issues bombshell notice that authorities will be obligated within days to draft ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the current Israeli government, in Tel Aviv, on March 23, 2024. (Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 28: Day 174 – Haredi draft bill looms; Netanyahu spins and flipflops

Rescue workers at the scene of a terror attack near the West Bank town of Al-Auja, March 28, 2024. (Rescuers Without Borders)

3 hurt in West Bank terror shooting attack on cars, school buses

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF launches manhunt for terrorist behind assault on vehicles on Route 90, in Jordan Valley town of al-Auja; 13-year-old boy among the injured

Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas hold placards during a demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for their release, on March 26, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

US, Israel seem to believe hostage negotiations can be revived even after Hamas rejection

War cabinet convened to discuss next steps after determining that terror group’s rejection of deal was likely a negotiation tactic; US: ‘We think it’s possible to bridge differences’

Palestinian demonstrators wave Hamas flags and shout slogans during a protest following the killing of top Hamas official Saleh Arouri in Beirut, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 3, 2024. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

US, UK slap sanctions on individuals, companies who fundraised for Hamas

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. (NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) - HubbleSite: gallery, release. Public domain)

'We are actually seeing the cosmic furnace'

Israeli scientists become first to chronicle earliest stages of supernova

By Ari Rabinovitz

Astronomers from Weizmann Institute observe a star in nearby galaxy Messier 101 explode and believe it left behind a new black hole

Illustrative photo of newborn babies in an Israeli hospital nursery. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

COVID protocols pave new way of detecting common congenital viral infection in newborns

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The yellow chair: When art hurts

We Jews turn our trials and tribulations into expressions of human resilience, grief, joy, and freedom, as we again cry: Let our people go!

Cutting arms exports: A new horizon in lawfare against Israel

This legal trend could culminate in a global push for restrictions or even a comprehensive embargo on supplying arms

Old observation towers stand near a fence as smoke rises after an explosion in the Gaza Strip, seen from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

'A really, really long, hard and complicated journey'

They fled Nahal Oz after Hamas attacked on Oct. 7. They don’t know whether to return

While many older residents of the kibbutz on the Gaza border say they’ll go home, younger ones are unsure: ‘My heart says go back, it’s your home. But I have no idea how to do it’

Only 1 lawmaker shows up to Knesset committee meeting on the north’s war-ruined economy

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

11 MKS absent from Special Committee for Strengthening and Developing the Negev and Galilee; angry residents who traveled hours for 9 a.m. meeting sneer: ‘Too early for them’

MK Michael Biton chairs the Special Committee for Strengthening and Developing the Negev and Galilee at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In this undated photograph, Brothers in Arms volunteers help on a farm amid the war in Gaza. (Brothers in Arms Civilian Situation Room)

Once-thriving agriculture struggles to stay afloat in evacuated northern border area

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Nisan Zeevi, far right, with other Lobby 1701 members at a ceremony to commemorate the battle of Tel Hai in 1920 on March 21, 2024. (Courtesy)

'We want security, not a false sense of security'

Civilians in Israel’s north lobby world leaders to make Hezbollah keep UN truce lines

By Diana Bletter

Terror group refuses to withdraw forces as agreed in 2006’s UN Resolution 1701, making southern Lebanon a stronghold; Lobby 1701 works to prevent a repeat of the Oct. 7 massacre

Israel’s ‘scapegoat’ Bedouins reel from wartime hardship

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

A redacted copy of the flier that advertises the name, address and workplace of a Dutch-Jewish nurse in connection with her daughter's service in the Israeli army. (CIDI)

‘Child murderer’: Jewish woman accosted at Amsterdam home over daughter’s IDF service

By Canaan Lidor

Incident, including fliers, is part of an antisemitic wave that is ‘spiraling uncontrollably,’ a leader of the local Jewish community says

German Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser attends a press conference, after meeting of Interior Ministers of Visegrad Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), Austria and Germany, in Szeged, Hungary, November 27, 2023. (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

Germany to quiz citizenship candidates about Israel, Jews, to filter out antisemites

By Agencies and ToI Staff

With truce talks seemingly stuck, Israel said planning Rafah incursion in April or May

By Gianluca Pacchiani, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Pro-Hezbollah newspaper says offensive will come after Ramadan and will last 4-8 weeks; Israel reportedly vows to notify Cairo in advance of an IDF operation into Philadelphi Route

Palestinians check the rubble of buildings that were destroyed following overnight Israeli strikes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 27, 2024 (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets with female surveillance soldiers at an army base on the Gaza border, March 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: IDF using facial recognition tools to identify, detain suspects in Gaza

This picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows a military aircraft releasing parachutes of humanitarian aid over the Palestinian territory on March 27, 2024. (JACK GUEZ/ AFP)

Spain drops 26 tons of aid in Gaza as air delivery method faces growing concerns

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists outside Columbia University, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)

Columbia University probing ‘Resistance 101’ student event where speakers hailed Hamas

Gathering was originally scheduled to take place at women’s school that’s part of university but was forced to move online due to lack of approvals, spokesperson says

In this video shared by the Daily Targum on November 8, 2023, Students for Justice in Palestine hold a rally at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Rutgers joins growing list of schools under GOP House investigation for antisemitism

By Andrew Lapin

From left to right, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Reichs Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten and General Field Marschall Werner von Blomberg observe the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany in August 1936. (AP Photo, File)

Ahead of Paris Olympics, Shoah Memorial exhibit highlights games as ‘mirror of society’

By Sylvie Corbet

Exhibition showcases historical moments in the sporting event’s history, from the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Berlin to the deadly terror attack in Munich in 1972

A young child poses for the camera at the illegal outpost of Ahiya, north east of the Shvut Rachel settlement in the West Bank, June 6, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90/ File)

Illegal outpost to be legalized, joined to nearby settlement, says government agency

By Jeremy Sharon

West Bank outpost of Ahiya will become part of the Shiloh settlement, according to notice from Civil Administration, although the two will not be territorially contiguous

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Activists hold placards during a protest demanding countries to resume funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians Refugees (UNRWA) near the European Union headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, February 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Bilal Hussein)

Protest breaks out in Beirut after UNRWA suspends Lebanese teacher

By Reuters and ToI Staff

File - Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, professor of social work and law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, during a presentation. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Suspended Hebrew U lecturer reinstated after recanting doubts over Hamas Oct. 7 rapes

By Stuart Winer and Gavriel Fiske

Howard Kohr, CEO of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), speaks at the start of the AIPAC 2016 Policy Conference on March 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. (MOLLY RILEY / AFP)

Howard Kohr, AIPAC’s director of 27 years, announces his retirement

Pope Francis greets Bassam Aramin, left, and Rami Elhanan during the weekly general audience at the Vatican, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope hosts Israeli, Palestinian fathers who both lost daughters in conflict

By AP

Left: Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaking during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); right: MK Ram Ben Barak leading a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Internal security Committees, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesh Atid holds first leadership vote — with Lapid widely expected to maintain power

Illustrative: A school student is seen wearing a hijab. (Rawpixel via iStock)

French politicians in uproar after school principal resigns over hijab altercation

By Sophie LAUBIE

Sauce Gardner of the New York Jets looks on during warmups before the first half of a preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at MetLife Stadium on August 19, 2023, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images/AFP)

NFL star Sauce Gardner says he had good intentions when he said Jews ‘run the world’

By jacob gurvis

Major US Jewish groups object to $30.5 million cut to federal security funding

Iranians protest 22-year-old Mahsa Amini's death after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, September 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)

Iran sentences police officer to death for killing protester in 2022

By AFP and ToI Staff

Red paint is seen on a Eurovision sign in Malmo, Sweden, on March 11, 2024, after it was vandalized in a protest against Israel. (SVT screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Sweden prepares for high security Eurovision with Gaza spotlight

By Camille BAS-WOHLERT

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Federal court, in New York, on July 26, 2023. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

Dethroned crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for defrauding FTX investors

By Larry Neumeister and Ken Sweet

A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Clocks in Israel leap forward an hour as daylight saving time begins

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