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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 1, 2025

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The 24 hostages presumed to be alive who are still held by Hamas as of February 2025: Top row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Edan Alexander, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from left: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Bipin Joshi, Rom Braslavski, Ziv Berman, Gali Berman. Third row, from left: Omri Miran, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Bottom row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Tamir Nimrodi, Pinta Nattapong. (Hostage Families Forum)

Hamas says it rejects Israel’s ‘formulation’ of extending first Gaza ceasefire phase

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Netanyahu set to hold consultation later Saturday evening on state of ceasefire agreement, as Hamas source blames Israeli ‘procrastination’ for lack of progress in talks

Workers fix a road in Gaza City in the central Gaza Strip on February 28, 2025, as the municipality prepares the city for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid an ongoing truce in the war between Israel and Hamas (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

PM holds extensive security consultations as Hamas said refusing to extend 1st phase

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025 (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Ukraine's leader leaves without signing minerals deal

Trump berates Zelensky in shocking Oval Office scene: ‘Either make a deal or we’re out’

As meeting devolves into clash in front of cameras, US leader tells Ukrainian counterpart he’s ‘gambling with World War III’ and being ‘very disrespectful’

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, February 28, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

‘Free world needs new leader’: EU backs Ukraine after Trump berates Zelensky in Oval Office

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a interview with Bret Baier during a taping of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier in Washington, February 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Zelensky says ties with US can be salvaged but won’t apologize after Trump turned on him

By Danny Kemp and Sebastian Smith

History professor and author Timothy Snyder speaks during a Think Tank Agenda event at the University Aula in Oslo, Norway, on January 28, 2025 (Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB)

Interview'Trump is much more separated from reality' than last time

Tim Snyder’s warning: Israel depends upon a functioning US. Trump and Musk are destroying it

By David Horovitz

A deeply disturbing interview with the Yale historian, famed for offering 20th century lessons for protecting today’s democracies. He also sees a surprising role for Netanyahu, potentially

Orthodox pro-Israel group to honor Steve Bannon, unfazed by straight-arm gesture

'Captivity is an insane mind game,' recalls Sasha Troufanov

At rally, ex-hostage urges return of all captives as deal’s 1st phase draws to close

Families forum says ‘window of opportunity is now,’ demands 59 remaining captives be returned by March 9; slain hostages Shlomo Mantzur, Itzik Elgarat to be buried in coming days

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets then-US president-elect Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, at his office in Jerusalem, January 11, 2025. (Prime Minister's Office Spokesperson)

Live updates (closed)

March 1: Israel endorses US plan to extend ceasefire, claims Hamas refusing, warns war can restart

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Statement comes minutes after end of truce’s 42-day 1st phase * PM’s office says Witkoff’s outline would eventually see all hostages freed, war ended * PM’s intel officer said to have ignored IDF alert hours before Oct. 7 attack

10:34 pm

Israel endorses US plan to extend ceasefire, claims Hamas refusing, warns war can restart
9:36 pm

Zelensky says UK loan will be used to make weapons in Ukraine
9:22 pm

Netanyahu's office hits back at IDF chief after report claimed PM's aide was warned about Hamas

Sagui Dekel-Chen, watched by his wife Avital and two of their daughters, sings with the Tamari Project in a clip released on February 28, 2025 (Screen grab: YouTube/The Tamari Project)

Ray of sunshine

Sagui Dekel-Chen sings song of hope to remaining hostages

Accompanied by band named for slain friend, freed captive, who says he’s ‘just a dad who sings,’ recounts how music helped him survive: ‘Wipe off your tears and sing with me’

The cards I hold

Holding slips of paper, frayed at the edges from being handled each morning, I pray for hostages – and for so much more

Hamas has made me hate. How can I pray for peace?

Judaism allows for hate, it makes room for it, because it understands that it must, but it puts guardrails around it

Former hostage Hagar Brodutch during an interview (CTV screen grab; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-hostage recalls her final moments with Tsahi Idan: ‘They told him he’d return with us’

Hagar Brodutch says on her last day in Gaza, in November 2023, their captors ‘brutally pulled him away from us and took him — to this today I don’t know where’

US to fast-track $3 billion arms sale to Israel, including bombs and armored bulldozers

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Transaction includes D9s withheld last year over concern IDF used them to raze homes in Gaza, as Trump scraps predecessor’s order conditioning aid on commitment to human rights

Israeli military bulldozers are seen during a military raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, December 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

(L) Economy Minister Nir Barkat at his office in Tel Aviv, June 27, 2024 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) and (R) Eli Sharabi is interviewed on Channel 12's 'Uvda' program, in a segment aired on February 27, 2025. (Channel 12/screenshot)

Minister says he had ‘more important things’ to do than watch freed hostage’s testimony

After uproar, Economy Minister Nir Barkat apologizes to Eli Sharabi for dismissing interview in which captivity survivor described torture and starvation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court to testify in his corruption trial, February 24, 2025. (Moti Milrod/Pool)

Report: Netanyahu’s rejection of Saudi peace offer led to Qatari cash corridor to Hamas

Yedioth Ahronoth says days after the 2014 war in Gaza, Riyadh proposed to rebuild Strip and normalize ties with Israel, but PM thwarted talks to avoid empowering the PA over Hamas

Participants in the 2025 Tel Aviv Marathon (Tel Aviv Marathon, Sport photography)

45,000 compete in Tel Aviv Marathon with symbolic yellow balloons

Felix Kimutai wins race as Kenya dominates podium; mayors says this year’s event held ‘with heavy hearts’ but also ‘looking ahead — to the triumph of the Israeli spirit’

File: Britain's Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lisa Nandy speaks during a Civil Society reception inside 10 Downing Street in London on October 17, 2024 (Jonathan Brady / POOL / AFP)

UK government calls urgent meeting with BBC over Gaza documentary scandal

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Culture secretary demands ‘assurances no stone will be left unturned’ in review of decision to air film that was narrated by son of Hamas deputy minister, involved payment to his family

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference, Feb. 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Hochul orders NY college to scrap Palestinian studies ad seeking historian on ‘genocide’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Saudi men look to spot the first crescent of the moon marking the start of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the southern Saudi city of Hautat Sudair, on February 28, 2025 (Abdullah Emad / AFP)

Saudi Arabia, most Sunni Arab states start Ramadan on Saturday, Iran begins on Sunday

By AFP

Riyadh declares moon sighting; observing the holy month’s fast is one of the five pillars of Islam

Self-proclaimed misogynist social media influencer Andrew Tate addresses the media as his brother Tristan looks on, after arriving in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Inside Story

Influencer Andrew Tate returns to US, bringing his misogynistic antisemitism with him

Far-right content creator, who has praised Hamas as ‘masculine resistance,’ couldn’t leave Romania since 2022 due to rape charges, but prosecutors lifted ban in possible gesture to Trump

Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)

Since 1806 it's held generations of Jewish cultural luminaries

Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

By Shira Li Bartov

200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots – until now

IDF soldiers are seen at a former Syrian Army post at Tel Kwdana, Syria, December 11, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Report: Israel lobbying US to keep Russian bases in a ‘weak’ Syria

By Maya Gebeily and Humeyra Pamuk

Jerusalem said to have told Washington that Damascus’s new Islamist rulers, backed by Turkey, pose a threat to Israel’s borders

Illustrative: A Middle East Airlines commercial aircraft prepares for takeoff on the tarmac of the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, November 1, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon seizes $2.5 million bound for Hezbollah, local officials say

By Reuters, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

More Headlines

Joseph Czuba, then 71, stands before Circuit Judge Dave Carlson for his arraignment at the Will County courthouse in Joliet, Illinois, October 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Illinois man convicted of murdering 6-year-old Palestinian-American in wake of Oct. 7

By AFP

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a state ceremony marking the Hebrew anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Deputy AG: Any move to fire Shin Bet chief requires legal review by attorney general

Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation members releasing an statement from Ocalan, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Metin Yoksu)

PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey after 40 years of armed struggle

By Fulya Ozerkan

Michelle Trachtenberg appears at the premiere of 'Defiance' during AFI Fest 2008 in Los Angeles on Nov. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Family of Jewish star Michelle Trachtenberg said to decline autopsy for religious reasons

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