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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 2, 2025

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Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025, after Israel suspended the entry of supplies into the Palestinian enclave. (AFP)

Sa'ar: No free meals; talks possible if more hostages freed

Israel halts aid into Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Jerusalem claims US backs move to push extension of now-expired 1st phase of ceasefire rather than negotiating 2nd phase; PM: ‘Humanitarian aid turned into terrorist budget against us’

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025. (AFP)

Coalition lawmakers welcome Netanyahu’s decision to stop entry of aid into Gaza

By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

A sprawling tent camp for displaced Palestinians sits adjacent to destroyed homes and buildings in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, March 1, 2025, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel endorses new US plan for half of hostages to be released now, ceasefire maintained

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty ahead of a meeting in the US State Department Building in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images via AFP)

Egypt says Gaza reconstruction plan ready, will intensify efforts for phase two

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Foreign minister says once plan is adopted at coming Arab summit, Cairo will seek international donors to fund program that would leave Gazans in place — unlike Trump’s vision

Illustrative: Palestinian Hamas fighters and people gather in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, as preparations take place for the release of three Israeli hostages as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner swap on February 22, 2025. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 2: Day 513 – Israel cites a Trump game plan but Hamas won’t play ball

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Destroyed buildings stand in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates (closed)

March 2: US backs Israeli stance in hostage talks, but doesn’t confirm Witkoff behind Gaza proposal

Thousands in Jerusalem demand Israel continue ceasefire to release hostages * IDF chief: I know the last words of many people murdered on Oct. 7 were ‘Where’s the IDF?’

9:44 pm

Ukraine's Zelensky believes he can salvage relationship with US
9:39 pm

Sa'ar blasts attorney general's 'political document' against his judicial proposal
8:53 pm

AG says Levin-Sa'ar judicial proposal would cast a heavy political shadow over system, harm democracy

Israelis attend a far-right rally in Jerusalem calling for the expulsion of Gazans on February 27, 2025. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

Promoted podcastJPPI

The Politics Surrounding the Second Stage of the Hostage Deal

Tal Schneider, senior diplomatic and political correspondent for The Times of Israel, dissects the high-stakes drama unfolding in Israel.

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)

'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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, with his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman, his military secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, in a photo released soon after an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah target in Beirut, July 30, 2024 (PMO)

PM said mulling brief resumption of war to pressure Hamas on Gaza ceasefire terms

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, listens as US President Donald Trump, left, meets with France's President Emmanuel Macron (not in picture) at the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 24, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

US moves to expedite delivery of $4 billion in military aid to Israel

Rubio says Trump has approved $12 billion in arms sales to Israel since taking office, claiming Biden had imposed a ‘partial arms embargo’ on Israel

Palestinians sit at a large table surrounded by the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings as they gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, March 1, 2025 (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In Gaza, Ramadan’s start overshadowed by war fears as ceasefire’s first phase expires

By AP and ToI Staff

Released hostage Eli Sharabi arrives at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, wrapped in an Israeli flag, as he walks to be reunited with members of his family after 491 days in Hamas captivity, February 8, 2025. (Haim Tsach/GPO)

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi to meet Trump this week, brother says

Sharon Sharabi says US president decided to invite former hostages after being sent interview in which bereaved Be’eri father describes torture in captivity

Former national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a rally for the reestablishment of settlements in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, February 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir refuses to apologize to hostages who said his rhetoric led to torture

Another hostage, blurred in video, IDed by father via tattoo

Hamas releases video of hostage pleading to be freed as his brother is separated from him

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Clip shows Eitan Horn expressing distress he’ll be left behind, hugging his brother Iair before the latter’s release from Gaza; PM’s office slams terror group’s ‘brutal propaganda’

Brothers Iair (L) and Eitan Horn in a Hamas propaganda video ahead of Iair's release from captivity in Feburary 2025. (Screen capture)

Thousands line route as slain hostage Shlomo Mantzur buried at Gaza-area kibbutz

President asks for forgiveness from 85-year-old terror victim — oldest person abducted on October 7 — during funeral at Kissufim, week after his body was returned from Gaza

Released hostage Omer Shem Tov returning to his home in Herzliya, March 1, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Crowd rejoices at home of freed hostage Omer Shem-Tov after discharge from hospital

Trump, Zelensky and the perilous illusion of a negotiated peace in Ukraine

For Putin’s Russia, the war is no longer just a geopolitical gamble – it has become a survival mechanism for the militarized regime

Rebecca Shapiro

Doxxed and undeterred: A mother’s response to hate

Publishing details of 85 Canadian IDF soldiers is slimy and puts them at risk, but these brave defenders of our homeland wear their service as a badge of honor

Local residents cheer as they gather on a street in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana on December 8, 2024. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Netanyahu and Katz direct IDF to ‘prepare to defend’ Syrian Druze suburb of Damascus

By Emanuel Fabian

Instruction comes as new Syrian government authorities clash with local Druze gunmen in Jaramana, just outside capital

A convoy of US troops outside the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, November 2, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

US announces airstrike that killed senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria

By AFP

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (L), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Maj. Gen. Avi Gil during the hostage rescue in southern Gaza's Rafah, February 12, 2024 (Shin Bet)

Netanyahu’s office admits staff didn’t pass on alert hours before Oct. 7 attack

Confirming a report about IDF sending out a document detailing unusual Hamas activity, premier’s office defends intelligence officer’s conduct as the info was framed as non-urgent

Adrien Brody in 'The Brutalist.' (Lol Crowley/A24)

Oscars previewCheck out the accompanying podcast with Jordan Hoffman

What’s Jewish about this year’s Academy Awards? Lots of controversy, of course

By Jordan Hoffman

As Hollywood gears up to give itself its annual pat on the back, there’s a top-notch crop of films to pique The Tribe’s interest – and a healthy dose of off-screen drama, to boot

Haredi party threatens to topple government unless it gets NIS 1 billion for yeshivas

Writing to cabinet secretary, UTJ chief Goldknopf demands ‘immediate’ action on issue to ensure his party backs the crucial state budget; previous ultimatums haven’t been acted on

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)

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Downing Street, London, England, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK, France, Ukraine to present ceasefire plan to Trump after Zelensky chewed out

By AP and Reuters

European summit overshadowed by US president’s scolding of Ukrainian leader at Oval Office meet; Macron says he is open to discuss expanding French nuclear umbrella across Europe

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

After shouting match, Zelensky says Trump’s support for Ukraine still ‘crucial’

US President Donald Trump, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clash in the Oval Office at the White House on February 28, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP)

AnalysisWith Trump ‘openly playing along with Russia,’ Ukraine eyes future without US support

By Victoria LUKOVENKO

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Iranian Finance Minister Abdolnasser Hemmati speaks during an open session of parliament for his impeachment, in Tehran, Iran, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian finance minister fired amid spiraling economic crisis

Hashem Natur, 63 (left) and Iham Nasser, 25, who were killed in separate shootings on February 28, 2025. (Courtesy/Guy Yechiely/Israel Swimming Association)

Two men shot dead within hours in separate killings in central Arab cities

By Michael Horovitz

Sigal Yana Itzkovich, accused of murdering her 6-year-old son, Liam, arrives for a court hearing at the
Tel Aviv District Court on August 18, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Herzliya woman cleared in murder of son, 6, due to ‘active psychotic state’

By Jeremy Sharon

This image provided by Firefly Aerospace on Feb. 26, 2025 shows Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander orbiting the moon. (Firefly Aerospace via AP)

Another small step: Private outfit successfully puts lander on moon, a first

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