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What Matters Most On Monday, March 3, 2025

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March 3: Jews’ greatest disaster since Holocaust ‘will always belong to you,’ PM told by Lapid

In tirade against ‘deep state,’ Netanyahu claims court-led Oct. 7 probe would be biased * Bennett lashes ‘Netanyahu’s disastrous government,’ tells it to ‘go home already’

8:13 pm

German official says 'concrete indications of mental illness' in Mannheim suspect
8:09 pm

Likud responds to Bennett: We have no idea what his positions are on any issue
7:40 pm

Family of hostage soldier Matan Angrest publishes first photo of him from captivity

People protest calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, March 2, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

US backs Israeli demand for new Gaza framework; hostage families: Move on to 2nd phase

By Jacob Magid, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

White House doesn’t confirm Witkoff behind proposal to extend deal’s 1st stage, as Jerusalem contends; relatives of captives urge bringing everyone back before any renewed fighting

Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip after Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

Arab states, UN condemn Israel’s halt of aid into Gaza until hostage outline accepted

By Agencies, Lazar Berman, Jeremy Sharon, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Security forces at the scene of a terror attack in Haifa, March 3, 2025. (Flash90)

Man stabbed to death in terror attack at Haifa bus terminal

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

4 hospitalized with moderate to severe injuries; assailant identified as Israeli citizen from Druze community, reportedly held German citizenship; family says he had mental illness

Culture minister bemoans 'sad day for cinema'

‘No Other Land,’ about Israel razing Palestinian village, wins best documentary Oscar

Two of film’s four co-directors, an Israeli and a Palestinian, use acceptance speeches to call for Palestinian rights; Israeli Yuval Avraham also calls for release of hostages

Basel Adra, from left, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham accept the award for best documentary feature film for 'No Other Land,' during the Oscars on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Adrien Brody accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "The Brutalist" during the Oscars on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Adrien Brody wins best actor Oscar for Holocaust survivor drama ‘The Brutalist’

Eli Sharabi is interviewed on Channel 12's "Uvda" program, in a segment aired on February 27, 2025. (Channel 12/screenshot)

Netanyahu apologizes to freed hostage Eli Sharabi for failing to get him out sooner

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

PM tells former captive, ‘Sorry it took us so long,’ stresses value of his coming meeting with Trump in Washington; Sharabi vows to plead hostages’ case to president, says all must be brought home

Eli Sharabi is interviewed on Channel 12's 'Uvda' program, in a segment aired on February 27, 2025. (Screenshot: Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing March 3: Day 514 – Freed hostage Eli Sharabi is all business with PM

By Jessica Steinberg and Biranit Goren

Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a video statement released March 2, 2025. (GPO)

Netanyahu thanks ‘greatest friend ever’ Trump for weapons sales

By AFP and ToI Staff

Interview

As Israel, US align on new hostage proposal, Qatar urges sticking to existing framework

In rare interview with Israeli media, top Qatari official tells ToI that it’s up to Palestinians to decide on Gaza postwar role for Hamas, even as calls for ousting terror group grow

File: Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Majed Al Ansari, speaking to Reuters after Qatar helped mediate a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, in Doha, Qatar, January 20, 2025. (Reuters/Imad Creidi)

Palestinians live among the rubble of their homes which were destroyed in the war between Israel and Hamas, on a road near the Kerem Shalom crossing, east of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 2, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

2 Palestinians said shot dead by troops in Gaza; IDF: They posed ‘immediate threat’

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel reportedly mulling measures to coerce Hamas to accept extension of first phase of hostage-ceasefire deal, as international community condemns decision to block aid to Strip

Yarden Bibas joins hundreds of families of Oct. 7 victims demanding state inquiry

1,500 survivors of captivity, families of hostages have signed on to ‘October Committee’ calling for highest-level independent probe of failures surrounding Hamas attack

Yarden Bibas carries flowers at the funeral of his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir, near Kibbutz Nir Oz, February 26, 2025. (Eitan Uner/ Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks at a military conference, February 24, 2025. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)

Oct. 7 military failuresGeneral: Threat treated seriously yet conclusions were wrong

IDF chief: I regarded Gaza as least worrying border; I know victims asked ‘Where’s the IDF?’

In leaked remarks to local council chiefs while presenting army’s findings, Halevi also notes the first troops only reached hard-hit Kibbutz Nir Oz after last terrorists had gone

Freed hostage Emily Damari being prepped for surgery on her left hand at Sheba Medical Center on March 2, 2025, after she was shot on October 7, 2023, and not given proper medical care during 15 months of Hamas captivity in Gaza. (Pomi Ofi Tal)

'I have fully embraced my hand, my pain, and my scars'

Freed hostage Emily Damari undergoes surgery on hand shot on October 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Mandy Damari, the former captive’s mother, says her daughter was ‘sewn up like a pin cushion’ by Hamas

Reut Barak Weekes

Beyond USAID: A sustainable solution

The abrupt ending of US humanitarian help worldwide offers an opportunity to consider a localized approach to development

What Tim Snyder gets right on Ukraine and wrong on Israel

Comments the historian made to ToI’s David Horovitz on antisemitism and events on US campuses are neither convincing nor accurate

ADL report card finds some campuses fixing responses to antisemitism

Survey of 135 schools shows many universities have enacted major policy changes, but many still failing to properly protect Jewish students

Demonstrators walk in an encampment on the UCLA campus after clashes between protesters demonstrating about the Israel-Hamas war, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, during an interview at his office in Manhattan, July 18, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)

Interview

Brad Lander, Jewish progressive running for NYC mayor, outlines plan to fight crime

City comptroller, vying for position in crowded race, calls for more police in a reverse of prior position, limited anti-masking laws, online monitoring to combat antisemitism

Former Foreign Ministry director general Dore Gold in Jerusalem, June 1, 2015. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Dore Gold, former UN ambassador and Netanyahu confidant, dies at 71

By Nava Freiberg

US-born diplomat served as Foreign Ministry director general, adviser to prime ministers, and president of a Jerusalem think tank

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general knocks Levin-Sa’ar plan as politicizing judge selection, harming democracy

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Gali Baharav-Miara warns proposal will turn court appointments into ‘another political arena’; Sa’ar accuses her of ‘fundamental errors’ in trying to torpedo his ‘popular’ bill

Then-war cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Eisenkot said seeking center-left party union in next elections, may want to lead it

Then-Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during what the office said was an 'exclusive discussion' with members of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's office at an unknown date and location, September 28, 2019. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Nasrallah’s children say he cried after pager attack and fell into depression

In interviews, Zeinab and Mohammed Jawad Nasrallah speak of how Israeli strikes damaged morale in Hezbollah terror group, say father was noticeably ‘no longer with us’

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt gestures during a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/ Hussein Malla)

Prominent Lebanese Druze leader says he’ll visit Syria amid tensions with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Combo photo showing Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (left) at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 17, 2025, and Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, January 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Lapid panned for saying he ‘deserves raise’ for having to look at religious female minister

Yesh Atid leader blasted as misogynistic for joking he should be paid more for having to cast his eyes upon Religious Zionism’s Orit Strock; claims comment referred to her conduct, not looks

More Headlines

Illustrative: Russian riot police officers secure an area in Moscow on February 16, 2025. (TATYANA MAKEYEVA / AFP)

Russia says it foiled terror plot targeting Jewish institution, metro

Iran's Vice-President for strategic affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2025. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)

Iran vice president Zarif, former face of nuke deal, quits under hardliner pressure

(L-R) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Finland's President Alexander Stubb, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Romania's Interim President Ilie Bolojan, European Council President Antonio Costa and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau begin a plenary meeting at a summit held at Lancaster House in central London on March 2, 2025. (JUSTIN TALLIS / POOL / AFP)

Ukraine’s allies embrace Zelensky in London, warn of ‘once-in-a-generation moment’

A nun prays outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Francis is hospitalized in Rome, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope up and stable, no longer on ventilation after pneumonia scare

By Nicole Winfield

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