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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 4, 2025

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Bereaved families, hostages' families and survivors of the October 7 massacre react as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a 40-signatures debate in the Knesset, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu, fuming and shouting, again rejects state inquiry

Knesset guards violently prevent victims’ families from attending debate on Oct. 7 probe

By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman

Relatives of victims pushed, hit and dragged away, 3 need medical attention, before they are let into visitors’ gallery; Yarden Bibas urges PM to join him when he returns to kibbutz

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, March 4, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)

Live updates (closed)

March 4: PA’s Abbas welcomes Egyptian plan to rebuild Gaza, urges Trump to back it

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Shin Bet probe on Oct. 7 acknowledges agency’s failures in run-up to onslaught, but largely point blame outwards; PM’s office: Ronen Bar ‘completely failed’ to warn of Hamas attack

8:38 pm

Hamas welcomes Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan
8:12 pm

Israel rejects Arab summit's statement on Gaza, says it failed to address post-Oct. 7 reality
8:00 pm

Report: The alert IDF sent PM's office hours before Oct. 7 attack said Hamas activity wasn't unusual

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attend a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2025. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)

As Trump cozies up to Putin, Russia offers to mediate US-Iran nuclear talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Kremlin spokesperson declares that Moscow will do everything in its power to help resolve all problems between two foes via negotiations

In this image provided on January 24, 2025, by Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, a missile is launched by a vessel during the guard's drill in the Persian Gulf. (Sepahnews via AP)

Russian missile experts flew to Iran around the time of Tehran’s attacks on Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

As European and Arab leaders panic, Trump gives Netanyahu rare freedom of action

In a fateful week for the Ukraine and Gaza wars, with summits in London and Cairo, the PM aims to ramp up pressure on Hamas, buoyed by the US president’s ‘do whatever you want’ approach

Composite image - Top: US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci);

Bottom: 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)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a meeting of his Religious Zionism parliamentary faction, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich heads to US as Trump expected to make statement on West Bank annexation

Hostage Matan Angrest in a first image released by his family from Hamas captivity, March 3, 2025. (Courtesy)

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

Angrest’s mother demands return of all captives ‘before we deploy more soldiers who won’t return’, laments he wasn’t freed as a ‘humanitarian case’ despite being seriously wounded

Dani Elgarat standing next to the coffin of his brother, Itzik Elgarat, during a funeral service outside the slain captive's home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, March 3, 2025 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Slain captive Itzik Elgarat buried; brother says Netanyahu dug his grave

Screenshot from video showing an UNRWA worker next to a white UN jeep, abducting the body of Yonatan Samerano, who was killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot)

Israel files testimony to World Court regarding hostage held in UNRWA facility

By Jeremy Sharon

Pope Francis flanked by Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, right, during his visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Inside story'After Oct. 7, people feel it is impossible to trust the pope'

For Rome’s Jews, ties with ailing pope are personal. And increasingly complicated

By Rossella Tercatin

With 2,000 years of history between the Jewish community and the Catholic Church, relations have been positive in recent decades. But October 7 has stirred up age-old apprehensions

Interview

Seeking funds abroad, Abbas ally touts prisoner payment reform that’s ‘unpopular’ at home

Tapped to head welfare fund replacing ‘pay-to-slay,’ Ahmad Majdalani says it’ll be strictly need-based, and should suffice for US and Israel to scrap ‘unjust’ sanctions on Ramallah

PLO Executive Committee member Ahmad Majdalani in his Ramallah office in 2024. (Courtesy)

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

In Israel, we’re home

Let me say this clearly and simply: we are not colonialists. We are not crusaders or invaders or Europeans

Netanyahu’s strategy could soon test Trump’s patience

The US president’s support for releasing all Israeli hostages and ending the war sets him on a collision course with the PM

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

‘Systemic failure’: How Nahal Oz base, 850 meters from Gaza yet utterly vulnerable, fell to Hamas

90 armed troops among 162 soldiers on base that morning failed to repel first wave of 65 terrorists; Bedouin tracker stayed behind to defend surveillance soldiers

The torched command center of the Nahal Oz IDF base, overrun by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, during a visit by relatives of slain lookout soldiers on December 19, 2023. (Courtesy/Eyal Eshel)

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a farewell ceremony in honor of then-police chief Kobi Shabtai (not pictured), at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief says he’ll stay until hostages return and state probes Oct. 7 – report

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Terrorists took Kfar Aza in an hour. Recapturing it took the IDF days, probe finds

First soldiers only arrived at kibbutz 2 hours into October 7 onslaught, failed to reach ‘young generation’ neighborhood before all kidnappings were carried out

Israeli soldiers remove bodies of Israeli civilians killed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk, chief of the IDF Operations Directorate, attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Chief of IDF Operations Directorate Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk to resign from military

By Emanuel Fabian

The chief of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, meets with troops in central Gaza, April 19, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Families of slain and captive troops berate IDF Southern Command chief – recording

Then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, walks with US president John F. Kennedy at the residence of the US ambassador in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 1961. (AP Photo, File)

InterviewIt's 'a dangerous time made more dangerous by ignorance'

Journalist who had Khrushchev’s ear as nuclear war loomed says Putin wouldn’t have caved to US

By Mordechai I. Twersky

When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay attention. His new memoir, ‘A Different Russia,’ serves as both warning and plea

FILE -155 mm M795 artillery projectiles are stored for shipping to other facilities to complete the manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, April 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trump suspends military aid to Ukraine after White House clash with Zelensky

American president sharply ratchets up pressure on Ukrainian leader to agree to ceasefire negotiations with Russia, which cheers the blowup in US-Ukraine ties

Ukrainian servicemen of the Defence Intelligence prepare to launch long-range drones An-196 Liutyi in undisclosed location, Ukraine, February 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainians grapple with Trump’s halt to military aid: ‘I feel betrayed’

By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA

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)

Trump berates Zelensky for saying the end of Ukraine war ‘still very, very far away’

By AAMER MADHANI

MK Simcha Rothman addresses the Knesset plenum, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Coalition passes judicial overhaul law taking over appointment of judges’ ombudsman

By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol

Law ends judges’ ability to choose the person who investigates allegations against them, says justice minister; Gantz slams ‘campaign of revenge’ against judicial system

Palestinians refill on water next to a destroyed mosque at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on March 3, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Arab leaders set to huddle in Cairo over alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Proposal would see interim international rule of Strip in place of Hamas and PA, wouldn’t require displacement of Palestinians

Heavy construction equipment lines up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2025. (AFP)

Egypt’s alternative to Trump plan sidelines Hamas, leaves key questions unanswered

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Adeb Mazal, head of the Bedouin village Arab al-Aramshe, stands in the community center that was destroyed in an April 2024 Hezbollah rocket attack on March 2, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookBedouin village is only non-Jewish community uprooted by war

Bedouin and Jewish residents who evacuated from north return home to mourn and rebuild

By Diana Bletter

With schools now open, the communities of Arab al-Aramshe and neighboring Kibbutz Adamit in the Western Galilee rethink their ‘naivete’ about dangers beyond the border

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

Esther Wachsman speaks at the funeral of her husband Yehuda Wachsman, at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem, June 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mother of soldier Nachshon Wachsman dies, 30 years after his kidnapping and murder

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

Israel attacks military site in northwestern Syria; no casualties reported

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accompanies Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, left, upon his arrival to the Royal Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 3, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP)

Lebanon’s Aoun, Saudi crown prince call for Israeli pullout from all of Lebanon

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A woman walks by the Chinese and US national flags on display outside a souvenir shop in Beijing on January 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

US tariffs on Canada and Mexico take effect, as China takes aim at US farm exports

By Josh Boak, PAUL WISEMAN and Rob Gillies

Visitors at Tel Aviv's Anu Museum of the Jewish People in February 2025 (Courtesy)

Israelis by choiceAnu Museum introduces pilot program for veteran immigrants

By Jessica Steinberg

US Rep. Elise Stefanik speaks at ADL's 'Never Is Now' summit at the Javits Center on March 3, 2025, in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League/AFP)

Stefanik booed at ADL summit for claiming Oct. 7 wouldn’t have happened under Trump

By Luke Tress and JTA

Left: “Portrait of Bruno Cassirer” by Max Liebermann. Right: “Bruno Cassirer’s Father on His Deathbed”, by Max Slevogt (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)

87 years on, German gallery returns stolen portraits to heirs of Jewish art dealer

Former US special antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt listens during a roundtable discussion about gender-based violence against Israeli women in the Israel-Hamas war, on Capitol Hill on February 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Former US antisemitism envoy says she turned down Columbia job due to protests

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: The Palm Beach Post is seen for sale on August 5, 2019 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish editor in Florida says he was fired for cartoon panning Israel over Gaza war

By PHILISSA CRAMER

International Court of Justice Judge Yuji Iwasawa delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the 7th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law in metropolitan Manila, Philippines, on August 22, 2019. (AP Photo/ Aaron Favila/ File)

ICJ elects Japanese judge Yuji Iwasawa as new president, replacing Nawaf Salam

By AFP and ToI Staff

Forensic officers examine a damaged vehicle at the site of a car-ramming attack in Mannheim, southwestern Germany, March 3, 2025. (Thomas Lohnes / AFP)

Two dead, five hurt as car rams into crowd at carnival in southwestern German city

By Sam Reeves and Jastinder KHERA

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