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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 6, 2025

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A group of released hostages meets US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 5, 2025. (White House/X)

'Shalom Hamas means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose'

Trump tells ‘sick and twisted’ Hamas to free all hostages now ‘or it is over for you’

US president hosts 8 released hostages in Oval Office, promises to get the rest out, then issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas, tells its leaders to leave Gaza, says ‘People of Gaza’ who hold hostages ‘are DEAD’

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)

Several European nations say any Gaza plan ‘must have no role for Hamas’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli envoy says direct negotiations 'more than welcome'

In 1st, US holding secret direct talks with Hamas to free American hostages, end war

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Trump’s envoy talking directly to the US-designated terror group in Qatar; White House consulted Israel on idea, but not all aspects of talks

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside former hostage Noa Argamani (left) and hostage envoy Adam Boehler (right) during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (center) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Process could take months; would face High Court petitions

Levin initiates process of firing AG; opposition says he’s destroying democracy, unity

By Jeremy Sharon

Justice minister calls Baharav-Miara ‘the long arm of the government’s opponents’; opposition leaders warn long-threatened move harms rule of law, divides Israel at a time of war

Attorney-General Gali Baharav Miara (center) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 6: Day 517 – Who will be on the squad that fires the attorney general?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon

L to R: The Democrats chair Yair Golan, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, and National Unity chair Benny Gantz. (Flash90)

‘Quit dividing the nation’: Opposition pans move toward firing AG, as coalition hails it

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Israeli Air Force F-15I and F-35I fighter jets fly alongside a US B-52 bomber during a drill on March 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli, US air forces run joint drill with heavy bomber, in likely signal to Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

Exercise includes F-15I and F-35I fighter jets alongside a US B-52 bomber, whose help Israel could potentially need to strike Iran’s underground nuclear sites

Mehdi Yarrahi in the music video for his song "Roosarito." (Youtube screenshot used in accordance with Article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian singer whipped 74 times for song calling for removal of women’s headscarves

By Stuart Williams

A group of released hostages meets US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 5, 2025. (White House/X)

Live updates (closed)

March 6: Trump said to have asked ex-hostages about Israeli public support for continued deal

Washington said to suspect Israel leaked information on direct talks with Hamas to sabotage them * US envoy indicates terror group should release Israeli-American hostage as show of goodwill

10:40 pm

Trump: US-Hamas talks 'helping Israel because we're talking about Israeli hostages'
10:01 pm

Report: US will use AI to revoke visas from students perceived to be pro-Hamas
9:39 pm

During meeting with freed hostages, Trump said to have repeatedly asked about public support in Israel for continued deal

In 1st moves as IDF chief, Zamir orders recheck of Oct. 7 probes, dissolves Iran unit

By Emanuel Fabian

New chief of staff appoints new chiefs of Southern Command, Operations Directorate; announces formation of new tank brigade; will place photos of hostages in office until all home

New IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with the IDF General Staff Forum, March 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

from the blogs

Israel’s Syria strategy must favor diplomacy over muscle flexing

Netanyahu’s rhetoric about ’protecting the Druze’ is unhelpful and threatens an historic opportunity for a broad peace with all Syrians

Menachem Rosensaft

Why I teach genocide law at Columbia despite the antisemitism

Deborah Lipstadt’s decision not to teach there is understandable, but there is one important reason to stay and teach

The IDF’s October 7 investigations are just the start

The army is an executive body that must check itself, but as Yitzhak Rabin showed us, the ultimate responsibility rests at the top

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Report: 5 months before Oct. 7, Shin Bet head told Netanyahu war in Gaza inevitable

By Lazar Berman

PM’s office calls Haaretz story ‘fake news’ amid rapidly escalating war of words between premier and agency chief Ronen Bar

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani speaks on the sideline of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos on January 21, 2025. (MICHAEL BUHOLZER / POOL / AFP)

Qatar blasts Shin Bet probe that said Doha’s funds to Gaza helped Hamas launch Oct. 7

Analysis

Israeli banks rake in record profits as their war-battered customers drown in debt

Lack of competition, high interest rates and weak regulations have lenders notching record profits on the backs of households struggling to make ends meet during wartime

People withdraw money from a Bank Hapoalim ATM machine in Tel Aviv on December 9, 2024 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Former hostage Liri Albag is interviewed on Channel 12 on March 5, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Liri Albag recalls entering ‘survival mode’ on Oct. 7: ‘Feels like one long nightmare’

In interview to be aired Friday, freed hostage soldier describes ‘evil and hatred in eyes’ of Hamas captors, who she remembers thinking ‘would slaughter us, shoot us one by one’

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)

France, Germany and UK call on Israel to ensure ‘unhindered’ aid flow to Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians shop at Sheikh Radwan Market, west of Gaza City, before the Iftar, the fast-breaking meal, during the holy month of Ramadan on Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Prices soar in Gaza markets after Israel cuts off flow of aid, demanding hostages be freed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Archaeologists from Bar Ilan University, in cooperation with the Staff Officer of Archaeology, excavated the site of Sartaba/Alexandrium in the Jordan Valley in February 2025. The excavation’s director Dr. Dvir Raviv from Bar Ilan, points to a column capital on the eastern slope of the hill. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'I can imagine Herod enjoying the view with a glass of wine'

Jewish rebels and earthquake rubble: New dig aims to solve a pair of historical enigmas

By Rossella Tercatin

Sartaba/Alexandrium was built by the Hasmoneans and expanded by Herod. A team of archaeologists has launched a first excavation in 40 years to probe the final days of the fortress

Anti-Israel protesters at Barnard’s Milstein Library, March 5, 2025 (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

NYPD clears anti-Israel protesters at Barnard College after bomb threat

Student activists distribute Hamas propaganda during library takeover, the latest in a series of escalating disruptions at the Columbia-affiliated campus

Deputy Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson. (X via JTA)

Deputy Pentagon press secretary wrote antisemitic posts about Leo Frank

'Batei din must do better'

Half of Israelis in rabbinical courts say they were wronged – survey

By Rossella Tercatin

According to a study by the ITIM nonprofit, one in five Israelis also report their connection to Judaism was negatively impacted by the experience

The Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court seen on August 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

People shop at the at BIG Fashion in Glilot on March 4, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Big hype brings big crowds to big new open-air mall, but will they stick around?

By Sharon Wrobel

Opening of BIG Fashion Glilot between Tel Aviv and Herzliya creates initial buzz, but with plenty of nearby malls featuring largely the same stores, shoppers might not come rushing back

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset plenum on March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll shows Netanyahu bloc sinking, with 60% of Israelis wanting him to resign as PM

Emergency forces seen at the scene of a ramming attack at Karkur Junction, February 27, 2025 (Magen David Adom)

Teenage girl critically hurt in car-ramming terror attack last week dies of her wounds

Israeli settlers captured on security camera footage throwing stones at houses in the Palestinian village of Susya, in the southern West Bank on March 2, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Settler extremists said to shatter house windows, cars in West Bank Palestinian village

By Charlie Summers

Former minister Yizhar Shai, right, and IDF Brig. Gen. (Res) Dedi Simchi attend a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, on January 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mediator withdraws support for Judicial Selection Committee legislation

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas says he won’t run for Knesset beyond the next election

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting of his Religious Zionist Party at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich and US Treasury’s Bessent agree to strengthen dialogue on economies

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Russian Embassy is seen in Washington, February 24, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Mending ties, Putin fills empty US envoy slot – with diplomat who has decried the West

Elizabeth Tsurkov in an undated photo (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iraq says it’s working to find kidnapped Israeli-Russian academic

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressing representatives and dignitaries of Syrian communities during the National Dialogue Conference called for by the country's new authorities in Damascus on February 25, 2025. (SANA/AFP)

Syria gets fresh batch of currency printed in Russia, as ties continue to warm

By Timour Azhari

Houthi supporters raise their machine guns during an anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, January 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

US sanctions Houthi leaders, a day after reinstating terrorist designation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A member of a UN chemical weapons investigation team takes samples from sand near Damascus, Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen)

Syria vows end to ‘painful legacy’ of chemical arms

Actress Gal Gadot (right) receives the International Leadership Award from ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at the ADL Never Is Now Summit at the Javits Center on March 4, 2025, in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League/AFP)

Gal Gadot says post-Oct. 7 surge in hate inspired her to speak against antisemitism

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