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What Matters Most On Friday, March 7, 2025

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US President Donald Trump (left) speaks, as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on March 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP); Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with a group of defense officials, in Tehran, February 12, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran says it has not received the letter yet

Trump says he’s written to Khamenei offering talks on Iran’s nuclear program

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president reiterates he won’t allow Iran to acquire the bomb, warns that if US decides to act with force ‘it’s going to be a terrible thing,’ says something will happen ‘soon’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 7: Over 50 ex-hostages tell Netanyahu to free remaining captives: ‘May be last chance’

Official confirms Netanyahu confidant ‘lashed out’ at US envoy over direct negotiations with Hamas * Katz slams Syria’s Islamist rulers amid bloody crackdown on Alawite insurgency

9:40 pm

Syrian leaders calls on Alawite insurgents to surrender 'before it's too late'
9:25 pm

Investigators suspect PM's aides received money from Qatar in recent months -- report
9:09 pm

White House posts 'Shalom Columbia' graphic after Trump waves goodbye to school's federal grants

US President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington,on March 6, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Envoy: 'You’ll see some announcements in the coming days'

Trump defends direct US-Hamas talks as Israel seethes, attempts to sabotage them

US president says effort is aimed at releasing Israeli hostages, but Witkoff admits US captives are priority and that Trump issued ultimatum after Hamas didn’t play ball in meeting

Demonstrators raise cutout portraits of Israeli hostages during a protest calling for the implementation of the second phase and the completion of the agreement for the release of all hostages, in Tel Aviv on March 6, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

AnalysisAnalysts: Direct US-Hamas talks reflect ‘dysfunction’ in ceasefire negotiations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File: Former US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Edan Alexander, a hostage held by Hamas, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, October 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 7: Day 518 – Witkoff encourages Hamas to release US citizen as ‘goodwill’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

The World Zionist Organization holds a reading of the Declaration of Independence at the pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall, April 23, 2023 (WZO screenshot)

Promoted podcastJPPI

The World Zionist Organization

Yizhar Hess, Vice Chairman of the WZO, explains how the WZO shapes Jewish priorities, allocates billions in funding, and why every Jew should vote to influence its decisions.

Netanyahu's office, political echelon clashed with him

IDF spokesman Hagari to retire from military, in move widely seen as dismissal

By Emanuel Fabian

New IDF chief Zamir doesn’t promote popular wartime spokesman after his 2-year tenure; presumed Katz wouldn’t sign off on advancement; he had sought to be next defense attaché to US

IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari gives a statement to the media in Tel Aviv on October 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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)

The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza

By ToI Staff and JTA

Two dozen men — fathers, soldiers, security guards, tech workers, dreamers, dancers and more — are still captive after over 500 days, along with the bodies of 35 others

Rom Braslavski was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, from the Nova desert rave. (Courtesy)

Released hostage provides first public sign of life from captive Rom Braslavski

Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, left, US president Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979. (AP/ Bob Daugherty)

ToI podcastFriday Focus with Lazar Berman: During Gaza War, cold peace with Egypt gets frostier

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Ultra-Orthodox men pray at the tomb of the 4th century scholar Rav Ashi, which is located on the Israeli border with Lebanon, March 7, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)

IDF escorts hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews to pray at tomb straddling Lebanon border

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Visit comes after weeks of incidents in which Hassidim crossed border barrier to try and reach apparent burial place of scholar from the Lebanese side, clashing with Israeli troops

Members of the Syrian government security forces deploy at a street in Damascus, Syria, March 6, 2025. (AP/Omar Sanadiki)

Over 70 said killed in fighting between Syrian government forces, Assad loyalists

By AFP

Violence erupts outside the Knesset plenum on March 3, 2025, as guards push away people including bereaved families trying to enter the spectators' gallery to watch the parliamentary debate on the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023. (Screen capture: X/October Council, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Knesset speaker apologizes for violence against bereaved families at Oct. 7 probe debate

Ohana doesn’t address October Council’s demand for state commission of inquiry into Hamas onslaught, defends his husband over video of him flipping off pro-hostage deal protesters

In this photo provided by Egypt's presidency media office, Arab leaders pose during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, March 4, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Egypt’s farcical plan for postwar Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

ToI’s senior analyst dissects the Arab leaders’ endorsement of a $53 billion Gaza plan that neither demilitarizes Hamas nor brings any security guarantees to Israel

This screenshot from the trailer for 'Gaza: How to Survive A War Zone' shows narrator Abdullah Al-Yazouri, whose father is a Hamas deputy minister. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Interview'We have now exposed the BBC’s arrogance'

UK journalist who blew whistle on BBC Gaza documentary: ‘I caught them in bed with Hamas’

David Collier, who swiftly revealed the film’s narrator to be ‘Hamas royalty,’ believes the episode could be a turning point for an outlet perennially accused of anti-Israel bias

Amalek and the need to name evil

Americans Jews must learn that there are antisemites so irredeemably evil, the Bible’s ’baby Hitler’ scenario applies (Zachor)

Noah E Abramowitz

Parashat Zakhor and the transfer temptation

You can read this passage to support Meir Kahane’s expulsion plan, but that’s simply not the Jewish way

BDS movement rejects Israeli-Palestinian Oscar winner ‘No Other Land’

Anti-Israel boycott group says film about West Bank home demolitions violates ‘anti-normalization guidelines’; Israeli government has denounced it as slanderous

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)

Police at an anti-Israel protest in Times Square, New York City, January 6, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Man charged with hate crimes for threatening NYC synagogue

A protest led by Within Our Lifetime in Manhattan, September 17, 2021. (Luke Tress)

Legal assault threatens NY nonprofit that has handled funding for anti-Israel groups

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to have promoted ‘civilian arrangement’ with Hamas days before Oct. 7

PM’s office calls report a ‘continuation of efforts’ to distract from Shin Bet ‘failures’, but doesn’t address his alleged orders for handling border clashes 6 days before invasion

Former Israel Police chief Roni Alsheich speaks at a protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, February 25, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ex-police chief says he begged Netanyahu to cut ties with Qatar; Likud: Fake news

Left: Meir Orbach from the the Zinman Institute of Archaeology – University of Haifa holding the Extinct rhino jaw from Nesher Ramla site. (Prof. Reuven Yeshurun). Right: Auroch skeleton. (Wikipedia)

Prehistoric picky eaters?

Early humans in Israel really liked their steaks, new study shows

By Rossella Tercatin

While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, archaeological remains from the Nesher Ramla site have revealed

Voice of the People participants celebrate at the VoP summit Gala, March 5, 2025 (Dor Pazuelo)

Reporter's notebook

Team building: New program gathers Jewish leaders to take on big Jewish problems

President Isaac Herzog conceived of the Voice of the People initiative as a ‘Jewish Davos’ to see what a diverse group of concerned Jews can accomplish

Visitors on a tour at the new National Library of Israel in 2024 (Courtesy)

'A library can have an effect beyond just studying'

After Oct. 7, Israel’s new National Library helps a resilient nation turn the page

By Jessica Steinberg

The $225 million building opened to the public just days after the Hamas atrocities – and has become an unexpected source of unity for a diverse society craving culture in wartime

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)

Hasidic MKs tell Netanyahu they’ll oppose budget if draft exemption law not passed

Report says despite PM’s promises, Haredi draft exemption bill likely to be postponed; out of 10,000 Haredim who received draft orders since July, only 177 have enlisted, IDF says

Ultra-Orthodox posters in Beit Shemesh demand the passage of a law exempting yeshiva students from military service prior to the passage of the 2025 state budget, March 6, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Haredi lawmakers split on approach to budget, which must pass this month or gov’t falls

By Sam Sokol and Leon Kraiem

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally on the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024 (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)

US reportedly will use AI to revoke visas from students perceived to be pro-Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In first, Fox News says State Department canceled visa of student who took part in ‘Hamas-supporting disruptions’; Rubio: ‘Zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists’

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, standing left, speaks to reporters while holding his son X Æ A-Xii as US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 11, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP)

Amid growing outcry, Trump says Musk’s cuts should be done with ‘scalpel’ not ‘hatchet’

By AFP

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Naftali Bennett attends a commemoration ceremony for a slain Israeli soldier at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, December 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Ex-PM Bennett says he wouldn’t include Arab parties, only Zionists, in next government

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich visits the illegal farming outpost of Mishkenot Harel in the central West Bank on December 29, 2024 (Office of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich)

West Bank illegal outposts, land appropriation hit record high in 2024 — watchdog

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: A US ninth grader places her cellphone in to a phone holder as she enters class at Delta High School, February 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Classroom modeTel Aviv schools to ban smartphones starting in September

By AFP

Flagpoles line in rows in front of a building of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Israel hails cancellation of ‘biased’ Geneva Conventions meeting on Palestinians

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ben Gurion University campus in the southern city of Beersheba on May 28, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Ben-Gurion University suspends lecturer who said IDF soldiers are ‘taught to murder’

By Stuart Winer

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)

Gaza aid ops in peril as millions of promised USAID dollars frozen under Trump’s cuts

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Chairwomen and female CEOs of tech and biomed companies ring the opening ball at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in celebration of International Women's Day, March 7, 2024. (Courtesy)

Only one-tenth of Israeli startups are headed by female CEOs as gender gap persists

By Sharon Wrobel

For illustration: Screen grab from NYSE video marking Riskified's IPO, August 3, 2021. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli-founded fraud prevention firm Riskified said to be weighing sale — report

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli soldiers walking next to buildings destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

US judge rules crypto lawsuit seeking billions for Oct. 7 victims can move forward

This picture taken in Paris on April 28, 2024 shows a Thalys train of French railway company SNCF at Gare du Nord railway station. (JOEL SAGET / AFP)

WWII bomb found on tracks to Paris Gare du Nord train station, halting traffic

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