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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 8, 2025

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This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 8, 2025, shows Syrian forces manning a checkpoint in the coastal city of Latakia. (SANA/AFP)

745 civilians killed in clashes between Syrian regime and pro-Assad forces, says watchdog

By AFP and ToI Staff

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights describes killings of Alawites as ‘executions’ accompanied by looting; women and children among victims

This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows members of the Syrian security forces entering the western city of Baniyas in Syria's coastal Tartous province to reinforce government troops in clashes with militants loyal to deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by SANA / AFP)

Katz calls new Syria president an ‘al-Qaeda terrorist’ after reports Alawites executed

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tuesday's wasn't the first meeting Boehler held with Hamas

Netanyahu confidant ‘lashed out’ at US envoy over direct talks with Hamas — official

Dermer fumes at Boehler for discussing number of prisoners Israel would release for American hostages without Netanyahu’s consent; Israel had warned against such a meet in February

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer (L) arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. Adam Boehler, CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University, January 21, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

White House publishes graphic labeled 'Shalom Columbia' on X

Trump administration cuts $400 million to Columbia University due to antisemitism

Federal antisemitism task force announces cancellations of grants and contracts with NY private university, in most significant step yet in crackdown against colleges

More than 50 former hostages sign letter backing deal

Hamas issues clip of hostage Matan Angrest, in apparent effort to rally Israelis for deal

Captive soldier’s family says video shows time has run out, point to his ‘severe psychological state, non-functional right hand, and broken nose,’ and express torture fears

Hostage Matan Angrest is seen in a propaganda video published by Hamas on March 7, 2025. (Screenshot: Telegram)

Israelis protest for a hostage deal outside the home of Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana in Tel Aviv on March 3, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Rallies for hostages and against renewed judicial overhaul efforts begin in Tel Aviv

Demonstrators demand Israel extend ceasefire to save more captives; anti-overhaul movement reawakened by justice minister’s plan to oust attorney general

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) hosts recently released hostage Eli Sharabi at 10 Downing Street, March 7, 2025. (Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street)

Expanding his global campaign to free all hostages, Eli Sharabi meets UK’s Starmer

Ashraf Zughayer (L), a 46-year-old convicted Palestinian terrorist who spent 23 years in prison serving six life sentences and was released by Israel, is greeted by a well-wisher at his family home in Kafr Aqab in East Jerusalem on January 26, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

From the WebRelease of Hamas terrorist leader in hostage deal opens old wounds for his victims’ families

'You see evil and hatred in their eyes'

Liri Albag recalls Gaza ‘hell,’ pain of knowing those against hostage deal would ‘sacrifice’ her

Freed hostage, kidnapped on October 7 while serving as a surveillance soldier, says she set boundaries between her and her captors; modestly dismisses accounts of her bravery

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

Analysis

After doctors accuse Israel of shooting Gazan kids, experts see need for a second opinion

The evidence behind a New York Times essay suggesting troops targeted children is less clear-cut than it seems, and there is reason to question the piece’s scathingly anti-IDF author

Top row from left: Soldiers operating in Rafah in 2024. (IDF spokesperson); Palestinians arrive at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah on June 8, 2024. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi); A physician checks on an injured child lying on a bed in the emergency room in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia the northern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2024. (AFP). Bottom row from left: Injured Palestinian children lie on a hospital bed after evacuation into Al-Ahli Arab hospita in Gaza City on October 21, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP); A Palestinian man rushes an injured five-year-old boy into a hospital after an Israeli strike, in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on January 14, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP); a Hamas fighter holds up his rifle in Khan Younis on February 20, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana). Illustration by Times of Israel.

Protesters settle in for the night at the Begin Gate of the IDF's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2025, vowing not to leave until all hostages are released from Gaza. (Naama Zeevi / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

March 8: Hostage deal activists set up protest camp outside IDF headquarters

Unconfirmed report says Hamas willing to free some living hostages to extend 1st phase of truce * Man who scaled London’s Big Ben carrying Palestinian flag refuses to come down

3:36 am

Nova festival survivors who took psychedelic drugs may have been better protected against trauma, researchers find
10:58 pm

Man who scaled London's Big Ben carrying Palestinian flag resists calls to come down, after more than 10 hours atop clock tower
9:52 pm

Hamas agrees to free some living hostages for extension of ceasefire's first phase -- report

An AI image of the reconstructed Gaza Strip from Egypt's "Early Recovery, Reconstruction, Development of Gaza" program, March 4, 2025 (Egyptian Presidency)

After initial rejection, US sends mixed signals on Arab alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan

While State Department and White House characterize Arab plan as inadequate, Witkoff — who is seen as influential figure — says it has compelling features and is good first step

Diplomats attend an Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Member States of The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah on March 7, 2025 (Amer HILABI / AFP)

Islamic nations adopt Arab counter to Trump’s Gaza takeover plan

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari with a motorcycle in a Hamas command center underneath Gaza City's Rantisi Hospital, in a photo released by the military on November 13, 2023. Hagari said the IDF believes the motorcycle was used by Hamas terrorists to bring a hostage abducted from southern Israel to the basement center on October 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hostages activist: IDF’s Hagari should be given a medal rather than shown the door

Gil Dickman, cousin of murdered captive Carmel Gat, relates how outgoing army spokesman went above and beyond his job to personally present family with information about her fate

Syria: The Druze’s defining moment

If the new regime in Damascus keeps pressuring the Druze to hand over their weapons, the ensuing battles could lead to a bloodbath

Steven E. Zipperstein

Why do citizens of Palestine still have refugee status?

If the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are an independent state, what is the status of someone born in Ramallah after ’49?

Incoming IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir salutes at a handover ceremony at the military's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: New IDF chief tells families of hostage soldiers they are his top priority

Relatives tells Eyal Zamir they feel they can rely more on foreign governments than Jerusalem to bring back loved ones

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to AFP during an interview at the Iranian consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 7, 2025. (Amer Hilabi/AFP)

Interview

Iran FM says no to nuclear talks with US under Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ policy

Araghchi says nuclear program cannot be destroyed in a military attack and warns any Israeli attempt to do so will ‘turn into a widespread fire in the region’

Houthi supporters raise weapons as they shout slogans during an anti-USand anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on February 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Yemen’s Houthis threaten to resume attacks on Israel if no aid to Gaza in four days

By AFP and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel, Palestinian supporters march near the United Nations headquarters at a protest against Israel during the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in New York. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Poll: Americans’ support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high

By JTA and ToI Staff

Only 46 percent of respondents to Gallup poll say they sympathize with Israelis more than Palestinians; among Democrats, support falls to 21 percent

Bereaved father Moshe Shapiro at an event displaying his caricatures sketched before and after his son, Aner Shapiro, was killed on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Interview

Oct. 7 bereaved father draws his hope, sadness and criticism in daily caricatures

By Jessica Steinberg

Moshe Shapiro, father of hero Aner Shapiro who died protecting Nova partygoers in roadside shelter, seeks his own rehabilitation through a familiar hobby

A police officer speaks on his mobile phone at the scene as he and colleagues search for the male travelers who were pushed into the canal by three men accused of gang-raping two women, in Koppal district of southern state of Karnataka, India, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

Israeli and Indian woman gang-raped, Indian man killed in Karnataka attack

Group of five assaulted by men on motorbikes while out stargazing by a river, local media reports; two suspects in their early 20s arrested

Wild olive trees exposed to westerly winds from the Mediterranean at Atlit, northern Israel, have taken on strange shapes, February 17, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Experts unite to protect what could be the last wild olive trees in Israel – or the world

The largest known population of the ancient plants grows on fossilized sand ridges in the north and could prove helpful for the olive industry during climate change, researchers say

An Iranian Jewish man prays at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue in the city of Yazd, 420 miles south of capital Tehran, Iran, November 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

'Being a friend of Jews means standing up for them everywhere'

Trump’s refugee ban is keeping 700 persecuted Iranian Jews out of the US

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The US president has signed an order indefinitely halting the admission of refugees – including applicants for a special program for members of religious minority groups in Iran

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Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray outside the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City while attending the first Ramadan Friday noon prayer, on March 7, 2025, during Islam's fasting holy month. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

90,000 Muslim worshipers pray peacefully at Al-Aqsa on first Friday of Ramadan

By Charlie Summers

The skyline of Cincinnati (Getty Images via JTA); inset: Rabbi Ari Jun. (Courtesy)

Progressive Cincinnati rabbi disinvited from anti-Nazi rally because he supports Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jesse Eisenberg arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

A real PoleJesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after film wins Oscar

By Shira Li Bartov

FILE - Kanye West, known as Ye, watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, on March 11, 2022(AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

That was YeezyAdidas sells last Kanye West shoes, donates some proceeds to charity

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

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