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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 9, 2025

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Steve Witkoff, White House special envoy for the Middle East, speaks with reporters at the White House, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Witkoff expected to join Doha hostage deal talks; Hamas confirms several meetings with US

Israeli official says headway made since unprecedented direct discussions between Washington and terror group; US plan said to propose 10 hostages freed for 60-day truce

Demonstrators demanding the return of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza rally in Hostage Square, Tel Aviv, March 8, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Negotiators to head to Qatar as Israel denies Hamas claim of progress on 2nd truce phase

By Lazar Berman

Israeli soldiers operating inside the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on February 9, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 9: Day 520 – As Gaza ceasefire reaches day 50, no sign of IDF pullout

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hostages' families hold overnight encampment outside IDF HQ

At rally, mother decries ‘shocking’ footage of hostage son, as ex-captives back deal

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Matan Angrest’s injuries permanent, mom says at Hostages Square gathering; recently freed Eliya Cohen and Karina Ariev urge leaders to negotiate release of remaining 59 hostages

Freed hostage Ofer Calderon speaks with the Kan public broadcaster in an interview aired on March 6, 2025. (Kan screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-hostage Ofer Calderon, an avid cyclist, says riding his bike again ‘is freedom’

Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 9: Talks with Hamas focused on all hostages, not just Americans, Trump envoy says

Adam Boehler defends direct contacts with terror group, claims deal possible in weeks, believes Hamas will lay down arms * Smotrich said suspected of getting leaks from army mole

12:09 am

Young man critically injured by gunfire in south Tel Aviv
11:23 pm

Canada's ruling party elects Mark Carney as new leader, next PM
10:24 pm

Trump's hostage envoy clarifies: Hamas are 'by definition bad people'

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Universities threaten to strike if AG fired: ‘Unprecedented danger to rule of law’

University presidents say Baharav-Miara is ‘guardian against potential harm by government of citizens’ rights’; Kisch: They’re ‘confused,’ AG obstructing elected government’s work

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)

Sharaa: 'What's happening is within the expected challenges'

Syrian leader Sharaa calls for peace as over 1,000, mostly civilians, killed in clashes

By Jaidaa Taha and Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Fighting between security forces and pro-Assad militants is worst in years; death toll, mostly of Alawites, considered among highest in Syria since 2013 chemical weapon attack

This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 9, 2025, shows Syrian forces deploying in the town of Qadmus in Syria's Tartus governorate. (SANA/AFP)

Trump should talk to anyone, anywhere, to save our hostages

It’s not that I favor negotiating with terrorists, but if it will get our people home now, then that’s what must be done

Your World Zionist Congress vote is your voice in Israel

The fabric of Jewish and Israeli society is at stake as are billions of dollars that could end up funding divisive extremists

An installation attacking alleged ties between Qatar and top aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during an anti-government protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on March 8, 2025. (Noam Lehmann/The Times of Israel)

Netanyahu aides reportedly suspected of recently receiving six-figure sums from Qatar

Investigators said taken aback by size of payouts, allegedly amounting to hundreds of thousands paid via outside firms; Tel Aviv protesters seize on latest ‘#Qatargate report

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, left, and his son Henry take pictures as they visit the Al-Raqi synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

US Jews from Syria ask White House to lift sanctions so they can rebuild in Damascus

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Only seven Jews believed to remain in Syrian capital, once one of the world’s largest Jewish communities; New York family seeks to rebuild destroyed synagogues

IDF troops operate in southern Syria, in a handout photo issued on March 8, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it seized, destroyed weapons in ‘targeted raids’ in southern Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

People lounge in the AquaDome area of Icon of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, during a media day preview as it prepares for its inaugural public voyage, January 11, 2024, in Miami. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

Inside story

As war brings spikes in airfare and antisemitism, cruise ships see a new wave of Israelis

By Sharon Wrobel

With traditional vacation plans more expensive and unpredictable than ever, people desperate for a break take to the high seas in what may be an enduring trend

Man arrested after scaling London’s Big Ben with Palestinian flag, staying on ledge for 16 hours

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Negotiators finally bring him down from iconic clock tower; supporters cheer him from the ground as he records entire affair for Instagram

A protester holding a Palestinian flag gestures from the side of the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the clock's bell 'Big Ben,' in central London, March 8, 2025. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

ToI investigates

AG, police silent in face of growing ecosystem of Haredi evasion organizations

‘We regret that law enforcement agencies are de facto condoning criminality on such an important issue,’ says Movement for Quality Government; offense punishable by 15 years in jail

Ultra-Orthodox Jews outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A storefront in a mall in Tehran filmed by an Iranian dissident. (Channel 12 screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranians film luxurious lifestyle of those connected to regime for Israeli news outlet

Experts say Iranians risked execution by sending footage to Channel 12; ‘We love Israel… Iranian women fell in love with Israeli soldiers,’ Baha’i woman says in report

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking during a meeting with Iranian goverment officials in Tehran on March 8, 2025. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iran’s Khamenei says Tehran will not negotiate under US ‘bully’ pressure

White House reiterates threat of military action or deal after Trump says he sent letter to Iran seeking talks with time running out to resolve issue: ‘We can’t let them have a nuke’

Illustrative: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC-N) fast attack craft Shahid Raeisi (P313-8) during joint naval military drills between Iran, Russia, and China in the Gulf of Oman, March 15, 2023. (Iranian Army office / AFP)

Iran, Russia and China to hold joint naval exercises this week

By AFP

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock gives a press statement on the support of Ukraine, at the Foreign Office in Berlin on March 1, 2025 (RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)

France, Germany, Italy and UK give support to Arab-backed plan for rebuilding Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Foreign ministers say proposal rejected by US and Israel and that does not significantly address Hamas ‘shows a realistic path to the reconstruction of Gaza’

Carmela Keren Yakuti poses for a picture outside her house as residents return to their homes in Dovev, a moshav or cooperative agricultural community in northern Israel close to the border with Lebanon on March 3, 2025 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

‘Great to be back home’: Israelis returning to north describe joy, trepidation

By AFP and ToI Staff

Some communities are seeing quick resurgence of residents, while others are still largely empty amid destruction caused by lengthy war

Illustrative: A vehicle drives past buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes during the latest war, near the border wall in the southern Lebanese village of Ramia on March 5, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF says it struck terror targets in Lebanon and Gaza amid ceasefires

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Medical personnel at the site where a bus overturned in southern Israel, March 9, 2025. (MDA)

Senior police officer arrives at scene of bus crash, discovers teenage son was killed

Bus overturns on way to Beersheba from Tel Aviv, killing Liron Avitan, 17, and injuring 12 others; 436 people killed in traffic accidents in Israel last year

More Headlines

A swastika spray-painted onto a Magen David Adom emergency service vehicle in Jerusalem on March 9, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Swastikas sprayed over Israeli flag logo on ambulances in Haredi Jerusalem neighborhood

By Charlie Summers

Damage caused by a firebomb at Beth Tikvah synagogue, Montreal, December 18, 2024. (B'nai Brith Canada via JTA)

Canadian Jewish groups underwhelmed by national forum for combatting antisemitism

Ahmad Nuseir Zahalka (left) and Khaled Jamal Ghanem, who were shot dead in separate incidents in northern Israel, March 9, 2025. (Courtesy)

Two men killed in separate shooting incidents overnight in Arab towns

By Charlie Summers

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

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