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What Matters Most On Monday, March 10, 2025

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US presidential envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony to raise the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag at the US State Department in Washington, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Says 'I don't really care' that Dermer got 'a little upset'

Trump envoy defends his direct talks with Hamas, says US ‘not an agent of Israel’

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

In flurry of interviews, Adam Boehler says he believes Hamas will ultimately lay down its weapons, forgo political power; hopes for deal to free hostages within weeks

Op-ed: Day 521 of the war

Meet Adam Boehler, Trump’s complacent, confused and dangerously naive hostage envoy

Hamas leaders must be laughing in disbelief after their interactions with a man who says he tries to identify their ‘human elements’; nobody’s laughing in Israel, least of all the families of the hostages

US hostage envoy Adam Boehler in a CNN interview on March 9, 2025. (CNN screenshot)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio disembarks from his plane upon arrival at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah on March 10, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 10: IDF says it struck suspects in south Gaza heading to collect drone

Rubio says Trump envoy Boehler’s ‘one-off’ meeting with Hamas ‘hasn’t borne fruit’ * Families of hostages demand Israel resume electricity to Gaza, threaten to go to High Court

9:27 pm

IDF says it struck suspects in south Gaza heading to collect drone flown from Israel
9:12 pm

Hundreds in New York protest in support of detained Columbia anti-Israel activist
8:57 pm

Syrian sources say Israeli airstrikes target former army bases

Posters of Israelis held hostage in Gaza are seen posted outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, under a banner reading: "First, the hostages!" on March 9, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Smotrich: Government preparing Gaza emigration authority

Israeli negotiators set to head to Qatar for hostage talks, amid Gaza aid cut-off

By Agencies, Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

US envoy Witkoff reportedly expected in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and in Doha on Wednesday; hostage families sleep outside Defense Ministry, demanding deal

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

US-Hamas talks focused on last living American hostage, Edan Alexander, group says

By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a meeting of the Knesset Land of Israel Caucus, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich: Government establishing ‘migration administration’ for Gaza exodus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil on the Columbia University campus in New York at an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (Ted Shaffrey/AP)

US authorities arrest Palestinian Columbia student who led anti-Israel protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Immigration agents haul in Mahmoud Khalil, who has an American wife, tell his attorney they are revoking his green card; last year he was among leaders of campus demonstrations

Archaeologists examine a rare skeleton bound in iron rings found in the remains of a church some three kilometers northwest of Jerusalem. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'I had never seen anything like it'

Chained in faith: 5th-century female skeleton may be world’s 1st self-mortifying Christian nun

By Rossella Tercatin

Cutting-edge technology allows a team of Israeli researchers to determine that mysterious ironclad remains found in a church near Jerusalem belonged to a woman

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer walks into the Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington, DC on December 26, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Inside story

Dermer lobbied for moving Gazans to Sinai during ‘tense’ meet with Egyptian official

PM’s confidant claimed Egyptian public less opposed to idea than its government, alarming Cairo, which has since sought to bring him to country to further make case against idea

Palestinians shop for food at the market in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel announces halt to its supply of power to Gaza, in bid to pressure Hamas

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

L: Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90), R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu tried to cajole Shin Bet head to quit during ‘tense’ meeting – report

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

No denial from Prime Minister’s Office, which lashed out at agency’s October 7 probe that noted Netanyahu government policies

Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, the outgoing head of the IDF's international cooperation unit, during a handover ceremony on August 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Former head of IDF’s foreign liaison unit named new military spokesman

By Emanuel Fabian

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends the Land of Israel Caucus at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Security cabinet officials said to suspect IDF source regularly leaking info to Smotrich

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government to hold discussion on potential firing of attorney general on March 23

Next cabinet meeting will deal with attempted ouster of Baharav-Miara; Communications Minister Karhi asserts that after government approves move she’ll no longer have any authority

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference at the Government Press Office in Jerusalem, September 4, 2024. (Abir Sultan/Pool via AP)

72.5% of Israelis believe Netanyahu should take responsibility for Oct. 7 and resign

Amichai Lau Lavie and Julie Dorf

Christian conservatives have coopted Queen Esther as a symbol

American Jews must stand up against a movement that appropriates a Jewish heroine to attack free speech and queer people

Mordechai Soskil

Happy Purim! L’Chayim?

Ahead of the festivities: News for those who think Jewish American day school kids don’t binge drink and won’t pay a lifelong price

Ultra-Orthodox soldiers draft to the IDF's new Haredi brigade, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, January 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF sending 14,000 more draft orders to Haredi men, but won’t meet enlistment goal

By Emanuel Fabian

New orders to be sent out in 3 waves over coming months; of 10,000 previous orders, only 177 have enlisted; IDF unlikely to meet target of 4,800 ultra-Orthodox soldiers per year

Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a session ain the Knesset plenum, April 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Religious Services minister backs down from bid to control appointments of city rabbis

By Rossella Tercatin

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends an Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Member States of The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah on March 7, 2025. (Amer HILABI / AFP)

Iran says won’t negotiate under ‘intimidation’ as Trump ramps up pressure

By AFP and ToI Staff

US ends waiver that allowed neighboring Iraq to buy electricity from Iranians; Tehran’s top envoy Araghchi says talking with Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China instead

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)

Kremlin says Iran making its own decisions on nuclear talks with US

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani speaks to the press at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2024. (Drew Angerer/AFP)

Attack on Iran’s atomic sites would contaminate Gulf water supply, Qatar PM says

Muhammad leads Abraham, Moses, Jesus and others in prayer. Persian miniature, 15th century. (Public domain)

Interview'Jews and Muslims have similar challenges in the modern era'

This Muslim scholar wants to revive the ‘Judeo-Islamic tradition,’ starting with Moses

By Zack Rothbart

In his new book ‘The Islamic Moses,’ US-based author Mustafa Akyol turns to the Quran’s focus on a shared prophet to highlight a historic closeness and foster interfaith relations

Jewish groups alarmed at revelation

Australian police: Organized crime network faked synagogue bomb attack plot

By Agencies, Zev Stub and ToI Staff

Deputy national security commissioner says suspects prepared explosives, then informed authorities with the aim of ‘changing their criminal status’

Illustrative: Australian police block a street near a crime scene at Bondi Junction in Sydney, April 14, 2024. (Rick Rycroft/AP)

The Moreno Family from Tangier dressed up to emulate the Andalusian past in an instance of ‘Reenactment Tourism.’ Photography Studio in the Alhambra compound, Spain 1953. (Courtesy of Daniel Moreno)

Interview'Spain was often idealized as a revived Jewish fatherland'

Morocco’s Spanish-speaking Jewish minority illuminated in prizewinning book

By Rossella Tercatin

National Jewish Book Award recipient Aviad Moreno’s work focuses on northern Morocco’s Hispanic Jews, whose yearning for a ‘homeland’ was often for Spain, not elusive Israel

Israel unveils ‘New Day Will Rise,’ its 2025 Eurovision power ballad

Nova massacre survivor Yuval Raphael, who will perform in Basel, Switzerland in May, says the song ‘represents the healing that we all need and the optimism for the days ahead’

Yuval Raphael, Israel's representative at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest (Shai Franco/Kan)

A street vendor awaits customers by his banana stall in the Druze-majority Jaramana city in the Damascus countryside on March 2, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)

Katz says Israel will soon allow Syrian Druze to work in the Golan Heights

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Announcement comes as Israeli politicians lambast Syrian transitional government for reported mass killings, urge European states to ‘wake up’ and stop granting regime legitimacy

Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government attach a turret atop an armored vehicle parked along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia, March 9, 2025. (Omar Haj Kadour / AFP)

Syria vows accountability after over 1,000 reportedly slain in mass killings

Druze men seen during a funeral in Majdal Shams, February 14, 2025. (Michael Giladi/ Flash90)

Cabinet okays NIS 4 billion plan to boost country’s Druze, Circassians over 5 years

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

An Israir flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israir set to become third Israeli carrier serving New York route, with lower airfare

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli airline seeks approval from US authorities to operate long-haul service after rival Arkia launched its first US flights last month, challenging El Al’s monopoly on route

More Headlines

The scene of a fatal shooting in Jaffa linked to the criminal underworld , March 10, 2025. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in Jaffa overnight, another injured

Beersheba police hold a lion cub rescued from the southern Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj on March 9, 2025. (Israel Police)

Police seize illegally held lion cubs and monkeys seen in viral videos

Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic who was kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023, speaks in a clip aired November 13, 2023, by Iraq's Al Rabiaa satellite TV network. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US reportedly warns Iraq of consequences if it doesn’t ensure kidnapped Israeli freed

By Lazar Berman

Trucks carrying WHO (World Health Organization) aid prepare to cross a checkpoint on Salah al-Din road in al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip, on February 13, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Knesset to debate withdrawing from WHO over ‘anti-Israel bias, antisemitism’

Canadian Liberal party leader Mark Carney smiles as he delivers his victory speech during the Liberal leadership announcement in Ottawa, Ontario, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s next PM, taking reins of Liberal party, vows to win trade war US started

By Michel COMTE and Ben Simon

US President Donald Trump walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn on March 9, 2025 in Washington, DC (Samuel Corum / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump says Ukraine ‘may not survive’ the war with Russia

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Mayor Avichai Stern visits kids at a school in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, as schools reopened for students evacuated durting the war with Hezbollah, March 9, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Northern mayor’s aide arrested for scuffling with education minister’s guards

By Charlie Summers and Diana Bletter

Police at the scene where a car exploded as a result of a suspected bombing, on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Former Bat Yam mayor injured in suspected car bombing while driving through Tel Aviv

Police at the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022 (Courtesy)

West Bank man sentenced to 17 years over 2022 ramming attack that wounded one

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Visitors enter through the main gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" (literally in English: "work makes (one) free") at the entrance to the Auschwitz German Nazi death camp ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

Israeli student detained and fined for alleged Nazi salute on trip to Auschwitz

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