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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with the media on a military airplane as he flies to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 10, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP)

US envoy Boehler’s Hamas meetings were a ‘one-off’ that ‘hasn’t borne fruit,’ Rubio says

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Israeli negotiators head to Doha to discuss extending truce in return for further hostage releases; families urge return of all captives in a single phase

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump listens as Adam Boehler, CEO of US International Development Finance Corporation, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 11: Day 522 – Gaza talks proceed as Israel smarts from US-Hamas meetups

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

A Palestinian man ferries a gas cylinder on his bicycle at a displacement camp west of Jabalia city in the northern Gaza Strip on March 11, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 11: FM says Israel open to achieving Gaza goals through talks, but will resume war if needed

PM to sue former minister Ya’alon for ‘despicable lie’ alleging he took money from Qatar * US resumes military aid to Ukraine as Kyiv says open to 30-day ceasefire with Russia

8:15 pm

US hostage envoy Boehler visited Iraq last month to push for release of Israeli-Russian Elizabeth Tsurkov -- report
7:42 pm

Witkoff lands in Doha to join talks aimed at extending fragile Gaza truce
7:06 pm

'I fought, and I fought, and I won': Ex-hostage Omer Wenkert says Hamas release ceremony didn't humiliate him

Protesters demand the release of Columbia protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil at a rally in New York City, March 10, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Trump vows more arrests; will 'deport terrorist sympathizers'

Protesters call for campus takeovers as Columbia activist threatened with deportation

Hundreds protest outside ICE center in New York for Mahmoud Khalil; legal experts say feds have grounds to deport; free speech group warns of chilling effect and calls for clarity

Protesters gather for a demonstration in support of Palestinian anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Liberal Jewish groups condemn arrest of Columbia anti-Israel protest leader

By JTA and ToI Staff

A video posted to on March 7, 2025, is captioned, 'Thank God, we've arrived in Britain,' and shows the reported terror suspect aboard a dinghy with other migrants in the English Channel before being picked up by the UK's Border Force. (Screen capture: Facebook/Abu Wadei Alkassass, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gazan who prayed for death to all Jews arrested after reaching UK on migrant dinghy

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Tinshemet Cave, a Middle Paleolithic site in central Israel, during excavations. (Yossi Zaidner)

Sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted in prehistoric Israel, rare cave burials show

By Rossella Tercatin

Using dentists’ tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared rituals and knowledge, and possibly lived in harmony

Israel held talks with White House over Boehler's comments

Ahead of Doha talks, Witkoff says ‘deadlines’ key for deal on ceasefire’s next phase

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Trump envoy says all on the table if Hamas agrees to disarm and leave Gaza; Israeli delegation heads to Doha with Witkoff proposal on the agenda; Hamas says it’s showing ‘flexibility’

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

A youth pushes a bicycle loaded with filled-up water containers outside the Southern Gaza Desalination plant, which stopped working after Israel cut off electricity to the Gaza Strip, in Deir el-Balah in the center of the Palestinian territory on March 10, 2025. (Eyad BABA/AFP)

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan condemn Israeli electricity cut to Gaza water plant

By AFP

Analysis

After Trump turns against Zelensky and other allies, could Israel be next in line?

Overjoyed by US president’s return to White House, Netanyahu is determined to avoid any daylight between him and country’s ‘best friend,’ but cracks have emerged over hostage talks

US President Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a news conference in the East Room of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

This photo released by Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev shows the site where a downed Ukrainian drone fell, outside Moscow, Russia, on March 11, 2025. (Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev official telegram channel via AP)

Russia says massive Ukrainian drone attack thwarted as US-brokered talks kick off

The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, October 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Musk says X platform hit by massive cyberattack

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the district court in Tel Aviv, where he is testifying in his corruption trial, March 10, 2025. The display includes a 'suitcase of cash' representing Qatari payments to Gaza, and a banner about so-called 'Qatargate.' (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Sweeping gag order slapped on probe into Netanyahu aides’ alleged ties to Qatar

By Jeremy Sharon

Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court prohibits sharing details, including from foreign media, of police investigation into alleged work for Gulf states by figures in the PM’s office

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

Op-ed

To ensure his political survival, Netanyahu gave Hamas a ceasefire free of charge

For 11 days, Hamas has been free to reorganize without fear of attack or having to release a single hostage. That’s because all that matters now for the PM is passing the budget

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)

Heads of 10 Israeli colleges: Attempt to fire AG ‘a call to dismantle the rule of law’

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

Rabbi Elhanan Danino speaks at a memorial event in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 20, 2025. (Alon Gilboa/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Interview

A mourning rabbi looks to hostage son, slain in Gaza, for direction as he pushes for a deal

By Jessica Steinberg

Before he was murdered in captivity, Ori Danino helped fellow hostages, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, in acts of heroism that color how his father now honors his legacy

FROM THE BLOGS

What Arab leaders must say out loud for their Gaza plan to work

Spelling out the essentials on security is the only way to enlist US support and lay bare the real reasons for Israel’s rejection of the plan

Splitting the Attorney General role would be a win-win

It’s not easy being the government’s legal counsel while also being chief prosecutor tasked with standing up to the government

Bridging the Arab and Trump visions on Gaza refugees

An idea that could result in 40 percent of Gaza’s population opting to leave – a prospect that should expedite preparations for reconstruction

Malak Khizran, right, with her mother, Malika, at their home in the Druze village of Yarka, Western Galilee, adjacent to Julis, on March 4, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We are much more than Druze pita'

Oft-overlooked Druze see new NIS 3.9 billion plan as step to address old grievances

By Diana Bletter

After a Haifa stabbing attack mislabeled as terrorism sent fear through the close-knit Druze community last week, Sunday’s government package sparks hope as ‘end to painful issues’

The Dead Sea Works in southern Israel, December 7, 2012. (Doron Horowitz/Flash 90)

State has failed for years to properly manage Dead Sea Works — Comptroller report

Report maps failure by multiple ministries and government agencies to regulate, supervise, and charge for the mining of minerals that belong to the public

A stolen Israeli vehicle taken by a Palestinian man who crashed it into a checkpoint next to the Tzrifin Israel Defense Forces base, east of Rishon Lezion, on March 11, 2025. (Social media/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian crashes stolen car into IDF base, arrested after chase

One person, identified as soldier, wounded in incident; police say suspect was in Israel illegally, incident not thought to be terror-related

Palestinian shopkeepers look as Israeli armored vehicles drive by during a raid in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin amid a weeks-long operation in the West Bank on March 4, 2025. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Four Palestinians reported killed in West Bank anti-terror raids

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

US President Donald Trump's adviser on Arab affairs Massad Boulos (L) meets with Samaria Regional Council chair Yossi Dagan in Washington on March 9, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Trump Arab aide meets with settler leader in bid to lift his standing with Israeli right

Fan Lavi Kirel waves an Israeli flag as basketball player Deni Avdija takes a free throw during a March 3 game in Philadelphia. (Jon Marks/Times of Israel)

No longer riding pine, Deni Avdija blazes trail of pride for Israel across the NBA

Overcoming a slow start after arriving in Portland, the fifth-year forward is inspiring overt support for the Jewish state while putting up the best numbers of his career

Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus on December 8, 2024, after Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)

Israel strikes former Assad regime bases in southern Syria

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF confirms bombing radar and aerial intelligence installations that it says pose a potential threat to the country; Syrian sources count at least 14 strikes north of Daraa

Syrian attend the funeral of a relative, killed in the days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the former government, in the town of Jableh in the coastal province of Latakia on March 10, 2025. (Photo by Abdulwajed HAJ ESTEIFI / AFP)

Sa’ar urges global leaders to denounce ‘pure evil’ of Sharaa’s Syria after killings

By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) shaking the hand of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander-in-chief Mazloum Abdi after the signing of an agreement to integrate the institutions of the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration in the northeast into the national government, in the Syrian capital Damascus on March 10, 2025. (SANA / AFP)

Syrian government inks breakthrough deal with Kurdish authorities in northeast

By AFP

Organizers and farmers co-design a solar field in western Uganda as part of a Gigawatt Global project, Kyenjojo District, Uganda, April 13, 2024. (Jeje Canutum)

Jewish and Israeli aid groups are hit by Trump’s suspension of USAID, refugee program

After the US president orders America’s largest aid body gutted, repercussions are felt around the world as programs benefiting people from Africa to Gaza have their funding frozen

Anti-government protesters wave Israeli and American flags outside a Tel Aviv hotel hosting members of the 38th Zionist Congress, April 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

World Zionist Congress polls open in US, with ‘soul of the State of Israel’ at stake

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

American Jews will select 173 candidates from 21 lists, ranging from right-wing Orthodox to anti-Netanyahu Israeli expats, to serve in 39th session of body founded by Herzl in 1897

Zionist Jews from around the world can vote in the 2025 World Zionist Congress election. (Getty Images, via JTA)

These are the 21 slates vying for US Jews’ vote for the 39th World Zionist Congress

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

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Sebastian Ben Daniel (Screenshot / YouTube)

Ben-Gurion University reinstates lecturer who called IDF soldiers ‘baby murderers’

Freed hostage Agam Berger plays a violin that once belonged to a Jewish musician who was murdered in the Holocaust, March 8, 2025. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Freed hostage Agam Berger given violin used by Jewish musician murdered in Holocaust

Israeli information technology provider Matrix IT headquarter building in Herzliya. (Courtesy)

Israel’s Matrix to snap up Magic Software in $2.1 billion IT services merger deal

By Sharon Wrobel

This handout photo shows former Philippines' president Rodrigo Duterte (C) inside the Villamor Air Base in Pasay, Metro Manila, after arriving from Hong Kong, March 11, 2025. (Handout / PARTIDO DEMOKRATIKO PILIPINO LAKAS NG BAYAN/ AFP)

Ex-Philippine president Duterte arrested on ICC warrant for crimes against humanity

Illustrative. In vitro fertilization (IVF) of an egg cell. (iStock by Getty Images/ man_at_mouse)

District Court rules to keep IVF child with birth mother following embryo mix-up

By Jeremy Sharon

A view of the Leviathan natural gas processing rig from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90)

Israel and Azerbaijan’s state oil firm set to seal plan for offshore gas exploration

By Sharon Wrobel

This image provided by the Wolf Foundation shows Pamela Björkman of the California Institute of Technology, who won this year's prestigious Wolf Award for her research into treating coronavirus and HIV. (Wolf Foundation via AP)

US biochemist researching treatment of HIV and coronaviruses wins Israel’s Wolf Prize

By AP

A Margherita pizza at Haifa's NeoPolitan, which ranked 25th in 50 Top Pizza on March 10, 2025. (Courtesy)

Pie highHaifa, Jerusalem pizzerias make 50 Top Pizza list for Asia-Pacific region

By Jessica Steinberg

Lior Raz, second from right, will star in the fifth season of 'Fauda,' which will start filming in April 2025 (Credit Ronen Akerman)

Fan favoriteIsraeli hit show ‘Fauda’ to start filming fifth season

By Jessica Steinberg

John Cleese in a May 2023 interview about King Charles' coronation (Screenshot: GBNews/YouTube)

He says he's not deadStill upright at 85, John Cleese to bring sit-down comedy to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

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