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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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A UN peacekeeping soldier sits on a tank at a road that links to a UNIFIL base where the Lebanese and Israeli delegations meet, in Naqoura town, Lebanon, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese source denies Beirut will move to nomalization

New talks with Lebanon aimed at normalizing ties, senior Israeli official says

By Lazar Berman

Working groups established this week will focus on border, IDF presence, and Lebanese detainees, but Jerusalem is said to be aiming for a comprehensive agreement with its northern neighbor

A United Nations peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) convoy patrols next to Naqoura, in Lebanon near its border with Israel, ahead of negotiations between the two countries in the area, October 13, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Israel to hold talks with Lebanon on land border, frees 5 detainees as goodwill gesture

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

Freed hostage Omer Wenkert speaks with Channel 12 news in an interview aired on March 11, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

'I made up my mind that I wouldn’t show weakness'

Ex-hostage says he always knew when truce talks failed because captors would beat him

Omer Wenkert also recalls ‘coming to terms with death’ on October 7, spending nearly 200 days alone in a cell and refusing to let Hamas terrorists see him humiliated

Former hostage Gadi Mozes, second from left, with his sons and daughter after being discharged from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2025. (Courtesy)

‘Let’s get to work’: Ex-hostage Gadi Mozes calls on Nir Oz members to rebuild

Magen David Adom paramedic and paramedic course instructor Amit Mann was murdered by Hamas terrorists who stormed the clinic in Kibbutz Be'eri where she was treating the wounded on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy of MDA)

Kibbutz Be’eri dental clinic, where 5 people were murdered on Oct. 7, is demolished

Reporter's notebook

Atop Mt. Hermon, Katz says Syrian leader will see indefinite IDF deployment

ToI tours IDF’s highest army post in Syria, overlooking Damascus and Hezbollah’s Beqaa Valley stronghold in Lebanon; Syrian Druze to enter Israel for work starting next week

Druze men gather by a newsstand selling flags of Syria and the Druze community at Al Karama Square in city of Sweida, Syria, March 4, 2025.(Omar Sanadiki/AP)

Syrian government said to reach deal to fully integrate southern Druze province

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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Alin Israel, orphan daughter of Lt. Col. Meidan Israel, dressed as the Flag of Israel at the 2024 IDFWO Purim event, honoring her father who fell on Oct 25, 2023.

Op-ed: Day 523 of the war

Steve Witkoff, Israel looks to you

To drag us out of this unforgivable limbo, in which Hamas is rearming and no hostages are going free, your first task is ensuring that Netanyahu is more afraid of you and your president than he is of his coalition partners

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in his office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Demonstrators protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters, in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hamas showing 'readiness' to accept extension to first phase

Witkoff lands in Doha as talks resume with aim of extending fragile Gaza truce

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Mediators said to be pushing Hamas to release 10 hostages in exchange for 60-day truce, providing time to reach wider deal

Armed Yemenis shout slogans and raise their weapons during a protest against Israel's decision to halt the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip, in Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa, March 11, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

Yemen’s Houthis threaten to again target ‘any Israeli vessel’ amid Gaza aid halt

By ToI Staff, AP and Emanuel Fabian

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)

Trump’s hostage envoy visited Iraq to push for release of Israeli captive — sources

By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump meets with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 12: Hamas official welcomes Trump’s assertion that Palestinians won’t be expelled

By Jacob Magid and Michael Bachner

Ultra-Orthodox students from state-funded yeshiva filmed singing against enlistment in ‘infidel’ army * Judge extends ban on Columbia anti-Israel activist’s deportation from US

9:29 pm

Hamas official welcomes Trump’s assertion that no Gazans will be expelled
8:59 pm

China, Iran and Russia hold joint naval drills in Mideast as tensions rise between Tehran and US
8:52 pm

Canada and the EU swiftly retaliate against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar (R) and Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel inaugurate a “Media War Room” at the Foreign Ministry, March 11, 2025. (Mordechai Gordon/Foreign Ministry)

Foreign Ministry opens ‘media war room’ to combat anti-Israel content

By Nava Freiberg

Ministry says diplomats and students will monitor news to ‘identify false or biased reports’ so spokespeople can then ‘debunk accusations and present Israel’s narrative’

Members of London's Jewish community protest outside the launch of the book “Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters" at the London School of Economics, March 10, 2025. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jews protest launch of Hamas ‘propaganda’ book at London School of Economics

The author Herman Brusselmans is seen at a soccer game in Gent, Belgium, in February 2016. (VI Images via Getty Images/JTA)

Writer who wanted to ‘ram a knife down Jews’ throats’ acquitted by Belgian court

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Amanda Borschel-Dan, Luke Tress and Cathryn J. Prince

Daily Briefing Mar. 12: Day 523 – Columbia anti-Israel activist’s arrest makes US Jews uneasy

NY reporters Luke Tress and Cathryn Prince delve into 17 months of campus protests and why the detention and threatened deportation of a ringleader is not universally embraced

Members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group, including Mahmoud Khalil, center, are surrounded by members of the media outside the Columbia University campus, April 30, 2024, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Deportation of anti-Israel Palestinian Columbia activist to be challenged in federal court

By Reuters and Luke Tress

Scenes from a new advertisement for Yad Vashem, criticized for being too upbeat. (Screenshot/Yad Vashem)

Commercial touts 'the other side of Yad Vashem'

‘Cool’ new ad for Yad Vashem raises questions about Holocaust museum’s direction

Some Israelis startled by TV spot with beaming keyboard player touting new sound and light show at institution dedicated to preserving the memory of six million murdered Jews

Volunteers from Taglit-Birthright Israel at Kibbutz Be'eri's temporary residential compound in Kibbutz Hatzerim, southern Israel, March 6, 2025 (Taglit-Birthright Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Birthright Israel volunteers bring greenery to displaced Kibbutz Be’eri’s temporary digs

Some 2,500 people from around the world are helping landscape the compound at Kibbutz Hatzerim, southern Israel, where Be’eri residents are living until their homes are rebuilt

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

El Al posts record-high $545 million profit in 2024, following wartime near-monopoly

Flagship airline almost quintuples 2023’s all-time high, with gains driven by North American routes that were eschewed by foreign carriers, but market dominance may not last long

Jeremy Kalmanofsky

The day we get drunk enough to tell the truth about God

We spend most of the year devoted to the King, but in a world where terrible things happen, a day of blasphemy helps us keep the faith

Elana Stein Hain

The Megillah as a Rorschach test

Tell me how the Scroll of Esther defines salvation and I’ll tell you where you live

Rembrandt van Rijn, 'A Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible,' 1632–33. Oil on canvas, 43 x 37 ⅛ in. (109.2 x 94.4 cm). National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1953, accession no. 6089. (NGC)

Drawing on Dutch masters, NY exhibit explores Christians painting themselves into Purim parable

By Cathryn J. Prince

Eschewing Persian version, Jewish Museum extends art curation scepter to masters like Rembrandt, who saw Esther’s heroism echoed in their own struggle against Catholic Spain

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen with then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon during a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 8, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM to sue ex-defense minister Ya’alon for suggesting he received millions from Qatar

Netanyahu accuses former colleague of ‘despicable lie’ for citing ‘unproven intelligence information’ claiming Doha wired tens of millions of dollars to the premier

Demonstrators protest against the judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, September 30, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ex-security chiefs said to warn renewed judicial overhaul will harm Israeli security

Khirbet Zanuta head Faez Tel and Palestinian activists arrive at the abandoned West Bank hamlet of Khirbet Zanuta, March 10, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

A handful of residents return to Palestinian hamlet depopulated by settler violence

By Jeremy Sharon

Khirbet Zanuta head Faez Tel says other residents afraid to return: ‘There is no place left where settlers are not taking land, not making problems’

Etta Shiber, seen in a publicity photo for the 1943 book 'Paris-Underground,' and Kate Bonnefous, shown in 1940, were friends and unlikely heroes of the early French resistance. (Courtesy Ballantine Books via JTA)

Interview

Two friends defied the Nazis. Then one woman ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In ‘Paris Undercover,’ author Matthew Goodman digs up the truth behind a successful ‘memoir’ that played fast and loose with facts as one of its subjects sat in Nazi prison

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses members of parliament, during impeachment proceedings against the country's finance minister in Tehran on March 2, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s Pezeshkian rejects Trump’s offer of nuke talks: ‘Do whatever the hell you want’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pezeshkian doubles down as Iran conducts joint naval drills with China and Russia amid US threats over nuclear program

The diplomatic advisor to the United Arab Emirates president, Anwar Gargash, arrives to attend the opening ceremony of the summit on peace in Ukraine, at the luxury Burgenstock resort, near Lucerne, Switzlernand, June 15, 2024. (Denis Balibouse/Pool/AFP)

UAE official delivers to Iran letter from Trump urging nuclear talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attend a signing ceremony for a partnership treaty to deepen their ties after their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Jan. 17, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China to host Russia-Iran nuclear talks in Beijing this week

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office shows starting from left, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukrainian Head of Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov pose for a photo after meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 11, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

US ends military aid freeze after Ukraine endorses 30-day ceasefire proposal

By AFP

Executive director at CAIR-Philadelphia, Ahmet Tekelioglu, speaks during the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission's No Hate in Our State press conference at the Pennsylvania State Capitol on February 5, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Lisa Lake / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Complaints of anti-Muslim, anti-Arab incidents in US jumped 7.4% in 2024 – report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Arab-Israeli journalist Said Hassanin in an interview with the Qudsna Palestinian television channel in 2024. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Soccer announcer charged over interview with Hamas TV, praise for terror groups

By Jeremy Sharon

Sola Security startup co-founders Guy Flechter (left) and Ron Peled. (Omer HaCohen)

Israeli startup comes out of stealth with $30 million for self-serve cyber platform

By Sharon Wrobel

People at the scene of a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2025. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

Moroccan man handed two-year jail term for praising terror attack in Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Imad Muna, owner of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem shortly after being detained without a warrant by police on March 11, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Police raid leading Palestinian bookstore in East Jerusalem for 2nd time in a month

By Charlie Summers

Rabbi Denise L. Eger, the new interim director of US pro-Israel LGBTQ group A Wider Bridge, attends the 2011 Human Rights Campaign gala, where she was honored, in Los Angeles, California, March 12, 2011. (Brian To/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

US pro-Israel LGBTQ group names new leadership after sexual misconduct scandal

Israeli actress Gal Gadot appears on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (not in picture), March 10, 2025. (Screen Capture: YouTube/NBC)

Gal Gadot reveals new details of emergency brain surgery for blood clots last year

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