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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 13, 2025

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Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, presents a report on the opening day of the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva on June 13, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

‘Blood libel’: Israel slams UN report claiming it committed ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli officials, women’s groups accuse UN panel of bias and antisemitism for alleging Israeli forces ‘intentionally destroyed’ fertility center and perpetrated sexual violence

Two demonstrators wave the Palestinian flag outside the Peace Palace, rear, housing the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands,May 24, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong)

ICJ to hold hearings next month on Israel’s aid obligations to Palestinians

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Israeli airstrike, captured in footage published by the military, targets a building in Damascus, Syria, alleged to be a Palestinian Islamic Jihad nerve center. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)

'Islamic terrorism will not have immunity,' Katz warns Syria

IDF strikes alleged Islamic Jihad nerve center in Damascus, said to be leader’s house

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Member of terror group says Ziad Nakhaleh wasn’t home and building was ’empty’ when struck, though war monitor reports one person killed

Vehicles drive on a busy street of the Druze-majority Jaramana city in the Damascus countryside on March 2, 2025. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Some 100 senior figures from Syrian Druze community to visit Israeli Golan Heights

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, members of the Syrian White Helmets collect the bodies of people found dead following a recent wave of violence between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former president Bashar al-Assad, as well as subsequent sectarian attacks, in the coastal city of Baniyas, Syria, March 9, 2025. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

AnalysisSyria shows signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy

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)

'Schumer has became a Palestinian. He's not Jewish anymore'

Trump says ‘nobody’s expelling any Palestinians,’ in apparent softening of Gaza plan

Oval Office comment marks first time US president has specified Gazans won’t be forced to leave enclave; Witkoff meets with Arab FMs to discuss their proposal for Strip’s future

Singer Kobi Oz and the Teapacks band perform for Einav Zangauker and Ilana Gritzewsky, mother and girlfriend of hostage Matan Zangauker, on March 13, 2025, at the hostage tent encampment on Tel Aviv's Begin Road outside the Defense Ministry (Amir Yaacobi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 13: Day 524 – Is Steve Witkoff the only hope for a hostage deal?

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Promoted ArticleBirthright Israel

Birthright Israel 2025: Identity, connection, meaning. Now more than ever.

Since Oct 7th, over 20,000 participants have come to Israel on Birthright’s classic trips, internships or to volunteer. The impact for participants is more profound than before.

Avinatan Or, a Nvidia employee, taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from the Supernova desert rave. (Courtesy)

Freed hostage says he saw Avinatan Or alive in captivity, marking first sign of life

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies

Hostage families petition High Court over Gaza electricity cut, saying it endangers loved ones’ lives; Trump backtracks from plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza

Hostage Omri Miran's children record a message to US President Donald Trump on March 10, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

‘Trump, help us bring daddy home from Gaza’ plead hostage’s young daughters in video

Singer and performer Hanan Ben Ari, left, with the cast of 'Eretz Nehederet' singing a song for hostage Alon Ohel, March 2025 (Courtesy)

The sun will come out‘Eretz Nehederet’ cast and Hanan Ben Ari sing for hostage Alon Ohel

By Jessica Steinberg

Then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend an awards ceremony at the Shin Bet's headquarters in Tel Aviv honoring agents who excelled in intelligence operations in 2017 and 2018, on December 4, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

March 13: Ex-Shin Bet chief says he’ll release info compromising PM if he breaks law

Nadav Argaman says Netanyahu ‘bought peace in Gaza with Qatari money,’ but always knew it would backfire someday * PM accuses Nadav Argaman of blackmail, lodges same allegation at Ronen Bar

9:45 pm

Trump says he still has 'great relationship' with North Korea's Kim Jong Un
9:03 pm

Ex-Shin Bet chief says he is sitting on trove of incriminating information about Netanyahu; PM accuses him of blackmail
8:28 pm

Ex-Shin Bet chief says PM 'bought peace in Gaza with Qatari money,' but always knew it would backfire someday

Protesters rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside his court hearing in New York City, March 12, 2025. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

White House says he was arrested for supporting Hamas

Court orders anti-Israel Columbia activist facing deportation to remain in detention

By Luke Tress and AP

Hundreds protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside New York court amid furious backlash against Trump administration crackdown

A protester chants during a demonstration in support of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, in New York, March 10, 2025. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Columbia said to warn foreign journalism students to keep low profile on Gaza, Ukraine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media during a refueling stop at Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland, on March 12, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Arrest of Columbia anti-Israel activist ‘not about free speech,’ says Marco Rubio

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jewish, Muslim groups condemn Trump’s use of ‘Palestinian’ as slur to put down Schumer

By Agencies and ToI Staff

CAIR says using term in that way is ‘beneath dignity of his office’; Jewish groups say US president doesn’t get to decide who is a Jew and that his remark weaponizes antisemitism

Illustrative: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, speaks with reporters as Republicans work to pass an interim spending bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown and keep federal agencies funded through September, at the Capitol in Washington, March 11, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, Linda McMahon, testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC on February 13, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump guts Department of Education, slashing office handling antisemitism complaints

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with cabinet ministers in the Knesset plenum, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Coalition to drive forward budget, judicial appointments bills in intense Knesset push

By Jeremy Sharon

As the state budget March 31 deadline looms, justice minister aims to ram through key judicial overhaul reform, while Haredi MKs insist on a military service exemption law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court for the 17th day of his testimony in his corruption trial, March 12, 2025. (Yair Sagi/POOL)

Netanyahu fumes at court in corruption trial testimony; ‘Lower your tone,’ judge responds

Our choice between ‘never again’ and ‘again’

Restoring Israel’s credibility as the guarantor of Jewish safety and survival is the most essential challenge facing the Jewish state today

Peter Beinart’s bewildering path

His latest book never provides any roadmap to peace, but simply claims that Palestinian lambs will lay down with Israeli lions

Israeli soldiers rest after leaving southern Lebanon. February 18, 2025. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

IDF reserve commanders, recruiting via WhatsApp, say they’re struggling to fill ranks

By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Haaretz report says hundreds of wanted ads posted daily by reserve units, with commanders seeming to cut corners, or discriminate, in recruitment; IDF: No drastic manpower shortage

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

Unlike predecessor, IDF chief Zamir said on board with comptroller’s Oct. 7 probe

Outrage as students at state-funded Haredi yeshiva sing anti-Zionist, anti-enlistment anthem

‘We don’t believe in the government of infidels and we won’t show up at their [army] recruitment offices,’ sing thousands of Ateret Shlomo young men at mass wedding

Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ateret Shlomo yeshiva chain dance and sing at the wedding of the seminary chief's son, in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, March 11, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israelis dressed in costumes walk on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on March 12, 2025, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem gets ready for rare triple Purim: ‘The main goal is to take care of others’

By Rossella Tercatin

In a sporadic occurrence that will next repeat itself in 2045, Jews in the capital get to celebrate a three-day holiday

A car that came under fire in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Ariel, March 12, 2025. (Samaria Regional Council)

Israeli civilian moderately wounded in West Bank shooting attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops search for assailant who shot 18-year-old driver near Ariel settlement after reportedly first using a laser to temporarily blind him

Islamic State memorabilia among other items found at the Taybeh home of an Arab Israeli accused of planning attacks inspired by the terror group, in a screenshot from video published on March 13, 2025. (Israel Police)

Arab Israeli man accused of joining Islamic State, spying on troops, plotting attacks

A Claims Conference meeting in Jerusalem, February 11, 2025. Seated right to left: Claims Conference President Gideon Taylor, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and Claims Conference CEO Greg Schneider (Courtesy/Claims Conference)

Interview

Still fighting for survivors, Claims Conference sees new battle over Holocaust memory

Conference president Gideon Taylor discusses adapting Holocaust education for post-October 7 generation, continued efforts to secure compensation for survivors

Shabbat services at the 2025 Keshet Shabbaton for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color (Courtesy/Keshet)

'There is often a clear message that I don't belong'

Isolated and excluded: New survey highlights challenges of global LGBTQ+ Jews of Color

Survey of 90 Jews in 20 states and four international locations conducted by US nonprofit Keshet finds most communities have a lot of work to do to make gay Jews of Color feel included

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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’s top diplomat: Nuclear talks with US only possible on ‘equal terms’

French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) head and lead MEP Jordan Bardella gives a New Year greetings speech in Paris on January 27, 2025. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)

French far-right leader to visit Jerusalem for confab on fighting antisemitism

By AFP

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)

Iran’s Khamenei spurns Trump letter, delivered by UAE, offering nuclear talks

Far-left journalist Israel Frey speaks to supporters outside a police station in Tel Aviv, March 12, 2025. (Screen capture: X/Oren Ziv, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police detain far-left reporter for praising attacks on soldiers, settlers

In this image made from video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, March 12, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov as he visits military headquarters in the Kursk region of Russia. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Russia says forces poised to complete recapture of Kursk region as Witkoff heads to Moscow

Paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a railway station in the Sibi district of southwestern Balochistan province on March 12, 2025, during a security operation against militants a day after they hijacked a passenger train. (Banaras KHAN / AFP)

Pakistani separatists say they killed 50 hostages on train, siege reportedly over

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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