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What Matters Most On Friday, March 14, 2025

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Edan Alexander was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Families say hostages cannot wait another day for PM

Israel slams Hamas ‘manipulation’ after it says it will free 1 living, 4 slain hostages

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

As Hamas agrees to release US-Israeli Edan Alexander and bodies of 4 dual US citizens, Netanyahu says negotiators to return from Doha, ministers to convene Sat. night on next steps

Visitors at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. March 13, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Witkoff reportedly presents new proposal for Gaza truce extension to Israel, Hamas

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside former hostage Noa Argamani (left) and hostage envoy Adam Boehler (right) during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

Boehler to continue assisting Witkoff’s efforts in Mideast amid reports of sidelining

From left: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrive for the family photo during the G7 foreign ministers meeting in La Malbaie, Canada, Friday March 14, 2025. (Saul Loeb, Pool Photo via AP)

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March 14: In apparent about face, Rubio signs onto G7 statement backing resumption of Gaza aid

Arab diplomat tells ToI that Hamas proposal was based on discussions with US envoy Adam Boehler * Witkoff warns terror group of going beyond unspecified deadline for agreement

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Arab diplomat: Hamas proposal based on discussions with US envoy Adam Boehler
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IDF gives settlement residents all-clear after infiltration alert
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Turkey detains five suspects over alleged espionage for Iran -- local media

A demonstrator at Columbia University breaks the windows of the front door of the building in order to secure a chain around it to prevent authorities from entering as part of an anti-Israel demonstration, April 30, 2024. (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)

Columbia University expels anti-Israel students for last year’s building takeover

Other activists are suspended or have their degrees revoked; campus anti-Israel groups claim 22 punished; announcement comes with school under fire from Trump administration

Illustrative: Demonstrators from the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace protest inside Trump Tower in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, March 13, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Jewish anti-Zionist protesters storm NYC’s Trump Tower in support of Mahmoud Khalil

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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.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Argaman: I warned PM that Qatari aid to Gaza would backfire

Netanyahu accuses Shin Bet chief of blackmail as feud reaches new heights

PM offers minimal detail to back up claim, makes same allegation against Ronen Bar’s predecessor after Nadav Argaman threatens to release info compromising Netanyahu if he breaks law

Then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 11, 2021 (Courtesy)

Netanyahu files police complaint over ‘mafia-like’ blackmail by ex-Shin Bet chief

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog attend a memorial ceremony for Ethiopians who died on their journey to Israel, Mount Herzl, on June 5, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Herzog reportedly tried to influence, shorten proceedings in Netanyahu graft case

Thousands at Hostages Square for Purim gathering colored by hopes for captives’ salvation

Families write to Trump, as their only hope after ‘abandonment’ by government; ex-hostage Omer Shem Tov tears down ‘kidnapped’ sign, jokes about his last appearance on stage – in Gaza

Reading the Book of Esther on Purim night, March 13, 2025 in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square (Paulina Patimer / Hostages Families Forum)

Druze people wave near a border barrier in the northern Israeli village of Majdal Shams, as buses transporting visiting Druze men from Syria arrive, on March 14, 2025. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

‘New chapter’: Syrian Druze clerics enter Israel for first pilgrimage since 1948

By AFP and ToI Staff

60 clerics pray at tomb of Nabi Shuaib, the most important Druze religious site, are set to meet leader of Israeli community; other Syrian Druze strongly oppose trip

Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signs the country's constitutional declaration, which will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period, at the presidential palace in Damascus on March 13, 2025. (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Syria’s interim president signs constitution enshrining Islamist rule for 5 years

By GHAITH ALSAYED and Kareem Chehayeb

A Palestinian boy carries a toy gun while standing with members of Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, during a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. (AFP / Emmanuel DUNAND)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: What Israel can trust about Hamas

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Bestselling author analyzes this moment of uncertainty — continued war or ‘permanent’ ceasefire — as 24 living hostages still languish in Gaza

A man reads a scroll in front of a clock counting the time Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 attacks by Hamas terrorists have spent in captivity, during the reading of the Megillat Esther (Book of Esther) at the start of the festival of Purim at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on March 13, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 14: Day 525 – With Hamas immovable, extended ceasefire prospects dim

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Israel and US said in contact with Sudan, Somalia about resettling Gazans

By AP and ToI Staff

Officials say approaches also made to breakaway region of Somaliland; Sudanese, Somali and Somaliland officials says proposal rejected

People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, May 28, 2023. (Marwan Ali/AP)

Mordechai could have bowed to Haman with impunity

It wasn’t Jewish law that stopped the stalwart Jew from prostrating himself, but sound temporal reasons to protest the king’s sole adviser

A tragic failure of imagination: On the Megillah’s bloody ending

If you’re horrified by the specter of Jews slaughtering Shushan residents, you’re missing the Purim story’s real tragedy

Defense Minister Israel Katz, center, visits an IDF position in southern Lebanon alongside senior IDF officials, February 2, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Katz: IDF will stay at 5 points in southern Lebanon regardless of border dispute talks

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense minister says ‘indefinite’ stay is needed to protect northern residents, tells army to dig in for a long stint; IDF hits Hezbollah target in Beqaa Valley

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) vehicles patrol the southern Lebanese city of Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, on November 29, 2024. (AFP)

Israel returns fifth Lebanese prisoner after border delineation talks

By Nava Freiberg

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

‘Massive failure’: First troops reached Kibbutz Nir Oz 40 minutes after last terrorists left

IDF probe finds over 500 Palestinians invaded border kibbutz where 386 residents were present during Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught, as understaffed security team tried to fight with no backup

Soldiers walking next to the destruction by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, in southern Israel, November 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

President Isaac Herzog made an unannounced appearance at a Jerusalem Purim party for children with disabilities, March 2025. (Deborah Danan via JTA)

At Herzog Purim party for children with disabilities, costumes are inclusive by design

By Deborah Danan

Second lady Michal Herzog says Jerusalem event serves as reminder of how Israel will need to accommodate large number of wounded soldiers returning from war

Jewish kids in Israel and beyond dress up as Batman for Purim to honor the Bibas boys

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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Abbas may be the last PA leader who believes in two states, warns potential successor

Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub praises Abbas and urges US to engage with him, looking to remain in the Palestinian Authority chief’s good graces while no new election is slated

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestinian Football Association, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 7, 2018. (Thaer Ganaim/APA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News)

(From left) Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham, winners of best documentary feature film award for 'No Other Land,' at the Oscars on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Florida theater at risk of closure for showing doc critical of Israeli policy in West Bank

By AP

Illustrative: View of the border between Israel and Jordan, in the Jordan valley, in the West Bank, on June 17, 2020. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

IDF troops shoot dead two suspects trying to cross into Israel from Jordan

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Archaeologists at Ostia Antica near Rome, Italy, unveiled what they believe is the oldest mikveh ever found outside the land of Israel in March 2025. (Parco archeologico di Ostia antica)

'Ostia was a crossroads of coexistence'

Roman-era Jewish bath in Italy may be oldest outside of Israel, points to vibrant Diaspora

By Rossella Tercatin

Newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the city’s potential melting pot of Roman Empire communities

Iranian chief rabbi reads the Book of Esther at the Tomb of Mordechai and Esther

Yehuda Gerami dances with students, reads megillah scroll at site believed by local community to be in ancient city of Shushan

Iranian Jews dance at the Tomb of Mordechai and Esther in Hamadan, Iran, March 13, 2025. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 12, 2025, during a meeting with Iranian students in Tehran. (IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER'S WEBSITE / AFP)

ToI podcastFriday Focus with Lazar Berman: Dramatic saga of the temporary Israel-Iran alliance

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

From left, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, meet with reporters after their meeting at Diaoyutai State Guest House on March 14, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Pool Photo via AP)

China, Russia and Iran call for end to US sanctions on Iran, urge holding talks

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Feb. 25, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Breaking with recent consensus, Trump makes ‘anti-Semitism’ hyphenated again

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

White House doesn’t explain return to old policy, which opponents argue ‘creates a racial category of ‘Semitism’; ADL retorts that spelling less important than policy

Shock jock Anthony Cumia records a program with SiriusXM radio in an undated photo from 2014. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

US shock jock with history of antisemitism gets nationally syndicated radio show

Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a state ceremony for fallen soldiers whose burial place is unknown at Mount Herzl Military cemetery in Jerusalem on March 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Defense minister praises Haredi singer who days earlier sang anti-enlistment anthem

Israel Katz hails Arale Samet at Purim event; minutes later, Samet reportedly again sings anti-Zionist ditty calling to refuse IDF service on behalf of ‘infidel’ Israeli government

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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar leads a faction meeting of his New Hope party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope signs agreement to rejoin Likud in next elections

Israeli AI startup IntellAct has developed a video analytics platform to reduce flight departure delays, cut carbon emissions, and improve passenger experience. (Courtesy)

End to flight delays? Israeli startup’s AI system to help carriers depart on time

By Sharon Wrobel

Ahmad Nijam lies on the ground after being shot in downtown Jerusalem on March 12, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

Jewish suspect freed to house arrest after shooting Arab municipal worker in Jerusalem

Illustrative photo of bagels. (CC-BY-SA, Rattfink Press/Ellen Arnstein, rattfinkpress.blogspot.com)

US bagel shop comes back around after quitting Jewish food fest over Israel pressure

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