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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 15, 2025

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US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, March 6, 2025. (Mandel Ngan / AFP)

Witkoff: Hamas has deadline for accepting 'bridge' proposal

Citing its private demands, Witkoff rejects Hamas offer to free Edan Alexander, 4 dead hostages

Dismissed by Israel, Hamas terms said to be belated response to its aborted direct talks with US; Trump envoy reveals details of his ‘bridge’ proposal; Rubio calls Hamas ‘savages’

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 podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 15: Day 526 – Micah Goodman on what Israel can trust about Hamas

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

US hostage envoy Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony at the State Department in Washington on March 6, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Boehler pulls his candidacy to serve as US presidential envoy for hostage affairs

US official tells ToI that Adam Boehler will continue to assist Witkoff’s efforts to secure the release of hostages from Gaza, amid anger in Israel over his direct talks with Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv Distrcit Court before a hearing in his corruption trial, March 12, 2025. (Yair Sagi/Pool)

Report: Netanyahu, Dermer worked to stop US-Hamas deal to free only American captives

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Trevor Connelly poses for a portrait after being drafted by the Vegas Golden Knights with the 19th overall pick during the 2024 Upper Deck NHL Draft at Sphere on June 28, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Candice Ward / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

'He wasn’t even familiar with the name Hitler'

After accusations of antisemitism, a rising US hockey star nets a teshuva-fueled comeback

At 16, Trevor Connelly was dropped from his youth team for an Instagram post containing a swastika. The incident sparked a learning process – and an unlikely friendship with two clergy

This handout image released by US Central Command via X on March 15, 2025 shows CENTCOM forces launching an operation against Houthi targets across Yemen. (AFP Photo/US Central Command)

Live updates (closed)

March 15: US official warns strikes on Houthis in Yemen could go on for days or weeks

Iran-backed groups vows Sanaa ‘will remain Gaza’s shield’ * Trump freezes US-funded media outlets worldwide, critics warn move is ‘gift to America’s enemies’

10:58 pm

Trump freezes US-funded media outlets worldwide, as critics warn move is 'gift to America's enemies'
10:16 pm

PM instructs negotiators to prepare for talks on Witkoff proposal, under which 11 living hostages would be freed immediately
9:32 pm

US official says strikes on Houthis to continue for days and possibly weeks

Saturday hostage rallies draw thousands as families end 1st week of encampment

Protests take place as Netanyahu convenes the cabinet a day after negotiators returned from Doha; families forum slam meeting as belated: ‘The opportunity is now’

Crowds gather at the Begin Gate of the IDF's Kirya HQ in Tel Aviv calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. (Dana Reany / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

A Red Cross rescuer walks toward a burning car after it was hit by an Israeli strike in a southern Lebanese village on March 15, 2025, in which one person was reportedly killed. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

At least 9 said killed in IDF strike in north Gaza; 2 killed in Lebanon strike

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israel says it targeted terror operatives in Strip, while Palestinians say aid workers, journalists among dead; IDF says Hezbollah member hit in the north

Shin Bet head rejects PM’s blackmail accusations, distances himself from predecessor

Bar says security body and its head ‘do not use the organization’s power unnecessarily’ as he apparently rejects Argaman’s denouncement and threats against Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, at a pre-Passover toast on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

An anti-Israel protester outside Columbia University in New York City, March 14, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Protesters urge intifada, declare: 'Resistance is glorious'

Another Columbia anti-Israel protester arrested, 3rd ‘self-deports’, US feds say

Arrest comes after detention of university activist Mahmoud Khalil sets off widespread uproar; federal agents visit campus housing; hundreds protest outside college gates

Levi Meir Clancy

When the lie becomes the system

Jew-hatred becomes the framework through which entire civilizations justify their failures. It’s how societies self-destruct.

I went to see ‘No Other Land.’ Can we talk about it?

The Jewish community’s unwillingness to speak openly about the things that make us uncomfortable prevents us from healing

Joe Rogan looks on at the ceremonial weigh-in for the UFC 292 mixed martial arts event, August 18, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan)

Joe Rogan hosts Holocaust revisionist on his podcast, complains of ‘paranoid’ Jews

Week after hosting antisemitic conspiracy theorist, podcaster praises ‘nuanced’ and ‘comprehensive’ views of Darryl Cooper, who falsely claims that Hitler opposed Kristallnacht

Dr. Jodi Magness from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as she excavates at Huqoq in the Galilee. Magness and her team began excavating the site in 2011 and concluded their fieldwork in 2023. (Jim Haberman)

Could 1,600-year-old Galilee synagogue rewrite history of Jewish life under the Romans?

By Rossella Tercatin

New radiocarbon dating at grand Huqoq sanctuary near Tiberias puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, suggests Jews in Holy Land still enjoyed ‘relative prosperity’

Woman lightly hurt by celebratory gunfire as Syrian Druze visit nearby tomb in Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Incident condemned by Druze leadership: ‘Whoever shoots is not one of us’; local residents say police stood by and didn’t take action

Itay Kashti (YouTube screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK jails 3 for kidnapping Israeli music producer: ‘Felt like my own personal Oct. 7’

By AFP

Judge says the trio were ‘motivated by events taking place elsewhere in the world’ and chose victim Itay Kashti based on their ‘understanding of his wealth and his Jewish heritage’

In 2018, Paradesi Jews from all over the world gathered in Cochin to celebrate the 450th anniversary of their synagogue. (Shalva Weil)

Jews may have settled in India in the time of King Solomon

Burning Haman: The lost Purim tradition of India’s ancient Cochin Jewish community

By Rossella Tercatin

For centuries, Cochin Jews marked Purim by burning effigies of Haman, while the holiday represented the day when Jews from all backgrounds celebrated together

FILE - South Africa's ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool speaks at the South African Embassy in Washington, December 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Rubio declares South African envoy ‘persona non grata’: He hates Trump and US

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ssecretary of state calls Ebrahim Rasool, a harsh critic of Israel who has backed his country’s ICC genocide case, a ‘race-baiting politician’

Protesters against US President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations stand in front of the Bradley Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Trump administration weighs travel ban or restrictions for dozens of countries

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Canada's Prime Minister designate Mark Carney prepares for his swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall on March 14, 2025, in Ottawa, Canada. (Dave Chan / AFP)

Facing trade war with Trump, Mark Carney sworn in as Canada’s prime minister

An undated photo shows three editions of the 'Superman' comic book. (AP Photo/ Ed Bailey)

Truth, justice and Yiddishisms: How superhero comics tell the tale of American Jews

By Miriam Eve Mora

Marvel and DC were both started by 2nd-generation Jewish immigrants eager to break comic industry’s glass ceiling, share their families’ stories and punch Hitler right in the kisser

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Police cars at the scene of a shooting in the northern Arab village of Deir Hanna, March 14, 2025. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two cousins in their 20s shot dead in Arab town of Deir Hanna in the Lower Galilee

FILE - Islamic State militants pass a checkpoint bearing the group's trademark black flag in the village of Maryam Begg in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Head of ISIS in Iraq and Syria killed in airstrike during US-Iraqi joint operation

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

US President Donald Trump, right, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speak to reporters as they sit in a Tesla vehicle on the South Lawn of the White House in Washigton, March 11, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Netanyahu appears to confirm seeking Tesla car contract amid backlash against Elon Musk

An Iranian woman without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, flashes a victory sign as she walks at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

UN report says Iran stepping up electronic surveillance of women to enforce hijab laws

By Jamey Keaten and Jon Gambrell

Saving for the future. (MonthiraYodtiwong, iStock by Getty Images)

New tool ranks state savings plans for children on environmental, social impact

A lion cub (left) and a monkey rescued by police in operations in Kfar Qasim and Lod, March 15, 2025. (Israel Police)

Roaring tradePolice rescue lion cub, monkey from illegal animal traders

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