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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 16, 2025

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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)

US strikes said to kill 31 across Yemen; Houthis vow response as Trump warns Iran

Trump says he will hold Tehran accountable if US threatened; strikes represent biggest American military operation in Mideast since president took office, could last several weeks

Smoke rises from a location reportedly struck by US airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

US hits Houthis as Trump orders ‘decisive military action’ over shipping threat

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, January 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 16: Levin pans attorney general, says government has authority to fire Shin Bet chief

PM cites ’ongoing distrust’ in head of security agency as reason for dismissal, says cabinet will vote on it this week * IDF confirms strikes in Lebanon on Hezbollah command center

9:29 pm

Levin against the attorney general: Government has authority to fire Shin Bet chief
9:08 pm

Trump’s tackling of ostensible ‘deep state’ inspired Netanyahu to fire Shin Bet chief -- report
9:08 pm

IDF confirms strikes in southern Lebanon, says it hit Hezbollah command center

Netanyahu instructs Israeli hostage team to prepare for more talks on Witkoff proposal

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

PM’s office says proposal would see 11 living hostages freed immediately, as well as half the slain captives; Doha talks earlier said to be near collapse

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets then-US president-elect Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, at his office in Jerusalem, January 11, 2025. (Prime Minister's Office Spokesperson)

Protesters call for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, March 15, 2025. (Flash90)

‘Not in trickles, nor 50-day deals’: At rally, ex-hostage calls for release of all captives

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

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‘Hamas never stopped digging’: Ex-hostage warns tunnel network under Gaza still growing

In first interview since release, Tal Shoham recalls refusing to kneel to his terrorist captors, says he became severely malnourished after being given just 300 calories a day

Freed hostage Tal Shoham speaks to Fox News in an interview aired on March 15, 2025 (Screenshot/Fox News)

Left to right: Sarit Zussman, mother of Ben Zussman, who was killed fighting in Gaza; Shira Shapiro, mother of Aner Shapira, who was murdered in the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught; and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was murdered in captivity in August 2024, appear in an interview on Channel 12, March 14, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Bereaved mothers learned of sons’ heroism from freed captive: ‘An indescribable gift’

Russia's Lavrov speaks with Rubio, urges US to cease strikes

Iran Guards chief vows ‘decisive’ reprisal against any attacks, after Trump warning

As US president demands Iran end support for Houthis, IRGC general says the group is ‘the representative of the Yemenis,’ and makes its decisions independently from Tehran

IRGC commander-in-chief Major General Hossein Salami speaks during a memorial service for slain Hezbollah leader Hasssan Nasrallah and his successor Hashem Safieddine at Tehran's Grand Mosque in Iran's capital Tehran on February 23, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

A retired Iranian air force colonel, referred to pseudonymously as Arash, speaks to Israel's Channel 12 in an interview broadcast March 15, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Iranian ex-officers to Israeli TV: Israel should bomb Khamenei’s home, help topple regime

Hamas terrorists attack the IDF's Nahal Oz base on October 7, 2023, as seen in footage released by the terror group. (Screenshot: Telegram)

PM rejects offer for Oct. 7 commission formed in consultation with top conservative judge

By Jeremy Sharon

Proposal by President Herzog and Supreme Court head Isaac Amit would see the latter decide on panel’s makeup with Justice Noam Sohlberg, due to Netanyahu’s claims of bias

Haredi Jews clash with police during a protest against the ultra-Orthodox draft on Road 4 outside Bnei Brak on March 2, 2025 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 16: Day 527 – Haredi groups help yeshiva students dodge draft

By Jessica Steinberg and Sam Sokol

IDF: Oct. 7 terrorist and others ‘operating under guise of journalists’ killed in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

Military names six killed in Beit Lahiya strike on Saturday; two Hezbollah operatives killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon

An IDF infographic details the identities of six Palestinian terror operatives the military says were killed in airstrikes in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya on March 15, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Shoshana Hantman

We Zionist Reconstructionist Jews have lost our guiding light

Our rabbinical college claimed the mantle of big tent Judaism until most of its student body was prepared to dismantle half the tent

Mahmoud Khalil: Trump’s perfect distraction

Instead of shouting from the rooftops about the plight of law-abiding refugees, the Democrats are defending a Hamas supporter

Israeli Border Police stand guard at the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem as worshippers make their way to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday Prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Security forces foil plot by Arab Israeli to carry out Jerusalem Old City shooting attack

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Uday Mobarsham. 24, said to have consumed Hamas, ISIS content online; suspect bought rifle, began training; Shin Bet says thwarted attack could have caused ‘dangerous escalation’

Rabbi Moses 'Mo' Zaltzman, played by actor Mark Feuerstein, in 'Guns & Moses.' (Courtesy)

Salvador Litvak interview

A gunslinging rabbi takes on an antisemitic whodunit in this thrilling Jewish Western

By Rich Tenorio

Screening March 16 at the Boca International Jewish Film Festival, ‘Guns & Moses’ targets all-too-real themes for US Jews while keeping audiences on the edge of their seats

French National Rally leader Jordan Bardella (L) meets Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli in Washington on February 21, 2025 (Bardella/X)

French, German officials opt out after Israel invites far right to antisemitism conference

Bernard-Henri Levy and Berlin’s antisemitism czar withdraw from this month’s Jerusalem event after learning who else is on Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli’s guest list

Protesters gather in Foley Square, outside the Manhattan federal court, in support of detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, in New York, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

US Justice Department probing whether Columbia University hid ‘illegal alien’ students

By AP

Investigation comes as Trump administration intensifies campaign to deport foreigners who took part in anti-Israel protests

Economics Nobel prize winner Prof. Daniel Kahneman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on June 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Israeli-American Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman revealed to have died by assisted suicide

Wall Street Journal says pioneer of behavioral economics, who died last year at 90, made decision to forgo suffering of old age and leave life on his own terms

Waze co-founder Uri Levine presenting the the new edition of his book 'Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution - A Handbook for Entrepreneurs.' (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Interview'Building a startup is a journey from one crisis to the next'

Waze co-founder Uri Levine has written the book on startups navigating crises – literally

By Shoshanna Solomon

The tech guru talks about the new edition of his handbook for entrepreneurs, and backs it up with examples of how his own businesses survived, and thrived, during the war in Gaza

A woman chats with an Israel-based organization (IsraAID) chatbot in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, February 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Israeli aid group uses chatbot to help survivors of sexual assault in South Sudan

Assisting survivors in impoverished country with low literacy is major challenge; IsraAid says technology can help maintain data in place of paper files that can go missing

Construction in Ramat Gan, December 10, 2024 (Yossi Aloni FLASH90)

Israeli housing prices soar while pace of inflation slows, February data shows

Consumer Price Index remains unchanged but consumers feel the pinch as price of fresh fruit up by 10.5%, rent by 0.3%; however costs of vegetables dip by 7.1% and clothes by 3%

Syrian security forces stand guard as people chant and wave national flags amid celebrations on the fourteenth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, at a rally in Umayyad Square in Damascus on March 15, 2025. (Bakr AlKasem/AFP)

Syrians commemorate uprising anniversary for first time since Assad’s fall

By Maher Al-Mounes

Security forces in Damascus hand out flowers to demonstrators who gather in public square that was once the sole preserve of the ousted president’s supporters

Syrian Civil Defense and first responders rescue a victim from the site of an explosion in Syria's western coastal city of Latakia, March 15, 2025. (Sana / AFP)

At least 16 killed as ordnance from Syrian civil war explodes in port city Latakia

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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People wave flags as they attend a demonstration ahead a speech of chairman of the Tisza (Respect and Freedom) party Peter Magyar in Budapest on March 15, 2025, on National Day that marks the Hungarian revolution against the Austrian Empire in 1848. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP)

Hungary’s Orban vows crackdown on press, immigrants in conspiracy theory-laden speech

By Justin Spike

Reservist soldiers are seen in a border buffer zone opening fire toward Gaza during a reading of the Book of Esther, March 14, 2025 (Social media)

IDF removes reservists from Gaza over video of them shooting during Purim scroll reading

By Emanuel Fabian

Small cube-shaped satellites built by Israeli students. (Ronen Horesh/GPO)

Reaching for the stars9 tiny satellites built by Israeli students blast off into space

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (lunopark/Shutterstock.com)

Man shot dead while on way to work in northern Arab town

By Charlie Summers

Friends and relatives of the victims gather in front of a hospital following a fire in a nightclub which killed 51 people in Kocani, a town some 100 kilometres east of the capital Skopje, on March 16, 2025. (Robert Atanasovski / AFP)

51 people killed, more than 100 injured in nightclub fire in North Macedonia

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