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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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An ambulance carrying victims of an Israeli army strike arrives at the hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday March 18, 2025.(AP Photo/ Mohammad Jahjouh)

Hamas: Israeli offensive 'exposes hostages to unknown fate'

Israel resumes Gaza strikes, says Hamas collapsed truce by refusing to free hostages

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

IDF says it targeted mid-level Hamas commanders, is prepared to widen offensive beyond airstrikes; death toll reportedly over 400; White House backs attacks, says it was consulted

An Israeli army soldier signals for the driver of a Merkava battle tank attempting to park at a position in southern Israel along the northern Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 18: Day 529 – With US backing, Israel ends ceasefire in Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Palestinians at the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on March 18, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Trump said to ‘green-light’ renewal of Gaza strikes, as world laments truce collapse

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israelis attend a rally against government moves to fire Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, at Habima Square, March 18, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 18: Tens of thousands in Tel Aviv protest government bids to oust AG, Shin Bet chief

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Foreign minister says he compared attorney general to kamikaze pilot in scathing missive * Cabinet votes to bring Ben Gvir back into government * IDF strikes reported in Syria’s Homs

11:32 pm

No dissent in cabinet on bringing back Ben Gvir, PMO says
11:01 pm

Fresh wave of US airstrikes reported in Yemen
10:02 pm

Government approves Ben Gvir's reappointment as police minister despite AG's objection

'Am I going to be sitting shiva soon?'

Hostage families warn resumption of hostilities in Gaza ‘killing the captives’

Families Forum demands meeting with Netanyahu, urges public to protest outside his office as he confers with security chiefs; smaller, hardline Tikva Forum welcomes renewed strikes

Carmit Palty Katzir, whose brother Elad Katzir was killed in captivity in Gaza, speaks at the Knesset on March 18, 2025 (Courtesy)

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Far-right Otzma Yehudit returning to the government after resumption of war in Gaza

‘Together in strength, for the sake of the people of Israel,’ Ben Gvir exults following end of two-month stint in the opposition over party’s objection to ceasefire deal

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir holds a press conference together with members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party in Jerusalem, January 16, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting of his Religious Zionist party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

At Knesset meeting, Smotrich says hostages’ families are heard ‘too much’

Left: Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz (from left to right): VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv); Google Cloud offices in Sunnyvale, California, on June 8, 2023. (JHVEPhoto/iStock)

In biggest exit in Israeli history, Google buys cyber unicorn Wiz for $32 billion

By Sharon Wrobel

With the acquisition of Wiz, Google’s parent company wants to strengthen its cyber offerings to better compete in the cloud computing race against tech giants Amazon and Microsoft

Israeli security forces at the scene where a drone launched from Iraq hit an open area near the border with Syria on September 25, 2024. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Backed by CIA, defense startup emerges with tech platform for modern battlefield

By Sharon Wrobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from L) poses for a photo with his cabinet at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is seen in the second row, second from the right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protests moved to Tuesday, petition filed to High Court

Netanyahu says AG ‘abusing’ her authority by opposing Shin Bet chief’s firing

PM denies dismissal meant to thwart probe into aides’ Qatar links; vote on ousting Bar up in the air and may be delayed by weeks after initial plans to move it up to Tuesday

A composite image shows The Democrats chair Yair Golan (L), Opposition Leader and Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid (C), and National Unity leader Benny Gantz (R), leading their respective faction meetings at the Knesset on March 17, 2025. (All photos by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition party chiefs to petition High Court against PM’s effort to fire Ronen Bar

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Inside story

Captured Gaza records show that Iran, Hezbollah plotted with Hamas to destroy Israel

New study, based on classified documents, reveals terror group’s shift from defense to a multifront assault plan, culminating in October 7 invasion; warns Hamas will try again if it recovers

Head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh (left) and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar (right) at a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the terror group, in Gaza City, December 14, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

National Unity MK Gadi Eisenkot attends a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition MKs say Gaza terror groups have 30,000 gunmen, war failing to achieve goals

By Stav Levaton

In embracing Europe’s far right, Israel is playing with fire

For Jewish communities in France and beyond, this shift is not merely uncomfortable; it is existentially destabilizing

Putting Knesset members above the law

A proposed bill giving MKs freedom to break the law and commit civil offenses puts the fox in charge of guarding the henhouse

UK chief rabbi joins those exiting Israeli antisemitism confab over far-right invitees

Ephraim Mirvis says he’s canceling after being ‘made aware’ of attendance by populist European politicians; Diaspora Ministry defends guest list as aimed at those with ‘different views’

Britain's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, addresses the crowd during a 'Vigil for Israel,' opposite the entrance to Downing Street, in London, October 9, 2023. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

In this handout image provided by the US NAVY the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) transits the Strait of Gibraltar, November 25, 2024. (Michael Gomez / US NAVY / AFP)

Houthis claim attack on American warships; US scoffs they missed by ‘over 100 miles’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US defense official blasts ongoing ‘lies and disinformation’ by Iran-backed rebel group, which threatens ‘escalation’ over resumed fighting in Gaza

This grab from footage shared by the US Central Command (CENTCOM) on March 15, 2025, shows a US F/A-18 fighter aircraft taking off from an aircraft carrier at sea reportedly amidst operations launched against Houthis in Yemen. (DVIDS / AFP)

Trump says he’ll hold Tehran responsible for Houthi attacks as group targets US ships

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox men protest against the conscription of Haredim to the IDF in Jerusalem on October 31, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

AG urges defense minister to take ‘immediate action’ to penalize Haredi draft evaders

Government must ‘improve enforcement and impose personal sanctions,’ Deputy AG Limon writes, says only a ‘negligible’ fraction of ultra-Orthodox called up for service have enlisted

Then-Col. Erez Winner in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 4, 2012. (Uri Lenz/ Flash90)

IDF ousts reservist general for losing top-secret military files in parking lot

By Emanuel Fabian

Theater review

A Jewish and an ex-Nazi conductor walk into a bar… and inspire an off-Broadway play

By Jordan Hoffman

Running through May 4, ‘Last Call’ reimagines a true late-in-life meeting between musical peers and rivals Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan, providing much food for thought

An illustrative image of a person looking at Wikipedia on their phone. (iStock/pressureUA)

ADL: Anti-Israel Wikipedia editors colluding in anti-Israel bias on site

At least 30 Wikipedia editors work together to inject the online encyclopedia with misinformation bias, watchdog claims

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a ceremonial swearing-in of Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's new director of the FBI on February 21, 2025, in Washington DC. (AP Photo/ Mark Schiefelbein)

Justice Department, FBI form task force probing Hamas and US-based supporters

By AP and ToI Staff

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)

Columbia anti-Israel activist facing deportation contests his detention relocation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Bible Lands Museum director Risa Levitt shows 'Kuma,' the illustrated scroll made by Eitan Rosenzweig, a soldier killed on November 22, 2023, in battle in Gaza, currently on exhibit in the Jerusalem museum through Summer 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Historical imagery, magical letters capture the imagination in Bible Lands exhibits

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum extends its archeological focus with two new exhibits, one connected to October 7 and the other to the Hebrew alphabet

US, Israel see Syria as possible home for relocated Gazans, says report

By Lazar Berman

Sources tell CBS that new government in Damascus has been approached as part of Trump’s Gaza plan, alongside Sudan and Somalia; Netanyahu’s office declines to comment

Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus, on March 10, 2025. (SANA via AP)

Syrian troops take position in the village of Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, located 2 km (1.24 miles) from the Lebanon border, Syria, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Lebanon and Syria reach ceasefire, ending two days of border clashes

By AP and ToI Staff

Smoke rises from a village in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on March 17, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/ Flash90)

IDF strikes terror targets in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, said to kill at least 9

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Theoretical physicist Yehuda Ashkelon has set a new record in Israel and the Spanish-speaking world by memorizing and reciting 25,333 decimal places of the number π (pi) in Spanish. (Courtesy)

A round number

Israeli physicist sets national Pi memorization record

By Diana Bletter

Yehuda Ashkelon of Ben-Gurion University recites 25,333 decimal places in Spanish, setting world record in language, new Israeli record and placing him 9th worldwide overall

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court to testify in his corruption trial, March 17, 2025. (Tomer Appelbaum/Pool)

Netanyahu’s testimony in graft trial canceled for the day amid shock Gaza offensive

Shas minister Haim Biton attends an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, on August 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police grill Shas minister for alleged funneling of taxpayer money to party paper

By Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol

Cornell University students sit outside on November 3, 2023, in Ithaca, New York. (Matt Burkhartt/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Cornell student suit against deportation of anti-Israel activists cites Jewish group

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pedestrians make their way past a building housing the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University on January 30, 2019, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)

US customs officials expel Lebanese doctor over alleged Hezbollah sympathies

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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