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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 20, 2025

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Police fire skunk liquid at protesters during demonstrations against the decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, in Jerusalem, March 20, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz blames 'extremist government' for protest violence

Jerusalem protests rage for 2nd day as cabinet set to vote to fire Shin Bet head Bar

By Charlie Summers, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Police shove Democrats chair Yair Golan to the ground outside Netanyahu’s home, use water cannons to disperse demonstrators; cops tow cars after activists block Paris Square

A car rams into an anti-government protester outside the Prime Minister's Residence, March 19, 2025. (Social media/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Driver rams anti-government protester in Jerusalem, drags him for 50 meters

By Charlie Summers

Left: Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Dudu Bachar/POOL)

Defying AG, cabinet schedules Thursday night vote to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar

By Jeremy Sharon, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Citing a ‘persistent personal and professional distrust’ of spymaster, PM moves ahead with anticipated sacking despite Baharav-Miara’s objections, probe into his aides’ Qatar ties

Families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza and supporters hold a press statement outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 18, 2025. (Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

Hostages’ families fume as meeting on Gaza delayed so cabinet can vote on Bar’s ouster

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Demonstrators protest against the decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire head of Shin Bet Ronen Bar, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 20: Gantz says firing of Bar a ‘mark of Cain’ on all ministers who back move

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Thousands protest in rain against dismissal of Shin Bet chief, who PM claims he lost trust in * Ex-top judge Barak warns Israel headed to civil war

9:50 pm

Netanyahu tells cabinet he lost faith in Ronen Bar after Oct. 7
9:42 pm

Gantz says firing of Bar a 'mark of Cain' on all ministers who vote in favor
9:35 pm

Sa'ar says he supports firing Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar

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The evening will include a panel discussion between Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, ‘America’s Rabbi’ and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Bret Stephens. Seating is limited.

Israelis take cover in a supermarket basement as siren alerts are sounded in Tel Aviv, March 20, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Three rockets fired from Gaza at Tel Aviv as IDF ground troops expand operations in Strip

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

Rockets are the first fired at central Israel since October, with one intercepted, two hitting open areas; Hamas says mediators trying to revive truce but ‘no breakthrough’

Illustrative: IDF troops of the 252nd Division operate in northern Gaza, in a handout photo issued by the military on March 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 20: Day 531 – IDF renews ground operations in Gaza Strip

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

IDF downs Houthi missile as sirens send millions in central Israel to shelters at 4 a.m.

By ToI Staff and Agencies

13 people injured as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem-area residents rush to bomb shelters; Yemeni rebels claim to have been targeting Ben Gurion Airport; flights briefly disrupted by attack

Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, March 17, 2025. (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

This image grab from an AFPTV footage shows smoke plumes rising above buildings following bombardment on Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on March 19, 2025. (AFP)

Trump vows to ‘annihilate’ Houthis, warns Iran against support, as US strikes Yemen

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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)

Report: Trump letter to Iran set 2-month deadline to reach nuclear deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rails against 'the deep state' in a social media video filmed at the Prime Minister's Office, March 19, 2025. (Screen capture X)

Amid probe of his aides, Netanyahu attacks ‘leftist Deep State’ in the US and Israel

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Herzog issues rare rebuttal to PM, defends Israel’s judiciary as ‘asset to our democracy’; Lapid says Netanyahu has ‘gone off the rails,’ is in a ‘dangerous and embarrassing panic’

Eli Feldstein (left), a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the main suspect in an investigation, launched in late October 2024, of alleged illegal access and leaking of classified intelligence material. (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police detain, grill 2 suspects as part of probe into Qatari payments to PM’s aides

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Naftali Bennett attends a commemoration ceremony for a slain Israeli soldier at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, December 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90/ File)

Bennett: PM must quit over Qatari payments to aide; if received knowingly, it’s ‘treason’

Ben Gvir reappointed police minister as Knesset okays his party’s return to government

Far-right Otzma Yehudit rejoins hours before critical budget vote, raising Netanyahu’s majority to 68; Ben Gvir links move to resumption of Gaza war after he opposed hostage deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulates Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir after the Knesset votes to approve his return to the cabinet, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Troops of the Gaza Division operate in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the military on March 19, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF retakes half of Netzarim Corridor area that splits Gaza

IDF ground forces operating in Gaza; Katz warns of ‘total destruction’ unless hostages returned

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense minister issues ‘final warning’ to Gazans to eject Hamas, says combat zone evacuations will soon begin; military names 2 more senior Hamas officials killed in strikes

AnalysisHamas squandered the few chances it had left. Will Netanyahu do the same?

By Lazar Berman

Israelis march in a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his plans to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet internal security service, in Jerusalem on March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Terrible external threats, tremendous internal division

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Ahead of a fateful cabinet vote on the firing of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar tonight, ToI’s editor assesses how war-torn Israel is responding

Ben Gvir’s return has red flags in all the wrong places

Netanyahu’s willingness to reappoint the Otzma Yehudit chairman is reflective of a broader trend: political survival, at any cost

How does Netanyahu think this ends?

Even if the prime minister gets his druthers about the AG, Ronen Bar, and the war, he still won’t have the control of the country that he wants

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and coalition lawmakers attend a vote on the 2025 state budget in the Knesset plenum, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Clearing path for budget vote, MKs pass Economic Arrangements Law as Haredim back down

Ben Gvir’s return to the coalition defangs UTJ chief Yitzchak Goldknopf’s threat to scuttle 2025 state budget unless law exempting yeshiva students from IDF service is passed first

Beit Shemesh Mayor Shmuel Greenberg (in helmet) is rescued by police from a mob of ultra-Orthodox extremists, late March 19, 2025. (Screen capture X)

Haredi extremists attack Beit Shemesh mayor and his family, overturn his car

Assailants injure Shmuel Greenberg’s 19-year-old son; video shows armored police rushing mayor from scene as mob shouting ‘Nazi’ chases him

Four widows whose husbands' bodies are being held hostage in Gaza. From left, Hadas Adar, widow of Tamir Adar; Saphir Zohav Hamami, widow of Asaf Hamami; Yaffa Rudaeff, widow of Lior Rudaeff, Ela Haimi, widow of Tal Haimi in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2025. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/IDFWO)

'We buried blood and a pile of sand'

With new Gaza fighting, 4 IDF widows worry the bodies of their fallen husbands won’t return

By Diana Bletter

Women from the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization whose spouses are among the 35 dead hostages in Gaza call for ‘the immediate release of all hostages — living and dead’

Tel Aviv store to auction slain hostage Nadav Popplewell’s sci-fi book collection

Anat Hetz-Golan, left, manager of Solaris, and Dr. Marina Hetz, CEO of Space Valley, which built and operates the first and only national solar observatory, in the Druze village of Isfiya on Mount Carmel on February 24, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel

Reporter's notebook

In time for the equinox, Israel’s first solar observatory opens in northern Druze town

By Diana Bletter

Solaris launches in Isfiya as part of a government program to increase space research in the Arab Israeli community

A protester, with a sign that employs the inverted red triangle used in Hamas propaganda to indicate a target, stops to pet a dog as demonstrators rally outside the White House, after Israel resumes airstrikes in Gaza amid its war against Hamas, on March 18, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Anti-Israel protests held at White House and across US after resumption of Gaza strikes

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Demonstrations in New York, San Francisco, LA, Dallas and more, after Israel resumes attacks on terror targets

US student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil on the Columbia University campus in New York at an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (Ted Shaffrey/AP)

Detained anti-Israel activist Khalil urges renewed student pro-Palestinian protests

By JTA and ToI Staff

Police officers stand guard outside Columbia University, May 2, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Columbia faces White House pressure over antisemitism, as other US colleges watch

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Study: Nearly a million Israelis live abroad, changing the face of European Jewry

While most live in the US, Europe is now home to some 30% of Israelis abroad, bringing ‘significant transformation’ to local communities, Institute for Jewish Policy Research says

Passengers look at a departure board at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, as flights are canceled and delayed because of a massive surprise attack by Hamas, on October 7, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

People in costumes party in the Nahlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem, during the Jewish holiday of Purim, on March 16, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Israel ranks as 8th-happiest nation in global survey, down from 5th last year; US is 24th

By AP and ToI Staff

In this image taken from video, people march with Palestinian flags near the Ajax stadium in Amsterdam, November 7, 2024. (AP Photo InterVision)

Dutch Jews decry courts, media, politics as mild verdicts handed down for Nov. ‘Jew hunt’

Inside story

From Waze to Wiz: How Google learned to love Israeli tech

The biggest buyout in the country’s history will make the unpretentious Wiz founders multibillionaires, while an estimated $4 billion in taxes is set to flow into national coffers

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)

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Civil defense team stopped major Hamas invasion at Alumim, but dozens were murdered outside

IDF finds around 100 terrorists reached kibbutz during Oct. 7 onslaught, killing 22 foreign nationals in industrial area and many more who fled Nova festival at main entrance

Security forces are seen next to cars damaged during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, near the entrance to Kibbutz Alumim, close the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, October 9, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Illustrative: The D-City design mall in Ma'aleh Adumim, outside Jerusalem, on August 20, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Despite low foot traffic, West Bank’s D-City design mall so far proving too big to fail

While the mall outside Jerusalem feels nearly empty, the home stores remain committed to maintaining a presence, and the event halls and entertainment centers keep operations afloat

This image released by Disney shows Gal Gadot in a scene from "Snow White." (Disney via AP)

Film review

Even Gal Gadot can’t hold this live-action Snow White together

Disney’s newest princess remake, hampered by efforts to rectify past sins, overshadowed by politics and plagued by its strained use of CGI, fails to recreate the original’s magic

More Headlines

President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony at the United Nations to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at UN headquarters in New York City on January 27, 2025. (UN screenshot)

Herzog offers compromise to salvage controversial antisemitism conference

(L-R) US Senator John Fetterman, Gisele Fetterman, Sara Netanyahu and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 19, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

Ring blingNetanyahu gifts silver-plated pager to visiting US Senator Fetterman

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner is interviewed on local news station WLPG News 10, in a segment uploaded to YouTube on November 3, 2024. (Screenshot)

Miami Beach mayor retracts effort to evict theater for showing ‘No Other Land’

By Grace Gilson

US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, February 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump floats US takeover of Ukrainian nuclear plants, as Putin resists ceasefire

Screen capture from an undated video of Itay Leibovitch during a court appearance, around 2004. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Serial pedophile freed after 21 years, dismaying his past victims and new neighbors

An illegally imported monkey found tied to a tree in Mazkeret Batya on March 19, 2025 (Israel Police)

Sanctuary receiving, treating smuggled monkeys says surging trade ‘breaks our hearts’

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