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What Matters Most On Friday, March 21, 2025

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Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition heads vow court battle to save her and Ronen Bar

Cabinet schedules ‘no-confidence’ motion Sunday against AG, starting process of firing her

Document published by justice minister, hours after government voted to oust Shin Bet chief, calls Gali Baharav-Miara ‘long arm of the opposition,’ says she runs a tyrannical authority

L: Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90), R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Last day set as April 10 as demonstrations rage in capital

Cabinet fires Shin Bet chief; PM claims lack of trust in Bar, who calls move invalid

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(L-R) Democrats chair Yair Golan, National Unity chair Benny Gantz, Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid, and Yisrael Beytenu party Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition parties, NGOs petition High Court to intervene in Shin Bet chief’s firing

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security service, attends a ceremony on May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 21: Day 532 – Israel’s Shin Bet head fired in unprecedented vote

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (left) and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar (right) hold an assessment at the IDF Southern Command, March 21, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

March 21: State Department says firing of Shin Bet chief ‘an internal Israeli matter’

By Jacob Magid and Shira Silkoff

US also avoids commenting on Katz’s threat to begin annexing parts of Gaza if hostages not freed * Israeli source: Dermer-Witkoff approach failed, PM aimlessly drawing out hostage talks

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Two Syrian defense personnel said injured in Israeli strike on military airport
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pesach yad ezra

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Op-ed: Day 532 of the war

For Israel, everything will not be okay

Summarily fired by Netanyahu, the head of the Shin Bet is also falsely accused of knowing hours ahead of time that Hamas was going to invade and choosing not to act. The AG is next for purging by the PM. After that, the judges

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip on November 19, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

‘Official,’ said to be PM, pushes conspiracy theory Bar knew about Hamas attack but didn’t act

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Netanyahu has hitherto refrained from directly peddling unfounded claim about Oct. 7; PM’s son on Shin Bet chief: ‘Did he and his friends in the deep state forget who is in power in America!?!’

Composite image shows Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (left) and Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Supreme Court chief Aharon Barak says he fears Israel headed to civil war

Protesters demonstrate outside the Prime Minister's Office as the cabinet meets on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to fire Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, in Jerusalem, March 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Police smash windows of cars blocking entrance to PM’s office while passengers inside; former Likud minister says Netanyahu has ‘brought destruction’ upon Israeli society

President Isaac Herzog issues a video message on March 20, 2025. (Screenshot/ President’s Residence)

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By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Posters for United Torah Judaism candidate Shmuel Greenberg defaced ahead of the 2024 municipal election in Beit Shemesh. (Sam Sokol)

PM, President Herzog, Haredi ministers condemn mob attack on Beit Shemesh mayor

Says ousting him now 'a direct threat to Israel's security'

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Shin Bet chief links his dismissal to probe into Qatari influence in Netanyahu’s office, says he’ll respond to claims against him in forum ‘determined by competent legal authorities”

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a farewell ceremony in honor of then-police chief Kobi Shabtai (not pictured), at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman in a television interview aired March 13, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Ex-Shin Bet chief questioned on allegations he blackmailed Netanyahu in TV interview

UNIFIL peacekeeping troops patrol the southern Lebanese village of Ramia near the southern border on March 5, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

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Rachel Sharansky Danziger

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Mordechai Soskil

Can’t we just skip to the good parts?

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC on March 20, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

White House says Trump ‘fully supports’ Israeli actions in Gaza

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

Press secretary says ‘Hamas chose to play games in the media with lives,’ US fully behind IDF; EU leaders say they ‘deplore’ truce’s collapse, Hamas’s ‘refusal to release hostages’

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, March 4, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)

Egypt willing to temporarily relocate half a million Gazans to Sinai – report

By Nurit Yohanan

Pictures of Hassan Nasrallah, the slain former leader of Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah, and other killed fighters displayed amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Lebanon's southern village of Khiam, near Israel's border on March 15, 2025. (Rabih Daher / AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah facilities in eastern Lebanon amid ceasefire

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Illustrative: Leaders of the New York-based YIVO open crates of salvaged YIVO treasures from Europe, photographed in New Jersey, 1947. (Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)

Dirty jokes and sacred texts: YIVO marks 100 years of preserving Yiddish culture

By Cathryn J. Prince

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Houthis fire 2nd ballistic missile at Israel since early morning; none hurt

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Iran-backed group’s missile shot down outside Israel’s borders, IDF says; US said to strike Yemen again after telling Israel to let it deal with attacks

Supporters of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels brandish rifles and chant during a demonstration against US airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, March 17, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media during a refueling stop at Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland, on March 12, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Rubio says Trump will take action against Iran if nuclear diplomacy falls short

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks to a group of people and officials in Tehran, Iran, on March 21, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

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By Agencies and ToI Staff

Eli Sharabi, a former hostage, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting recounting his time in Hamas captivity in Gaza on March 20, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

Eli Sharabi tells UN Security Council: Hamas steals your aid while hostages starve

By Nava Freiberg

Released captive says Hamas guards laughed as they told him his brother was killed in captivity, describes being abandoned by international humanitarian organizations

Released hostage Eli Sharabi holds up a photo of his family as he speaks at the UN Security Council in New York on March 20, 2025. Sharabi’s wife Lianne and their daughters, Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, were killed by terrorists in their home’s safe room at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023 (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

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