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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 22, 2025

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Illustrative: Smoke at the site of reported Israeli artillery shelling of a Hezbollah target in the Lebanese village of Yohmor, in response to earlier rocket fire on Metula, March 22, 2025. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

Northern mayors fume: 'Government normalizing rocket fire'

6 rockets fired from Lebanon at Metula; IDF airstrikes hit dozens of Hezbollah sites

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

3 rockets intercepted, 3 fall short in Lebanon; Hezbollah denies it fired; some Metula residents leave town; several killed in Israeli strikes; IDF: It’s Lebanon’s job to uphold ceasefire

This grab from footage shared by the US Central Command on March 15, 2025, shows a US F/A-18 Super Hornet attack fighter jet taking off from the US Navy's USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, reportedly amidst operations launched against Houthis in Yemen. (DVIDS / AFP)

US beefs up warship presence in Mideast, will have 2 aircraft carriers in region

By AP

A screenshot of video released by the IDF showing an airstrike on an airbase in central Syria, late March 21, 2025. (Screen capture X)

IDF bombs pair of airbases in central Syria, reportedly wounding 2 defense personnel

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

US special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff is interviewed on Tucker Carlson's podcast on March 21, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

Witkoff: Hamas isn’t ideologically intractable, Gaza conflict can end through dialogue

In candid podcast interview, top Trump aide indicates renewed IDF strikes may be necessary after Hamas intransigence, says PM ‘going up against Israeli public opinion that wants hostages back’

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew anniversary of the Hamas October 7 attack, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ FLASH90)

Unions, universities threaten to strike if court order defied

Setting up standoff, High Court issues temporary order against dismissing Shin Bet chief

By Jeremy Sharon, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

In wake of ruling, AG tells Netanyahu he’s prohibited from even interviewing new candidates, says could be a conflict of interest; PM says government will decide who heads Shin Bet

Protesters clash with police during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bid to oust Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, Jerusalem, March 20, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: 63% of public fears for Israeli democracy as government votes to fire Shin Bet head

Jon Polin, father of murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, speaks at a religious Zionist rally in Jerusalem calling on the government to promote a deal to free all the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, December 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Jon Polin thanks Bar for pushing to expand negotiators’ mandate when gov’t refused

'You do not have a mandate to sacrifice 59 hostages'

‘Israel choosing endless war’: 40 freed hostages demand end to fighting, return to talks

Also signed by 250 family members of hostages, letter calls renewed fighting in Gaza Strip a ‘criminal policy’ that risks lives of living hostages, disappearing the fallen

Israelis attend a rally demanding a deal to bring hostages home from Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli reservists are seen after a military drill in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, January 24, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

AnalysisAs fighting in Gaza resumes, Israel needs to combat reservist burnout, war weariness

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Weekend protests expected to draw masses amid renewed fighting, Shin Bet chief’s ouster

Families Forum plans ‘rage rally’ at Hostages Square to demand Israel return to negotiating table; Golan, Lapid to address earlier anti-government protest at Habima

Israelis attend a rally to demand the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Released hostage Gadi Mozes speaks in a television interview broadcast March 20, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

'Does PM want to understand the sense of betrayal we feel?'

Gadi Mozes recounts 482 days of solitary captivity: ‘Everything was psychological abuse’

Former hostage, 80, slams Netanyahu for not visiting Nir Oz, ‘evil’ government for not even welcoming him on his return; says most urgent thing for him is ‘friends still there’

IDF says it killed Hamas's south Gaza military intel chief

Katz threatens to annex part of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas releases hostages

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Hamas fires two rockets at Ashkelon in second attack in as many days, both are intercepted; IDF troops push further into Strip, blow up former hospital being used as Hamas base

Troops of the Gaza Division operate in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on March 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid addresses a rally against the government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2025. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 22: Addressing Tel Aviv rally, Lapid and Golan urge strike if gov’t defies court

Protesters demonstrate around Israel for return of hostages and against PM’s efforts to oust AG, Shin Bet chief * IDF says air force launched over 200 strikes this weekend in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria

8:41 pm

Houthi media reports US strikes on Hodeida airport
8:40 pm

Police recover wild monkey in southern Bedouin village
8:32 pm

'I cannot walk freely in my city,' says Beit Shemesh mayor after assault by Haredi mob

People take cover as siren warns of incoming missile fired from Yemen, in Jerusalem, March 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Missile from Yemen triggers sirens across central Israel, Jerusalem; none hurt

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Projectile shot down outside Israeli borders, IDF says; Houthis claim Ben Gurion Airport now ‘unsafe’ for travel * US said to carry out more strikes on Iran-backed group’s stronghold

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre during renovation works in March 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Exclusive'The history of this site is the history of Jerusalem'

Echoing Gospel account, traces of ancient garden found under Church of Holy Sepulchre

By Rossella Tercatin

A landmark excavation, set to conclude soon at Old City of Jerusalem church, has offered unprecedented historical insights. ToI gets a sneak peek

The 16th Sheep: Music for the death of democracy?

The popularity of a nostalgia concert resurrecting a long-ago children’s album might just be a lament for a lost future

Jennifer Airley

My son Binyamin’s legacy, and our ally, Senator John Fetterman

The US senator shed tears as he heard how we transformed our pain, trauma, and loss into a place of healing and giving

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally on the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024 (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)

Columbia agrees to Trump administration’s demands to address campus antisemitism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

University to limit masking, give up faculty control over Mideast studies department in bid to regain $400 million in federal funds it lost for its response to anti-Israel activity

Counter-protesters clash with anti-Israel demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in Los Angeles on May 1, 2024. (ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP)

Pro-Palestinian students, faculty sue UCLA over handling of anti-Israel demonstrations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Cornell University sign is seen on the Ivy League school's campus, January 14, 2022, in Ithaca, New York. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Cornell student who praised Oct. 7 told to surrender to US immigration authorities

By JTA and ToI Staff

Interview

Israel’s antisemitism envoy says she wasn’t consulted on far-right invites to antisemitism confab

Michal Cotler-Wunsh says Diaspora Affairs Minister Chikli did not tell her he was inviting European far-right politicians to Jerusalem conference now being boycotted by world Jewish groups

Israel's antisemitism envoy Michal Cotler-Wunsh in an undated photo. (Rami Zarenger)

Eli Feldstein (left,) a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich speaks at a Central Elections Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Suspects detained by police in ‘Qatargate’ probe named as PM aides Urich and Feldstein

Feldstein already indicted for leaking stolen classified documents to German media; Urich reportedly did PR work for Gulf state in lead up to 2022 World Cup

Danny Wolf #1 of the Michigan Wolverines drives against Justin Rochelin #5 of the UC San Diego Tritons during the second half in the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Ball Arena on March 20, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images/AFP)

US-Israeli basketball star Danny Wolf seeks glory in March Madness — and likely the NBA

By jacob gurvis

The Michigan center hopes to take his team on a deep tournament run, but has bigger dreams of disrupting stereotypes about Jews and sports

Tourist Police office D'Tom Tomarito holds a sign with instructions in Hebrew on how to behave for Israeli tourists to Pai, Thailand. (Eliyahu Freedman)

'If any group were to act this way, it would be problematic'

As war-weary Israeli reservists head to Thailand, poor behavior could spoil relations

By Eliyahu Freedman

A culture clash has left residents of a resort town complaining about travelers from the Jewish state, with the issue escalating to the Thai Interior Ministry

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The historic Beth-El Zedeck Temple in Indianapolis. (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

5 arrested for breaking into historic Indianapolis synagogue to film music video

By Grace Gilson

A pedestrian on the campus of Yeshiva University in New York City on August 30, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

After years of litigation, Yeshiva University recognizes LGBTQ student club

Illustrative: An helicopter of the French 'Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne' (High Mountain Police Squad, PGHM) lands during an avalanche search and rescue training, near Briancon in the French Alps on March 16, 2023. (Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)

Israeli said killed in avalanche near Villaroger in France

This graphical rendering provided by the US Air Force shows the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform, the F-47. On Friday, March 21, 2025 (US Air Force via AP)

Trump announces Boeing wins contract for secretive F-47 future fighter jet

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