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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 25, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with coalition lawmakers as the 2025 state budget law is passed by the Knesset, March 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich: Victory budget; Lapid: Biggest robbery in history

In major success for government, Knesset approves 2025 budget, staving off elections

Coalition lawmakers escorted into Knesset under guard as anti-government protesters block entrance. Opposition MKs chant ‘shame’, families of hostages protest from gallery, as law passes final reading

Yesh Atid party chair Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, on March 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Billions are being stolen’: Opposition slams 2025 state budget ahead of final vote

Charred objects are scattered on the ground, in Moshav Netiv Ha'asara in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on November 17, 2023, in the aftermath of Hamas's October 7 terror onslaught. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Deal on funds for Ofakim, Netivot paves way for approval of post-Oct. 7 revival law

By Sue Surkes and Stuart Winer

Protesters arrested for blocking roads to Knesset as government passes 2025 budget

By Charlie Summers, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Otzma Yehudit MK claims he faced ‘severe violence’; Speaker Ohana demands anti-government activists be ‘brought to justice’; lawyers accuse police of using excessive force

Israelis protest against the government outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 25, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israelis demonstrating in Tel Aviv carry a banner in support of Ronen Bar, the Shin Bet chief fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, March 22, 2025. (Deborah Danan / JTA)

As Netanyahu fires Shin Bet chief, right-wing Israelis join mass protests against PM

By Deborah Danan

Released hostage Ilana Gritzewsky poses for a portrait in her apartment in Kiryat Gat, December 15, 2024, near photos of her boyfriend, Matan Zangauker, who is being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Released hostage Ilana Gritzewsky says captors sexually assaulted her

31-year-old, whose partner Matan Zangauker is still captive, tells NYT she was groped during abduction, passed out and woke up half-naked in Gaza with 7 gunmen standing over her

President Isaac Herzog attends a conference organized by the Defense Ministry Rehabilitation Department held at the Tel Aviv University, March 25, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Herzog says he’s ‘shocked’ Israel has lost its focus on the hostages

By Lazar Berman

Photos of Israelis murdered at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, are posted at the site of the massacre, in southern Israel's Re'im, January 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Nova rave site has become KKL-JNF’s most visited in Israel

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Protesters demand the release of the hostages held captive by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 25: Dermer and Netanyahu not speaking to hostage’s family, says mother

By Michael Bachner, ToI Staff and Michael Horovitz

Freed captive in Berlin: Red Cross must visit those in captivity * Detained Oscar-winning Palestinian director is released * US intel: Iran isn’t building a nuclear weapon

8:03 pm

Freed hostage in Berlin: Red Cross must visit those in captivity
7:53 pm

Senior Biden and Obama aide Ilan Goldenberg joins J Street
7:51 pm

Dozens in Khan Younis call for Hamas's downfall, as protests appear to spread

Rabbi David Leybel, founder of Achvat Torah, in his Jerusalem office, March 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Interview'We have two trains on a collision path running at full speed'

‘Our shared nation is under attack’: A Haredi rabbi explains how to draft the ultra-Orthodox

By Rossella Tercatin

Rabbi David Leybel has already registered significant achievements in integrating Haredim into the workforce. Now he’s turning his sights on military service

UTJ’s Goldknopf symbolically resigns minor role in PMO amid row over Haredi draft

Analysis

PM ‘inspired’ by Trump to act after Biden’s warnings against altering Israeli democracy

Biden envoy says US alarm led Netanyahu to slow judicial overhaul; Israeli official laughs at prospect of Trump expressing similar concern over effort to oust Shin Bet chief and AG

US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Hostages Yosef-Haim Ohana (left) and Elkana Bohbot seen in a Hamas propaganda video released on March 24, 2025. (Screenshot)

Hamas publishes propaganda clip featuring hostages Elkana Bohbot, Yosef-Haim Ohana

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Both families clear publication of video showing gaunt captives pleading with freed hostages to speak out about horrible conditions in Gaza

People protest against the Israeli government and call for the immediate release of the Gaza hostages, Tel Aviv, March 22, 2025. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Hamas said to respond positively to Egyptian proposal; Israel denies receiving terms

By Agencies, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Bipin Joshi (Courtesy)

Far from Israel, sister of Nepali Hamas hostage Bipin Joshi prays for his release

Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority excavating a 2,200-year-old site north of Nahal Zohar in the Judean Desert in March 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

‘Finding written papyri from such a long time ago is rare’

Enigmatic 2,200-year-old ‘pyramid’ near Dead Sea may have been fortress for ancient taxman

By Rossella Tercatin

Excavations by Israeli archaeologists at the mysterious Judean Desert site reveal artifacts suggesting it served as a post for tax collection and later, a Roman-era tomb

Still the wrong approach for the Mahmoud Khalil case

The US government now says the green-card holder didn’t disclose past jobs and ties. Please tell me that you have something more.

A sober look at the 5 wedge issues setting Israel ablaze

Not all of them are existential threats, although a High Court ruling against ousting the Shin Bet chief could become a true crisis

Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of "No Other Land," is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba a day after being detained by the Israeli army, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Palestinian co-director of ‘No Other Land’ arrested, freed, after settlers reportedly beat him

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Nurit Yohanan

Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal, 2 other Palestinians held on suspicion of throwing stones as Israelis attacked West Bank village; IDF: Violence began when ‘terrorists threw rocks’ at Israeli cars

Director of Palestinian General Intelligence in the West Bank Majid Faraj (L) whispers to President Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas during a meeting where he requested to join 15 United Nations agencies, abandoning pledges to refrain from doing so during nine months of talks that were to end April 29, at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 1, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Inside storyAbbas planning to replace longtime spy chief, capping off purge of PA security heads

By Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Al Jazeera reporter, allegedly a Hamas sniper, said killed

IDF strikes Hamas pickup trucks used on Oct. 7, confirms top terror official killed Sunday

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Air force said to destroy over 100 of the vehicles used by Hamas in massacre and at hostage-release propaganda events; IDF says Hamas finance chief was planning attacks from hospital where he was killed

A Toyota pickup truck ablaze in Gaza after an IDF raid, March 24, 2025. (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

File: The Iron Dome missile defense system stationed close to the southern city of Sderot on October 12, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel intercepts 3 rockets fired from north Gaza; Islamic Jihad takes responsibility

By Emanuel Fabian

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (right) with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas in Jerusalem, March 24, 2025. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Israeli officials say no decision made on military rule in Gaza

By Lazar Berman

An IDF soldier is seen at a former Syrian Army post at Tel Kwdana, Syria, December 11, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

IDF says troops attacked in southern Syria, returned fire; local officials say 5 dead

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Military also says it hit ‘remaining military capabilities’ at pair of Syrian airbases overnight, after initial round of strikes over the weekend

The aftermath of an Israeli drone strike in the village of Qaaqaait al-Jisr, near Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon, March 24, 2025. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF says drone strike in south Lebanon kills Hezbollah anti-tank commander

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

Lebanon appeals to US, France to prevent Israeli strikes on Beirut

By Agencies and ToI Staff

L to R: US Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard in New Delhi, India, on March 17, 2025. (India Government Information Office), US Vice President JD Vance in Washington, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein), US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Washington, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein); The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg moderates a discussion on PBS, March 21, 2025. (Screen capture via YouTube)

US cabinet officials accidentally add journalist to group chat, share war plans

Trump adviser Mike Waltz inexplicably includes The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg in encrypted messaging chat to plan bombing campaign against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen

The interception of a Houthi ballistic missile fired from Yemen at Israel, March 24, 2025. (Courtesy of Bareket Askeloni)

IDF downs Houthi ballistic missile; debris from interception lands in Beit Shemesh

By Emanuel Fabian and Zev Stub

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Government tells High Court it can’t be forced to work with Shin Bet chief it doesn’t trust

By Jeremy Sharon

AG says decision to fire Ronen Bar ‘tainted with fundamental flaws,’ has implications for independence of security and law enforcement officials in exercising their power

Protesters march toward the Knesset on March 25, 2025, holding a banner that reads, 'Protecting Democracy' (Credit Yair Palti/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 25: Day 536 – Gov’t, High Court and AG face off on Shin Bet chief

By Jessica Steinberg, Jeremy Sharon and Rossella Tercatin

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

Netanyahu’s office says Shin Bet probe into police ministry aims to topple government

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Interview

Israel ‘looking forward’ to Friedrich Merz’s tenure, says envoy to Germany

Ron Prosor is first foreign ambassador invited to meeting of heads of German states; he says the far-right AfD party has elements that the Jewish State can’t talk to

Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor addresses the Conference of Minister-Presidents, March 12, 2025 (Media Service Saxony)

The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/ Richard Drew, File)

Study: ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama and all other top AI models show anti-Jewish, anti-Israel bias

ADL report says Llama most problematic, providing unreliable and sometimes outright false responses to questions related to Jewish people and Israel; Gemini performed best in test

Interview'What makes somebody like Dr. Pétri exceptional?'

In Nazi-occupied French Alps, a doctor risked death to save a Jewish girl. Why didn’t others?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Newly published ‘Two Sisters’ is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and questions of morality in Vichy France

Illustrative: President Isaac Herzog delivers the keynote address on August 29, 2022, to mark the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress at the historic Stadtcasino in Basel, where Theodor Herzl convened the first congress which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

From far left to Haredi right, Jews question ethics of voting in World Zionist Congress

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

As Jewish voters across the globe help decide Israel’s future, diametrically opposed groups on the fringes are united in taking issue with the terms of participation

More Headlines

Defense Minister Israel Katz (right) and new IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (left) meet with the IDF General Staff Forum, March 5, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Chief of staff slaps down Katz over questioning of senior officer involved in Oct. 7 probe

By Emanuel Fabian

Undated photo of Eva Illouz, professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Education minister strips Israel Prize from professor over ICC war crimes petition

Protesters rally in support of detained anti-Israel Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia University in New York on March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Anti-Israel Columbia University student sues to block her deportation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians receive food aid at a United Nations distribution center (UNRWA) in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on January 13, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90/ File)

UN to pull a third of its international staff from Gaza, after one killed last week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Architect's impression of a park being created in a huge rehabilitated salt marsh where the Kishon River meets the sea, part of plans to overhaul the Haifa Bay in northern Israel. (Kishon River Authority)

As Haifa goes green, oil refinery closure delayed but crude oil tanks set for removal

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to AFP during an interview at the Iranian consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on March 7, 2025. (Amer HILABI / AFP)

Iranian FM says a ‘way is open’ for indirect nuclear talks with US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Gal Gadot stars as the evil queen in Disney's upcoming 'Snow White,' as seen in a trailer released on August 11, 2024. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Cold receptionTough sledding for Gal Gadot’s ‘Snow White’ with $43 million opening

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli vintners from the Negev visiting the Spanish wine region of Riviera del Duero in March 2025 with the Merage Foundation, as part of efforts to further establish a Negev wine appellation. (Courtesy Negev Wine Club)

Grape exchangeNegev vintners visit Spanish wineries to talk grapes and tourism

By Jessica Steinberg

Jackals in Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv on April 13, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Tel Aviv-Jaffa declares war on urban jackals

Screen capture from video of Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, 2024. (YouTube: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, compassionate NY Orthodox voice, dies in road accident at 43

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Jeffrey Klein leading the seder in 1990. (Courtesy of Klein Family)

Jeffrey Klein, Mother Jones co-founder led by Jewish values, dies at 77

By Grace Gilson

Max Frankel working as The New York Times' Moscow correspondent in 1959. (Ben Martin/Getty Images)

Max Frankel, Jewish New York Times executive editor who fled the Nazis, dies at 94

By Grace Gilson

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