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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman, head of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, introduces the law to remake Israel's Judicial Selection Committee, in the Knesset on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset holds final votes on bill to take political control of appointing judges

By Jeremy Sharon

Voting expected to continue until early Thursday morning due to objections to legislation, at heart of coalition’s judicial overhaul, that increasingly politicizes process of choosing justices

Protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and against the firing of the government's top gatekeepers, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 22, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Moody’s warns Israel’s economy has been weakened by ‘very high political risks’

People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 26: Knesset opposition factions say they’ll work together to combat overhaul agenda

Opposition lawmakers to boycott vote on controversial judicial bill * Gantz warns country ‘on the brink of civil war’ * Islamic Jihad fires long-range rocket at Israel from northern Gaza

9:15 pm

Mother of hostage Tamir Nimrodi says she hasn't received any signs of life from her son
9:02 pm

IDF says troops killed masked Palestinian who planned to throw rocks at Israeli motorists in West Bank
8:52 pm

Houthi media reports fresh wave of US strikes on Yemen's capital

Inside story

Columbia students’ lawyers, street protest groups part of linked anti-Israel network

Legal representatives for allegedly pro-Hamas students threatened with deportation have advised and mentored activists leading disruptive rallies around New York and on campuses

Protesters rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside his court hearing in New York City, March 12, 2025. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

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)

Lawsuit accuses anti-Israel Columbia protesters of being Hamas’s ‘in-house PR firm’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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

Columbia faculty groups sue US administration over crackdown on anti-Israel activity

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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Hundreds in Gaza join rare protests against Hamas rule, call for an end to the war

By Nurit Yohanan

Chanting ‘Hamas out,’ ‘We want to eat’ and holding signs saying ‘Stop war,’ Palestinians in at least three locations in the Strip gather to voice anger at the terror group

Children carry signs reading in Arabic: 'We refuse to die' during an anti-Hamas rally calling for an end to the war, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25, 2025. (AFP)

A slogan in Arabic reading (R): 'Enough killing and destruction' and another reading (L): 'The children of Palestine: We want to live' are displayed during a rally calling for an end to the war where hundreds chanted anti-Hamas slogans, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25, 2025. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 26: Day 537 – Gazans rise up against Hamas: The end of the beginning?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

Palestinian children stand on rubble after an earlier Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on March 26, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

Hamas threatens hostages will return ‘in coffins;’ Islamic Jihad fires rockets at Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

No injuries as rocket lands in Zimrat near southern border, IDF intercepts another projectile; Gazans protest against Hamas rule over the Strip for 2nd consecutive day

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Democracy isn’t in danger,’ Netanyahu tells Knesset in tirade against ‘deep state’

‘The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release our hostages, the more powerful the pressure we will exert,’ says PM, threatening to seize territory in Gaza

Op-Ed: Day 537 of the war

Happening now: The smooth, malevolent unraveling of Israel’s vulnerable democracy

The balance between the branches of government is being shattered as I write, in a country that cannot afford the bitter division its prime minister insistently fosters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tanya Hoshovsky

Netanyahu doesn’t care if the protests block our road (he doesn’t really live here)

Maybe I wouldn’t mind detouring up and around hills lugging my groceries to avoid the demonstrators if it seemed like they were accomplishing something

When I came out, I was told I’d always be welcome. That’s not quite right

The reality is that some of us just don’t fit the box, especially the Orthodox box, even as we spend inordinate energy trying to stay inside it

Ultra-Orthodox Jews at Citi Field in New York gather to discuss Internet usage. (photo credit: AP/VosIzNeias.com

Pew Research Center survey: A quarter of US adults raised Jewish no longer identify as Jews

By Rossella Tercatin

Survey of 78,000 people in 36 countries on ‘religious switching’ in the world also shows that 20% of the US Muslim population are converts

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

‘The State of Israel has to save them’: Thousands rally in Jerusalem for hostage deal

By Charlie Summers, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

In the capital, protesters gather in anger and despair, beseeching the PM to reach an agreement; outside Knesset, cops shove, forcibly remove several people protesting budget vote

Family members visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre, six month after the October 7 Hamas terror assault, in Re'im forest, near the Gaza border, April 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF to present investigation into massacre at Nova music festival next week

By Emanuel Fabian

Wounded Israeli soldiers arrive at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, October 7, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)

Israel hosts first-ever International Rehabilitation Conference in wake of Oct. 7

By Stav Levaton

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)

Court upholds freeze on Shin Bet chief firing, but lets PM interview for replacement

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Ruling by Justice Canfy-Steinitz rejects AG’s request that the court prevent the government from actively pursuing a successor for Ronen Bar

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a hearing in his corruption trial at the Tel Aviv District Court, March 24, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/Pool)

Netanyahu was warned twice that Qatari cash was funding Hamas military wing – reports

'The Jewish people need to know they have friends'

Mike Huckabee downplays pro-settler views at confirmation hearing to be envoy to Israel

Trump’s pick for ambassador asks senators to adjudicate nomination based on his ability to represent president, not his past views; says it won’t be his prerogative to turn annexation into US policy

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, US President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, arrives to testify during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

Progressive, religious Jews protest against the Israeli government, outside the Israeli consulate, on Tisha B'av, New York City, July 27, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

In NY, 1st conference gives Orthodox Jews a forum to seek out Palestinian perspectives

‘1415: When 1st bombs will definitely drop’: The Atlantic publishes leaked Yemen plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After strenuous denials by White House and top Trump officials that strike plans had been discussed in group including journalist, magazine publishes screenshots showing otherwise

White House national security adviser Mike Waltz, left, speaks with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 24, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

US President Donald Trump gestures as he departs a reception celebrating Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, DC, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump casts Yemen leak as ‘glitch,’ says official responsible has ‘learned a lesson’

People gather by the rubble of a collapsed building at the site of a reported US air strike on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on March 24, 2025 (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Houthi media report fresh US airstrikes in rebel-controlled Yemen

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli takes part in Spanish far-right party Vox's rally 'Europa Viva 24' in Madrid on May 19, 2024. (OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP)

Israel’s antisemitism confab to start amid controversy over far-right invitees

Several high-profile figures will not appear at the Diaspora Ministry event, despite a compromise brokered by President Herzog

A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)

Argentina to declassify documents about Nazi ‘ratline’ escape routes after WWII

Religious women protest for the recruitment of ultra-Orthodox Jews into the IDF, at the entrance to Jerusalem, November 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Religious Zionist Israelis growing increasingly critical of Haredim, new survey shows

By Rossella Tercatin

Poll says that just over half of religious Zionists recognize ultra-Orthodox contributions to society, down since last year, as more respondents want to see ‘equal burden-bearing’

Palestinian children watch as the Israeli Civil Administration demolishes a home in At-Tuwani, a village in Masafer Yatta, on May 7, 2025. (Courtesy of Emily Glick)

Reporter's notebook

Why US art houses screen Oscar-winning Palestinian doc that mainstream theaters shun

By Rich Tenorio

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Soldier collapses and dies after Krav Maga training

By Emanuel Fabian

ֿRabbi Leo Dee holds a press conference in Efrat, on April 10, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

Court freezes PA tax funds for bereaved father whose family was killed by terrorists

By ToI Staff, Nava Freiberg and Jeremy Sharon

Stef Wertheimer in Nazareth, Northern Israel, on April 6, 2016 (Mark Neyman/GPO/File)

Billionaire industrialist and philanthropist Stef Wertheimer dies at 98

Israeli-founded eToro files for Nasdaq IPO as trading boom fuels commissions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (center) and US President Donald Trump's Middle East adviser Massad Boulos (right) at an iftar dinner at Israel's embassy, in Washington, DC, March 24, 2025. (Israel Embassy in the United States)

Children of AbrahamIsrael’s US embassy hosts interfaith Ramadan iftar dinner

By Lazar Berman

Deputy head of Israel National Cyber Directorate Nitzan Amar speaks at the annual Cybertech conference in Tel Aviv, March 25, 2025. (Courtesy/Gilad Kavalerchik)

Cyber officials say Iranian, Hezbollah attacks against Israel tripled since Oct. 7

By Sharon Wrobel

Defense Minister Israel Katz meets with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir at the Defense Ministry, March 25, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Defense minister, IDF chief meet; say they are ‘working together’ after public spat

By Emanuel Fabian

In this image taken from video police arrest activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo)

‘Ashamed’ Amsterdam alumni to return diplomas after school cuts ties with Hebrew U.

A yeshiva school bus drives through Borough Park on September 12, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City (Spencer Platt / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)

Former allies, divided by Trumpian style, vie to represent NYC Orthodox neighborhood

Kitty Dukakis, left, and Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis outside their home in Brookline, Massachusetts, March 7, 1989. (AP/David Tenenbaum)

Kitty Dukakis, the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate, dies at 88

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