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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 27, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (to his right) and other ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a law to remake Israel's judicial appointments process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Judicial overhaulLevin accuses High Court of 'effectively abolishing Knesset'

Knesset passes law greatly boosting political control over appointment of judges

Legislation changing composition of Judicial Selection Committee approved 67-1 after opposition lawmakers boycott final vote. ‘Collapse of the last brake on democracy,’ says Yesh Atid

People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 26, 2025. Poster reads 'Checks and balances.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Thousands protest outside Knesset ahead of final votes on controversial judicial bill

The plenum hall of the Knesset during a vote on a law to remake Israel's Judicial Selection Committee, March 27, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Critics petition court to nix judicial appointments law they say politicizes bench

By Jeremy Sharon

Yesh Atid and two government watchdog groups argue new law undermines democratic rule in absence of any check on government power other than judiciary

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a bill to remake Israel's judicial appointments process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 27: Day 538 – Knesset passes judicial selection law, what now?

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Palestinians take part in an anti-Hamas protest, calling for an end to the war with Israel, in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, March 26, 2025. (Flash90)

Demonstrations swell as thousands join second day of protests against Hamas in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rallies spread to other areas from Beit Lahiya with rare calls from Palestinians for end to terror group’s rule and war; Katz urges other Gazans to follow their lead

Palestinians take part in an anti-Hamas protest, calling for an end to the war with Israel, in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, March 26, 2025. (Flash90)

Hamas claims growing Gaza protests against its rule actually aimed at Israel

By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Protesters take part in a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people and to demand the end of the war in Gaza, in Surabaya, Indonesia, on February 2, 2025. (JUNI KRISWANTO / AFP)

100 Gazans set to move to Indonesia as part of pilot work program — report

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Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, northwest of Sarajevo, February 26, 2025. (Radivoje Pavicic/AP)

Bosnia asks Israel to arrest Serb leader visiting for antisemitism confab

By Agencies and ToI Staff

As member of Interpol, Israel faced with prospect of detaining Putin ally who was invited to participate in controversial confab related to inclusion of far-right European leaders

President Isaac Herzog speaks to Jewish leaders at his residence in Jerusalem on March 26, 2025 ((Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Herzog tells Jewish leaders antisemitism ‘surged into a terrifying threat’ post-Oct. 7

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept missiles that were launched from Yemen, as seen from the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Houthis fire two missiles at Israel, triggering sirens in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF says both ballistic missiles intercepted outside Israeli territory, no damage or casualties reported; Hamas says terror group spokesman killed in strike in Jabalia overnight

Smoke rises from a location reportedly struck by US airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)

Trump: ‘The Houthis want peace because they’re getting the hell knocked out of them’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

A Yemeni walks over the debris of a destroyed building following US airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, March 24, 2025. (AP)

New US campaign against Yemen’s Houthis far more intense than under Biden

By Jon Gambrell

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, at a pre-Passover toast on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

March 27: PM: ‘It’s fact, not conspiracy’ that Bar knew Oct. 7 invasion was likely and didn’t wake me

US said to propose that Trump will publicly call for negotiations to resume if Hamas frees Edan Alexander * Orange-hued tombstone unveiled for Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir

9:41 pm

Auburn basketball coach says call to free Edan Alexander about 'survival,' not politics
8:36 pm

Fire service says Haredi demonstrators pushed burning dumpsters at firefighters, injuring them
8:07 pm

Hamas holds talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on reviving Gaza ceasefire

As Gazans return to school, study finds their PA textbooks still rife with incitement

By Nurit Yohanan

Despite pledge by Ramallah to revise curriculum, materials provided to Gazans continue to glorify martyrdom, feature antisemitic rhetoric in subjects from history to math, watchdog says

A teacher in Al-Nasr Elementary School in Gaza City stands next to a chalkboard with text that reads, "You are the Toufan" (the flood), a reference to the al-Aqsa Flood, Hamas's name for the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, February 23, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, in a video addressing Hamas and world leaders, March 27, 2025. (Screenshot/Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In hostage-style video, Einav Zangauker asks Hamas for signs of life from all captives

By Stav Levaton

Speaking Hebrew and Arabic, protest leader Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan has been held in Gaza for 538 days, asks captors to keep him safe, urges Trump’s intervention

Left: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2024; Right: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Paris, June 23, 2023 (Ronen Zvulun/via AP; /Lewis Joly/AP)

Egyptian plan would free 5 living hostages on day one, with releases every 7-10 days

By Lazar Berman

Diplomats say that the outline would guarantee talks on the second phase; Israel continues to deny receiving any new proposal from Cairo

Laura Ben-David

PHOTO ESSAY: Chasing rainbows

I’d been sharing my story publicly for years, but I was surprised to find a world of love and support when I had nothing good to share

Cochav Elkayam-Levy

Everything I wanted to tell the UN Human Rights Council

It takes more than 90 seconds to explain why accusing Israel of sexual atrocities amounts to another rape of the Israeli October 7th victims

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Playing down normalization prospects, US analyst says Saudis feel Israel ‘looking backward’

Brian Katulis says Riyadh views deal with Israel as too risky, particularly after Gaza fighting resumed and as backing for 2 states further declines among broader Israeli public

People walk past an electronic billboard that shows US President Donald Trump, left, shaking hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the pro-normalization message 'We are ready,' in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

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

Netanyahu interviewing Shin Bet chief candidates amid legal freeze on Bar’s ouster

By Nava Freiberg and Lazar Berman

Despite High Court hold on removing Ronen Bar, PMO presses forward with selection process; interviewees include former deputies and hostage negotiators

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu (center) and MK Nissim Vaturi (right) attend a protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of severly abusing a Palestinian inmate, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Lawmakers who broke into IDF base during far-right riot to be investigated by police

Two of the coalition members say they’ll refuse to answer summons; Eliyahu, Vaturi and former MK Sukkot echo conspiracy that ‘deep state’ targeting them, rail at attorney general

Iran Guards show off underground ‘missile city,’ claim ‘enemy’ falling behind

By Michael Horovitz and Agencies

Iran’s military chief claims capabilities are now 10 times stronger than thoseused in October missile attack on Israel; several Iranian-made missiles identified in footage

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps shows off an underground missile base at an undisclosed location in Iran, March 26, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian demonstrators burn US and Israeli flags during an annual rally to mark Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, in support of Palestinians and against Israel, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran-backed terror chiefs taunt Israel, remain defiant ahead of Quds Day

By AFP and ToI Staff

General view of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Overturning acquittal, top court convicts woman on spying charge for Iran

A tourist watches search operations in the area where a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, Egypt, March 27, 2025. (AP)

5 Russian tourists and 1 Egyptian killed after submarine sinks off Red Sea coast

By AFP

Local media reports that 29 people were rescued, nine of them wounded, from underwater excursion to observe coral reefs in Hurghada, Egypt

Archaeologists discovered a 1200-year-old clay jug depicting camels at Yatir Forest in the Negev. (Emil Aladejm, Israel Antiquities Authority)

'The ship of the desert'

Archaeologists in Negev unearth 1,200-year-old jug decorated with camels

By Rossella Tercatin

Artifact daubed with red pattern and trio of animals, considered advanced for its time, discovered near olive press in Yatir Forest

In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)

US detains, revokes visa of Turkish student at Tufts who co-wrote an anti-Israel op-ed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Department of Homeland Security accuses Rumeysa Ozturk of ‘engaging in activities in support of Hamas’ after piece in school paper called for divesting from Israeli firms amid war

A New York City police officer keeps watch on the campus of Columbia University in New York, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Researchers caught in middle as Columbia toes Trump line to restore federal funding

By Philip Marcelo

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White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz listens to a question from a reporter in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, February 20, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Passwords, other info from top Trump officials in Signal leak found floating online

Screen capture from video purporting to show explosions in the Syrian port city of Latakia, March 27, 2025. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel says senior Hezbollah commander killed in overnight airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

(L-R) Gal Gadot, Marc E. Platt and Rachel Zegler attend the World Premiere of Disney's Snow White at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 15, 2025. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Disney/AFP)

Disney hired extra security for Gal Gadot after co-star’s ‘free palestine’ tweet — report

By Grace Gilson

From 'Holding Liat,' the documentary about a family in the October 7, 2023 aftermath that won Best Documentary Feature at the Berlinale in March 2025. (Courtesy)

Berlinale-winning documentary about hostage family gets global sales deal

By Jessica Steinberg

Bank of Israel chief Amir Yaron, left, gives Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the central bank's year-end report in Jerusalem, March 28, 2024. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Central bank chief urges government to rethink spending priorities to reduce war debt

By Sharon Wrobel

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to members of the media after accompanying his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, to board a plane bound for the US to represent him in President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration after a Brazilian judge denied his request to travel at Brasilia airport on January 18, 2025 (EVARISTO SA / AFP)

Brazil’s Supreme Court rules Bolsonaro must stand trial over alleged coup attempt

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