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What Matters Most On Friday, March 28, 2025

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A month after Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were laid to rest in Israel, the gravestone for the three slain hostages was unveiled at a family ceremony on March 27, 2025, at the Tsohar cemetery near Kibbutz Nir Oz. They were abducted from their kibbutz on October 7, 2023 by Hamas-led terrorists, and later brutally murdered in Gaza by their captors. (Israel Katorza, via Assaf Pozailov, Kann / X)

‘We love you the most’: Orange-tinted Bibas family gravestone unveiled

Headstone erected one month after funeral above shared casket recalls Shiri as ‘funny and sensitive,’ Ariel as ‘a child of light and love’ and Kfir for ‘loving hugs and cuddles’

Alon Ohel, left, and his mother Idit, pictured before October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Alon Ohel’s parents ask to meet Netanyahu, say hostage is losing sight, life in danger

Family members of Aner Shapiro, killed protecting others in a roadside shelter at the Nova rave on October 7, 2023, launched an album of his songs on March 27, 2025 in Jerusalem (Courtesy)

Final wordsFamily releases album of raps composed by Oct. 7 hero Aner Shapiro

By Jessica Steinberg

Analysis

Gaza war’s first major anti-Hamas protests may not oust it, but are weakening its hold

For now, Hamas has chosen not to brutally suppress the rallies. That may change, but it also knows the world is watching, and its gunmen know Israeli drones are flying overhead

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 on March 26, 2025. (AFP)

Palestinians protest against Hamas in Gaza on March 27, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

Bucking Hamas intimidation, Gazans hold 3rd straight day of rallies against terror group

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on March 28, 2025. (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

Katz: Fate of Kiryat Shmona is the same as Beirut

IDF strikes Beirut, southern Lebanon after 2 rockets fired at northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

First airstrikes on Lebanese capital since ceasefire announced in November; one rocket intercepted, second failed to cross border; Hezbollah says it is not behind rocket attack

A meeting between Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Khaled bin Salman (C), Syria's Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra (L) and Lebanon's Defence Minister Michel Menassa, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 27, 2025. (SPA / AFP)

Lebanon, Syria ink border demarcation deal, easing tensions after Assad’s fall

By AP

A protester holds up a cutout of Edan Alexander's face at a rally calling for the release of the hostages, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hamas receives US offer to revive ceasefire in exchange for American hostage’s release

Proposal envisions Trump issuing statement calling for Gaza calm, resumption of talks for permanent ceasefire, but diplomat says Hamas likely to demand more for Edan Alexander

A US MQ-9 drone is on display during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, January 23, 2018. (Massoud Hossaini/AP)

Qatar receives initial US approval to purchase MQ-9 armed drones for nearly $2 billion

By Jon Gambrell

France's National Rally leader Jordan Bardella (right) and Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli at the international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Chikli slams 'left-wing media for manufacturing controversy'

Right-wing politics take center stage at Israel’s controversial antisemitism confab

Amid boycotts due to inclusion of far-right EU lawmakers, Jerusalem event features appearances from Bosnian leader facing arrest warrant and sanctioned ex-Paraguay president

Analysis

Judicial appointments law is Levin’s victory in fight to handpick ideological hardliners

Despite several staunch conservatives on the Supreme Court, the justice minister long sought to install an advocate of uncompromising judicial restraint on the bench; now he can

Justice Minister Yariv Levin addresses the Knesset plenum during a debate over legislation to overhaul Israel's judicial appointments process, March 26, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

People rush for cover as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on March 28, 2025. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 28: Envoy says US backs Israeli response to ‘broken ceasefire that emanated from Lebanon’

By Jacob Magid and Shira Silkoff

World Central Kitchen says IDF strike hit one of its Gaza distribution sites, killing a volunteer * Israeli official: Netanyahu should be questioned in ‘Qatargate’ investigation

10:08 pm

Global markets slide as fears over US tariffs intensify
8:17 pm

Washington formalizes plans to shutter USAID
7:34 pm

State Department declines to detail allegations that led to detention of Turkish student at Tufts

Rescue teams are seen at a construction site where a building collapsed in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake. (Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP)

Massive 7.7 quake topples buildings, kills more than 150 in Myanmar, Thailand

By Sebastien BERGER, Hla-Hla HTAY and Damon Wake

Death toll expected to rise further as ill-equipped Myanmar’s ruling junta makes rare plea for international assistance

(L to R) Rabbanit Hila Naor, Shira Winter and Adva Bucholtz meet at the Tel Hashomer IDF induction center in Ramat Gan on November 26, 2024. (Ohr Torah Stone)

A new IDF combat platoon lets religious women join the fight while keeping the faith

Spurred by October 7 and bolstered by shifting mores, an all-female force is taking shape within the army, complete with a rabanit to serve the trailblazing troops’ spiritual needs

Nicky Blackburn

My son just joined the army. Why doesn’t the government care?

I need to know that my beautiful boys are not pawns who are put in danger to keep a prime minister in charge and out of jail. Instead, I feel betrayed

Moshe Emilio Lavi

We imagined Omri’s return – then it collapsed

Israel must dismantle Hamas, but if hostages become secondary, we undermine the very social contract that binds us together as a nation

‘More than the taste’: Israelis flock to former hostage Keith Siegel’s Pancake House

By Deborah Danan

Line snakes around kosher Tel Aviv pop-up joint that celebrates US-born captivity survivor’s signature hotcakes, as family appeals to public for support in adapting to new normal

From left to right: Former hostage Aviva Siegel, her daughter Shir Siegel, and husband, recently released hostage Keith Siegel, celebrate the opening of the Keith Siegel Pancake House popup at Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yotam Haim, left, and his mother, Iris Haim, in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Mother of hostage slain by troops seeks to retrieve son’s sperm to produce grandchild

PM: ‘Fact, not conspiracy’ Shin Bet chief knew Oct. 7 attack likely, didn’t wake me

Netanyahu’s office claims that Ronen Bar understood by 4:30 a.m. that Hamas onslaught was possible, but didn’t alert him, a week after making similar claim as ‘Israeli official’

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

Incoming IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin speaks at a handover ceremony at an army base in Tel Aviv, March 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Entering role, new IDF spokesman Effie Defrin seeks to bolster trust in army

By Emanuel Fabian

Jesus and his disciples in a still from Season 2 of 'The Chosen.' (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook'It's not religious, we're just telling the story of Jesus'

Just in time for Passover, Jesus biopic ‘The Chosen’ premieres Season 5 in US cinemas

By Rich Tenorio

Launching March 28, hit show doesn’t downplay Christ’s Jewish roots but takes advice from a Messianic rabbi. Season Five: Last Supper to see a theatrical run before heading to streaming

Yemenis clean debris in front of their shops after a US airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, March 16, 2025. (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

WSJ: Israel provided intel for US strike on Houthi official mentioned in Signal chat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

According to report, Israeli officials have privately expressed dismay at security breach, as Republican and Democrat lawmakers demand probe into incident

A plume of smoke billows above a building during a reported US strike on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa early on March 28, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Intense wave of suspected US airstrikes hit Houthi-held cities, airport

By Jon Gambrell

Christian worshipers at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on May 4, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

'Having our own state comes with responsibilities'

Report shows rise in attacks on Christians in Israel, but a willingness to tackle issue

By Rossella Tercatin

Second annual Rossing Center report documents 111 anti-Christian incidents in 2024. Accompanying survey finds almost half of Christians under 30 want to emigrate from Israel

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Attacks on Christians in Israel are national stain

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

ToI’s diplomatic reporter speaks about a shameful phenomenon in which mostly Haredi youth spit upon and denigrate visibly Christian Israelis or pilgrims – usually to little reprisal

Orthodox Christians walk in the Good Friday procession in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Then-Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., takes questions from the media, prior to laying a brick at a new housing complex in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, August 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 28: Day 539 – Huckabee: Judge my actions, not my Judea and Samaria stance

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

3,600-year-old tomb of unidentified pharaoh uncovered in Egypt

Archaeologists date tomb, apparently stripped bare by ancient grave robbers, to chaotic Second Intermediate Period, when Egypt was divided into at least 4 kingdoms

Excavations take place at the site of a 3,600-year-old limestone tomb chamber of an unknown king, in Abydos, Egypt, March 25, 2025. (Dr. Josef Wegner/Penn Museum)

More Headlines

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police after a rally against the drafting of Haredi youth to the IDF, in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025.(Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Two rioters detained for assaulting cops at ultra-Orthodox protest against IDF draft

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Rep. Elise Stefanik, US President Donald Trump's nominee to be the United Nations ambassador, testifies during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing for her pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, January 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Trump pulls Stefanik’s nomination for UN envoy due to GOP’s slim House majority

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to media outlets ahead of boarding a plane to Washington on February 2, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu flight path to US was lengthened due to concerns over ICC warrant, health

This contributed photo shows Rumeysa Ozturk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. (AP Photo)

As Turkish student held, Rubio says US revoked visas of over 300 anti-Israel ‘lunatics’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Jewish filmmakers join call to protect ‘No Other Land’ team after director beaten, arrested

By Grace Gilson

This composite image shows Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levy and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police clash with judicial chiefs over Sde Teiman prison abuse probe, then back down

By Charlie Summers

Illustrative: A poster advertises an LGBTQ event at Yeshiva University, December 15, 2020. (Courtesy of Yeshiva University student organizers)

After recognizing LGBTQ club, YU president says Pride values ‘antithetical’ to school

Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)

Child marriage banned in DC after push by Jewish advocates

By Grace Gilson

Tense exchanges take place between pro-Israel protesters and pro-Palestinian protesters in Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 10, 2023. (Alex Zucco/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)

In UK and Australia, lawmakers are trying to curb protests outside synagogues

By Grace Gilson

The Ashdod oil refinery in 2014. (Ilan Malster)

Oil refineries, phosphate mines, perform worst on environmental impact index

UK Business and Trade Minister Jonathan Reynolds is interrupted by a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protester during an event at the Chatham House think tank in London, Great Britain, March 27, 2025. (Screen capture: Sky News)

Anti-Israel activists crash stage at event with British trade minister over arms sales

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Clocks in Israel leap forward an hour as daylight saving time begins

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