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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 29, 2025

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People look on as teams of rescue workers attempt to free residents trapped under the rubble of the destroyed Sky Villa Condominium development in Mandalay on March 29, 2025, a day after an earthquake struck central Myanmar. (Sai Aung MAIN / AFP)

Myanmar earthquake death toll jumps to over 1,600 as more bodies recovered from rubble

By David Rising and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI

Toll likely to be far higher in civil war-ravaged country; military junta issues rare appeal for international assistance; death toll at 10 in Bangkok

Live updates (closed)

March 29: Hamas said to give mediators information on health of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander

Settlers, soldiers reportedly raid West Bank Palestinian village after earlier settler attack * Hamas reportedly gives mediators information on health of hostage Edan Alexander

8:47 pm

Syria's Sharaa announces creation of new government
8:24 pm

Saudi TV: Hamas gives mediators information on health status of hostage Edan Alexander
8:15 pm

Prominent personal trainer detained for allegedly raping client -- report

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What Matters Now to Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages’ only beacon

By Jessica Steinberg

Father of released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen reflects on his son’s sense of rebirth, the struggle to bring him home, and the continuing sense of abandonment by Israel’s government

Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen (right) with his father Jonathan aboard an IDF helicopter en route to the hospital soon after his release from 498 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, February 15, 2025. (IDF)

FILE: Protesters demand a deal for the release of hostages, outside the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem, March 25, 2025. (Amos Gil/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Thousands take part in Saturday night rallies against government, for hostage deal

Ahead of protests, hostages’ families urge ‘all Israelis, from every background and political viewpoint’ to attend demonstrations in cities across the country

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)

Poll: 70% of Israelis don’t trust government, including a third of coalition voters

Palestinians buy clothes in a shop next to a destroyed apartment building in preparation for Eid al-Fitr celebrations at Al-Rimal neighborhood in the center of Gaza City, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas official: Hoping for a 'breakthrough' in coming days

Report: Hamas may be open to freeing some hostages in exchange for Eid al-Fitr truce

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli TV says unclear what terror group will demand for small number of captives, among them Edan Alexander; Hamas said to want ceasefire so it can crack down on Gaza protests

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with Mossad chief David Barnea at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu said to task Mossad with finding countries to house Gazans

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

‘Deep state?’ A contemporary, all-too-human witch hunt

The difference between then and now is the far greater ability to spread conspiratorial thinking

The crackdown on international students: A self-inflicted wound

The Trump administration’s failure to recognize the importance of an open and inclusive academic environment could have dire consequences

An Israeli Navy boat sails off Gaza City in the Mediterranean Sea as civilians walk in a seashore alley, on March 28, 2025 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

IDF expands ground op in southern Gaza, pushing further into Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian

Mortar shells fired at troops near Khan Younis, armored bulldozer hit by IED, none hurt; IDF acknowledges mistakenly firing on ambulances in Rafah, says troops targeted Hamas

Palestinians walk past debris of buildings destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war, in Gaza City on March 28, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

IDF says it hit dozens of terror sites in Gaza as UN agency pans ‘disregard for life’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing in ceremony for Alina Habba as interim US Attorney General for New Jersey, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump says Iran faces ‘bad, bad things’ if it doesn’t reach nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and AFP

Sky News Arabia claims to publish text of Trump’s letter to Khamenei, says US president offered to lift sanctions in exchange for an agreement

In this image made from video, smoke rises after a blast in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo)

Fresh US airstrikes against Houthi rebels kill at least 1 in Yemen

By Jon Gambrell

Satellite photos show US moving more stealth bombers to Indian Ocean base in striking distance of Yemen and Iran; rebels have launched 7 missile attacks at Israel since March

Israeli security forces make arrests in the Palestinian village of Jinba in the southern West Bank, March 28, 2025. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF arrests over 20 Palestinians after settlers raid southern West Bank village

By Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid

At least 6 Palestinians said wounded; no Israelis detained for attack on Jinba, which police say came after 2 Jews in the area were assaulted

Left to right: Chase Sui Wonders, Kathryn Hahn, Seth Rogen, Ike Barinholtz and Catherine O'Hara, cast members in the Apple TV+ series 'The Studio,' pose together on Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ is the defining portrait of modern Hollywood

Series by longtime Jewish duo offers a comedic peek at contemporary Hollywood, where even all-powerful producers often feel impotent in the face of trends and shareholders

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 following an alleged attack by Jewish settlers, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Academy apologizes after stars say it ‘failed to defend’ Palestinian Oscar winner

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamdan Ballal was interrogated for allegedly throwing stones as settlers attacked West Bank village; Awards body’s initial response condemned ‘suppressing artists’ without naming him

Columbia’s interim president steps down amid fallout over response to anti-Israel activity

By Agencies and ToI Staff

University gives no reason for Katrina Armstrong’s decision to step aside and return to her previous post, says board of trustees co-chair Claire Shipman to take over for now

Katrina Armstrong (Screenshot via JTA)

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

US judge halts deportation of Tufts Turkish student accused of anti-Israel activism

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Jacob, left, Miri and Tal Zlotnitsky holding up a poster welcoming Muslim arrivals at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, Jan. 28 2017. (Ron Kampeas / JTA)

They were poster children for Jewish opposition to Trump 8 years ago. Where are they now?

By Andrew Lapin

The American-Israeli Zlotnitsky family is a case study in the conflict facing progressive US Jews, as the people they’ve advocated for are some of their biggest adversaries after Oct. 7

Private groups use facial recognition to unmask anti-Israel campus protesters for deportation

Amid push by Trump administration to revoke visas from foreign students involved in violence, an array of private groups are working to identify and report them to authorities

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators line up across from police on University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Va., May 4, 2024. (Cal Cary/The Daily Progress via AP)

US House advances bill requiring universities to disclose more foreign funding

By Grace Gilson

Members of Or Tamid, an advocacy group in Frankfurt for survivors of sexual abuse, from left to right, Haleli Shomer Shalom, Roglit Ishay, Daniela Shemer and Niels Gerhardt. (Courtesy Or Tamid via JTA)

'It's great that the Jewish community is reacting'

Frankfurt Jewish community launches its own sexual abuse hotline amid crises and pressure

By Toby Axelrod

Unprecedented third-party hotline will protect 400 employees of local institutions, after advocacy by activist group; national Jewish group may also set up a wider system

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An anti-government protester presses up against a policewoman during a demonstration in Jerusalem, March 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police detain man said to have pressed up against female cop from behind at protest

People shout slogans during a protest called by university students in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, March 27, 2025, after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

More journalists detained by Turkey after covering anti-government protests

By andrew wilks

Yisrael Einhorn (YouTube screenshot)

Police seek to question ex-Netanyahu aide living in Serbia in ‘Qatargate’ case

Magen David Adom vehicles in Kafr Qasim, March 28, 2025 (MDA)

Teen dies, 2 others critical after apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from hookah

The sun rises over Tel Aviv, October 2019. (ZZ3701 via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in March 2025

This composite image shows Danny Wolf (L) and Bruce Pearl (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images via AFP)

Shabbat showdownAuburn vs. Michigan: 2 of March Madness’ most prominent Jews face off

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