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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Gideon Sa'ar

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar leads a faction meeting of his New Hope party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 13, 2025, 10:08 pm
Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope signs agreement to rejoin Likud in next elections
Foreign minister, who left ruling party after failed 2019 leadership bid, thanks PM for ‘putting past behind us’; his deputy Ze’ev Elkin is also expected to run again with Likud
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar (R) and Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel inaugurate a “Media War Room” at the Foreign Ministry, March 11, 2025. (Mordechai Gordon/Foreign Ministry)
March 12, 2025, 6:41 am
Foreign Ministry opens ‘media war room’ to combat anti-Israel content
Ministry says diplomats and students will monitor news to ‘identify false or biased reports’ so spokespeople can then ‘debunk accusations and present Israel’s narrative’
By Nava Freiberg
Demonstrators protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters, in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 11, 2025, 11:51 pm
Witkoff lands in Doha as talks resume with aim of extending fragile Gaza truce
Mediators said to be pushing Hamas to release 10 hostages in exchange for 60-day truce, providing time to reach wider deal
By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
Syrian attend the funeral of a relative, killed in the days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the former government, in the town of Jableh in the coastal province of Latakia on March 10, 2025. (Photo by Abdulwajed HAJ ESTEIFI / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 8:22 pm
Sa’ar urges global leaders to denounce ‘pure evil’ of Sharaa’s Syria after killings
Foreign minister says Israel’s warnings over new Islamist rulers were accurate after over 1,000 killed in Alawite enclave; Sharaa dismisses Israel’s accusations as ‘nonsense’
By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
A street vendor awaits customers by his banana stall in the Druze-majority Jaramana city in the Damascus countryside on March 2, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)
March 9, 2025, 8:22 pm
Katz says Israel will soon allow Syrian Druze to work in the Golan Heights
Announcement comes as Israeli politicians lambast Syrian transitional government for reported mass killings, urge European states to ‘wake up’ and stop granting regime legitimacy
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Flagpoles line in rows in front of a building of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
March 6, 2025, 11:43 pm
Israel hails cancellation of ‘biased’ Geneva Conventions meeting on Palestinians
Swiss government invited signatories to talk on applying convention to West Bank and Gaza, but too few participants signed up; Foreign Ministry says it worked ‘intensively’ for this
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with ambassadors from European Union countries, February 11, 2025. (Yuval Yosef/GPO)
March 4, 2025, 9:34 pm
Israel says Hamas must commit to free more hostages for ceasefire to be extended
Foreign Minister Sa’ar tells media Israel ready to move on to second stage of complex truce, but terror group must give up more captives; defends halting humanitarian aid
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 3, 2025, 9:40 am
Attorney general knocks Levin-Sa’ar plan as politicizing judge selection, harming democracy
Gali Baharav-Miara warns proposal will turn court appointments into ‘another political arena’; Sa’ar accuses her of ‘fundamental errors’ in trying to torpedo his ‘popular’ bill
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025, after Israel suspended the entry of supplies into the Palestinian enclave. (AFP)
March 2, 2025, 1:58 pm
Israel halts aid into Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce
Jerusalem claims US backs move to push extension of now-expired 1st phase of ceasefire rather than negotiating 2nd phase; PM: ‘Humanitarian aid turned into terrorist budget against us’
By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Jewish and pro-Israel leaders in Brussels, February 25, 2025. (Shalev Man/Foreign Ministry)
February 28, 2025, 12:14 pm
Israel decides to establish formal ties with trio of European far-right parties 
FM Sa’ar says opening of dialogue with Sweden Democrats, France’s National Rally, Spain’s Vox is based on their present actions, not antisemitic roots: ‘I didn’t see reason not to’
By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg
International Red Cross (ICRC) vehicles arrive at the scene shortly before Hamas fighters release of three Israeli hostages as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner swap, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on February 22, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
February 27, 2025, 5:50 pm
Israel sends delegation to Cairo for Gaza talks as ceasefire’s future put in doubt
Egypt says Israeli team meeting with counterparts from US and Qatar on next stages of agreement after Israeli official says troops will remain on Gaza-Egypt border, defying truce
By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and Agencies
Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan speaks during a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)
February 25, 2025, 1:11 pm
EU delegation scraps trip to Jerusalem, West Bank after Israel bars 4 participants
Interior Ministry denies entry at airport to lawmakers and staffers, one of whom has called Israel a ‘terrorist state’
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, center, speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU-Israel meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium, February 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
February 24, 2025, 7:12 pm
In talks aimed at mending ties with EU, Sa’ar says Israel open to extending Gaza truce
In first such meeting since 2022, top diplomat says move can only go ahead if more hostages return; adds criticism by ‘less friendly’ member states is OK if it’s not ‘demonization’
By Lazar Berman, Reuters and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets German opposition leader Friedrich Merz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
February 24, 2025, 5:31 am
Netanyahu, Sa’ar congratulate German conservatives leader on election victory
Merz is a staunch supporter of Israel; has vowed to remove restrictions on weapons shipments, criticized the ICC arrest warrant against PM
By ToI Staff
A man in northern Israel holds a sign portraying Shiri Silberstein Bibas, whose body Hamas falsely claimed to have released, and her sons, Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, whose remains were in fact handed over, on February 20, 2025. His sign reads 'The Bibas family: We will not forgive and we will not forget!' (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
February 21, 2025, 2:30 pm
US threatens ‘annihilation’ after Hamas returns bodies of Bibas boys without their mother
Argentina declares 2 days of mourning as terror group returns bodies of dual-citizens Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, along with body that Hamas falsely claimed was mother Shiri Bibas
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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