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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing and What Matters Now podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features.
An Israeli army soldier signals for the driver of a Merkava battle tank attempting to park at a position in southern Israel along the northern Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
March 18, 2025, 3:06 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 18: Day 529 – With US backing, Israel ends ceasefire in Gaza
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on the overnight IAF strikes on the Gaza Strip after hostage talks stalled, potential preparation for a larger ground operation
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Illustrative: Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP)
March 17, 2025, 2:08 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 17: Day 528 – What happens to security if the PM fires the Shin Bet head?
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian gives a lightning tour of the conflicts along all of Israel’s borders and drills into the announced dismissal of Ronen Bar and who may replace him
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
A Palestinian boy carries a toy gun while standing with members of Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, during a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. (AFP / Emmanuel DUNAND)
March 15, 2025, 4:41 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 15: Day 526 – Micah Goodman on what Israel can trust about Hamas
Bestselling author analyzes this moment of uncertainty — continued war or ‘permanent’ ceasefire — as 24 living hostages still languish in Gaza
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A man reads a scroll in front of a clock counting the time Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 attacks by Hamas terrorists have spent in captivity, during the reading of the Megillat Esther (Book of Esther) at the start of the festival of Purim at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on March 13, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
March 14, 2025, 11:35 am
Daily Briefing Mar. 14: Day 525 – With Hamas immovable, extended ceasefire prospects dim
US bureau chief Jacob Magid on a new proposal from US Mideast envoy Witkoff and why the Palestinian Authority may turn away from a two-state solution. Stay tuned for the Friday Focus
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman
Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 12, 2025, during a meeting with Iranian students in Tehran. (IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER'S WEBSITE / AFP)
March 14, 2025, 8:11 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Dramatic saga of the temporary Israel-Iran alliance
ToI’s diplomatic reporter talks about the complex historical ties between the two peoples — and why Israel was arming Iran after the Islamic revolution
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
A Palestinian boy carries a toy gun while standing with members of Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, during a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. (AFP / Emmanuel DUNAND)
March 13, 2025, 6:00 pm
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: What Israel can trust about Hamas
Bestselling author analyzes this moment of uncertainty — continued war or ‘permanent’ ceasefire — as 24 living hostages still languish in Gaza
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Demonstrators raise a sign depicting President Donald Trump as Adolf Hitler during a protest in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
March 12, 2025, 1:51 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 12: Day 523 – Columbia anti-Israel activist’s arrest makes US Jews uneasy
NY reporters Luke Tress and Cathryn Prince delve into 17 months of campus protests and why the detention and threatened deportation of a ringleader is not universally embraced
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Luke Tress and Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: US President Donald Trump listens as Adam Boehler, CEO of US International Development Finance Corporation, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)
March 11, 2025, 3:17 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 11: Day 522 – Gaza talks proceed as Israel smarts from US-Hamas meetups
As all sides meet in Qatar, diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman unravels the tangled web of direct — and/or indirect? — negotiations that may lead to an extended ceasefire
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Israeli soldiers operating inside the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on February 9, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 9, 2025, 2:50 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 9: Day 520 – As Gaza ceasefire reaches day 50, no sign of IDF pullout
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on where the IDF is operating within the Strip and IDF strikes on Syria and Lebanon. Plus, for Women’s Day, a focus on female officers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
In this photo provided by Egypt's presidency media office, Arab leaders pose during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, March 4, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)
March 8, 2025, 4:46 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 8: Day 519 – Haviv Rettig Gur on Egypt’s ‘silly’ plan for postwar Gaza
ToI’s senior analyst dissects the Arab leaders’ endorsement of a $53 billion Gaza plan that neither demilitarizes Hamas nor brings any security guarantees to Israel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
File: Former US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Edan Alexander, a hostage held by Hamas, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, October 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
March 7, 2025, 11:58 am
Daily Briefing Mar. 7: Day 518 – Witkoff encourages Hamas to release US citizen as ‘goodwill’
US bureau chief Jacob Magid on the unveiled direct negotiations between the White House and Hamas and how they may reshape the mediated ceasefire deal. Stay tuned for the Friday Focus
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, left, US president Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979. (AP/ Bob Daugherty)
March 7, 2025, 8:22 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: During Gaza War, cold peace with Egypt gets frostier
ToI’s diplomatic reporter on a history of conflict that evolved into a March 1979 peace accord, Egypt’s role as mediator and whether, if pressed, Israel is still militarily superior
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
In this photo provided by Egypt's presidency media office, Arab leaders pose during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, March 4, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)
March 6, 2025, 7:26 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Egypt’s farcical plan for postwar Gaza
ToI’s senior analyst dissects the Arab leaders’ endorsement of a $53 billion Gaza plan that neither demilitarizes Hamas nor brings any security guarantees to Israel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Attorney-General Gali Baharav Miara (center) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)
March 6, 2025, 2:14 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 6: Day 517 – Who will be on the squad that fires the attorney general?
Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon on the almost unprecedented steps taken to remove a legal thorn in the side of the coalition as it attempts to rebalance the scales of the justice system
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon
Members of Zaka walk through the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, as they collect the dead bodies, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 15, 2023. (Edi Israel/Flash90)
March 4, 2025, 3:41 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 4: Day 515 – Devastating IDF Oct. 7 probes depict years of misconceptions
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian delves deep into the IDF’s findings of real-time failures and a culture of intelligence ‘superiority’ that saw the Hamas attacks as ‘impossible’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
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