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‘Zone of Interest’ producer criticizes Glazer’s Oscars speech: Lacked ‘proper
context’
By Andrew Lapin
Blaming Hamas for civilian deaths, Danny Cohen says he ‘fundamentally disagrees’
with director’s remarks against Israel and that they’re a ‘distraction’ from the
award-winning film
IDF chief ‘severely reprimands’ division commander for critique of politicians
By Emanuel Fabian
Halevi says Brig. Gen. Goldfus’s remarks in press conference ‘harmed IDF’s
dignity, boundaries between political and military echelons’; Goldfus apologizes
‘Look me in the eye’: IDF general who rapped politicians had urged PM to unify
country
By Michael Horovitz
Chief rabbi claims his threat of Haredi exodus in case of army draft was
‘distorted’
By ToI Staff
Yitzhak Yosef does not walk back comments, but says he never meant to offend
bereaved families
Thousands in Tel Aviv rally to end military draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox
By ToI Staff
Gantz boycotts meeting on Haredi draft with PM after cabinet ignores his
proposal
By Sam Sokol
Obituary
Salim Joubran, first Arab Israeli Supreme Court justice, dies at 76
By ToI Staff
Joubran served as deputy chief of court, was first Arab to chair election
committee, sent ex-president Katsav to prison for rape, and ruled in favor of
same-sex surrogacy rights
ToI podcast
Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas starves Gazans as a war tactic
As humanitarian aid efforts are ramped up via land, air and sea, the IDF must
decide how many of its soldiers to divert to protecting the convoys – while
becoming targets themselves
Dances with wolves: A Tel Aviv choreographer forces audiences to face Oct. 7’s
horrors
By Jessica Steinberg
Oden Ronen’s ‘The Missings’ looks at the Supernova rave massacre, while a piece
by Hillel Kogan dances around the topic altogether to focus on those behind the
Batsheva troupe
More Headlines
NY art museum surprised to find hidden ‘Free Palestine’ message on artwork
By Michael Horovitz
Jewish Agency offers NIS 100,000 reward for info leading to missing girl
By ToI Staff
Ex-US treasury secretary Mnuchin says he’s putting together investors to buy
TikTok
By AP
Iran Air could be banned from Europe if Tehran sells missiles to Moscow, US
warns
By AAMER MADHANI
SPAR to open debut supermarket store in Israel next week
By Sharon Wrobel
Gerald Levin, ex-Time Warner CEO who engineered disastrous mega-merger, dies at
84
By David Hamilton
Top Ops
Rachel Eichler Maron
Who’s in the mood for Purim this year?
War, rape, hostages, and the rowdiest day on the Jewish calendar? I just
couldn’t face all that ’happy vibe’ – until I reread Megillat Esther
Daniel G. Saunders
How many civilian deaths are acceptable?
To those clamoring for an immediate IDF ceasefire, I ask (among other things)
how we stop future use of human shields, since they’ve proven so effective
Nadav Tamir
Why Biden’s shift on Netanyahu matters
This profoundly pro-Israel president has showed ironclad support for Israel’s
security twinned with genuine regard for Palestinian lives
Giada Condello
If this is what feminism has become, then I’m out
Just days after the UN confirmed sexual violence toward the hostages, protesters
acted as if the report had never been published
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Spoiler alert: It’ll never be enough
As a left-wing Israeli, I won’t give up on my ideals of peace – and I also don’t
accept the world’s willingness to leave Israel in the dust
David-Seth Kirshner
Room for two, please
Can’t celebrities and elected officials support more than one cause at a time?
There’s room on our lapels and in our hearts for more
Tanya Hoshovsky
(Not so) proudly South African
My beloved country, we always prayed together for a better future. Why are you
abandoning your Jews now?
Herzl Hefter
Stop saying Hamas is Amalek
When rabbis call for indiscriminate killing and war crimes, I cannot remain
silent, for the Torah demands mercy and kindness, even when we are at war
Ellen Ginsberg Simon
Bloody hands, bloody fools
That symbol the Hollywood glitterati sported is rooted in the horrific lynching
of two Israeli men by a Palestinian mob
Eric Cohen and Elliott Abrams
A classical Jewish education to rekindle the American spirit
Our new school will revive the lost art of training young minds, hearts, and
souls in the best that Western civilization has to offer
Shimon Glick
The ‘settler colonialists’ of Palestine
The anti-Israel epithet is a misdiagnosis that inverts the truth: It was the
Jews who were exiled from their native land
Nancy Goodman
Thank you, President Joe, for the pier in the sea
I’m looking forward to watching the US try to separate Gazan civilians from
Hamas terrorists, and to keep Hamas from grabbing the humanitarian aid
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   March 14: Thousands in TA rally for hostage deal, new elections in separate
   protests
   
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   March 15: White House says Hamas response ‘within bounds’ of hostage deal
   framework
   
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   March 13: Israel will try to ‘flood’ Gaza with aid from multiple entry
   points, says IDF
   
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   Hamas offers exchange of women, children, elderly hostages for up to 1,000
   prisoners
   
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   And the Oscar for incendiary misdiagnosis of the cause of a massacre of Jews
   goes to…
   

Those we have lost
Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war

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   Those We Have Lost
   Cpt. Omer Wolf, 22: Beloved commander secretly wrote beautiful songs
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we have lost
   Dor Malka, 29: Lover of life, loyal friend, the center of every group
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Aviv Atzili, 49: Painter, cyclist, lover of the land
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Ziv Frenkel, 22: World traveler who was a ‘warrior for justice’
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we have lost
   Addir Mesika, 23: Charged at terrorists to save girlfriend and friends
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we have lost
   Danil Kimenfeld, 64: Doting grandfather, ‘anchor of the family’
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Amit Levy, 22: Had plans to travel the world with her twin sister
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Sgt. Ravit Assayag, 19: Loved to play her guitar on the beach
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we have lost
   Amit Lahav, 23: Adventurous free spirit who spread positivity
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Shahaf Krief, 17: Horse-loving high schooler and doting uncle
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we have lost
   Cpt. Alina Pravosudova, 23: ‘Gingit’ loved ballet, volunteered for MDA
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we have lost
   Gilad Ben Yehuda, 28: Adrenaline junkie with a heart of gold
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Tomer Shpirer, 37: Avid bike rider and father of two
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Sivan Shaarbany, 21: Curly-haired partygoer who loved salt & pepper
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Yuri and Svetlana Lisovoy, 63 & 61: Grandparents slain on fishing trip
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Sgt. Noam Ben Mucha, 20: Golani soldier who fought off invasion
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we have lost
   Shalev Madmoni and Guy Levi, 24: Couple slated to move in together
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Moshe Ben Porat, 58: ‘God-fearing man’ slain before grandson’s brit
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Maor Gratzyani, 21: Partygoer with captivating blue eyes
   By ToI Staff
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   Those We Have Lost
   Chana Kritzman, 88: Book lover who established Be’eri’s library
   By ToI Staff


Those we are missing
The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Mohammed Altarash, Bedouin father of 13
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Thai worker Pongsak Tanna father of 14-year-old girl
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: UK citizen Emily Damari from her Kfar Aza apartment
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Devoted uncle and Nir Oz resident Yair Horn
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Shiri Bibas and her redheaded babies
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Arbel Yehud, third generation on Kibbutz Nir Oz
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Hamza Ziyadne, Rahat resident working in Kibbutz Holit
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Eli Sharabi from Kibbutz Be’eri
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Thai field hand Sriaoun Watchara
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Surasak Lamnau, Thai worker abducted with employer
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Daniel Perez, absence felt at brother’s wedding
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Presumed captive: Ohad Yahalomi, shot in the leg by terrorists
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Ofer Calderon, initially escaped through window
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Tal Shoham, held captive separately from family
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Matan Zangauker, ‘is a survivor’
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Youssef Hamis Ziyadne from Rahat
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: US citizen Keith Siegel, driven to Gaza in his own car
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Elad Katzir, farmer and social activist
   By ToI Staff
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   Those we are missing
   Taken captive: Edan Alexander, told mother he was safe
   By ToI Staff


Those We Call Heroes
People saving others and making lives better

 * Job done? Retired reservists’ Phoenix tank unit disbands, for now
   By ToI Staff
 * 
   Inside story
   On Oct. 7 killing grounds, a vigilante army vet inspires grieving US Jewish
   leaders
   By Canaan Lidor
 * The 81-year-old woman who climbed out the window to escape Hamas
   By ToI Staff
 * 
   Inside story
   How a Druze mom fooled Hamas into revealing its attack plans on Oct. 7,
   saving her town
   By Sue Surkes
 * A month after his son fell in battle, a father stages a one-man play about
   October 7
   By Jessica Steinberg
 * Under fire in Gaza, hero paramedic saved life of tank crew member
   By ToI Staff
 * 
   Inside story
   Something is afoot: Volunteers fit IDF soldiers with US military boots amid
   Hamas war
   By Sharon Wrobel
 * Undeterred by Oct. 7 massacre, foreign interns keep Gaza-periphery dairy
   farms afloat
   By Bernard Dichek
 * The Persian-Jewish grandma who wants to feed the entire IDF from her
   apartment
   By Gavriel Fiske
 * Family of fallen Oct. 7 hero Tomer Nagar commissions line of beers in his
   honor
   By Stuart Winer
 * Fixing up old tanks and recruiting old reservists, a tech VP creates a new
   battalion
   By Sue Surkes
 * Officer tasked with arranging constant IDF funerals nearly died after heart
   gave way
   By Renee Ghert-Zand
 * Dad launches ‘Project Menorah’ to support Jews fearful of displaying Hanukkah
   lights
   By Matt Lebovic
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   Interview
   ‘Life under Hamas is like under ISIS,’ says Syria-born journalist deported
   from Gaza
   By Gianluca Pacchiani
 * 
   Reporter's notebook
   Resurrecting Gaza border communities will take a lot more than sowing winter
   wheat
   By Canaan Lidor
 * 96-year-old woman escaped October 7 massacre at Be’eri; grandson held in Gaza
   By ToI Staff
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   Interview
   Lebanese Israeli advocate on US colleges post-Oct. 7: ‘Many don’t see
   Israelis as humans’
   By Gianluca Pacchiani
 * First wave out of 7,000 foreign doctors wanting to help amid war have come to
   Israel
   By Renee Ghert-Zand
 * 
   Inside story
   Archaeologists sift through devastation to help families of Oct. 7 victims
   gain closure
   By Melanie Lidman
 * Truck dashcam footage shows farmer dodging bullets as he saved 120 from music
   festival
   By Sue Surkes


Tales of the Times
The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

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   Technological edge
   High school engineering students create devices for war effort
   By Gavriel Fiske
 * 
   Bring them home
   Ex-Olympic sailor wears hostage dog tags on Oscars red carpet
   By ToI Staff
 * 
   Get out
   Natalie Portman finalizes divorce from French choreographer husband
   By AFP
 * 
   Funny Business
   Jewish comedian Adam Sandler was Hollywood’s highest earner in 2023
   By ToI Staff
 * 
   Wunderkind
   ‘Wonder Woman’ star Gal Gadot gives birth to fourth girl
   By Stuart Winer
 * 
   Book now
   John Lithgow to star in play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism
   By ToI Staff
 * 
   Comedic bashing
   Michael Rapaport skewers Hollywood in ‘Eretz Nehederet’ skit
   By Jessica Steinberg
 * 
   Warm gesture
   Knitters stitch together ‘Scarves of Love’ for hostages
   By Jessica Steinberg
 * 
   A good run
   Jerusalem marathoner dedicates 100th race to friend killed Oct. 7
   By Jessica Steinberg
 * 
   Back to Poland
   In ‘Treasure,’ Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry connect with Jewish heritage
   By LOUISE DIXON
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   Cut!
   Director Guy Nattiv calls for new Israeli and Palestinian leadership
   By Jessica Steinberg
 * 
   Concert review
   With ‘About Love,’ composer Mark Eliyahu strings along his devotees
   By Jessica Steinberg
 * 
   Proliferation of prizes
   ‘Oppenheimer’ dominates BAFTAs in major Oscars boost
   By Agencies
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   A meaning of life
   Resilience via absurdity: Israeli orchestra launches Monty Python show
   By Jessica Steinberg
 * 
   Bad rap
   Ozzy Osbourne slams ‘antisemitic’ Kanye after unapproved sample use
   By ToI Staff
 * 
   High note
   Israeli Opera original ‘Theodor’ named one of world’s best for 2023
   By Jessica Steinberg
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   It stinks
   Likud minister, MK face off over vodka breath, blather
   By ToI Staff
 * 
   Ballsy move
   Pro-Palestinian porn star from US visits Tehran, sparking questions
   By AP and ToI Staff
 * 
   King David
   ‘Curb’ season premiere raises question: Will Larry go to Israel?
   By Ben Sales
 * 
   Crossover episode
   ‘Somebody had to do it’: Larry David attacks Elmo on morning show
   By Michael Horovitz




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