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Daily Briefing Apr. 16: Day 558 – US moves Iran nuclear red line, inching closer to Israel

US bureau chief Jacob Magid updates on ongoing direct US-Iran nuclear talks, stalled hostage release negotiations and the Palestinian Authority’s...

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Daily Briefing Apr. 14: Day 556 – With Rafah encircled, IDF preps to empty Gazan city

Daily Briefing Apr. 14: Day 556 – With Rafah encircled, IDF preps to empty Gazan city

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on a recent propaganda video of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, flurry of IDF reservists’ protest letters and...

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Daily Briefing Apr. 13: Day 555 – Israeli art in a post-October 7 world

Daily Briefing Apr. 13: Day 555 – Israeli art in a post-October 7 world

Culture editor Jessica Steinberg charts the pivot that art institutions are taking in light of the ongoing war, speaks about families of hostages...

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Friday Focus with Emanuel Fabian: IDF Oct. 7 probes reveal heroism amid terror

Friday Focus with Emanuel Fabian: IDF Oct. 7 probes reveal heroism amid terror

ToI’s military reporter goes deep into the investigations published recently into battles in Kibbutz Nirim, Sderot, Kibbutz Re’im, and the Nova...

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Daily Briefing Apr. 9: Day 551 – After chaos in court, a stay on Shin Bet head’s dismissal

Daily Briefing Apr. 9: Day 551 – After chaos in court, a stay on Shin Bet head’s dismissal

Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon describes a hectic 11-hour hearing on petitions against the firing of Ronen Bar and the compromise solution that may...

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Global markets plunge amid growing panic after Trump doubles down on tariffs

Global markets plunge amid growing panic after Trump doubles down on tariffs

Markets crash as China, Europe push back against US, with recession fears escalating and world economies bracing for impact; shares on Tel Aviv Stock...

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Daily Briefing Apr. 7: Day 549 – With PM in DC, Hamas official tells ToI it is ready to end war

Daily Briefing Apr. 7: Day 549 – With PM in DC, Hamas official tells ToI it is ready to end war

US bureau chief Jacob Magid raises the curtain on PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s spontaneous trip to the White House and what he hopes to accomplish. Plus:...

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Daily Briefing Apr. 6: Day 548 – IDF claims 6 Gaza medics buried in shallow grave were Hamas

Daily Briefing Apr. 6: Day 548 – IDF claims 6 Gaza medics buried in shallow grave were Hamas

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian discusses the ongoing investigation into 14 medics who were killed March 23 by the IDF, what’s the ‘new phase’...

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Daily Briefing Apr. 5: Day 547 – Author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat

Daily Briefing Apr. 5: Day 547 – Author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat

The writer and scholar has just published her first book for young readers, a graphic novel for Passover called, ‘One Little Goat.’ It’s funny...

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Daily Briefing Apr. 4: Day 546 – Israeli flags fly in Budapest for PM’s ICC-snubbing visit

Daily Briefing Apr. 4: Day 546 – Israeli flags fly in Budapest for PM’s ICC-snubbing visit

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman reports back from Netanyahu’s state visit in Hungary, updates us on new developments in Qatargate, including...

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Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Netanyahu’s ‘bromances’ with anti-liberal democracies

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Netanyahu’s ‘bromances’ with anti-liberal democracies

ToI’s diplomatic reporter is now in Budapest with Israel’s prime minister. Before he packed his bags, he unpacked Israel’s relationship with Hungary

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Daily Briefing Apr. 3: Day 545 – IDF conducts deepest ground op into Syria to date

Daily Briefing Apr. 3: Day 545 – IDF conducts deepest ground op into Syria to date

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on more intensive IDF operations inside the Gaza Strip, a trip into Lebanon with Defense Minister Israel...

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What Matters Now to author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat

What Matters Now to author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat

The writer and scholar has just published her first book for young readers, a graphic novel for Passover called, ‘One Little Goat.’ It’s funny...

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Daily Briefing Apr. 1: Day 543 – PM questioned on Qatargate; proof of biblical Armageddon?

Daily Briefing Apr. 1: Day 543 – PM questioned on Qatargate; proof of biblical Armageddon?

Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon reports back from ransacked Jinba; reporter Rossella Tercatin delves into a recent Pew survey and archaeological findings...

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12 killed in clash between Nigerian troops and anti-Israel Quds Day protesters

Army denies Amnesty International accusation soldiers used live bullets on demonstrators at pro-Palestinian march organized by banned Iran-linked...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 30: Day 541 – Israel adds pressure on Hamas to advance ceasefire talks

Daily Briefing Mar. 30: Day 541 – Israel adds pressure on Hamas to advance ceasefire talks

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on where hostage release negotiations currently stand, a report about a proposed truce with Hamas in June 2023 and...

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

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

Beirut and Damascus to increase coordination to ensure security along border, which Hezbollah uses to smuggle weapons, and where deadly clashes broke...

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

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

US bureau chief Jacob Magid weighs in on Egypt’s ceasefire proposal, one of many on the table; Saudi normalization that’s now off the table; and...

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

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

ToI’s diplomatic reporter speaks about a shameful phenomenon in which mostly Haredi youth spit upon and denigrate visibly Christian Israelis or...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 26: Day 537 – Gazans rise up against Hamas: The end of the beginning?

Daily Briefing Mar. 26: Day 537 – Gazans rise up against Hamas: The end of the beginning?

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on the 2025 budget bill, ramifications for political stability and the war; reports of hundreds in Gaza protesting...

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Houthis say one killed, 13 injured as US airstrikes pound Yemen overnight

Saudi news site claims senior rebel killed in strike on residential neighborhood in capital; Trump official claims bombing campaign taking out...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 24: Day 535 – IDF strikes Hamas leadership, preps for larger operation

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on today’s terror shooting in the north, what is happening inside Gaza and whether the IDF could indefinitely...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 23: Day 534 – Why Columbia U is a lightening rod for anti-Israel activism

NY reporter Luke Tress drills into why the Big Apple’s Ivy League school is the focus of White House sanctions over its handling of campus...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 22: Day 533 – David Horovitz on external threats and internal divisions

Just ahead of the fateful cabinet vote on the firing of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar on Thursday, ToI’s editor assessed how war-torn Israel has...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 21: Day 532 – Israel’s Shin Bet head fired in unprecedented vote

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman breaks down the PM’s stated reasons for the controversial dismissal and Ronen Bar’s responses to these...

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Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Will Israel and Lebanon finally have a border?

ToI’s diplomatic reporter takes us on a historical journey along the two neighbors’ strange, disputed and not-fully-existent border

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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Terrible external threats, tremendous internal division

Ahead of a planned fateful cabinet vote on the firing of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar tonight, ToI’s editor Horovitz assesses how war-torn Israel is...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 20: Day 531 – IDF renews ground operations in Gaza Strip

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on last night’s Houthi ballistic missile interception and delves into IDF probes of Oct. 7 failures...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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....

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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Iran, Russia and China to hold joint naval exercises this week

Drills in northern Indian Ocean meant to boost cooperation between the three countries; South Africa, UAE, Qatar and Pakistan among countries to send...

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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...

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340 civilians killed in clashes between Syrian regime and pro-Assad forces, says watchdog

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights describes killings of Alawites as ‘executions’ accompanied by looting; women and children among victims

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 6: Day 517 – Who will man the attorney general’s firing squad?

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...

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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...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 2: Day 513 – Israel cites a Trump game plan but Hamas won’t play ball

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on a new proposal to extend phase one of the ceasefire, IDF coming to defense of Syria’s Druze, and whether Israel...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 1: Day 512 – All that is Jewish and controversial at the Oscars

ToI’s New York-based Hollywood maven Jordan Hoffman weighs in on this year’s Jewish Academy Awards scuttlebutt — and whether Israel will be on...

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Daily Briefing Feb. 28: Day 511 – As phase 1 ends, can Cairo talks get more hostages out?

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman with yesterday’s bus stop attack, first takeaways from the IDF’s Oct. 7 probes and renewed ceasefire...

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Friday Focus: Negotiating with terrorists, again

As phase 1 of hostage release deal ends, diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman reviews the timeline of negotiations since Oct. 7, 2023, and weighs in on...

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What Matters Now to critic Jordan Hoffman: 5 films for Jews to follow at the Oscars

ToI’s New York-based Hollywood maven weighs in on this year’s Jewish Academy Awards scuttlebutt — and whether Israel will be on the main stage again

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