Day 537 - Gazans rise up against Hamas: The end of the beginning?

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute
audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and
the Jewish world.


Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur joins host
Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily
Briefing.


The 2025 budget bill passed its final reading to become
law yesterday afternoon, removing a major threat to the stability
of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Lawmakers
voted 66-52 in favor of the NIS 755 billion ($205 billion)
spending bill -- the largest in Israeli history. We discuss which
monies went where and why, plus look into the wide-sweeping
political ramifications of the budget's passage.


Hundreds of Palestinians protested against Hamas rule and against
the war in at least three locations in Gaza on Tuesday, in a
relatively rare occurrence in the Strip due to the terror group’s
often violent suppression of political dissent. Summing up the
seeds of optimism Israelis feel seeing this grassroots uprising,
Rettig Gur, quotes a 1942 line from Winston Churchill, "Now this
is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it
is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."


Please see today's ongoing liveblog for
more updates.


For further reading:


In major success for government, Knesset approves 2025
budget, staving off elections


Hundreds in Gaza join rare protests against Hamas rule,
call for an end to the war


Israel intercepts 3 rockets fired from north Gaza;
Islamic Jihad takes responsibility


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IMAGE: A slogan in Arabic reading (R): 'Enough killing and
destruction' and another reading (L): 'The children of Palestine:
We want to live' are displayed during a rally calling for an end
to the war where hundreds chanted anti-Hamas slogans, in Beit
Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25, 2025. (AFP)


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