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Times Of Israel
Times Of Israel
17 Mar 2025


NextImg:As US strikes Yemen, Houthis again vow to target Israeli ships until Gaza ‘siege’ ends

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.

Trump says he will be speaking with Russia’s Putin on Tuesday

US President Donald Trump says he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

“I’ll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work’s been done over the weekend,” Trump tells reporters on Air Force One during a late flight back to the Washington area from Florida.

“We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance,” Trump says.

Man in his 40s killed in northern Bedouin town, amid crime wave

A man in his 40s has been killed in an incident of violence in the northern Bedouin town of Bir al-Maksur, the Magen David Adom ambulance service says.

An MDA statement cites a medic saying a team found the man with stab wounds, tried to save his life but ended up pronouncing him dead.

The incident comes amid a prolonged epidemic of violent crime in Israel’s Arab community.

Iran-backed Houthis claim second attack on US ships in 24 hours

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim responsibility for a second attack on an American aircraft carrier group in 24 hours, calling it retaliation for US strikes.

A spokesperson for the group says that “for the second time in 24 hours,” Houthi fighters launched missiles and drones at the USS Harry S. Truman and several of its warships in the northern Red Sea.

The statement also vows to keep targeting Israeli vessels until the “siege” on Gaza is lifted.

Fundraiser for Yarden Bibas surpasses its goal, reaches $1.6 million in some 24 hours

Yarden Bibas covering the coffin of his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir during the slain hostages' funeral near Kibbutz Nir Oz, February 26, 2025. (Eitan Uner/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
Yarden Bibas covering the coffin of his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir during the slain hostages' funeral near Kibbutz Nir Oz, February 26, 2025. (Eitan Uner/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

A fundraiser by the family of released hostage Yarden Bibas has surpassed its $1,371,086 goal within 24 hours of its launch, reaching more than $1.6 million.

The campaign is aimed at helping to fund Bibas’s rehabilitation and memorialize his wife Shiri and young sons Kfir and Ariel, who were abducted in the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, and murdered in captivity.

The funds, collected via the Lehosheet Yad (Lend a Hand) foundation, will assist with “professional support, mental health assistance and financial resources to gradually regain a sense of normalcy,” Yarden’s father Eli has written on the campaign’s English-language page.

US said to launch 2 strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah

Yemen’s Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV says the US has launched two strikes targeting Hodeidah.