Hizbullah Rockets Spark Major Fires in Northern Israel - Emanuel Fabian (Times of Israel)
    Rockets fired by Hizbullah on Sunday caused fires that consumed 10,000 dunams (2,471 acres) of foliage in open areas, including nature reserves, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority said.
    Dozens of firefighters worked for hours to gain control of the blazes in the Golan Heights and the Upper Galilee.
    See also Hizbullah Drone Sparks Fire in Nahariya; 120,000 More Israelis Now within Hizbullah's Range - Yair Kraus (Ynet News)
    In Nahariya, a city of 66,000 people in northern Israel, residents rushed to bomb shelters three times on Sunday following a series of sirens.
    A Hizbullah drone fell in the city, marking the first direct hit since the beginning of the conflict. Several attempts to intercept the drone were unsuccessful.

IDF Downs Ballistic Missile Headed toward Eilat (Reuters-Ynet News)
    The IDF used an Arrow missile interceptor on Monday to shoot down a surface-to-surface missile launched in the Red Sea area, after sounding sirens in Eilat to send residents to shelters.
    Eilat has come under repeated long-range attack by Yemen's Houthis.

Israel Foils Hamas Suicide Bombing Plot Directed from Turkey - Emanuel Fabian (Times of Israel)
    The Israel Security Agency said Monday that in December 2023, Anas Shurman, a Palestinian from Tulkarm who resides in Jordan, was recruited by Imad Abid, a Hamas operative living in Turkey, to carry out a suicide bombing on behalf of Hamas against a target inside Israel.
    Shurman filmed a last will, took motorcycle lessons for the attack, and received funds and instructions to carry out the bombing, including where to collect the explosive device in the West Bank.
    The large fragmentation bomb weighing 12 kg. was seized by the ISA from a spring.
    Shurman and additional Hamas members from Nablus, who were involved in manufacturing the bomb and hiding it, were detained.

Americans Stand with Israel and We Need to Prove It to the World - Sen. Lindsey Graham (Fox News)
    When you reward behavior, you get more of it. That's basic psychology.
    The ICJ, ICC, Ireland, Norway and Spain are incentivizing continued attacks on the Jewish state and fueling antisemitism, and are not operating within the bounds of reality.
    By unilaterally declaring a Palestinian state - without definition - these countries have thrown gasoline on the raging fire of antisemitism and made every problem in the Middle East worse. Now, Hamas, Hizbullah and Iran are emboldened.
    Supporting Israel unequivocally is the U.S.'s best interest. We will fight back.
    It is time to stop the madness. Murderous, religiously fanatic terrorists are the problem, not Israel.

Yemen's Houthis Training to Invade Israel (Times of Israel)
    Yemen's Houthis have in recent months carried out a series of training exercises to prepare for a potential invasion of Israel.
    Israel's Channel 11 aired footage of Houthi forces in a live fire exercise training to conquer the city of Dimona in Israel.
    Armed men were seen running house to house in a large mockup of an urban area.
    A Yemeni journalist noted that the drills are also aimed at preparing for any direct confrontation with the U.S., UK, or UAE.
    Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi says the Houthi army can muster 350,000 fighters.
    Al-Houthi said a request had been made to the countries between Yemen and Israel that they "open land passages for the movement of hundreds of thousands of my people in order to carry out jihad in Palestine."

How Hamas Turned Gazan Homes into Weapons Depots - Yaakov Lappin (JNS)
    In its war against Hamas, the IDF is operating in an environment where a significant percentage of buildings and homes in Gaza are filled with weapons.
    The mass installing of weapons in civilian homes is part of Hamas's entrenchment program that turned Gaza into a terror fortress that lacks any parallel in the world.
    A large number of civilian households have been repurposed into storage centers for AK-47s, anti-tank missile launchers, RPGs, bombs, mortars, IEDs and sniper rifles.
    This is so terrorists can walk the streets in civilian clothes, arrive at a weapons pick-up center, and begin attacking.
    To dismantle this hidden infrastructure, the IDF must clear each area house by house.
    While some civilians may be coerced into storing weapons, others are willingly involved, making it difficult to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants.

Survey: Sentiment toward Israel among U.S. Religious Audiences (Religion News Service)
    A new survey of 2,033 Christian adults conducted on March 8-14, 2024, shows that support for Israel among evangelicals is largely based on age and Biblical knowledge and has not been substantively impacted by the current Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
    The current conflict generates a negative view of Palestinians and Muslims, with a decrease in the image of Muslims, a decrease in support for an independent Palestinian state, and a larger blame for Palestinians in the conflict.
    Catholics are the least supportive of Jewish interests and causes, and exhibit the highest support for antisemitic tropes.
    Yet their views remained stable between 2022 and 2024, meaning that the current crisis has not substantively altered Catholic opinions.
    While mainline Protestant denominations have been active in supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, the 2024 survey shows that 80% of mainline congregants have never even heard of the BDS movement and only 7% support it.
    Thus, the views of the mainline clergy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are out-of-sync with the views of the congregants.
    The researchers found that attitudes toward Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict vary among first-generation immigrants based on the length of their residence in the U.S.
    "The longer one resides in the U.S., the more pro-Israel and the less pro-Palestinian they become," said Motti Inbari, professor of Jewish studies at UNC Pembroke. "American pro-Israel culture changes immigrant attitudes over time."

What Must Be Done to Fight Antisemitism - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach interviewed by Joseph Scutts (Jerusalem Report)
    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the author of over 30 books, including The Israel Warrior: Fighting Back for the Jewish State from Campus to Street Corner.
    He said that in the "four to five thousand messages that I get per day, the antisemitism is so extreme, the bile is so poisonous, the attacks are so personal, that I have seen a whole new side of the world that I had never seen before."
    "You're not going to change any of their minds and almost any of their followers' minds...so why debate them?"
    "The answer is that the Jews are watching, and right now we are a very frightened people."
    "So when one Jew gets up on TV or on a video platform or on a podcast and shows that he or she is not going to be afraid of these guys and will debate with them, it sets an example. I may not change any minds, but I will demonstrate fearlessness."