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Siren sounds across Israel, launching solemn Holocaust Remembrance Day events

Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Trump says ‘never again means now,’ laments post-Oct. 7 antisemitism spike * Fire west of Jerusalem put under control * Teen suspect in France attack on rabbi gets 16 months behind bars

12:32 pm

Iran's envoy to Lebanon claims Hezbollah pager that injured him was in his office as protective measure
12:22 pm

Police appeal court decision to free Netanyahu aides from house arrest in Qatargate probe
12:13 pm

'Never again means now': Trump issues Holocaust day statement, lamenting post-Oct. 7 antisemitism spike
12:03 pm

Teenage suspect in France attack on rabbi sentenced to 16 months in prison

In shadow of Holocaust and war, Arab doctors find shared humanity in caring for survivors

By Diana Bletter

Volunteering for nonprofit LeMa’anam, Christian Yosif Boulos and Muslim Fadi Badarna provide home visits for elderly who lived through horrors decades ago and in wake of October 7

What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

LiveUpdated 4min ago

Siren sounds across Israel, launching solemn Holocaust Remembrance Day events

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Trump says ‘never again means now,’ laments post-Oct. 7 antisemitism spike * Fire west of Jerusalem put under control * Teen suspect in France attack on rabbi gets 16 months behind bars

In shadow of Holocaust and war, Arab doctors find shared humanity in caring for survivors

By Diana Bletter

Volunteering for nonprofit LeMa’anam, Christian Yosif Boulos and Muslim Fadi Badarna provide home visits for elderly who lived through horrors decades ago and in wake of October 7

What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025 (Yad Vashem)

Herzog at Yad Vashem: ‘History won’t forgive those destroying Israel from within’

‘Let us lower the flames, mend our hearts,’ urges president at state Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony; PM says Hamas is ‘exactly like the Nazis’, vows to destroy it, return all hostages, thwart Iran nukes

Bereaved Israelis, relatives of hostages and released hostages sing 'Hatikvah' at Auschwitz, April 23, 2025 (Channel 12 screenshot)

At Auschwitz, Oct. 7 survivors and freed hostages sing ‘Hatikvah’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Holocaust survivor Suzanne Rosenberg, far left, looks in the Book of Names at Block 27 at Auschwitz to find her uncle's name on April 23, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Hostage families join Holocaust survivors ahead of 2nd Auschwitz march since Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Michael Kupershtein (left), a Holocaust survivor and the grandfather of hostage Bar Kupershtein (right), in a TV interview in February 2024. (Kan news screenshot/Courtesy)

‘It’s a second Holocaust’: Survivor pleads for return of his hostage grandson

By AFP and ToI Staff

The seven Weber siblings upon their arrival at New York Harbor in May 1946. Bottom row from left: Renee, Judith, and Bela. Top row from left: Gertrude, Alfons, Senta, and Ruth. (Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Netflix tells tale of 7 siblings who miraculously survived the Holocaust to restart life in US

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Now streaming, ‘UnBroken’ illuminates story of the Webers, who lived in hiding on a German farm for two years — only to be cruelly separated upon arrival in America

Tzili Wenkert, a Holocaust survivor and the grandmother of Omer Wenkert who is held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, attends an event at 'Hostages Square' in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2023 (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)

Holocaust Remembrance Day marked by painful echoes amid Gaza hostage crisis

By Stav Levaton

Holocaust survivor Gad Fartouk says a prayer for the hostages held by terrorists in Gaza, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)April 23: At state ceremony, Holocaust survivor says prayer for hostages’ return

German troops arrest the last remaining members of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in this photo from the Stroop Report. A red line appears under Michael Smuss, with his father to his right. (National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records)

82 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, its last living fighter bears witness

Michael Smuss helped smuggle supplies needed during the Jewish resistance against the Nazis; he shares how a series of ‘lucky’ accidents helped him withstand further horrors

Those we have lost

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

Those we have lost
Command Sgt. Maj. Yigal Iluz, 56: Veteran cop was ‘larger than life’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Cpt. Eyal Klein, 22: Nahal commander who loved off-road biking

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Rachel Dov, 25: A ‘unicorn’ who loved to sparkle

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Ravid Katz, 51: Lifelong educator and devoted father of three

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Pongsathorn Khunsri, 25: Thai worker sought to build mom a new home

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Mor Gabay, 30: Singer-songwriter whose lyrics have lived on

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Romi Eliyahu Bernat, 38: Mom whose blended family united in her wake

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Staff Sgt. Adi Tzur, 20: Quietly assertive ‘hero’ soldier

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Natalia Tomayev, 71: Tajik native loved to travel Israel with sister

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Command Sgt. Maj. Denis Belenky, 47: Lion-hearted police officer

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Amichai Weitzen, 33: High school educator and devoted dad of 5

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Bar Zohar, 23: Saved others at rave and ‘left us with so much pride’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Rony Levy, 80: Great-grandfather who never stopped riding his bike

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Salomon Iliaguev, 28: Car lover and devoted husband, father of two

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Tal Katz, 37: Medical equipment technician moonlit as trance DJ

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Emma Poliakov, 83: Great-grandmother who loved to sing

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Naor Hasidim & Sivan Elkabets, 23: Together since they were 16

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Arie Hefetz, 28: Financial advisor and coach ‘was super optimistic’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Mayana and Noah Hershkovitz, 65 & 68: Couple shared a love of art

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Ofir Libstein, 50: Head of local council killed defending town

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ariel Cunio told brother ‘We are in a horror film’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tamir Nimrodi, walked by gunmen to base gate

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Alon Ohel, pianist’s family recorded song for him

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Guy Gilboa-Dalal, took a selfie with his brother for mom

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Pinta Nattapong, saving up for a coffee shop

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Maxim Herkin, was attending his first trance rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Segev Kalfon, last seen running across Highway 232

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Avinatan Or, planning to move in with girlfriend

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ziv Berman, from his home in Kfar Aza’s young generation neighborhood

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Evyatar David, IDed in a Hamas photo on Telegram

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bipin Joshi, Nepalese student who deflected grenades

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Informal educator Eitan Horn visiting from Kfar Saba

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Elkana Bohbot, young son asking, ‘Where’s Daddy?’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Edan Alexander, told mother he was safe

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omri Miran, driven in his own car to Gaza

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: David Cunio, abducted from burning house

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eitan Mor, guard at rave who helped save others

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

'Dinner with Adolf'
Larry David skewers Bill Maher’s sit-down with Trump in NYT essay

By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Comedy born behind bars
Award-winning show about comic jailed as a teen comes to Netflix

By Jessica Steinberg
Stamp of approval
How ‘Lincoln’ in a kippah made a $250,000 deal on ‘Shark Tank’

By Grace Gilson
Can it fill the hole?
‘New Absolute Bagel’ sign stirs fretful optimism in New York City

By Jackie Hajdenberg
Power ballad
Five for Fighting serenades ‘Superhero’ Alon Ohel, other hostages

By ToI Staff
Kicking it
Soccer star Haaland calls freed hostage and mega fan Omer Shem Tov

By ToI Staff
A Passover miracle
Dog abducted from murdered hostage’s family found by IDF

By ToI Staff
ChatGPT CV
Israel tops list of countries with highest self-reported AI skills

By Sharon Wrobel
On thin ice
With NHL playoffs at stake, Israeli-American rookie jumps in

By AP
Firework
Katy Perry part of all-female crew launched to space by Bezos firm

By Marcia Dunn
Book time
Bernard-Henri Lévy to open Writers Fest, Book Forum in Jerusalem in May

By Jessica Steinberg
Gnawing at the problem
Jewish New York City mayor candidate vows to tackle rats

By Luke Tress
Real-time footage
‘#Nova’ film, about Oct. 7 atrocities, arrives on Prime Video

By Jessica Steinberg
FrancoFauda
Fifth season of ‘Fauda’ to star award-winning French actress

By Jessica Steinberg
Razor sharp
Beards and nail polish: IDF approves dress code changes

By Emanuel Fabian
Golden effort
Just one Jewish coach still in NCAA title contention

By Ben Sales
Hear O TV audience
Noah Wyle, star of HBO’s ‘The Pitt,’ recites Shema on screen

By Grace Gilson
Val vibes
‘That’s Simchas Torah’: Kilmer’s Jewish moment you might have missed

By Grace Gilson
Coaching with chutzpah
Bruce Pearl a vocal leader of trio of Jewish coaches at Final Four

By JIM VERTUNO
Hole in one
Texas bakery is first bagel shop to be named James Beard Award finalist

By Grace Gilson

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