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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

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Intense fighting reported in Gaza, as Katz says combat has ‘heavy prices’

IDF confirms one soldier seriously hurt in battle * ‘We’ve got to be good to Gaza’: Trump says he pressed Netanyahu on aid * US president says willing to meet Iran’s Khamenei

10:20 pm

Spain gave Israeli defense firms 46 contracts since Gaza war despite govt pledge - report
10:02 pm

Ex-US Rep. George Santos sentenced to over 7 years in prison for fraud, identity theft
9:35 pm

WHO chief insists Israel's aid blockade of Gaza 'must end'
9:30 pm

Man dies after tree collapses on family in nature reserve

A girl stands with a pot as people queue to receive charity meals from a kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 24, 2025 (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Trump says he told Netanyahu ‘we’ve got to be good to Gaza’ and get more aid in

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

US president says he told PM ‘those people are suffering’ in enclave: ‘There’s a very big need for food, medicine. We’re taking care of it’; Trump says Netanyahu ‘felt well about’ request

Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent and other emergency services pray by the bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31, 2025. Israel has said at least six were Hamas operatives. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Rights group petitions High Court to compel IDF to give info on detained Gaza medic

By Jeremy Sharon

What appears to be the impact of a projectile is visible on the wall of the UN guesthouse, where United Nations workers were located when an explosion occurred at the building, leaving one staff member dead and five others injured in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF admits mistakenly shelling UN facility in Gaza last month, killing staff member

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2025, en route to Joint Base Andrews (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump: Israel won’t drag us into war with Iran, but we’ll lead the pack if no deal made

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president says willing to meet with Iran’s supreme leader, predicts Saudi-Israeli normalization and that Riyadh will ‘very quickly’ join Abraham Accords

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 4, 2025. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Israel said to fear US moving fast toward ‘bad deal’ that won’t block Iran from nukes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

L: US President Donald Trump, January 23, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP), R: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, December 3, 2024. (Saudi Ministry of Media / AFP)

Trump said poised to offer Saudi Arabia over $100 billion weapons package

LiveUpdated 9min ago

Intense fighting reported in Gaza, as Katz says combat has ‘heavy prices’

IDF confirms one soldier seriously hurt in battle * ‘We’ve got to be good to Gaza’: Trump says he pressed Netanyahu on aid * US president says willing to meet Iran’s Khamenei

A girl stands with a pot as people queue to receive charity meals from a kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 24, 2025 (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Trump says he told Netanyahu ‘we’ve got to be good to Gaza’ and get more aid in

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

US president says he told PM ‘those people are suffering’ in enclave: ‘There’s a very big need for food, medicine. We’re taking care of it’; Trump says Netanyahu ‘felt well about’ request

Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent and other emergency services pray by the bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31, 2025. Israel has said at least six were Hamas operatives. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Rights group petitions High Court to compel IDF to give info on detained Gaza medic

By Jeremy Sharon

What appears to be the impact of a projectile is visible on the wall of the UN guesthouse, where United Nations workers were located when an explosion occurred at the building, leaving one staff member dead and five others injured in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF admits mistakenly shelling UN facility in Gaza last month, killing staff member

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2025, en route to Joint Base Andrews (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump: Israel won’t drag us into war with Iran, but we’ll lead the pack if no deal made

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president says willing to meet with Iran’s supreme leader, predicts Saudi-Israeli normalization and that Riyadh will ‘very quickly’ join Abraham Accords

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 4, 2025. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Israel said to fear US moving fast toward ‘bad deal’ that won’t block Iran from nukes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

L: US President Donald Trump, January 23, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP), R: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, December 3, 2024. (Saudi Ministry of Media / AFP)

Trump said poised to offer Saudi Arabia over $100 billion weapons package

Children gather outside the gate of the Kalandia Training Centre, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was raided by Israeli forces earlier in the day on February 18, 2025. (Zain Jaafar / AFP)

UNRWA not immune from lawsuits in US, DoJ says, arguing Oct. 7 victims’ suit can go ahead

In shift from Biden era, court document shows administration now says UN agency accused of complicity in Hamas onslaught is not protected by UN’s immunity

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (left) Netanyahu at the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong); Then-defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 5, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ICC Appeals Chamber rules lower court must hear Israel’s challenge to jurisdiction

By Jeremy Sharon and Nava Freiberg

Hod Hasharon Mayor Amir Kochavi speaks at the city's ceremony for the onset of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025. (Screen capture via Facebook)

Mayor sparks uproar with Holocaust day speech condemning ‘lust for revenge’ in Gaza

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Debris from the ruined homes of Bedouins in the Ein Samia community east of Ramallah, May 2023. (Oren Ziv/+972 Magazine).

‘No future here’: Bedouin hamlets are erased as residents flee settler harassment

By Nurit Yohanan

Over 1,000 residents of herding communities in West Bank have been displaced in 2 years; they say they face campaign of theft and violence that authorities either ignore or abet

Settlers accused of attacking Palestinians, torching buildings in West Bank village

By Nurit Yohanan, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (left) in Paris, France, April 17, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP); Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow, Russia, April 18, 2025. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Pool Photo via AP)

Negotiations between Iran, US over Tehran’s nuclear program set to return to Oman

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Experts to start work on technical details of any possible deal; US team led by Rubio aide Michael Anton, who does not have nuclear policy experience of those who led 2015 talks

L: Russian President Vladimir Putin at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside of Moscow, Russia on April 24, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP); R: US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump, in rare rebuke, urges Putin to ‘STOP!’ after deadly Russian attack on Kyiv

By AAMER MADHANI and Samuel Petrequin

Those we have lost

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

Those We Have Lost
Raz Mizrahi, 21: Wounded in 2021 attack, recovered and slain at party

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Avi Fleisher, 63: Kibbutz defender was ‘man of actions, not words’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Shachar Aviani, 56: Kfar Aza security chief was ‘a man of the land’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Cpt. Dor Sade, 22: Fell in battle 50 years after his grandfather did

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Amichai Vanino, 22: Warrior, Torah scholar had a ‘noble soul’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Yuval Buyum, 21: Talented pianist whose ‘soul was wrapped up in music’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Bechor Swid, 32: Landscape gardener and father of 3 girls

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Dvir Rossler, 21: Golani soldier had ‘strength and charisma’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Tal Bartik, 48: Mom of 4 and talented volleyball player

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. First Class Ben Zussman, 22: Committed to fighting for Israel

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Gilad Ben Yehuda, 28: Adrenaline junkie with a heart of gold

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Haim Livne, 87: Argentinian devoted to working the land of Israel

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Staff Sgt. Tomer Ahimas, 20: ‘Hero’ soldier slain in battle at Nirim

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Or Malka, 21: Blended army service with working at daycare

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Joseph ‘Sefi’ Genis, 30: Hi-tech success charged at terrorist unarmed

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Ofer Ron, 70: Gentle kibbutznik who enjoyed cooking for his community

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Dor Shafir & Savyon Kipper, 30 & 31: ‘Inseparable’ fiances

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Cpt. Alina Pravosudova, 23: ‘Gingit’ loved ballet, volunteered for MDA

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
May Naim, 24: Partygoer who loved to help her famous grandfather cook

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Cpl. Noa Marciano, 19: Soldier known for ‘dimples and smiles’

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

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

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: Omri Miran, driven in his own car to Gaza

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: Matan Angrest, turned 21 while held hostage in 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: Informal educator Eitan Horn visiting from Kfar Saba

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: Alon Ohel, pianist’s family recorded song for him

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Matan Zangauker ‘is a survivor’

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

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: Ariel Cunio told brother ‘We are in a horror film’

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

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: Guy Gilboa-Dalal, took a selfie with his brother for mom

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bar Kupershtein, last seen tied up by Hamas

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: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’

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

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Hat-Trick
‘Trump 2028’ merchandise for sale on US president’s store

By AFP
'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

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