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A Memorial Day ceremony honoring fallen soldiers from Haredi tracks in Jerusalem on April 29, 2025. (Haim Twito)

Reporter's Notebook

Rossella Tercatin

As IDF draft battle rages, Haredim gather on Memorial Day to mourn their fallen soldiers

Over 3,000 people attend special ceremony in Jerusalem honoring those who died while serving in army’s ultra-Orthodox tracks: ‘A Torah scroll in one hand and David’s sword in the other’

Brief panic at Tel Aviv event as police make arrest

Israeli soldiers stand still as the memorial siren sounds during the ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘Stop the hatred’: As Israel marks Memorial Day, Herzog pleads for peace within society

By Emanuel Fabian, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

IDF chief says ‘foremost obligation is to bring hostages home’; PM, Knesset speaker heckled; 3,000 at Haredi ceremony; right-wing mob attacks Reform shul screening Israeli-Palestinian event

Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on May 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

319 soldiers, 79 civilians killed since last Memorial Day

By Emanuel Fabian

A seat reserved for the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza is seen at Israel's Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on April 29, 2025. (Screenshot)

Live updates (closed)April 29: Siren rings out, ceremony held at Western Wall, as Israel marks Memorial Day

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf speaks at a faction meeting for his ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party on March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Despite protest, Goldknopf refuses to step back from Memorial Day ceremony

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during an official Memorial Day ceremony at the Ashdod Military Cemetery on May 13, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Government reshuffles Memorial Day lineup to keep divisive ministers from the bereaved

Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)

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Right-wing activists riot at synagogue hosting screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event

Three arrested on suspicion of assault in Ra’anana, where a number of rioters forced their way into Reform synagogue; local Likud boss issues threat: ‘Only the opening shot’

A Memorial Day ceremony honoring fallen soldiers from Haredi tracks in Jerusalem on April 29, 2025. (Haim Twito)

Reporter's Notebook

Rossella Tercatin

As IDF draft battle rages, Haredim gather on Memorial Day to mourn their fallen soldiers

Over 3,000 people attend special ceremony in Jerusalem honoring those who died while serving in army’s ultra-Orthodox tracks: ‘A Torah scroll in one hand and David’s sword in the other’

Israeli soldiers stand still as the memorial siren sounds during the ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘Stop the hatred’: As Israel marks Memorial Day, Herzog pleads for peace within society

By Emanuel Fabian, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

IDF chief says ‘foremost obligation is to bring hostages home’; PM, Knesset speaker heckled; 3,000 at Haredi ceremony; right-wing mob attacks Reform shul screening Israeli-Palestinian event

319 soldiers, 79 civilians killed since last Memorial Day

By Emanuel Fabian

Live updates (closed)April 29: Siren rings out, ceremony held at Western Wall, as Israel marks Memorial Day

Despite protest, Goldknopf refuses to step back from Memorial Day ceremony

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Government reshuffles Memorial Day lineup to keep divisive ministers from the bereaved

Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)

LiveUpdated 1hr ago

Right-wing activists riot at synagogue hosting screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event

Three arrested on suspicion of assault in Ra’anana, where a number of rioters forced their way into Reform synagogue; local Likud boss issues threat: ‘Only the opening shot’

Sara Netanyahu, left, and her husband Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak to slated Independence Day torch-bearers at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. (Screen capture: Government Press Office)

Sara Netanyahu says fewer than 24 hostages are still alive in Gaza

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Hostages’ families demand to know whether there’s new info after PM’s wife says figure cited by Netanyahu is too high, at a meeting in which he nearly forgot to mention captives

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Security establishment shocked Netanyahu spilled secret details of pager op – report

By Lazar Berman

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu are welcomed by Hungary's Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky (R) on April 3, 2025 at the airport in Budapest, (Sztaniszlav Horvath/ Hungarian Defense Ministry / AFP)

Sara Netanyahu tells Hungarian magazine ‘deep state’ aiming to overthrow government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv District Court for the ongoing corruption trial against him, on April 22, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial‘She’d look like a sumo wrestler’: Netanyahu denies wife downed 160 cases of bubbly

Orthodox Jews talk to police about more police presence to prevent further violence during anti-Jewish riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, August 21, 1991. (AP Photo/Andrew Savulich)

Inside Story

Crown Heights protest dredges up specter of 1991 race riots, but local environment has changed

Rhetoric ahead of Monday’s Brooklyn protest leant into racial tensions, echoing past pogrom in neighborhood, but this time demonstration fizzled

This image taken from video shows a woman and a police officer as they are pursued by a group of Orthodox Jewish men in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, following an anti-Israel protest outside a synagogue on April 24, 2025. (AP Photo)

Tensions boil in Brooklyn after clashes outside synagogue, threats to Jewish community

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces that he will step down from his position on June 15, in an address at a memorial event for fallen Shin Bet personnel, April 28, 2025 (Screenshot)

Government cancels decision to fire Shin Bet chief Bar in wake of his resignation

By Jeremy Sharon

Watchdog group calls decision ‘a cynical and transparent trick’ to stop High Court ruling on allegations Bar was fired for PM’s personal and political purposes

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces that he will step down from his position on June 15, in an address at a memorial event for fallen Shin Bet personnel, April 28, 2025. (Screenshot)

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces he will step down from his role on June 15

By Stav Levaton, Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Full text of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar’s resignation letter

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What Matters Now to The Times of Israel: That all Oct. 7 fallen are remembered

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Amy Spiro

ToI editors Amanda Borschel-Dan and Amy Spiro delve into the backstory behind our ongoing Those We Have Lost project, which has so far written the stories of 1,100 individuals murdered by Hamas

President Isaac Herzog hosts a ceremony marking the completion of a Torah scroll dedicated to Sgt. Segev Schwartz, 20, who was killed in battle on October 7, 2023, ahead of Memorial Day in April 2025. His parents, Sarah and Ehud, are seated to the left and to the right. (Courtesy of Ayelet HaShachar)

Torah scroll honoring soldier slain on Oct. 7 completed ahead of Memorial Day

By Rossella Tercatin

In this undated 1969 photo, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, left, is seen with Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, in Suez, Egypt. (AP Photo/ Farouk Ibrahim)

Egypt’s Nasser said in 1970 he had ‘no interest’ in Palestinian cause, recording reveals

By Lazar Berman and AFP

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Those we have lost

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

Those we have lost
Bar Shechter, 32: Supernova DJ believed in the power of music

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Chief Petty Officer Ofek Rousso, 21: Naval commando and musician

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Iván Illarramendi, 46, & Dafna Pamela Garcovich, 47: ID’d after a month

By Gabriel Toueg
Those we have lost
Noam Shallom, 25: Social media manager who urged ‘self love’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Stav Barazani, 22: Slain partygoer ‘was a really happy girl’

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

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Yuval Ben Yakov, 21: Armored Corps soldier jumped into battle

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Angelyn Aguirre, 32: Newlywed Filipina caregiver wouldn’t leave patient

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Ana Mishaiv, 64: Beloved grandmother with a ‘beautiful smile’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Sgt. Ido Binenstock, 19: Died on battlefield trying to save friends

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Elad Katzir, 47: Kibbutz farmer was the ultimate ‘cool uncle’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Oron Beilin, 24: Future engineering student who loved basketball

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Lt. Yohai Dukhan, 26: Former yeshiva student fell in battle

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Staff Sgt. Rose Lubin, 21: Fought Hamas in south, fell in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Maayan Idan, 18: Volleyball player had just celebrated birthday

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Oren Stern, 49: Surfer and doting uncle was ‘the salt of the earth’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Sofia Bongart, 21: Beloved sister attended rave with bestie

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Cpt. Nitay Amar, 22: Combat engineer ‘fought until the last moment’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Shay Muzaffi, 37: Electrician and dad of 2 loved extreme sports

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Maya Haim, 22: Had tickets to fly to South America

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

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

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: Matan Angrest, turned 21 while held hostage in Gaza

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: Matan Zangauker ‘is a survivor’

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: Edan Alexander, told mother he was safe

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: Avinatan Or, planning to move in with girlfriend

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

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

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: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

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: Tamir Nimrodi, walked by gunmen to base gate

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: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

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

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Laughable politics
Jewish far-right TV host in France rules out possible presidential run

By Stuart Williams
Location scouting
Quentin Tarantino buys $13.8 million property in Tel Aviv

By Zev Stub
Chai Chai Chai
AI to revive Ofra Haza, other deceased singers for Independence Day

By ToI Staff
Unity without politics
Families of ‘Beautiful 6’ murdered hostages organize evening of song

By Jessica Steinberg
Udder confusion
Could FDA changes cause observant US Jews to sour on uncertified milk?

By PHILISSA CRAMER
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

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