Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Sunday, April 9, 2017

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

A general view shows forensics collecting evidence at the site of a bomb blast which struck worshipers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday at the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, Egypt on April 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

At least 37 killed in onslaught on Egyptian Copts on Palm Sunday

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Over two dozen killed in a church attack near Cairo; then bomb hits Alexandria’s St. Mark’s Church, where Coptic pope was conducting mass, killing 11

Islamic State claims bloody Egypt church bombings

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At least 26 killed in attack on church in Egypt, 71 injured

By Hamza Hendawi

Egyptians recount sexual harassment, angering conservatives

Egyptians wheel away a body near a church in Alexandria after a bomb blast struck worshippers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday on April 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

Live updates (closed)

Security Council decries Egypt church bombings as ‘cowardly’

By Tamar Pileggi

At least 43 killed in IS-claimed Palm Sunday targeting Coptic Christians; Iran’s Khamenei says US made a ‘strategic mistake’ carrying out Syria strike

A Palestinian boy waits to fill plastic gallons with drinking water from a vendor in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, April 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel warns of snowballing humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Army says 96% of water in Hamas-ruled territory is undrinkable, urgent funding needed to build desalination plants

Palestinians, employed by the Palestinian Authority, chant slogans and wave placards during a demonstration against the decision to reduce their salaries in Gaza City on April 8, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

UN Mideast envoy urges Palestinian unity amid Gaza pay cut protests

Fragment of a stone finger from what archaeologists suspect may have been an Egyptian statue, found in the fill removed from the Temple Mount. (Temple Mount Sifting Project)

As they bid for survival, archaeologists point to ‘Egyptian’ finger from Temple Mount

By Ilan Ben Zion

Inch-and-a-half-long stone fragment may be from Late Bronze Age Egypt, Temple Mount Sifting Project says, but research and funding needed to ascertain it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on April 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Abir Sultan)

Netanyahu doubles down on support for ‘moral’ US strike on Syria

By Stuart Winer

PM says Israel fully backs missile attacks, which show there is a price to pay for use of chemical weapons; vows to keep helping wounded Syrians

Iranian president calls Assad, affirms support

By AFP

After US strike, Assad allies vow to keep battling ‘terrorism’

By AFP

Protesting US airstrikes, Syrians chant ‘Death to Israel’

By AP and ToI Staff

President Donald Trump's grandchildren Arabella Kushner (back to camera) and her brother Joseph perform in Mandarin in honor of President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan's official visit to the US, April 8, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Jasmine flower

Ivanka’s daughter serenades China’s leader in Mandarin

Trump’s, 5-year-old granddaughter Arabella, accompanied by brother Joseph, 3, perform for visiting Premier Xi Jinping

Israelis and workers of the new broadcasting corporation protest against the intention to dismantle the news department of the new entity and rehabilitate the existing Israel Broadcasting Authority, in Tel Aviv on April 1, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis

Do public funds put the arts in the state’s pocket?

By Marissa Newman

The saga over Israel’s new broadcasting corporation underlines a divisive uncertainty over whether the government can demand obeisance in exchange for a budget

A bum rap for Obama on Syria

There’s a reason — in fact, several — why last week’s deadly chemical attack happened on Trump’s watch

Rachel Anisfeld

Awakening through questions

Passover is not a holiday to be smart, but a time to be alive and real and engaged — and asking makes it happen

Who knows one trillion?

Do the math, and you’ll notice far more should have left Egypt than the touted 600,000, so what befell the hordes?

Emily B. Landau

America’s strike wasn’t about Syria

The US sent a deterrent message to dangerous regimes — WMD will not be tolerated — but policing them will be a challenge

Two days after a man drove a truck into crowds, people gather at a makeshift memorial near the point where the vehicle crashed into a department store, in Stockholm, Sweden, April 9, 2017. (AFP/Jonathan NACKSTRAND)

Stockholm truck attacker was a rejected asylum-seeker

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Suspect was interested in Islamic State group; police identify victims as two Swedes, one Briton and a Belgian

A man lights a candle at a fence near the department store Ahlens, Saturday, April 8, 2017, following Friday's suspected terror attack in central Stockholm, Sweden. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Truck attack angers Swedes, raises questions about immigration

By MATTI HUUHTANEN

After apparent Islamist terror attack, many in the traditionally liberal nation wonder if their open-door policy was ‘too good-hearted’

A man watches the news showing file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea on February 12, 2017.
(Jung Yeon-Je/AFP)

US intel chiefs said to tell Trump he might consider killing Kim Jong-un

By ToI Staff and AFP

In grappling with N. Korea, National Security Council also reportedly weighs deploying nuclear weapons in S. Korea, or sabotaging nuclear infrastructure

Priests recite biblical priestly blessing following the demonstration Passover sacrifice, Jerusalem, April 6, 2017 (Alexander Fulbright/Times of Israel)

Police arrest activists planning Temple Mount sacrifice

‘Israel is losing its democratic character,’ lawyer charges; detentions come after police allowed rehearsal slaughter on Thursday

Sebastian Gorka, left, a top aide to US President Donald Trump, seen in on inauguration day wearing the uniform and medal of Vitézi Rend, a Hungarian order of merit with ties to Nazi Germany (Fox News)

Nazi-linked group ‘proud’ of Trump adviser for wearing medal

By Stuart Winer

NBC News looks into anti-terror analyst Sebastian Gorka’s alleged membership in Hungarian Vitezi Rend organization

Had Gadya dominoes from the design team at Dov Abramson Studio, another kind of Passover inspiration (Courtesy Dov Abramson Studio)

No plagues here: 10 ways to celebrate Passover all week long

By Jessica Steinberg

Conservative politician Jair Bolsonaro is a deeply divisive figure in Brazil’s Jewish circles. (Udo Kurt via JTA)

It’s Jew vs. Jew as a conservative politician’s popularity rises in Rio

By Marcus M. Gilban

A picture of Sivan Lavi released by police on April 8, 2017. (Israel Police)

Body found in Tel Aviv; police suspect it’s missing woman

Sivan Lavi went missing after her son died last week

Jewish Voice for Peace members at the Jewish United Fund of Chicago protesting donor-advised funds from JUF going to groups that have been deemed Islamophobic, March 24, 2017. (Inbal Palombo)

When politics gets in the way of Jewish giving

More Headlines

Some of the orphaned bar mitzvah boys being danced to the Western Wall for the Colel Chabad celebration (Courtesy Israel Bardugo)

Coming of age at the KotelChabad holds Western Wall bar mitzvah for 115 orphans

By Jessica Steinberg

An image from a Palestinian TV show that aired on April 1, 2017 that urged men who 'had to' beat their wives, to do sp in accordance with the Quran. (screen capture: YouTube)

Incitement to violence Palestinian TV issues Quranic guidelines for wife-beating

Adolf Hitler with Hermann Göring on the balcony of the Chancellery in Berlin, 16 March 1938. (Wikipedia)

LebensraumHitler had a Jewish landlord, historian claims

By AP

Damas Pakada, an Ethiopian-born IDF soldier who was assaulted by police in Holon on Sunday, April 27, 2015 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Ethiopian-Israeli soldier beaten by cop seeks to block plea deal

British-Israeli businessman Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz in Jerusalem. (Flash90)

British-Israeli billionaire testifies to police in PM gifts affair

SkyOne drone models; the drones can recharge themselves (Courtesy)

Israeli ex-fighter pilot creates drone for oil rigs

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP)

Hebrew media reviewAnd the rockets’ red glare

By Ilan Ben Zion

View Edition by Date

March	April 2017					May
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.