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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, held captive in Gaza since October 7, 2023, in a Hamas propaganda video released on April 24, 2024. He was killed by his captors in August 2024. (Screenshot: Telegram)

Four arrested as protests held against Netanyahu

‘Stay strong,’ parents urge Hersh Goldberg-Polin after Hamas airs propaganda clip

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, Jessica Steinberg and Michael Bachner

Israeli-American hostage, 23, with missing hand, seen fuming at government for failing to free abductees for 200 days, describing ‘hell’ in Gaza captivity

Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin, parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, issue a video statement pleading for a hostage deal and urging him to stay strong and survive, April 24, 2024. (Courtesy)

Father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin tells of tears, hope as he saw hostage son in Hamas video

File - Avigail Idan is reunited with her aunt Liron, uncle Zuli and grandparents Shlomit and Eitan at the Schneider children's hospital on November 27, 2023. (Schneider Medical Center)

Biden meets at White House with Avigail Idan, 4, who was held hostage by Hamas

Live updates (closed)

April 25: US troops start building Gaza pier, aiming to have it running by early May

IDF says it will secure pier * USC cancels main graduation ceremony amid escalating anti-Israel protests across the country * UN notes steps by Israel to boost aid deliveries

8:58 pm

Yemen's Houthis say they targeted container ship in Gulf of Aden
8:24 pm

Senior official says Israel weighing proposal for release of 33 hostages, not 20
8:15 pm

State Department Arabic spokesperson resigns in opposition to US policy on Gaza war

A masked protester near the Columbia University campus in New York City with a sign bearing a Star of David and the words 'Lie, Cheat, Steal, Kill,' April 24, 2024. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'They call it a de-occupation, but it's occupied territory'

As Columbia anti-Israel encampment endures, Jewish students horrified by ‘Judenrein’ campus

By Cathryn J. Prince

‘A hotbed for radical antisemitism’: Protesters have shouted ‘Kill all the Jews’ and ‘We want one Arab state’ as administration struggles with out of control demonstrators, outside agitators

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By ToI Staff and Agencies

Texas governor says protesters ‘belong in jail,’ White House upholds commitment to free speech, condemns ‘hateful rhetoric’; House speaker tells Columbia president to restore calm or quit

A sign is seen as pro-Palestinian protesters gather to demonstrate against Israel, in front of Sproul Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley, California, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

ExplainerAt heart of protests sweeping US universities is demand they divest from Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Students attend a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, on April 24, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr 25: Day 202 – Why US students must be schooled on protesters’ goals

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Is dialogue possible after Oct. 7? Alumni of an Israeli international school are embarking on a project that answers yes

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Skunk water and Jewish unity

At a protest after Hamas released a video of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Israelis clashed, conjuring the pre-Oct 7 era

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounces antisemitism in the United States in a video statement issued April 24, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu likens US campus encampments by ‘antisemitic mobs’ to 1930s Nazi Germany

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM claims anti-Israel protesters are also chanting ‘Death to America’; standoff at Columbia continues amid dueling claims about talks with management on taking down tents

Relatives of hostages held in Gaza Strip and supporters protest outside a war cabinet meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 25, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

'In event of a prospect for a [hostage] deal, we will stop'

War cabinet discusses Rafah op, amid reported new initiative on hostage talks

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Hostage families stage demonstration outside military headquarters; IDF repositions forces in the Strip as it awaits government approval for long-expected offensive

A makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 4, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

IDF ready to move into Gaza’s Rafah, awaiting government okay, says senior official

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinian health workers dig for bodies buried at Nasser Hospital compound in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024. (AFP)

White House demands ‘answers’ from Israel after Gaza hospital mass grave claims

By Agencies and ToI Staff

FILE: Hamas's Khalil al-Hayya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Reiterates no hostage releases without permanent ceasefire

Hamas official who sought endless war after Oct. 7 says it could put down arms for 2-state deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Khalil al-Hayya’s comments to AP appear to contradict official policy of destroying Jewish state, but in separate interview he indicates eased stance would be temporary

Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Hamas terror group, greets supporters as he arrives at a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Sinwar briefly emerged from hiding in Gaza, met with fighters, Hamas source claims

President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion aid package that includes support for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden signs aid package with $17B for Israel, $1B extra humanitarian aid for Gazans

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This means ‘Iran can never carry out the destruction it intended 10 days ago,’ says president; vows to ‘surge’ aid ‘to the innocent people of Gaza’; $95B bill helps Ukraine, Taiwan

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich to PM: Bring down PA, annex West Bank, if it keeps seeking UN state, war arrests

Far-right finance minister vows to halt tax transfers to Palestinian Authority if it wins unilateral statehood or ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, soldiers for war in Gaza

Israeli settlers and their children in front of a caravan in the then-illegal West Bank outpost of Avigayil in the Hebron Hills, May 25, 2009. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US calls Smotrich’s reported push to legalize outposts ‘dangerous and reckless’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A shipment of tactical boots purchased using donated funds for Israeli soldiers arrives at Israel’s international airport. (Courtesy via JTA)

'If you send your boys to war, then equip them adequately'

Six months into war, Israeli soldiers still count on donations for basic supplies. Why?

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Immediately after Oct. 7, charity at home and abroad aided troops who were mobilized more quickly and in higher numbers than ever before. Many wonder why that help is still needed

Thousands at Western Wall for priestly blessing, with prayers for hostages’ return

By Charlie Summers

Some 30,000 worshipers attend semi-annual ceremony as organizers add special text for the release of those in Hamas captivity

American Jewish camp directors at a Jewish Agency for Israel seminar. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

'We don't want to, and will not, put the war totally aside'

How US Jewish summer camps are preparing to welcome Israeli staff — many fresh from war

By jacob gurvis

An estimated 1,500 emissaries will arrive at the idyllic summertime enclaves after over 6 months of wartime trauma, as plans are made for addressing tough topics with campers

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Illustrative: Houthi supporters attend a rally against the United States and Israel and in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Ship attacked off coast of Yemen as Houthi rebel campaign appears reinvigorated

By AP and ToI Staff

Emergency personnel extinguish a fire at the site of strikes that hit a building next to the Iranian embassy in Syria's capital Damascus, April 1, 2024. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Iran said to cut Syria presence after strikes blamed on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Enjoying the beach in Tel Aviv, during a heatwave, on April 24, 2024. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in April

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Nvidia building in Israel. (Nvidia)

US chip giant Nvidia snaps up Israeli AI workload management startup

By Sharon Wrobel

Live fire testing at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexic,o of early versions of the Army Tactical Missile System, on December 14, 2021. (John Hamilton/U.S. Army via AP)

Ukraine using secretly provided long-range US missiles, official say

By Lolita C. Baldor and TARA COPP

File: Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi in the music video for his protest song 'Mouse Hole,' uploaded to YouTube on July 28, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube/Toomaj Salehi, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran’s judiciary confirms dissident rapper sentenced to death for role in protests

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