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People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Says probe aims to oust him, prevent firing of Shin Bet head

Netanyahu says his two aides are ‘held hostage’ in Qatargate ‘political witch hunt’

By Jeremy Sharon and Charlie Summers

Families of Gaza captives fume over word choice; PM questioned on his employment of Feldstein along with Urich’s ties to Doha; Premier: ‘After an hour, they ran out of questions’

People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 1: Day 543 – PM questioned on Qatargate; proof of biblical Armageddon?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jeremy Sharon and Rossella Tercatin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (L) and Navy chief Eli Sharvit (R) arrive at a graduation ceremony for naval officers in Haifa Naval Base, on March 6, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

In swift U-turn, Netanyahu nixes nomination of Shin Bet head amid opposition from allies

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Just 24 hours after announcing pick, PM recants ‘after further thought,’ say he’ll interview other candidates; Gantz: Move shows ‘political pressure overrides good of the country’

Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman speaks at an event for Israeli reserve soldiers at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on May 8, 2016. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

April 1: Former IDF Southern Command chief Sami Turgeman said to be in running to lead Shin Bet

Ex-hostage Amit Soussana receives US State Department’s International Woman of Courage Award * Gazan clan executes alleged Hamas operative who killed one of their relatives

8:26 pm

Two Iranians charged with procuring US parts to build IRGC attack drones
8:24 pm

'You find yourself begging, and they enjoy it': Ex-hostage Eliya Cohen says captors intentionally starved him
8:05 pm

Trump's adviser on Arab and Mideast affairs also appointed senior adviser for Africa

A Jewish activist at an anti-Israel protest in Times Square, New York City, January 1, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Promoted PodcastJewish Crossroads

Why progressives failed the test of Oct 7 with Joshua Leifer

We delve into the struggles of being a progressive Jew in today’s polarized environment, the moral test of October 7, and why Joshua believes many progressive failed it.

Families attend an open day at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, close to the Gaza and Egyptian borders in southern Israel, on March 28, 2025. (Courtesy)

Kibbutz has two-thirds secular, one-third religious mix

Open day at religious-secular kibbutz on Gaza border draws 20 families wanting to join

Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, where members fought terrorists in deadly battles on October 7, is a ‘microcosm of Israeli society’ where decisions are reached by ‘listening to one another’

Illustrative: Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ahead of Passover, Israelis warned: Hamas, Iran may target travelers and Jews abroad

By Lazar Berman

Terrorists expected to ramp up attacks amid ‘deteriorating situation in Gaza,’ National Security Council says, as lone wolf terrorism inspired by global jihad said on the rise

Iranians carry an effigy of US President Donald Trump during gathering to mark the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in front of the Azadi Tower in Tehran on February 10, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

Khamenei aide: Iran will have ‘no choice’ but to acquire nukes if attacked

By Payam DOOST MOHAMADI

From left, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, meet with reporters after their meeting at Diaoyutai State Guest House on March 14, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia warns of ‘catastrophic’ consequences if Trump carries out threat to bomb Iran

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

Still trying to force Hamas into deal, IDF moves to drastically expand Gaza buffer zones

Mass evacuation orders in Rafah are first act in multi-week operation, as Israel gives terror group last chance to free 11 living hostages and gain truce before IDF retakes Strip

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the military on March 23, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinians carry their belongings while traveling from Beit Hanoun to Jabaliya, amid Israel's renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip, March 19, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF issues evacuation order for northern Gaza cities after rocket fired at Sderot

By Emanuel Fabian

Members of the Palestine Red Crescent and other emergency services carry bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip's Khan Younis, March 31, 2025. (Eyad Baba / AFP)

UN says 15 Gaza medics killed by IDF found in mass grave; IDF: We targeted terrorists

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Damaged apartment buildings are seen after being struck earlier by an Israeli attack in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

IDF says it killed Hezbollah operative posing ‘immediate threat’ in Beirut strike

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Israel identifies target as Hassan Bdair of Hezbollah and Iran’s Quds Force; Lebanese health ministry says 3 killed in 2nd Israeli strike on Lebanese capital since November truce

Israeli soldiers guard the Israeli border fence with Lebanon, northern Israel, March 22, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Comptroller says he warned of poor defenses on northern border months before Oct. 7

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

From right to left – Tel Aviv University Prof. Oded Lipschits, Noga, Ziv and Omer Nitzan, and Antiquities Authority archaeologist Semyon Gendler. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Scarab 'attests to the close ties between Canaan and Egypt'

Three-year-old girl finds Canaanite seal where Bible says David battled Goliath

By Rossella Tercatin

Ziv Nitzan was hiking with her family near Tel Azeka when she picked up a small stone that her sisters later realized was shaped like a scarab, revealing 3,800-year-old finding

Tharwat Issam Muhammad (center), Maysoun Ahmad Issa Hammad (right) and another resident of the Palestinian West Bank hamlet of Jinba speak about an alleged settler and IDF assault on the dwelling, March 30, 2025. (Jeremy Sharon / The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We shouted for the soldiers to intervene, but they didn’t'

‘There’s no justice’: Palestinian villagers reel after brutal settler, IDF rampage

By Jeremy Sharon

Residents of West Bank’s Jinba hamlet accuse IDF of standing by as settlers raided village; army says unit’s conduct violated ‘professional, ethical’ standards, disciplines officers

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (left) and Defense Minister Israel Katz (center) tour West Bank settlements alongside senior IDF officials, April 1, 2025. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Touring West Bank, Katz and Smotrich vow crackdown on illegal Palestinian construction

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

The border between Israel and Jordan on the Route 90 highway in the Jordan Valley, July 6, 2017. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90/ File)

Israel aims to begin building new $1.4b border barrier with Jordan within months

By Lazar Berman

Protesters demonstrate for a hostage deal, and against the government, near the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 31, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cop under investigation for sexually assaulting protester

12 arrested during Jerusalem protests for hostage deal and against government

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Some 2,000 gather in capital as Qatargate scandal escalates and Gaza fighting expands; video shows cops rough-handling Democrats MK Naama Lazimi; her party chief vows ‘justice’

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi addresses the Knesset plenum, March 31, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov / Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

In blitz, Knesset passes laws to rebuild the south, revoke benefits for terrorists

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting for his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich briefly resigns as minister in order to push rival party member out of Knesset

Pesach spending: 5 excuses that cost us more

The holiday of freedom includes financial freedom, and there are ways to keep expenses from spiraling out of control

The surveillance state comes to campus

Use of private-sector AI technology to reveal protesters’ identities amounts to a digital witch hunt to suppress dissent

Replica of the painting from the Chauvet cave, in the Anthropos museum, Brno. (Wikipedia)

Many societies regarded caves as gateways to the underworld

Paleolithic kids’ finger painting in underground caves may have had a lofty purpose

By Rossella Tercatin

New research from Tel Aviv University suggests prehistoric children were joint creators of European cave art, fulfilling a spiritual role for their communities

Anti-government protesters take part in a rally at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, March 29, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Judicial jitters and war angst prompt Israelis to shift funds overseas

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel fintech firm GMT reports 50% surge in the number of Israelis wanting to move money out of the country and into foreign banks for investments into global markets or property

A sign for Fitch Ratings, in New York, October 9, 2011. (Henny Ray Abrams/AP)

Fitch keeps Israel’s A credit rating, but warns renewed Gaza war may go on for months

By Sharon Wrobel

A student protester stands in front of the statue of John Harvard, the first major benefactor of Harvard College, draped in the Palestinian flag, at an encampment of students protesting against the war in Gaza, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Trump admin reviews $9 billion in Harvard funding amid campus antisemitism crackdown

School president acknowledges antisemitism problem, but says it’s being addressed and warns that cut would ‘halt life-saving research, imperil key scientific research and innovation’

Graduate student Momodou Taal speaks at an encampment at Cornell University campus in New York, after being suspended for disruptive behavior during anti-Israel protests, April 27, 2024. (YouTube screenshot / Cornell Daily Sun)

Oct. 7-supporting Cornell student slated for deportation says he’s leaving the US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Students applaud next to a Palestinian flag, as the 13 students who have been barred from graduating due to protest activities are recognized by a student address speaker, during commencement in Harvard Yard, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 23, 2024. (AP/Ben Curtis)

Harvard puts research partnership with Palestinian university in West Bank on pause

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Congregants praying at the Kadoorie – Mekor Haim synagogue in Porto, Portugal, May 2014. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Porto)

Why do US Jews leave Orthodoxy? A new study tries to map out the reasons

A survey of 29 formerly religious subjects by the Orthodox Union concludes synagogues and schools must adopt more inclusive mindsets while parents should provide clear support

A view of Nissi Beach and the sea in southeast resort of Ayia Napa, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, May 22, 2021. (AP/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus court acquits 5 Israelis accused of raping British tourist

Court says complainant’s account was inconsistent, contradicted witness testimony; orders men, from northern town of Majd al-Krum and held since September 2023, released from jail

Illustrative. The beach on Ko Samui, Thailand, August 21, 2017. (Nati Shohat/ FLASH90/ File)

Israeli said arrested in Thailand after Finnish tourist alleges sexual assault

Visitors view artist Ester Schneider's 'Hoshana,' at Bat Yam Museum of Art through June 15, 2025 (Courtesy)

Where art meets prayer

Artist calls for salvation in show at Bat Yam museum

By Jessica Steinberg

Ester Schneider salvages furniture legs and arms to create tabernacles and a sukkah in her solo exhibit, ‘Hoshana’

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Then-Republican presidential candidate, US President Donald Trump, right, greets David Friedman, who served as his ambassador to Israel, at the National Religious Broadcasters convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center on February 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Trump says former Israel envoy Friedman, 30 others interested in UN envoy vacancy

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 4, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)

Poll: Republicans voters overwhelmingly support Trump’s approach to Gaza war

By Marc Levy and Linley Sanders

Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi who was murdered in the UAE in November 2024. (Screenshot: @DUDIKEPLER via Reuters)

UAE confirms sentencing 3 to death, 1 to life in prison, over killing of Chabad rabbi

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Supporters of Yemen's Houthi rebels attend a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel gathering to mark International Quds (Jerusalem) Day commemorations in Sanaa, Yemen, March 28, 2025 (Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

Yemen’s Houthis claim they downed another American drone as US strikes pound country

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Students visit the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp site in Oświęcim, Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israeli high schoolers stranded at Turkey airport for over 12 hours

Illustrative: A youth crosses a street in Monsey, Rockland County, New York, on April 5, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/File)

Let my people driveNY State blocks car wash’s ‘discriminatory’ Passover scam

A beef vendor waits for customers at a local bazaar near a building damaged by the earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo)

Myanmar earthquake survivors without food and shelter as death toll passes 2,700

From top left clockwise: Florida head coach Todd Golden celebrates with his player after defeating Texas Tech on March 29, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP/Godofredo A. Vásquez); Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl celebrates after beating Michigan State, March 30, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP/George Walker IV); Duke head coach Jon Scheyer waves the net after Duke defeated Alabama on March 29, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP/Frank Franklin II); Emanuel Sharp shoots the ball against the Tennessee Volunteers on March 30, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images/AFP)

Court JewsThree Jewish coaches lead hoopsters to NCAA tourney’s Final Four

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