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What Matters Most On Friday, April 4, 2025

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(L) Jonatan Urich, adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv on October 3, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File) and (R) Eli Feldstein arrive for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on March 11, 2025. (Yehoshua Yosef/ Flash90)

Levin lauds 'integrity' of judge who initially sent pair home

Qatargate: Judge says PM’s aide Urich stays in detention, Feldstein released to house arrest

Ruling comes after police appealed decision made by different judge, who assailed cops for asking pair about separate leak case; Urich’s attorney claims officers told him to ‘shut up’ when he complained of chest pain

Demonstrators mock Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was questioned that day in the investigation into his aides' ties to Qatar, and allude to his years-long policy of facilitating Qatari payments to Hamas-run Gaza; Jerusalem, March 31, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Qatar denies paying to spread media narrative undermining Egypt’s role in hostage talks

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Jerusalem Post Editor Zvika Klein (via X)

Freed Jerusalem Post editor decries arrest, says he got ‘no benefits’ from Qatar trip

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are greeted by a military honor guard on April 3, 2025 in Budapest, Hungary. (Avi Ohayon / GPO)

Netanyahu, in Budapest, lauds Orban’s withdrawal from ‘corrupt, rotten’ ICC

By Lazar Berman

Hungarian and Israeli leaders speak with President Trump about move; Budapest rolls out red carpet for PM as Orban backs Jerusalem’s right to self-defense against Hamas

Illustrative; An Israeli flag is raised on the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, with the Buda Castle in Budapest in the background on April 2, 2025, as preparations are under way for the visit of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 4: Day 546 – Israeli flags fly in Budapest for PM’s ICC-snubbing visit

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan at the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais Royal in Paris on February 7, 2024. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP)

ICC prosecutor facing accusations of retaliation over sexual misconduct claim

Ariel Bibas and the butterfly named after him. (avstraliavasin via iStock/Courtesy)

Fitting memorial

Butterfly renamed in honor of murdered hostage Ariel Bibas

By Michael Horovitz

Orange Jerusalem renamed Orange Ariel, evoking an alternate biblical name for the capital and the vivid color of the slain 4-year-old’s hair

The cover of 'The Haggadah of Freedom' produced by the Hostages Forum for Passover 2025 with texts by hostage family members (Courtesy Hostages Forum)

Festival of freedomHostages’ families yearn and mourn in new Passover Haggadahs

By Jessica Steinberg

Promoted PodcastThe View from Mt Scopus

From Albert Einstein to Smart Greenhouses

From its start, Hebrew University has merged knowledge with impact. This episode explores how innovation in food and agriculture secures our future and helps fight climate change.

IDF troops operate in the northern Gaza Strip in a handout photo issued on April 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

April 4: IDF says it killed operative involved in funneling money to Hamas military wing

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Jon Polin in message to PM: Enough with the paranoid TikTok videos; bring back the hostages * Witkoff to meet with Dermer in Abu Dhabi early next week to discuss hostage deal

8:17 pm

Poll: Most Israelis don't believe Netanyahu's claim that he knew nothing about aides' ties to Qatar
7:13 pm

Trump pressures US fed chair to cut interest rates
7:11 pm

Trump tariffs likely to cause higher inflation, slower growth — US fed chair

UN set to continue term of rapporteur with history of antisemitism

Francesca Albanese, known for her regular attacks on the Jewish state, is scheduled to have her appointment extended Friday amid pushback from US, European officials

UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese speaks at a press conference during a session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, Switzerland, March 27, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

Judges for the International Court of Justice rise before delivering a non-binding ruling on Israeli rule in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the ICJ in The Hague on July 19, 2024. (Nick Gammon/AFP)

Nicaragua walks back request to join ICJ genocide case against Israel

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

IDF troops operate in the northern Gaza Strip in a handout photo issued on April 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF widens ground operation in northern Gaza, kills top Hamas official in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military says troops killed deputy Nukhba force commander, destroyed Hamas command post; Palestinian residents flee Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya neighborhood

Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee Gaza City's suburb of Shejaiya following an evacuation order issued by the Israeli military on April 3, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gazans flee expanding strikes in north, south as IDF says fighting entering ‘new stage’

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

After Israel fails to win reprieve from Trump’s tariffs, how hard will economy be hit?

New US policy set to threaten competitiveness of Israeli exports of machinery and medical equipment, experts say, while potential damage to tech industry is limited

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order after delivering remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled 'Make America Wealthy Again' at the White House in Washington, DC, April 2, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP/Seth Wenig)

US stocks lead global sell-off as Trump tariffs jolt markets

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Spanish UN peacekeepers patrol in the disputed Shebaa Farms area between Lebanon and Israel, overlooking the divided border village of Ghajar, February 24, 2015. (AP /Hussein Malla)

Reporter's NotebookA story of conflict, carnage, contention, and elusive calm

While Israel aims for land border deal with Lebanon, history weighs heavy

By Nava Freiberg

Shaped by colonial ambition, hardened by war and haunted by Hezbollah, Israel’s confounding northern frontier hangs between relentless violence and tightrope diplomacy

Lebanon’s new central bank chief vows to combat terror financing

By BASSEM MROUE

US President Donald Trump with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, in Washington, February 4, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Trump: Netanyahu will soon visit US; I’d like to free as many hostages as possible

After president says PM will likely arrive next week, aide clarifies trip won’t likely be for several weeks; Trump asserts Gaza ‘under siege’ and that Iran wants direct talks with US

Right to left: Houthi, Yemeni, Palestinian, Hezbollah, Iraq, Iraqi Hashed Shaabi paramilitary forces and the Islamic Repubilc of Iran flags are raised at a rally denouncing Israel and in solidarity with Palestinians, in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on January 3, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Report: Iran pulling forces out of Yemen amid intensive US airstrikes on Houthis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after a press statement at the Carmelite Monastery in the Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025. (AP/Denes Erdos)

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Netanyahu’s ‘bromances’ with anti-liberal democracies

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

ToI’s diplomatic reporter is now in Budapest with Israel’s prime minister. Before he packed his bags, he unpacked Israel’s relationship with Hungary

Shayna Goldberg

The stories we tell

Beyond the text of the Haggada, the seder gives us time to discuss the story of our people and the role we each want to play in it, as it continues to unfold

Moshe Simkovich

Redemption starts at home

No matter how important Jewish institutions are, the key practice of Judaism that best preserves it begins with people at home, conversing together

Palestinians react as Israeli settlers break into the West Bank village of Duma, where they set several houses on fire, on April 1, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Katz declines to call settler rampage through Palestinian village ‘terrorism’

Defense minister says perpetrators broke the law and must be dealt with, but rejects need for ‘draconian’ measure of administrative detention, which he ended for Jewish Israelis

US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, joined by Democratic Senators Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Peter Welch of Vermont, address a news conference on restricting arms sales to Israel at the US Capitol on November 19, 2024 in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

US Senate overwhelmingly votes down Sanders’ motions to block arms sales to Israel

IDF soldier Matan Angrest seen being kidnapped by Hamas from an IDF tank on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Footage shows soldier Matan Angrest being kidnapped on Oct. 7, interrogated in Gaza

By Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff

With loved ones’ consent, Channel 12 airs clips showing ‘lynching attempt’ of hostage; released surveillance troops, held near him in Gaza, share what they know about his condition

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

IDF okayed Nova music festival, but didn’t inform troops deployed at border, probe finds

Military made no changes to defenses, didn’t hold any assessment on massive outdoor party; 100 Hamas terrorists ended up there after making wrong turn en route to Netivot

Partygoers flee the Nova festival near the Gaza border community of Re'im as Hamas terrorists approached on October 7, 2023. (South First Responders)

IDF's probes into Oct. 7Troops fended off 1st wave of terrorists at Nirim, but IDF left kibbutz vulnerable

By Emanuel Fabian

Prof. Asaf Madi, left, Prof. Roded Sharan and PhD student Ron Sheinin of Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)

Israeli researchers develop AI tool to discover how cells react to drug treatment

By Diana Bletter

Tel Aviv University team’s scNET algorithm combines data on cells with protein ‘social network’ to cut ‘high noise’ and shed light on immune cell behavior

Inside story

Jewish children in UAE targeted by antisemitism amid Gaza war, say parents

The local community has flourished since the 2020 Abraham Accords, but incidents in schools spark fear for some parents, while others say they feel safer than elsewhere in the Diaspora

A general view of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue, at the Abrahamic Family House, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Pedestrians walk past a mural depicting dark and shadowy Israeli soldiers on the International Wall on the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 19, 2024. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

Antisemitism among Irish Christians at ‘Medieval’ levels, say researchers

New survey finds religious narratives play a ‘massive role’ in strong anti-Jewish and anti-Israel trends, with Catholics far less supportive of Israel than Protestants

More Headlines

Leader of The Democrats Yair Golan holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, on February 13, 2025 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu files defamation lawsuit against Democrats party chief

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators unfurl a banner on a lawn after an encampment protesting Israel over the Gaza war with Hamas was taken down at Brown University, April 30, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

US official: $510 million in grants for Brown to be frozen over campus antisemitism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Labor MK Gilad Kariv leads an Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor MK to be questioned on suspicion of leaking classified info from Knesset panel

A kiddush cup, dating to the 11th or 12th century, with an inscription bearing the name of its owner, Simcha son of Salman. (Courtesy of Sotheby's)

Here's to a long lifeKiddush cup dating back to reign of Ghengis Khan to go up for auction

By Grace Gilson

Hadera police station commander, Chief Superintendent Amit Pollak, seen after a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Wife of cop under probe arrested after saying she threw his phone into the sea

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

This photo provided by Helyeh Doutaghi shows Helyeh Doutaghi, a Yale Law School scholar. (Helyeh Doutaghi via AP)

Yale sacks legal scholar amid probe into ties to Palestinian terror fundraiser

By AP and ToI Staff

L: Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, March 24, 2025. (Pool via AP); R: US Vice President JD Vance speaks at the US military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, on March 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Vance says Elon Musk will continue as adviser even after leaving government role

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An image showing the display case in the US Naval Academy’s Jewish chapel before and after a visit by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, April 2025, with and without memorabilia from female Jewish graduates. (Military Religious Freedom Foundation)

US naval academy pulled exhibit for female Jewish graduates ahead of Hegseth visit

By Grace Gilson

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