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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 5, 2025

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US President Donald Trump (left) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House on February 4, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu to meet Trump in DC on Monday, will discuss tariffs, hostages, Iran, Turkey, ICC

By ToI Staff, Reuters and Jacob Magid

White House visit will make PM first foreign leader to negotiate in person with Trump on new trade policy; judges cancel PM’s Monday trial hearing, but not Wednesday’s

Emergency vehicles can be seen marked and with activated emergency lights in a video published by the Palestinian Red Crescent on April 5, 2025, and reportedly recorded by a Gazan medic minutes before he and 14 colleagues were allegedly killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza on March 23, 2025. (Screen capture/Palestinian Red Crescent)

Video appears to show Gaza ambulances had emergency lights on when IDF fired on them

Army vows ‘thorough’ probe after video contradicts its account; footage published by New York Times was reportedly discovered on phone of one of 15 medics said found in mass grave

Shiri Bibas (left) and her sons Ariel, 4, (top-right) and baby Kfir, who were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 and murdered in captivity. (Courtesy/Foreign Ministry)

IDF says it killed terrorist who led Bibas abduction, was likely involved in their murders

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military says it also killed Hamas propagandist who was involved in hostage videos and official who funneled cash to terror group’s military wing; MSF: Worker killed in Gaza airstrike

Hostage Tal Shoham, surrounded by armed fighters, stands on a stage in Rafah as he is released by the Hamas terror group in Rafah on February 22, 2025. (Screen grab/YouTube)

Ex-hostage Tal Shoham describes captivity to UN: ‘Sadistic guards tortured us daily’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Donald Trump (R) participate in a news conference in the East Room of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

April 5: Hostages, Iran nuclear threat said to be high on agenda for PM’s sudden DC trip

Freed captives slam renewed fighting in Gaza, demand return to hostage-ceasefire deal * IDF acknowledges incorrectly claiming that Gaza ambulances didn’t have emergency lights on

8:47 pm

UK anti-Israel Labour MPs barred from entering Israel after airport interrogations
8:39 pm

Levin calls for government to boycott Shin Bet chief if High Court invalidates firing
8:27 pm

Settlers raid Palestinian village in southern West Bank, leave before cops arrive

Images of those held captive in Gaza are displayed at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, on March 31, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Hamas says it won’t move hostages to safety, Israel responsible for their lives

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF chief meets with worried families, assures them fighting will bring home captives; Jon Polin in message to PM: Enough with the paranoid TikTok videos, bring back the hostages

Anti-government protesters demand the release of Hamas-held captives, outside an event at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 3, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands rally for hostages as Hamas warns it won’t move them to safety when IDF advances

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Bar: 'Personal loyalty' expected; PM's office: 'Full of lies'

Shin Bet chief says PM urged him to tell trial judges it wasn’t safe for him to testify

In letter to court ahead of hearing on his firing, Bar says he fears for Shin Bet’s future, hints he was asked to act against protesting Israelis; AG: PM showing conflict of interest with dismissal amid Qatar probe

‘You made me a scapegoat!’: Feldstein yells at Urich during joint probe of PM’s aides

Qatargate face-off said to almost develop into brawl; report says police have messages tying 3rd Netanyahu aide to scandal; polls show most Israelis don’t believe PM’s claims about case

Eli Feldstein (left,) a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich speaks at a Central Elections Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

(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)

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

Qatargate lays bare Israel’s gamble on Hamas rule

This isn’t just about media manipulation or shady payments, it’s about a broken strategy that favored Palestinian division over resolution

Benjamin Resnick

This year shows us why rabbit hunts are pictured in Passover haggadahs

The pictures reflect YaKNeHaZ, a mnemonic for Saturday night seders. They also recap a painful Jewish history

Mamagama band members, from left, Arif Imanov, Asaf Mishiyev and Hasan Heydar (Tato Panahi)

Interview'This is a music contest and not a political debate'

Azerbaijan is sending a Jewish singer to Eurovision with a message of ‘peace and love’

Asaf Mishiyev, the lead singer of Mamagama, says he never faces antisemitism in Baku, and offers support to Israel’s Yuval Raphael: ‘We’re proud of her and we hope she will shine’

‘Senior Israeli official’ claims multiple countries interested in taking in Gazans

By Lazar Berman

Briefing reporters with Netanyahu in Hungary, official defends renewed Gaza campaign, says Israel can’t end war in exchange for hostages because Hamas wants irrevocable Security Council guarantee

Displaced Palestinians flee from Shijaiyah, Gaza, on Thursday, April 3, 2025, after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the area. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli said to bombard 3 airbases in Syria where Turkey intended to deploy forces

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Syrian source: T-4 airfield ‘totally unusable now’; Ankara says not seeking conflict with Israel amid planned defense pact with Damascus; Israel: We don’t want Turkey on our borders

Debris lies on the ground at the scene of an Israeli strike in a military facility in Syria's southern Hama governorate, on April 3, 2025. (Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP)

A screenshot of video released by US President Donald Trump on April 4, 2025, purporting to show an American strike on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. (X screenshot)

IDF downs Houthi drone; Trump shares video of purported US strike on the rebels

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

L: US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in Washington, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite); R: US Sen. Bernie Moreno in Washington, January 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

GOP senator calls Schumer ‘Fuhrer’; minority leader’s office: ‘Textbook antisemitism’

By Grace Gilson

Bernie Moreno says Democrats ‘follow the Fuhrer Schumer’s orders’; Anti-Defamation League calls comment ‘despicable’

Gisele Barreto Fetterman, left, and her husband, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, pictured in 2023. (Patricia Schlein/Star Max/GC Images)

Charity run by wife of pro-Israel US senator defaced with ‘genocide’ slogan

Illustrative: A pro-Israel counter-protester at an anti-Israel demonstration in Times Square, New York City, January 1, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC education department investigating after office sends out antisemitic toolkit

UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese holds a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 5, 2025. (James Brooks / AFP)

Israeli envoy: Decision a 'disgrace, moral stain' on UN

Anti-Israel UN investigator keeps her job despite push for removal by US, EU lawmakers

Francesca Albanese, Human Rights Council official with a history of antisemitism, can remain in office until 2028 after complaints against her are dismissed

A meeting of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 2, 2022. (Denis Balibouse/Pool via AP)

Despite withdrawing, US still managing to influence UN Human Rights Council

A Jewish student watches a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest at Columbia University campus on November 14, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP)

ADL upgrades 19 US colleges’ antisemitism ‘grades,’ as some enact new policies

By Andrew Lapin

Tessa Veksler, an interviewee in the documentary 'October 8,' in an undated photo. (Briarcliff Entertainment)

Five new documentaries shed light on the post-October 7 American experience

By Grace Gilson

Films include interviews with victims of the Hamas onslaught, features on college encampments and antisemitism, and Israeli comedian Guri Alfi’s latest journey to US

Jerry Greenfield (left) and Ben Cohen, founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. (Ted Dully/The Boston Globe via Getty Images via JTA)

Ben & Jerry’s founder said looking to buy back company from Unilever amid Israel spat

By Grace Gilson

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian during the annual address to the nation for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in Tehran on March 20, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran’s president says country wants dialogue ‘on equal footing’ with US

By AFP and AP

As tensions over nuclear program rise, Masoud Pezeshkian says, ‘If you want negotiations, then what is the point of threatening?’

A man walks past a currency exchange shop in the Grand Bazaar in Tehran on March 3, 2025. (Atta KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s currency falls to record low against dollar amid spiraling tensions with US

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Stuart Eizenstat poses for a photograph during an International Conference on Welfare for Holocaust Survivors in Prague, Czech Republic, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Interview

Jewish Camp David broker chronicles 50 years of world-changing negotiations

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘The Art of Diplomacy,’ longtime US negotiator Stuart Eizenstat draws on interviews with 130 global players to highlight the most important agreements of the last half-century

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, right, meets with US deputy special envoy for Middle East peace Morgan Ortagus, center, and US Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa A. Johnson at the presidential palace in Baabda, in east of Beirut, Lebanon, April 5, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP)

Trump aide meets Lebanon’s president in Beirut amid efforts to disarm Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lebanese officials describe talks with US deputy Mideast envoy Ortagus as ‘positive’ and ‘constructive,’ say meetings focused on southern Lebanon, implementation of ceasefire

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Police at the scene where a man allegedly murdered his wife and then killed himself in Jerusalem, April 4, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Murder-suicide suspected after boy hears gunfire, finds parents dead in Jerusalem home

Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Sabo, 43, Director of Jewish Life at the Akiba Yavneh Academy in Dallas, Texas, was arrested by Dallas police on April 1, 2025, on felony charges of indeceny with a minor. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli-born rabbi at Dallas Jewish school arrested for molesting a student

Handout picture released by Colombian Air Force showing Kfir combat airplane from the Colombian Air Force and a F15 jet (L) of the US Air Force during a military exercise in Puerto Salgar, Colombia, on September 8, 2023. (Handout / Colombian Air Force / AFP)

Colombia, which cut ties with Israel, to replace aging Israeli fighter jets with Swedish

By AP and ToI Staff

Some of Starship Bagel's award-winning fare. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Hole in oneTexas bakery is first bagel shop to be named James Beard Award finalist

By Grace Gilson

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