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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 6, 2025

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Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, on March 31, 2025. (AP/ Abdel Kareem Hana)

Army says 6 medics identified posthumously as Hamas men

IDF shares initial details from Gaza ambulance probe, says troops told UN of burial site

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says it’s looking into discrepancy between soldiers’ account and video from medic’s phone, but asserts forces didn’t try to hide incident, denies any executions took place

Bodies of Palestinian first responders who were killed March 23, 2025, in Israeli military fire on ambulances lie at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 30, 2025. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 6: Day 548 – IDF claims 6 Gaza medics buried in shallow grave were Hamas

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his wife Sara prepare to board a plane in Budapest on their way to Washington DC on April 6, 2025 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Praising Hungary’s support in global forums, Netanyahu heads to DC for talks with Trump

By Lazar Berman

PM says he’ll discuss tariffs, Gaza war, hostages at White House on Monday; doesn’t mention thwarting iran nuclear program; hails Orban for backing Israel in EU, UN, ‘corrupt’ ICC

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court for testimony in his criminal trial, April 2, 2025 (Yair Sagi/Pool)

Court cancels PM testimony date due to upcoming meeting with Trump on tariffs, hostages

By Jeremy Sharon

US said to transfer 2nd THAAD missile battery to Israel as Iran nuclear tensions rise

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Deployment of defense system comes as PM set to meet Trump in DC; Iran says direct talks with US would be ‘meaningless’ if Washington continues threatening to attack

The US military deploys a THAAD missile defense system in Israel, March 2019. (US Army Europe/File)

Rabbi Shneor Segal speaks at a conference on Jewish heritage at the Azerbaijan University of Languages, August 30, 2023. (Screenshot/Dahan Center via YouTube/Peleg Levy)

Iran enlisted drug trafficker in failed plot to kill Azerbaijan rabbi — report

A Yemeni girl visits the graves of Houthis during Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Sanaa, Yemen, March 30, 2025. (Osamah Abdulrahman/AP)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels say US strikes kill 2; Trump bombing video suggests many more

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Workers prepare matzah for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover at the 'Yehuda Matzos' plant in Jerusalem on March 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Promoted CampaignMeir Panim

This is a true Passover story of redemption.

From food packages to warm meals and community support, Meir Panim is lifting families out of crisis and restoring dignity across Israel—one act of kindness at a time.

Outrage over tape of Shin Bet officer saying settler ‘shmucks’ held without evidence

Prime Minister’s Office vows thorough investigation after head of security agency’s Jewish Division heard telling regional police commander how administrative detention is applied

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

An armed settler seen in the West Bank village of Tuba, April 5, 2025. (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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

Khalid Ahmad holds a poster of his 17-year-old son, Waleed, who died in an Israeli prison, that reads in Arabic, 'The hero prisoner Martyr, mercy and eternity for our righteous Martyrs,' in the West Bank town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah March 26, 2025. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Doctor says Palestinian teen who died in Israeli prison showed starvation signs

By AP and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) meets in Abu Dhabi with his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan on April 6, 2025. (Foreign Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

April 6: Sa’ar meets Emirati counterpart in Abu Dhabi to discuss Gaza ceasefire efforts

Ahead of Netanyahu-Trump meeting, experts warn of $2.3 billion hit from US tariffs * Netanyahu heads to tariff talks with US commerce secretary after landing in Washington

9:10 pm

Netanyahu lands in DC, heads for meeting with Commerce Secretary Lutnick
8:59 pm

UAE says talks between Sa'ar and Emirati FM focus on Gaza ceasefire efforts
8:51 pm

New Syrian leader to visit Turkey and UAE next week

L: Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90), R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu, government say petitions against firing of Shin Bet chief ‘nonsense’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

‘The court is not the forum to determine who heads the Shin Bet,’ writes government council to High Court, says petitions ‘attempt to expropriate’ elected authority from government

(L) Justice Minister Yariv Levin, on May 21, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90), and (R) Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, on May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Justice minister urges boycott of Shin Bet chief if High Court nullifies his firing

A handout photo shows freed captive Omer Wenkert addressing a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

'I was starved, humiliated, beaten. I almost lost my mind'

‘See the tears in our eyes’: Ex-captive Wenkert urges cabinet to invite him to meeting

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

At weekly rallies, freed hostages demand return to deal; Liri Albag ahead of Passover, the festival of freedom: ‘What kind of freedom is it when 59 people are still in Hamas hell?’

Hostages Maxim Herkin (left) and Bar Kuperstein. (Courtesy)

Hamas hostage video shows Maxim Herkin and Bar Kuperstein, in first signs of life

PM doesn’t know what’s going on in his office, says JPost editor questioned over Qatargate

Zvika Klein says he really hopes his friend Jonatan Urich, a prime suspect, was not involved in any wrongdoing; tears-up as he describes being kept from kids, with wife abroad

Jerusalem Post Editor Zvika Klein on Channel 12 news, April 5, 2025 (Channel 12 Screenshot)

From left: Jonatan Urich, Eli Feldstein, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Composite: Flash90)

Second businessman questioned in Qatargate probe identified as David Saig

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

UK Labour MPs Yuan Yang (left) and Abtisam Mohamed. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Anti-Israel UK Labour MPs barred from entering Israel after airport interrogations

Government says Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang planned to ‘document Israeli security forces and spread hateful rhetoric’; British FM Lammy calls deportation ‘unacceptable’

Undated photo of Eva Illouz, professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Israel Prize stripped from winner over war crimes petition won’t go to anyone else

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israel tariffs wreck the US trade model – and Netanyahu’s economic legacy

The economic model Netanyahu championed is now being dismantled by the very man he helped normalize and legitimize on the world stage

On climate, Israel is at a critical crossroads

Without taking action on urgent issues such as carbon tax and green building standards, Israel’s long-term prosperity is under threat

Men dressed in military fatigues stand next to the coffins of Hezbollah official Hassan Bdeir (R) and his son Ali (L) who were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted their apartment the previous day, ahead of their funeral procession in Beirut's southern suburbs on April 2, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

IDF targets 2 Hezbollah operatives ‘rebuilding terror infrastructure’ in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Trump envoy Morgan Ortagus, in Beirut, discusses disarming Hezbollah; chief of staff says Israel ‘showing initiative and offensive action’

Demonstrators hold up signs during a "Hands Off!" protest against US President Donald Trump at the Washington Monument in Washington, April 5, 2025. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

‘Hands off!’: Tens of thousands of angry protesters across US assail Trump and Musk

In biggest rallies since president’s return to office, demonstrators decry administration’s policies on economy, immigration, social security, LGBTQ rights and more

US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he boards Air Force One before departing Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida on April 3, 2025. Trump is travelling to his Mar-a-Lago Resort. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Trump tells Americans to ‘hang tough’ as markets crash, warns trade war ‘won’t be easy’

By AFP

Artist Sofie Berzon Mackie at her new temporary home in Kibbutz Hatzerim, March 2025, after being evacuated from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023 and living in a Dead Sea hotel for months with her partner and three children (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Be’eri artist and gallery director finds clarity in temporary home, art and family

By Jessica Steinberg

Sofie Berzon Mackie fled her kibbutz on Oct. 7 as terrorists torched the community’s art space. She spent months living in a hotel room and hopes to find answers as she plans for the future

Jews attend a rally in support of detained anti-Israel Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. Several Jews later left the rally after speakers began denouncing Israel. (Courtesy of Ron Newman via JTA)

'Demonstrations have been co-opted by anti-Israel activists'

Jews at Tufts oppose ICE seizure of anti-Israel grad student, but are wary of protests

By Andrew Lapin

While condemning the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk amid free speech concerns surrounding Trump crackdown, Jewish advocates feel isolated by the tenor of demonstrations on her behalf

Dara Horn's latest book is a graphic novel featuring a time-traveling talking goat. (Norton Young Readers via JTA)

Interview

Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

The author of bestseller ‘People Love Dead Jews’ takes readers to the seder tables of historically iconic Jews such as Sigmund Freud in ‘One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe’

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A suspect arrested in connection with a gunfight between rival criminal gangs on the streets of Afula, April 4, 2025. (Israel Police).

Police arrest 6 over gangland shootout in Afula that some mistook for terror assault

By Charlie Summers

Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl walks to practice during media day at the Final Four of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson )

Coaching with chutzpahBruce Pearl a vocal leader of trio of Jewish coaches at Final Four

Val Kilmer in 'Top Secret!' (Screenshot)

Val vibes‘That’s Simchas Torah’: Kilmer’s Jewish moment you might have missed

By Grace Gilson

Noah Wyle in HBO's 'The Pitt.' (Warrick Page/MAX via JTA)

Hear O TV audienceNoah Wyle, star of HBO’s ‘The Pitt,’ recites Shema on screen

By Grace Gilson

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