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What Matters Most On Monday, April 7, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his wife Sara Netanyahu disembark from Wing of Zion on arrival in Washington DC on April 6, 2025 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Trump: We'll talk about trade, and about the obvious subject

Netanyahu arrives in DC for hastily arranged talks with Trump on tariffs, hostages and more

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

PM travels from airport to meeting with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; flight takes convoluted route to avoid airspace of countries that could enforce ICC arrest warrant

Families of IIsraelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza attend a protest calling for their release, outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, April 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Hostage protests at Netanyahu’s home and in DC mark year and a half since October 7

L to R: US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, March 19, 2025, outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein); US President Donald Trump, April 3, 2025, upon arriving in Miami, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to press in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025; Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dermer and Witkoff to join Netanyahu-Trump meetings in Washington

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Ashkelon, April 6, 2025. (Edi Israel/ Flash90)

IDF ordered to widen Gaza offensive

Hamas fires 10 rockets at southern Israel, injuring one, in largest attack in months

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Man lightly injured by shrapnel from hit in Ashkelon; IDF says only 5 rockets intercepted by air defenses; Netanyahu, en route to the US, instructs Katz to respond harshly

A Palestinian man stands on debris in a heavily damaged building following an overnight Israeli airstrike on Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 7, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 7: Day 549 – With PM in DC, Hamas official tells ToI it is ready to end war

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Israeli exports to US will take annual $2.3B hit under tariffs, industrial org warns

Urging Netanyahu to use all ‘diplomatic and economic measures’ to change 17% tariff, Manufacturers Association of Israel says between 18,000 and 26,000 Israelis could lose jobs

Illustrative: A worker in a factory near Afula, October 14, 2024 (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, April 7, 2025 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Global markets plunge amid growing panic after Trump doubles down on tariffs

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, April 6, 2025. (Luis M. Alvarez/AP)

Trump touts tariffs as ‘medicine’ needed to fix trade, as global markets stagger

By Adriana Gomez Licon and FATIMA HUSSEIN

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and former prime minister Naftali Bennett (right) attend the funeral of Rabbi Haim Drukman, at Merkaz Shapira, near Kiryat Malachi, on December 26, 2022. (Gil Cohen-Magen/ AFP)

Ex-Shin Bet chief: Netanyahu asked me to ‘disqualify’ Bennett from security cabinet

Yoram Cohen says PM claimed ‘loyalty issue’ with Bennett, who himself charges PM tried removing him over 2014 aim to ‘finish’ Hamas; PMO decries ‘fake news’; Cohen also files High Court declaration

Likud media adviser Jonatan Urich arrives at a conference organized by Makor Rishon and the Israeli Democracy Institute at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, November 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin/ File)

PM’s aide Urich released to house arrest; Herzog: Qatargate must be ‘deeply probed’

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

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Iran denies Trump's claim sides to hold direct nuclear talks, says Oman will mediate

Hostage soldiers’ families scold Katz: ‘You returned to fighting to get Ben Gvir back’

Yehuda Cohen accuses defense minister of surrendering to far-right coalition partners, Katz retorts: ‘But why do you care?’; Anat Angrest: Potential deals are leaving soldiers behind

Defense Minister Israel Katz seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Omri Miran (center) from Kibbutz Nir Oz, with his wife Lishay (left) and daughter Roni; Omri was taken captive by Hamas terrorists to Gaza on October 7, 2023 (Noa Sharvit/Courtesy)

‘His name is Omri Miran’: PM panned after failing to name Hungarian-Israeli hostage

By Nava Freiberg

People walk past a billboard showing a portrait of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (top) next to Palestine Square in Tehran on August 12, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Hamas leaders asked Iran for $500 million in 2021 to destroy Israel within 2 years

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense minister displays letter by Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Deif to leader of IRGC, who he says ‘accepted the request’; dozens of protesters in northern Gaza chant against Hamas

Families of observation soldiers who were killed by Hamas terrorists at the Nahal Oz post on October 7 speak to the press after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Parents of female Nahal Oz soldiers killed on Oct. 7 ask IDF to recognize their heroism

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh el-Sissi (R) and French President Emmanuel Macron (L) shake hands and sign bilateral agreements during meeting at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, on April 7, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/ AFP)

Hamas ‘must have no role’ in Gaza governance, says Macron in meeting with Sissi

By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

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‘Globalize the Mint-ifada’? The struggle for Ben & Jerry’s soul

Ben Cohen wants his company back to stop it from selling ice cream in the West Bank, but I cry foul on his selective social justice

Members of an Iraqi Shiite militant group attend the funeral of a fighter with the Kataeb Hezbollah terror militia who was killed in a US airstrike, in Baghdad, Iraq, January 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iran-backed Iraqi militias consider disarming amid threats from Trump administration

Iraqi politician: Talks ‘very advanced’; IRGC-linked factions may lay down arms to prevent targeting by US airstrikes, say Iran told them to take whatever decision they deem necessary

From 'Echoes of October' a graphic novel being published in July 2025 about four children affected by October 7 (Courtesy)

Co-author: Work is 'pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian, anti-Hamas'

New graphic novel focuses on fictional kids who lost fathers on October 7

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Echoes of October’ has 4 child narrators, from Tel Aviv, Gaza City, Toronto and Daliyat al-Karmel; each tells tragic story from onslaught; most creators choose to stay anonymous

Sudan's military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan center, is greeted by troops as he arrives at the Republican Palace, recently recaptured from the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, in Khartoum, Sudan, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)

Israel said worried as Abraham Accords partner Sudan grows closer to Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Source close to military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan say he wanted weapons from Israel to beat rival in civil war, but when they weren’t offered, turned to Tehran instead

Tens of thousands take part in a demonstration against renewed Israeli bombing in Gaza Strip in Rabat, Morocco, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo)

Morocco sees mass protests against Israel’s renewed Gaza offensive, Trump plan

By AP and ToI Staff

Settlements and National Missions Minister Orit Strock (second from right) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (third from left) attend a ceremony at the illegal settlement farming outpost of Meitarim Farm, handing over ATVs to illegal settlements and farming outposts, April 3, 2025. (Freddy Barmi)

Government gifts state-financed ATVs to illegal settlement outposts for security

By Jeremy Sharon

Ministers Smotrich and Strock attend handover ceremony at outpost farm in presence of formerly sanctioned settler

People check burnt vehicles at the site of a reported attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh, on November 4, 2024. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Shin Bet official suspends himself after anti-settler remarks; PM bans Bar from probe

By Emanuel Fabian and Nava Freiberg

Illustrative. An employee works in the tech sector. (Hadas Porush/ Flash90)

War spurs brain drain, outflow of Israeli high-tech employees, report finds

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel Innovation Authority’s snapshot of employment trends shows 8,300 high-tech workers left Israel from Oct. 2023 to July 2024, with intent to stay away for at least a year

Left: Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, on May 20, 2024 (ICC); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address, May 20, 2024. (Screenshot/ GPO)

ICC sent Hungary a request to arrest and surrender Netanyahu hours after his arrival

By Jeremy Sharon

Rather than comply with the order, Orban’s government initiated proceedings to withdraw from the international tribunal

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

British MPs barred from Israel return home, say they’re ‘astounded’ by treatment

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Female soldiers attend the funeral for Israeli Defense Forces paramedic Sgt. Agam Naim, the first woman Israeli Defense Forces soldier killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Mishmarot, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Experts warn of mental health crisis among IDF personnel ahead of national days

By Stav Levaton

Officials highlight a sharp rise in PTSD cases and suicides since October 7 and amid the war, urging public awareness and support

Classmates and teachers of Druze children killed in a deadly missile attack at a soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, visit the site, August 2, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Over 23,000 children and youth physically or mentally damaged by war – report

Chaim Grade’s 'Sons and Daughters' was originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers. (YIVO; Alfred. A. Knopf via JTA)

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The editors discuss how a previously lost decades-old manuscript was found and pieced together. It’s being called ‘probably the last great Yiddish novel’

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Holocaust survivor Alojzy Maciak from Poland attends the commemoration ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp at the camp's memorial site in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany, on April 6, 2025. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)

At Buchenwald, former German president warns of ‘radicalization,’ far-right threat

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Florida head coach Todd Golden gestures to his team during the second half in the national semifinals at the Final Four of the NCAA college basketball tournament, in San Antonio, April 5, 2025. (Eric Gay/AP)

Golden effortJust one Jewish coach still in NCAA title contention

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