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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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

Trump: If talks unsuccessful, will be very bad day for Iran

Hosting PM, Trump announces direct nuke talks with Iran; Tehran: Indirect dialogue only

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Netanyahu voices wary support for diplomacy, but stresses Iran mustn’t get the bomb, as US leader says high-level meeting due Saturday

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff. (Karen Minasyan/AFP; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via AFP)

US envoy Witkoff to lead ‘indirect’ nuclear talks with FM Araghchi in Oman, Iran says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (Saul Loeb / AFP)

TranscriptFull text of Trump, Netanyahu in Oval Office: ‘We’re having direct talks with Iran’

Live updates (closed)

April 8: In Gaza, IDF chief tells troops he expects them to defeat Hamas’s Rafah Brigade

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

High Court rules Netanyahu can’t fire Shin Bet chief Bar for now or limit his powers * Prime minister says US-Iran deal will only work if nuclear facilities blown up, dismantled

8:53 pm

US immigration judge to rule Friday on release of detained anti-Israel Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil
8:27 pm

Far-left Argentine lawmaker indicted for antisemitic, anti-Israel posts
8:19 pm

S&P 500 ends down 1.6% as tariff angst kills US stocks rally

Analysis

After softball visit to Hungary, Netanyahu strikes out in DC meeting with Trump

US president surprises Israeli delegation as he announces Iran talks, refuses to commit to tariff relief, praises Hamas defender Erdogan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signs a guest book at the White House as US President Donald Trump looks on, in Washington DC, April 7, 2025 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

US President Donald Trump, left, greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 8: Day 550 – Surprises for prime minister during DC trip

By Jessica Steinberg and Lazar Berman

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US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Hailing ‘smart’ Erdogan for ‘taking over Syria,’ Trump offers to mediate between him and Israel

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

‘If you have a problem with Turkey, I really think I’m going to be able to work it out,’ US president tells Netanyahu, but ‘you have to be reasonable’

A cargo ship is docked at the port of Beirut on October 21, 2024. (Joseph EID / AFP)

Hezbollah using maritime smuggling route for weapons, funds from Iran – report

Mourners attend a funeral for Hezbollah fighters killed during fighting last year in Taybeh, Lebanon, on April 6, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Hezbollah rocket commander killed in south Lebanon drone strike, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

US President Donald Trump welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Stressing the ‘billions’ US gives in aid, Trump refuses to commit to removing tariffs on Israel

By Lazar Berman

At White House summit, Netanyahu promises to eliminate trade deficit with US, but fails to get promise from president to roll back policy

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem, April 7, 2025. (Sharon Wrobel/The Times of Israel)

Bank of Israel cuts growth prospects, holds rates, warns about Trump tariff effect

By Sharon Wrobel

People walk by shelf displaying imported nuts from the United States, at the Hema supermarket, in Beijing, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China says will ‘fight to the end’ after Trump threatens to impose additional tariffs

By AP

Analysis

With a ‘sword over its head,’ High Court may balk at reversing Ronen Bar’s dismissal

Shin Bet chief’s failures mean firing him would ordinarily not be controversial, but Qatargate probe may discomfit the court, prompt it to seek guarantees regarding successor

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

Likud MK Tally Gotliv pictured as the High Court of Justice hears petitions against the firing of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Coalition MKs back protesters causing chaos at High Court hearing on Bar firing

Justice minister says cries at court ‘echo the cries of millions’ who feel democracy trampled upon by judges; Lapid pans ‘orchestrated riot,’ exploitation of bereaved families

Former hostage Liri Albag speaks during a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Freed hostage gets wave of hate for saying Netanyahu to blame for Oct. 7

Kan pulls promo of interview at Liri Albag’s request, after pro-Netanyahu accounts call her ‘trash’ for pointing finger at the premier and saying he should ‘ask for forgiveness’

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, right, and King Abdullah II of Jordan pose after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Monday, April 7, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)

Leaders of France, Jordan, Egypt press Trump on Gaza ceasefire, as Netanyahu visits US

By ToI Staff and AFP

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) and French President Emmanuel Macron (C) shake hands upon arrival at Arish International Airport near Egypt's northeastern city of Arish in the north of the Sinai peninsula, about 55 kilometers west of the border with the Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP)

Macron to urge Israeli resumption of Gaza aid while visiting key Egypt port

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hostage Forum publishes health report for 24 living hostages, warns ‘time is running out’

By Shira Silkoff

Based on testimonies from freed hostages and propaganda videos, medical report details dire conditions of captivity including isolation, severe malnutrition and untreated injuries

The 24 hostages presumed to be alive who are still held by Hamas as of February 2025: Top row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Edan Alexander, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from left: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Bipin Joshi, Rom Braslavski, Ziv Berman, Gali Berman. Third row, from left: Omri Miran, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Bottom row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Tamir Nimrodi, Pinta Nattapong. (Hostage Families Forum)

Mothers attend a protest calling for the release of the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv. April 7, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Egypt said to float release of 8 hostages in new truce; Israel denies receiving terms

By Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025 after Israel suspended the entry of supplies into the Palestinian enclave. (AFP)

Despite IDF and PMO denials, Israeli official confirms plan to resume Gaza aid

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Meesh Hammer-Kossoy

The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies

Fighting tyranny starts with embracing our shared national narratives and facing the terrifying responsibility that comes with freedom

Kenneth Brander

Not ‘Where is God?’ — but ‘Where are we?’

Only through a quest to find meaning in our actions and relationships can we begin to glimpse God in the world

Analysis

Does the 2025 state budget encourage Haredim to evade IDF service?

Critics charge that allocating over NIS 1 billion in yeshiva funding incentivizes draft evasion, while Haredim complain they are being ‘slandered’ and ‘delegitimized’

Ultra-Orthodox Jews study at the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent and other emergency services pray by the bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31, 2025. Israel has said at least six were Hamas operatives. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Red Crescent says autopsies show slain Gaza medics were shot ‘with intent to kill’

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Medical org calls for international commission of inquiry into shooting of first responders, says they were buried without ‘human dignity’; IDF says at least 6 were Hamas operatives

Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, winter 2023. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

Released Palestinian prisoners allege abuse by Israeli military, prison staff

By Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Palestinian entrepreneur Bashar al-Masri in front of his residential project of Rawabi in the West Bank, on February 23, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90/File)

Leading Palestinian-American businessman aided Hamas, lawsuit by Oct. 7 victims claims

Case in US court alleges Bashar Masri used development projects in Gaza to help terror group carry out invasion of Israel; he denies ‘baseless’ claims, says he opposes all violence

IDF troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip in a handout photo issued on April 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Dossier accusing 10 Britons serving in IDF of war crimes in Gaza handed to UK police

By Michael Horovitz

Freelance journalist Hassan Eslaiah, whom the IDF has indentifed as a member of the Hamas terror group's Khan Younis Brigade, is seen in front of a burning IDF tank during the October 7, 2023, onslaught. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Airstrike targets, injures Gaza photographer who entered Israel with terrorists on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

It’s too early to know how deep Qatargate goes, but it’s time to ask tough questions

Expanding investigation suggests that Israeli decisions on hostage talks, relations with Egypt could have been influenced by Doha

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

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)

Suspicion Urich leaked cabinet info allayed after PM says he authorizes material

By Jeremy Sharon

A fire burns at a wedding hall allegedly lit by settlers, in the West Bank village of Bidya, April 8, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers said to burn down wedding hall, paint ‘Death to Arabs’ in West Bank village

By Nurit Yohanan

No injuries reported in overnight incident, which came day after 5 Palestinians were injured when settlers attempted to breach fence of Umm al-Khair, sparking confrontation

Graffiti sprayed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank's Deheisha refugee camp near Bethlehem on April 2, 2025. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF dissolves platoon, dismisses officers after reservists vandalize West Bank camp

By Emanuel Fabian

From 'Heroines,' an exhibit about fashion design during wartime at the Holon Design Museum, from April 2025 (Credit Elad Sarig)

Fashion exhibit looks at design as symbol of hope during World War II

By Jessica Steinberg

Holon Design Museum launches ‘Heroines,’ a look at World War Two-era designers who leaned on fashion, as well as Holocaust items

Houthi supporters chant slogans during a weekly anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, March, 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Israel intercepts Yemen drone; US defense chief: ‘It’s about to get worse’ for Houthis

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Iran-backed group claims drone targeted ‘military target’ in Tel Aviv area, also claims to launch missile at US ships in Red Sea; Trump says US military campaign ‘very successful’

People assess the damage following reported overnight strikes that Huthi rebels said hit the Water Management building in Mansouriya in Yemen's Hodeida governorate, on April 2, 2025. (AFP)

Houthis say intel commander killed as suspected US strikes pound Yemen overnight

Elsa Guedj plays a rabbi inspired by Delphine Horvilleur in Max's 'Reformed.' (Courtesy Max via JTA)

New HBO Max series ‘Reformed’ depicts French woman rabbi based on Delphine Horvilleur

By Shira Li Bartov

Inspired by the memoir of one of France’s few female Jewish clergy, the show portrays the internal and external challenges of a religious, political and intellectual pioneer

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Irmgard Furchner appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)

Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict Irmgard Furchner dies at 99

By AFP and ToI Staff

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator, Ibtihal Aboussad, is escorted away by security as she interrupts Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during a presentation of the company's AI assistant, Copilot, ahead of a 50th Anniversary presentation at Microsoft headquarters, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Redmond, Washington (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)

2 Microsoft workers say they were fired for protest over provision of services to IDF

By Agencies and ToI Staff

John Lithgow as Roald Dahl (left) and Elliot Levey as Tom Maschler in Mark Rosenblatt’s play, 'Giant.' (Courtesy/ Manuel Harlan)

Play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism wins top UK theater awards

By Grace Gilson

The scene of a terror attack in Ra'anana (R), and Ra’anana resident Edna Bluestein, 79 who was killed in the attack, on January 15, 2024. (Magen David Adom/Screenshot: Courtesy, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

West Bank cousins handed life in prison for deadly 2024 terror spree in Ra’anana

By Charlie Summers

Tents and signs fill Harvard Yard by the John Harvard statue in the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 5, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

Harvard to borrow $750 million as federal funds threatened over antisemitism charges

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Florida head coach Todd Golden celebrates after Florida beat Houston in the national championship at the Final Four of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Monday, April 7, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Florida wins NCAA title as team with Jewish coach bests Israeli guard in final moments

By ToI Staff and AP

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the US, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

US Supreme Court lets Trump pursue deportations under 1798 ‘enemy alien’ law, with limits

A woman carries a bag of food aid distributed by the World Food Program (WFP) to displaced people from the province of Cabo Delgado, in the town of Namapa, Erati district of Nampula, Mozambique on February 27, 2024. (Alfredo Zuniga / AFP)

UN food agency: Fresh US aid cuts to 14 countries could be death sentence for millions

By AFP

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