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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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US President Donald Trump looks on after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on April 9, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 9: Israeli leaders hail confirmation of ‘dear friend’ Mike Huckabee as US ambassador

Ex-hostage Liri Albag hits back at online critics: ‘Wish death upon Hamas and our enemies, not me’ * Turkish FM says Ankara, Jerusalem holding technical talks on Syria deconfliction

9:00 pm

Israeli leaders hail confirmation of 'dear friend' Mike Huckabee as US ambassador
8:40 pm

Trump on Huckabee: 'He's going to bring home the bacon, even though bacon isn't too big in Israel'
8:35 pm

Sa'ar: Recognition of Palestinian state won't lead to regional peace, security or stability

US President Donald Trump, left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wave as the premier leaves the West Wing of the White House, in Washington, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

PM: Deal will only work if Iran nuclear facilities destroyed

US says Iran ‘moving in’ direction of nuclear deal after Trump announces direct talks

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

PM, who was visiting Washington, said to have been informed of negotiations only hours before US president’s statement, given no guarantees about what will happen if they fall through

A man holds a portrait of the Iranian Supreme Leader and an anti-US sign as Iranians attend a rally marking Al-Quds Day (Jerusalem), a commemorative day held annually on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Tehran, on March 28, 2025. (AFP)

‘Our nuclear program can’t be dismantled’: Iran defiant ahead of talks with US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 551 of the war

A deal is ‘preferable,’ as Trump said, but only if it permanently blocks Iranian nukes

Netanyahu rightly denounced the 2015 JCPOA, and persuaded Trump to withdraw from it; now the US president is trying diplomacy again, backed by dark threats that won’t scare Tehran

Reporters crowd the Oval Office as US President Donald Trump, right, hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (Avi Ohayon / GPO)

US President Donald Trump greets Israeli hostages who were released from Gaza, during the National Republican Congressional Committee's (NRCC) "President's Dinner" at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, on April 8, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

‘We owe our lives to you’: Former Gaza hostages implore Trump to help free the rest

‘You saved the lives of 33 hostages,’ Israeli-American Keith Siegel tells president at DC event; Trump says Hamas is a ‘disaster,’ what hostages endured is ‘horrible’

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto (L) speaks during an economic event titled "Strengthening Indonesia's Economic Resilience Amid the Wave of Trade Tariff Wars" in Jakarta on April 8, 2025. (Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Indonesia willing to temporarily house 1,000 refugees from Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The High Court of Justice hears petitions against the firing of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Watchdog head: Netanyahu wants to turn Shin Bet into 'Stasi'

After chaotic hearing, High Court rules Netanyahu can’t fire Shin Bet chief Bar for now

By Jeremy Sharon

Sides given until April 20 to reach a compromise; disturbances dominated start of 11-hour session, with court forced to remove all protesters, including Likud MK Tally Gotliv

Anti-High Court protesters wear masks of Chief Justice Isaam Amit as he and two other judges hear petitions against the ouster of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Netanyahu’s office says High Court ruling on Bar ‘puzzling,’ amid calls to ignore it

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Demonstrators protest against Supreme Court President Isaac Amit outside a court hearing on petitions against the firing of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 9: Day 551 – After chaos in court, a stay on Shin Bet head’s dismissal

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon

Explainer

Court seeks to avert constitutional crisis in Ronen Bar hearing, while upholding law

Rancorous session on the firing of the Shin Bet chief reflects the national schism over how the country should be run, which the October 7 disaster has only magnified

Security guards struggle with Itzik Bontzel, whose son Amit was killed fighting in Gaza in December 2023, on April 8, 2025, during a High Court hearing on petitions against the ouster of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara attends the funeral of former Judge Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv, December 11, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Coalition cancels vote to choose candidate for AG oversight panel, delaying her ouster

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Anti-High Court protesters wear masks of Chief Justice Isaam Amit as he and two other judges hear petitions against the ouster of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Likud spokesman berates members for staying silent on High Court’s Shin Bet ruling

IDF's probes into Oct. 753 civilians, security personnel were killed

1,000 troops were in Sderot on Oct. 7, when they were urgently needed elsewhere, probe finds

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF finds local security team was underequipped, was not trained by military in 2 years before onslaught; many religiously observant locals were unaware of terrorist infiltration

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi holds an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba, October 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

First look at IDF chief’s October 7 schedule shows delayed top-level coordination

By Stav Levaton

From the Blogs

How do we celebrate seder with the elephant in the room?

Addressing four painful Passover questions for 2025, starting with whether and how we can possibly celebrate with joy this year

A tunnel shaft uncovered by IDF troops in the Tel Sultan area of Rafah, in southern Gaza, in an image cleared for publication on April 9, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF pounds Gaza targets, with one strike said to kill at least 29

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Military says attack on residential building in northern Strip’s Shejaiya, which reportedly killed dozens, targeted a senior Hamas terrorist

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, right, speaks with UK Ambassador to the United Nations UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward before a UN Security Council meeting, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

UN chief rejects new Israeli proposal to control flow of aid into Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Chaos in the courtroom, clarity on the bench

Everything you want to know about Wednesday’s High Court hearing on Netanyahu’s efforts to fire the Shin Bet director, but were afraid to ask

Wasting Passover food is irresponsible – and unaffordable

The average Israeli household discards some 13% of the food purchased for the holiday. It’s time to change how we eat

Welcoming the hungry on Seder night and the 10/4 rule

Instead of a disapproving, judgmental ’I-don’t-know-you-nor-do-I-care-to’ once-over, we need to welcome each other with a smile and kind words

Shira Lankin Sheps

Living the Haggadah’s stories anew

Reviewing the ancient passages this year unlocked my understanding of our Jewish heritage of freedom following persecution better than I ever had before

Moss Haggadah presented to the National Library of Israel, August 2024. Shown (L to R): National Library chairman Sallai Meridor, artist David Moss, with donors Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Bob Gottesman. (Dor Pazuelo)

'I wanted to allow the text to reveal new insights'

Iconic gold-encrusted Haggadah goes on display in Jerusalem for the first time

By Rossella Tercatin

Original manuscript of the renowned Passover text created by artist David Moss is exhibited at the National Library of Israel

Inside story

Despite laws banning it, UNRWA continues to operate almost as usual in East Jerusalem

UN refugee agency’s schools and most facilities still open in capital despite closure orders from police and city, while service disruptions in West Bank and Gaza are blamed on war, not laws

Palestinians gather outside of a health clinic run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, in the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel Police chief Daniel Levy (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir address reporters at press briefing on April 9, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ben Gvir cuts off police chief as he vows to enforce court ruling on Bar’s dismissal

By Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol

In rare public spat, national security minister laughs as Levy pledges to ‘protect democracy’, interrupts police chief mid-sentence by proclaiming: ‘They’re provoking you’

A Hezbollah member speaks on walkie-talkie during a funeral procession of Hezbollah's former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and his cousin and successor, Hashem Safieddine at the burial site in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, February 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah said ready to discuss disarmament if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Unnamed senior Hezbollah member tells Reuters that Israel must also ‘halts its aggression against Lebanese’ before Iran-backed terror group will hold talks on its arms caches

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

A missile is launched from the Persian Gulf during a drill of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in a photo provided by the IRGC's Sepahnews on January 24, 2025. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran sends new missiles to Iraqi proxies that were said to be disarming – report

Delivery, days before nuclear talks with US, reportedly includes missiles that can reach Europe, in apparent bid to reassure what remains of ‘Axis of Resistance’

Police are shown in front of the US embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, December 9, 2017. (Atila Altuntas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Iran directed teens who attacked Israel’s embassy in Stockholm last May, police says

By JTA and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump arrives to sign an executive order to boost coal mining and production in the United States, in the East Room of the White House on April 8, 2025, in Washington, DC. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump’s new tariffs take effect, spurring more carnage in global markets

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Tom Westbrook

With massive 104% duty on all Chinese imports and reciprocal tariffs on almost every country, US trade war causes stock indexes to tumble; economists fear recession

Pedestrians and office buildings are reflected on the window of a brokerage house as an electronic board displays trading data in the Central Business District, in Beijing, China, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China raises its retaliatory tariff on the US to 84%, vows to ‘fight to the end’

A man walks past a screen showing Chinese stock market movements at a securities company in Beijing on April 8, 2025. (GREG BAKER / AFP)

US issues 104% tariffs on all Chinese goods, says open to talks with other countries

By Susan Heavey, Trevor Hunnicutt and Joe Cash

A woman is carried over the crowd at the Lollapalooza concert in Pownal, Vermont, July 9, 1996. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Interview

The surprisingly Jewish history of iconic counter-cultural music festival Lollapalooza

By Jordan Hoffman

From its creator, to performers, promoters, and now the chroniclers of a new oral history on it, Jews have always had a hand in the traveling show that changed America

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian students gather at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the campus of Northwestern University on April 25, 2024 in Evanston, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

US halts funds for Cornell, Northwestern universities in latest crackdown

By Agencies and ToI Staff

$1.8 billion in total frozen amid probes of alleged civil rights violations, White House says, after demanding schools protect Jews on campus

New York University in Greenwich Village, New York, July 7, 2024. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Muslim prayer room at New York University vandalized with name of Jewish fraternity

By Grace Gilson

Signs in support of detained graduate student Mahmoud Khalil are readied during the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against US President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in Washington, on April 5, 2025. (Amid Farahi/AFP)

US government faces Wednesday deadline to present evidence against Mahmoud Khalil

By Agencies and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of students in Namangan, Uzbekistan. (Wikimedia Commons)

Schools in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan portray Jews fairly, study shows

MK Ofir Katz, chairman of the Knesset House Committee, leads a hearing, March 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK Ofir Katz appointed to panel that selects judicial ombudsman

An illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv financial business district skyline. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv drops in global ranking of top 50 wealthiest cities as millionaires decamp

By Sharon Wrobel

US Vice President JD Vance (L) listens as Secretary of Energy Chris Wright speaks at the US military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on March 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/Pool/AFP)

Trump’s energy chief to visit UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia on 2-week Mideast trip

By timothy gardner

Ilustrative: Offices of Discount and Hapoalim banks in the center of Tel Aviv (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

Hapoalim and Discount each fined NIS 40 million by competition watchdog

By Sharon Wrobel

Mourners carry Omar Mohammad Rabea, a 14-year-old Palestinian-American allegedly shot by Israeli forces, during his funeral in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

US says it awaits IDF probe into killing of Palestinian-American teen in West Bank

By Reuters and ToI Staff

An undated view of the topographical map inside the 'Hollywoodland' exhibit at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, California. (Josh White, JWPictures/Academy Museum Foundation)

Writer reissues 1931 novel ‘Rabbi Burns’ in response to Hollywood Jewish exhibit row

By Grace Gilson

An undated aerial view of Miami Beach, Florida. (Envato)

Southeast Florida Jewish population is growing and getting younger, study finds

By Grace Gilson

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