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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 10, 2025

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US President Donald Trump, right, 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: Israel would ‘be the leader’ of strike on Iran if nuclear talks fall apart

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president adds, however, that Washington will make the decisions; Netanyahu’s cabinet secretary says PM was surprised that direct US-Iran talks are slated for coming weekend

President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a rally commemorating anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 10, 2025. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran’s president insists Tehran ‘not after nuclear bomb,’ invites US investors

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Netanyahu calls signatories a 'group of fringe extremists'

IAF to dismiss reservists who signed letter demanding prioritization of hostages over war

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

60 in active reserves likely to be booted, but most of the 1,000 signatories are veterans, no longer serving; letter calls to end war but not for refusal to serve; IDF says soldiers can’t ‘use Air Force brand’ for political protest

IAF pilots prepare to take off from the Ramon Airbase in southern Israel for strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, January 10, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli F-16 fighter jets fly over a beach in Tel Aviv during the annual Independence Day flyover, May 5, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israeli Air Force to forgo Independence Day flyover for 2nd year

By Emanuel Fabian

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (left) speaks to Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 10, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief decries effort to erode court autonomy, calls for dialogue with Levin

By Jeremy Sharon

Justice minister fails to acknowledge Isaac Amit during ceremony for judges; President Herzog: Absolute majority of public deeply disgusted by calls not to obey court rulings

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court for testimony in the corruption trial against him, April 9, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

At his trial, Netanyahu lashes out at law enforcement, says police sought to oust him

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

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Israeli soldiers drive by the Supernova rave party site, where almost 380 were killed, near Kibbutz Re'im, close to the Gaza Strip border fence, on October 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

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April 10: Outgoing IDF Gaza brigade chief says he suggested attacking Hamas before Oct. 7

Trump notes progress in hostage talks, says Hamas ‘very nasty’ group * In talks with Hamas, US envoy reportedly promised release of 100 hardened terrorists for US-Israeli hostage

8:37 pm

Six killed after helicopter crashes in New York's Hudson River
8:12 pm

Netanyahu slams Canadian PM Carney after he appears to back protester's Gaza 'genocide' claim
7:51 pm

Two planes clip wings at Washington airport; 2 freed hostages said to be passengers

Freed captive Liri Albag speaks during a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Attacked online by PM’s backers, ex-hostage hits back: ‘Wish death upon Hamas, not me’

Released hostage Agam Berger in Jerusalem with the Lu Yehi Orchestra on April 8, 2025 (Courtesy)

Released hostage Agam Berger joins orchestra that once played for her release

By Jessica Steinberg

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows President Masoud Pezeshkian (L) and the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) chief Mohammad Eslami (R) during the "National Day of Nuclear Technology," in Tehran, on April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran says it may halt cooperation with IAEA if US continues to threaten use of force

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Khamenei’s adviser warns ‘continued external threats’ may lead to expulsion of UN inspectors, transfer of enriched material to secret sites, as Trump again threatens military strike if talks fail

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows President Masoud Pezeshkian (2nd R) and the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) chief Mohammad Eslami (R) during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, on April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

US issues new sanctions on Iran as Trump seeks nuclear talks

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 10: Day 552 – US pushes Iran diplomacy, with a military threat

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Reporter's notebook

IDF advances in Gaza, expands buffer zone to pressure Hamas, but no fighting taking place

Defense Minister Israel Katz claims ‘great achievements’ bringing terror group closer to agreeing on hostage deal; says military preparing for ‘big move’ to defeat Hamas

IDF soldiers are seen in the Morag Corridor area of the southern Gaza Strip, between Rafah and Khan Younis, April 9, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Idit Ohel, mother of hostage Alon Ohel, speaks during a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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What Matters Now to hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!

By Jessica Steinberg

Son Alon Ohel has shrapnel in his eye but endures with other fellow captives. Now, ahead of Passover, Idit says the entire Jewish nation must demand their freedom

Debris is scattered at the site of an Israeli strike on a military airbase near Hama, Syria, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo)

Israel confirms talks with Turkey on Syria aimed at preserving ‘security stability’

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Reuters

Jerusalem said to reject any change in deployment of foreign forces on Syrian territory, and in particular the establishment of Turkish bases in Palmyra

A boy attends the funeral of Hezbollah fighters, killed before the November 27 ceasefire with Israel, in southern Lebanese village of Taybeh, Lebanon on April 6, 2025. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

IDF: Hezbollah working to rebuild Beirut arms production site in breach of ceasefire

By Emanuel Fabian

Inside story

MILAN CZERNY and Shomrim

Amassing troops’ own clips from Gaza, anti-Israel activists are keeping heat on soldiers

Databases exposing soldiers are being compiled using networks to ensure they can’t be squelched as alleged evidence for war crimes charges. Is Israel doing enough to protect its veterans?

An IDF soldier stands over a Palestinian suspect in Gaza in undated footage uploaded to social media on February 2, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, then US President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, arrives to testify during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, March 25, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

US Senate confirms Huckabee as next Israel envoy, voting largely along party lines

Democrat John Fetterman joins Republicans in sending Christian Zionist and settlement backer to Jerusalem; Trump: ‘He’ll bring home the bacon, even though bacon isn’t big in Israel’

An actor at Yad Vashem's new Touching Memory theater (Yad Vashem)

With ‘engaging’ approach to Holocaust storytelling, Yad Vashem targets next generation

A new audiovisual experience and live theater at the national museum and memorial raise questions about Shoah education after survivors pass on

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Civil defense squad, cops battled 100 terrorists in Re’im; some were headed to Nevatim Airbase

During Oct. 7 onslaught, special forces also reached the kibbutz and eliminated remaining terrorists who had barricaded themselves in homes; several senior officers killed

The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Re'im on October 7, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk arrives at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 18, 2024. (Kent Nishimura/ Getty Images/ AFP)

‘Don’t start a war with Israel’: Top Biden aide’s lesson from Oct. 7 and its aftermath

France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in front of humanitarian aid destined to Gaza, at the Egyptian Red Crescent warehouse in el-Arish in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, on April 8, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP)

Macron says France could recognize a Palestinian state in June

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Dayenu: A prayer. A promise. A howl.

At a time of far too little hope and way too much suffering, here is a Passover song about what is enough and what is too much

Seder with a renewed empathy – faith and unity

We are commanded to act as if we were there. Now maybe more than ever we can glimpse a small sense of the feeling

A protester holds flares during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration in London, Oct. 9, 2023, two days after Hamas terrorists carried out a massacre in Israel (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Hamas urges UK court to remove terror label, claims it is battling ‘genocide’

Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk pens witness statement falsely asserting Oct. 7 onslaught was directed only at military; no immediate comment from government

Illustrative: Hamas gunmen stand in formation ahead of a hostage release in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Identities hidden, Hamas leadership operating behind veil of secrecy

By AFP and ToI Staff

Inside story

German parties agree on coalition, but divisions over Israel may pull them apart

While both the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats support the Jewish state, the future allies will need to find common ground on arms sales, UNRWA, an ICC warrant and more

Christian Social Union leader Markus Soeder, left, Christian Democratic Union head Friedrich Merz, center and Social Democratic party co-leader Lars Klingbeil leave a press conference in Berlin on April 9, 2025. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

(First row, L-R) Bavaria's State Premier and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party Markus Soeder, Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, and the co-leaders of Germany's social democratic SPD party Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken arrive to address journalists after they found an agreement to form a new government, on April 9, 2025 in Berlin. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Germany’s Merz unveils coalition deal amid recession fears and far-right surge

Left to right: A photo from the exhibition 'Habyta' (Back Home) – The North Returns to Life' at Hula Lake Park during Passover 2025 (Credit Gil Eliyaho); Allancastria deyrollei, a butterfly of the family Papilionidae, being tracked in The Great Butterfly Count, held during Passover 2025 (Credit Moshe Lowdon)

This Passover, count butterflies or see portraits of northerners who are finally back home

By Jessica Steinberg

Ideas of places to go during the springtime holiday, with plenty that’s free and open to the public

Illustrative: People watch workers move the Adas Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in Washington, to a new location down the street, where it became part of the Capital Jewish Museum, on January 9, 2019, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Widespread cuts are touted as cutting costs, but come two years after a Biden administration initiative described museums as a critical tool against the spread of antisemitism

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Visions of 'Trump Gaza' are seen in a 30-second, AI-generated video posted by US President Donald Trump to his Truth Social platform on February 26, 2025. (Screen captures via Truth Social, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

53% of Americans have unfavorable view of Israel, compared to 42% in 2022

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rabbi Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar, Colombia's new director of religious affair, in a video posted to his Facebook page, on February 15, 2025. Gamboa has called Israel a 'Nazi state,' and calls Zionism 'heresy.' (Screenshot from Facebook via Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar)

Colombia taps anti-Zionist, unrecognized ‘rabbi’ as director of religious affairs

By Grace Gilson

People hold signs as they protest the arrest of former Columbia University anti-Israel student activist Mahmoud Khalil during a 'Fight for Our Rights' demonstration at the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington, March 15, 2025. (Jason Redmond/AFP)

US to check visa-seekers’ social media for ‘antisemitic’ posts, administration says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox soldiers attend a swearing-in ceremony of Hasmonean Brigade on February 27, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Razor sharpBeards and nail polish: IDF approves dress code changes

By Emanuel Fabian

Republican candidate Randy Fine, right, meets with supporters after the special election for US House District 6 was called in his favor, April 1, 2025, in Ormond Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Newest Jewish congressman, GOP Rep. Randy Fine, calls Rashida Tlaib a ‘terrorist’

By Andrew Lapin

A Yemeni inspects the damage reportedly caused by US airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

Suspected US strikes overnight in Yemen kill at least 3 people, Houthi rebels say

By AP and ToI Staff

This photo released by the state-run WAM news agency shows US-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina getting on a private jet after her release at an airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, April 10, 2025. (WAM via AP)

US and Russia exchange prisoners in 2nd swap since Trump took office

By AFP

Skyline of downtown Miami is seen from Miami City Hall, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

Israeli-founded firms flock to Florida to expand footprint, and boost economy – study

By Sharon Wrobel

US President Donald Trump smiles as he signs executive orders as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright watch during an event in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, April 8, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump pauses market-roiling tariffs for 90 days, but hits China harder

A demonstrator holds a poster reading "End Jew Hatred" on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in Los Angeles on April 28, 2024. (Etienne Laurent/AFP)

California: School’s ethnic studies curriculum discriminated against Jewish students

By Grace Gilson

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