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What Matters Most On Friday, April 11, 2025

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A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office on March 21, 2025, shows him addressing the crowd during his annual Nowruz speech, in Tehran, Iran. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iran said willing to talk nuclear program, support for proxies

Top Iranian officials told Khamenei to allow US nuke talks or risk fall of regime – NYT

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In rare coordinated effort, officials said to have warned Iran’s supreme leader that military threats from US and Israel are real, and country faces massive unrest if it goes to war

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)

Iran said to consider proposing interim nuclear deal in talks with US set for tomorrow

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

The names of bombing victims and the Spanish phrase "Memory and Justice" cover a wall after a ceremony was held to mark the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina seeks arrest of Iran’s Khamenei for 1994 bombing of AMIA Jewish center

By Grace Gilson

US President Donald Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R), during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on April 10, 2025, in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Israel, Egypt said to exchange hostage deal draft documents

Trump: ‘We’re getting close to getting’ the hostages back, Hamas ‘is a nasty group’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US president cites progress in talks; Netanyahu holds meeting on captives with negotiators and security chiefs, speaks with families of hostages Elkana Bohbot and Rom Braslavski

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump listens as Adam Boehler, CEO of US International Development Finance Corporation, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)

Report: US envoy held direct talks with Hamas to try to give Trump win before speech

By Lazar Berman

People survey the rubble after an airstrike on Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, April 9, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

IDF says 12 Oct. 7 terrorists killed in recent strikes, including Shejaiya Battalion chief

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A ceremony for the incoming head of Military Intelligence's Unit 8200 in the Gelilot base, north of Tel Aviv, on April 6, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

250 IDF intel reservists sign letter calling to end war; PM: ‘noisy anarchists’

By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Latest letter comes amid growing wave of criticism from reservists arguing that hostages must come first; Netanyahu says letters are ‘encouraging’ Israel’s enemies

Demonstrators gather with placards during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of hostages held captive since the October 7, 2023, attacks by Gazan Palestinian terrorists, outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, on April 5, 2025. (Hazem Bader / AFP)

150+ ex-naval officers, dozens of reservist doctors warn war delays hostages’ release

By Stav Levaton 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.

A t-shirt depicting Omri Miran, who is held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, hangs at the family's home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, southern Israel, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

Yearning for modern Exodus: Israel marks another Passover awaiting hostages’ return

By Melanie Lidman

Families of captives struggle to celebrate the festival of freedom after 18 months without their loved ones; Netanyahu notes many families will mark holiday with ’empty chairs’

Travelers wait in line at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ahead of Passover, Ben Gurion Airport sees busiest day since October 7

An Israeli Air Force Gulfstream G550 spy plane is seen in Greece amid the Iniochos exercise, in a handout photo published on April 11, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

In first, Israeli Air Force participates with Qatar in aerial exercises hosted by Greece

By Emanuel Fabian

Military confirms it sent spy plane to Iniochos drill, doesn’t mention other participating countries; 18-day exercise marks first known military cooperation between the countries

Lishay Miran Lavi blows out a candle on a birthday cupcake for her hostage husband Omri, along with her two daughers Roni and Alma at Channel 12's studio on April 11, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Live updates (closed)

April 11: Wife, daughters of hostage Omri Miran blow out his birthday candle without him

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Jerusalem comes down from demand for 11 hostages, but seeks shorter gap between releases; agrees to hold talks on permanent ceasefire, but has done so before without follow-through

9:17 pm

US judge says administration's deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil can move forward
9:16 pm

Israel submits slightly softened hostage deal offer ahead of Hamas delegation’s arrival in Cairo
7:34 pm

Meeting between Putin and Witkoff ends after four hours

Ilana Gimpelevich

The 4 daughters

Here are some female counterparts for the famous 4 sons – but their role in Passover kicks in long before the Seder begins

A time to plant: From field to matzah

In November 2023, we planted wheat at our Galilee farm – and we waited. It paid off, as now, we’ve baked our Passover matzot from the wheat we grew

Inside Story

US Jewish history fuels community’s concerns about Trump deportations

Activists, leaders and historians say perceived erosion of civil rights under administration threatens Jews, even if action needed to combat antisemitism

Protesters rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside his court hearing in New York City, March 12, 2025. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

FILE - Protesters attend a demonstration in support of Palestinian anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)

US administration argues it can deport prominent anti-Israel activist over his beliefs

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)

Exclusive

AP doubted reliability of Hamas-linked reporter years before Oct. 7, documents show

Internal communications released in lawsuit show newsroom was informed of freelancer’s work for pro-terror media in 2018, but continued to employ him

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)

ToI podcastFriday Focus with Emanuel Fabian: IDF Oct. 7 probes reveal heroism amid terror

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

'Imprisonment can't overwhelm the inner spiritual life'

Ex-hostage recalls Passover in Gaza, says remaining captives ‘in chains’ during holiday

Agam Berger recounts how she clung to faith during her 482 days in captivity, says she marked festival of freedom last year with corn flour pita, decorations from ‘scraps of paper’

Former hostage Agam Berger (center) and family members visit the Old City of Jerusalem, on February 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Freed hostage Agam Berger plays a violin that once belonged to a Jewish musician who was murdered in the Holocaust, March 8, 2025. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-hostage Agam Berger will perform at Auschwitz during March of the Living

By Jessica Steinberg

An image from the cover of 'The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai.' (Courtesy Melissa R. Klapper)

Interview'She's a good example of how messy history is'

Slave-owning Jewish Confederate woman documents wartime Passover in newly published diary

By Rich Tenorio

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai’s US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of an anti-emancipation woman who was herself a minority

How often can you swallow? (Photo by iStock)

How often can you swallow? Israeli-improved test can screen for neurological disorders

By Diana Bletter

Kaplan Medical Center researchers establish a baseline number of swallows for healthy people depending on their age, enabling more effective use of the Repetitive Saliva Swallowing Test

Israeli POWs in Egyptian prison celebrating the Passover Seder (National Library of Israel, permission to use granted to Israel Story)

Israel Story

The Hebrew Hobbit: A Passover Special

There and back again: The story of a small group of Israelis who experienced their very own exodus from Egypt

Shoppers in the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem ahead of Passover, April 11, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

As prices rise, Haredi Jerusalemites line shops — and soup kitchens — ahead of Passover

Despite rampant poverty in Mea Shearim neighborhood and a 5% rise in Passover food costs, demand for high-end goods is high, but so is reliance on charity

Streit's co-owners Aaron Gross, far left, and Aron Yagoda, far right, give two young visitors a tour of the matzah factory. (Courtesy Streit's via JTA)

How your matzah gets made: A peek inside NY’s Streit’s factory

By Joseph Strauss

First opened in New York’s Lower East Side a century ago, the US bakery now supplies ritual Passover flat breads to seder tables as far away as Europe, South Africa and Israel

Analysis

Israel will need to get used to Turkey’s growing footprint in Syria

Post-Assad Syria needs a strong country to help it out of the chaos, and Turkey wants in; with America backing Erdogan, there’s little Israel can do beyond insisting on red lines

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa during a joint press conference following their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP/Francisco Seco)

Israeli soldiers walk during a counter-terror raid in the Tulkarem camp in the West Bank on February 18, 2025 (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

6 Arab Israelis charged with funneling money from Turkey to West Bank terror groups

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Israel Police chief Daniel Levy (left) in the southern Bedouin town of Ararat an-Naqab the morning after a violent clash between rival local clans, April 10, 2025. (Israel Police)

Five killed in 48 hours amid rampant Arab sector crime wave

By Charlie Summers

Houses set aflame in Bedouin village after police fatally shoot resident; 61-year-old man murdered in Shfaram, just two years after his son was killed in similar incident

Ahmad Manasra (center), who was arrested in 2015 after carrying out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, seen after he was released from Israeli jail, outside a police station in Jerusalem, April 10, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Palestinian who stabbed two at age 13 is freed, said to have developed schizophrenia

By AP and ToI Staff

Supreme Court denied mental health parole for Ahmad Manasra, 20, convicted of terrorism for seriously wounding two in 2015 attack in Jerusalem

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a campaign rally in Toronto, on April 4, 2025. (Peter Power/AFP)

Netanyahu slams Canadian PM for appearing to back protester’s Gaza ‘genocide’ claim

By Nava Freiberg

Hayim Nissim Cohen and his nine adopted sons in a photo posted to their family Facebook page in 2021. (Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Fake Hasidic TikTok rabbi sentenced to 135 years for sexually abusing adoptive sons

By JTA

Congregants of the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, which burned down in the Eaton fire, gather at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, California on April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Jewish families channel Passover story after devastating losses in LA wildfires

By DEEPA BHARATH

Illustrative: Machinery in an armored vehicle manufacturing factory, December 27, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Demand for state-backed insurance soars as Israeli exporters fear Trump tariff chaos

By Sharon Wrobel

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 drops Harvard position after claims he aided Hamas

A picture of Theodor Herzl on August 29, 2022, during celebrations of the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress at the historic Stadtcasino in Basel, where Herzl convened the first congress that paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. (Fabrice Cofrinni / AFP)

Charges of voter fraud mar ‘incredibly important’ World Zionist Congress elections

Donald Trump and Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun light a candle during an October 7th remembrance event at the Trump National Doral Golf Club, on October 7, 2024, in Doral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump picks Miami-based rabbi and businessman as US envoy for combatting antisemitism

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A Hezbollah supporter chants slogans during the funeral procession of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and designated successor Hashem Safieddine, at Nasrallah's burial site in Beirut's southern Dahiyeh suburb, February 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah lawmaker says it’s ready to hash out ‘defense strategy’ with Lebanese state

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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