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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 12, 2025

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Tourists take photos at the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/ Fatima Shbair)

Live updates (closed)

April 12: White House: Direct contact with Iran marks step toward mutually beneficial outcome

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

IDF says it intercepted Gaza rocket fired at southern Israel on Passover eve * Hundreds hold Passover Seder at Hostages Square with families of Gaza captives

2:03 am

'Screw you!': Yair Netanyahu hits back at Macron for backing Palestinian statehood
1:28 am

28-year-old man shot dead in his car in Sakhnin; police launch investigation
10:41 pm

Man killed in car crash near Ma'ale Adumim settlement

Khamenei adviser: Tehran 'seeking a real and fair agreement'

US signals openness to compromise in Iran talks: ‘Red line’ is nuclear weaponization

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Trump says he ‘wants Iran to be a wonderful, great, happy country. But they can’t have a nuclear weapon’; Witkoff says Saturday meeting in Oman with Iranian FM ‘about trust building’

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Feb. 25, 2025; Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, March 19, 2025. (AP Photos Stringer, Mark Schiefelbein)

A general view of the city, in Muscat, Oman, on Sept. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Mediator Oman at center of key first Iran-US meeting over Tehran’s nuclear program

By Jon Gambrell

Family of Israeli hostage Omri Miran hold an event celebrating his birthday while he is still in Hamas captivity, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on April 11, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Inside story

Israel submits softened hostage deal offer as Hamas delegation heads to Cairo

Officials tell ToI that Israel slightly reduced the number of living hostages it is demanding but wants speedier releases; agreed to withdraw from recently captured areas, hold talks on permanent ceasefire

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer attends a plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Hostage talks said to have lost ‘momentum’ since Dermer took over negotiating team

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

‘Why are they still there?’ asks Rachel Goldberg-Polin, on 2nd Passover with hostages in Gaza

By PHILISSA CRAMER

‘This year there is one question and one question only,’ says mother of slain hostage Hersh, as Jews mark festival of freedom with 59 hostages still held, 24 of them believed alive

The Asufa haggadah for 2025 includes multiple images showing yellow chairs at seder tables, symbolizing the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza. (Philissa Cramer / JTA)

Israelis hold a Passover seder at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on April 12, 2025. (Dana Reany/Hostages Family Forum)

Families of captives hold Passover Seder at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square

Troops of the 36th Division operate in the Morag Corridor in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on April 12, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF fully surrounds Rafah as Katz warns Gazans of ‘final moment to remove Hamas’

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Army says it is in complete control of Morag Corridor, cutting off Strip’s southernmost city from Khan Younis, where some Gazans ordered to leave after 3 rockets fired at border town shot down

Palestinians line up to fill cans with water in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gazans say renewed IDF attacks cut off clean water for hundreds of thousands

By Reuters and ToI Staff

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on April 11, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two soldiers wounded, Hamas commander killed as troops push forward in southern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

US student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil on the Columbia University campus in New York at an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (Ted Shaffrey/AP)

Immigration judge rules Columbia anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Court rules in favor of Rubio, who said Khalil’s presence in US poses ‘potentially serious foreign policy consequences’; appeal expected and different court has temporarily barred his removal

Jews attend a rally in support of detained anti-Israel Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. Several Jews later left the rally after speakers began denouncing Israel. (Courtesy of Ron Newman via JTA)

27 US Jewish groups file support for detained anti-Israel Tufts student

A farmer harvests the ‘manna’ sap from an ash tree in the Madonie region in Sicily. (Courtesy of the Museum of the Manna in Pollina)

‘The equivalent of a spice with a honey taste’

In this Sicilian town, manna is a heavenly delicacy with deep roots

By Rossella Tercatin

For centuries, farmers in the Madonie region have harvested sap from ash trees, and called it after a biblical predecessor. Once used for its therapeutic properties, the white, sugary product is now a culinary hit

What we should sing for at this year’s Passover seder

In the midst of war, turmoil, and profound uncertainty, songs of celebration might feel inappropriate – but we have been there before

How to legalize terrorism in 106 pages

If you appear in court with an application signed by the first chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, you are the terrorist

ExclusivePA official: 'A major step showing this isn't just talk'

PA invites US to verify that controversial prisoner payment system no longer in place

After US expressed skepticism, top Abbas aide sends letter to Rubio encouraging Trump delegation to come to Ramallah after June 1 and certify new welfare system up and running

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks while US President Donald Trump listens before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

The archaeological site known as Solomon’s Pools near Bethlehem in Area A, West Bank. (Wikipedia)

IDF to allow rare visit to ‘Solomon’s Pools’ archaeological site in West Bank

By Rossella Tercatin

The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance block at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York, has graves going back to the early 1900s. Visitors to the cemetery can take a self-guided audio tour to learn more about the history there. (Cathryn J. Prince)

Reporter's notebook'Yes, there are more dead people in Queens than living'

Sages, celebrities, veterans, crooks: Take a NY cemetery’s Jewish walks of fame – and infamy

By Cathryn J. Prince

Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens was founded in 1903 and holds over 231,000 graves. Its Legacy Foundation offers audio tours teaching visitors about the contributions of those interred

Hezbollah claims it has handed over most sites in southern Lebanon to nation’s army

By AFP and ToI Staff

Source close to terror group says it has withdrawn from 190 of 265 military positions ‘identified’ south of the Litani River

Men dressed in military fatigues stand next to the coffins of Hezbollah official Hassan Bdeir (R) and his son Ali (L) who were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted their apartment the previous day, ahead of their funeral procession in Beirut's southern suburbs on April 2, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

IDF troops carry out a drill on the Lebanon border, March 26, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reservist seriously hurt after unit mistakenly enters minefield on Lebanon border

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Lebanese army soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the southern Lebanese village of Houla on February 17, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

Lebanese army said to enter Hezbollah bases north of Litani River for first time

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner teaches at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF officers allow rabbi and aide to meet soldiers in Syria without proper approval

By Emanuel Fabian

Military counters report suggesting civilian hikers allowed into Syria, but says Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, 82, was permitted to meet with soldiers earlier this month, ahead of Passover

More Headlines

Security camera footage from the scene of a triple homicide shows two masked gunmen opening fire at a hookah store in the central city of Ramle, April 11, 2025. (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Three men shot dead in Ramle amid bloody underworld feud

Members of the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team celebrate their EuroCup tournament victory, April 11, 2025, after defeating Spanish squad Gran Canaria in the finals. (YouTube screenshot)

Hapoel Tel Aviv defeats Gran Canaria to win its first ever EuroCup Basketball

Then-US President Joe Biden, right, hugs his son Hunter Biden during the Democratic National Convention Monday, August 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

US seeks release of Israeli ex-FBI source who spread lies about Joe and Hunter Biden

Unrecognized Bedouin villages around the Ramat Hovav industrial area in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chenical evaporation ponds and an Israel Electric Corporation power plant on December 28, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)

Pensions and savings schemes are key pathway to fighting climate crisis, confab told

Yuval Raphael, Israel's contestant for the Eurovision Song Contest and a survivor of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption)

Spain’s public broadcaster calls for ‘debate’ over Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision

By AFP and ToI Staff

A dress and jacket that Princess Diana changed into on her wedding day made by designer David Sassoon is displayed during a media preview for the "Royal Style in the Making" exhibition at Kensington Palace in London, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Jewish royal fashion designer who dressed Princess Diana dies at 92

By Grace Gilson

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