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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 13, 2025

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This combination of pictures shows US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff after a meeting with Russian officials at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025 (L); and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to AFP during an interview at the Iranian consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 7, 2025. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN and Amer HILABI / various sources / AFP)

Witkoff to WSJ: Our red line, there can’t be weaponization

Trump envoy Witkoff and Iranian FM meet after first round of nuclear talks in Oman

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

White House calls meeting ‘a step forward in achieving a mutually beneficial outcome’; Iran FM says US wants to reach a new agreement ASAP but ‘that will not be easy’; more talks in a week

This handout picture provided by Khabar Online on April 12, 2025, shows Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (2nd-L) speaking with members of the Iranian delegation after a meeting in Muscat during nuclear talks with the US. (KhabarOnline / AFP)

Iran: Talks with US to stay ‘indirect,’ will only address nuclear issues and sanctions

By AFP and ToI Staff

Omani security personnel watch a convoy believed to be carrying US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat, Oman, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

ExplainerFrom ‘Atoms for Peace’ to Witkoff: A history of Iran’s nuke program, and efforts to stop it

By AP and ToI Staff

The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Hospital in the aftermath of a strike that Israel says targeted a Hamas command center at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, in the Strip's north, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Air defenses down fifth rocket fired from Gaza in past day

IDF says it hit a Hamas command center embedded in Gaza City hospital

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Al-Ahli shut down, says terror group; no casualties reported after Israel gives early warning; at least 21 said killed in other strikes, including on Deir al-Balah Hamas site

Men riding a horse-drawn cart carrying chopped tree branches for lumber watch as a smoke plume erupts from a building that was hit by an Israeli strike after prior warning in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on March 25, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)

IDF intercepts rocket fired from Gaza on Passover Eve, orders evacuation in launch area

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Iris Schwartz (foreground) and other relatives of Edan Alexander, who is held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, address protesters outside the Jerusalem home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, head of Israel's negotiating team, demanding the government secure the release from Hamas captivity of all hostages, April 13, 2025. (Yair Palti, Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

April 13: Rally for hostage deal held near top negotiator’s home: ‘These could be their last moments’

Netanyahu tells family of hostage Eitan Mor that efforts to free captives continuing ‘at this very moment’ * Over 250 ex-Mossad members urge return of captives even at cost of ending war

9:49 pm

Police arrest man for arson attack on Pennsylvania governor's residence
8:44 pm

Greek extremist group dedicates bombing to 'the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance'
8:27 pm

Houthis report 5 killed, dozens injured in US strikes on Yemen

Hamas releases propaganda video showing US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Clip is second sign of life from lone soldier since he was taken captive on Oct. 7; his parents say Passover ‘not a holiday of freedom’ until he and the other captives come home

Hostage soldier Edan Alexander is seen in a propaganda video released by the Hamas terror group on April 12, 2025. (Courtesy)

US and Saudis to ink nuclear cooperation agreement; no mention of Israel normalization

Visiting Riyadh, American energy secretary says deal will help develop Saudi Arabia’s civilian nuclear capabilities

Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman speaks during the annual Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 29, 2024. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

Young Jewish adults hike up Masada near the Dead Sea during their 10-day Birthright trip. (courtesy)

Inside story

‘Transformative’: After 25 years, has Birthright Israel really reshaped US Jewry?

Analysts debate the successes – and failings – of the iconic Jewish heritage trip as it surpasses 900,000 young adults brought on free visits to Israel, over a quarter of a century

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

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 13: Day 555 – Israeli art in a post-October 7 world

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jessica Steinberg

Culture editor Jessica Steinberg charts the pivot that art institutions are taking in light of the ongoing war, speaks about families of hostages marking the festival of freedom

Nathanael Andrade

Who killed Jesus, the Jews or the Romans?

It was Pontius Pilate who ordered the crucifixion, but early Christian literature shifted the blame from him to Jews. Here’s why

A holiday of freedom in the land of captivity

Those who are unwilling to confront the moral and legal implications of the occupation are not truly celebrating freedom

The stories of those who hid in a dumpster and were ultimately murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, on October 7, 2025, photographed on March 25, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

'You can't cope with an event like this'

Telling victims’ stories, artist turns Nova’s killing fields into a healing memorial

Teaming up with victims’ families and KKL-JNF, Amir Chodorov is working around the clock to commemorate the lives of each of the hundreds of people slaughtered there on October 7

Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on April 12, 2025, in Ottawa, Canada. (Dave Chan / AFP)

Canada’s Tory leader vows to deport foreigners for antisemitic crimes

By AFP

‘We will bring in tougher laws to target vandalism, hate marches that break laws and violent attacks,’ Pierre Poilievre says

Mohammed Abd Tarabieh, 28, left, was murdered in Sakhnin on April 12, 2025; Elias Matran, 31, right, was murdered in Nazareth on April 13, 2025. (Courtesy: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two Arab men shot dead in separate incidents amid slew of murders over recent days

Victims named as Mohammed Abd Tarabieh, 28, and father of two Elias Matran, 31; killings bring homicides recorded in community since start of 2025 to 75

The bus that was blown up in a July 2012 terrorist attack on Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria. (AP/Impact Press Group)

2012 Bulgaria bus bomber buried at Hezbollah cemetery in Lebanon

Ex-chief of Lebanese intel agency says he helped negotiate return of remains of terrorist who killed 5 Israelis, Bulgarian bus driver in Burgas

Yuval Raphael, Israel's Eurovision 2025 representative and survivor of the Oct. 7 attack on the Nova festival, speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Eurovision organizers shun Spanish request to hold debate on Israel’s participation

EBU notes ‘concerns and deeply held views regarding the conflict in the Middle East’ but says all members will participate in song contest

US Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont, greets supporters after speaking at the "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here" rally at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles on April 12, 2025. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)

‘Fighting Oligarchy Tour’: Bernie Sanders seeks to galvanize resistance to Trump

By Romain FONSEGRIVES

83-year-old socialist is drawing large crowds at rallies, and even put in a surprise appearance at Saturday’s Coachella music festival, trying to raise the US left from its apathy

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Miami, Florida, April 12, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Top US law firm sues Trump for seeking to ‘exact revenge’ on it; 5 others make deals

By Mike Scarcella, Sara Merken and David Thomas

Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States peer through their plane window as they arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

US Supreme Court rules Trump can deport Venezuelans under 18th century wartime law

By Mark Sherman

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Firefighters put out fires sparked by a Russian missile attack that killed at least 21 people in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, April 13, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Services via AP)

At least 32 killed in Russian missile attack on northeast Ukraine’s Sumy city center

By AFP

Pope Francis arrives at the end of the mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Convalescing Pope Francis greets faithful at Vatican, delivers brief remarks

By Colleen Barry

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