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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits troops in Gaza, April 15, 2025 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

April 15: Netanyahu visits Gaza where he says Hamas will suffer ‘more and more blows’

Facing growing protests from reservists, IDF said moving to reduce reliance on them * IAF fighter jet accidentally drops munition near Israeli border community; none hurt

8:53 pm

3-year-old spaniel abducted on Oct. 7 found in Gaza, to be returned to family
7:35 pm

IDF captures assault rifles during attempt to smuggle them from Egypt using drone
7:20 pm

IAF fighter jet accidentally drops munition near Israeli border community; none hurt

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)

Khamenei: Our red lines are clear

Witkoff indicates US seeks to cap Iran uranium enrichment, not dismantle nuclear program

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Trump’s envoy focuses on importance of enrichment levels during media interview on negotiations; confusion over where second round of talks to be held, Oman or Rome

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele (not in picture) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump: ‘I’ll solve the Iran problem; if we have to do something very harsh, we’ll do it’

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him addressing a meeting with a group of armed forces commanders and clerics in Tehran on April 13, 2025. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iran insists military capabilities and proxy groups are ‘red lines’ in talks with US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Left to right: Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security service, attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); 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); Journalist Amit Segal at a Conference of the "Besheva" group in Jerusalem, on February 24, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a display of weapons seized during police operations, in Beit Shemesh, April 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Chikli, who received info: 'Hero' suspect exposed corruption

Shin Bet official detained for classified intel leak; coalition fumes over ‘deep state’ probe

‘Aleph’ suspected of leaking info on probe into Kahanism in police force under Ben Gvir; his lawyer says he shared Oct. 7-related material; PM shares post claiming Bar, Baharav-Miara turned agency into ‘militia’

The Department of Internal Police Investigations in Jerusalem, July 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

New national security affair being probed; details barred from publication

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff. (Karen Minasyan/AFP; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via AFP)

Analysis

Iran wants to drag out talks, Trump wants a deal now. Neither is good for Israel

Both sides say a good start was made in Oman, where it is unlikely that Steve Witkoff was pushing for full dismantlement of Tehran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu could find himself in a corner

Gaza hostage talks still stalled, official says, amid reports of incremental progress

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas says it is studying new Israeli proposal, but official from group reiterates that it won’t disarm and wants permanent end to war in what likely prevents breakthrough

Protesters, led by family members of people held hostage in Gaza, hold placards showing the face of hostage Edan Alexander, near the home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Jerusalem, on April 13, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shye Klein-Weinstein, a 28-year-old survivor of the October 7, 2023, massacre by Palestinian terrorists, poses for a picture at a memorial to the victims of the Nova Musical Festival in Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel on March 30, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Nova survivors who took MDMA at festival are coping better with trauma, study finds

Hostage families and their supporters protest for the release of captives held in Gaza, outside the home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, in Jerusalem, on April 13, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Educators, reservists, ex-diplomats are latest to urge hostage deal, even by ending war

Petitions signed by thousands pan ongoing fighting for allegedly serving political interests, straying from war goals; warn operation endangers lives of hostages, Gaza civilians

A passerby looks at photos of the hostages in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, January 23, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ex-hostages, prominent authors join mounting calls for deal – even if it ends war

By Stav Levaton, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Hundreds of demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 12, 2025, calling on Harvard University to resist the US administration's pressure to overhaul policies in the name of combating antisemitism or else lose billions of dollars in funding. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via AP)

Harvard defies Trump call for changes in policy on antisemitism; risks $9b in funding

By Agencies and ToI Staff

University says sweeping list of demands violate constitutional rights; Harvard’s president, who is Jewish, says it has made extensive reforms to address antisemitism

This image taken from a video provided by Christopher Helali shows Mohsen Mahdawi, an anti-Israel protest leader at Columbia University, being detained at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vt., April 14, 2025. (Christopher Helali via AP)

US immigration detains another Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader

Volunteers clean Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Brussels, Belgium, during a Yom Hashoah Stolpersteine cleaning event co-organized with the European Jewish Association, April 27, 2022. (Courtesy of Make Their Memory Shine)

In Brussels schools, students equating Gaza war with Holocaust stymie remembrance

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prof. Hermona Soreq of Hebrew University (Courtesy/Yosef Adest)

Israeli scientists develop first-ever blood test for early detection of Parkinson’s

By Diana Bletter

Hebrew University researchers say their innovative test can find tRNA fragments unique to the neurodegenerative disease before patients even have symptoms

Damage to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion is visible after a man was arrested in the alleged arson that forced Gov. Josh Shapiro to flee in the middle of the night on Passover, April 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Commonwealth Media Services via AP)

Suspect in arson at home of US Jewish governor planned to beat him with a hammer

By AP and ToI Staff

Cody Balmer ‘admitted to harboring hatred’ towards Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, is being treated at hospital following an unrelated medical event

Guy Poirot, born on March 11, 1945 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, poses with a portrait of his mother from the book 'De la resistance' in Nancy, north-eastern France, on December 10, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP)

'We are the children of all those women'

The miracle babies who survived Ravensbrück concentration camp

By AFP and ToI Staff

Infants secretly born in German concentration camp were kept alive by community of women prisoners who risked everything to protect them

Pamela S. Nadell

The NEH has helped scholars tell important Jewish stories. What now?

If the Trump administration cared so much about antisemitism, it wouldn’t go after the National Endowment for the Humanities

Andrew Esensten

This African Hebrew Israelite busker spreads joy across Tel Aviv

The performer who makes a living singing on the street and at weddings and bar mitzvahs had an unfortunate run-in with the police

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu tells Macron a Palestinian state would be ‘huge prize for terror’

French president urges PM to renew aid to Gaza and end the war, in phone call 3 days after premier’s son swore online at Macron for planning to recognize Palestinian statehood

PA Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (L) shakes hands with EU High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas (R) ahead of a European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the European Convention Center Luxembourg (ECCL) in Luxembourg City, on April 14, 2025. (JOHN THYS / AFP)

Top EU diplomat: Israel has right to self-defense but current actions disproportionate

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF soldiers arresting a Palestinian teenager at Jenin Government Hospital, in the West Bank, April 14, 2025. (X video)

IDF troops enter Jenin hospital without proper approval; military probes incident

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel Police chief Daniel Levy (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a display of weapons seized during police operations, in Beit Shemesh, April 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

After eight murders in Arab community at weekend, Ben Gvir demands police crackdown

By Charlie Summers

Minister in charge of police said to scold senior officers, urge they make use of new law allowing use of administrative orders against criminal suspects

Dr. Doron Yaakov, head of the Jewish Oral Traditions collection at the Academy of Hebrew Language and researcher at the Historical Dictionary Project, at the Cultural and Educational Center on March 24, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

'Recordings are only testimonies of those renditions'

Research center works to save myriad Hebrew dialects shaped by millennia of wandering

By Rossella Tercatin

Israel’s Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly becoming lost by its own work to standardize language

A boy looks at shipping containers in Haifa's port , Israel, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 15: Day 557 – Tariffs, a tech brain drain and manna from Sicily

By Jessica Steinberg, Sharon Wrobel and Rossella Tercatin

Tech editor Sharon Wrobel discusses US tariffs and the war’s effect on the tech industry; archaeology reporter Rossella Tercatin reviews the evolution of Hebrew accents, plus manna in Italy

End of Days and divine providence: Netanyahu gives interview to evangelical Trump adviser

Paula White, head of White House Faith Office, asks PM about Armageddon, Trump assassination attempt, in latest US interview amid PM’s yearslong shunning of most Israeli media

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks to evangelical pastor and senior adviser to the White House Faith Office, Paula White (L) in an interview published April 11, 2025. (Screen capture via YouTube)

Reporter's notebook

On Palm Sunday, Israeli volunteers escort Christian processions to report racist incidents

Volunteers from the Religious Freedom Data Center accompany Armenian, Latin, clerics to and from Church of Holy Sepulchre during their annual holy week ritual

Reuma Weizman, wife of Israel's then-president Ezer Weizman, during a special session of the Knesset on October 27, 1994 in Jerusalem. (AP/Joe Marquette)

Obituary

Eyewitness to history and former first lady, Reuma Weizman dies age 99

Post-WWII, the humanitarian aided orphaned Holocaust survivor children in Germany and later leveraged her position to open the President’s Residence for underprivileged Israelis

More Headlines

Lebanese soldiers secure the site of an Israeli drone attack that targeted a vehicle on the international Beirut-Damascus road in the area of Araya, east of Beirut on October 31, 2024 (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

IDF says it killed Hezbollah special ops commander in drone strike in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, Reuters and ToI Staff

Tourists relax at a beach in Maafushi, an island in Maldives, on October 22, 2024. (Mohamed Afrah / AFP)

Maldives bans Israelis to show ‘resolute solidarity’ with Palestinians amid Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, left, shakes hands with Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, on April 14, 2025. (Lebanese Government press office via AP)

Lebanon’s PM visits Syria’s interim president to discuss border, prisoners, refugees

By AP

Police officers operate in the West Bank town of ad-Dhahiriya, April 14, 2025. (Israel Police)

Palestinian suspect in stolen vehicle hits Israeli police officer in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities, in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Robert Hegedus/MTI via AP)

Hungary approves bans on LGBTQ+ public events, recognizes two sexes only

By Justin Spike

Syrian Alawite families who fled the clashes in Syria hold their luggage as they cross a river marking the border between Syria and northern Lebanon near the village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province, Lebanon, March 11, 2025. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Fearful Syria’s Alawites still face attacks a month after wave of deadly violence

By BASSEM MROUE and Kareem Chehayeb

An Islamic boys' school is depicted under construction, in a promotional video for 'EPIC City,' a proposed Islam-centered development project in Texas, posted April 7, 2024. (Screen capture via YouTube)

Islam-centered neighborhood plan draws backlash from Texas governor, locals

Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on Saturday, April 5, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes stand in historic antitrust trial

By brian witte and Barbara Ortutay

A rat crosses a Times Square subway platform in New York City, January 27, 2015. (AP/Richard Drew)

Gnawing at the problemJewish New York City mayor candidate vows to tackle rats

Ilya Sutskever, Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and then-chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at a TED AI conference in San Francisco on October 17, 2023. (Glenn Chapman / AFP)

Google and Nvidia said to back OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s safety startup

By Sharon Wrobel

Denver's Zeev Buium in action during the second period in a semifinal game in the NCAA Frozen Four men's college hockey tournament against Western Michigan in St. Louis on April 10, 2025. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

On thin iceWith NHL playoffs at stake, Israeli-American rookie jumps in

By AP

Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy will speak at the opening event of Jerusalem International Writers Festival, May 18. 2025. (Credit Alexis Duclos)

Book timeBernard-Henri Lévy to open Writers Fest, Book Forum in Jerusalem in May

By Jessica Steinberg

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