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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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Defense Minister Israel Katz seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir: Allowing aid via private firms a historic mistake

Defense minister: Aid will enter Gaza only once civilian mechanism built to bypass Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

An earlier statement by Katz, read as signaling transfer of goods will be resumed soon, was met with intense coalition backlash; Hostage Families Forum decries his ’empty words’

Hamas Shejaiya Battalion commanders killed throughout the war in Gaza. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF kills Hamas’s Shejaiya Battalion chief, a week after eliminating his predecessor

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Members of the Palestine Red Crescent and other emergency services carry bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip's Khan Younis, March 31, 2025. (Eyad Baba / AFP)

Report: Autopsies show some Gaza medics killed by IDF in March were shot in the head

Live updates (closed)

April 16: Israeli security officials said to believe food, aid in Gaza will last only another month

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Shin Bet head Bar reportedly included in phone consultation despite feud with premier * Government urges High Court to nix order delaying Bar’s firing, argues it endangers security

8:15 pm

PM holds meeting on hostage talks as Hamas gets, studies Israeli proposal, rejects disarmament
7:18 pm

4 rescued as boat sinks in Sea of Galilee
7:11 pm

Yemen's Houthi media reports heavy US airstrikes on Sanaa

File: Former US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Edan Alexander, a hostage held by Hamas, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, October 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Hamas claims to have 'lost contact' with those holding Edan

Hostage’s father to PM: How do you plan to free the last captive without ending the war?

Adi Alexander wonders whether Trump, who campaigned on ending the Gaza war, will lose patience as the conflict drags on without the release of additional hostages

People walk past a puddle of water by a tent shelter erected near the rubble of a collapsed building in the Nasr neighborhood in western Gaza City on April 15, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Hamas said to reject Israeli proposal that it disarm as part of 6-week ceasefire

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Anat Angrest, mother of Matan Angrest, a soldier still being held captive by Hamas, wears Matan's uniform as she speaks to the crowd at a Shift 101 protest in the northern town of Kiryat Motzkin. (Amir Yarchi/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Hostage’s parents say Witkoff ‘cried’ at video of him, PM didn’t know he was wounded

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 558 of the war

Know your enemy: Trump must wise up, fast, to inhumane Hamas and ruthless Iran

No, Mr. President, Gaza’s genocidal terrorists don’t wink at their hostages or show any ‘sign of love,’ and Iran’s nuclear ambitions can’t be ‘easily’ solved in talks led by an overextended non-expert

US President Donald Trump gestures after hosting the 2025 College Football National Champions, Ohio State Buckeyes, celebrating the team's title-winning season with a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 14, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

A handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on November 4, 2019, shows the atomic enrichment facilities Natanz nuclear research center, some 300 kilometers south of capital Tehran. (HO / Atomic Energy Organization of Iran / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 16: Day 558 – US moves Iran nuclear red line, inching closer to Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

This satellite image released and taken on April 2, 2025 by Planet Labs PBC shows six American B-2 bomber planes on the tarmac of the US military base on Diego Garcia island. ( Handout / Planet Labs / AFP)

AnalysisMilitary strikes are unlikely to permanently destroy Iran’s nuclear program

By Francois Murphy and John Irish

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)

Iran’s FM says uranium enrichment ‘non-negotiable,’ after US says it cannot continue

By AFP and ToI Staff

Condemning ‘contradictory’ statements by Witkoff on Trump’s demands, Araghchi says Tehran ‘will find out the true opinions’ of the US in next round of talks

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC on March 6, 2025 (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

In swift reversal, Witkoff says any nuclear deal must ‘eliminate’ Iran’s enrichment, weaponization

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Op-Ed

It’s not leaks to the press that are at the heart of the new Shin Bet investigation

The fact that an employee of the security agency allegedly leaked classified information to a government minister close to the PM makes the recent affair a continuation of a dangerous pattern

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) sits with Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Left to right: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); 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)

Security discussion nixed after Smotrich refuses to attend alongside Shin Bet chief

File — An anti-Israel protest encampment is seen at Harvard Yard, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

President wants Harvard to apologize for campus antisemitism

Trump freezes $2.2b of Harvard’s funding, threatens to remove its tax-exempt status

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Administration demanding audits and overhauls, told university to report on noncitizen students’ conduct violations; Harvard president says antisemitism an excuse to push agenda

Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University, January 21, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

10 leading US Jewish groups denounce Trump administration’s campus crackdown

A New York City police officer keeps watch on the campus of Columbia University in New York, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Visa revocations sow panic for foreign students in US, as hundreds fear deportation

By ANNIE MA, MAKIYA SEMINERA and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER

Rachel Steinhardt

From one Jewish home to another: Finding Judaica for LA fire victims

It wasn’t about saving money, but about connection and meaning. Or, as one woman said as she spotted the mezuzahs: ’I don’t have a front door yet, but I will’

There is no Holocaust in Gaza

The industrialized extermination of a people targeted solely for their identity is not the same as a war started by Hamas terrorists aiming for the same thing

Former hostage Eliya Cohen recites the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall on April 15, 2025. (Western Wall Foundation)

Reporter's notebookMother Sigalit Cohen: 'He is here, like a child reborn'

Tens of thousands flock to Western Wall as ex-hostage Eliya Cohen says priestly blessing

By Rossella Tercatin

During the ceremony, the young man holds up posters for two captives still in the Strip, Segev Kalfon and Alon Ohel, as the massive crowd recites the prayer for the hostages

Illustrative: An Israeli Air Force F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft flies over Haifa on September 24, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

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

By Emanuel Fabian

Munition explodes on impact, causing large crater in open area of Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak; IDF says it was result of ‘technical malfunction,’ will investigate further

Billy (C), a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, enjoys having her chin stroked by the IDF soldier who found her in southern Gaza's Rafah, while she's held by Rachel Dancyg, her owner, upon their reunion in Nir Oz, on April 16, 2025.

Billy the Spaniel, abducted on Oct. 7, found in Gaza, reunites with her family in Kibbutz Nir Oz

Dog ran into IDF reservist’s arms in Rafah, and he took care of her there for 4 days before returning her to owner Rachel Dancyg, whose brother and ex-husband were murdered in Hamas captivity

Billy the spaniel is held by an Israeli soldier in Gaza, April 2025 (Social media)

A Passover miracleDog abducted from murdered hostage’s family found by IDF

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun attends a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via AP)

Lebanese president speaks of plans to disarm Hezbollah this year; terror group says no

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and AFP

Joseph Aoun says all weapons will come under state control through dialogue; official in terror group pushes back, says ‘any hand that reaches out to take them will be cut off’

Illustrative: Smoke at the site of reported Israeli artillery shelling of a Hezbollah target in the Lebanese village of Yohmor, in response to earlier rocket fire on Metula, March 22, 2025. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

IDF: Two Hezbollah members killed in southern Lebanon drone strikes

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Suspects in what Jordan said was a plot linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to carry out attacks on targets inside the kingdom involving rockets and drones, April 15, 2025. (Jordanian General Intelligence Department via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jordan says it foiled Muslim Brotherhood plot to attack kingdom with rockets, drones

By Agencies and ToI Staff

16 suspects linked to country’s largest opposition group said to have been trained and financed in Lebanon

Weapons seized from a drone during an attempted smuggling over the Egyptian border, April 15, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF downs drone smuggling guns from Egypt, seizes weapons

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: American soldiers drive a Bradley fighting vehicle during a joint exercise with Syrian Democratic Forces at the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria, December 8, 2021. (Baderkhan Ahmad/AP)

US military said poised to slash troops in Syria; Israel seeks to limit reduction

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel has been kept in the loop about plan that could see US troop presence shrunk from 2,000 to 1,000; Jerusalem fears it will increase Turkey’s ‘appetite’ to control Syria

Israeli soldiers operate with their armored vehicles in the West Bank city of Jenin, March 4, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF kills last surviving terrorist behind deadly West Bank shooting

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Mohammed Zakarneh, one of 3 gunmen in January’s al-Funduq attack, killed near Jenin; two American tourists injured in a stone-throwing attack near Ramallah

The Palestinian village of Burqa is seen as an Israeli flag is placed in the Jewish West Bank outpost of Homesh, January 17, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Two US tourists lightly hurt as stones thrown at bus in West Bank

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecm, Poland receives about 1% of the 2.3 million visitors who come to the former death camp each year. (Courtesy of the Auschwitz Jewish Center via JTA)

80 years after Auschwitz was liberated, kosher food returns to its town of Oswiecim

By Shira Li Bartov

Auschwitz Jewish Center, housed in last remaining synagogue near site of Nazi death camp, will have kosher food available for visitors, starting ahead of Yom HaShoah this month

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A tent encampment is seen at Northwestern University on Friday, April 26, 2024, in Evanston, Illinois. Students want the university to divest from funds connected to Israel or that profit from its war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

‘Death to Israel’ graffitied on Northwestern University building during Passover

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative: Jews pray at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on April 2, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police said to allow group of 180 Jews onto Temple Mount, further testing norms

Russian journalists, from left, Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin, Artyom Kriger and Antonina Favorskaya, accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stand in a defendant's cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo)

Russian court convicts Israeli national, 3 others for work with Kremlin foe Navalny

By AP

A Hertz rental car is being scanned by Israeli startup UVeye's AI-driven inspection system. (Courtesy)

Hertz taps Israeli tech startup for automated inspection systems at US airports

By Sharon Wrobel

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy delivers opening remarks during the London Sudan conference at Lancaster House in London, April 15, 2025. (Isabel Infantes/Pool Photo via AP)

UK sanctions Iran-linked Swedish gang for violence against Jewish, Israeli targets

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Hacker using laptop on abstract binary code map background. (Peshkov/ iStock, by Getty Images)

US lawyer says UK intel firm paid Israeli hacker to target him during court battle

By Raphael Satter

Illustrative image of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) (Phonlamai iStock by Getty Images)

ChatGPT CVIsrael tops list of countries with highest self-reported AI skills

By Sharon Wrobel

Harvey Weinstein attends his retrial on rape and sex assault charges at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, April 15, 2025 (ANGELA WEISS / POOL / AFP)

Harvey Weinstein’s retrial for sex crimes begins, after 2020 conviction overturned

By Gregory WALTON

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