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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 17, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks alongside US President Donald Trump during a meeting at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images via AFP)

Israel was 'at times optimistic that the US would sign off'

Trump blocked Israeli-proposed joint attack on Iran to pursue nuclear deal — report

By Nava Freiberg

NYT: Jerusalem sought US okay for week of strikes on regime’s nuclear facilities next month, but White House rifts spurred pivot to diplomacy shortly before Netanyahu’s visit

Outside the home of chief hostage negotiator Ron Dermer in Jerusalem on his birthday, protestors call on him to light up hope instead of blowing out candles (Credit Adar Eyal/Israeli Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 17: Day 559 – Hostage talks continue as US and Iran keep speaking

By Jessica Steinberg and Lazar Berman

Then-prime minister Yair Lapid, right, with then-alternate prime minister Naftali Bennett at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 18, 2022. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)

Bennett, Lapid blast Netanyahu after reports strike on Iran was scuttled

Hamas operatives seen as aid trucks arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip, January 21, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

Live updates (closed)

April 17: State Department spox avoids saying whether Israel should resume allowing Gaza aid

By Michael Horovitz, Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Hamas’s Gaza leader says terror group ready to negotiate deal that ends war, releases all captives * Trump: I wouldn’t say I waved off Israeli plan to attack Iran, but I’m not in rush to do it

8:47 pm

2 killed in Florida State University mass shooting
8:19 pm

Ben Gvir calls to up military pressure 'until Hamas is on its knees begging'
8:13 pm

Republican lawmakers announce probe into Harvard, demand files on anti-Israel protests

PM holds meeting on hostage talks as Hamas reviews Israeli proposal, rejects disarmament

By Nava Freiberg

Premier’s office says Netanyahu ordered ‘continuation of measures to advance the release of hostages’; senior Hamas member says ‘there is no room for any partial deal’

Demonstrators protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 16, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Smoke plumes billow from Israeli bombardment on the east of Gaza City as pictured from Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on April 14, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

IDF says holding off on bid to crush Hamas; current op aimed at coaxing it into deal

By Emanuel Fabian

'If Edan gets sick or has a cold, we'll blame Hamas'

US envoy: I’m sure Edan Alexander is in a decent place; we’ll come for Hamas if he’s harmed

Adam Boehler says he could resume direct talks with Hamas, after they fell apart in March amid Israeli pushback; claims offer he made in those talks was coordinated with Jerusalem

US hostage envoy Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony at the State Department in Washington on March 6, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Hostage Rom Braslavski speaks in a propaganda video published by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad on April 16, 2025. (Screenshot/Telegram)

‘Get me out of here’: Palestinian Islamic Jihad airs video of hostage Rom Braslavski

By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan

Palestinians protest against Hamas and for an end to the war in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya, April 16, 2025. (Screenshot: X; @hamza198708)

‘No to terror, yes to peace’: New anti-Hamas protest breaks out in northern Gaza

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Clips shared online show hundreds demonstrating in Beit Lahiya, chanting ‘Hamas out!’ ‘We want to live in freedom!’; clan leaders said to take part, as Hamas supporters thrown out

Hamas operatives seen as aid trucks arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip, January 21, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

Cash-strapped Hamas can’t pay fighters as Israeli offensive hits funding sources — report

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Even Trump understood: Netanyahu is not Israel

Sometimes it takes a child to shout out that the emperor has no clothes. In this case, the call came from the President of the United States

A handout artist's impression released on April 17, 2025 by N. Madhusudhan/University of Cambridge, shows the K2-18b super-Earth, a hycean world, such as exoplanet K2-18b which astronomers say they have found the strongest yet 'hints' of the life outside this solar system. (Handout / University of Cambridge / AFP)

Astronomers say they’ve found strongest ever ‘hints’ of life beyond our solar system

By Daniel Lawler

British-US team detects ‘biosignatures’ on planet K2-18b, 124 lightyears from Earth, says it is ‘closest we have come to seeing a feature that we can attribute to life’

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with freed Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas hostages Sasha Troufanov, Yelena Trufanova and Sapir Cohen at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 16, 2025. (Sofia Sandurskaya/Pool/AFP)

Putin hosts ex-hostages at Kremlin, hails Hamas for ‘humanitarian act’ of freeing them

By Nava Freiberg

Russian leader tells Sasha Troufanov, his mother and partner of ‘need to express words of gratitude’ to political heads of terror group who murdered his father during Oct. 7 attack

Screen capture from video of Moshe Or, brother of Gaza hostage Avinatan Or, in a video broadcast by the Al Jazeera network, April 16, 2025.

Brother of hostage Avinatan Or speaks to Al Jazeera, appeals to Hamas for info

Rescued hostage Noa Argamani attends an emergency conference on the medical condition of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip at the President Residence in Jerusalem, December 10, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Rescued hostage Noa Argamani included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025

By ToI Staff and JTA

ICC demands Hungary explain why it didn’t enforce Netanyahu arrest warrant

By Nava Freiberg

International Criminal Court cites Rome Statute authorizing proceedings against noncooperative party states; Budapest said during PM’s visit that it would withdraw from the ICC

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after a press statement at the Carmelite Monastery in the Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025. (AP/Denes Erdos)

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar leads a faction meeting of his New Hope party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Activists file arrest warrant for Sa’ar during his London visit

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Protesters wave Israeli flags and hold photos of people held hostage by Hamas in Gaza during a demonstration outside the British prime minister's offices in London, November 19, 2023. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Over 10% of members of UK’s main Jewish umbrella group sign letter urging end to Gaza war

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What Matters Now to Israel Story’s Mitch Ginsburg: A 1973 exodus from Egypt

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

ToI’s former military reporter brings us a full episode of ‘The Hebrew Hobbit,’ the journey of Israeli POWs who went there and back again before their release after the Yom Kippur War

Police use putrid Skunk liquid to disperse demonstrators blocking a road during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Jerusalem on May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

ToI investigates'You can smell it from 100 yards'

Critics cry foul as police use noxious Skunk liquid to disperse anti-government protests

By Charlie Summers

Authorities have sprayed the putrid substance out of water cannons at Palestinian and Haredi demonstrators for years. Now they’re turning it against political protesters

Lawmaker prostrates himself at Temple Mount, lauds ‘tremendous change’ in Jewish access

Religious Zionism’s Zvi Sukkot recalls arrest 14 years ago for doing the same thing; Minister Ben Gvir boasts of achieving new status quo

MK Zvi Sukkot, right, visits the Temple Mount, April 17, 2025. (Temple Mount Administration/courtesy)

Cody Balmer (left), a suspect in the arson at the home of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, is escorted from court after his preliminary arraignment on April 14, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

Warrant: Arsonist targeted Penn. governor over his ‘plans for the Palestinians’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Cody Balmer, alleged perpetrator of attack on Josh Shapiro’s residence on Passover eve, reportedly tells police he went after him for ‘having my friends killed’

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens as President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Accusing it of targeting Americans, Rubio shutters office that tracks disinfo from Iran, Russia, China

Sarah Resnick (right), a Jewish woman from New York, moved to Winnipeg in summer 2024 over concerns about the American political climate. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

'I'm a neurotic Jew. You get out sooner rather than later'

Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these US Jews are moving to Canada

By Andrew Lapin

Changing tides in the United States have some new Canadian residents thinking about Europe in the 1930s and doubting Trump’s promises to right antisemitism

A student protester stands in front of the statue of John Harvard, the first major benefactor of Harvard College, draped in the Palestinian flag, at an encampment of students protesting against the war in Gaza, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Trump calls for ‘joke’ Harvard to be stripped of US federal funding

President accuses university of ‘teaching Hate and Stupidity’ after it rejected his demands, including to reform programs with ‘egregious records of antisemitism or other bias’

Mohsen Mahdawi speaks at a protest on the Columbia University campus on November 9, 2023, in New York City. (Mukta Joshi/Getty Images/AFP)

US: Activism of Columbia anti-Israel protest leader undermines efforts to end Gaza war

By JTA and ToI Staff

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

Shin Bet official detained over classified leak released to house arrest

Court rejects authorities’ request that the suspect be held at home for 30 days, deciding instead on just seven; bureaucratic slip-up means he won’t be supervised

Left: Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Dudu Bachar/POOL)

Government urges High Court to withdraw injunction freezing Shin Bet head’s ouster

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

An employee shows photos, former belongings of victims and survivors of Nazi regime, in a storage house at the Arolsen Archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany on March 6, 2025. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)

Aided by German archive, descendants of victims of the Nazis retrace family history

By Céline LE PRIOUX

Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes are presented to court as two Belgian nationals, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national appeared for the hearing of their case, after they pleaded guilty to illegal possession and trafficking of garden ants, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Law Courts, in Nairobi, Kenya, April 15, 2025. (REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi)

Kenya says it busted plot to smuggle giant ants for exotic animal market

By edwin waita and monicah mwangi

Four suspected foreign smugglers charged, as agents say they uncovered attempt to traffic thousands of rare insects, including queen ants, out of the country

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Norwegian soccer player Erling Haaland, top, who plays for Manchester City, duels for the ball with Bournemouth's Lewis Cook during the English FA Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Bournemouth and Manchester City at the Vitality stadium in Bournemouth, England, March 30, 2025. (Ian Walton/AP)

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Dor Sarig (right) and Ziv Karliner, co-founders of Israeli AI security startup Pillar Security. (Courtesy)

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By Sharon Wrobel

A European and German flags wave at the Reichstag building, the house of German parliament Bundestag at the eve of the national election in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin WWII event snubs Russian, Belarusian envoys over Ukraine war

By AFP

Ben Platt arrives at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 25, 2024, in Santa Monica, California (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Backing fellow Jewish actress, Ben Platt says his identity ‘not defined’ by Israel

By Grace Gilson

Susan Smith (L) and Marion Calder, directors of For Women Scotland celebrate as they leave Britain's Supreme Court in London on April 16, 2025, following the court's ruling on how to define a 'woman'. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

UK’s top court rules definition of a woman is based on biological sex

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