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What Matters Most On Friday, April 18, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on April 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Iranians holding talks with Russians, Saudis

Trump: I wouldn’t say I waved off Israeli plan to attack Iran, but I’m not in a rush

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

PM touts ‘countless’ actions against nuke program, but doesn’t deny US president blocked strike; security officials fume at leak of IDF’s plans; US still supplying bunker-buster bombs

This handout picture made available by the Iranian Atomic Organization (AEOI) office shows the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi (L) being received by the head of the AEOI Mohammad Eslami (R) in Tehran on April 17, 2025. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran / AFP)

IAEA chief on Tehran visit: Iran, US ‘don’t have much time’ to reach nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

(R-L) Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Mossad chief David Barnea on September 10, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, on March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Mossad chief, Dermer meet US envoy Witkoff in Paris ahead of US-Iran nuclear talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel said looking to influence US position; Katz vows ‘whatever it takes’ to stop Iran from getting the bomb, as Iranian FM says deal possible if US isn’t ‘unrealistic’

This combination of file photos created on April 9, 2025, shows US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff speaking to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2025 (L), and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to AFP during an interview at the Iranian consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 7, 2025. (Mandel Ngan and Amer Hilabi / AFP)

Iran offered US a nuclear agreement with same enrichment cap as 2015 deal — report

Far-right ministers call to 'open the gates of hell on Hamas'

Hamas rejects Israeli hostage-truce proposal, dismisses Netanyahu’s ‘partial deals’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Terror group’s chief negotiator says Hamas open to releasing all hostages as part of deal that ends war; White House: Hamas ‘not interested in peace but perpetual violence’

Hamas senior member Khalil al-Hayya gives a televised speech rejecting Israel's offer of a temporary truce and hostage release deal, on April 17, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, April 17, 2025. (Alexander Nemenov / Pool / AFP)

Qatar’s ruler tells Putin Israel didn’t abide by Gaza truce that Doha helped mediate

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Members of the Gvura (Heroism) Forum, bereaved families and activists hold a press conference against a hostage deal with Hamas in Jerusalem, January 12, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Some 1,000 relatives of fallen soldiers said to sign letter in support of Gaza fighting

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

‘Humiliated’ hostage parents fume at negotiator Dermer: Our loved ones will be left to die

Tzvika Mor and Ditza Or, members of hawkish Tikva Forum, write scathing letter to Netanyahu confidant, saying he indicated their children are expected to wait politely in hell until their bitter end

Noam Dan, a relative of freed hostage Ofer Calderon, speaks to protesters outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Jerusalem on April 17, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Protesters in Jerusalem demand deal to free hostages, end ‘Netanyahu’s war’

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

An Israir flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Civil pilots, ex-soldiers and bereaved families join public calls for hostage deal

Inside Story

Gaza doctor’s post lays bare terror groups’ infiltration of enclave’s hospitals

Medical official sparks controversy online after speaking out against terrorists’ attempts to use Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital, revealing that he has been ‘openly threatened’

Israeli soldiers escort the media to an underground tunnel found underneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP/Victor R. Caivano)

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published on April 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Gaza photojournalist, family killed in Gaza strike; IDF says it targeted Hamas operative

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Fatima Hassouna, 25, was subject of documentary due to premiere at Cannes next month; military hits 40 targets across Strip, captures and destroys tunnels in north of the enclave

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the military on April 17, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF destroys Hamas training camp in Gaza, kills head of group’s smuggling unit

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli forces during a raid in the West Bank's Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, March 24, 2025. (Zain Jaafar / AFP)

IDF kills 2 Palestinians suspected of throwing stones at Israeli cars in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A reenactment of the American Revolution's Battle of Great Bridge takes place in Chesapeake, Virginia, December 8, 2024. (iStock photos/ Bill Chizek)

Interview'Religious freedom is a byproduct' of the revolution

How Jewish patriots in the US Revolutionary War helped shape the First Amendment

By Rich Tenorio

In new book ‘A Promised Land,’ history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews – then just 0.1% of the population – in fighting for independence and forging America

Viki and Romi Cohen, mother and twin sister of hostage Nimrod Cohen, speak at Hostages Square on February 1, 2025 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

April 18: Hostage’s mom says PM’s vague promise of ‘special statement’ is agony for families

Hezbollah official rules out talk of arms handover until Israel withdraws * IDF says it killed communications official for terror group in strike

7:31 pm

Houthis say 80 killed in deadliest US attack on Yemen
7:07 pm

Doctors forced to amputate leg of Palestinian shot by invading settler, locals say
6:55 pm

Hezbollah leader says group 'will not let anyone disarm it'

Screen capture from video of a murex mollusk. (YouTube)

'It was not just one individual dyeing a garment for a king'

Made from snails and fit for kings: First biblical-era dye factory found on Israel’s coast

By Rossella Tercatin

Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly supplying First Temple in Jerusalem

Dates harvested from 'Hannah,' the first female palm tree germinated from 2,000 year-old seeds discovered in the Judean desert, are displayed in Kibbutz Ketura in southern Israel, on September 27, 2021. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Sue Surkes: Israel’s biblical flora resurrected

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Sue Surkes

In honor of this week’s spring holidays, ToI’s environment reporter describes a date palm that was brought back from the dead, a Rose of Jericho plant that resurrects itself and more

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Harvard’s efforts to boost its ADL campus grade and US government overreach

Resolving the very real crisis facing Jews on campus should not jeopardize the entire enterprise of the American system of higher education

Faith in motion: The seventh day of Passover

Some people find unshakeable belief in the most impossible of times; others don’t know what they believe, but keep going anyway. Leaving Egypt needed both

On 1st US visit as minister; Ben Gvir to speak at Yale, NYC fundraiser for Chabad of Hebron

By Andrew Lapin

No meetings set with US officials or major Jewish groups; head of Yale-based Jewish society that extended invite says he admires far-right minister, who some groups plan to protest

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir outside a court hearing in Lod, April 15, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee holds up a note he says was given him by US President Donald Trump to be place in the crevices of the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 18, 2025. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)

New US envoy puts note with prayer from Trump in Western Wall: ‘For peace in Israel’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Mike Huckabee says US president told him first thing he should do as ambassador is to place message in 2,000-year-old holy site, offers own prayer for the return of the hostages

People walk during a march and prayer vigil in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 16, 2025, three days after an arson at the residence of Governor Josh Shapiro in the state capital. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)

Six years after deadliest antisemitic attack in US history

For some Pennsylvania Jews, torching of governor’s home echoes 2018 synagogue attack

By Peter Smith, MARK SCOLFORO and JONATHAN J. COOPER

‘Never did I think we’d be a generation that would have this kind of violent antisemitism,’ says CEO of Tree of Life, where 11 were murdered, after Josh Shapiro targeted on Passover

Chicago authorities charge man with hate crime for attack of Jewish DePaul students

By Grace Gilson

Smoke billows from a fire in the Jerusalem Hills, near the city of Beit Shemesh, apparently as a result of interceptor shrapnel following a missile attack by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, April 18, 2025. (Israel Police)

IDF intercepts Houthi missile after massive US strikes on Iran-backed Yemeni rebels

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Some Israelis injured rushing to shelter, ambulance service says; sirens across central Israel and West Bank preceded by glitchy first-ever use of early warning system

People take cover as sirens warn of an incoming missile fired from Yemen, at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Home Front Command deploys new alert system to give earlier warnings for Houthi missiles

By Emanuel Fabian

A screenshot of video purporting to show blazes at Yemen's Houthi-controlled Ras Isa oil port following US airstrikes, April 17, 2025. (X screenshot)

Houthis report at least 38 killed in US airstrikes on Yemen oil port

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Mourners carry the caskets of slain Hamas terror group commander Hassan Farhat (C), his son Hamza (R) and daughter Jenan (L), who were killed in an Israeli drone strike that targeted their apartment in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, during their funeral procession on April 4, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

Lebanon detains several suspects for March rocket attacks on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lebanese army says Palestinians among those held over incidents that Hezbollah denied responsibility for; Hamas acknowledges detentions, but denies those arrested were involved

AnalysisLebanon is removing Hezbollah flags and posters amid rising calls for disarmament

By Nurit Yohanan

US soldiers patrol in Syria's northeastern city Qamishli, in the Hasakeh province, mostly controlled by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on January 9, 2025. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

US to further reduce troop presence in Syria following post-Oct. 7 increase

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Beniamin Levishvili, 23, is the gabbai of the ancient synagogue in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. His late father Simon and grandfather Ioseb Levishvili held the position before him. (Sofia Poznansky)

Reporter's notebook'I stay because if not me, who will do it?'

In Georgia, a 23-year-old maintains a venerable synagogue, the last remnant of his community

By Sofia Poznansky

Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to fade. In his village, one young man seeks to preserve it

People march in a 'Hands Off!' protest against US President Donald Trump in New York, April 5, 2025. (AP/Andres Kudacki)

US to vet social media accounts of visa applicants who visited Gaza after 2007

By Humeyra Pamuk

Internal State Department cable says online profiles of relevant travelers should be searched for ‘potential derogatory information relating to security issues’

Students, faculty and members of the Harvard University community rally on April 17, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo)

Trump administration says Harvard could lose ‘privilege’ to admit foreign students

By Reuters and ToI Staff

This contributed photo shows Rumeysa Ozturk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. (AP Photo)

Immigration judge denies bond for Turkish US grad student, held for anti-Israel activism

By KATHY McCORMACK

A television screen displays market news at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square, New York City on April 9, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Israeli tech firms in US spared the worst of Trump tariffs, insiders say

Most Israel-founded companies sell software, which is exempt from administration’s levies, but the broader impact affects firms’ investments and markets

More Headlines

Supporters of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT), a student wing of Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party stage a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protest outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant calling for boycott of Israeli products on the outskirts of Islamabad on May 7, 2024. (Farooq Naeem/AFP)

Pakistani authorities arrest over 170 for anti-US, anti-Israel attacks on KFC stores

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Rescuers on the site where a cable car carrying tourists south of Naples has crashed after the cable snapped, killing at least four people and injuring one in Castellamare di Stabia, near Naples, Italy, April 17, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Israeli woman among 4 killed in southern Italy cable car accident

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US singer-songwriter John Ondrasik, known by his stage name Five for Fighting, plays the piano that stands at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, in a screen grab from the music video for the revamped version of his 2000 song 'Superman,' published April 14, 2025.

Power balladFive for Fighting serenades ‘Superhero’ Alon Ohel, other hostages

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

High Court rejects government bid to drop injunction against Shin Bet head’s ouster

File - The police van carrying the five Israelis who are accused of raping a British woman, arrives at the Famagusta District Courthouse in Paralimni, Cyprus, on September 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus attorney general appeals acquittal of 5 Israelis in alleged rape of UK tourist

The Texas State Capitol photographed on Monday, February 24, 2025 in Austin. (Elizabeth Conley/JTA via Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Texas lawmakers pass $1 billion school voucher bill, dividing Jewish community

By Grace Gilson

Elon Musk waves to supporters during a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Elon Musk asked Ashley St. Clair not to circumcise their Jewish son – report

By Grace Gilson

An illustrative photo of a private jet. (Eisenlohr via iStock by Getty Images)

US man shot and killed on small plane in Belize after attempting to hijack aircraft

By MEGAN JANETSKY and JULIE WATSON

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