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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 19, 2025

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The Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility buildings, 200 miles south of the capital Tehran, on March 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Israel said to be mulling limited attack on Iran nuke sites despite Trump waving off plan

Israeli officials said to be considering limited assault on nuclear facilities that would require less US support; report comes as US, Iran officials meet in Rome for 2nd round of talks

Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says it will never agree to dismantle uranium centrifuges, eliminate stockpile

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said during a meeting with him (not pictured) in Tehran, on May 29, 2023 (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Oman’s sultan to meet Putin in Moscow after Iran-US nuclear talks mediated by Muscat

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (left) in Paris, France, April 17, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP); Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow, Russia, April 18, 2025. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

April 19: US official: ‘Very good progress’ made in Iran talks; we’ll meet again next week

In recorded address, Netanyahu vows he won’t ‘capitulate’ to Hamas demand to end war, as demonstrators around country continue to demand he do that to return all hostages

8:13 pm

US official: 'Very good progress' made in Iran talks; we’ll meet again next week
7:33 pm

Houthis report fresh US airstrikes in rebel-held cities Sanaa, Hodeida
7:31 pm

Hostage Families Forum: Netanyahu's slogans can't hide simple fact he has no plan

Scenes from the video of the spoof song “Yum Yum” that has become a Passover hit. (TYH Nation)

Hit 'shows the maturity of meme culture among frum Jews'

Spoof song becomes surprise Passover hit in US Orthodox communities

‘Yum Yum,’ by the invented online persona Rabbi Greenspan, and its surrealistic, AI-generated video, illustrate the overlooked internet culture among religious Jews

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on as he arrives at France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for high-level talks to discuss Ukraine and its security in Paris, April 17, 2025. (Julien de Rosa, Pool via AP)

Rubio: All nations should respect Christians’ right to declare Christ is king

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Easter tweet follows demand for US State Department employees to report incidents of alleged anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration

Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks to Michael Benz, a Jewish former Trump official with a Hitler-praising online alter ego, April 16, 2025. (Screen capture, US State Department)

Rubio meets Jewish former Trump official who said Hitler ‘had some decent points’

By JTA and ToI Staff

The fire after the seder: A story of memory and resolve

What we learn from the response by Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor to the torching of the mansion where he held seder

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Why are Israelis happy? A Hebrew lesson in Zionism

I learned the secret to Israeli well-being from two seemingly random strangers after I first arrived in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a Passover address, April 11, 2025. (PMO)

PM’s office says Netanyahu to give ‘special statement’ Saturday on diplomatic matter

Vague announcement draws immediate backlash from hostage families anxious for breakthrough in talks to free their loved ones; statement expected to be pre-recorded

Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from the Kurdish city of Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Could AI solve the enigmas of ancient Talmud-like Christian manuscripts in Aramaic?

By Rossella Tercatin

An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial choices, similar to the redactors of Jewish Gemara

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Brooklyn fundraiser with Ben Gvir canceled days before far-right minister’s US trip

By Andrew Lapin

Webpages advertising benefit for Chabad of Hebron taken down after report on Ben Gvir’s scheduled appearance; organizers cite ‘unforeseen changes in the minister’s schedule’

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

Trump officials claim letter that sparked Harvard clash was sent erroneously – NYT

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Senior White House official blames university for ‘not picking up the phone’ to call administration; Harvard: ‘Recipients of such correspondence… don’t question its authenticity’

The Harvard campus Hillel House welcomes students into its 'safe space,' in Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, 2023. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

Jewish college students, alumni lament ‘weaponization of antisemitism’ across US

By Grace Gilson

A protester is removed as US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a town-hall style meeting on April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Gorgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Police tase hecklers at Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall, drawing cheers from crowd

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Hopes for society that’s free, peaceful, watched over by God

Josh Shapiro describes Passover arson attack, rebuffs Schumer’s call for hate probe

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Pennsylvania governor quotes Priestly Blessing, emphasizes message of religious tolerance, but says New York senator’s demand for civil rights investigation ASAP isn’t ‘helpful’

L: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in Hershey, Pa. on April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke); R: US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the Capitol in Washington on April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Profile

El Salvador’s president, Trump’s new deportation partner, is a pro-Israel Palestinian

The self-described ‘world’s coolest dictator’ has ancestry from Palestine on his father’s side, but compares Hamas to the MS-13 gang and claims his wife ‘has Jewish blood’

Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

US Supreme Court blocks new deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century wartime law

By Nicholas Riccardi and Mark Sherman

Inside Story

Eyeing an opportunity, settlers move to border towns so they’re ready to return to Gaza

Activist says some 30 families living at temporary sites, but 800 have signed up to move to 6 potential settlements in Strip; group holds Passover seder in border area in symbolic call

Arbel Zak, a senior Nachala leader, holds a map of envisioned settlements inside Gaza, at the Nahal Oz soldiers memorial overlooking Gaza, April 15, 2025. (Deborah Danan via JTA)

In this photo taken from video released by Al Masirah TV channel shows a burning oil tanker after US airstrikes targeted the Ras Isa oil port held by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Hodeida, Yemen, April 18, 2025. (Al Masirah TV via AP)

Houthis raise death toll in Yemen oil port attack to 80; fresh US strikes reported

By AFP and ToI Staff

Airstrikes in Ras Isa are deadliest yet since America began targeting the Iran-backed rebels in response to their attacks on ships and Israel

Accompanied by unidentified members of the delegation, U.S. congressman Cory Mills (R-FL), second from right, walks in the Old City of Damascus Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Republican US congressmen visit Syria, meet with new leadership, local Christians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PA leader Mahmoud Abbas separately meets with Syrian counterpart in Damascus; Syria’s FM to reportedly soon visit US as Islamist-led government pushes for lifting of sanctions

Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem gives a televised speech on December 14, 2024. (Press TV screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah ‘will not let anyone disarm it,’ vows leader Naim Qassem

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Ari Siegel pitched his business History By Mail on "Shark Tank." (Disney/Christopher Willard)

Stamp of approval

How ‘Lincoln’ in a kippah made a $250,000 deal on ‘Shark Tank’

By Grace Gilson

Entrepreneur Ari Siegel credits his Jewish identity with inspiring ‘History by Mail’ business concept that won over reality TV show judges

Comic books are displayed in Gene Yang's home on April 1, 2025, in San Jose, California (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

Superman DayCreated by 'two skinny Jews who couldn’t go fight Hitler'

As Superman turns 87, scholars reflect on hero’s religious undertones

By DEEPA BHARATH and BOB SMIETANA

The Man of Steel, dreamed up by Jewish teens in the 1930s, still inspires a unique reverence around the world that seems to border on the transcendent

Visitors discover the new room dedicated to the Holocaust, three days after its opening, at the Memorial of Caen, northwestern France, on April 4, 2025. (Lou Benoist/AFP)

Holocaust museums, seeking to center human experience, rethink use of graphic images

By Matthieu Clavel

New exhibits emphasize victims’ identities in bid to restore their dignity, and renew focus on up-front killings, so ‘faceless’ death camps don’t obscure perpetrators’ moral agency

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

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Illustrative: Police forces run past pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists at the university campus of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, on May 7, 2024. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

German court convicts man for antisemitic attack on Munich massacre victim’s grandson

By Grace Gilson

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., speaks to campaign workers, June 5, 1968, as his wife Ethel, left, and California campaign manager and speaker of the California Assembly, Jesse Unruh, look on, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

Trump releases 10,000 pages of records on Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination

By Josh Funk and HAYA PANJWANI

Can it fill the hole?‘New Absolute Bagel’ sign stirs fretful optimism in New York City

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Ratiopharm Ulm guard Ben Saraf, left, dribbles past Portland Trail Blazers guard Scoot Henderson during the first half of a preseason NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)

Israeli point guard Ben Saraf declares for NBA draft

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