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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 20, 2025

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This image grab from a handout video reportedly recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers and released by the Palestine Red Crescent Society on April 5, 2025, shows ambulances with their emergency lights flashing and a rescuer near one of the vehicles in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the PRCS. (Palestinian Red Crescent/AFP)

Investigation finds no evidence rescue workers were executed

Admitting ‘errors,’ IDF fires officer over killing of 15 rescue workers in Gaza’s Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian

Probe finds troops did not violate code of ethics but made ‘professional errors’ and breached protocol when they opened fire on ambulances, fire truck and UN vehicle on March 23

Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome before nuclear talks, on April 19, 2025. (Handout / ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / AFP)

Trump administration official says 'very good progress' made

After Rome talks, Tehran says Iran and US ‘to start designing framework’ for nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Third round of negotiations to be held in Oman next week; Iranian FM says he and Trump’s envoy Witkoff ‘managed to reach a better understanding on a series of principles and goal’

Warrant Officer G'haleb Sliman Alnasasra, who was killed in the northern Gaza Strip on April 19, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli soldier killed in Hamas attack, in first since collapse of Gaza ceasefire

By Emanuel Fabian

Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra slain, 5 others, including 3 female troops, hurt in incident near Beit Hanoun; IDF: 150 targets hit, 40 operatives killed over weekend

FILE: Protesters chant slogans as they wave Hamas, Turkish and Palestinian flags outside the residence of the Israeli ambassador in Ankara, on May 14, 2018, during a demonstration against the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Adem Altan)

Turkey’s spy chief meets with Hamas leaders for talks on Gaza aid delivery

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Lishay Lavi-Miran, whose husband Omri Miran is held hostage, shouts to him near the Israeli border with Gaza, April 20, 2025 (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

‘Don’t lose hope’: Families of hostages shout across Gaza border to loved ones

Elkana Bohbot’s uncle calls Hamas propaganda film of nephew ‘obscene’; Yehuda Cohen, whose son Nimrod is also held in captivity, urges Trump to ‘force Netanyahu to end this bloody war’

Israeli hostage Elkana Bohbot in a Hamas propaganda video published on April 19, 2025.

In third Hamas video, Elkana Bohbot pleads for his release, says he fears for his life

Yael (R) and Adi Alexander, parents of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, who is held in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists, walk back into the West Wing of the White House after talking to reporters on December 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

In message to son: 'Just believe. Nobody forgot about you'

Father of US-Israeli hostage hopeful son still alive, calls for direct talks with Hamas

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Adi Alexander’s comments come after Hamas claimed it doesn’t know Edan’s fate; desperate father urges US to speak with terror group as other negotiations seem ‘stalled’

Released hostage Ilana Gritzewsky speaks at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, April 19, 2025. (Alon Gilboa/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Ex-hostage at rally: How can state founded in wake of Holocaust forget its citizens?

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Sylvia Cunio, mother of hostages David and Ariel Cunio, at the Gaza border near Kibbutz Nir Oz on April 20, 2025, calling for her sons and the other hostages to be freed in one phase. (Credit Tanya Zion-Waldoks/Israeli Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 20: Day 562 – Hostages’ families in anguish as PM says no deal

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a recorded statement, April 19, 2025. (Prime Minister's Office/screenshot)

Hostages' families: He has no plan to return our loves ones

Netanyahu: Won’t surrender to Hamas by ending war to get back hostages; can’t trick Hamas either

By Jeremy Sharon

PM insists fighting won’t end until terror group destroyed, derides ‘experts’ who say he could fool Hamas with fake promise to end war, get captives back, and then resume fighting

Palestinian terrorists are seen at an entrance to Kibbutz Nir Oz, during the Hamas-led onslaught on October 7, 2023. (AP/Hassan Eslaiah)

Report: Israel asks US not to indict Oct. 7 terrorists before it files own charges

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett donates blood in memory of Sgt. First Class Yona Brief, March 27, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ FLASH90)

Bennett hospitalized overnight after feeling unwell, undergoes cardiac catheterization

Former PM admitted to Meir Medical Center following a workout and is in good condition, says his spokesperson; will remain hospitalized for monitoring and treatment

Illustrative: View of the passport control machines at Ben Gurion Airport, May 20, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)

Live updates (closed)

April 20: Israel cancels entry visas for 27 left-wing French lawmakers days before trip

IDF admits to ‘professional errors’ in killing of 15 rescue workers in Gaza, ousts officer responsible * Visiting Syria, IDF chief says troop presence is to ‘best protect ourselves’

11:47 pm

In first, PM said seeking to attend Western Wall ceremony at start of Memorial Day
8:58 pm

Israel cancels entry visas for 27 left-wing French lawmakers
8:40 pm

Trump says he hopes Russia and Ukraine will strike a 'deal this week'

Lebanese president: Disarming Hezbollah a 'delicate' issue

In first since ceasefire, Lebanese army says it foiled rocket attack on Israel

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

LAF reports it arrested those involved, confiscated rockets and launch pads, in incident tied to March rocket fire; Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike

A handout picture provided by the Lebanese armed forces on April 20, 2025, shows weapons that the army said were seized after troops searched an apartment in the Sidon-Zahrani area in southern Lebanon. (Lebanese Armed Forces / AFP)

Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, with his siblings from left to right, Sakina, 8, Nahla, 9, and Aya, 5, at his home in the village of Qaminas, east of Idlib, Syria, April 9, 2025. (Ghaith Alsayed/AP)

‘There were days I didn’t want to live anymore’: Land mine horrors persist in Syria

By GHAITH ALSAYED and Sally Abou Aljoud

Stephen M. Flatow

What grief can do to you

I remember my daughter Alisa’s murder like it was yesterday, but 30 years later, I mourn differently

Nowhere to run, no one to care: Trauma in Arab society after October 7

Compared to Jewish society, Arab communities were less prepared for war, especially when it came to protective infrastructure

Prof. Jacob Ashkenazi from the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee as he cleans an inscription found in Horvat Hesheq, between Carmiel and Maalot, in 2018. (Prof. Jacob Ashkenazi)

'We surveyed over 70 churches in Western Galilee alone'

In early Christian Holy Land, private churches rose as acts of faith — and displays of power

By Rossella Tercatin

During 4th-7th century CE, new research shows, Christian elites built numerous private churches, while Jewish donors appeared to pool their resources in a communal synagogue

Eli Feldstein, a spokesman in the Prime Minister's Office accused of leaking stolen IDF intelligence classified documents, arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

In public spat, lawyers for Qatargate suspect accuse Netanyahu spokesman of ‘hysteria’

Premier’s spokesperson claims Eli Feldstein didn’t work for PM’s office for months before scandal erupted; suspect’s attorneys say there’s ‘mountains’ of proof he did

Screen capture from video of Irish band Kneecap displaying anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian messaging during its performance at the Coachella music festival in California, April 19, 2025. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Irish band Kneecap projects ‘F*ck Israel’ on Coachella music festival stage

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Group accuses US government of enabling Israel to commit ‘genocide’ in Gaza Strip, makes good on promise to repeat remarks that were cut from livestream a week earlier

Screenshot of footage posted by Yesh Din showing settlers using a bulldozer to set up an illegal outpost near Turmusaya, West Bank, April 18, 2025. (Yesh Din English / X)

Settlers filmed establishing new illegal outpost in West Bank under IDF protection

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Video shows construction equipment being used to move earth, set up mobile homes; locals say Palestinian man shot by settler in West Bank had leg amputated at Israeli hospital

Pluri employees at the Israeli biotech firm's cell therapy production facility in Haifa. (Courtesy/Michael Brikman)

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In case of a nuclear event, Ukraine to use Israeli placenta-based emergency treatment

By Sharon Wrobel

Amid rising threat from Russia, Pluri partners with Ukrainian blood bank to stockpile remedy for deadly radiation poisoning that uses cells grown from donated placentas

Zelensky: Ukraine will keep Putin’s Easter truce, but Moscow already violated ceasefire

By Barbara WOJAZER

Putin declares temporary unilateral Easter truce in war against Ukraine

Christian pilgrims light candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Orthodox Christian pilgrims gather in Jerusalem for annual Holy Fire ceremony

Masses convene the day before Easter at Church of Holy Sepulchre to witness ritual ignition of candles at traditional site of Jesus’s tomb

Gabay and Hadas Yaron play father and daughter in 'Kugel,' a new Israeli series set in the haredi Orthodox community of Antwerp. (Izzy via JTA)

Interview'I had nothing to do with Yiddish, but I know these people'

‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex Haredi Jew in ‘Kugel’

By Gabe Friedman

The Iraqi-born actor is reprising his role as the Yiddish-speaking Nuhem in a highly-anticipated prequel to the hit series ‘Shtisel,’ set in Antwerp

'How To Enjoy Nature (Go Outside)' by Neta Moses, part of 'Desktop,' open through January 3, 2026 at the Haifa Museum of Art (Courtesy)

African artifacts, digital designs and angler art on display in Haifa

By Jessica Steinberg

Haifa Museum of Art and National Maritime Museum showcase new artists, as well as older works from their own collections

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Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Prominent Haredi rabbi known for homophobic remarks, far-right politics dies at 80

Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope makes Easter appearance, deplores rising world antisemitism and deaths in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

A person shouts next to an image of US President Donald Trump as Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, as people take part in a protest organized to 'Protect Migrants, Protect the Planet' on April 19, 2025 in New York City. (Adam Gray/Getty Images/AFP)

Another round of anti-Trump protests hits US cities, with some likening him to Hitler

By AFP

Smoke rises from a location which Houthi rebels said was hit by US airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo)

Fresh US airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels said to target airport, port

By AP and ToI Staff

Health department staff members enter the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic carrying doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice)

ExplainerAs measles outbreak grows, US has 800 cases and outbreaks in several states

By Devi Shastri

Tunisia's President Kais Saied takes oath, October 21, 2024 in Tunis following his re-election. (Tunisian Presidency via AP)

Tunisia opposition figures get jail terms in mass trial; defense pans ‘masquerade’

By Kaouther Larbi

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