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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM rejects 'false statement,' says Bar 'failed miserably'

Bar says Netanyahu demanded personal loyalty, obedience to him and not Supreme Court

By Jeremy Sharon

In court filing, Shin Bet chief says PM wanted agency to act against anti-government protesters, rejects claims he failed to warn PM ahead of Oct. 7, expresses ‘deep concern for the State of Israel’

Opposition Leader and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on March 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Lapid warns ‘crazy incitement’ against Ronen Bar could lead to ‘political murder’

Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich at a joint press conference by Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu and Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin at Kfar Hamacabiah in Ramat Gan, on August 29, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu aide and Qatargate suspect Jonatan Urich has no security clearance – report

Visitors look on as a clock counts the time since hostages were taken on October 7, 2023, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, April 20, 2025. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

April 21: Majority of public continues to break with PM in backing end to war for hostages — poll

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Mounted cop appears to whip photographer during stormy anti-government protest in Tel Aviv * Netanyahu, Trump said set to speak Monday about Gaza hostage crisis, Iran nuclear talks

8:55 pm

Mounted officer appears to whip photographer during stormy anti-gov't protest in Tel Aviv
8:50 pm

Manhunt underway after stolen vehicle driven through spiked settlement entrance gate in non-terror incident
8:40 pm

Majority of public continues to break with PM in backing end to war for hostages — poll

Pope Francis places a prayer between the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on May 26, 2014. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Pope Francis, whose papacy heralded many firsts in Catholic Church, dies at 88

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pontiff had complex relationship with Jews and Israel; he denounced antisemitism and met hostages and their families, but told Herzog after Oct. 7 it’s ‘forbidden to respond to terror with terror’

FILE - Pope Francis is flanked by Israel's President Shimon Peres, right, and PA President Mahmoud Abbas during an evening of peace prayers in the Vatican gardens, June 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

‘Man of boundless compassion’: Leaders in Israel, Mideast mourn death of Pope Francis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pope Francis sits by the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square during a funeral mass at the Vatican, on January 5, 2023. (Andrew Medichini/AP)

ExplainerThe rites and rituals following the death of a pope — his funeral and burial, explained

By Nicole Winfield

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting of his Religious Zionist party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Smotrich says returning hostages ‘not the most important thing,’ sparking fierce backlash

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Hostages’ families say ‘history will remember’ far-right minister; top Haredi coalition lawmaker disputes his statement, and opposition politicians say he’s ‘sacrificing’ captives

Border Police officers stand guard during an anti-war sit in organized by Israeli left-wing activists, in front of the British Consulate General in Jerusalem on August 16, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Police ban photos of hostages and Gaza children at anti-war protest, then backtrack

By Charlie Summers

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during an Israel Police Independence Day ceremony at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, April 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir vows ‘full backing’ to cops who fatally shoot civilians in self-defense

By Charlie Summers

A mural in Ofakim's Mishor Hagefen neighborhood honors those killed in the October 7, 2023, massacre, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

A scarred Ofakim neighborhood grows into a community after October 7

After 52 people were murdered by Hamas terrorists during the onslaught, local residents pull together, finding comfort in communal activities, events and memorials

Inside story

Hamas claims it won’t develop weapons, dig tunnels during long-term truce with Israel

In nonstarter for Israel, terror group is seeking comprehensive deal under which it would cede control of Gaza’s governance but would stop short of full disarmament

A child looks into a weapon as Hamas gunmen take up a position ahead of handing over the bodies of four slain Israeli hostages, including a mother and her two children, to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Islamic Jihad terrorist who took part in October 7 assault killed in strike, IDF says

By Stav Levaton

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 21: Day 563 – IDF: Killing of 15 Gaza medics didn’t breach code of ethics

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Hamas said to recruit 30,000 Gaza youths into its military wing

By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

Defacing Anne Frank

When it’s OK to erase the girl who became a moral symbol, the history of Jewish suffering during the Holocaust is at risk of corruption by anti-Israel extremist propaganda

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Jews are the canary in the AI coalmine

Artificial intel systems can erase the Holocaust from historical narratives, rewrite key historical events, and generate hateful images of Jews

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After blows to proxies, Iran advances huge space program with Russian assistance

Islamic Republic said to build 54-square-mile complex with spaceport at Chabahar; experts say space technology could enhance Tehran’s long-range missile capabilities

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) visits a defense and space achievements exhibition in Tehran, February 2, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister following their talks in Moscow on April 18, 2025. (Tatyana MAKEYEVA / POOL / AFP)

Iran accuses Israel of trying to ‘undermine’ nuclear talks with US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi at the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome before Iran-US nuclear talks Iran at the Omani embassy, April 19, 2025. (Italian Foreign Ministry via AFP)

Iranian press cautiously optimistic on nuclear talks, touts Tehran’s leverage

By AFP and ToI Staff

Left to right: Ben Shapiro speaks on stage during The Daily Wire Presents Backstage Live at Ryman Auditorium on August 14, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Davis / Getty Images via AFP); Freed hostage Emily Damari being prepped for surgery at Sheba Medical Center on March 2, 2025.(Credit Pomi Ofi Tal); Oren Smadga at the 2024 Paris Olympics on July 30, 2024. (Olympic Committee of Israel)

Ben Shapiro to be honored at Independence Day event alongside ex-hostage, IDF officers

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Choice of right-wing American pundit met with backlash from LGBT rights group; also tapped are freed hostage Emily Damari and Olympic medalist and bereaved father Oren Smadga

Berysz Aurbach, center, at his 104th birthday party in Melbourne, Australia. (Courtesy of Moshe Aurbach)

'I could talk for six months and I wouldn't tell it all'

104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising

By Nomi Kaltmann

Some 35,000 survivors made their way down under post-WWII. Berysz Aurbach is a rare firsthand witness of the Jews’ revolt against their Nazi oppressors on Passover of 1943

Flights take off at Ben Gurion Airport. April 17, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

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

By AFP

Officials outraged at ‘collective punishment,’ say they were invited by French Consulate; Interior Ministry cites law allowing it to ban people who may act against state

By chance, reserve combat paramedic David Citron (middle) runs into decade-long friend Alan Buch, a New York-based venture capitalist, at the Zikim crossing bordering the Gaza Strip, in December 2023. (Courtesy)

Inside story

$35 million VC fund launches thanks to reservist’s chance encounter on the Gaza border

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli investor David Citron bumped into NY-based venture capitalist Alan Buch while serving in the Israel-Hamas war. Their resulting fund for startups born in combat launches Monday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth departs after US President Donald Trump signs executive orders imposing tariffs on imported goods during a "Make America Wealthy Again" trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP)

US defense secretary shared war plans with wife, brother in 2nd Signal chat – report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pete Hegseth sent detailed info on upcoming military strikes on Yemen’s Houthis in a private group that also included his lawyer, The New York Times says

Yemenis at the site of a US airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, April 21, 2025. (AP)

Overnight airstrikes in Yemen kill 12, Houthi rebels say

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An unmanned D9 bulldozer digs up a field during a demonstration to the press at the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) quarters near Tel Aviv on March 26, 2025. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Israel’s new unmanned bulldozers ‘changing the paradigm’ of war in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Robdozer, the robotic version of the D9 bulldozer, has begun limited deployment in the IDF’s operations against Hamas; ‘This is the future,’ says one military expert

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An employee of Egged is attacked by a group at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station on April 20, 2025 (Screen grab from video used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bus company employees assaulted by teens at Jerusalem’s central station

Israeli jeep drivers make their way down a rocky dirt road in the Negev desert, southern Israel, on April 14, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem municipality uses taxpayer money to fund jeep tours for Haredi families

Illustrative: A prohibition sign with a swastika is seen on the bonnet of a car during a demonstration near the fairground in Dresden, Germany on April 10, 2021. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)

Banners with swastikas hung over Swedish highway

People leave Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 17, 2025. (Sophie Park / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump said to target Harvard health research in threat to cut further $1 billion in funds

By Reuters and ToI Staff

An aerial view of sharks swimming in the shallow Mediterranean Sea water off the Israeli coastal town of Hadera, north of Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Seasonal fish mortality draws sharks to central beach, alarming bathers

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a shooting in the central Arab city of Tira, August 21, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in central town of Tira as Arab community crime wave continues unabated

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of Harish Mayor Yitzhak Keshet, 2024. (YouTube)

Harish mayor arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a number of women

In an attempt to battle the measles outbreak, some countries in Europe have enacted laws making vaccinating children mandatory. (Illustrative. Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Case of measles found in Tel Aviv area as virus resurges globally

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