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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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As troops advance in south Gaza, IDF says it’s seeing cracks emerge in Hamas’s rule

Remaining terror operatives in Rafah trapped after military constructs new road in Morag Corridor; officers vow army ‘very focused on returning hostages’

IDF troops are seen in the Morag Corridor area in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

AnalysisWeekend Hamas ambush lays bare vulnerability of Israeli-held Gaza buffer zone

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Israeli troops are seen south of Hebron in the West Bank, on April 18, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/ FLASH90)

Manpower shortage leaving some IDF West Bank operations undone, activists say

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the courtroom in the Tel Aviv District Court before the start of a hearing in his trial, April 22, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

April 22: PM’s office asks High Court to instruct Bar to announce date of planned resignation

Trump to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE from May 13-16, White House says * Family of hostage Rom Braslavski air clip from Islamic Jihad propaganda video

10:38 pm

Ben Gvir kicks off US trip with visit to Florida prison, gun store and Israeli supermarket
9:52 pm

Trump says US won’t let Hamas play post-war governance role in Gaza
8:44 pm

Rocket sirens sound in Sderot, close to Gaza border, IDF confirms false alarm

Document

‘Out of deep concern for the State of Israel’: Full text of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar’s affidavit

Head of domestic security agency says he was fired for refusing Netanyahu’s demand for personal loyalty above respect for the law, and for defying pressure to abuse the Shin Bet’s powers to serve PM’s needs

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and his affidavit, which was submitted to the High Court of Justice on 21 April 2025 (Photo of Ronen Bar by Kobi Gideon / GPO; combo illustration by ToI)

Protesters rail against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an anti-government demonstration on Tel Aviv's Habima Square, as a sign reading 'Save the country from yourself' is hoisted in the background, April 21, 2025 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni//Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 22: Day 564 – Politics heat up over Shin Bet chief statement

By Rossella Tercatin, Sam Sokol and Jessica Steinberg

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Mounds of trash are seen at the former site of the Firas Market in Gaza City, which was transformed into a landfill during the war, on April 21, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Smotrich pushes government to pick up pace of fighting

Israeli delegation holds talks in Cairo as mediators float long-term truce – report

By ToI Staff, Nurit Yohanan and AFP

Mediators said to offer years-long agreement involving end to war, release of all Israeli hostages; Hamas-run civil defense agency says seven killed in airstrikes

People take part in a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government and in support of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar at Habima Square, in Tel Aviv, April 21, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni//Flash90)

2 arrested, several hurt by cops at rally against PM after Shin Bet head’s court filing

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Thousands gather in Tel Aviv, say Netanyahu ‘unfit’ to serve after Bar said premier urged him to curb protesters; mounted police whip photojournalist, allegedly hurt protest leader

(L) Jonatan Urich, adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv on October 3, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File) and (R) Eli Feldstein arrive for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on March 11, 2025. (Yehoshua Yosef/ Flash90)

Police seek to extend house arrest of PM’s aides in Qatargate, leaked docs scandals

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This is not a drill: Ronen Bar’s affidavit is a thunderous alarm call for Israel

Shin Bet chief officially tells Supreme Court Netanyahu demanded loyalty to him personally rather than to state and its laws; justices’ response will shape the future of Israeli democracy and security

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security service, attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) members carry the body of operative Mohammad Riad Mohyeldin, who was killed in an Israeli strike, during his funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

IDF: Hamas-allied terror operative killed in strike on vehicle south of Beirut

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

Military says Hussein Atwi, a member of al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya, was working with Hamas to launch attacks; in first, Syria said to arrest local Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters at a demonstration in London on April 5, 2024. (Kin Cheung/AP)

Israel warns its citizens abroad about planned global protests over Gaza on Tuesday

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Police search for a diver who was attacked by a shark off the coast of Hadera, on April 21, 2025. (Israel Police)

Diver missing, feared dead, after rare shark attack off the coast of Hadera

By Charlie Summers and Sue Surkes

‘They’re eating him,’ witnesses shout. ‘Nobody’s coming to save him’. Recent fish die-offs have attracted dusky and sandbar sharks to area, where swimming is prohibited

Teams continue to search on April 22, 2025, for a diver who was attacked by a shark off the coast of Hadera the previous day (Jack Guez/AFP)

Rescuers resume search for man missing after shark attack at Hadera beach

Illustrative. Heatwave. (iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s July temperatures over past eight years were 2.8°C higher than 1950-1979

Anti-Israel protesters demonstrate near a memorial for the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught, on October 7, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Alex Kent / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

ADL says 2024 antisemitic incidents in US shattered records for fourth year in a row

9,354 cases of harassment, vandalism, and assault recorded throughout year, led by 84% rise on college campuses

People sit in front of a makeshift memorial outside the student union at Florida State University, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tallahassee, Florida following a campus shooting. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

Florida university shooting suspect used neo-Nazi imagery on social media, ADL finds

By Andrew Lapin

Filmmaker Yoav Potash filming Aaron Friedman Tartakovksy, whose family came from Gniewoszów, Poland, the central element in 'Among Neighbors,' Potash's documentary about a Polish town, screened in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting April 23, 2025 (Courtesy)

Documentary digs up story of Polish village that butchered its Jews after Holocaust ended

By Jessica Steinberg

It took filmmaker Yoav Potash 10 years to describe the events of once peacefully coexisting Gniewoszów, with the help of residents, survivors and a team of animators

Make Netanyahu the next pope

Israel’s prime minister bears a certain resemblance to a long-ago pontiff who Machiavelli described as ’spirited’

What’s missing from the government’s economic recovery plan

The Tkuma Law is a step in the right direction, but mechanisms are needed that encourage investments to drive economic growth in the Western Negev

People visit the Nazi Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Oranienburg, Germany, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Current number stands at an estimated 211,300

Report projects fewer than 100,000 living Holocaust survivors by 2032

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Claims Conference predicts that only about 20,000 eyewitnesses to the murder of six million Jews will remain worldwide by 2040

Members of the 2024 TikTok delegation to the March of the Living in Poland (Cmedia)

TikTok video creators teach the next generation about the Holocaust

Palestinian family alleges father shot by settlers then arrested amid West Bank land grab

By Nurit Yohanan

Said Rabae, who lost his leg in confrontation with security chief of nearby settlement, says he and son were attacked, and not vice versa as IDF claims. Videos may back him up

Footage shows a man identified as a settlement security coordinator shooting in the air during a confrontation with Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills on April 17, 2025. (Screen capture: Asya Elias)

An F-15 fighter is seen at an IAF airbase ahead of an Israeli strike in Yemen, July 20, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Air Force said to hold drill simulating another Iranian missile attack

By Stav Levaton, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Days after US-Iran nuclear talks, Trump reports ‘good meetings’; Netanyahu said set to speak with him by phone

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee embraces President Isaac Herzog after presenting his credentials, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, April 21, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Presenting credentials to Herzog, Huckabee says Iran seeks to destroy Israel, then US

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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

Adam LeBor, author of 'Last Days of Budapest.' (Courtesy Zoltan Tuba)

Interview

New book portrays a chaotic Budapest just before the Holocaust reached Hungary

By Robert Philpot

‘Last Days of Budapest’ by Adam LeBor features oblivious politicians, Zionist forgers, courageous diplomats and murderous priests in a sad but true history of the Hungarian capital

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

In escalating fight, Harvard sues Trump over ‘capricious’ US federal funding cuts

By AFP and ToI Staff

After president froze over $2 billion to Ivy League university, alleging rampant antisemitism and pro-terror sentiment, it asks for measure to be declared unlawful

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

US universities pan Trump’s ‘political interference’ amid furor over funding cuts

By AFP and ToI Staff

Eric Fingerhut speaks during The Jerusalem Post New York conference on June 3, 2024, in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish Federations CEO privately opposed letter against arrests of campus activists

By JTA and ToI Staff

L: Larry David leaves an NBA basketball game on February 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray) R: Bill Maher watches a basketball game on April 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

'Dinner with Adolf'

Larry David skewers Bill Maher’s sit-down with Trump in NYT essay

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In unsolicited piece, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star pans HBO comedian for gushing over US president’s apparent normalcy behind closed doors

Looted artifacts seized at the house of a Dimona resident suspected of illegal antiquities trafficking on April 21, 2025. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

20,000 artifacts are illegally traded in Israel every year

Hundreds of artifacts, some nearly 2,800 years old, seized from suspected looter

By Rossella Tercatin

In search of suspect’s home in Dimona, police also find metal detectors, guns and ammunition, and NIS 150,000 in cash

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Rescue forces near the scene where young Israelis were swept away in the flooding of the Tzafit riverbed near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Educators sentenced to 7 years over deaths of 10 students in flash flood disaster

By Jeremy Sharon

This handout picture released by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis during a meeting with David Oren, ambassador of Israel to the Holy See, on October 27, 2016 at the Vatican. (AFP)

Jewish groups mourn Pope Francis, ‘friend of the Jewish people,’ but some are critical

L to R: Israel advocate Ben Cassato is interviewed on Channel 13 on April 11, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube); Israeli-American NBA player Deni Avdija plays against the New York Knicks on March 30, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger); Rachel Edry from Ofakim is seen outside a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

NBA player, Oct. 7 folk hero to be honored on Independence Day; singer declines

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

An illustrative image of robot hackers; the use of artificial intellicence in cyber security (Iaremenko; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli team uses tool that finds fake online profiles to detect abnormal protein activity

By Diana Bletter

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll in Washington, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House said seeking to axe Hegseth after reports he sent war plans to 2nd group

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Guy Manster stars as young Dean in 'Bad Boy,' the award-winning Israeli TV series coming to Netflix on May 2, 2025 (Courtesy)

Comedy born behind barsAward-winning show about comic jailed as a teen comes to Netflix

By Jessica Steinberg

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