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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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A forest fire close to Moshav Tarum on April 23, 2025 (Fire and Rescue Services)

IDF sends reinforcements

Towns evacuated, drivers abandon vehicles as intense heat and high winds fuel huge brush fires

By Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Beit Meir, Eshtaol, Mesilat Zion cleared of residents; at least nine wounded, including seven firefighters; Netanyahu takes part in meeting at ad hoc command center

Analysis

Pope Francis cared deeply about Holy Land, Jews, but left ‘sour taste’ after Oct. 7

Scholars of Catholic-Jewish relations remember the pontiff’s warmth, humility; late Church leader made important strides in ties, but lacked a core understanding of Jews’ concerns

Pope Francis prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS COEX)

A man prays beside a photo of the late Pope Francis after the news of his death at age 88, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Foreign Ministry deletes X post expressing sorrow over pope’s death

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Pope Francis stands at Israel's West Bank security barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square in Bethlehem, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 23: Day 565 – Why pope’s final Gaza statements won’t heal rift with Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Last recorded deadly shark attack in Israel was in 1940s

Police confirm man killed in shark attack; victim named as Barak Tzach, 45

Wife denies reports her husband had been carrying dead fish that attracted the shark off the Hadera coast, says he was just documenting them

Barak Tzach, who was killed in a shark attack off the Hadera coast on April 21, 2025 (Facebook)

Shark swims in the Mediterranean Sea as Israeli police search the area for a swimmer who they fear was attacked by a shark on Monday, near Hadera, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

As search goes on for missing swimmer, experts say people shouldn’t have teased sharks

By ToI Staff and AP

Promoted Event

Live on Sunday: Israel’s Declaration of Independence at the Kotel

Join us for a festive in-person and online broadcast of the Declaration of Independence and a prayer for the hostages’ safe return. Rabbis and public figures attending.

Holocaust survivor Gad Fartouk says a prayer for the hostages held by terrorists in Gaza, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

April 23: At state ceremony, Holocaust survivor says prayer for hostages’ return

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu says Hamas ‘exactly’ like the Nazis, vows Israel ‘will never surrender’ and if necessary ‘shall stand alone’ in defending itself

8:54 pm

Yale strips recognition from anti-Israel group after Ben Gvir protest encampment
8:44 pm

At state ceremony, Holocaust survivor says prayer for return of all hostages from Gaza
8:16 pm

Jerusalem lights up the Old City walls for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 32nd Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Abbas tells ‘sons of dogs’ Hamas to free hostages, remove Israel’s ‘excuses’ for Gaza war

By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority president calls on terror group to cede control of Gaza, give up its weapons, and become a political party; 23 said killed in overnight strikes in Strip

Op-ed: Day 565 of the war

The never-ending war

More than 18 months after Hamas’s invasion and slaughter, the terrible truth is that neither of the resulting war’s two key goals is close to being realized

Ronen Bar warns of a clear and present danger to security and democracy

His affidavit says he shouldn’t have been fired – not to fight to keep his job, but to ensure the independence of the Shin Bet and his successor

The Israeli center cannot hold unless it learns how to fight

For years, center-left Zionists believed peace was inevitable, and arguably, this was their undoing. What’s needed are ideas, not slogans

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C) sprinkles holy water during the Easter mass at the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem's Old City on April 20, 2025. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Latin patriarch of Jerusalem among candidates to succeed Pope Francis

By Lazar Berman and Reuters

Italian Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa speaks fluent Hebrew, has lived in Israel for 30 years; was installed by Francis and will participate in the conclave

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, left, prays in front of the body of Pope Francis laid out in state inside his private chapel at the Vatican, April 21, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

Pope Francis’ funeral to be held Saturday after three days of lying in state

By Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry

Interview

Father of American-Israeli hostage urges Boehler’s return to negotiating table

Adi Alexander says closest Edan got to release from captivity was during talks Trump’s hostage envoy held with Hamas, which were abandoned following Israeli and GOP uproar

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)

Hostage Rom Braslavski speaks in a propaganda video newly cleared for publication by his family on April 22, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Hostage Rom Braslavski’s family releases clip from Islamic Jihad propaganda video

Families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza hold a press conference at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hamas delegation heads to Cairo as Egypt takes mediation lead in hostage talks

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Sweater that Chana Zumerkorn from Lodz gave to her brother Joseph when they parted during the Holocaust (Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection, Gift of Joseph Zumerkorn, 11735)

Interview'Domestic life was thoroughly destroyed in the Holocaust'

Clothing historian stitches together Holocaust history by focusing on ‘women’s work’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Nonfiction ‘Four Red Sweaters’ tells wartime stories of four young Jewish women while examining larger questions such as Nazis’ circular economy and perpetrator psychology

Two young women who managed to survive over a year in concentration camp at Belsen, Germany, are shown, April 30, 1945. (AP Photo)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Director of Hebrew University’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism delves into the little-known history of women’s Holocaust survival and resilience

Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters wave flags and carry placards during a National March for Palestine in central London on February 17, 2024. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Antisemitism has declined from post-October 7 peak, but remains alarmingly high – TAU

Report on global Jew-hatred finds that incidents increased in most places in 2024, calls for stronger law enforcement to stem the tide

Latvian auxiliary police assisting the round-up of Jews in Latvia in 1941. (Bundesarchiv bild)

Yad Vashem condemns Latvia’s exoneration of ‘the butcher of Riga’

Representatives of the Jewish community lay flowers at the monument commemorating victims of a World War II concentration camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, April 22, 2025. (AP)

Croatia commemorates victims of notorious Jasenovac WWII concentration camp

US President Donald Trump, left, greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump after call with Netanyahu: ‘We’re on the same side of every issue’

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

US president says they discussed trade and Iran, but makes no mention of Gaza or hostages, as White House announces his travel to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE

This picture shows newspaper front page headlines at a kiosk in Tehran on April 19, 2025, featuring the Iran-US talks on the Iranian nuclear program set to begin in Rome. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran says technical nuclear meeting with US delayed until Saturday

By AFP

Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang (R) welcoming Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Beijing on April 23, 2025. (Iranian Foreign Ministry / AFP)

Iran’s top diplomat in China to discuss nuclear talks with US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ben Gvir speaks at Mar-a-Lago, visits Florida prison, gun store, Israeli supermarket

Far-right national security minister, on first US trip in office, heading to northeast for meetings near Yale and in New York City

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives to speak at an event at US President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida, where he is greeted with applause, April 23, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu reportedly asked Ronen Bar to act against protest leader Gonen Ben Yitzhak

By Jeremy Sharon

PM’s office calls report that the ‘Crime Minister’ activist was among those Netanyahu wanted Shin Bet to act against ‘another lie’; denies loyalty raised in interviews for Bar’s replacement

Gonen Ben Yitzhak is taken by police during demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on July 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Op-edRonen Bar’s bombshell affidavit puts the ball squarely in attorney general’s court

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)

Ronen Bar said to have told bereaved families he’s ‘committed to resigning’ by May 15

By Jeremy Sharon

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

‘Send your children to fight’: Smotrich spars with Haredi MKs over hostages, IDF

Dispute among coalition members sparked after Shas and United Torah Judaism lawmakers slam finance minister for saying that ‘returning the hostages is not the most important thing’

MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, April 23, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

PM’s adviser: Haredi IDF bill will pass ‘with or without’ committee chair Edelstein

Defense Minister Israel Katz seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Katz said to reject IDF request to extend ‘hesder’ yeshiva soldiers’ service

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Blood is seen splattered in a bedroom following a massive Hamas terrorist attack in Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Outgunned, outnumbered Ein Hashlosha security team failed to resist Oct. 7 onslaught

Army inquest says troops kept many terrorists from reaching kibbutz, but those who made it inside faced almost no resistance from local defense squad; IDF only arrived long after rampage

Palestinians examine the remains of bulldozers hit by an Israeli army airstrike in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF destroys dozens of Gaza construction vehicles it says used for terror activities

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Agencies

More Headlines

Protesters wave Israeli flags and hold photos of people held hostage by Palestinian terror group Hamas in Gaza, during a demonstration outside Downing Street on November 19, 2023 to protest against antisemitism and to call for the release of the hostages. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Top UK Jewish group suspends officer, disciplines dozens for condemning Gaza war, Israeli gov’t

By JTA and ToI Staff

Security forces probe a bus targeted by an explosive device, in Bat Yam, February 20, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Palestinian man indicted as accomplice in botched bus bombings

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

An anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Northwestern University, April 26, 2024, in Evanston, Illinois. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Over 100 Chicago-area rabbis, cantors condemn Trump’s campus crackdown

By Grace Gilson

The interception of a Houthi ballistic missile fired from Yemen at Israel, March 24, 2025. (Courtesy of Bareket Askeloni)

In first, Houthi ballistic missile triggers sirens in Haifa; IDF says intercepted

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police and medical personnel work a crime scene in Lod on December 15, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Holocaust survivor and her nurse assaulted in Lod; 3 teenagers arrested

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks 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. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Hegseth took US airstrike info sent to family members from secure military channel

(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)

Court orders Netanyahu aides released from house arrest in Qatargate case

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Israel-based think tank analyzed the sermons given by American rabbis and how they changed after October 7, 2023. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Think tank analysis of US synagogue sermons finds politics in Israel top topic

By JTA and ToI Staff

Paramedics and police personnel carry an injured tourist at a hospital in Anantnag, south of Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, April 22, 2025. (Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)

At least 24 killed in massacre of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir

By AFP

AnalysisIsrair gets in line for TLV-NYC flights, but fares on El Al-ruled route to stay sky-high

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Israel's Orbit team celebrates winning the FIRST robotics competition in 2024. (Courtesy: FIRST)

Top-ranked Israeli robotics team gives up championship bid over Shabbat observance

Illustrative: A Boeing 787 aircraft seen during final assembly production in Charleston, South Carolina, August 4, 2022. (BOEING / AFP)

Israeli startup sues ex-CEO for fraud, and allegedly forging contracts using ChatGPT

By Sharon Wrobel

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