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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 24, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Store in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 24: Trump says US going to expand Abraham Accords

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

PM stresses need for Israel-US dialogue on Iran to visiting American lawmakers * Report says Israel fears US moving fast toward a ‘bad deal’ that won’t close down Iran’s path to the bomb

8:31 pm

Lebanese media say 8 wounded as Syria responds to artillery fire blamed on Hezbollah
8:23 pm

Netanyahu offers condolences on passing of Pope Francis after days of silence
7:56 pm

State Department policy planning director Michael Anton to be US lead in technical talks with Iran

Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Solomon Wiener, left, and Jeremy Neumark Jones as Michael Podchlebnik in 'The World Will Tremble' by Israeli director Lior Geller. (Courtesy)

Interview

New film shows how escapees from 1st Nazi death camp revealed Final Solution to the world

By Rich Tenorio

Screening in NY to mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, director Lior Geller’s ‘The World Will Tremble’ tells true story of daring revelation of plan to exterminate world Jewry

US President Donald Trump speaks as his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, from left, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listen during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, April 10, 2025. (Pool via AP)

As Iran fortifies nuke sites, US says it can have civilian nuclear program if no enrichment

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Rubio says US looking to avoid war, but will do whatever necessary to stop Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons; satellite images show regime fortifying buried nuclear facilities

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, attends a meeting with the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami, in Tehran, Iran, April 17, 2025. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran agrees to let in team to discuss restoring nuclear monitoring, UN watchdog says

By AP and ToI Staff

Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith (L), Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (2nd-L), Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) and Belarus President Alexandr Lukashenko (R) and participants in the outreach/BRICS Plus format meeting pose for a family photo during the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russian, on October 24, 2024. (MAXIM SHIPENKOV / POOL / AFP)

Iran’s Pezeshkian to visit Azerbaijan next week as ties appear to thaw

By AFP

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People stand still in Jerusalem as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 24, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day under shadow of ongoing Gaza hostage crisis

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

Two-minute siren brings country to a halt; wreaths laid at Yad Vashem; names of Nazis’ victims read at Knesset, March of Living held at Auschwitz; plight of captives constant theme

German troops arrest the last remaining members of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in this photo from the Stroop Report. A red line appears under Michael Smuss, with his father to his right. (National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records)

Interview'God saved me so I could tell people what happened'

82 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, its last living fighter bears witness

Michael Smuss helped smuggle supplies needed during the Jewish resistance against the Nazis; he shares how a series of ‘lucky’ accidents helped him withstand further horrors

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025 (Yad Vashem)

Netanyahu arrives late; Yad Vashem starts without him

Herzog at Yad Vashem: ‘History won’t forgive those destroying Israel from within’

‘Let us lower the flames, mend our hearts,’ urges president at state Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony; PM says Hamas is ‘exactly like the Nazis’, vows to destroy it, return all hostages, thwart Iran nukes

Bereaved Israelis, relatives of hostages and released hostages sing 'Hatikvah' at Auschwitz, April 23, 2025 (Channel 12 screenshot)

At Auschwitz, Oct. 7 survivors and freed hostages sing ‘Hatikvah’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Holocaust survivor Suzanne Rosenberg, far left, looks in the Book of Names at Block 27 at Auschwitz to find her uncle's name on April 23, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Hostage families join Holocaust survivors ahead of 2nd Auschwitz march since Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

'It’s a symbol of coexistence that should be here'

In shadow of Holocaust and war, Arab doctors find shared humanity in caring for survivors

By Diana Bletter

Volunteering for nonprofit LeMa’anam, Christian Yosif Boulos and Muslim Fadi Badarna provide home visits for elderly who lived through horrors decades ago and in wake of October 7

‘It’s a second Holocaust’: Survivor pleads for return of his hostage grandson

By AFP and ToI Staff

Michael Kuperstein, whose grandson Bar Kuperstein was kidnapped from the Nova festival, will march in Auschwitz as he waits desperately for Bar to be freed from Gaza captivity

Michael Kuperstein (left), a Holocaust survivor and the grandfather of hostage Bar Kuperstein (right), in a TV interview in February 2024. (Kan news screenshot/Courtesy)

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing executive orders relating to higher education institutions in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

‘Never again means now’: Trump marks Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day

Pajaro Valley Unified School District boarnd members Gabriel Medina, right, and Joy Flynn, left, attend a meeting on April 17, 2025. (Screenshot via YouTube/Pajaro Valley Unified School District)

California school board members accused of ‘raw antisemitism’

By Grace Gilson

from the blogs

The universal lessons of the Shoah and how to act upon them

Remembering the Holocaust is just the beginning: Here are 15 steps we must take today on behalf of our common humanity

InterviewShoham says terrorists used ambulance to transport hostages

‘I tried to accept death’: Freed hostage recounts abduction, captivity and release

By AP and ToI Staff

Separated from his family, moved from apartments to tunnels, humiliated and starved, Tal Shoham tells harrowing story of his 505 days as a hostage in the hands of Hamas

Freed Israeli hostage Tal Shoham, who was held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, poses for a portrait in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A still image of a Hamas propaganda video released on April 23, 2025, showing hostage Omri Miran. (Screenshot)

Hamas posts video of Omri Miran; Family: ‘Disgrace’ he’s in tunnel on Holocaust day

By Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and AFP

The seven Weber siblings upon their arrival at New York Harbor in May 1946. Bottom row from left: Renee, Judith, and Bela. Top row from left: Gertrude, Alfons, Senta, and Ruth. (Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

'This is a story about a family who survived the unthinkable'

Netflix tells tale of 7 siblings who miraculously survived the Holocaust to restart life in US

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Now streaming, ‘UnBroken’ illuminates story of the Webers, who lived in hiding on a German farm for two years — only to be cruelly separated upon arrival in America

Holocaust Remembrance Day marked by painful echoes amid Gaza hostage crisis

By Stav Levaton

Anti-Israel protesters gather outside an event featuring National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir during his visit to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 23, 2025. (Screen capture: CT Insider/YouTube)

Anti-Israel protesters hurl bottles, block car as Ben Gvir visits Yale group

By ToI Staff, Luke Tress and Agencies

Hundreds gather outside off-campus building as Jewish group hosts far-right minister, hours after university sanctions Yalies4Palestine over encampment; none hurt

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir meets with police in Miami, Florida, during a visit to the US, April 22, 2025. (Courtesy)

Yale strips recognition from anti-Israel group after Ben Gvir protest encampment

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)

An elite Jewish society at Yale fractures over its director’s embrace of Itamar Ben Gvir

By Andrew Lapin

The innovators the Nazis erased

Albert Einstein’s escape was the exception – so many other scientists were not so lucky. Imagine how much they could have contributed

Youssef Amselem

The Holocaust I didn’t mean to watch

I don’t need to look to the 1940s to mourn; October 7th saw the same mothers shielding babies, homes turned to ashes, bodies piled, nameless…

Holocaust education was spiritual armor for hostages in Gaza

Memory is the Jewish superpower: Stories of those who clung to Jewish life in darkness helped our current heroes do the same

Ilana Fodiman-Silverman

My favorite dresses were created by my grandmother

With all of her measuring and basting and trimming, I almost didn’t notice the blue 1164 inked on her forearm

In this May 7, 1933 photo, Adolf Hitler speaks to 30,000 uniformed Nazi storm troopers at Kiel, Germany. (AP Photo/ File)

Interview

AP controversially kept photojournalists in Nazi Germany. But is that the whole picture?

By Rich Tenorio

The self-styled impartial media outlet investigated itself for its actions while operating within Hitler’s dictatorship during WWII. The probe inspired new book ‘Newshawks in Berlin’

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a vote in the Knesset plenum, Jerusalem, December 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich: PM ‘ultimately responsible’ for war, must occupy Gaza or lose right to govern

Far-right finance minister also spars with IDF chief Zamir over aid distribution: ‘If you are not capable, we will bring in someone who is’

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 24: Day 566 – Calling Hamas ‘sons of dogs,’ Abbas steps up condemnations

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF says strike targeted Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists in north Gaza command center

By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

A fire burns at the Palestinian village of Bardala, April 24, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers accused of attacking Palestinians, torching buildings in West Bank village

By Nurit Yohanan, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Two people lightly injured by gunfire from Israeli assailants, local resident says, after latest in spate of fiery rampages; no arrests reported

An Air Tractor AT-802AF firefighting aircraft drops flame retardant while trying to extinguish a forest fire near the central Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem on April 23, 2025. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

After 20-hour battle, massive brush fire near Jerusalem brought under control

View of the damage caused from a large fire which broke out near moshav Ta'oz, April 23, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Firefighters battle Beit Shemesh area blazes into night, but evacuees allowed to return

By Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff

Analysis

Bar’s allegations against Netanyahu have raised the risk of a constitutional crisis

High Court was inclined to simply remedy procedural problems with the Shin Bet chief’s dismissal, but accusations he was fired for political reasons are far more difficult to ignore

Illustrative: Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening ceremony of the Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

PM granted extension to respond to claims he improperly pressured Shin Bet chief

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Then-Knesset Finance Committee chair Moshe Gafni (3rd from left) and other ultra-Orthodox lawmakers pictured in the Knesset as the 2025 state budget law is passed, March 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Stymied on conscription, Haredi party declares itself free from coalition discipline

UTJ official says party ‘will not bring down the government’ but will vote independently unless progress is made on exempting yeshiva students from military service

Christians gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for a mass honoring Pope Francis on April 23, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

'Francis was close to my heart'

At Jerusalem’s holiest church, Catholics mourn Pope Francis with solemn mass

By Rossella Tercatin and Reuters

Hundreds gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers for the late pontiff led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, seen as a possible successor

Israel to merely send envoy to pope’s funeral as Jerusalem-Vatican ties fray amid Gaza war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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Dana International, Israel's 1998 winner, in her iconic feathered dress, on display at an exhibit open for Eurovision 2019. (Courtesy)

Conservative groups furious as trans icon Dana International gets Independence Day honor

Weaponry seized in what Jordan said was a plot linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to carry out attacks on targets inside the kingdom involving rockets and drones, April 15, 2025. (Jordanian General Intelligence Department via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jordan bans Muslim Brotherhood after alleged sabotage plot against Hashemite Kingdom

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators sing the French national anthem as they take part in a gathering in support of Arié Engelberg, the rabbi of Orléans, on March 25, 2025, after he was attacked. (JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)

Teenager in France sentenced to 16 months in prison for attacking rabbi

By AFP

Brigadier Yahya Saree Qasim, the spokesman for Yemen's Houthis, gestures as he speaks during a protest to denounce US airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa on April 18, 2025. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Houthis look to use deadly US strikes to boost propaganda

By AFP and ToI Staff

Soldiers prepare munitions at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

IDF sees continued surge in female combat recruits amid Gaza war

By Emanuel Fabian

People walk in Eilat on April 10, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Soldier, 3 minors said arrested in suspected gang rape of 14-year-old in Eilat

Demonstrators protest funding cuts outside of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, on March 8, 2025. (Michael Mathes / AFP)

US’s NIH bans grants for schools that boycott Israeli companies

By Grace Gilson

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gestures as he delivers a speech during a press conference following a Council of Ministers meeting at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, April 22, 2025. (Javier Soriano / AFP)

Spain’s leftist government in jeopardy after PM backtracks on cancellation of Israeli bullets order

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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)

Sharon Osbourne calls to cancel Kneecap’s US visas after anti-Israel Coachella gig

By Grace Gilson

Dr. Alan Bekker, co-founder and CEO of Israeli AI startup eSelf. (Courtesy)

Israel rolls out pilot for students to learn with conversational avatar companions

By Sharon Wrobel

Bill Owens takes part in a panel discussion at the Showtime Winter TCA Tour at the Langham Huntington Hotel, January 12, 2013, in Pasadena, California. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Top ’60 Minutes’ executive quits over threats to editorial independence

By David Bauder

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan as jury selection continues in his retrial on April 23, 2025 in New York. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)

As Harvey Weinstein’s retrial opens, prosecutors paint picture of a sexual predator

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