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What Matters Most On Friday, April 25, 2025

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

Live updates (closed)

April 25: WHO chief insists Israel’s aid blockade of Gaza ‘must end’

IDF confirms one soldier seriously hurt in Gaza fighting * ‘We’ve got to be good to Gaza’: Trump says he pressed Netanyahu on aid * US president says willing to meet Iran’s Khamenei

7:02 pm

Ex-US Rep. George Santos sentenced to over 7 years in prison for fraud, identity theft
6:35 pm

WHO chief insists Israel's aid blockade of Gaza 'must end'
6:30 pm

Man dies after tree collapses on family in nature reserve

Great-grandmother learns of his death on visit to Nazi camp

IDF reservist killed, three wounded during fighting in northern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

Initial probe finds Master Sgt. (res.) Asaf Cafri, 26, was hit by sniper fire close to military post in buffer zone, while the other troops were targeted by anti-tank fire

Master Sgt. Asaf Cafri (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF's probes into Oct. 7Nir Yitzhak security team resisted terrorists on Oct. 7, preventing murderous rampage

By Emanuel Fabian

Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on May 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

319 soldiers, 79 civilians killed since last Memorial Day

By Emanuel Fabian

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 4, 2025. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Israel said to fear US moving fast toward ‘bad deal’ that won’t block Iran from nukes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu stresses to visiting American lawmakers need for joint Israel-US dialogue on dismantling Iranian nuclear program; Trump: We’re well on our way to a deal with Tehran

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Yerevan on March 25, 2025. (Karen Minasyan/AFP)

Iranian foreign minister says country ready for dialogue with UK, France and Germany

By AFP and ToI Staff

Promoted ArticleMasa Israel Journey

Remembering Hanani Glazer and Bruna Valeanu at Masa’s Yom HaZikaron Event

On Israel’s remembrance day, Masa Israel Journey’s International Memorial Day Ceremony will honor the memory of two young Olim from Brazil who were taken from us at Nova.

Trump said poised to offer Saudi Arabia over $100 billion weapons package

In visit to Middle East next month, US president will reportedly look to revive Biden’s efforts to secure major defense deal after lifting ban on offensive arms sales to Riyadh

L: US President Donald Trump, January 23, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP), R: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, December 3, 2024. (Saudi Ministry of Media / AFP)

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa holds a joint press conference following a meeting with the Turkish president, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, February 4, 2025. (OZAN KOSE / AFP)

Ahmed al-Sharaa said to seek peace with Israel, eyes Syrian entry to Abraham Accords

By Nava Freiberg

An undated image of Nechama Grossman, a Holocaust survivor who passed away at age 110 on April 24, 2025. (Courtesy)

Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor Nechama Grossman dies on Remembrance Day, aged 109

Her son urges people to ‘remember her survival, so that her past never becomes our future’; Holocaust survivor and educator Eve Kugler, 94, also dies on Remembrance Day

Participants with Israel's flag walk along a rail track leading to the gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland, during the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

'Dozens of Jews again yearn in a cage thirsting for freedom'

Former hostages, survivors and the bereaved walk together in March of the Living

By Jessica Steinberg

Channeling horrors of the Holocaust on the march through Auschwitz, President Herzog says the ‘return of the hostages is a universal human imperative’

Reporter's notebook‘We beat the enemy, didn’t we, girls?’ Holocaust survivor tells freed hostage soldiers

By Deborah Danan

At Israeli premiere, ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ director struts celebration of life

By Diana Bletter

Holocaust survivors who star in award-winning documentary about controversial pageant attend Haifa screening with Polish-born filmmaker; movie set for worldwide release in January

Mossad chief David Barnea attends a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Mossad head travels to Doha for meeting with Qatari PM on hostage deal efforts

By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

Trip signals David Barnea’s return to ceasefire talks after he was replaced as top negotiator by Netanyahu confidant Dermer, who hasn’t secured release of any more captives

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

‘Do everything’: In Hamas propaganda clip, hostage Omri Miran begs to return home

Hod Hasharon Mayor Amir Kochavi speaks at the city's ceremony for the onset of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025. (Screen capture via Facebook)

Mayor sparks uproar with Holocaust day speech condemning ‘lust for revenge’ in Gaza

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Church spokesman: Mustn't 'forget what Pope did for Israel'

Netanyahu eulogizes Pope Francis after days of silence, amid tensions over Gaza stance

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

In terse message, PM says Israel ‘expresses its deepest condolences’ to Catholics worldwide, after Jerusalem’s muted response to pontiff’s death sparked ire from Israeli diplomats

Christian worshippers attend a memorial mass for the late Pope Francis at the Melkite Greek Catholic Cathedral of St Elias in Israel's northern city of Haifa on April 24, 2025. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (left) Netanyahu at the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong); Then-defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 5, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Sa'ar: The court has no jurisdiction over Israel

ICC Appeals Chamber rules lower court must hear Israel’s challenge to jurisdiction

By Jeremy Sharon and Nava Freiberg

Despite a procedural victory for Israel, officials in Jerusalem condemn the fact that court did not cancel the arrest warrants for war crimes charges against Netanyahu and Gallant

Children gather outside the gate of the Kalandia Training Centre, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was raided by Israeli forces earlier in the day on February 18, 2025. (Zain Jaafar / AFP)

UNRWA not immune from lawsuits in US, DoJ says, arguing Oct. 7 victims’ suit can go ahead

What appears to be the impact of a projectile is visible on the wall of the UN guesthouse, where United Nations workers were located when an explosion occurred at the building, leaving one staff member dead and five others injured in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF admits mistakenly shelling UN facility in Gaza last month, killing staff member

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Remains of a large Neolithic settlement on alluvial soil in the Motza Valley near Jerusalem. (Amos Frumkin)

Israeli study finds burst of fires 8,000 years ago forced humans to become farmers

Hebrew University researcher says lightning-ignited blazes transformed Levant’s landscape, ending hunter-gatherer lifestyle but creating perfect condition for birth of agriculture

Before Independence Day: ‘Shabbat Peliah’ (Sabbath of Wonder)

The remarkable encounters between Jews across the Diaspora and in the modern State of Israel warrant a special Shabbat to honor the wonder of our connectedness

Jonathan Jacoby

The first Yom HaShoah of the second Trump administration

Losing hope enables the very threats to our safety that we fear – it feeds the isolation and paralysis that authoritarians rely on

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a speaking event in New York City during his visit to the United States, April 24, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

At NY event that draws protests and disruptions, Ben Gvir says his views have evolved

Far-right national security minister tells receptive audience he’s softened some hard-right positions, but brings out Israeli demonstrators during rocky visit to US

Barnard College in New York City, as seen on August 29, 2024. (Philissa Cramer via JTA)

US government survey asks Barnard College staff if they are Jewish, sparking alarm

By AP and ToI Staff

Participation in survey, ostensibly aimed at fighting antisemitism, is voluntary, but one Jewish professor says it’s ‘chilling’ that Trump administration is making ‘lists of Jews’

A scene of anti-Israel vandalism and graffiti calling for 'intifada' at the headquarters of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, October 7, 2024. (Government photo via JTA)

Homes raided as part of Michigan crackdown on pro-Palestinian vandalism targeting Jews

By Andrew Lapin

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

As Harvard funding fight heads to court, Trump bashes university as ‘antisemitic’

By AFP

Debris from the ruined homes of Bedouins in the Ein Samia community east of Ramallah, May 2023. (Oren Ziv/+972 Magazine).

‘No future here’: Bedouin hamlets are erased as residents flee settler harassment

By Nurit Yohanan

Over 1,000 residents of herding communities in West Bank have been displaced in 2 years; they say they face campaign of theft and violence that authorities either ignore or abet

Jews and Israeli security forces at the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem, April 9, 2023, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, also coinciding with the Jewish Passover holiday. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: There is no Temple Mount status quo

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

ToI’s diplomatic reporter takes a deep dive into the Jerusalem flashpoint and explains how the precarious balance on the holy site has been maintained over the years

Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Ode to Joy, on August 28, 2022. It was Tilson Thomas's last concert with the BSO, where he began his career in 1969, as its assistant conductor and pianist. (Hilary Scott/Courtesy Boston Symphony Orchestra via JTA)

'We get to use the old showbiz expression - it's a wrap'

Battling cancer, Jewish conductor Michael Tilson Thomas prepares for his last concert

By Penny Schwartz

The scion of Yiddish theater royalty announces a ‘coda’ this weekend to a spectacular career leading orchestras and writing music

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Eli Feldstein (left,) a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich speaks at a Central Elections Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court extends Qatargate suspects’ house arrest by 2 weeks upon seeing new evidence

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)

PLO creates position of vice president, seen as possible successor to Abbas

By AP and ToI Staff

Intel's manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. (Courtesy)

Intel’s Israel staff could face another wave of layoffs as global job cuts loom

By Sharon Wrobel

Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent and other emergency services pray by the bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31, 2025. Israel has said at least six were Hamas operatives. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Rights group petitions High Court to compel IDF to give info on detained Gaza medic

By Jeremy Sharon

L: Russian President Vladimir Putin at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside of Moscow, Russia on April 24, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP); R: US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump, in rare rebuke, urges Putin to ‘STOP!’ after deadly Russian attack on Kyiv

By AAMER MADHANI and Samuel Petrequin

Illustrative photo of 200-shekel bills, February 7, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Bank of Israel rejects Sa’ar’s request to cancel NIS 200 bill as blow against Hamas

By Lazar Berman

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives for a plenary session at the Spanish lower house, Congress of Deputies, in Madrid on November 21, 2024. (OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP)

Ceding to internal pressure, Spain scraps purchase of Israeli bullets

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Newspapers and magazines for sale at a shop in the center of Jerusalem. November 10, 2013. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Israelis less concerned about made-up news, press freedom than other countries: poll

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