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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 26, 2025

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This image grab taken from footage released by the state television Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting News (IRIBNEWS) on April 26, 2025 shows thick black smoke billowing following an explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port dock southwest of Bandar Abbas (Photo by IRIBNEWS / AFP)

Official in Jerusalem says Israel not involved in blast

Massive explosion at Iranian port kills at least 18 and wounds 750

Iran claims blast linked to shipment of chemicals used to make fuel for ballistic missiles; coincides with US-Iran nuclear talks; same port hit by suspected Israeli cyber attack in 2020

The book of the gospels lays on the coffin of late Pope Francis during the funeral ceremony at St Peter's Square in the Vatican on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Pope Francis laid to rest as hundreds of thousands flock to Vatican for his funeral

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ceremony bidding farewell to the Argentine pontiff attended by world leaders, royalty and masses of Catholic faithful; top Israeli officials stay away amid tensions over Gaza war

People line up to pay their respects to Pope Francis lying in state, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican,April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Foreign dignitaries converge on Rome for funeral of Pope Francis

Nuns mourn during a memorial mass for Pope Francis at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 23, 2025. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Israeli Christian group: Israel’s response to pope’s death sends ‘message of exclusion’

Protesters demand the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, at a rally at Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, April 19, 2025. (Lior Rotstein/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Hamas official says group open to freeing all hostages for five-year truce in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas delegation in Cairo for fresh talks with mediators, days after it rejected a ‘partial’ Israeli deal that would have seen 10 living hostages freed

Illustrative: Hamas terrorists carry their guns in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, ahead of the release of Israeli hostages on February 22, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Hamas says disarmament ‘not up for negotiation’ ahead of talks with Egyptian mediators

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Intense fighting reported in Gaza, as Katz says combat has ‘heavy prices’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Reservist seriously wounded, 2 lightly hurt in southern Strip, as Israel said to carry out major strikes across the enclave; IDF warns residents of Gaza City’s Zeitoun to evacuate

Defense Minister Israel Katz is seen in the Morag Corridor area of the southern Gaza Strip, between Rafah and Khan Younis, April 9, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Illustrative: A soldier from the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate works at a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel using AI to pinpoint Hamas leaders, find hostages in Gaza tunnels — report

Protesters rally against the government and for a deal to release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 26, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

April 26: Aunt of ex-captive pans PM for silence as allies show ambivalence to hostages’ fate

Ex-Shin Bet chief calls for non-violent revolt at Tel Aviv anti-government rally * Freed hostage: I felt ‘terrible desperation’ when Ben Gvir said he wouldn’t back deal

8:33 pm

Two criminals killed, policeman seriously hurt in shootout in north
7:46 pm

UAE foreign minister congratulates newly-elected deputy PLO chief in phone call
6:53 pm

Fire at Iranian port has intensified, may spread, state media reports

Talks began shortly before deadly Iran port blast

US-Iran nuclear talks held in Oman; Tehran says its ‘defense capabilities’ not on agenda

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Third round of negotiations between Araghchi and Witkoff preceded by technical-level talks; US official says ‘still much to do, but further progress was made on getting to a deal’

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff. (Karen Minasyan/AFP; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via AFP)

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2025, en route to Joint Base Andrews (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump: Israel won’t drag us into war with Iran, but we’ll lead the pack if no deal made

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

A girl stands with a pot as people queue to receive charity meals from a kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 24, 2025 (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Trump says he told Netanyahu ‘we’ve got to be good to Gaza’ and get more aid in

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

US president reminded PM ‘those people are suffering’ in enclave: ‘There’s a very big need for food, medicine. We’re taking care of it’; says Netanyahu ‘felt well about’ request

Body bags of victims from the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, are stacked in a container at the Shura military base, near Ramle, October 24, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

IDF still holding 350 bags of unidentified human remains from Oct. 7 massacre – report

Military rabbinate reportedly wants to repeat forensic examination, which religious services ministry opposes; issue said set for decision in a committee over coming days

'If not for Putin, I wouldn’t be here today'

Ex-hostage Ron Krivoi: No one can truly understand what it’s like down in the tunnels

Freed captive describes terrorists using car batteries to electrocute fellow hostage Matan Angrest, who Krivoi says is being badly abused by his captors because he’s a soldier

Freed hostage Ron Krivoi speaks with Channel 12 news in an interview aired on April 25, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

What I saw in Hostages Square on Yom HaShoah

A Holocaust survivor’s stories of being saved by the kindness of others gave me new insight into how to navigate our current ordeal

Pope Francis and the Jewish People

The former ambassador to the Vatican writes: Francis was a persistent fighter against antisemitism. His relations with Israel were more complicated.

Detail from a newspaper illustration of Nathaniel Isaacs's colony in Matakong. (Courtesy of Adam Rovner)

Interview'He became like Pharaoh, a hard-headed holder of slaves'

How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord

By Rich Tenorio

In new book ‘The Jew Who Would Be King,’ historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck and went on to a life of wealth, adventure and corruption

Houthi supporters chant slogans in front of banners supporting Palestinians, during anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

IDF downs Houthi missile fired from Yemen that triggered sirens in south

By Emanuel Fabian

No injuries or damage in overnight attack, which prompted the issuing of an early warning alert to a much wider area; IDF also intercepts drone launched by the Iran-backed rebels

Syrian response to US conditions for sanctions relief: We won’t threaten Israel

Letter sent by new rulers in Damascus also promises to crack down on Palestinian groups operating in Syria, vows to tackle chemical weapons stockpiles

A Syrian woman speaks with an employee at a currency exchange shop in Damascus on April 16, 2025 (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani raises the new Syrian flag during a flag raising ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 25, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Syrian foreign minister raises new flag at UN, calls for Israeli withdrawal

By AFP

Leslie Gelrubin Benitah, right, with her late grandmother Bajla Gelrubin on her 100th birthday. (Courtesy)

Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp

By Rich Tenorio

Titled The Last Ones, the application utilizes short interviews with Holocaust survivors to illuminate Nazi murders and torments — at camps and throughout Europe

Hannah Dugan pictured when seeking election to Milwaukee County Circuit Court during a forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, March 15, 2016. (Mike De Sisti / USA Today Network via Imagn Images via Reuters)

FBI arrests Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration agents

By AP

FBI chief announces detention of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, says she ‘intentionally misdirected’ federal agents away from man they were trying to take into custody

This photo illustration, taken on April 24, 2025, in Washington, DC, shows an image of US President Donald Trump alongside a smartphone displaying a red 'Trump 2028' cap on the Trump Store website (Oliver Contreras / AFP)

Hat-Trick‘Trump 2028’ merchandise for sale on US president’s store

By AFP

US President Donald Trump adjusts 'Make America Great Again' hats as he prepares to sign executive orders related to education policy, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump demands US campuses report foreign funds amid concern over anti-Israel influence

By Grace Gilson

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people, outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Jewish senators accuse Trump of using antisemitism as ‘guise’ to attack US universities

By Grace Gilson

Group of five Democrats led by Chuck Schumer say US president seems to be ‘using what is a real crisis as a pretext to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you’

Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt speaks during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Former US antisemitism envoy says Trump’s campus crackdown has ‘gone way too far’

By Grace Gilson

Demonstrators from the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace group protest inside Trump Tower in support of Mahmoud Khalil, on March 13, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump administration restores student visas, but impact on anti-Israel protesters unclear

By Grace Gilson

In this handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on April 26, 2025, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) meets with US President Donald Trump (L) on the sidelines of Pope Francis's funeral at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (Handout/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/AFP)

‘He’s just tapping me along’: Trump slams Putin after meeting Zelensky at pope’s funeral

US president hints at further sanctions on Russia, which he says has ‘no reason to be shooting missiles into civilian areas’ of Ukraine; Russian forces claim Kursk ‘fully liberated’

Crowds pressed against the window of Essen New York Deli in an attempt to catch a glimpse of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, April 24, 2025. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Ben Gvir joins friendly Thursday night cholent in Brooklyn after stirring the pot in NYC

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Visiting a kosher deli for the pre-Shabbat tradition of late-night stew, the far-right Israeli minister encounters none of the simmering tension that greeted him in other venues

More Headlines

Demonstrators calling for a hostage deal clash with police during a protest outside the home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Jerusalem on April 13, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll: 61% of Israelis fear for democracy, 66% say internal rift is greatest threat

(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)

Report: Court extended PM aides’ remand after seeing Qatargate-linked financial docs

Parrots found by police after they were stolen from the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo by animal traffickers on April 24, 2025. (Israel Police)

Police return stolen birds to Jerusalem zoo; thieves ‘knew exactly what to steal’

By Charlie Summers

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson takes his seat at the witness table during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Jewish groups protest as Chicago mayor wears keffiyeh for Arab Heritage Month event

By Grace Gilson

Former US Rep. George Santos leaves federal court after being sentenced to more than seven years in prison for fraud and identity theft, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Central Islip, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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

By Philip Marcelo

A dairy cow in New Vienna, Iowa, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Udder confusionCould FDA changes cause observant US Jews to sour on uncertified milk?

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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