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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 27, 2025

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A handout picture provided by the Iranian Red Crescent (RCS) on April 27, 2025, shows members of a rescue team arriving by helicopter at the scene of an explosion that took place a day earlier at the Shahid Rajaee port dock southwest of Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan (Iranian Red Crescent / AFP)

Authorities urge residents to stay indoors, wear masks

Explosion at Iran port said caused by missile fuel component from China; toll at 40

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Over 1,000 wounded; fires still burning a day later; person connected to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps tells NYT that sodium perchlorate ignited; Putin offers help

Ex-Shin Bet chief calls for nonviolent revolt at weekly anti-government rally

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Thousands gather in Tel Aviv as families of hostages make impassioned plea to bring their loved ones home ahead of upcoming Memorial Day, slam apathy of coalition lawmakers

Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon speaks during an anti-government protest at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, April 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

A display of masks bearing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's face surrounding a protester wearing faux-bloody bandages at an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv, April 26, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

PM shares call for Shin Bet to arrest dozens over faux ‘severed heads’ protest display

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

A poster for an evening of song and unity in Jerusalem, planned for April 27, 2025, by the families of the 'Beautiful 6,' referring to six Hamas hostages killed in a Gaza tunnel in August 2024: Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Or Danino and Alex Lubanov. (Courtesy)

Unity without politicsFamilies of ‘Beautiful 6’ murdered hostages organize evening of song

By Jessica Steinberg

IDF Cpt. Ido Voloch (left) and police Sgt. Neta Yitzhak Kahane, who were killed during fighting in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood on April 25, 2025. (Courtesy)

IDF weighing setting up new humanitarian zone in south Gaza

Soldier and cop killed in Gaza City fighting, as IDF prepares to ramp up offensive

By Emanuel Fabian

Police officer Sgt. Neta Yitzhak Kahane killed in exchange of fire in Shejaiya, tank platoon commander Cpt. Ido Voloch slain during rescue attempts

BBC Arabic journalist Samer Elzaenen who has made a slew of antisemitic posts online. (Facebook)

Gazan journalist who appears on BBC Arabic called to ‘burn’ Jews in resurfaced posts

Soldiers and members of security forces who treated and cared for Israeli soldiers killed on and since the Hamas invasion on October 7 place flags and light candles on soldiers' graves at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 9, 2024, days before the annual Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Promoted CampaignYad Ezra v'Shulamit

On Yom HaZikaron, support Israel by feeding her hungry children

We distribute food every week at 93 distribution points across Israel to families in need, and we want to make sure everyone has a full table as we mourn and celebrate.

US President Donald Trump raises a fist as he steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on April 27, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 27: Trump says he expects Iran talks will yield a deal ‘without having to start dropping bombs’

Fresh demonstrations against Hamas rule reported in northern Gaza * Death toll from blast at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port rises to 40 as fire continues to blaze

10:56 pm

Trump says he expects Iran talks will yield a deal: 'We will have something without having to start dropping bombs'
8:42 pm

Libyan general shot dead in attack on his Tripoli home
7:58 pm

Father of slain hostage Ori Danino: 'With unity we will bring them home'

Australian sisters Nicole Meyer (L) and Dassi Erlich (R) take part in a demonstration on March 13, 2019, outside the Jerusalem District Court after an extradition hearing for Malka Leifer, a former girls school principal wanted for sexual abuse in Australia. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI investigates'This is how entire issues disappear from public awareness'

Gag order on sexual abuse case involving cabinet minister highlights lack of transparency

By Ariela Karmel

Scholars, advocates and survivors are concerned that rather than protecting victims, Israel’s broad gag order regime is being used to shield powerful figures from public scrutiny

Interview

GOP lawmaker cautions Israel against ‘dividing’ Syria, after meeting with Sharaa

Marlin Stutzman says new Syrian leader signaled openness to Israel normalization, but listed concerns to be addressed first, notably not including progress toward Palestinian state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the top of the Syrian side of Mount Hermon along with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (right) and other troops, December 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Druze clerics greet each other as they await visiting counterparts from Syria in a bus through a border barrier guarded by Israeli soldiers, near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on April 25, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Israeli, Syrian relatives reunite as 650 Druze clerics visit Israel for 2-day pilgrimage

By ToI Staff and AFP

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Kneecap, Coachella, and the cowardice of the age

The Irish band members can shout ’Free Palestine’ all they want; they are still ’useful idiots’ for Hamas, who despise the very liberties that allow the band to perform

The criminal underbelly of free newspaper distribution

It’s Friday at the bakery and an older gentleman gently accosts me: ’Psst, go get me one of those papers; they won’t let me take another myself’

Israelis on the beach in Hadera on April 26, 2025, where a man was attacked and killed by a shark during Passover (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 27: Day 569 – Legal wrangles at ICC, shark attack in Hadera

By Jessica Steinberg, Jeremy Sharon and Sue Surkes

Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon discusses latest on war crimes case, and that of Ronen Bar; reporter Sue Surkes reviews Hadera shark attack and community in Ofakim since Oct. 7

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators block a road and clash with police during a protest against the Haredi draft, on Route 4, outside the city of Bnei Brak, May 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

High Court orders government to explain failure to draft Haredi men despite 2024 ruling

By Jeremy Sharon

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students yet to be sent military conscription orders, while response rate to such orders is minimal and IDF’s manpower shortage is acute

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a commemoration at the Mt. Herzal military cemetery in Jerusalem. December 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Bennett accuses PM of preventing victory over Hamas by not drafting ultra-Orthodox

Secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein al-Sheikh, attends the 32nd PLO Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Top Abbas aide Hussein al-Sheikh tapped as first ever PLO vice president

By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Al-Sheikh, who is known for his close ties with Israel and US, gets boost in succession battle for control over the Palestinian Authority when its 89-year-old incumbent leader dies

Israel said to deport UNRWA employee who is married to an Israeli Jew

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Commanders battled terrorists, saving 100 rookies at Zikim training base on Oct. 7

Junior officers swapped out trainees at guard posts when Hamas’s rocket fire began, exchanged fire with gunmen; only one new recruit was killed

IDF vehicles drive outside the Zikim training base in southern Israel, November 16, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

A group of midwives who volunteer with "First Contractions," a joint project of Magen David Adom and Israel midwives, in an undated photo. (Courtesy/Magen David Adom)

Wartime volunteer midwife program, initiated in north, expands across the country

By Diana Bletter

Magen David Adom and Israel Midwives Organization’s joint ‘First Contractions’ project now has 200 volunteers to help expectant mothers who can’t get to a hospital in time

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his wife Ayala attend a conference called "Israel's return to the Temple Mount," at the Knesset, July 24, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ayala Ben Gvir says she feels like ‘reservist’s wife’ as far-right minister tours US

Interceptor trails are seen in the sky above southern Israel as a Houthi missile is fired at Israel, April 13, 2025. (Social media / used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Houthi ballistic missile triggers sirens near Dead Sea, is intercepted — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Projectile downed before crossing Israel’s borders, military says; no injuries or damage; Iran-backed rebels claim attack, second in as many days, targeted Negev airbase

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Israeli windsurfer Tamar Steinberg, who won the gold medal at the World Cup in Hyeres, France, April 25, 2025. (Sailing Energy / Israel Sailing Association)

Israeli windsurfer Tamar Steinberg wins gold at world championship

Police officers at the scene of a deadly shootout with organized crime suspects in the northern Arab Israeli village of Iksal, April 26, 2025. (Israel Police)

Two suspects killed, police officer seriously wounded in shootout in north

People carry banners and Palestinian flags during an anti-Israel demonstration against Israel's participation in Eurovision ahead of the second semifinal at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

In policy shift, Eurovision to allow Palestinian flags in audience this year

Emma Wozniak, editor in chief of the Ohio State University's The Lantern newspaper, talks with Nora Igelnik, campus editor at the paper's office in Columbus, Ohio, April 24, 2025, as managing editor of content, Lucy Lawler listens. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana)

US college papers rethink policies, try to shield foreign students from Trump crackdown

By Christine Fernando

Cardinals stand during the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 26, 2025. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

ExplainerConclave to ponder whether to continue Pope Francis’ radical legacy, or change course

By Nicole Winfield

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who sued wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein over alleged sexual abuse and accused him and Ghislaine Maxwell of pressuring her into sexual trysts with other powerful men, speaks during a news conference outside a Manhattan court in New York, August 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Accuser of UK’s Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking scandal dies by suicide

By BRAD BROOKS and Samuel McKeith

Palestinian singer Lina Makoul is seen in the music video of her song Fish Masari (there is no money), published August 31, 2023. (Screen capture: Youtube)

Haifa mayor bans Arab singer from city events after she locates it in Palestine

A flyer for a fake party posted online by a former SCAD student included the instructions 'No Jews.' (Screenshot via JTA)

‘No Jews’ invitation for apparently fake party sparks concern at Georgia college

By Grace Gilson

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