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What Matters Most On Monday, April 28, 2025

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest the IDF draft outside the Jerusalem enlistment center, April 28, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

‘Zionists are not Jews’: Haredi extremists harass recruits from their community at IDF centers

By Sam Sokol, Stav Levaton and Charlie Summers

Police clash with jeering, road-blocking protesters; IDF chief denounces extremists, says army ‘needs everyone’; Religious Zionism MK appears at base to support Haredi recruit

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, April 27, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Edelstein says Knesset close to drafting new enlistment law, won’t accept ultimatums

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Battle of the affidavits

Citing transcripts, PM calls Bar’s claim he was fired for political reasons ‘total lies’

By Jeremy Sharon

Netanyahu denies seeking to use Shin Bet to target protesters or to evade his trial testimony; skirts claim he wanted Bar to obey him rather than High Court; Shin Bet chief slams PM’s ‘inaccuracies, half-truths’

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Bar doubles down on claims, says Netanyahu’s affidavit ‘full of inaccuracies’

By Jeremy Sharon

Op-edIn his affidavit, Netanyahu quiet on loyalty demand, loud on political messaging

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre (L), near Ottawa, Ontario, on April 27, 2025 and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal leader, in Laval, Quebec, Canada, on April 22, 2025. (Geoff Robins and ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP)

'Hate has become a daily reality'

Canada’s Jewish voters weigh economy, Israel, and antisemitism in pivotal election

By Ariela Karmel

Canadians head to the polls Monday, with local Jews especially torn as a steep rise in hate crimes and a trade war with the US trigger shifting party loyalties

Promoted Memorial EventMasa Israel Journey

Masa Israel Journey Hosts World’s Largest English-Language Yom HaZikaron Ceremony

The ceremony unites Jews from across the globe in remembrance of the victims of terror and the fallen Israeli soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect the State of Israel.

Then-US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden officials vent frustrations in dealing with Netanyahu, decry missed chance of Saudi deal

In interviews with Israeli TV, 9 senior officials from previous US administration speak with unprecedented candor; ex-envoy Shapiro: Saudi deal would have required Israeli election or coalition shuffle

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 24, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90); US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP); Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the State Department in Washington, April 22, 2025. (Oliver Contreras/AFP)

Netanyahu said to have urged Trump not to listen to Qatari PM’s hostage deal offers

An exhibit referring to the plight of the hostages held in Gaza at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on April 28, 2025, as the family of hostage Alon Ohel holds a press conference there. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

April 28: Israeli sources quickly deny claim of ‘breakthrough’ in hostage-ceasefire talks

Freed captives beg Trump in English to ‘bring the rest back’ * Security establishment said shocked Netanyahu revealed classified details of Hezbollah pager op

8:54 pm

Report: Security establishment shocked Netanyahu revealed classified details of beeper op
8:51 pm

Olympic Committee of Israel incorporates handwriting of fallen soldier into logo to mark Memorial Day
8:23 pm

Security sources report 'significant breakthrough' in hostage-ceasefire talks in Cairo

When a soldier is missing, what happens to his wife?

Jewish law can chain a woman to her husband who has not come home from war – but Jewish law also has a solution to ensure that she is not stuck

Daniel Chamovitz

Wokeness has taken a sharp right turn

At my university and others, conservative voices are treating academic disagreement as an existential threat rather than a democratic strength

My father reexamined his most deeply held beliefs. Can you?

We need to address the consequences of the causes we support, whether it’s an economic theory, a political party, or the State of Israel

Trending: Visiting the Temple Mount

Not many go to the holy site, but so many more do than in the past that it’s no longer an activist’s specialty – and that’s a real change

Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (center-left) and Yahya Sinwar (center-right) in Gaza City, June 26, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Hamas chiefs’ correspondence shows how Israel misjudged results of May 2021 clash

By Michael Horovitz

Report reveals Haniyeh’s praise of ‘glorious victory,’ while Sinwar wrote he was close to destroying Israel; senior Hamas officials said tunnel network ‘not damaged at all’

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a ceremony at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

In call with bereaved father, Shin Bet head defends decision to hold off on resigning

The International Court of Justice opens hearings on a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

World court opens week of hearings on Israel’s aid duties to Palestinians

By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: Bad Iran deal is ‘worse than no deal’; Trump: A deal is ‘going to happen’

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

PM insists any agreement must dismantle regime’s entire nuclear program, but US president confident ‘we’ll have something without having to start dropping bombs all over the place’

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (Saul Loeb / AFP)

Troops of the 205th Reserve Armored Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on April 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel leads global surge in military spending, with steepest increase since 1967

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps firefighting air-tanker drops water on Sunday, April 27, 2025, after a massive explosion and fire rocked a port near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, a day earlier. (AP Photo/Mahdi Nori/Fars News agency)

Iran’s interior minister blames ‘negligence’ for port blast, as death toll hits 46

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Local mayor says about 90% of the fire is out; lawmaker says ‘no evidence’ of foreign involvement in explosion said to have been caused by missile fuel component

This handout picture provided by the media office of the Iranian presidency shows heavy smoke billowing at the site of an explosion that took place a day earlier in Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan on April 27, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iranian MP accuses Israel of involvement in port blast, as fires continue to smolder

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At Knesset hearing, AG dismisses accusation of selective enforcement in leak cases

Shin Bet admits to probing law enforcement, denies gathering intelligence on politicians in investigation of Kahanist elements infiltrating police

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 28: Day 570 – IDF reservist killed in Gaza as family marched at Auschwitz

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Emanuel Fabian and Jessica Steinberg

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian visits Strip’s Morag Corridor, reports on rare airstrikes on Beirut; culture editor Jessica Steinberg on March of the Living, Beautiful Six rally

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the JNS conference in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Israel stopped Iranian planes from reaching Syria ahead of Assad’s ouster

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lebanese rescuers extinguish a fire at a site hit in an Israeli strike following evacuation orders in Beirut's southern suburb on April 27, 2025. (AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah missile warehouse in Beirut, kills operative in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Nurit Yohanan

Photo taken from video released by Al Masirah TV channel shows a burning oil tanker after US airstrikes targeted the Ras Isa oil port held by Yemen's Houthi rebels in Hodeida, Yemen, April 18, 2025. (Al Masirah TV via AP)

US says it hit 800 targets in Yemen since March 15, killed hundreds of Houthis

By AFP and ToI Staff

A copy of David Ben-Gurion's diary from May 14, 1948 (Ben-Gurion Archives)

Ben-Gurion diary entries on day of independence revealed: ‘I mourn among the joyful’

Document found in archives reveals how first PM worried over Arab invasion, writing on May 14, 1948, that nascent state’s fate was ‘in the hands of the security forces’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during an official Memorial Day ceremony at the Ashdod Military Cemetery on May 13, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Government reshuffles Memorial Day lineup to keep divisive ministers from the bereaved

Israeli singer Ofra Haza, 1987. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Chai Chai ChaiAI to revive Ofra Haza, other deceased singers for Independence Day

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, first row left, listens in Johannesburg on January 26, 2024, to the ruling from the top UN court that harshly criticized Israel's war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza. (AP Photo)

'The average South African is certainly not anti-Israel'

South African Jews hopeful teetering coalition will be forced to temper anti-Israel stance

Some community leaders believe the solution to domestic challenges and a diplomatic crisis with the US begins with the Jewish state – but will the government agree?

Qatari PM calls 'Qatargate' scandal unfounded, propaganda

Arab source: To shield Netanyahu, Israel leaking false claim Qatar sabotaged talks

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Non-Qatari official says PM’s demands have made reaching an agreement with Hamas nearly impossible, amid Israeli reports Doha encouraged terror group’s intransigence

L: Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Doha on April 27, 2025. (Karim JAAFAR / AFP); R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on April 23, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Palestinian Authority intelligence chief Majed Faraj arrives at the inauguration ceremony of a waste treatment plant in the northern Gaza Strip on March 13, 2018. (Ashraf Amra/APA Images via ZUMA Wire)

Inside story

In first since Trump’s return, PA intel chief to meet CIA officials in Washington

Majed Faraj in US for medical procedure, but will use opportunity to meet with American counterparts and bolster his standing amid Abbas plan to replace him

Reporter's notebook

Despite fatal attack, beachgoers continue to provoke sharks near Hadera power station

Days after diver was mauled to death, visitors again seeking contact with the predators, with little enforcement to be found

A shark swims right past a group of men after one had thrown it a dead fish, off the Mediterranean coast at the Hadera Stream Park, central Israel, April 25, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Arab leaders decry Likud minister’s refusal to fund major community development plan

By Charlie Summers

Social Justice Minister May Golan diverts millions earmarked to boost socioeconomic status and reduce crime in Arab communities, in latest move that critics say undermines five-year plan

View of the Arab-Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm on February 13, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

More Headlines

Paramedics at the scene of a suspected murder in Hadera, after a woman was found dead on April 28, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Woman’s body found buried near Hadera home; police arrest her brother

By Charlie Summers

People watch the London Marathon while holding a large banner calling for the return of the Gaza hostages, April 27, 2025. (The Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

London Marathon runners dedicate races to the 59 remaining Gaza hostages

Illustrative: Police officers stand near the scene of a shooting on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Sweden sentences four teens over shooting attack on Israeli defense company

By AFP and ToI Staff

Dan Sharoni, an IDF officer accused of sexual offenses, during a court hearing at a military court in Beit Lid, July 24, 2022. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Senior IDF officer who secretly filmed female soldiers nude jailed for 80 months

By Emanuel Fabian

The National Institutions Building (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Fresh fraud charges mar final week of World Zionist Congress vote

Former Hamas hostages present their art exhibition at Ben Gurion Airport, April 27, 2025. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Paintings by ex-hostages featured in new art exhibit at Ben Gurion Airport

The Swiss under-23 fencing team (left) turn their backs during the playing of 'Hatikvah,' Israel's national anthem, after an Israeli victory in Tallinn, Estonia on April 26, 2025. (Screen capture via Ynet)

Swiss fencers turn backs on winning Israeli team as ‘Hatikvah’ plays at championship

Ignite DeepTech accelerator for young startups launches first cohort, April 2025. (Courtesy)

Intel-backed accelerator kicks off first cohort for Ignite startup program in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

Vancouver Police investigate a crime scene after a man drove into pedestrians at the annual Lapu Lapu festival celebrating Filipino culture, at East 43rd Avenue and Fraser, in the south of Vancouver, Canada, on April 26, 2025. (Don MacKinnon / AFP)

11 killed as vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival in Vancouver

By JIM MORRIS and Rob Gillies

File Quentin Tarantino, right, and wife Daniella Pick pose for photographers upon arrival at the awards ceremony during the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 27, 2023. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Location scoutingQuentin Tarantino buys $13.8 million property in Tel Aviv

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