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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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Sara Netanyahu, left, and her husband Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak to slated Independence Day torch-bearers at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. (Screen capture: Government Press Office)

Sara Netanyahu says fewer than 24 hostages are still alive in Gaza

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Hostages’ families demand to know whether there’s new info after PM’s wife says figure cited by Netanyahu is too high, at a meeting in which he nearly forgot to mention captives

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

Security establishment shocked Netanyahu spilled secret details of pager op – report

By Lazar Berman

A seat reserved for the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza is seen at Israel's Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on April 29, 2025. (Screenshot)

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April 29: Siren rings out, ceremony held at Western Wall, as Israel marks Memorial Day

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8:51 pm

Trump dismisses Biden nominees to US Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff
8:48 pm

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Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces that he will step down from his position on June 15, in an address at a memorial event for fallen Shin Bet personnel, April 28, 2025. (Screenshot)

Opposition lawmakers urge Netanyahu to follow suit

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces he will step down from his role on June 15

By Stav Levaton, Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol

Bar, whom cabinet voted last month to fire, sparking ongoing legal battle, says ‘all’ who failed on Oct. 7 must go, stresses need for security agency’s continued independence

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Illustrative: Children play with Israeli flags ahead of Israel's 77th Independence Day at a kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh in central Israel, April 29, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel’s population tops 10 million for 1st time, on eve of 77th Independence Day

Central Bureau of Statistics says nearly 10.1 million people live in Israel — 12 times as many as in 1948 — including about 45% of world’s Jews

Family members of hostage Bar Kuperstein and Israelis celebrate his 2nd birthday in Hamas captivity at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli official: Reports of breakthrough in hostage-ceasefire talks ‘inaccurate’

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Hamas official also denies progress in Cairo, after report said negotiators reached tentative agreement on release of hostages in May, opening of three aid corridors in Gaza

A rally for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, at Safra Square in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Official: Israel won’t accept 5-year Gaza truce, Qatar isn’t helping hostage talks

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

At a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government at Tel Aviv's Habima Square on April 26, 2025, a demonstrator holds a sign that reads 'Concern for the Israeli nation for another Memorial Day' (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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Former hostage Arbel Yehoud says captors threatened to kill her if IDF approached

Released captive says Israel ‘currently fighting to attack, didn’t fight to defend’ on Oct. 7; some details she won’t share even with her parents: ‘Better they don’t know’

Ex-captive Arbel Yehoud speaks to Channel 13 in the ruins of the home she shared with hostage Ariel Cunio in Kibbutz Nir Oz, in an interview broadcast April 28, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 13)

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‘Medieval torture’: Former hostages plead with Trump to free remaining captives

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Dermer predicts war will be over in a year, regional peace deals will follow

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Strategic affairs minister says victory in seven-front conflict is key to future agreements, recalls he had to tell Trump that not all Gaza hostages were dead

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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

New US envoy: Israel’s struggle against its enemies is a ‘battle between heaven and hell’

Mike Huckabee, an Evangelical, declares Israel ‘a chosen place for a chosen people,’ lauds Trump for reversing Biden’s ‘ridiculous policies,’ says his top goal is returning the hostages

The tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital in Damascus visited by a delegation of US Jews in February 2025. In the picture, Rabbi Asher Lopatin. (Courtesy)

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More than a dozen killed in Druze town near Damascus in latest sectarian clashes

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv District Court for the ongoing corruption trial against him, on April 22, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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Billionaire ally Milchan ‘bathes in champagne,’ PM claims on the stand; protesters in courtroom assail him for ‘abandoning’ Gaza hostages

Palestinians, Israelis and politicians attend a memorial ceremony for those lost in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2022, as Israel marks its annual Memorial Day. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

'We've tried war too many times and it hasn't worked'

An alternative Memorial Day ceremony marks its 20th year. Participants say it’s the future

By Nurit Yohanan

Controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian event honoring the slain on both sides continues to grow, even in the shadow of the October 7 massacre and ongoing war in Gaza

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

Torah scroll honoring soldier slain on Oct. 7 completed ahead of Memorial Day

By Rossella Tercatin

L: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); R: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

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By Charlie Summers

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By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Rep. Brian Mast and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on April 28, 2025. (House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority/X)

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Moti Maman, accused of being recruited by Iran to advance an assassination plot of the prime minister, defense minister, or the head of the Shin Bet, is seen in a court in Beersheba on September 19, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

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By Sharon Wrobel

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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 apologize for turning backs on Israeli flag, anthem after loss

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

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Over 550 rabbis, cantors sign letter accusing Trump of ‘abusing’ antisemitism issue

By JTA and ToI Staff

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