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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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View of a massive wildfire near Latrun, April 30, 2025 (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

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April 30: Fires force Israel’s leading TV station to evacuate studio in mid-news broadcast

Fire official says fires ‘may be Israel’s largest ever’ * European countries sending aid * Motorists forced to abandon vehicles as fire hits Route 1 highway * Independence Day events nixed nationwide

8:37 pm

Two reservists wounded, one seriously, in West Bank roadside bomb attack
8:36 pm

Ukraine to send plane to help fight wildfires in hills outside Jerusalem
8:20 pm

Lebanese official claims army dismantled 'over 90%' of Hezbollah infrastructure near Israel

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out near Mesilat Zion, April 30, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Communities evacuated as massive brushfires rage near Jerusalem, Route 1 closed

Neve Shalom, Beko’a, Ta’oz, Nachshon and Latrun cleared of people as roads blocked; dozens of firefighting units, planes battle flames

Israeli soldiers stand still as the memorial siren sounds during the ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Brief panic at Tel Aviv event as police make arrest

‘Stop the hatred’: As Israel marks Memorial Day, Herzog pleads for peace within society

By Emanuel Fabian, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

IDF chief says ‘foremost obligation is to bring hostages home’; PM, Knesset speaker heckled; 3,000 at Haredi ceremony; right-wing mob attacks Reform shul screening Israeli-Palestinian event

People stand still as a two-minute siren sounded across Israel, marking Memorial Day at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on April 30, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

As Israelis mark Memorial Day, PM honors troops who ‘broke the grip of our enemies’

By Lazar Berman, Charlie Summers, Diana Bletter and ToI Staff

Cpt. Or Moses was killed on the Zikim base on October 7, 2023. (IDF)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 30: Day 572 – IDF commanders who sacrificed themselves to save recruits

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Israeli reserve soldiers seen during military training in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, October 30, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

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'This is only the opening salvo,' warns local Likud official

Rioters storm Ra’anana synagogue during screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

4 police officers and 3 participants injured, 3 right-wing activists arrested after attack on Reform Beit Samueli building; MK Gilad Kariv, a, rabbi, decries ‘attempted pogrom’

Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu are welcomed by Hungary's Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky (R) on April 3, 2025 at the airport in Budapest, (Sztaniszlav Horvath/ Hungarian Defense Ministry / AFP)

Sara Netanyahu tells Hungarian magazine ‘deep state’ aiming to overthrow government

Reporter's Notebook

Rossella Tercatin

As IDF draft battle rages, Haredim gather on Memorial Day to mourn their fallen soldiers

Over 3,000 people attend special ceremony in Jerusalem honoring those who died while serving in army’s ultra-Orthodox tracks: ‘A Torah scroll in one hand and David’s sword in the other’

A Memorial Day ceremony honoring fallen soldiers from Haredi tracks in Jerusalem on April 29, 2025. (Haim Twito)

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

After protests, ultra-Orthodox minister staying away from Memorial Day ceremony

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Most of this year's Independence Day torch-lighters pose for a photo outside the Knesset with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and Transportation Minister Miri Regev, April 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Independence Day

‘Bridges of Hope’: The torch-lighters at Israel’s 77th Independence Day celebration

Annual event features freed hostage Emily Damari, cultural icons Zehava Ben and Omri Casspi, and more controversial figures Dana International and Ben Shapiro

In their own words: The memorial stickers of the IDF’s fallen

The ’Drishat Shalom’ interactive website transforms the details and slogans of those we mourn into remembrance of their values that we all can share in

Alone together: I am hollowed out by loss

I miss the whole of my son, from his first wobbly steps to his blue eyes and sharp mind. But his brutal murder was only about him being a Jew

Should we keep the siren? Israel’s sound of national remembrance

The loud alarm unsettles us, and that very experience supports our capacity for unity

I want to tell you what the blind girl saw

Despite the protests and the grievances that are tearing us apart to our sorrow, we are so human together, when we are there for each other

Op-ed: Day 572 of the war

Israel’s anthem yearns for us ‘to be a free people, in our own land.’ We dare not fail

These past 18 months, we have struggled as never before in our modern history. We let down our guard and our enemies pounced. Worse still, our internal rifts are widening. We can and must heal them if we are to revive

People stand still to observe two minutes of silence as sirens sound marking Israel's annual Memorial Day at the site of Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

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)

Government cancels decision to fire Shin Bet chief Bar in wake of his resignation

By Jeremy Sharon

Watchdog group calls decision ‘a cynical and transparent trick’ to stop High Court ruling on allegations Bar was fired for PM’s personal and political purposes

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

Full text of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar’s resignation letter

A student protester stands in front of the statue of John Harvard, the first major benefactor of Harvard College, draped in the Palestinian flag, at an encampment of students protesting against the war in Gaza, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

'No other group was constantly told its history was a sham'

Long-awaited Harvard antisemitism report shows intense campus hostility to Jews, Israelis

By Luke Tress and AP

University’s president apologizes as task force urges reforms to admissions, curriculum, research and bias training; ‘being Jewish was largely irrelevant’ before Oct. 7, says student

FILE - In this file photo from January 2001, students walk to-and-from classes in front of Dartmouth Hall in Hanover, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Red paint smattered on Dartmouth building in protest against Israel

By Grace Gilson

A woman walks past a menorah standing outside a Jewish synagogue ahead of the start of Hanukkah, in Miami Beach, Florida, December 1, 2023. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

Survey: 31% of US Jews more engaged in Jewish life than before Oct 7

ToI investigates

WZO elections marred by alleged widespread voter fraud, abuse of voting platform

As many as 6% of all ballots may be thrown out, in fateful vote by US Jews that helps determine how billions of dollars will be spent on Jewish and Israeli causes

A picture of Theodor Herzl on August 29, 2022, during celebrations of the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress at the historic Stadtcasino in Basel, where Herzl convened the first congress that paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. (Fabrice Cofrinni / AFP)

Asher Wolach holds a memorial photo of Rabbi Avi Goldberg, April 2025. (Gal Aharonovich/ International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)

Memorial Day'Unthinkable that I must endure this loss so late in life'

In tearful reversal, Holocaust survivors mourn beloved IDF soldiers killed since Oct. 7

By Deborah Danan

As Israelis commemorate those lost in the Shoah as well as fallen troops and terror victims, the elderly grieve for young volunteers who visited them, felled over 19 months of war

Inside Story

Crown Heights protest dredges up specter of 1991 race riots, but local environment has changed

Rhetoric ahead of Monday’s Brooklyn protest leant into racial tensions, echoing past pogrom in neighborhood, but this time demonstration fizzled

Orthodox Jews talk to police about more police presence to prevent further violence during anti-Jewish riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, August 21, 1991. (AP Photo/ Andrew Savulich/ File)

Trump dismisses Doug Emhoff, other Biden nominees to US Holocaust Memorial Council

By Zeke Miller and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Kamala Harris’s husband slams president for ‘turning one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue,’ says move ‘dishonors the memory of 6 million Jews murdered by Nazis’

FILE - US Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks at the Democratic National Committee's holiday reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, December 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Inside storyUS plans to eliminate security post tasked with bolstering Israel-PA security ties

Illustrative: Young Americans burn their draft cards during an anti-war demonstration, on November 7, 1965, in Union Square in New York, to protest against war in Vietnam. (AFP)

Reporter's notebook

50 years after the end of the Vietnam War, meet an iconic but unknown Jewish activist

By Cathryn J. Prince

A visit to the New York-based American Jewish Historical Society provides a look at the unsung legacy of Robert Allen Simon through a treasure trove of artifacts

Illustrative: A picture obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on December 12, 2022, shows the public execution of Majidreza Rahnavard, in Iran's Mashhad city. (Mizan News/AFP)

Iran executes man accused of spying for Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Mohsen Langarneshin convicted of link to death of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer in 2022, providing support for attack on defense ministry site in Isfahan

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, center, visits the Muscat International Book Fair in Oman, April 25, 2025. (Fatima Shbair/AP)

Iran says next round of nuclear talks with US to be held in Rome

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police officers guard a barrier close to the Israeli embassy, the destination for a National March for Palestine in central London on February 17, 2024. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Man charged after trying to break into Israeli embassy in London carrying a knife

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies

Abdullah Sabah Albadri, 33, was detained inside compound’s grounds, apparently wearing keffiyeh; police suspect him of terrorism offense and possession of bladed weapon

Members of the racist British Movement unfurl a flag with a swastika and SS imagery at the Duke of Edinburgh pub (who say they weren't aware) in Royton, England on April 20, 2025, in celebration of Adolf Hitler's birthday. An image of Hitler has been superimposed onto the image. (British Movement)

UK Police investigating after British neo-Nazis celebrate Hitler’s birthday in pub

Nathan Fielder speaks onstage during the 2024 Writers Guild Awards Los Angeles Ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium on April 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America West/AFP)

'The network gave me a one-word explanation: Sensitivities'

Nathan Fielder says Paramount+ pulled his TV episode on Holocaust awareness after Oct. 7

By Andrew Lapin

In the latest season of ‘The Rehearsal,’ the Jewish comedian reveals that a 2015 segment about his genocide awareness apparel brand Summit Ice was taken down intentionally

More Headlines

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

7-month-old baby dies; family blames police search of their settlement home

By Michael Horovitz

Incoming German Education Minister Karin Prien arrives for a federal committee meeting of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, on April 28, 2025 in Berlin. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

New German government to include first-ever Jewish woman minister

Security forces of Syria's new Islamist government stand guard on the road leading to the airport, in the Damascus' suburb of Jaramana on April 29, 2025. (Rami al SAYED / AFP)

Under new regime, Syria’s Alawites are evicted from private homes at gunpoint

By Amina Ismail

Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard along a street in Srinagar, on the Indian-administered side of Kashmir, on April 30, 2025. (Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)

Pakistan says it has ‘credible evidence’ India set to strike after Kashmir massacre

By PRABHJOT GILL and SHEIKH SAALIQ

The Swiss House of Parliament in Bern, on December 11, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/ AFP)

Switzerland announces its ban on Hamas will come into force on May 15

By ToI Staff and Reuters

In this undated 1969 photo, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, left, is seen with Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, in Suez, Egypt. (AP Photo/ Farouk Ibrahim)

Egypt’s Nasser said in 1970 he had ‘no interest’ in Palestinian cause, recording reveals

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Members of the Palestine Red Crescent and other emergency services carry 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. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Israel frees Gazan medic arrested during Rafah ambulance shooting last month

By AFP and ToI Staff

Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (center), announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, May 20, 2024. (ICC)

ICC prosecutor reportedly ordered to keep silent on arrest warrants for Israelis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Yemeni soldier inspects the damage reportedly caused by US airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, April 27, 2025. (Osamah Abdulrahman/AP)

UK military launches airstrikes with US against Yemen’s Houthi terror group

By AP and ToI Staff

The measles virus. (Cynthia Goldsmith, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)

8 cases of measles diagnosed in Israel in past week, Health Ministry says

By Diana Bletter and AP

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