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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 1, 2025

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May 1: Hostages Families Forum says PM’s stance is against that of most Israelis

Two more Syrian Druze wounded in sectarian violence evacuated to Israel for treatment * Fire service said to suspect negligence, not arson, caused Jerusalem hills wildfire

9:50 pm

Group of Druze protesters in Caesarea head toward Netanyahu's home
7:56 pm

Druze protesters take to the streets, demand Israel step in to aid community in Syria
7:25 pm

France says no Europe-Iran meeting on Friday, after US nuclear talks postponed

KKL-JNF: Around 20,000 dunams burned

Fires near Jerusalem burn for second day but roads, towns reopen with foreign aid on way

Planes from Europe expected in coming hours; firefighter numbers scaled back; all evacuees okayed to return home, though wildfires still active in six areas, clouding Independence Day celebrations

Hundreds battle blazes ripping through Jerusalem area; fire may be Israel’s largest ever

By Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israel scrambles for international aid as wildfires rage near Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Arson suspect arrested as authorities probe whether massive fires were started on purpose

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

President Isaac Herzog meets with Mike Huckabee (unseen) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Interview'Our enemies don't give a damn how we feel about the gov't'

Warning against societal fissures, Herzog praises Shin Bet’s Bar for bowing out

By Lazar Berman

Speaking to The Times of Israel as Israel marks its 77th anniversary, president says hostages must be priority and Haredim should serve, but stresses importance of compromise

The dress rehearsal of Israel's 77th Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. The dress rehearsal was broadcast on television following the live performance's cancellation.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-hostages star in recorded Independence Day ceremony after live event canceled

View of a massive wildfire near Latrun, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, April 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Many Independence Day events nixed, public told to avoid cemeteries amid raging wildfires

Chai - Netta Barzilai (Jewish Agency)

Alive, againNetta Barzilai gives new life to ‘Chai’ in Independence Day music video

People walk at the Mahaneh Yehudah Market in Jerusalem, during Israel's 76th Independence Day on May 13, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

As Israel shifts from sorrow to joy, rabbinic group offers new prayer for grieving nation

By Rossella Tercatin

Drafted by Tzohar, the prayer aims to help the public navigate the painful transition from Memorial Day to Independence Day amid ongoing trauma and hostage crisis

Cartoon illustrating Israelis' first election, January 25, 1948. (AP Photo/H. E. Munhall)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 1: Day 573 – Ben-Gurion’s anguish upon the founding of Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

In a special Independence Day episode, senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur takes us back to the first prime minister’s conflicted emotions as the nascent state fought enemies and division

77 awesome things about Israel’s economy

The nation’s strength and adaptability in these hard times are matched by resilient economic and financial systems, as we celebrate 77 years of independence

Israel’s beautiful nature, in photographs

From the anemone and blue butterflies, to the gazelles, the hoopoes, and the varied terrain, here are 77 reasons to love the land and those that dwell there

Inside story

Government accused of failing to take fire threat seriously despite years of warnings

Leaders cut budget for already undermanned fire service, and National Security Council ignored calls for session on wildfire preparation until after blaze broke out Wednesday

A firefighter tries to extinguish a massive wildfire at Canada Park, west of Jerusalem, April 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu attends an event after the release of first voting results in the Israeli general elections, at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on September 18, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90/File)

PM’s firebrand son baselessly suggests Israeli left to blame for major blazes

The main rehearsal for Israel's Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Independence Day

Israel at 77: Tech economy shows resilience during war, though clouds of change loom

By Sharon Wrobel

While Israel takes pride in its tech ecosystem, fund managers and tech experts worry that the state is not acting to preserve the talent that keeps the industry thriving

Meat prices continue to soar as Israelis gear up for Independence Day barbecues

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: An Israeli army armored vehicle moves along a road during a military operation in Nablus in the northern West Bank on April 8, 2025. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Two reservists wounded, one seriously, in West Bank roadside bomb attack

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israeli forces encircle town near Nablus where soldiers were struck by explosive while carrying out routine patrol; IDF arrests Palestinian journalist for alleged Islamic Jihad ties

Druze gunmen stand next to their sect's religious flag at a checkpoint at one of the Jaramana suburb entrances, after clashes in the area between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters, in the southern suburb of Jaramana, Damascus, Syria, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Israel carries out ‘warning strike’ in Syria in defense of Druze minority

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

Syria denies Jerusalem’s claim that strike foiled planned attack on civilians; IDF chief orders further strikes if violence against minority persists; Israeli Druze urge intervention

A member of the Druze security forces stands guard in Jaramana in the suburb of Damascus on April 29, 2025, following overnight sectarian clashes. (Rami al SAYED / AFP)

Some Druze in Syria begin to take up arms, as sectarian violence hits home

By AFP and ToI Staff

This picture taken from a position along Israel's northern border with Lebanon shows vehicles of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the Lebanese Army deploying in Lebanon's southern village of Odaisseh on February 18, 2025. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Official: Lebanese army has dismantled over 90% of Hezbollah infrastructure near border

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prof. Yinon Ben Neriah of Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, winner of Israel Prize for groundbreaking research in cancer (Courtesy/Bruno Charbit)

Interview

As US pares back research funds, Israel Prize winner sees chance to cure brain drain

By Diana Bletter

With opportunities for Israelis in academia overseas drying up, top cancer researcher Yinon Ben Neriah says the government could be working to make America’s pain into Israel’s gain

US judge orders release of Palestinian student activist set for deportation

By AP and ToI Staff

(L-R) Yael Alexander, Adi Alexander, Ruby Chen, Hagit Chen, Orna Neutra and Ronen Neutra at a press conference for the families of American-Israeli hostages in Washington on April 30, 2025. (Courtesy)

US hostage families see Trump’s May trip to region as chance for loved ones’ return

Parents of American-Israeli captives pan Netanyahu’s handling of negotiations, fearing he’s using military pressure only to ensure his government’s survival

US Senator Bernie Sanders addresses a rally to reintroduce the Medicare for All Act in Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2025, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

US Senate panel amends bill to state that criticism of Israeli gov’t is not antisemitism

By Grace Gilson

Republican chair of committee charges that amendment led by Bernie Sanders, which passes 12-11 with help of GOP’s Rand Paul, ‘is an effort to kill’ Antisemitism Awareness Act

Kehlani arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on February 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Singer insists she’s not antisemitic after Cornell concert scrapped: ‘I’m anti-genocide’

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)

ExclusiveMaryland rabbis, local Jews reject Jewish Voice for Peace convention in Baltimore

Analysis

Ronen Bar affair shows widening chaos as state institutions face coalition pressure

Government’s broad, simultaneous campaign against multiple institutions and office holders, aimed at weakening guardrails and concentrating power, is generating internal dysfunction

Spectators chant as the High Court of Justice hears petitions against the firing of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Secret note reveals origin of violin crafted by Jewish inmate inside Dachau

By Justin Spike

Confused by expert craft but poor materials, Hungarian art dealers find message from Franciszek Kempa detailing 1941 creation of instrument under dire conditions in Nazi camp

Art collector Tamás Tálosi holds the ''violin of hope'', in Magyarpolány, Hungary, April 22, 2025. (/Nikolett Csanyi / AP)

Doron Levy, head of the Department for Israeli Sign Language at the Academy of the Hebrew Language, holding a poster explaining the basic signs of Israeli Sign Language on March 24, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

'An incredible sign of no longer being invisible'

For hearing-impaired, recognition of Israeli Sign Language speaks volumes

By Rossella Tercatin

Academy of the Hebrew Language’s establishment of Department of Israeli Sign Language seen as major move promoting development and codification of unique system of communication

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)

‘Bloodthirsty’: Rights groups, dissidents slam Iran’s hanging of alleged spy for Israel

By Stuart Williams

Mohsen Langarneshin was executed despite evidence that he confessed to crime under torture; IHR monitor says Islamic Republic has hanged 339 people so far this year

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives before President Donald Trump speaks to members of the Michigan National Guard at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Harrison Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Hegseth warns Iran will ‘pay consequence’ for backing Yemen’s Houthis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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Presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa opens the International Court of Justice hearings into 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)

At World Court hearing, US backs Israel’s right to ban UNRWA from Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Italian cardinal and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa arrives for the sixth congregation meeting at The Vatican, on April 29, 2025. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)

In Jerusalem, papal candidate Pizzaballa walks a fine line amid Gaza war tensions

By AFP

From 'The Garden' at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Yael Moria Studio MA (Credit Daniel Henoch)

Faux grassA (fake) tree grows in Tel Aviv’s Museum of Art

By Jessica Steinberg

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, shakes hands with Jordanian Prime Minister Jafar Hassan during a photo opportunity at the State Department, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Jordan to continue receiving US financial support despite Trump’s cuts to foreign aid

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Political activist David Horowitz addresses attendees of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando, Florida, August 30, 2013.(AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

David Horowitz, radical American leftist turned right-wing firebrand, dies at 86

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and the US president's son, looks over the proposed plan ahead of the signing ceremony with Qatar's Diar and Dar Global in Doha on April 30, 2025. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

Trump Organization inks Doha golf resort deal that includes firm owned by Qatar

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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