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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 25, 2026

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People light candles and post messages outside a Pizza Hut in Petah Tikva, central Israel, on April 24, 2026, in memory of slain worker Yemanu Binyamin Zelka, 21, who was ambushed at the end of his shift on Independence Day night by a group of teens he had asked to stop using party spray in the restaurant. A picture of Zelka is captioned with Gen. 4:10, 'Your brother's blood cries out at me from the ground.' (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Prime suspect tried to flee when cops broke into his hideout

Seven teens arrested in connection with Independence Day murder of pizzeria worker

Suspects said to have acted like ‘veteran criminals’ in bid to avoid arrest after allegedly ambushing Yemanu Zelka, 21, for asking them to stop spraying party foam in Petah Tikva Pizza Hut

Smoke rises from Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, April 25, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

April 25: IDF investigating after footage shows soldiers damaging solar panels in southern Lebanon town

Iranian foreign minister to head back to Pakistan after talks in Oman, state media says* Teen suspected of murdering pizzeria worker on Independence Day caught on camera holding bloody knife

9:11 pm

Settler filmed hurling stones at Palestinian home in Hebron as troops look on; he's later detained and released
8:31 pm

IDF investigating after footage shows soldiers damaging solar panels in south Lebanon town
8:21 pm

IDF says it struck several buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

Nesya Karadi, 11, died on April 24, 2026, of critical wounds sustained in an Iranian cluster bomb attack on Bnei Brak in central Israel on March 31, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

11-year-old girl from Bnei Brak dies of wounds from Iranian strike on Passover eve

Nesya Karadi was critically wounded when cluster bomb submunition hit her family’s home in central Israel on April 1; she is 21st victim in Israel of Iran war

US envoys Witkoff, Kushner to depart Saturday for Iran talks in Pakistan — White House

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Leavitt claims Tehran asked for in-person meeting, but Trump’s envoys won’t arrive in Islamabad until Sunday, while Iran FM landed on Friday and has no plans to meet them

White House envoys Jared Kushner, left, and Steve Witkoff, listen as US Vice President JD Vance (not in picture) speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 12, 2026. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests. (John MacDougall / AFP)

Iran hangs man for role in protests, claims he was working for Mossad

By AFP

Elections 2026: Analysis

Backing public transit on Shabbat, Bennett steers campaign into jammed center lane

No longer constrained by right-wing niche, former PM seeks broader appeal — but he may end up only drawing votes away from his potential coalition partners

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 17, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

PA holds local elections, including first in parts of Gaza since 2007 Hamas takeover

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Election is one of the reforms demanded in Trump’s Gaza peace plan, but no faction other than Abbas’s Fatah has put forward a party slate; vote in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah largely symbolic

A Palestinian candidate (L) and a voter cast their ballots in a makeshift polling station during municipal elections in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, on April 25, 2026 (Eyad Baba / AFP)

Bodycam footage from August 6, 2024, shows an officer aiming a taser gun at an intruder at Elbit UK's site in Bristol, England, after the intruder struck a police officer with a sledgehammer. (Screen capture: Channel 4)

UK Palestine Action activist tells court his sledgehammer attack on officer was ‘reasonable’

In retrial over 2024 raid of Israeli defense firm’s Bristol factory, defendant admits cop he targeted after hearing screams from fellow activist wasn’t actually hurting anyone

Six Hezbollah gunmen are seen on a rooftop in the southern Lebanon town of Bint Jbeil, April 24, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Amid truce, Hezbollah attacks IDF in south Lebanon; troops kill 6 gunmen in Bint Jbeil

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF also strikes buildings from which terror group launched rocket barrage at north shortly before Trump announced ceasefire extension; Israeli drone downed over Tyre

Ariel Tishby, curator of the exhbition 'Fact, Faith, and Fantasy - Maps of the Holy Land from the Chinn Collection,' which opened at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in January 2026. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

As Iran tries to wipe Israel off the map, a museum charts those who first put it on

By Rossella Tercatin

Now reopened with war on hold, Israel Museum exhibition explores maps produced from the 15th to 19th century that blended geography with biblical beliefs and contemporary politics

Interview

PHILISSA CRAMER

UK-born Israeli whose coexistence kippa was carved up by police asks ‘what is in store for us’

After being detained for wearing a head covering featuring Israeli and Palestinian flags, writer and peace activist Alex Sinclair warns against letting the country descend into illiberalism

Alex Sinclair in an undated photo and his kippa before and after a Palestinian flag was cut out of it, as pictured on April 23, 2026. (Alex Sinclair/Courtesy)

I remember my fallen comrades. Bibi remembered himself

On this year’s Memorial Day, grief for friends who died in uniform turned into outrage at the prime minister, who used the day to boost his own legacy

Is Meta hallucinating its Holocaust denial ban?

The rules exist, but enforcement doesn’t — leaving antisemitic content free to thrive on Facebook and Instagram

1960's 'Exodus' is the featured film for this week's The Reel Schmooze. (courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘Exodus’: When Hollywood still loved the Jewish state

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor on the 1960 Paul Newman vehicle that showed off the actor’s love of Israel — and his amazing blue eyes

San Francisco Symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who composed 'From the Diary of Anne Frank.' (Spencer Lowell/ courtesy SFS)

Famed Jewish conductor Michael Tilson Thomas dies at 81

By Penny Schwartz

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a union rally on Park Avenue, in New York, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mamdani vetoes school buffer zone bill; leading Jewish groups pan ‘profound failure’

NYC mayor will allow measure to protect houses of worship to pass into law; Long Island congressman proposes federal legislation to protect religious sites

Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche, left, speaks alongside FBI Director Kash Patel during a news conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington on April 21, 2026. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

US accuses Southern Poverty Law Center of defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants

By Collin Binkley, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Rebecca Boone

Op-ed

The High Court is treading a dangerous path by delaying an October 7 state inquiry

Fearing political backlash, justices are considering leaving the establishment of a state commission to the next government, a move that undermines the rule of law

Israel's Supreme Court Deputy Chief Justice Noam Sohlberg presides over a hearing on petitions demanding the formation of a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 attack, April 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative: Hasidic Jews prepare for Shabbat in the northern town of Yavene'el, March 24, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/FLASH90)

Hasidic sect in northern Israel churns out child brides and conceals sex abuse — report

Community-wide cover-up by Bratslavers in Yavne’el preventing authorities from gauging full scale of ‘dysfunctional’ marriages, Haaretz reports

A mother and child sit at the entrance to a tent in the shelter. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)

'They're enduring conditions akin to modern slavery'

Sheltering in Tel Aviv’s bus station, foreign workers face unique plight in wartime

By Theia Chatelle

Hundreds of third-country laborers are forced to pitch tents in a squalid space beneath the depot, highlighting the challenging conditions faced by a fast-growing sector

The Singapore-registered tanker Norman Atlantic sits ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz on December 6, 1987, after being attacked by an Iranian gunboat. (AP Photo)

Analysis

The US protected Hormuz shipping from Iranian attacks in the ’80s. Could it again?

Small IRGC gunboats and ambitious US goals could make it tough to replicate the relative success of ‘Tanker War’ that grew out of the fighting between Iran and Iraq, analysts say

Illustrative: Plush toys are displayed at a Camp store in New York. Camp, November 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

AnalysisFrom soft toys to bandages, Iran war may drive up cost of petroleum-derived goods

By Anne D'Innocenzio

Director Sam Firstenberg and the poster for his 1989 'Riverbend.' (Courtesy of Firstenberg)

Interview'I’m not crazy about French movie-making. I like Hollywood'

A popular US theater is reviving a lost film by Israeli B-movie director Sam Firstenberg

By Stephen Silver

Alamo Drafthouse theaters in five cities will screen the 1989 action drama ‘Riverbend’ on April 29, signaling renewed interest in a filmmaker critics praised as a master of ‘earnest schlock’

Rabbi Joel Fleekop points to a monument marking the 1878 consecration of Temple Beth El in Pensacola, Florida. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)

As Pensacola’s oldest synagogue turns 150, locals celebrate the community’s rich history

By Larry Luxner

Far from most of Florida’s three-quarters of a million Jews is a small pocket of 1,800 that significantly predates its southern counterparts – and, locals say, is ripe for a renaissance

More Headlines

Travelers are seen at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, April 23, 2026. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

EU agency extends warning on flights to Mideast, including Israel, through May 1

By Sharon Wrobel and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Forida, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump to attend White House Correspondents Association gala after years of boycott

By Helen Coster

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaking with the media as she arrives for the EU Summit in Nicosia, Cyprus, April 24, 2026. (Petros Karadjias/AP)

EU approves 20th sanctions package against Russia and $105 billion loan to Ukraine

Former Syrian intelligence officer Amjad Yousef after his arrest in the central province of Hama, in an image published on April 24, 2026. (Syrian Interior Ministry/X)

Syria says it arrested ex-intel officer filmed taking part in 2013 Damascus massacre

By GHAITH ALSAYED

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