Tuesday
Yom Shleeshee
17 Nisan 5785
April 15 2025
Chag Pesach Sameach! Happy Passover!
As we celebrate the Jewish festival of freedom, we here at OneIsrael cannot forget the hostages still barbarically imprisoned underground in Gaza. May they soon see the light of freedom!
On the Hostage Front This Morning
Two steps forward, one and a half backward: Hamas has informed media that the current round of hostage/ceasefire negotiations based on the Egyptian proposal has failed because of Israel’s insistence that it disarm–and because the proposal does not specify an end to the war.
Yesterday, at a meeting with the family of the hostage of Eitan Mor, PM Netanyahu said that the hold up is because of Israel’s demand that Hamas release 10 live hostages in return for a ceasefire and Palestinian terrorist prisoner release.
The 59 remaining hostages:
More detail about these remaining hostages courtesy of Walla!
***14 hostages are from Nir Oz***
A sign of life has been received:
David Kunio
Eitan Horn
Matan Tsengauker
No sign of life was received:
Ariel Kunio
Pinta Natapong
Their deaths were determined:
Yair Yaakov, Eliyahu Margalit, Amiram Cooper, Tamir Adar
Ronen Engel, Aviv Atzili, Aryeh Zalmanovich, Gadi Hagai
Judy Weinstein Hagai
***16 hostages are from the Nova Festival***
A sign of life has been received:
Maxim Harkin
Alon Ohel
Yosef Haim Ohana
Avinan Or
Elkana Bohbot
Rom Breslavsky
Eviatar David
Guy Gilboa-Dalal
Segev Kalfon
Eitan Mor
Bar Kuperstein
Their deaths were determined:
Guy Iloz, Uriel Baruch, Inbar Heyman, Yonatan Samrano, Idan Shevti
***6 hostages are from Bari***
Their deaths were determined:
Dror Or, Sahar Baruch, Nahi Goddard, Ilan Weiss, Ofra Kedar, Yosef Sharabi
***2 hostages are from Nahal Oz***
A sign of life has been received:
Omri Miran
His death was determined:
Joshua Loito Molal
***2 hostages are from Kfar Gaza***
A sign of life was received:
Gali Berman
Ziv Berman
***2 hostages are from Nir Yitzhak***
Their deaths were confirmed:
Lior Rudaif
Tal Haimi
***4 hostages are from the area around the border***
No sign of life was received:
Joshi Bipin Their
Their deaths were confirmed:
Eitan Levi, Sontia Akersri, Sottisak Rintlak
***12 hostages are IDF soldiers***
A sign of life was received:
Matan Angrest
Idan Alexander
Nimrod Cohen
No sign of life was received:
Tamir Nimrodi
Their deaths were confirmed:
Muhammad al-Atrash, Ran Gweily, Oz Daniel, Assaf Hammi, Itay Chen, Shai Levinson, Omar Nawtra, Daniel Peretz
*** One hostage is the IDF soldier’s body held since 2014***
Hadar Goldin
On the Ground in Gaza
There are mixed reports concerning IDF progress in Gaza with many news outlets reporting that the IDF’s resumed drive has stalled. However, for those of us living in a 40 km radius of Gaza this hardly seems the case.
This morning at 5:30 am a series of massive explosions happened in Khan Younis. The explosions were heard and felt all the way down the Arava to Eilat–and obviously, here in Ashdod as well.
At the same time, more explosions are heard all the time as the IDF continues to demolish homes north of Rafah in its move to expand the Morag Corridor.
On the Ground in Lebanon
In what had to be the most idiotic quote of the day, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun declared that the Lebanese “support an agreement to return to the 1949 armistice agreement with Israel.”
This is the same old line mouthed endlessly by the PLO except that it likes to use the June 4, 1967 lines. The 1949 armistice lines are the June 4, 1967 lines.
To return to those lines would mean that nearly 900,000 Jews would need to be forcibly evacuated from Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem.
That will never happen.
On the Ground in Yemen
*The USAF struck 15 Houthi targets in the Marab area from which the Houthis launch most of their missiles and drones.
*According to the Houthis, American jets also carried out “three US airstrikes on the Al-Jawf province in northwestern Yemen and two on the city of Al-Abdiyah in the Marib province in western Yemen.” In addition, more targets were hit in Al-Abdiyah where a radar and communications center was destroyed.
The U.S.-Iran Talks
Every time Trump envoy Steven Witkoff opens his mouth, he gives another concession to the Iranians.
Following comments in which he said that all Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities had to be eliminated, he backtracked in an interview on Fox News saying that Iran should not enrich uranium “to a level higher than 3.67%.”
The Iranians dismissed this concession immediately with the Iranian chairman of the Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Islami declaring: “We will continue to enrich uranium and gouge out the eyes of the West.”
As you know the Iranians have already refined enough uranium to produce at least 6 nuclear bombs–and continue enriching at 60% as the “talks” take place.
As for President Trump’s comments about an agreement being reached “soon”, Mohammad-Javad Larijani, Khamenei’s foreign affairs advisor, said on Iranian television that negotiations would take at least “several months.”
The Annual OneIsrael Passover to Shavuot Campaign
(graphic below: Shuttercock)
We have begun our annual fundraising campaign and ask for your donation (please click on the orange “donate button” on the right side of this page).
Where do your donations go?
In the last two months alone, money donated via OneIsrael has gone to these three non-profit organizations:
Civil Security Guards of Israel
October 7 demonstrated how critically important these security guards are. Your donations have purchased bulletproof vests and helmets, Medic Packs, communication devices, and night vision binoculars for these security guards defending Israeli border communities. This is a photo of the Kibbutz Zikim security squad:
Rescue Judea and Samaria SSF
Your donations have gone to support these paramedics who work around the clock to rescue the victims of terror, provide emergency services, and offer general support to Jewish community members. A photo of a volunteer in action:
Stand With Kibbutz Nahal Oz
Your donations are helping rebuild this amazing community on the Gaza border whose residents were slaughtered and residences largely destroyed on October 7:
Every donation you make supports Israel! Please click on the orange “donate button” on the right side of this page so we can continue supporting the above.
And so it goes this morning in Israel . . . so far . . .
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.