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What Matters Most On Friday, May 10, 2024

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May 10: US says break in hostage talks ‘deeply regrettable,’ claims deal still possible

By Jacob Magid and Elana Kirsh

UN General Assembly adopts resolution boosting standing of Palestinian mission * Security cabinet said to approve measured expansion of Rafah op, risking clash with Biden

8:13 pm

IDF says it hit two rocket launch posts in Rafah used by Hamas to fire at Beersheba
7:54 pm

Hamas senior official claims terror group wants truce deal, but Netanyahu wants war to continue
7:19 pm

Firefighters battling large blaze in Kiryat Shmona area targeted by Hezbollah barrage

Analysis

Wasting troops’ hard-fought gains, Israel is taking time it doesn’t have in Gaza

Facing a war in which speed would be paramount, the army found itself having to take it slow due to decisions made decades ago; 7 months on, Hamas is hoping to run out the clock

Israeli soldiers work on armored military vehicles at a staging ground near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, May 8, 2024. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Smoke billows from Israeli strikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 9, 2024. (AFP)

Netanyahu: I hope Biden and I can overcome rift

IDF: We have enough arms for Rafah; PM: ‘We’ll fight with our fingernails’ if needed

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

War cabinet minister Gantz pushes back on criticism of Washington, hailing its efforts to support Israel during war; delegations leave Cairo as latest talks on hostage deal end

IDF troops operate in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout image released May 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: 150,000 Palestinians have left east Rafah; raid uncovers 10 tunnel shafts

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Promoted ContentMasa: Israel Journey

Remembering Captain Denis Krokhmalov-Veksler: A Tribute to a Courageous Soul

Denis Krokhmalov-Veksler’s life was a testament to courage, love, and boundless ambition. His story will be honored at Masa Israel Journey’s Yom HaZikaron ceremony.

Israel's Eden Golan (center) celebrates advancing to the final during the second semifinal at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Golan practiced singing while being booed to prepare

Defying haters, Israel’s Eden Golan advances to the Eurovision grand final on Saturday

Israel jumps up in the odds after accidental leaked results appear to show 40% of votes in Italy going to Golan; Belgian broadcaster interrupts show with anti-Israel message

Protesters attend an anti-Israel rally ahead of the second semi-final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters march in Malmo ahead of Eurovision semifinal

By Lars Avner Aqurette, Amy Spiro and Agencies

Analysis

‘Didn’t fall from the sky’: Biden threat follows months of feeling PM ignored his warnings

Explaining president’s radical shift, US officials say president kept up regular arms deliveries since Oct. 7 but the Israelis ‘knew this wasn’t going to be able to go on forever’

President Joe Biden boards Air Force One, Thursday, May 9, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Biden is headed to California. (AP/Alex Brandon)

President Joe Biden waves as he walks to board Air Force One, Thursday, May 9, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. (AP/Alex Brandon)

After freezing arms transfers, Biden suffers backlash from pro-Israel community in US

US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One as he departs Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US says it’s not abandoning Israel, asserts Rafah offensive would embolden Hamas

Administration spokespeople say Hamas has not shown any indication in talks that a major invasion would incentivize it to negotiate, because it doesn’t care about civilians

Illustrative: IDF tanks are positioned in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on May 9, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Despite Biden’s pause, billions of dollars in US arms for Israel still in pipeline

By Agencies and ToI Staff

When inspiration comes from Israel’s gloriously varied society

6 things I learned at a seminar run by Rivon, a grassroots movement trying to save the Jewish state from itself

Zionism vs. Judaism

If Ben-Gurion went too far in implying that Jews must live in Israel, insisting that Jews have the right to live Jewishly there was exactly on target

A man looks on as thick, black smoke rises from a fire in a building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 10, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Report: State Department set to confirm Israel not breaking international law in Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Overdue filing, which could be sent as early as Friday, will use critical language to describe suspected violations, but won’t find Israel misusing arms or blocking aid, Axios says

Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza Border, southern Israel, May 9, 2024. (Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 10, Day 217: Blinken report to exonerate Israel; will US arms follow?

Humanitarian aid packages are dropped on the Gaza Strip on May 9, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Hamas urges halt to aid airdrops after two killed in north Gaza parachute failure

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File: Then-director of the Information Center Ministry of Culture and Sport Moshik Aviv speaks during a press conference ahead of Israel's 75th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s public diplomacy chief reportedly quitting after only 8 months on the job

TV report says Moshik Aviv agreed with Netanyahu to stay on until successor found, speculates resignation due to efforts within PMO to distract his attention with ‘esoteric issues’

Communications Ministry inspectors raid the Al Jazeera network's Nazareth office, May 9, 2024. (Communications Ministry)

After ban, ministry raids Al Jazeera’s Nazareth branch, seizes equipment

Mo Husseini's article on the Israel-Hamas war was widely shared on social media by Jewish readers. At rear is an image from the essay. (Courtesy Mo Husseini/ via JTA)

'The goal of replacing Israel is a struggle against reality'

A Palestinian-American’s call for compromise strikes a chord on social media

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Profanity-laden overview by Mo Husseini — a distant relative of the infamous Mufti of Jerusalem — spares neither side, enticing the ‘silent majority’ with commonsensical optimism

Smoke rises from a rocket fired from Lebanon into northern Israel as it is seen from Kiryat Shmona, May 5, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Northern residents plan to ‘disengage’ from Israel in Independence Day protest

Residents and communities to hold a series of protests against government’s inability to allow some 60,000 residents, evacuated due to border fighting, to return to their homes

Haredi Jews celebrate Lag B'Omer at Mount Meron on May 8, 2023. (David Cohen/ Flash90)

IDF cancels Lag B’Omer celebrations on Mount Meron over Hezbollah attack risk

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What is antisemitism, really?

ToI’s senior analyst drills down on the history and present manifestations of the oldest hatred, and how the day commemorating its most terrible application unites Israelis.

A woman wears a hat that reads 'Curb Your Antisemitism' during a rally against campus antisemitism at George Washington University on May 2, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP)

Police detain a pro-Palestinian demonstrator who attempted to block traffic from the garage of the Stata Center at MIT, as part of a protest against Israel, May 9, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Several detained at MIT for blocking parking garage in anti-Israel protest

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Activists hang a placard from a window of an upper floor of a building at Rhode Island School of Design, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island, as students and supporters, who have taken over a portion of the building, are demanding that the school condemn Israel's war effort in Gaza, and that the school divest from investments that benefit Israel. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Aiming for divestment, pro-Palestinian students push schools to open books on Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

From left: David Leopold, Sasha Wilson, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman and Clare Fraenkel in 'The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria,' now at 59E59 Theaters. (Carol Rosegg/ via JTA)

Theater

New dark comedy for stage asks: Was Bulgaria’s King Boris III friend or foe to the Jews?

By Elizabeth Karpen

The paradoxical leader dabbled in fascism, was loved by his people, saved 50,000 lives while enacting antisemitic laws, and is the subject of a play running in NYC through June 2

Hamas says no budging from already-rejected hostage deal offer as Cairo talks break up

Terror group claims ‘ball in the hands of the occupation’ after team decamps for Doha while insisting it will not make any concessions; Egypt says flexibility needed on both sides

Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, May 9, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Elma Avraham sits in a wheelchair with Soroka Medical Center staff and her family ahead of her release from the hospital on May 8, 2024. (Soroka Medical Center)

Planning to ‘dance,’ freed hostage Elma Avraham, 85, leaves hospital after 5 months

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Affairs Director in the West Bank Adam Bouloukos visits the agency's headquarters in east Jerusalem, where the traces of a fire are visible after "Israeli extremists" allegedly set ablaze the perimeter of the building on May 10, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

UNRWA shuts Jerusalem headquarters after Israelis allegedly set fire in compound

Head of UN agency for Palestinian refugees says facility to remain closed until ‘proper security’ restored, accusing armed Israeli extremists of threatening and harassing staff

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks at a ceremony marking the expansion of a checkpoint on Route 5, May 9, 2024. (Shahar Yorman/Samaria Regional Council)

Defense minister says he envisions new city in West Bank as settler numbers grow

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell rings a bell to signify the start of a meeting of EU foreign and development ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU foreign policy chief: When Spain and Ireland recognize Palestine, others will join

Ahead of UN vote on Palestinian membership, Josep Borrell says Slovenia, Belgium to take steps toward recognition; Dublin, Madrid set to make move on May 21

More Headlines

Left: IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023; Right: State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Flash90)

State backs petition demanding comptroller back off October 7 investigation

By Jeremy Sharon

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media during a press conference following the Friday noon prayer in Istanbul, May 3, 2024. (Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)

Turkey allows 3-month reprieve for traders but denies backtrack on Israel export ban

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox Jews outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Government may submit Haredi draft proposal to cabinet next week

Gett taxis in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli parking payments app inks deal to buy ridesharing startup Gett for $175m

By Sharon Wrobel

Passengers walk at Heathrow Airport, in London, May 27, 2023. (AP/Kin Cheung)

Israeli PI mistakenly freed by UK after arrest over alleged hack-for-hire scheme

By Raphael Satter

Illustrative: Police face pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel demonstrators near the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on May 6, 2024 in New York. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Cousin of extremist rabbi Kahane charged for allegedly ramming woman at NY anti-Israel protest; Update: Charges dismissed

By Jake Offenhartz

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