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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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IDF troops and tanks on the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing on May 7, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel said to fear Egypt will halt Hamas mediation role, as ties hit new low

Officials say Cairo is using humanitarian situation and blockage at Rafah crossing to build international pressure on Israel to end the war

Troops of the Givati Brigade operate in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published May 13, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Qatari PM claims Gaza truce talks at stalemate because of IDF incursion into Rafah

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israeli troops operate in eastern Rafah in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published May 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 15: Haniyeh says Hamas rejects any post-war plan for Gaza that doesn’t include it

By Michael Bachner, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Right-wing lawmakers call to fire Gallant for opposing Israeli rule in postwar Gaza * Lapid accuses government of losing control * Hezbollah fires 60 rockets at north; no injuries

8:41 pm

Netanyahu compares Israeli anti-government protest movement to 'mobocracies' on US campuses
7:51 pm

Greek police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters marching to Israeli embassy in Athens
7:20 pm

Hamas's Haniyeh says postwar plans for Gaza that exclude terror group will be rejected

Inside story

On Europe’s campuses, explosions of violent antisemitism have become de rigueur

A mix of pro-terrorist networks, sympathetic faculty and wavering response by authorities is blamed for extremist violence at the heart of academia

Anti-Israel activists wield wooden planks before using them to hit students at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands on May 6, 2024. (Courtesy)

Anti-Israel student protesters hang a banner reading in French, "Free Palestine from the Sea to the Jordan River," during a demonstration at Lausanne University in Switzerland on May 4, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Swiss police clear anti-Israel encampment at University of Bern

By AFP and ToI Staff

Dutch police clash with anti-Israel protesters at the University of Amsterdam on May 13. (AFP)

Amsterdam University closed for 2 days after anti-Israel activists storm building

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Promoted Article

Ten Gav’s innovative giving model has never been more important

Ten Gav connects donors with the personal stories of Israelis who need help. In the shadows of the ongoing war, they’ve doubled down on their mission.

Sgt. Ira Yair Gispan, killed in the southern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier killed in south Gaza fighting, in first Israeli fatality of Rafah offensive

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops push into Jabaliya camp in Strip’s north, kill numerous operatives; Hamas training camp in eastern Rafah captured; rockets launched at Sderot

IDF troops are seen operating in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, May 14, 2024 (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Four troops seriously wounded as IDF looks to expand northern Gaza, Rafah offensives

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 222 of the war

To save and heal Israel, Netanyahu must quit or at least face the electorate

If he is not prepared to leave public life of his own volition, he should set the date to face the political judgment of the nation that entrusted him with its safety

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Memorial Day ceremony for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 12, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UN sexual violence envoy pulls out of Security Council briefing on Hamas hostages

Diplomat tells ToI Pramila Patten’s withdrawal had nothing to do with scheduling, hinting move was politically motivated as she faces pressure not to prioritize Israeli abductees

Pramila Patten, the UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, addresses the UN Security Council on March 11, 2024. (Screen capture)

Soldiers study religious texts in the IDF's ultra-Orthodox 'Netzah Yehuda' unit at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan valley, August 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Lapid: Netanyahu continues to act as if Oct. 7 did not happen

Netanyahu says he’ll advance Haredi IDF enlistment bill that lowers exemption age

Gantz, who initially proposed the legislation 2 years ago, slams PM’s move: ‘Israel needs soldiers, not political tricks;’ Gallant also indicates opposition

Residents of northern Israeli communities and supporters protest against the government at the Mahanaim Junction, May 14, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Civilian killed, 5 troops hurt by Hezbollah missile; northern residents protest inaction

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IAF kills Hezbollah operative; terror group downs surveillance balloon, fires barrage of 10 rockets at Hermon; locals block off intersections to protest government’s lack of action

Hussein Ibrahim Makki, a top Hezbollah field commander killed in an Israeli drone strike, May 14, 2024. (Hezbollah media office)

Top Hezbollah field commander killed in IDF drone strike in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Avidan Freedman

Bambie Thug vs. Eden Golan: A metaphor?

In the battle between good and evil, these two Eurovision contestants were a little too on the nose – until you realize their contrast was not scripted

Bibi failed his father’s test

Time and again in Jewish history, leaders missed the signs that disaster was imminent. Netanyahu was supposed to be different

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

EU warns Israel continuing Rafah offensive will put ‘heavy strain’ on ties

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell urges that campaign in southern Gaza city end ‘immediately,’ calls to reopen Rafah Border crossing for humanitarian aid deliveries

A tank with an Israeli flag on it enters the Gazan side of the Rafah Border Crossing on May 7, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

Palestinian Authority snubbing Israeli offer to quietly run Rafah border crossing

Backdropped by smoke rising to the sky after an explosion in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli tank stands near the Israel-Gaza border as seen from southern Israel, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP/Leo Correa)

US sending Israel $1 billion in military aid, Biden administration tells Congress

By AP

First major deal since American president said he would stymie sales of offensive weapons includes ammunition for tanks, mortar rounds and tactical vehicles

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, May 13, 2024. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Top Biden aide Sullivan to visit Israel for talks on Saudi ties, Rafah — official

Hadas Hershkovitz, the widow of Israeli soldier Yossi Hershkovitz who was killed fighting in the Gaza Strip visits his grave on Israel's 76th Independence Day, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on May 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel marks 76th Independence Day, at war, with ‘hearts full of sorrow and pain’

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Biden wishes Herzog a year of peace and joy in congratulatory letter; Netanyahu absent from traditional events; families of hostages organize alternate flyover, Tel Aviv rally

A muted Independence Day celebration at Zichron Baruch synagogue in Tel Aviv went on, leaders said, because of a religious obligation to mark the holiday, May 13, 2024. (Deborah Danan/JTA)

Amid war and infighting, Israelis hit pause on Independence Day festivities

By Deborah Danan

President Isaac Herzog shakes hands with Israel Prize recipient Eyal Waldman at the award ceremony in Sderot, May 14, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Israel Prize ceremony goes ahead after selection process marred by controversies

By ToI Staff and Gavriel Fiske

MK Zvi Sukkot at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 12, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right coalition MK: ‘Not sure’ it is possible to bring back all Gaza hostages

Religious Zionism’s Zvi Sukkot says ‘everything’ must be done to free the captives, but not at the expense of significant harm to national security

Thousands of people turn out for an ultra-nationalist march and rally in Sderot to call for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in Gaza, May 14, 2024. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)

Ben Gvir calls to ‘encourage emigration,’ resettle Gaza at ultra-nationalist rally

By Jeremy Sharon

At the alternative Independence Day ceremony held by hostage family members in Binyamina on the eve of Israel's 76th Independence Day, May 13, 2024 (Photo by Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 15: Day 222 – Gaza heats up as Independence Day marked differently

Demonstrators carry a banner and block an entrance to the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California on May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Hundreds protest business deal with Israel at Google conference

Demonstrators chain themselves together, accuse search giant and Israel of using Project Nimbus to commit genocide in Gaza

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, California on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Google unveils AI search, sparking advertiser fears about declining web traffic

By Michael Liedtke

Students protesting against the war in Gaza, and passersby walking through Harvard Yard, are seen at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Anti-Israel Harvard students dismantle camp after university agrees to negotiate

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protesters say they will demand disclosure of investments in Israel, divestment from the country, and creation of a center for Palestinian studies

Cornell University students sit outside on November 3, 2023, in Ithaca, New York. (Matt Burkhartt/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Pro-Palestinian Cornell students dismantle protest camp on their own

By Andrew Lapin

People gather to protest the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace at Columbia University on November 20, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)

Republican senators demand IRS investigate sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine

From 'Billy and Molly: An Otter Love Story,' being screened at May 2024 Doc Aviv film festival (Credit: National Geographic/Charlie Hamilton James)

Life’s pain and beauty on show at Tel Aviv’s 26th DocAviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Annual documentary film event offers week of screenings of works from Israel and around the world

Illustrative: Police officers guard the gates to Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Two men accused in UK of plotting ISIS-style machine gun terror attack on Jews

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Court told the two planned to gun down Jews in Manchester; chief rabbi says news ‘harrowing’; police say they believe there is ‘no longer a wider risk to the public’

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Rafael Grossi, addresses the media after arriving at the Vienna International Airport in Schwechat, Austria, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

‘A huge question’: IAEA chief alarmed by Iran’s talk of developing nuclear weapons

A city employee cleaning the "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) after the monument was vandalized in Paris, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz/AFP)

Paris memorial for people who saved Jews during Holocaust vandalized

By AP and ToI Staff

Defense attorney Todd Blanche cross examines Michael Cohen in Manhattan criminal court, May 14, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Star witness in Trump’s hush money trials testifies as defense tries to discredit him

By Michael R. Sisak, Eric Tucker, Michelle L. Price and Colleen Long

The USS Mason, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, passes a dock in Norfolk, Virginia, April 8, 2021. (Steve Helber/AP)

Yemen Houthis claim attack on US destroyer and commercial vessel in Red Sea

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, shake hands during their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2024. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

Erdogan claims Israel will come for Turkey if it defeats Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on a school run by UNRWA where the IDF said it struck a Hamas command room, in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians mark ‘Nakba’ day amid Gaza war and humanitarian crisis

By AP and ToI Staff

This combination of photos created on May 14, 2024 shows French-Polish director and former president of the Jury, Roman Polanski, left, on September 7, 2019 in Deauville, France; British actress Charlotte Lewis, right, on May 14, 2024. (LOIC VENANCE and Thomas SAMSON/AFP)

French court acquits director Roman Polanski of defaming British actress

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Bjoern Hoecke, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern federal state of Thuringia, waits for a session of his trial over the alleged use of Nazi phrases, at the regional court in Halle, eastern Germany on May 14, 2024. (Ronny Hartmann/Pool/AFP)

German court convicts prominent far-right politician of using Nazi slogan

By PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO and Geir Moulson

Protesters in the Jordanian capital Amman fly flags of the Muslim Brotherhood as they rally in support of Palestinians amid Israel-Hamas war on January 27, 2023. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordan thwarts Iran-led plan to carry out acts of sabotage in kingdom — sources

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A photo from Tom Nesher's debut film, 'Come Closer' which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2024 (Courtesy)

Young Israeli filmmaker’s first feature chosen to compete at Tribeca Film Fest

By Jessica Steinberg

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