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What Matters Most On Friday, May 17, 2024

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An IDF airstrike in Jenin on May 17, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Live updates (closed)

May 17: IDF fighter jet carries out rare strike on target in West Bank city of Jenin

Palestinian reports: 8 wounded in hit on building in Jenin * Top Israel official: Expanding Rafah op endangers hostages * Hamas official in south Lebanon killed in IDF strike

8:26 pm

IDF fighter jet carries out rare strike on target in West Bank city of Jenin
8:26 pm

Sullivan will push Netanyahu on avoiding full-scale Rafah op in Sunday meeting
8:05 pm

BBC apologizes after reporter suggests Tel Aviv is Israel's capital

Iron Dome anti-missile interceptors are seen from the Golan Heights town of Katzrin in northern Israel, May 17, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

2 hurt as barrage of 75 rockets fired at north; IDF strike on Hezbollah said to kill 3

By Emanuel Fabian

Iron Dome intercepts dozens of rockets in major Hezbollah barrage from Lebanon; Israeli strikes came after several drones were launched from Lebanon early Friday morning

A picture taken from southern Lebanon shows smoke rising above the northern Israeli town of Metula following a strike from the Lebanese side on May 16, 2024. (Rabih Daher / AFP)

Explosive Hezbollah drone injures troops, rockets pound north as fighting heats up

By Emanuel Fabian

ICJ expected to rule next week

Israel pans Gaza ‘distortions’ at World Court, says Pretoria aims to keep Hamas in power

By Jeremy Sharon

Jerusalem points to efforts to supply aid as proof genocide claims are false, says petition would deny Israel right to self-defense, let Hamas keep attacking, likely seal hostages’ fate

Israel's Foreign Ministry Legal Adviser Tamar Kaplan Tourgeman addresses the International Court of Justice during oral arguments over South Africa's application asking the court to order Israel to halt its military campaign against Hamas, May 17, 2024. (International Court of Justice)

South Africa Ambassador to the Netherlands Vusimuzi Madonsela addresses the International Court of Justice in oral arguments asking the court to order Israel to halt its military campaign against Hamas, May 16, 2024. (International Court of Justice)

Rafah offensive is ‘Israeli endgame to destroy Gaza,’ South Africa alleges at ICJ

By Jeremy Sharon

Promoted Essay

Doubt in a Time of War

Rabbi Gordon Tucker on living with uncertainty at this moment.

This handout picture from the official Bahrain News Agency shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (C) being received in Manama on May 15, 2024 ahead of the 33rd Arab League Summit. (Bahrain News Agency/AFP)

PA’s Abbas accuses Hamas of giving Israel ‘pretexts’ for Gaza war with Oct. 7 attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Responding to PA chief, who has refrained from condemning the deadly onslaught itself, terror group boasts the massacre put ‘Palestinian cause at the forefront of priorities’

This handout picture from the official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) shows Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi (C) being received in Manama on May 15, 2024 ahead of the 33rd Arab League Summit. (BNA (Bahrain News Agency) / AFP)

Egyptian president accuses Israel of evading ceasefire efforts amid deepening rift

From the Blogs

Some big decisions: What it will take to repair Israel-US ties

The two allies are unlikely to agree on everything, but, in light of how much is at stake, they need to iron out their differences

A truck is seen on fire after being torched by far-right rioters in the central West Bank, March 17, 2024 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Extremist settlers again attack truck and injure driver in W. Bank; wound 3 soldiers

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Driver in moderate condition; troops lightly injured while confronting rioters, provide medical assistance to driver; US weighing sanctions against those attacking aid

Extremist settler Yinon Levi attends a Knesset Economic Committee meeting after he was sanctioned by the US government, in Jerusalem, February 14, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After US, Canada issues its first sanctions against Israeli settlers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The image provided by US Central Command shows US Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), US Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (US Central Command via AP)

US military says first aid delivered to Gaza via temporary pier

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘This is an ongoing, multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza via a maritime corridor,’ CENTCOM says

Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ran Yavetz, 39, of the Bislamach Brigade's 6828th Battalion, who was killed in an operational accident on the border with Gaza, May 16, 2024. (Courtesy)

Soldier killed in accident on Gaza border as Gallant sends more troops to Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A ship is seen off the coast of Gaza near a US-built floating pier that will be used to facilitate aid deliveries, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN to use new Gaza aid pier but insists land access still needed to prevent famine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The interior of a synagogue in Rouen, France, that a man is suspected of having set on fire, May 17, 2024. The man was shot dead by French police. (AP Photo)

Algerian man sets fire to synagogue in France, is killed by cops; extensive damage

By ToI Staff and AFP

In Stockholm, police investigating gunfire near Israel’s embassy, with several suspects reported detained

Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares (C) speaks to the press before a meeting at the Berlaymont building in Brussels on May 16, 2024. (Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP)

Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Madrid’s foreign minister says this will become policy as ‘the Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs more peace’

From left, GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer speak to reporters about US President Joe Biden pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, Washington, May 16, 2024. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House passes bill requiring delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators gather for a rally calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City, on December 12, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

S. Korean envoy chokes up speaking of Hersh Goldberg-Polin

In first, UN Security Council holds meeting solely focused on hostages held by Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘We cannot allow the normalization of this unprecedented form of terrorism,’ freed hostage tells informal gathering of body; US envoy calls on terror group to release the captives

Thousands take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem Pride parade to march for hostages’ release, LGBTQ rights

Family and friends of Captain Roy Beit Yaakov attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on May 16, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

'We are very much a part of this'

Diverse backgrounds give way to shared fate as Gaza friendly-fire victims eulogized

By Canaan Lidor

Five soldiers killed by mistaken tank fire in Gaza came from Tel Aviv, Tiberias; two West Bank settlements and Buenos Aires, to serve in special religious unit

The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists when they infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel. October 25, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel confirms 2 Thai nationals were killed on Oct. 7, bodies being held by Hamas

Chaplain Baruch Siris visits with patient Clara Stofkooper at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, in this recent undated photo. (Courtesy/ Dina Frenkel)

'We are doctors of the soul'

Chaplain duo at Soroka hospital treat patients spiritually wounded by October 7

By Diana Bletter

The country’s second-largest hospital has taken in some 3,000 people hurt during the Hamas atrocities and their aftermath, but as the clergy can attest, not all wounds are physical

People celebrate Israel's 76th Independence Day at Saker Park in Jerusalem, May 14, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Reasons for optimism in Israel’s 77th year

After somber Memorial and Independence Days, ToI’s senior analyst takes a look ahead and discusses why Israel is ranked 5th in the Happiness Index – and is likely to remain so

Op-Ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

Gallant tries to force Netanyahu’s hand on Gaza; it probably won’t work

14 months after briefly losing his job, the defense minister again challenges his boss, demanding real plans to replace Hamas, no Gaza occupation, and less of the personal politics

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend an event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with IDF soldiers in southern Israel, May 16, 2024 (Maayan Toaf / GPO)

Netanyahu to speak with Gallant after row over post-war Gaza, again vows no PA role

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state memorial ceremony for victims of terror at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, May 13, 2024 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 17, Day 224: PM faces crises on post-Gaza plans, Haredi draft

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

‘Bye, from Inbal. ❤️’

It was eulogies for a fallen soldier that made me appreciate how the slow and steady strength that is love joins the louder, patriotic strength to keep us going (Emor)

10 necessary steps for the ‘day after’ in Gaza

They don’t include a hostage deal ’at any price, or reestablish Gaza settlements, but they pave a way through this complex, dangerous situation

Police officers in riot gear move in to dismantle an anti-Israel protest encampment at Chicago's DePaul University, May 16, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police in riot gear dismantle anti-Israel encampment at Chicago’s DePaul University

By AP and ToI Staff

Protesters leave voluntarily as cops move in; school publishes examples of over 1,000 complaints about pro-Palestinian protests, including antisemitic harassment of students

Ms. Rachel, the hit children's video educator and singer-songwriter, in a clip from one of her videos. (Screenshot via YouTube/ JTA)

'It's lovely, but why deliberately omit Israeli children?'

Toddler video superstar ‘Ms. Rachel’ launches Gaza fundraiser, dividing Jewish moms

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The children’s YouTube sensation raises $50,000 in hours for Save the Children fund for kids in Gaza, Congo, Sudan and Ukraine; online forums for mothers bash absence of Israel

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New York City's Deputy Mayor for Communications Fabien Levy speaks during a press conference at City Hall in New York, December 12, 2023. (AP/Peter K. Afriyie)

NYC deputy mayor: Washington Post report on Columbia contains ‘antisemitic tropes’

People watch as Greenpeace activists hang an illustration by US visual artist Shepard Fairey "Obey" outside the Reina Sofia museum with an image taken by Gazan photojournalist Belal Khaled, which shows a Palestinian child crying for help, Madrid, Spain Wednesday January 24, 2024.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spanish museum changes name of ‘River to the Sea’ events after complaints

By AFP and ToI Staff

Maryland Democratic candidate for US Senate and Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks arrives to greet voters outside a voting location for the state primary election at the Marilyn Praisner Community Recreation Center on May 14, 2024 in Burtonsville, Maryland (Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

J Street-backed candidate beats AIPAC donor in Maryland Democratic Senate primary

Police, ambulance and rescue vehicles at the scene where a body was found near the Morasha cemetery in Ramat Sharon in central Israel, May 16, 2024. (ZAKA)

Police open murder probe after body found in abandoned building in Ramat Hasharon

Nice CEO Barak Eilam. (CRC Media)

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By Sharon Wrobel

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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to start Friday trading in bid to align with Europe

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