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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 18, 2024

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From left to right: Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, and Shani Louk. (Courtesy)

Israeli negotiator: Expanding Rafah op will endanger hostages

IDF recovers bodies of hostages Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila and Shani Louk in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Army says the three escaped from rave on Oct. 7 before being murdered by Hamas terrorists, who kidnapped their bodies; Gelerenter and Buskila were presumed alive until recently

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Ramat Gan, May 18, 2024, at which he delivered an ultimatum to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

May 18: Gantz and Netanyahu trade barbs after former issues deadline for post-war Gaza plan

Rocket falls into sea near Ashkelon after triggering sirens * IDF jets strike Hezbollah positions in south Lebanon; drone, rocket attacks in north throughout day cause no injuries

8:26 pm

Protesters briefly march in Jerusalem, hold PM responsible for hostages' return
8:04 pm

Protesters holding anti-war banners gather outside PM's office
7:56 pm

Police arrest suspect for disturbances at Tel Aviv protest, use water cannon to disperse crowd

Israeli protesters block a highway during a demonstration calling on the government to reach a deal with Hamas to bring home hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 6, 2024 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

'Day of disruption' on Monday as Knesset returns from recess

Ambassadors, musicians headline rally highlighting plight of international hostages

Hillary Clinton sends video message; US, UK, German and Austrian envoys address crowd, along with Rachel Polin-Goldberg; Eden Golan, Netta Barzilai, Noga Erez perform

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to troops in northern Israel, May 8, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant said to warn ministers that military rule in Gaza would cost ‘many lives’

Israeli tourist in Belgium brutally attacked for peeling off anti-Israeli sticker

By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff

In police complaint, Amnon Ohana, 64, says his jaw was broken when he was attacked by 10 men in front of his daughter at a Bruges train station as conductor, passersby looked on

A suspect attacks a Jewish man at a train station in Bruges, Belgium on May 17, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Ahmed Alid, a Moroccan asylum seeker who stabbed an elderly man to death, in Hartlepool, northeast England, October 15, 2023. (Counter Terrorism Policing North East)

UK jails Moroccan for life for random murder in ‘revenge’ for Israeli response to Oct. 7

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

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates and the United States Agency for International Development cross the Trident Pier before entering the beach in Gaza, May 17, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley/US Army Central via AP)

Trucks carrying 300 pallets of humanitarian aid roll into Gaza across new US pier

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Operation expected to scale up to 150 trucks per day; UN to distribute supplies in Strip; aid groups reiterate warning that maritime project isn’t a substitute for land deliveries

Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering in one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, stands by a young patient recovering from pneumonia on May 9, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza. (Photo via AP)

US evacuates 17 volunteer doctors trapped in Gaza since Israel took Rafah crossing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians sit in a vehicle loaded with sacks of humanitarian aid outside the distribution center of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 3, 2024. (AFP)

Austria says will resume funding to UNRWA, but ‘a lot of trust has been squandered’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Soldier slain in north Gaza as IDF battles Hamas in war’s ‘most violent’ fighting yet

By Emanuel Fabian

Terror operatives launch massive numbers of RPGs at Israeli tanks in Jabaliya camp, an area troops did not reach in initial ground offensive

Troops of the 7th Armored Brigade operate in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, in a handout image published May 17, 2024. Inset: Sgt. Ben Avishay, killed in northern Gaza on May 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

A screenshot (right) from IDF aerial footage of an airstrike in eastern Lebanon that targeted al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya operative Sharhabil Sayed, May 17, 2024; Sharhabil Sayed (left) in an official Hamas poster. (Israel Defense Forces; Hamas)

IDF strike kills Hamas-linked senior operative near Lebanon’s border with Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians look at the damage following an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank Jenin refugee camp, May 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF: Terrorist involved in 2023 murder of Israeli killed in rare West Bank airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

An Israel Air Force F-15 fighter jet, at the Tel Nof air force base, January 1, 2024. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

IAF to probe how half-ton bomb fell off fighter jet onto southern border town

By Emanuel Fabian

Military announces investigation into ‘unusual’ incident after unexploded ordinance found in community near Gaza

Or Shocron prepares treats for her cafe, ORYOSSS (Asaf Karela)

Reporter's notebookOriginal location in evacuated Kibbutz Erez still closed

Back from IDF reserves, TV chef reopens beloved Sderot cafe, giving terror just desserts

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Or Shocron brings a little sweetness back to the war-torn southern city after serving her country for seven months following the Oct. 7 massacre

ExclusiveDoha quietly issued directive due to frustration with Hamas

Qatar briefly kicked out Hamas leaders as hostage talks stalled in April — officials

Terror group’s reps moved to Turkey but were allowed back weeks later as talks gathered steam, though they again collapsed after Egypt gave sides different offers, officials say

Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (L), ruler of Qatar since 2013, in a meeting with Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (R) and Khaled Mashal in Doha, October 17, 2016 (Qatar government handout)

76 reasons for optimism

Even after the darkest day in recent memory and the many painful events since, including war, Israel inspires hope

Do as we say, not as we do: Israel’s government on partisan politics

The coalition blames the protesters for dividing the country, when it’s putting forward legislation that it knows will polarize the public

Illustrative - In this picture taken on September 27, 2023, a US MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle flies over Kandahar city. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP)

Yemen’s Houthis claim to shoot down US MQ-9 Reaper drone; ship targeted in Red Sea

By Jon Gambrell

Footage appears to show wreckage of $30 million UAV; missile fired at Panama-flagged vessel off the coast of Yemeni port Hodeida, crew all safe

‘What would Lisa Simpson do?’ Anti-Israel NYU protesters get unusual ethics homework

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian staff group complains that 49-page workbook bars students from writing about ‘freedom of expression’; university says disciplinary process meant to be educational

File - New York City Police Department officers arrest anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters outside a student-led encampment at New York University on April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Noreen Nasir)

Police officers clash with pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) on May 15, 2024 in Irvine, California. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images, via JTA)

Following crackdown on campus protests, U of California union authorizes strike

By Andrew Lapin

Inside story

Misfits or misunderstood? Sanctions threat shines light on IDF’s Haredi fighting unit

Claims of ideological vigilantism and cruelty invite US moves against Netzah Yehuda, which has integrated thousands from religious world into mainstream society

Illustrative: Soldiers from the IDF's Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, 20, an Iranian Jew executed in November 2024 (Iran Human Rights)

Jewish Iranian set to be executed Monday for allegedly killing man in self-defense

Opposition site says Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was defending himself against knife attack when he killed Amir Shokri in brawl; victim’s family can spare him, but refused to do so

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran arrests over 260 people, including 3 Europeans, in raid on ‘satanist network’

Obituary

Former MK Yael Dayan, trailblazing feminist and peace activist, dies at 85

Labor lawmaker was among the most prominent voices in the country advocating for equal rights; also a celebrated writer, she was the daughter of iconic statesman Moshe Dayan

Labor MK Yael Dayan delivers a speech to the Knesset plenum to mark International Women's Day on March 7, 2000. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

The Letters of Light Sculpture Garden at the new Israel National Library. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

See Jerusalem’s beautiful art parks, where (almost) no graven images can be found

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The Holy City has long had a de facto ban on statues in the human form, as per the second of the Ten Commandments, but that doesn’t mean sculptures are completely off the menu

French director and screenwriter Yolande Zauberman (R), French Lucky Love (R), Israeli actress Talleen Abu Hanna (3rd R), Israeli actress Israela (C) arrive for the screening of the film 'La belle de Gaza' at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2024. (Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP)

Docu highlighting plight, bravery of Palestinian trans women in Israel debuts at Cannes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Focused on search for a trans woman rumored to have walked from Gaza to Tel Aviv, Yolande Zauberman’s ‘The Belle From Gaza’ highlights those she calls ‘warriors of their own destiny’

This 2021 photo provided by Haim Parag shows David Ben-Avraham at a supermarket in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, where he briefly worked. (Courtesy of Haim Parag via AP)

Friend says gravestone will read: 'The Holy Jew'

The tragic story of the Palestinian convert to Judaism shot dead by an IDF soldier

By jack jeffery

Hebron-born David Ben-Avraham’s highly unusual journey before he was killed at a West Bank bus stop in March led to deep and unlikely friendships: ‘He was like a son to me’

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A participant faces riot policemen wearing a rainbow flag during a Pride march in Istanbul, on June 26, 2022. (KEMAL ASLAN / AFP)

US issues global terror alert ahead of Pride Month, fearing attacks on LGBTQ+ community

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President of the Israel Football Associated Shino Moshe Zuares delivers his speech at the 74th FIFA congress in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 17, 2024.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

World soccer’s ruling body seeks legal review on Palestinian demand to suspend Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

Smotrich says he’ll abolish free trade deal with Turkey, impose 100% tariff on imports

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A guide pulls a lead camel as tourists ride in a row past the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops, R) and the Pyramid of Khafre (Chephren, L) at the Giza Pyramids Necropolis on the outskirts of Giza on May 3, 2024. (Jewel SAMAD / AFP)

Newly uncovered branch of Nile may have been used to transport pyramids’ huge stones

By Juliette Collin

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