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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 19, 2024

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In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends the inauguration ceremony of dam of Qiz Qalasi, or Castel of Girl in Azeri, at the border of Iran and Azerbaijan, May 19, 2024. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

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May 19: Iran’s neighbors offer to help find crash site as world waits for word on Raisi’s fate

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

IDF announces death of soldier wounded in Gaza earlier this week * Biden says he’s working for two-state solution hours after PM rejected Palestinian state for Saudi normalization

12:55 am

3 Eritrean migrants moderately injured in brawl in south Tel Aviv
12:18 am

Anti-Israel protesters set up encampment at Drexel University, reports of antisemitism
12:15 am

Iranian official says rescuers searching area where 'smell of fuel' detected

Religious Zionism party leader Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting in northern Israel, May 19, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Smotrich: If Hezbollah doesn’t withdraw from border, IDF must take southern Lebanon

After Gantz’s ultimatum to Netanyahu, far-right leader issues his own demands to PM, including for military to establish a ‘permanent presence in the entire Gaza Strip’

Staff Sgt. Noam Bittan (left) and Staff Sgt. Nachman Meir Haim Vaknin of the Givati Brigade's reconnaissance unit, who were killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says 2 soldiers killed, 4 seriously wounded during fighting in southern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

800,000 civilians evacuate Rafah as Israel said to seek US okay for expanded op during visit by Sullivan; TV report: Troops find 50 tunnels used to smuggle in weapons from Egypt

Ron Benjamin (Courtesy)

IDF announces recovery of body of Ron Benjamin from Gaza, says he was killed on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Signs are displayed outside a tent encampment at Northwestern University on Friday, April 26, 2024, in Evanston, Illinois. Students want the university to divest from funds connected to Israel or that profit from its war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

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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)

Gantz sets June 8 deadline for PM to make postwar plan, or he’ll bolt coalition

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Minister lists 6 key goals including alternative to Hamas rule in Gaza, return of hostages, Saudi normalization; Netanyahu’s office: He should issue ultimatums to Hamas, not the PM

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Ramat Gan, May 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Op-ed: Day 225 of the war

Fearing disaster for Israel, Gantz issues an ultimatum, but he doesn’t have the votes

If necessary, Netanyahu can simply shrug off Gantz and return to his core, 64-strong pre-war coalition. It’s only from within that it can be brought down

US, Saudi Arabia discuss emerging security deal said to include Israel normalization

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Riyadh state media says US national security adviser and Saudi crown prince held talks on ‘semi-final version of draft,’ end to Gaza war, setting up Palestinian state

File: White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (left) speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman (right) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP) (

Brett McGurk, US White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, speaks during the 17th IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama on November 21, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

US officials hold indirect talks with Iran in Oman to prevent regional escalation

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Tel Aviv rally urges global backing for hostages; clashes at nearby anti-gov’t protest

By Charlie Summers

Man who lost six family members on October 7 taken to hospital after allegedly being beaten by right-wing activist; protesters block highway, light bonfires

Shani Louk was killed on October 7 by Hamas terrorists near the Supernova rave and her body was recovered in an IDF operation and returned to Israel on May 17, 2024. (Courtesy)

‘Now she can rest’: Murdered hostage Shani Louk’s parents thankful to have a grave

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israeli singer Eden Golan at a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on May 18, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Eden Golan sings ‘October Rain,’ her disqualified Eurovision song, at hostage rally

Singer tells crowd that in her first performance onstage since contest, she wanted to use original version rejected by song contest producers, seen as referencing October 7

Eden Golan (center) and the Israeli delegation in the green room after her performance at the second Eurovision semifinal in Malmo, Sweden, on May 9, 2024. (Courtesy Kan)

Criticized by other Eurovision teams, Israel claims it was the abused delegation

We need a broad national emergency government now

To shake off the current paralysis, all Zionist parties must agree to join hands under Netanyahu for 12 months followed by elections

That’s the sound of Biden learning to speak like an Israeli

Tired of being ignored, the US president is using the same blunt talk Israelis use – but never expect to hear from the polite American

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 19, Day 226: Bold IDF op recovers bodies of 4 hostages from Gaza

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the fighting in the Strip and in Israel’s north, and the rare West Bank airstrike that killed a terrorist involved in a 2023 murder

Palestinians carry boxes of humanitarian aid after rushing the trucks transporting the international aid from the US-built Trident Pier near Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 18, Day 225: US explores sanctions for extremists blocking Gaza aid

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

Jewish Iranian sentenced to death for murder receives last-minute stay of execution

Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was allegedly defending himself against knife attack when he killed Amir Shokri in brawl; international rights groups working to have sentenced commuted

Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian women's rights campaigner imprisoned by Iran who won the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 6, 2023. (AFP/ Narges Mohammadi Foundation/ File)

Jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi faces new trial, family says

By AFP

Screen capture from music video of Iranian rap artist Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, aka Tataloo, 2019. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law

Iran reportedly hands down three years, additional jail terms to rap artist Tataloo

By AFP

Israeli ultra-Orthodox traveler Avi Gold in Tahrir Square in Baghdad (Screenshot/Instagram; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ultra-Orthodox travel addict reveals visits to Iran, Iraq, other enemy states

Israeli Avi Gold claims to have been to 129 countries, including some with no diplomatic ties to Israel; says most people he meets are intrigued by his Jewishness

Curator Dara Jaffe, left, and Academy Museum President Jacqueline Stewart at a press viewing of the new 'Hollywoodland' exhibit, May 16, 2024. (Jacob Gurvis/ JTA)

'It's even better than if we'd included it when we opened'

New exhibit aims to rectify LA Academy Museum’s omission of Hollywood’s Jewish origins

By jacob gurvis

2.5 years in, museum’s first permanent installation on role of Jewish immigrants in founding America’s film industry is set to open Sunday after outcry at their initial exclusion

New York University students and anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian supporters rally outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Despite polls, Biden aides say anti-Israel campus protests won’t hurt reelection bid

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Surveys show young people still favor president over Trump, but by an increasingly narrow margin; officials believe housing costs and inflation more important to voters than Gaza

A protester is taken into custody at S. 34th St. near the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia on May 17, 2024. (Steven M. Falk/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Several Penn students face felony charges over attempted anti-Israel occupation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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Members of Toronto's Jewish community escorting Eitan Cohen to school, May 17, 2024. (X screenshot)

Jewish community in Toronto escorts boy to school as antisemitic bullying persists

Family members and supporters of Solomon Tekah protest while Haifa Magistrate's Court Judge Zayed Falah and the the policeman accused of fatally shooting Solomon Tekah visit the scene in Kiryat Haim where he was killed, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Police investigators appeal acquittal of officer in Soloman Tekah killing

By Jeremy Sharon

File: In this image taken from San Francisco Police Department body-camera video, the husband of former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, right, fights for control of a hammer with his assailant David DePape during a brutal attack in the couple's San Francisco home, on Oct. 28, 2022 (San Francisco Police Department via AP, File)

Man gets 30 years in prison for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer

By Olga R. Rodriguez

Screen capture from video on soldiers in Congo, May 19, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Congolese army says it foiled coup during capital shootout; three dead

By CHRISTINA MALKIA and Chinedu Asadu

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