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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 22, 2024

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People take part in a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people in Madrid, Spain, on May 11, 2024. (Pierre-Philippe MARCOU / AFP)

Envoys to Israel to be shown video of women being kidnapped

Norway, Ireland, Spain move to recognize Palestinian state, drawing Israeli fury

By Lazar Berman

Jerusalem recalls ambassadors from Oslo and Dublin as foreign minister says announcement is prize for terrorism; Abbas and Hamas celebrate move

A man waves the Palestinian flag in front of the Norwegian Parliament building during a demonstration in Oslo, Oct. 28, 2023. (Frederik Ringnes/NTB via AP)

Move by Norway, Ireland, Spain to recognize Palestinian state gets mixed global response

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: A boy waves a Palestinian flag as demonstrators march during a protest in support of Palestinians and calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in Barcelona, Spain, on January 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 22: Day 229 – Trio of countries to recognize Palestine. Why now?

A still from footage showing the capture and abduction of Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniela Gilboa and Naama Levy at the Nahal Oz base on October 7, 2023. (The Hostages Families Forum)

Live updates (closed)

May 22: War cabinet meets on reviving hostage talks as clip broadcast of 5 troops’ abduction

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Asks Eli Albag, father of Liri, one of the female soldiers in the footage: ‘What else can we do to wake the nation up?’ * 3 soldiers killed in Gaza * Blinken to Egypt: Ensure flow of aid

9:00 pm

Iran leader to Haniyeh: 'Zionist entity will one day be eliminated, Palestine will rise from the river to the sea'
8:48 pm

EU diplomacy chief urges 'common EU position' on Palestinian statehood recognition
8:22 pm

Government postpones vote to approve rehabilitation plan for northern towns battered by Hezbollah attacks

From left: Staff Sgt. Eliyahu Haim Emsallem, Master Sgt. (res.) Gideon Chay DeRowe and Cpt. Israel Yudkin. (Courtesy)

3 soldiers killed in north Gaza; IDF advances in Rafah, locates rocket launchers

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

More than half of Philadelphi Corridor now under Israeli control; airstrike on UNRWA school in central part of Strip takes out Hamas operatives, weapons depot

Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published May 13, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

US indicates initial satisfaction with changes to Israeli military plans for Rafah

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a meeting of the war cabinet in Tel Aviv, early morning on April 14, 2024. (Courtesy)

Top security official resigned after pillorying management of Gaza war — reports

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Op-ed: Day 229 of the war

A fateful road not taken: Netanyahu seems set to spurn Saudi normalization

A deal would bolster coalition against Iran, could create viable alternative to Hamas in Gaza * Plus: Khan’s rush to injustice, Egypt’s failed mediation, and Ben Gvir’s brutality

Tahani Alqahtani of Saudi Arabia, left, and Raz Hershko of Israel react after competing in their women's +78kg elimination round judo match at the 2020 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images/AFP)

Blinken acknowledges Israel may reject Saudi deal if pathway to Palestinian state required

By Jacob Magid, Reuters and ToI Staff

US envoy Lew and Herzog suggest possibility of Israel-Saudi ties be seriously considered; in testimony to Congress, secretary of state attacked from both sides over Israel policy

Jonathan Branfman

The Drake-Kendrick Lamar rap war is also about Jewish identity

The public feud shines a light on how American society envisions rap authenticity, race, class, masculinity and Jewishness

Avidan Freedman

At the protest with a kippa

From disbelief to anger, my headwear got a rise outside the Knesset, but there are far less appropriate places to wear a yarmulke

Nepotism at work: The committee to appoint rabbinical judges

How can Israelis trust the courts they need for divorce and other legal matters, when they have become a job factory for the committee’s relatives?

Israel needs a national influencing directorate

October 7 laid bare the dire need for a central organization to handle information warfare and perception campaigns

Inside story

Does ICC Prosecutor Khan have a case against Netanyahu and Gallant? Experts doubt it

Proving intentionality behind potential ICC charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes would pose a significant obstacle, say international law experts

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan at the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais Royal in Paris on February 7, 2024. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

File - Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to casts her ballot for the head of the Israel Bar Association at a voting station in Tel Aviv on June 20, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

AG, state attorney: ‘No foundation’ to ICC prosecutor’s bid to arrest Israeli leaders

By Jeremy Sharon

ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan at the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais Royal in Paris on February 7, 2024. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP)

ICC prosecutor says no evidence Israeli courts genuinely probing alleged crimes in Gaza

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Karim Khan’s office says dialogue will continue with Israel as case moves forward, despite canceled visit to the region; White House to work with Congress on bipartisan response

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) attend a vote in the Knesset, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: It’s the ICC prosecutor, not me, who should be concerned for his status

By ToI Staff, Reuters and Sam Sokol

France's Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Stephane Sejourne leaves the weekly cabinet meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, on May 21, 2024. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Day after backing ICC, France says there’s no comparison between Israel and Hamas

Lapid called move against US news agency 'an act of madness'

Karhi reverses decision to seize AP equipment that broadcasts live feed of Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Live feed resumes hours after communications minister says confiscated camera, equipment being returned; AP welcomes reversal but concerned about government impeding press freedom

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi arrives at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, January 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A screenshot taken from AP video showing a general view of northern Gaza as seen from southern Israel, before it was seized by Israeli officials on May 21, 2024. (AP Photo)

Israel seizes AP equipment broadcasting live feed from Gaza, citing use by Al Jazeera

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A screenshot taken from AP video showing a general view of northern Gaza as seen from southern Israel, before it was seized by Israeli officials on May 21, 2024. (AP Photo)

Brief block of AP live feed shows how ambiguity in law can restrict war coverage

By David Bauder

A swallowtail butterfly on a Salvia viridis plant. (Avner Rinot, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Increase of some endangered species gives some rays of hope

World Biodiversity Day report: Israel’s butterflies, birds, reptiles in serious decline

Israel’s habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution, invasive species, overexploitation of natural resources and rising temperatures blamed in 2023 State of Nature review

Mourners attend the funeral of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, in Tehran, on May 22, 2024. (Atta KENARE / AFP)

Chants of ‘Death to Israel’ as masses throng Raisi funeral procession in Tehran

By AFP

Khamenei leads prayers over coffins of president and seven others killed in helicopter crash; funeral attended by top Hamas, Hezbollah officials

Illustrative: The 40th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 10, 2019. (Amr Nabil/AP)

Iran attack on Israel looms large as US seeks Gulf backing for missile shield

Mandana Dayani speaks at the UN on sexual assault of women on October 7 in New York City, December 4, 2023. (Perry Bindelglass/ NCJW)

Interview'The Islamic Republic of Iran remains as oppressive as ever'

Jewish activist who fled Iran sees shades of the fall of the shah on US campuses

By Jordana Horn

I Am A Voter co-founder and pro-democracy advocate Mandana Dayani has turned her focus to America’s surging antisemitism – an issue she sees as inalienable from her core mission

Meta Oversight Board to decide whether users can post ‘all Israelis are criminals’

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) delivers a video statement near Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, May 22, 2024. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ben Gvir visits Temple Mount, says recognizing Palestinian state is reward for Hamas

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

In 1st visit to flashpoint Jerusalem holy site since October 7, national security minister slams Norway, Spain, Ireland, insists on ‘root canal’ operation to remove Hamas in Rafah

Idan Domatov, who was driving the other car involved in a car accident with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's car in Ramle, April 26, 2024. (Channel 12 news, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Driver of car hit by Ben Gvir’s vehicle says accident has ruined his life

Students arrive at a school in central Jerusalem, on April 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'Adults need to help kids take actions that redirect emotions'

Dilemmas abound as school system works to help students process Oct. 7 and horrors of war

By Gavriel Fiske

The Israel-Hamas conflict has taken up nearly the entire school year, which finishes at the end of next month, but some educators see an opportunity to ‘reset’ the education system

Soldiers wounded in the Gaza Strip are brought to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, May 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

As more troops survive injuries, some credit battlefield transfusions of whole blood

By Renee Ghert-Zand

IDF only military in the world currently performing procedure pioneered by US army; while no proof yet to declare it a panacea, fight against Hezbollah may prove its worth

Illustrative image of innovation, AI, machine learning and robots. (ipopba; iStock by Getty Images)

AI boom may leave Israel behind due to shortage of funds and talent, report warns

By Sharon Wrobel

Research by RISE Israel and Google shows that local AI tech startups attract less investment than in US and Europe, and face a lack of employees with advanced academic degrees

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Haredi men who decided to join the IDF following the October 7 onslaught by Hamas arrive at recruiting offices in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, October 23, 2023 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Gallant given report on ‘practical, applicable’ ways to draft Haredi men into IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

An Israeli health worker prepares a coronavirus vaccine shot against COVID-19, at a health clinic in Katzrin, on November 16, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Ombudsman: Health Ministry didn’t check 82% of reports on COVID vaccine side effects

This illustration photo created May 20, 2024 in Los Angeles shows a frame from a video posted on Donald Trump's Truth Social account displayed on a smartphone in front of a photo of the former US president. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP)

Trump campaign deletes ‘unified Reich’ video; Biden: ‘It’s the language of Hitler’

Houthi supporters sit in front of a giant Palestinian flag during a rally against the US-led strikes against Yemen and in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthi rebels claim to have downed American drone in southern Yemen province

By AP and ToI Staff

Smoke rises after rockets fired from Lebanon hit an open area in Mount Meron, northern Israel, May 15, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Authorities close Mount Meron ahead of Lag B’Omer over Hezbollah rocket threat

By Canaan Lidor, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

File: Demonstrators use megaphones next to a banner reading in French "From Lyon to Gaza, let's resist!" during aprotest action in the courtyard of the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) building in Lyon, central Eastern France, on April 30, 2024. (Photo by OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP)

French police arrest protesters who allegedly assaulted security at Jewish event

By Canaan Lidor

Justice Minister Yariv Levin arrives for a court hearing in the trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court on May 21, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trialIn court, Likud’s Levin denies he met Netanyahu to discuss alleged bribery deal

File - Protesters block the exit of Ashdod port to stop trucks they claim are carrying humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip, in Ashdod, February 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

After activist attacks on Gaza aid trucks, some Israelis step in to guard convoys

By Deborah Danan

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