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What Matters Most On Friday, May 24, 2024

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IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo cleared for publication on May 24, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 24: IDF reservist seriously wounded while fighting in northern Gaza

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US antisemitism envoy laments rights groups’ failure to unequivocally condemn Oct. 7 atrocities just because victims were Jews * IAF reportedly carries out major strike in Rafah

9:12 pm

'Where was army on Oct. 7?' 'That's not even worthy of a response': Likud minister, IDF chief spar at cabinet meeting
8:37 pm

Footage of group singing Nazi slogan while partying on German island goes viral
8:29 pm

Ireland slams Israeli 'reprimand' of envoy

L-R: Hostages Michel Nisenbaum, Orion Hernandez, Hanan Yablonka. Their bodies were recovered from northern Gaza's Jabaliya in an operation announced May 24, 2024. (Courtesy)

Hostages Family Forum: 'Another heartbreak'

IDF recovers bodies of three hostages from north Gaza; all were killed on October 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says it recently got intel confirming Orión Hernández Radoux, Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum were kidnapped near Mefalsim, murdered there or en route to Gaza in Hamas onslaught

Israelis call for the release of hostages held by terrorists in Gaza since Hamas's October 7 massacre, outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on May 22, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

War cabinet said to expand mandate of negotiating team for potential hostage deal

This combination of pictures created on February 13, 2024 shows (L to R) CIA Director William Burns, Mossad Director David Barnea, and Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. (AFP)

CIA head to meet Mossad chief and Qatari PM in Paris, aiming to revive hostage talks

Reporter's notebook

Under a rug in Gazan home, IDF troops found shaft leading to bodies of 4 hostages

The Times of Israel joins paratroopers fighting in the heart of Jabaliya’s refugee camp, where a determined officer made a sad but profound discovery — days before he was killed

Battalion 202 commander Lt. Col. Almog Rotem stands in front of the home containing the tunnel shaft in which the bodies of four Israeli hostages – Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, Ron Benjamin and Shani Louk – were found, May 22, 2024. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Promoted EssaySources Journal: Spring 2024

Liberal North American Jews do not have nearly enough rabbis

But even if we were producing the same number of rabbis we once did, we still would not have enough leaders to serve the theological, spiritual, and moral needs of a North American Jewry.

Screenshots from an IDF interrogation video, released May 23, 2024, of captured Hamas terrorists Jamal Hassin Ahmad Radi (left) and his son Abdallah Radi confessing to murder and rape during the October 7 attack on Israel. (IDF)

IDF airs interrogation clips of terrorist father and son confessing to rape on Oct. 7

Abdallah Radi says he, along with his father and cousin, raped a woman in Kibbutz Nir Oz before his father murdered her

Israel slams Germany for saying it would arrest, deport Netanyahu if ICC issues warrant

German spokesperson says ‘of course’ when asked whether Berlin would comply with potential ICC order; spokesman for PM responds by saying ‘many need to check their moral compass’

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 17, 2024. (GPO)

Ra'am party members at the campaign headquarters in the Arab Israeli town of Tamra, as the results of the Israeli elections are announced on November 1, 2022. (Flash90)

Ra’am says Israel committing ‘unforgivable’ crimes against humanity in Gaza

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

IDF says Netanyahu was warned 4 times in 2023 about how enemies saw internal discord

PM denies military gave indication that Hamas could attack amid judicial overhaul upheaval, says to the contrary, it claimed terror group had no interest in attacking from Gaza

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz in a video message issued May 23, 2024, demanding the immediate establishment of a state commission of inquiry in the events leading up to October 7, 2023. (Screenshot)

Gantz demands immediate formation of state commission of inquiry into Oct. 7 failures

Interview

Norway’s FM: Palestine recognition is an ‘anti-Hamas’ step, pushes two-state vision

Speaking to The Times of Israel, Espen Barth Eide acknowledges move won’t create a state; says it is partly a reaction to Netanyahu policies, but will also weaken Hamas and Iran

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Spanish ambassador Ana Sálomon Pérez, Norwegian ambassador Per Egil Selvaag and Irish ambassador Sonya McGuinness watch footage of female soldiers being abducted from the Nahal Oz base on October 7 at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, May 23, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Summoned envoys from 3 nations recognizing Palestinian state shown new Oct. 7 footage

By Lazar Berman, Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff

Spanish, Norwegian and Irish ambassadors view hostage-taking clip before being reprimanded; Spanish far-left minister slammed for saying ‘Palestine will be free from river to sea’

Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

FM forbids Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from serving West Bank Palestinians

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Rav Doron Perez: Life after his hostage son’s death

Executive Chairman of the Mizrachi World Movement on living with uncertainty as family waited 163 days to learn of hostage son Daniel’s slaying on Oct. 7. His body remains in Gaza

In this 2021 image, Rav Doron Perez (center) poses with his two soldier sons Yonatan (left, then 22) and Daniel (then 20), who was slain on October 7, 2023, and his remains captured by Hamas and taken to Gaza. (courtesy)

Israel-Hamas War 5784: Home again, to stay

Israel is simply not an imperialist settler colonial state, for 19th-century Zionists first purchased, and then settled and worked their homeland (Behar)

Melinda B. Thaler

Running while Jewish: London Marathon edition

As I ran miles festooned by huge Palestinian flags, with no Union Jack in sight, I tensed up – until some runners and bystanders yelled: Am Yisrael Chai!

Armed and masked Palestinians seen on trucks loaded with international humanitarian aid entering Gaza via the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, southern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

New study finds food supply to Gaza more than sufficient for population’s needs

By Jeremy Sharon

Food delivered through crossings ‘provided for a mean of 3,163 calories per person per day’ for Gazans, 40% higher than the accepted humanitarian standard for daily calorie intake

IDF soldiers are seen operating in Gaza in this handout photo cleared for publication on May 17, 2024. (IDF)

Biden administration said to weigh US-led Gaza peacekeeping force after war ends

Palestinians rush trucks as they transport international humanitarian aid from the US-built Trident Pier near Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024. (AFP)

UN resumes transporting aid via US-built pier after Gazans intercepted trucks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about Iran during a joint meeting of the United States Congress in the House chamber at the US Capitol on March 3, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Netanyahu will ‘soon’ address joint session of US Congress, House speaker announces

Mike Johnson doesn’t reveal when speech will be, but says Schumer backs invite; official tells ToI that PM looking to make case for Israel, isn’t moved by potential fallout in US

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks against the US-led international nuclear deal with Iran in 2015 before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 24: Day 231 – Netanyahu to ‘soon’ address Congress. What’s his goal?

An Israeli fighter jet is seen firing a flare over southern Lebanon on May 16, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

IAF fighter jets down three drones launched at Israel by Iran-backed Iraqi militia

By Emanuel Fabian

Two UAVs shot down near southernmost city Eilat; third intercepted in north, causing shrapnel to strike Safed area; no injuries

In this photo provided by Moj News Agency, rescue teams are seen near the site of the incident of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan in northwestern Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. (Azin Haghighi, Moj News Agency via AP)

Iran says no signs of foul play in wreckage of helicopter crash that killed Raisi

By AP and AFP

Flag-draped coffins of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions who were killed in a helicopter crash are carried during their funeral ceremony in the city of Mashhad, Iran, May 23, 2024.(Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Tens of thousands in attendance as Raisi is buried in Iran’s Imam Reza shrine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screenshots from footage posted on social media shows UK police arresting anti-Israel protesters at a violent sit-in at Oxford University, May 24, 2024. (Screenshot/X; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK police arrest 16 anti-Israel protesters at ‘violent’ sit-in at Oxford University

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Suspects held for aggravated trespassing; Jewish groups on campus report ‘overwhelming surge in antisemitism’ that ‘has only increased in recent weeks’

From left to right: Northwestern University President Michael Schill, Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway and Frederick Lawrence testify at a hearing called 'Calling for Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos' at the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 23, 2024. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images/AFP)

US House panel grills university heads over deals to end anti-Israel encampments

A student holds up the Palestinian flag as the 13 students, who have been barred from graduating due to protest activities, are recognized by a student address speaker during the commencement in Harvard Yard at Harvard University, May 23, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Hundreds of graduates walk out of Harvard commencement, chanting ‘Free Palestine’

By AP and ToI Staff

Plans envisage waterways flowing through neighborhoods in a rehabilitated Haifa Bay in northern Israel. (Yaar Architects/Israel Lands Authority)

Conference reveals designs for massive renewal scheme

Inside the plan to turn Haifa’s befouled bay into a livable urban hub rivaling Tel Aviv

The Gateway to the Bay project will replace polluting factories and oil storage tanks with 130,000 new homes, walkable streets, beaches, parkland, canals and clean, green jobs

Deadly pathogen that wiped out Eilat’s sea urchins reaches Indian Ocean

Facing fears of global epidemic, Tel Aviv University scientists, who first identified local die-off and specific pathogen, are working with regional partners to understand more

Swaths of sea urchin skeletons washed up on the shore. (Jean-Pascal Quod)

DJ Daniel Vaknin at the 'We Will Dance Again' concert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, May 16, 2024. (Courtesy of Leora Kimmel Greene)

'This event is a testimony to our people'

Matisyahu, Idan Raichel headline MIT concert for post-October 7 Jewish unity and joy

By Rich Tenorio

Top Israeli and US artists including Five for Fighting flock to May 16’s ‘We Will Dance Again,’ attended by nearly 1,500 in a show of resilience amid widespread adversity

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The top of a cake made by a Sydney bakery for a child's birthday party featuring a Hamas spokesman and the Palestinian flag. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Australian bakery publishes photos of Hamas cake made for 4-year-old

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a protest rally in central London on March 11, 2023. (Susannah Ireland/AFP)

Ex-Labour leader Corbyn to run as independent candidate in UK election

By AFP

Co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor Ari Emanuel speaks onstage during the LACMA Art + Film Gala at LACMA on November 4, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

Media mogul Ari Emanuel calls to oust Netanyahu, ‘extremist’ ministers

Comedian Dave Chappelle performs at Madison Square Garden during his 50th birthday celebration week on August 22, 2023, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Dave Chappelle tells Abu Dhabi audience that there’s a ‘genocide’ in Gaza

By Jon Gambrell

Gadi and Reuma Kedem, who lost several of their family members during the October 7 massacre, arrive to file a complaint at a police station after being attacked during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, May 19, 2024. (Flash90)

Police charge right-wing activists with assaulting bereaved father at hostage rally

Portraits of Holocaust survivors displayed at the Museum of Jewish Heritage as a vintage German train car, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz and other death camps, sits on tracks outside the museum, in New York, Sunday, March 31, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)

NYC Holocaust museum offers free trips to eighth graders from city’s public schools

By AP

The Eshkol power plant, Israel's largest natural gas powered plant, near the port of Ashdod. (Courtesy)

Leviathan partners ink $650 million natural gas deal to supply Eshkol power plant

By Sharon Wrobel

Construction of new buildings in Jerusalem. February 05, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Real Estate IsraelDespite concerns, buyers return to Israel housing market, fearing further price rises

By Shoshanna Solomon

Director Mohammad Rasoulof poses for a portrait photograph for the film 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 23 2024. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Iranian dissident director who fled country presents latest film at Cannes

By AFP

Israelis enjoy a sunny summer day at the Zvulun beach in Herzliya on June 27, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Real Estate IsraelHousing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in May 2024

By Shoshanna Solomon

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