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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 25, 2024

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A screenshot of a video purporting to show an IDF reservist in Gaza threatening mutiny published on May 24, 2024. (Screencapture/X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Probe signals IDF toughening stance against Gaza violations

IDF opens criminal investigation into video of reservist threatening mutiny

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Clip posted to social media, shared by PM’s son, shows masked soldier warning troops will not obey orders if gov’t doesn’t pursue ‘complete victory’ over Hamas, demanding Gallant quit

An IDF soldier seen throwing a Quran into a fire in Gaza. (X screengrab)

IDF opens probe after social media posts show troops burning Quran, other books in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Protesters call for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, outside the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 25, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

May 25: Police disperse Tel Aviv sit-in as protesters around country demand hostage deal

Amid bonfires for Lag B’Omer, rallies accuse government of ‘abandoning’ captives held by Hamas in Gaza * Group of hostage families demand end to war for deal to free loved ones

9:46 pm

Police filmed shoving MK trying to verify who is being arrested at Tel Aviv hostage rally
9:07 pm

Objects hurled at police in Meron as hundreds try to violate wartime Lag B'Omer stay ban
8:48 pm

Shots fired at Jewish school for girls in Toronto; no injuries reported; police investigating

Presiding Judge Nawaf Salam reads the ruling of the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, May 24, 2024 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Israel told to 'maintain open' the Rafah Border Crossing

ICJ orders Israel to halt Rafah operations that risk destruction of civilian population

By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol

Four of the 15 judges argue ruling does not require that Israel halt entire Rafah campaign if it ensures it’s complying with the Genocide Convention; South African judge disagrees

Judges arrive at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to rule on South Africa's request on a Rafah and wider Gaza war ceasefire, in The Hague, on May 24, 2024. (Nick Gammon / AFP)

Four ICJ judges argue court order does not require IDF to stop all Rafah operations

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds a hearing on South Africa's request that the court order Israel to halt its military operation in Gaza, May 24, 2024. (Nick Gammon/AFP)

After ICJ ruling, Israel says it ‘has not and will not’ destroy Rafah’s civilian population

US President Joe Biden walks to his vehicle after arriving on Marine One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

After ICJ ruling, US says Biden’s position on IDF Rafah op is ‘clear and consistent’

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Brief statement comes as White House has appeared to soften its opposition to Israel’s advance into Rafah, indicating Jerusalem was taking US concerns into account

This image grab taken from footage released by the Israeli army on May 7, 2024 shows the 401st Brigade's combat team tanks entering the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / Israeli Army / AFP)

EU looking at potential role monitoring Rafah crossing

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Like early 1930s: US envoy warns antisemitism ‘a threat to democracy,’ global security

Noting spike in Jew hatred since Oct. 7, Lipstadt says situation for Diaspora Jews is not like 1938 but rather ‘early 1930s, maybe late 1920s,’ laments denial of Hamas atrocities

US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a virtual event on May 24, 2024. (Screen capture/State Department)

Keynote speaker Maria Ressa, a journalist and advocate for freedom of the press, addresses graduates in Harvard Yard during commencement at Harvard University, May 23, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Nobel laureate accused of employing antisemitic trope in Harvard commencement speech

Screenshot of a man performing an apparent Nazi salute and Hitler mustache while chanting a Nazi slogan in Sylt, Germany, May 19, 2024. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

German police investigating viral footage of partyers chanting Nazi slogan

By Ariella Oldfield

Relatives and supporters of hostages taken captive by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza during the October 7 attacks, hold placards during a demonstration calling for their release, in Tel Aviv on May 9, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

‘Night of the mothers’: Families rallying Saturday as hostage talks said set to resume

Protesters in Tel Aviv will demand the ‘neglectful’ government get the hostages back alive, after IDF recovers 3 more captives’ bodies in Strip; anti-government rallies also planned

Haredi Jews watch preperations for the Lag B'Omer festivities at the Shimon HaTzadik tomb in Jerusalem on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/FLASH90)

Location 'an attempt to Israelize East Jerusalem'

Fearing Hezbollah in north, state moves Lag B’Omer event to East Jerusalem flashpoint

By Canaan Lidor

With Mt. Meron in the Galilee closed due to missile fears, 30,000 pilgrims are expected to stream into the Shimon HaTzadik tomb in Sheikh Jarrah on Saturday night and Sunday

A vehicle destroyed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria on May 25, 2024. (SANA)

Two Hezbollah fighters said killed in alleged Israeli drone strike in Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

One person, said to have close ties to Iran, killed by bomb placed in vehicle in Damascus suburb; no comment from IDF

Damage is caused in the northern border community of Dovev by anti-tank guided missiles launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon on May 24, 2024. (Merom HaGalil Regional Council)

Heavy barrage of rockets fired at northern Israel, causing damage but no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

A tourist camp on the beach near the Sinai town of Nuweiba, Egypt, May 7, 2024 (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookA world away from the constant stream of war news

Paradise lost? Sinai, once teeming with Israeli tourists, is deserted amid Gaza war

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Very few Israelis venture into neighboring Egypt out of safety concerns or in boycott of the country, but those who dare will experience a Sinai of yesteryear

Jeremy Benstein

An open letter to Naomi Klein from a progressive Israeli

Zionism is not monolithic – and our blood-soaked conflict is a war between extremists and those who call for compromise

Gary Rosenblatt

Counting on each other

As we mark the days of The Omer, and the plight of the hostages, there are lofty and practical lessons to be learned.

Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Rot and corruption’: AG said ready to investigate Miri Regev after damning report

Ex-top aide says post-Oct. 7 guilt led him to come forward with records showing Transportation Ministry awash with party politics, corruption and a sycophantic adviser corps

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (L) and Transportation Minister Miri Regev (R). (Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Regev, IDF chief said to spar in cabinet meeting over Oct. 7 warnings to Netanyahu

The exterior of Cafe Otef, this one belonging to the community of Moshav Netiv Ha'asara, in Tel Aviv's Sarona complex (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Cafe Otef begins pop-up project, where displaced southern residents can feel at home

By Jessica Steinberg

With 1st branch belonging to Netiv Ha’asara a runaway success in Tel Aviv, 7 are planned in total, each telling stories and selling specialties of a distinct community hit on Oct. 7

FILE - Humanitarian aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah, January 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

In Biden call, Egypt’s Sissi agrees to release Gaza aid via Israel amid Rafah closure

White House says move ‘will help save lives’; leaders also discuss ‘new initiatives to secure the release of hostages together with an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza’

Activists protest against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), outside its offices in Jerusalem, March 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Italy to resume funding UNRWA, pledges $38 million aid package for Palestinians

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ariel view of the Horvat Tevet site, with the excavation areas outlined. (courtesy IAA, photo by Alexander Weigmann)

Archaeology

Jezreel Valley graves cast light on waning Canaanite cities, waxing Israelite monarchy

By Gavriel Fiske

Beeswax burial ritual at Horvat Tevet site reflects lingering influence during transition from Egyptian rule 3,000 years ago, which also shaped Israelite economics and agriculture

Nitzan Mano. (Dafna Talmon)

Nitzan Mano20-year-old athlete from Kibbutz Re'im

'Life can end in a single moment. It happened to some people. I can meet death any day, and it's there, waiting. I chose to make an effort to distance myself from it'

By Tamar Mor Sela

More Headlines

Counter-protesters clash with anti-Israel demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in Los Angeles on May 1, 2024. (ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP)

Police arrest Jewish teen for alleged assault at UCLA anti-Israel encampment

By AP

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) and Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro shake hands at the end of a joint press conference after talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, May 24, 2024. (Ralf Hirschberger / AFP)

‘No reason to recognize’ Palestinian state yet, say leaders of Germany and Portugal

By AFP

Spanish Ambassador Ana Sálomon Pérez (L), Norwegian Ambassador Per Egil Selvaag (C) 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)

Ireland slams ‘totally unacceptable’ Israeli rebuke after envoy shown Oct. 7 footage

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Counterprotesters, many waving Israeli flags, gather outside Phoenix in London on May 24, 2024, during a screening of the "Supernova" documentary. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

From our partnerCrowd demonstrates in support of London theater screening ‘Supernova’ documentary

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

Following backlash, YouTuber for toddlers sings prayer for children of Gaza, Israel

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (front) visits an exhibition of the country's nuclear industry achievements in Tehran, June 11, 2023, accompanied by the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami (L). (Khamenei.ir/AFP)

US said to oppose IAEA resolution condemning Iran’s ‘unprecedented’ nuclear breaches

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A Tunisian Jewish man walks in Hara Kebira, the main Jewish quarter in the resort island of Djerba, during the annual Jewish pilgrimage, on May 24, 2024. (Fethi Belaid / AFP)

Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage draws low turnout as event scaled back amid security fears

By AFP and ToI Staff

Finance ministers and central bank governors pose for the family picture at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Stresa, Italy, on May 24, 2024. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP)

G7 to urge Israel maintain bank links with PA amid fears of potential fiscal collapse

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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