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What Matters Most On Monday, May 27, 2024

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Footage from a fire that broke out in a camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza's Rafah, following an Israeli strike on what the IDF said was a compound used by Hamas in the area, May 26, 2024. (Social media/X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF says it targeted Hamas as Palestinians claim 45 dead in strike on Gaza’s Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army says it killed 2 commanders behind West Bank terror via precise airstrikes that adhered to international law; Hamas, PA cast it as ‘massacre’ of displaced civilians

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on what the IDF said was a Hamas compound, adjacent to a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah, Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

‘No longer justifiable’: Israel faces international condemnation for strike in Rafah

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike adjacent to where displaced people were staying in Rafah, Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 27: Day 234 – Hamas calls to ‘rise up’ after deadly airstrike in Rafah

Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya IDF HQ in Tel Aviv, May 27, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

May 27: Official says Israel to wait before deciding on sending team to fresh hostage talks

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Armed drones target north after day of heavy Hezbollah rocket fire * PM denies blocking deal as families of captives protest in Knesset * Large anti-Israel rallies in Paris, Madrid

9:03 pm

UN chief, Canadian foreign minister call for end to Gaza 'horror'
8:53 pm

Shrapnel from Israeli strike may have ignited fuel tank near Rafah tents, report says
8:39 pm

Iraqi group claims drone attack on Eilat as fresh alarms sound

Palestinians inspect damage after an Israeli airstrike on what the IDF said was a Hamas compound, adjacent to a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah, Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF opens probe into Rafah strike, says steps were taken to prevent civilian deaths

By Emanuel Fabian

Military source says ‘reduced in size’ warheads used in strike; premier vows to press on in Rafah despite mounting global ire; IDF’s top lawyer stresses army’s robust legal branch

Nitzan Alon at IDF Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem on March 25, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

IDF negotiator said to pan PM’s handling of hostage talks as they’re set to resume

As war cabinet meets, Netanyahu’s office claims leaked comments from Nitzan Alon, reportedly pushing for Israeli concessions, are only helping Hamas harden its stance

Attorney general slams ICC prosecutor, says he’s ignoring Israel’s legal system

By Jeremy Sharon

Baharav-Miara says Israel is actively investigating allegations of Gaza war conduct, accuses Khan of violating court’s charter by rushing to seek arrest warrants

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara addresses the Israel Bar Association's annual conference in Eilat, May 27, 2024. (Courtesy: Israel Bar Association)

Palestinians sit by the rubble of a family house that was hit overnight in an Israeli airstrike in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in southern Gaza on May 20, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Amnesty urges ICC to probe alleged war crimes in recent Israeli strikes on Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Staff Sgt. Betzalel Zvi Kovach, 20, left, and Staff Sgt. Sahar Sudaei, 20. (Israel Defense Forces)

As fighting rages in Rafah and Jabaliya, IDF announces deaths of 2 soldiers

By Emanuel Fabian

Fallen soldiers named as Staff Sgt. Betzalel Zvi Kovach and Staff Sgt. Sahar Sudaei; IDF jets strike rocket launchers used to fire volley at central Israel from Rafah

Rockets are seen launched at Israel from the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip, May 26, 2024. (Courtesy: via @IDF on X)

Ministers say rocket barrage from Rafah proves need for IDF operation in city

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Sam Sokol

'We're not going to forget in November, are we?'

Tlaib claims US voters will make Biden pay for defending ‘genocidal maniac Netanyahu’

‘You are an enabler,’ far-left lawmaker says of president’s backing for arms sales to Israel, opposition to anti-Israel campus encampments and criticism of ICC prosecutor

US Rep. Rashida Tlaib and university employees at a press conference titled "Unions Defend Free Speech on Campus" on Capitol Hill on May 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael A. McCoy / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

A message in chalk decorates a sidewalk after a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment was taken down at Brown University, April 30, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

‘No rest till Brown divests’: Anti-Israel protesters interrupt university graduation

By AP and ToI Staff

Family and friends and thousands of other Israelis attend the funeral service of Hanan Yablonka at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv, on May 26, 2024, two days after the IDF recovered his body from Gaza. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Mother describes her late son as 'impossible not to love'

In show of solidarity, thousands join funeral march for hostage Hanan Yablonka

By Tal Schneider

Family appealed to public to take part in procession to call for hostage release deal; Yablonka was slain on October 7, body taken captive and retrieved by IDF last week

Foreign Minister Israel Katz tours the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel orders Spanish consulate to stop providing services to Palestinians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Israel Katz says the order is meant to punish Spain for recognizing a Palestinian state, as feud between Jerusalem and Madrid heats up

PA Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, left, speaks after receiving a document handed over by Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, right, prior to a meeting for talks on the Middle East in Brussels, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Norway hands papers for recognition of Palestinian state to PA prime minister

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The extremists in Israel’s government have to go

When the Israeli mainstream is in thrall to the ultranationalist religious fringe, the religious world at large must take a stand to rebalance the country

Yohanan Plesner

A missed historic opportunity: The Haredi military exemption law

This government is rehashing a weak proposal that was meant to be temporary and drawn up before the war changed everything

Cabinet rejects appeal against bill lowering Haredi draft exemption age

By Sam Sokol and Emanuel Fabian

Gallant and Gantz criticize the move, say they won’t support the legislation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting, April 7, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau speaks during a rally calling for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza at 'Hostages Square' in Tel Aviv, April 18, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Citing nepotism concerns, High Court of Justice halts rabbinical courts appointments

By Canaan Lidor

Preview

‘A political corpse’: Tuesday primary could mark revival of ailing Labor party

Former Meretz MK Yair Golan is expected to win Labor’s top spot, opening possibility for merger of two leftist parties as Meretz says it’s ‘ready in principle’ for step

Yair Golan attends a protest outside of Jerusalem against the government, demanding new elections. May 4, 2024. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Police push back ultra-Orthodox men who tried to enter the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer, at Mount Meron, May 26, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Annual mass celebrations canceled due to Hezbollah threats

Police clash with ultra-Orthodox pilgrims at closed-off holy site in Mount Meron

Video shared by police shows worshipers throwing chairs and crates at cops; Border Police officer removed from duty after being filmed throwing elderly man to the ground

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) and war cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, December 23, 2023. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Gallant accuses Gantz of torpedoing ultra-Orthodox enlistment compromise

MK Shelly Tal Meron (center) addresses the 'Global Women’s Coalition Against Gender Based Violence as a Weapon of War' at the Knesset, May 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Interview

Seeking to end silence around sexual violence in war, an MK raises her voice abroad

Feeling she has to ‘shock the world to take notice of what’s happening,’ freshman Yesh Atid lawmaker Shelly Tal Meron is trying to build a global coalition to fight weaponized rape

Jailed Nukhba terrorists regularly sexually harass female guards, soldier says

FROM THE BLOGS

In death as in life, Yael Dayan is an inconvenient Israeli

Dayan spent her life making the country a more decent place, which may be why the world press stayed silent on her passing

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)

IDF reservist in viral mutiny video dismissed from duty, under investigation

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says soldier, who recorded himself saying troops would not obey orders to hand off control of Gaza, being probed for incitement to mutiny and not following orders

Archaeology

Perfectly preserved, 2,300-year-old gold ring found under City of David parking lot

By Gavriel Fiske

Small Hellenistic-era ring, set with a red garnet, was likely made for a child’s finger; the item and other recent discoveries to be shown to public at June Jerusalem Day event

Times of Israel reporter Canaan Lidor speaks after receiving an award at the B'nai B'rith annual ceremony honoring excellence in Diaspora reporting, hosted in the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on May 26, 2024. (Bruno Charbit/B'nai B'rith World Center-Jerusalem)

ToI’s Lidor, Channel 12’s Simchayoff receive B’nai B’rith Diaspora coverage awards

By Charlie Summers

Canaan Lidor honored for his reporting on Jewish communities in the Netherlands, Tunisia, US

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of a daycare center in Israel, April 20, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Police to indict two daycare teachers on almost 600 charges of abusing babies

People cross over a landslide area to get to the other side in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, May 24, 2024. (Benjamin Sipa/International Organization for Migration via AP)

Papua New Guinea says 2,000 people buried under landslide, requests help

Islamist Hamas terror group leader Yahya Sinwar shouts slogans and flashes the victory gesture as he takes part in a protest near the border with Israel east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. (AFP/ Mohammed ABED)

From the webWhen an Israeli dentist saved Hamas chief Sinwar from a life-threatening tumor

French Ambassador to Tunisia Anne Gueguen (Centre-L) and US Deputy Chief of Mission Natasha Franceschi (C) carry flowers in memory of those killed in a mass shooting last year at the Ghriba synagogue in the resort island of Djerba on May 26, 2024. (Fethi Belaid / AFP)

Diplomats pay respects in Djerba year after deadly attack on Jewish worshipers

By AFP

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, May 16, 2024. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China to host Arab leaders this week, with Israeli-Palestinian conflict on agenda

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video a burning minibus following an explosion in the vehicle at the Wolfson Interchange, May 27, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man seriously hurt in minibus explosion that police say is tied to organized crime

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