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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 28, 2024

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Palestinians flee the area of Tal al-Sultan in Rafah with their belongings on May 28, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

May 28: UN says over 1 million Palestinians have fled Rafah since Israeli offensive began

IDF denies deadly strike today on Rafah’s ‘safe zone,’ says Sunday blaze caused by secondary explosion * Military establishes panel to probe treatment of terror detainees

8:42 pm

Emotional Seinfeld says wartime visit to Israel was 'most powerful experience of my life'
8:23 pm

White House: Sanctions on ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant are 'not the answer'
7:53 pm

Israel to launch ETA system for tourists from visa-exempt countries

Ireland to open embassy in Ramallah

Spain, Norway, Ireland formally recognize Palestinian state; rift with Israel widens

By AP and ToI Staff

Israel slams Madrid, accuses it of ‘being complicit in inciting genocide against Jews and war crimes’; Spanish PM recognizes state in a linked West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivering a televised speech over his country's recognition of Palestinian statehood, at La Moncloa Palace in Madrid, May 28, 2024. (POOL MONCLOA/AFP)

Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin holds a joint press conference with his Spanish and Norwegian counterparts at the the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union in Brussels on May 27, 2024. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

Irish FM says EU mulling sanctions on Israel if it defies ICJ ruling on Rafah

File - Israel's Ambassador to Ireland, Dana Erlich, speaks during a Kristallnacht commemoration ceremony at the All Nations Church in Dublin, Ireland, November 9, 2023. (Screen capture: YouTube/All Nations Church, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Envoy to Ireland, recalled amid Palestinian state row, warns tech industry may suffer

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Troops of the Nahal Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout image published May 28, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF tanks seen reaching central Rafah, as troops operate along key Philadelphi Route

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says it located tunnels, weapons, and killed terrorists overnight along Gaza-Egypt border; UNRWA says one million Palestinians have fled southern city

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.

A Palestinian girl - wounded after an Israeli airstrike on what the IDF said was a Hamas compound, adjacent to a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah, late on May 26, 2024 - receives treatment at a hospital in Rafah (Eyad BABA / AFP)

US laments ‘devastating’ Rafah strike, urges Israel to better protect civilians

White House response less critical than others issued after similar incidents throughout the war, says ‘Israel has right to go after Hamas, but must take every precaution’

A screenshot of video filmed by a volunteer of the Palestine Red Crescent Society showing 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. (PRCS/AFP)

Shrapnel from Israeli strike may have ignited fuel tank near Rafah tents — report

The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East, at UN headquarters in New York City on April 18, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

UN Security Council to meet for emergency session after Rafah strike

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Knesset on May 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu denies claim he’s blocking hostage deal, calls Rafah strike ‘tragic mishap’

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

‘You didn’t bring them home. You cannot remain prime minister,’ Opposition Leader Lapid responds to prime minister during Knesset debate

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, May 17, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Eisenkot advocates pause in fighting to get hostages out – reports

A protest convoy on Route 2 at Rishon Lezion joins demonstrations around the country calling for early elections, May 28, 2024. (ERAN/Pro-Democracy Movement)

Protest convoys around the country snarl traffic in call for early elections

IDF troops on the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing on May 7, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Egyptian soldier killed in clash with Israeli troops at Rafah Crossing

By Emanuel Fabian

High-level Egyptian source quoted saying incident triggered by gunfire ‘between Israeli forces and members of the Palestinian resistance’

Ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen (left) at the Kirya base in Tel Aviv, January 16, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90); Then-International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in The Hague, Netherlands, June 14, 2021. (Peter Dejong/AP Photo)

Cohen was Netanyahu's 'unofficial messenger' to Bensouda

Former Mossad chief threatened ICC prosecutor over probe into Israel, report claims

The Guardian charges that Yossi Cohen ‘stalked’ and ‘intimidated’ former ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda between 2017 and 2021, hinted he’d incriminate her husband

Soldiers inspecting the damage to a building in the northern community of Dovev, after it was hit by rockets fired from Lebanon, during an IDF tour, on May 27, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/ AFP)

Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at north after fatal IDF attack in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

None hurt in barrages on Kiryat Shmona, Meron that terror group says are retaliation for Aynata strike that killed operative; recent IDF drill simulates ground offensive in Lebanon

Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)

UN nuclear watchdog says Iran expanding stockpile of near-weapons grade uranium

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN

Natan Kohn-Magnus

Is the war making us more close-minded?

The events of Oct. 7 were so traumatic that my intellectual curiosity crashes against the blunt force of the rocket that landed across the street from me

Tamar Sternthal

Free of bias? AP’s journalism deserves scrutiny

From citing unreliable casualty figures to implicitly adopting the Hamas narrative, the news agency has shown an anti-Israel slant

A screenshot of video shared on social media shows an explosion as an interceptor missile hits a suspected drone near Eilat on 28, 2024, as the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed to target the Red Sea coastal city in a drone attack. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF downs 2 drones targeting Eilat in attack claimed by Iran-backed Iraqi militia

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says fighter jet and ground-based air defense systems intercepted the projectiles, days after Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched drones at the southern city and the north

Houthi supporters attend a rally against the US-led airstrikes on Yemen and the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in Sanaa, Yemen, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Ship struck, taking on water in Red Sea after presumed Houthi attack

By AP and ToI Staff

Protesters take part in a demonstration called by French organization "France Palestine Solidarite" in Paris, on May 27, 2024. (Sami KARAALI / AFP)

Thousands in Paris demonstrate near Israeli Embassy after deadly Rafah strike

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian protests against Israel also held in Spain amid global outcry over IDF attack targeting Hamas officials in which dozens of Gazans also reported killed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a debate in the Knesset on May 27, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 28: Day 235 – Will hostage talks resume as Rafah op continues?

Illustrative: Palestinians wait at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, on December 26, 2023. (AFP)

Canada pledges temporary visas for 5,000 Gaza residents related to citizens

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Lebanese-American singer Carine Bassili, May 2024. (courtesy)

Interview1st collaboration between a Lebanese Christian and Israeli

Banned from Lebanon for Israel ties, artist sings Arabic cover of Eden Golan’s ‘Hurricane’

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Carine Bassili, devout Christian living in US, hopes her music will build bridges between her people and Israelis: ‘You cannot have peace before having healing and reconciliation’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. (Composite: Liron Moldovan/Flash90; Israel Bar Association)

AG says Ben Gvir acting out of ‘ulterior motives’ in push to dismiss police chief

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Baharav-Miara tells far-right police minister that move to summon Shabtai is unlawful and raises fears he is trying to intimidate the police force

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai at the scene of a fatal shooting attack in Re'em Junction, on February 16, 2024. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says he’ll recommend firing police chief, weeks before term due to end

Former South Carolina governor and former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, in the Gaza border community of Nir Oz, May 27, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Haley: If we are too arrogant, it could happen in US too

Visiting southern Israel, Nikki Haley blames Iran, Russia and China for October 7

Hamas massacre ‘was orchestrated by Iran. It was helped with Russian intelligence. And it was fueled by money from China,’ former American UN envoy tells reporters in Sderot

Judge Eitan Orenstein (left) seen during a court session at the Tel Aviv District Court in Tel Aviv on December 17, 2013. (Eric Sultan/POOL); Then-chairman of the Israel Bar Association Efi Nave speaks at the International jurists conference in Jerusalem on February 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police arrest ex-judge along with prominent lawyer on suspicion of graft

In 2016 recording, Efi Nave, then Bar Association head, seems to endorse Eitan Orenstein en route to his appointment as Tel Aviv District Court president, in exchange for help in court

Interview

Irwin Cotler: ICC prosecutor weaponized international law in ‘incomprehensible’ way

Former Canadian justice minister says Karim Khan violating founding principle of ICC charter by ignoring Israeli legal independence, failing to give time for internal legal process

Former Canadian justice minister and human rights advocate Irwin Cotler, seen in Jerusalem in early 2023. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of Israel's 76th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Fresh report on Regev alleges she planned to use October 7 attack to snag publicity

Reported conversations between top aides and transportation minister include discussion on how she could step into limelight after war started; Regev calls Channel 13 report ‘lies’

United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush arrives for coalition talks at the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Minister arranged for family to join him in Meron despite strict closure

Medical students at Baruch Padeh (Poriya) Medical Center in Tiberias try OtheReality VR sets. (Courtesy)

'Doctors need to be aware how they react affects the patient'

Virtual reality app lets medical staff get a patient’s-eye view

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israeli start-up OtheReality allows doctors to revisit difficult scenarios and recharge their empathy tanks to reduce patient discomfort and dissatisfaction

More Headlines

Masked men attack a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq, in this screenshot from a video posted to social media on Monday, May 27, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iraqi police suspect anti-Israel motive behind attacks on KFC outlets in Baghdad

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Former Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani (L) and reelected speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (R) attend the inauguration session for the new Parliament in Tehran on May 27, 2024. (AFP)

Ex-Tehran mayor reelected as Iran parliament speaker, cementing hardliner control

By AP

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bank of Israel leaves lending rate at 4.5%, as inflation and war uncertainty ramp up

By Sharon Wrobel

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (R) greets lawmakers during the inauguration session for the new Parliament in Tehran on May 27, 2024. (AFP)

As Iran gears up to vote for Raisi’s successor, key question is who will get to run

By AFP

Pro-regime and anti-regime Eritrean migrants clash in south Tel Aviv, May 27, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

One killed, several hurt in Tel Aviv clashes between Eritrean migrants

David Ben-Gurion's glasses back in their resting place atop the founding prime minister's desk at his hut-turned-commemorative museum in Kibbutz Sde Boker, southern Israel, from which a soldier had filched them during an educational tour, May 26, 2024. (Police spokesperson)

Framed?Ben-Gurion’s stolen glasses returned to Sde Boker museum

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