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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 29, 2024

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Hamas terrorists shoot at the Israeli town of Bat Hefer from the Tulkarem area in the West Bank. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hamas terrorists shoot at Israeli town from West Bank, spurring demand for crackdown

Terror group posts video on social media showing three men firing at Israeli town of Bat Hefer from the West Bank; Smotrich says Israel must fight ‘like in Gaza’

Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout image cleared for publication on May 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 29: IDF says it demolished ‘significant’ Hamas tunnel near Rafah Crossing in Gaza

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

US confirms new hostage deal proposal being advanced with Israel’s support * Survey: Netanyahu preferred to Gantz as PM for first time in a year

7:15 pm

IDF: Manhunt underway for Palestinian perpetrator in West Bank car-ramming attack
6:54 pm

Meta 'working to understand' why AI-generated pro-Israel image was removed from Instagram
6:50 pm

Two seriously wounded in car-ramming attack near Nablus, IDF and medics say

Soldiers killed in southern Gaza on May 28, 2024. Left to right: Staff Sgt. Uri Bar Or, Staff Sgt. Ido Appel, Staff Sgt. Amir Galilove. (Israel Defense Forces)

UN: More than a million people have fled Rafah since May 6

3 soldiers killed in blast in booby-trapped building in Gaza’s Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF strikes RPG-bearing operative in Jabaliya, finds weapons cache near mosque; Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies calls for unimpeded access to Strip

Algeria's ambassador to the United Nations, Amar Bendjama speaks during a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Algeria proposes UN resolution demanding end to Rafah op, ceasefire, hostage release

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Country’s UN ambassador says aim of move is to ‘stop the killing in Rafah’; US envoy says waiting to see the text before responding; diplomats believe vote could be within days

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, left, takes part in a meeting with Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares, 2nd right and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, 3rd right with Middle Eastern foreign ministers at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, May 29, 2024. (Manu Fernandez/AP)

Palestinian Authority prime minister visits Madrid after recognition of state

By AP and ToI Staff

Analysis

As World Court case progresses, Israel could face more forceful order to end war

South Africa seems poised to continue its unprecedented legal blitz at the International Court of Justice; a request for the UN Security Council to intervene is also in the cards

The International Court of Justice hears oral arguments over South Africa's application asking the court to order Israel to halt its military campaign against Hamas, May 17, 2024. (International Court of Justice)

Left: Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, on May 20, 2024 (ICC); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address, May 20, 2024. (Screenshot/ GPO)

Israel said to have waged 9-year ‘war’ against ICC, tapping its communications

By Michael Bachner

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan (center) announces that he has requested arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, May 20, 2024. (Courtesy, International Criminal Court)

White House comes out against GOP bill to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants

The Israeli war cabinet and top security officials meet in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2024, hours after Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

War cabinet said to disagree over Hamas demand to end war in hostage deal

Netanyahu reportedly believes it would be ‘surrender’ to terror group; Israel said to show ‘willingness to be flexible’ on number of living hostages to be released in first stage

Screenshot from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad propaganda video showing hostage Sasha Trufanov released on May 28, 2024. (Screenshot)

Palestinian Islamic Jihad publishes propaganda video of hostage Sasha Trufanov

By Emanuel Fabian

Op-ed: Day 236 of the war

‘Together we will win’? Israel’s leaders need to get the message, fast

It is hard to recall a period when ties between the political leadership and the defense establishment were so fraught. Or when the absence of strategic cohesion was so dangerous

People walk by a large billboard reading "Together we will win" at the Azrieli shopping mall in Tel Aviv. December 19, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

An IDF infographic provided on May 28, 2024, about a strike in Rafah two days earlier, which was said to have caused the deaths of dozens of civilians. (IDF)

'Our munition alone couldn't have ignited fire of this size'

IDF says hidden store of terror munitions may have caused deadly Rafah blaze

By Emanuel Fabian

Military probing if stockpile of weapons, other combustibles, caused secondary blasts leading to dozens of deaths, says airstrike was almost a mile from designated Gaza safe zone

Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents next to an UNRWA facility west of Rafah city, Gaza Strip, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

US mourns ‘tragic’ deaths in Rafah strike but stresses Israel didn’t cross red line

The cruelty and cunning of hostage-taking

The longer Hamas holds onto the captives, the deeper the divisions within Israel grow and the less the world cares about their plight

The rush to think the worst of Israel… again

The world’s eagerness to blame Israel for civilian deaths in the Rafah fire – facts be damned – is just par for the course

A US Army landing craft is seen beached in Ashdod on Sunday, May 26, 2024, after being swept by wind and current from the temporary humanitarian pier in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

US suspends aid deliveries via Gaza pier after it suffers serious weather damage

Pentagon says it needs a week or more to recover detached parts and vessels, tow pier to Israel for repairs and then return it to Gaza; Ashdod Port still receiving aid via sea

Kate Forbes, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, February 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Red Cross president urges humanitarian ceasefire ‘so I can do my job’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld at the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum Headquarters in Tel Aviv, December 18, 2023 (Courtesy)

Emotional Seinfeld says wartime trip to Israel ‘the most powerful experience of my life’

Comedian struggles to speak when asked about his solidarity visit in December, which included trip to devastated kibbutz, meetings with Oct. 7 survivors and freed hostages

Montana Tucker attends the 31st Annual Race to Erase MS Gala held at Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California on May 10, 2024. (Michael Tran / AFP)

Influencer Montana Tucker criticized for hostage awareness skincare promo video

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Explainer

What part will UK Jews play in the country’s July 4 general election?

Once wracked by antisemitism, a cleaned-up Labour Party looks set to unseat the Tories on July 4, but strongly anti-Israel opponents may siphon votes from moderate Keir Starmer

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right, and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer pass through the Peer's Lobby to attend the State Opening of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster in London, November 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

Former US president Donald Trump speaks to the media outside of his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York, May 28, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

Trump says he’ll deport anti-Israel student protesters if elected — report

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate said to tell donor event that current political climate is like that before the Holocaust

The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle. (Screen capture: YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Seattle museum staff protest exhibit on antisemitism: ‘Conveys Zionist perspectives’

By Andrew Lapin

Yair Golan speaks to the media after the results were announced in the Labor party primary elections, in Tel Aviv, May 28, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Yair Golan wins landslide victory in Labor primary with promise to unite the left

‘We need to build a ruling party and it cannot be a niche party or a small party,’ former general says on being chosen by over 95% of voters

Former IDF general and former Meretz MK Yair Golan attended a protest outside of Jerusalem on May 4, 2024 (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 29: Day 236 – MKs on right and left seek alliances, oppose PM

MK Gideon Sa'ar attends a faction meeting of the National Unity Party at the Knesset, July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Sa’ar willing to make ‘concessions’ to create right-wing bloc opposing Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to soldiers during a visit to the northern border on May 28, 2024. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

At northern border, Netanyahu pledges to return residents ‘safely to their homes’

Report says PM doesn’t want commission of inquiry into October 7 failures at this time out of fear ex-Supreme Court president Hayut will head it

An Iranian long-range Ghadr missile with "Death to Israel" written in Hebrew down the side is displayed at a defense exhibition in city of Isfahan, central Iran, on February 8, 2023. (Morteza Salehi/Tasnim News/AFP)

Tehran supplied Yemen’s Houthis with sea-launched ballistic missile – Iranian media

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Aviram Meir, uncle to hostage Almog Meir Jan, has devoted all his time to the release of his nephew and the other hostages (Courtesy)

Interview'I work on the hostages as if it's a full-time job'

Uncle of hostage learns lobbying and legislation, in effort to bring nephew home

By Jessica Steinberg

Almog Meir Jan was taken captive on October 7; his uncle, Aviram Meir, now spends two days a week at the Knesset

Hamas terror suspects, caught during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza, crouch on the ground in the courtyard of a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF sets up committee to probe alleged torture of Palestinian terror suspects

By Emanuel Fabian and Jeremy Sharon

Admitting logistic issues in processing captives from Gaza, military says panel will examine conditions of detainees at facilities to determine compliance with international law

Arwah Sheikh Ali after his arrest, August 20, 2023. (Courtesy)

7 cops to be charged for allegedly branding Palestinian with Star of David

Alexandra Ahdoot visits Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookChants on campus: 'We are Hamas, long live the resistance'

As they gird for worse campus vitriol, North American Jewish students plug into Israel

By Canaan Lidor

Initially shocked by the antisemitism and hatred they encountered, the 20 visitors are preparing to push back hard at their universities come fall

More Headlines

Joseph Abruzzo, clerk of the circuit court and comptroller for Palm Beach County, announces a record $135 million purchase of Israel Bonds at Congregation Torah Ohr in Boca Raton, Florida, Oct. 31, 2023. (Courtesy of Abruzzo’s office)

Florida official sued over record $700m investment in Israel Bonds

By JTA and ToI Staff

Skiboky Stora speaks to Fox 5 New York after being charged in court with hate crimes, May 29, 2024. (Screenshot via Fox 5 New York)

NYC man charged with antisemitic, anti-white, and anti-woman hate crimes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, left, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene of a terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, outside of Jerusalem, August 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir cancels hearing for police chief, but pushes on with attempt to fire him

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

The Kaaba at the Grand Mosque during the hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Tehran says Saudi Arabia expelled 6 Iranian state media journalists ahead of hajj

By AP

Ultra-Orthodox men protest against the IDF draft in Jerusalem, April 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

130 senior economists warn that lack of Haredi enlistment leading country to ‘abyss’

By Sharon Wrobel

From left to right: Education Minister Yoav Kisch, Shapira committee head Amos Shapira, and Tammy Omanski, head of the Education Ministry's special education department, at a press conference in Jerusalem, on May 28, 2024. (Sivan Shachar/courtesy)

Special ed committee recommends 19 kids per class, 5 days a week for all schools

By Gavriel Fiske

IDFWO Chairwoman Tami Shelach with scholarship recipient Malki Inbal, in Tel Aviv on May 28, 2024. (Loco Group/courtesy)

Hundreds of scholarships and grants handed out to IDF orphans and widows

By Gavriel Fiske

Representatives of the Reservists’ Wives Forum meet with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (left) in early 2024. (Courtesy)

Knesset passes law barring employers from firing spouses of IDF reservists

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