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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 30, 2024

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Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout image published May 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops destroy 'significant' Hamas tunnel near Rafah Crossing

IDF takes control of key Gaza-Egypt border road, locating at least 20 tunnels

By Emanuel Fabian

Military spokesman Daniel Hagari says Hamas positioned rocket launchers in ‘Philadelphi Route’ hoping to dissuade Israel from striking close to the Egyptian border

Staff Sgt. Yedidya Azugi, who was killed in battle in northern Gaza. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier killed in Gaza; Israel: 300 terrorists killed in Rafah since start of op

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid are pictured at the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on May 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

‘Philadelphi route, Gaza coastal road open to humanitarian aid deliveries’ state says

By Jeremy Sharon

Live updates (closed)

May 30: Hardening stance, Hamas says it won’t negotiate unless IDF halts fighting

By Joshua Davidovich, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

IDF says it demolished Hamas tunnel network in Jabaliya from which bodies of 7 hostages were recovered * Gazan traders allowed to purchase food from Israel, West Bank for 1st time since Oct. 7

8:57 pm

Jury reaches decision in Trump hush money trial, will announce verdict shortly
8:41 pm

Biden lifts restrictions on Ukraine using US weapons to strike Russian targets
7:56 pm

Slovak prime minister discharged from hospital two weeks after assassination attempt

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and war cabinet minister Benny Gantz at a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

For first time in a year, poll shows Netanyahu preferred to Gantz as prime minister

TV survey finds PM’s Likud party gaining on his centrist rival’s National Unity, which also stands to lose most from a possible new alliance of PM’s former right-wing partners

War cabinet observer, Minister Gadi Eisenkot, speaks at the annual Meir Dagan conference at Netanya Academic College, May 29, 2024. (Courtesy)

Eisenkot: Israel needs elections this year; Netanyahu government must be replaced

Promoted EssaySources Journal: Spring 2024

Judaism and Nature

At times, we may feel ourselves at one with Nature… but then we pack up, go home, and return to our day jobs. But who is this “we” who encounters Nature?

Resident of the central Israeli town Bat Hefer protest for improved security measures along the security fence on May 29, 2024, after Hamas terrorists fired at the town from Tulkarem in the West Bank. (Shahar Yaari/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'I wish I could magically transport my house away'

Residents near security barrier protest ‘abandonment’ amid Hamas gunfire from West Bank

By Canaan Lidor

A Palestinian border breach and regular shootings at Emek Hefer towns since October 7 force a new wartime reality and fears of mass incursions

Op-ed: Day 237 of the war

503 Israelis give Netanyahu reason to believe he can retain power, despite October 7

For the first time in more than a year, Netanyahu is again voters’ preferred PM, according to a snap survey. You can be certain that he takes it seriously. Here’s why we all should

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at the party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem early on November 2, 2022, with his wife Sara at his side, as votes are counted in the general elections. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Screen capture from video of a chart broadcast by Channel 14 alleging a tie between voting patterns and victimhood during the Hamas attack on Israel, May 29, 2024. (Channel 13)

Channel 14 report asserts being left-wing increased likelihood of being killed on Oct. 7

Outrage as pro-Netanyahu network asks if right-wing towns’ security teams were more effective at saving residents while examining ‘research’ on ‘Does political stance save lives?’

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

Accused of advocating wartime IDF refusal, new Labor party head slams ‘manipulation’

How anti-Zionists conquered the field of international law

As law journal gatekeepers, second-year law students have quietly decimated a profession that the world needs now more than ever

Israel’s leadership at a crossroads

The coming weeks offer a stark choice: broker a hostage deal and normalize ties with Saudi Arabia or jeopardize Israel’s future

David J. Michaels

Targeting ‘Israelites,’ archbishop doesn’t promote peace

The Catholic leader in San Antonio has posted a barrage of tweets denouncing Israel’s acts of self-defense as akin to Nazism

Drafting Haredim is now an existential issue

Before October 7, we thought the IDF could be a ’small and smart army,’ but reality has cruelly slapped us in the face

This composite image shows Staff Sgt. Diego Shvisha Harsaj and Staff Sgt. Eliya Hilel the Kfir Brigade's Nahshon Battalion, who were killed in a car-ramming attack outside the West Bank city of Nablus on May 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two soldiers killed in car-ramming attack outside West Bank city of Nablus

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops named as Staff Sgt. Eliya Hilel, 20, from Tel Zion, and Staff Sgt. Diego Shvisha Harsaj, 20, from Tel Aviv; reports say suspect turned himself over to PA’s security forces

Israel Defense Forces operations in Nablus following October 7, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 30: Day 237 – ToI reports back from inside Nablus and the Gaza Strip

Rawa Majid, a Kurdish-Swedish criminal at the head of the Foxtrot crime ring, which Israel accuses of being behind Iran-backed attempts to attack Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe, May 2024.

Mossad: Iran-backed criminal networks behind attacks on Israeli embassies in Europe

By Lazar Berman

Swedish intelligence agency confirms that Tehran is using local organizations — including the Foxtrot and Rumba crime rings — to attack Israeli and Jewish targets

Illustrative: People watch as smoke rises at the site of a rocket strike from Lebanon on the Golan Heights on May 17, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Cruise missile, apparently fired from Iraq, shot down over northern Israel – IDF

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in meeting a group of families of the Revolutionary Guard members in Tehran, Iran, May 19, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Using antisemitic trope, Khamenei welcomes US student protesters to ‘Resistance Front’

Iran’s supreme leader says campus demonstrators are part of Iranian alliance that includes terror groups; accuses US of ‘police brutality’ and asserts Jews control global media

Screen capture from video of the UN Security Council observing a minute of silence over the death in a helicopter crash of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, May 20, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US to boycott United Nations meeting paying tribute to Iran’s Raisi

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Iranian elections headquarters staff work to register candidates for the June 28 presidential elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran opens registration for presidential elections following Raisi’s death

By Jon Gambrell and Amir Vahdat

People taking part in last year's pride parade in Jerusalem, June 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem Pride Parade takes place with hostage families leading the march

Event promoted with image of fallen soldier Sagi Golan, who became symbol of LGBTQ community when he was killed on Oct. 7 days before his wedding; his fiancé set to deliver address

Einav Zangauker holds a sign identifying her son Matan (24), one of the hostages taken captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during the October 7 massacre, as she stands on the roof of a car during a demonstration by hostages' relatives and supporters in Tel Aviv on May 6, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

Hostage mother Einav Zangauker wins New Israel Fund award for courageous leadership

By Jessica Steinberg

Analysis

Israel watches as South Africa’s hostile ANC set to lose support but remain in power

As 27 million head to polls, frustrated voters likely to punish African National Congress for corruption, but opposition has scant chance of ousting longtime rulers

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, wearing a keffiyah scarf, speaks before an exhibition football match between Western Cape XI and the Palestinian national football team at Athlone Stadium in Athlone, near Cape Town, on February 11, 2024. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during a ministerial meeting at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 13, 2024. (Evaristo Sa / AFP)

Brazil said to withdraw ambassador from Israel, no plans to appoint new envoy

By AFP, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacts to questions by the media during a joint press conference with Moldova's President Maia Sandu at the Moldovan Presidency in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, Pool)

Blinken: In the absence of Israeli plan for day after, there won’t be a day after

US secretary says Rafah strike highlights how even targeted raids can have horrific results and that incremental gains from such ops are being lost without a post-war strategy

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

Top Israeli official says fighting in Gaza likely to last at least another 7 months

Illustrative: US airmen perform a final check of the stowed twin wings on four ground-training Guided Bomb Unit-39 small-diameter bombs loaded on an F-15E Strike Eagle at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, on Aug. 1, 2006 (US Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Lance Cheung) .

Reports: In Rafah strike, IDF used US bombs designed to reduce casualties

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

An AI-generated image created by Israeli Instagram user Benjamin Jamon on May 28, 2024, to counter the pro-Palestinian 'All eyes on Rafah' campaign that had gone viral on social media. Jamon's account briefly banned and his campaign removed.

Instagram briefly removes viral Israeli response to ‘All eyes on Rafah’ campaign

Meta says ‘technical issue’ led to removal of AI-generated ‘Where were your eyes on October 7’ image showing Hamas gunman towering over red-headed effigy of hostage Kfir Bibas

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

Some Israeli diplomats reportedly lament FM’s ‘weird’ social media trolling

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits the IDF's Northern Command, May 29, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant warns Nasrallah: Lebanon will pay the price for reality you’ve created

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister presents photos of 9 senior Hezbollah commanders IDF has killed, countering terror group’s denial that Israel is taking out its leadership

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a televised speech at the end of the mourning period after the death of his mother, Beirut, May 28, 2024 (Screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law )

In eulogy for his mother, Nasrallah says Rafah deaths will ‘hasten Israel’s demise’

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Screen capture from video purportedly showing smoke trains for Syrian air defense missiles, May 29, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Syria reports young girl killed, 10 other people hurt in alleged Israeli strikes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

From left: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Kai Hoss and Hans Jurgen Hoss meet at Anita's apartment in 'The Commandant's Shadow.' (Courtesy Warner Bros. Presents)

'You need to see both sides to tell a complete story'

True-life ‘Zone of Interest’: In documentary, Auschwitz head’s descendants meet survivor

By Rich Tenorio

‘The Commandant’s Shadow,’ out in US theaters this week, looks at coming to terms with the past from the perspective of victims as well as the family of notorious Nazi Rudolf Höss

Passengers at the departure hall in the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on April 14, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

El Al posts record profit as foreign carriers stay away and public pays sky-high fares

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel’s flag carrier gains from being the only airline flying in and out of Tel Aviv on many routes as foreign carriers are sluggish to resume services amid Gaza war tensions

Wolt couriers in downtown Jerusalem, October 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Delivery company Wolt suspected of tax fraud worth NIS 33.5 million

Democratic Senator Jon Fetterman of Pennsylvania, center, with Yeshiva University leadership, ahead of the university's commencement ceremony in Queens, May 29, 2024. (Luke Tress via JTA)

At Yeshiva University commencement, John Fetterman disavows his alma mater Harvard

US senator, who has been one of the most vocal pro-Israel Democrats since October 7, takes off red stole to protest Harvard’s ‘inability to stand up for the Jewish community’

File: A passerby walks through a gate to the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2, 2024. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)

After controversy over Israel-Hamas war, Harvard to stop issuing any such statements

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: An NYU Langone Health ambulance in New York City, March 26, 2020. (Cindy Ord / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)

NYC nurse fired after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’ in award acceptance speech

By AP

Frank London, standing, works with a team of musicians at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, New York, May 22, 2024. (Aaron Bendich via JTA)

'It’s a gift to me as I go into this next phase'

Klezmer legend Frank London gears up to fight for his life. But first, one more show

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A May 22 all-star recording session sought to make contemporary classics of seven new Jewish tunes as the acclaimed musician began grueling cancer treatments

Salt formations and sinkholes at the Dead Sea, southern Israel, May 2, 2023. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Environment Ministry unveils old-new plan to slow demise of Dead Sea

Subject to Israeli and Jordanian approval, project would desalinate Mediterranean seawater using hydroelectricity, sell drinking water to Jordan and channel brine to Dead Sea

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Israelis protest against UNRWA outside its offices in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Israel Land Authority tells UNRWA to evacuate Jerusalem premises for breaching lease

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, May 29, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu ‘surprised, disappointed’ by US refusal to sanction ICC over warrants

A crane loads food aid for Gaza onto the container ship Sagamore docked at Larnaca port, Cyprus, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Gaza aid shipped from Cyprus to be held in floating storage as US pier is repaired

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the arrival of a DHL freight plane transporting the first batch of Pfizer vaccines at Ben Gurion Airport on December 9, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

State comptroller slams Netanyahu for sealing Pfizer COVID vaccine deal by himself

Composite image of the late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon against a backdrop of one of his diary pages, recovered and restored after the fatal 2003 explosion of the space shuttle Columbia. (courtesy NLI)

Cosmic communicationIlan Ramon’s space diary moved to National Library

By Gavriel Fiske

Book lovers unite at Jerusalem's Tmol Shilshom cafe, celebrating 30 years in June 2024 (Courtesy)

Read 'em and eatJerusalem book lovers’ cafe marks 30 years with Etgar Keret, others

By Jessica Steinberg

This picture taken from northern Israel shows smoke billowing during Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on May 25, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Lebanon reverses move to grant ICC jurisdiction to investigate alleged war crimes

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Toronto City Councillor James Pasternak speaks at a solidarity rally outside the Bais Chaya Mushka school, May 27, 2024. (Screenshot via X, @PasternakTO)

Toronto leaders rally at Jewish girls’ school attacked by gunmen on Shabbat

By JTA and ToI Staff

Matan Lior Mordechai (Courtesy)

Peak friendshipIsraeli summits Everest in memory of friend Matan Lior, killed Oct. 7

ISIS materials found at the house of an East Jerusalem resident suspected of planning a bombing attack in the capital, January 22, 2024. (Israel Police)

Palestinian arrested on suspicion of trying to join ISIS, carry out attack

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