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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 4, 2025

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Katz: 'Whoever harms us, we will strike them sevenfold'

Houthi missile hits grounds of Ben Gurion Airport after interception fails; 6 injured, none seriously

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Sam Sokol, Sharon Wrobel and Lazar Berman

First time Houthi fire has impacted at airport; IDF says it failed to intercept ballistic missile after several attempts; airport reopens after an hour, but most foreign airlines suspend flights

Smoke in the area of Ben Gurion Airport after a ballistic missile was fired at Israel from Yemen on May 4, 2025 (Screen grab from social media used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Most foreign airlines halt flights to Tel Aviv after Houthi missile hits airport

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli security forces at the site where a missile fired from Yemen hit an area near Ben Gurion Airport, May 4, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 4: Day 576 – Houthi missile hits Ben Gurion Airport

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Lazar Berman and Sue Surkes

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (right) and Navy chief Vice Adm. David Sa'ar Salama speak to commandos of Shayetet 13 at the Atlit base, May 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 4: IDF chief said warning Israel ‘could lose’ Gaza hostages if major Gaza op launched

Netanyahu said to privately express frustration with Trump’s policies on Iran, Turkey, Syria * IDF blames interceptor malfunction for Houthi missile impact at airport

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Israel, Cyprus plan to sign key energy agreements in 2025
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Far-right candidate leads Romania's presidential rerun
8:11 pm

PMO denies report it blocked bill to label Qatar a terrorist-supporting state

Troops of the 205th Reserve Armored Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on April 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF calls up tens of thousands of reservists ahead of expanded Gaza offensive

By Emanuel Fabian

Soldiers to show up in coming week; ministers set to vote on army’s plans in Sunday cabinet meeting, after premier authorized them over weekend

The Conscience, after a drone struck the vessel carrying aid to Gaza off the coast of Malta, May 2, 2025. (Government of Cyprus via AP)

Gaza flotilla organization accuses Malta of barring activists from drone-hit ship

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel Bonds May 6

Promoted WebinarIsrael Bonds

Invisible Wounds: PTSD Care for IDF Soldiers Virtual Event – May 6

Join us to discuss PTSD prevention and treatment for IDF soldiers. Learn about trauma care innovations and how we can support those who serve and protect Israel every day.

Staff Sgt. Cpt. Noam Ravid (L) and Yaly Seror (R), who were killed in a tunnel blast in Rafah, Gaza on May 3, 2025 (IDF)

Two IDF soldiers killed, two wounded in blast in booby-trapped Rafah tunnel

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

Slain Yahalom combat engineering troops named as Cpt. Noam Ravid, 23, from Sha’arei Tikva and Staff Sgt. Yaly Seror, 20, from Omer

Palestinians gather to receive a hot meal at a food distribution center in the Nuseirat camp for refugees, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 30, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

UN, aid groups hit out at Israeli plans for resuming Gaza aid distribution

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks during a ceremony at the eve of Memorial Day at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem, on April 29, 2025. Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari speaks on a panel at the Doha Forum in the Doha Sheraton Hotel in Doha, Qatar, on December 11, 2023. (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP; Noushad Thekkayil/Nur Photo via Reuters)

PM: Qatar ‘playing both sides’; Doha: He’s trying to justify crimes against civilians

Barbs come days after Qatar accused Israel of genocide during ICJ hearing; Doha spokesperson says Netanyahu’s portrayal of Gaza op as ‘defense of civilization’ echoes dark regimes

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Fires rage, sirens blare, a missile lands at the airport, it’s all too much. I take deep breaths, six seconds in, six seconds out

Israel, the Druze and Syria’s reign of lies

Damascus pretends to be moderate while inciting deadly violence against minorities and building a sectarian jihadist regime

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

In ‘massive failure,’ troops abandoned civilians at Zikim Beach on Oct. 7, IDF probe finds

17 civilians were murdered at the beach as soldiers retreated, with one soldier killed; army inquest says kibbutz civil defense squad blocked terrorists from invading community

Hamas terrorists arrive by speedboat at the Zikim beach on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)

Illustrative photo of an empty classroom at a school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Some schools open after judge cuts teachers’ strike short by an hour

Labor court rejects government request for injunction to stop action, but thousands of staff call in sick, keeping many schools shut

Illustrative: Police officers in London, March 21, 2025. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

UK arrests 8, including 7 Iranians, over suspected terror plots

Arrests made in Swindon, west London, Stockport, Rochdale and Manchester; police don’t give further details, citing operational considerations

Dudu Tassa (left) and Jonny Greenwood in June 2024. (Shin Katan)

UK gigs by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Israeli singer Dudu Tassa canceled

(L-R:) Freed hostages Omer Shem Tov, Itay Regev, and Maya Regev address protesters at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, May 3, 2025. (Alon Gilboa/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

PM's new Gaza op will cause hostages' deaths, mother charges

‘We’re free in body, but not spirit’: Ex-hostages urge release of remaining captives

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Tens of thousands at rallies nationwide call for return of hostages and protest against government; slain hostage’s son says father’s remains are ‘being ransomed by Hamas and PM’

Singer-songwriter Idan Raichel on piano with released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen on April 29. 2025 (Screengrab: YouTube)

Children of hopeFreed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen sings with Idan Raichel

By Jessica Steinberg

Maxim Herkin was taken captive from the Supernova desert rave on October 7, 2023 by Hamas terrorists (Courtesy)

Hamas publishes new propaganda video of hostage Maxim Herkin

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

An Israeli military ambulance transporting injured Syrian Druze to an Israeli hospital crosses the border fence near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on April 30, 2025 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Israeli chopper ferried aid to Druze in southern Syria, 70 km from border — source

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF evacuates five more wounded Syrian Druze to hospital in Israel, amid deadly sectarian clashes; Israeli non-profit group says food packages also sent to Christian Syrians

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state memorial ceremony for fallen Israeli soldiers, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, April 30, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL); US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz during a television interview at the White House on May 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon); US President Donald Trump waves as he walks from the Oval Office to depart on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, May 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Waltz’s coordination with Netanyahu on Iran strike contributed to his firing – report

Washington Post quotes US officials saying that ousted security adviser pushed policy ‘in direction Trump wasn’t comfortable with’; PM’s office denies they had ‘intensive contact’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu postpones Azerbaijan visit scheduled for coming week

By Lazar Berman

Ex-hostage recalls ‘flashes’ from alleged rape by trainer who she says drugged her

In 1st interview since going public as plaintiff in case against well-known influencer, Mia Schem says suspect convinced her to host meeting by saying Hollywood producer would attend

Former hostage Mia Schem during an interview on Channel 12 news, May 3, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Holocaust survivor Ester Senot, 97, attends a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the return of death camp deportees, in Paris, France, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Death camp survivors recall horrors as France marks 80 years since Nazi surrender

By Sylvie Corbet

Ester Senot survived over a year at Auschwitz; when she returned to France weighing 32 kilograms, neighbors reacted with disbelief at her stories, said she was ‘talking nonsense’

The Nova music festival in southern Israel as seen in 'We Will Dance Again.' (Courtesy)

‘We Will Dance Again’ among the films, TV programs covering Gaza war to get Emmy nod

Up for awards next month are documentaries on Supernova festival massacre, hostages and plight of Gazans since October 7; documentary on Netanyahu graft cases also gets nomination

From the 'Eretz Nehederet' remake of Jimbo J's 'White Sail' for the satirical comedy show on May 1, 2025 (Courtesy)

Setting sail‘Eretz Nehederet’ makes poignant remake of Israeli rap song

By Jessica Steinberg

Rabbi Deborah Waxman speaks at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College graduation in Abingdon, Pennsylvania, May 19, 2024. (Courtesy Reconstructing Judaism via JTA)

Interview'I deeply believe institutions need to renew themselves'

Why Reconstructionist Judaism head Rabbi Deborah Waxman is stepping down after 13 years

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

After leading the progressive denomination for ‘almost a generation’ as it grappled with issues like interfaith relationships and anti-Zionism, she’s inviting in younger leadership

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, also known as the Victory Museum, at Poklonnaya Hill in western Moscow on April 30, 2025. (Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP)

Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Screen capture from video of a brawl between Arab Israeli tourists and hotel workers in the Egyptian resort town of Taba, August 30, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Egypt sentences two Israeli tourists to five years over hotel brawl

By Reuters and ToI Staff

President Isaac Herzog meets Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, May 4, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Herzog meets with Ecuador president ahead of opening of Jerusalem innovation office

By Nava Freiberg

Talal Naji (R), secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, speaks during a meeting of Palestinian faction leaders in Damascus, Syria, on October 11, 2023. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

PFLP-GC terror group says leader was arrested by Syrian authorities

By AFP and ToI Staff

This 2024 photo provided by Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani shows her and her fiance, Alireza Doroudi, who was detained by immigration officials in March 2025. (Alireza Doroudi via AP)

International students in Alabama fearful after researcher from Iran detained

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE

US President Donald Trump seen as the pope in an apparently AI-generated picture posted by the White House, May 3, 2025.

When in RomeTrump posts apparent AI image of himself in papal attire

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