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What Matters Most On Monday, May 5, 2025

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IDF troops operate in the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza City, in images released on May 3, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel okays ‘conquering Gaza, holding the territories,’ as IDF chief said to warn ‘we could lose’ the hostages

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Plan approved unanimously by ministers envisages gradually expanded military operation; implementation only after Trump visit to region next week; revamped aid delivery also okayed

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a Religious Zionism party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud minister: Goal is 'complete occupation' of the Strip

Smotrich: Israel should embrace Gaza ‘occupation’; IDF won’t leave even for hostages

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Hostage Families Forum says government ‘choosing territory over hostages’; opposition chiefs say occupying Gaza will ‘cost us in blood,’ soldiers being sent to die over politics

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released for publication on May 4, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 5: Day 577 – IDF prepares to conquer and occupy Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

An Israeli reserve soldier kissing goodbye to his child in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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May 5: Amid ‘difficult’ call-up of reservists, IDF says it needs everyone, ‘including Haredim,’ to mobilize

Military spokesman says combined goal of intensified Gaza op is to free hostages, defeat Hamas * Houthis report at least 21 injured in Israeli strikes on Bajil cement factory

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Houthis say they're undeterred by 'Zionist-American raids,' vow response
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Houthis say at least 21 injured in Israeli strikes on Bajil cement factory
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Netanyahu convenes new special committee focused on national AI strategy

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As aid embargo on Strip enters third month, hunger is stalking Gazans again

After a ceasefire shrank malnutrition figures, stores of assistance are now dwindling and food for sale — which may come from Hamas’s stolen hoards — is priced exorbitantly

Palestinians queue for a hot meal at a charity kitchen run by the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 26, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Hamas gunmen are seen with a Palestinian child at the handover event of Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, in central Gaza's Nuseirat, February 22, 2025. (Ali Hassan/ Flash90)

Hamas executes several looters who reportedly attacked food warehouses

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A member of staff enters an empty UNRWA aid distribution warehouse at al-Jalaa street in Gaza City on April 28, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

UN humanitarian agency rejects new Israeli plan for Gaza aid deliveries

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 1, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court, in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ POOL/ File)

Cabinet rejects state probe of Oct. 7; said set to legislate ‘special’ commission instead

By Jeremy Sharon

Attorney general tells government that state commission is best, stresses probe must have political independence; opposition says coalition continuing to shirk responsibility

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, in a composite image. (Flash90)

Government advances bill to strip attorney general of criminal prosecution powers

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fourth from right, addresses ministers at a special cabinet meeting in Nahariya, December 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Government approves controversial legislation regulating top officials’ salaries

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

Houthis eye 'aerial blockade'; Iran: We'll respond if bombed

Netanyahu threatens Houthis, and Iran, as cabinet convenes after missile hits airport

By Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

Premier endorses Trump post vowing to hold Iran responsible for ‘every shot fired’ by Yemen group, as IAF probe says ‘technical malfunction’ likely behind air-defense failure

Houthi supporters chant slogans during a weekly anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 18, 2025. Some of the placards bear the group's slogan "God is the greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, a Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam." (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Iran denies ordering Houthi attacks, as Yemen group reports wave of US airstrikes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses members of the Hajj pilgrimage committee in Tehran on May 4, 2025. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iran unveils new solid-fueled ballistic missile with 1,200-km range

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," aired May 4, 2025. (Screenshot / NBC)

Trump wants ‘total dismantlement’ of Iran nuke program, might allow civilian energy

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies

While US president first says he wants Tehran’s entire nuclear program fully done away with, he then tells interviewer that ‘the only thing they can’t have is a nuclear weapon’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an annual Memorial Day ceremony in Jerusalem on April 29, 2025. (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu says hostage deal was ‘about to materialize,’ but Qatar wouldn’t help

By Nava Freiberg and Lazar Berman

US President Donald Trump, left, greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Netanyahu privately voicing frustration with Trump’s Mideast policies — report

By Lazar Berman

US president says the right things on Iran and Syria but this is not reflected in his actions, PM reportedly complains; premier’s office doesn’t deny the report

Government report accuses West of bolstering antisemitism by criticizing Israel

Diaspora Ministry dubs Canada ‘champion of antisemitism,’ tying Trudeau’s condemnation of military action in Gaza to 670% spike in anti-Jewish incidents

Protesters hold signs reading "Boycott Israel, It worked with South-Africa" as they gather during a an anti-Israel demonstration, in front of the Foreign Affairs ministry in Madrid, on May 27, 2024. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

This handout photo taken and released by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on December 10, 2024, shows Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) visiting the torched Adass Israel Synagogue with Rabbi Shlomo Kohn in Melbourne on December 10, 2024. (Handout / DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)

Disappointed by Labor victory, Australia’s Jews hope for a new tack on hate crimes

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My cyber attacker was disarmingly ‘human’

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After 13 years as a combat soldier, now I sit at a desk. I blame my stomach

For soldiers at war, food is fuel, but the army has failed to accommodate my celiac, so I’m stepping back. I’m not happy about it

Soldiers wave as they hold an Israeli flag on top of a tank near the border with Lebanon, October 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Inside story'This was the only thing in the world that made sense to me'

They came to serve: The lone soldiers defending Israel after Oct. 7

By Stav Levaton

More than 1,100 new immigrants join the IDF this spring as antisemitism abroad and the trauma of the Hamas onslaught drive a new generation to enlist

Leader of nationalist sovereign party 'Alliance for the Union of Romanians' George Simion (R) casts his ballot next to former candidate Calin Georgescu during the first round of the presidential election in Mogosoaia on May 4, 2025 (Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP)

Far-right figure tops Romania presidential rerun, to face pro-EU candidate in runoff

Nationalist AUR party’s George Simion, who often dons MAGA hat, comes in first, with Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan narrowly taking distant second, after previous vote annulled

Supporters of the far-right AfD party at an election campaign rally in Suhl, Germany, August 13, 2024. (Markus Schreiber/AP).

AfD files lawsuit against German spy agency’s extremist classification

Nigel Farage, Reform UK party leader, speaks with the press during the Runcorn by-election on May 2, 2025. (Oli Scarff / AFP)

UK hard right sets sights high after local election triumphs

By Marie Heuclin

View of a massive wildfire near Latrun, outside of Jerusalem, April 30, 2025. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Officials bemoan lack of a unified command to combat fires

Fire authority needs ‘double the budget’ to cope during era of mega-fires — official

Head of National Fire and Rescue Authority’s Fire Research Branch: ‘What would happen in case of simultaneous fire events countrywide?’

People wait on the blocked Highway 90 in the Negev Desert, after it was flooded due to heavy rains on May 4, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Heavy rains flood parts of southern Israel, leading to closures on major roads

Tourists visit the site of al-Khazneh (Arabic for treasury), in the ruins of the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southern Jordan on September 28, 2022. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP)

Jordan evacuates some 1,800 tourists from Petra after flooding hits

By AFP

Sara Netanyahu at a hearing at the Labor Court in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘Crude lies’: Sara Netanyahu testifies in former employee’s abuse lawsuit

Cleaning staff member Sylvie Genesia is suing PM’s wife for NIS 650,000 over alleged abuse at PM’s residence; defendant says she is regularly extorted

Dave Portnoy (R), founder of Barstool Sports, rages in a video posted online responding to a 'F*** the Jews' sign (L) displayed at a bar he owns in Philadelphia, on May 4, 2025. (Screen captures via X)

Students behind ‘F*** the Jews’ sign at Dave Portnoy’s bar to go on Auschwitz tour

Two waitresses fired and a Temple University student suspended as Jewish founder of Barstool Sports rages over antisemitic incident in his Philadelphia establishment

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Opposition Yair Lapid at a press conference in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2025. (Yesh Atid)

Lapid: AG must take ‘decisive action’ against Haredi draft evasion organizations

Flyers urging the release of hostages held by Hamas placed on the seats at a synagogue in Herzliya, September 13, 2024 (Detainee Support Organization)

3 women sue police for arresting them over hostage flyers at Edelstein’s synagogue

View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a strike, on May 4, 2025 (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Teachers Union, treasury announce deal, but tens of thousands still planning to strike

Two participants kiss while holding a pride rainbow flag with a Star of David in Tel Aviv on June 6, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Global LGBTQ group says it’ll lift suspension of Israeli member organization after year

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)

Malta offers to repair Gaza blockade-busting ship after alleged drone strike

By Agencies and ToI Staff

From left, cardinals Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, Anthony Poola, Charles Maung Bo and Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij leave the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Inside storyCardinals huddle at Rome dinner parties, Vatican meetings ahead of papal conclave

By Nicole Winfield

Israeli midfielder Manor Solomon of Leeds United has a shot at goal during the Championship match between Plymouth Argyle and Leeds United on May 3, 2025, Home Park, Plymouth, Devon. (IMAGO/PPAUK via Reuters Connect)

Wisdom of SolomonIsrael’s Solomon seals team’s dream return to England top league

Moroccans protest the docking of a Maersk cargo ship carrying airplane parts they suspect are headed to Israel, outside Tangier Med Port on April 20, 2025. Banner in Arabic reads "Stop shipping weapons to the terrorist Zionist entity." (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Morocco anti-Israel activists set sights on ports, alleging arms en route to Israel

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In this image released by the US Department of Defense, German soldiers fire the Patriot weapons system at the NATO Missile Firing Installation, in Chania, Greece, on November 8, 2017. (Sebastian Apel/US Department of Defense, via AP, File)

Patriot air-defense system based in Israel to be refurbished, sent to Ukraine – NYT

Fans cheer as they watch Lady Gaga's free concert on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Brazilian police arrest two over alleged bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga concert

By AP

US President Donald Trump waves as he arrives on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 4, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP)

Trump orders ‘100% tariff’ on movies made outside US

By AFP

Fog lingers behind Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, July 1, 2015,. (Eric Risberg/AP)

Trump says he will reopen notorious Alcatraz prison, ‘symbol of law and order’

By Jill Colvin and Michael R. Sisak

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