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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 6, 2025

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A screenshot from social media said to show Israeli strikes on Sanaa International Airport and other targets in Yemen's Houth-controlled capital, May 6, 2025. (X screenshot)

Runways, aircraft, infrastructure hit; PM: A message to Iran

IDF ‘completely disables’ Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport in strikes on Yemen capital

By Emanuel Fabian

Fighter jets also target power stations, cement factory, 2 days after missile fired by Iran-backed group hit Ben Gurion Airport; 3 said killed; Houthis vow to hit back

A screen grab of footage purportedly shows Israeli strikes on Yemen's Houthi-held Hodeida area on May 5, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

20 Israeli fighter jets strike in Yemen after Houthi missile hits Ben Gurion Airport

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli reservist kissing his wife and child goodbye as he leaves for reserve duty in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 6: Day 578 – Israel strikes Yemen port in response to Houthis’ attacks

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answers questions about the Gaza war in a video posted on X on May 5, 2025. (Screenshot: X)

Netanyahu: IDF will hold captured areas in Gaza until Hamas defeated, hostages freed

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

PM says military will no longer withdraw from seized territory; IDF spokesman says new ‘wide-scale attack’ will move ‘majority’ of Gazan population to areas ‘sterile of Hamas’

Displaced Palestinians line up to receive a meal in the northern Gaza Strip, on May 5, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Hamas says no point in further Gaza truce talks if Israel continues ‘hunger war’

By AFP and ToI Staff

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)

Official: IDF to launch major Gaza op if no deal signed by end of Trump’s Mideast visit

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Israel's 2025 Eurovision contestant Yuval Raphael (Shai Franco/Tedy Productions)

Interview

After surviving Nova, Israel’s Eurovision hopeful is ready to ‘give my dreams a chance’

Yuval Raphael, who’ll represent Israel with ‘New Day Will Rise’ in Basel next week, adopts a carefully apolitical tone ahead of the highly charged contest: ‘I’m 100% focused on my song’

From our sponsorFuchsberg Jerusalem Center

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President Donald Trump speaks before Steve Witkoff is sworn as special envoy during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington, as Vice President JD Vance watches. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Live updates (closed)

May 6: Hailing Houthi truce, Trump says he’ll address Houthi strikes on Israel if they happen

Iran’s FM ‘disturbed’ by UK’s arrest of Iranian nationals on terror suspicions * Syria says Israeli strikes to be a key focus of Sharaa’s meeting in Paris with Macron

10:45 pm

Israeli envoy says official list of living hostages remains at 24 after Trump said it dropped to 21
9:51 pm

India fires missiles across the frontier with Pakistan, killing at least 1 child, officials say
9:46 pm

Asked about Houthi pledge to continue attacking Israel, Trump responds, 'I'll discuss that if something happens'

Tal Kuperstein, left, and Ora Rubinstein, father and aunt of hostage Bar Kuperstein on April 29, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

'I feel that he'll come home, if I speak'

Hostage’s father struggles to speak again in effort to bring his son home

By Jessica Steinberg

Tal Kuperstein, recovering from a stroke that followed a serious car accident, is pushing himself to do everything he can to get his captive son Bar freed from Gaza

Analysis

Against core principles, Israel is leaning on reservists to fight its forever war

From the country’s early days, leaders recognized that conflicts had to be short. The government is expanding the fight in Gaza and the north, while letting Haredim avoid the draft

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)

US special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff speaks at an Israeli Embassy in Washington event marking Independence Day, May 5, 2025 (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Witkoff urges Israelis to ‘choose unity over division’ on ‘bittersweet’ Independence Day

Addressing Israeli embassy event, Trump envoy expresses support for ‘aid initiatives underway’ in Gaza, promises announcement on expansion of Abraham Accords ‘very shortly’

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump: We’ll help ‘starving’ Gazans get food, but Hamas ‘making it impossible’

By Jacob Magid, Sam Sokol and AFP

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after speaking to the press in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 16, 2017. (AFP/ Saul Loeb/ File)

Trump, Erdogan discuss Gaza, Syria in ‘good and productive’ phone conversation

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, May 4, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Foreign airlines extend suspension of Israel flights day after Houthi missile hit airport

By Sharon Wrobel

United, Lufthansa, Wizz Air lengthen cancellations after projectile struck inside Ben Gurion Airport grounds; El Al announces price caps on one-way tickets to aid stranded travelers

Debra Weiner-Solomont

The day everything changed: Pain, healing, hope

Our son appears fine on the outside. But the truth is more complicated. His wounds are internal — both physical and emotional

The right to alternative narratives, even unpopular ones

On the storming of a Ra’anana synagogue: Israel must be willing and able to give people space to challenge accepted paradigms

Authors say Gaza ministry's own figures show Hamas is lying

Hamas fatality figures for Gaza war are ‘clear disinformation,’ according to new study

By Jeremy Sharon

In contast to Hamas claims, paper finds female and child fatalities are underrepresented relative to their proportion of the Strip’s general population, demonstrating IDF efforts to avoid civilian casualties

Troops of the IDF's Golani Brigade are seen operating in the Morag Corridor area of the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the military on April 17, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha speaks to online news show 'Democracy Now!' about Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, January 22, 2024. (Screen capture: Youtube/Democracy Now! used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer for Gaza war essays

By AFP and ToI Staff

Heritage Amichay Eliyahu speaks during a protest against the hostage deal with Hamas, in Jerusalem, January 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Far-right minister says Israel should bomb humanitarian aid, ‘starve’ Gazans

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu – who previously urged considering nuclear strike on Strip – says the civilian population in Gaza is complicit and should suffer to pressure Hamas

People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025. (AFP)

International Court of Justice throws out Sudan genocide case against UAE

By AFP and ToI Staff

People drive on a street past portraits of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and buildings damaged in Israeli strikes in the recent war, amid the first round of municipal elections, in the Ghobeiry neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburb on May 4, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

IDF targets Hezbollah weapons manufacturing, storage site in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel says Iran-backed terror group was trying to restore the facility, which had been targeted before; IDF also struck Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon’s Srifa, it says

Illustrative: Israeli security forces demolish buildings in Khalet Al-Dab, in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the West Bank, May 5, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Military demolishes most of West Bank Bedouin hamlet, displacing dozens

By AP and ToI Staff

COGAT says buildings were illegally built in closed firing zone; Palestinian ‘No Other Land’ director accuses Israel of ‘erasing village to create more and more illegal settlements’

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people, outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

US administration says no new grants for Harvard until White House demands addressed

By AP and ToI Staff

Education Department official accuses university of ‘serious failures’ in four areas, including antisemitism, after head of school acknowledged ‘kernel of truth’ to criticism on matter

Kehlani (center) at the 2024 WeHo Pride Parade on June 2, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images/AFP)

Anti-Israel singer Kehlani has NYC concert nixed after pressure from mayor’s office

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Michigan AG suggests Jewish group caused her to drop charges against anti-Israel protesters

Left to right: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on May 4, 2025. (GPO); Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during a visit in Islamabad on May 5, 2025 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan/AFP); US President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 4, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP)

Stirring Trump-Netanyahu pot, Iranian FM says Israel ‘meddling’ in US policy

By ToI Staff and AFP

Using US president’s dramatic social media style, Araghchi says PM trying to ‘brazenly DICTATE’ what US can do, with ‘Netanyahu-First’ American officials trying to tank nuclear deal

The flags of the US and Iran hang on the road leading to the Muscat International Book fair on April 25, 2025. (Haitham al-Shukairi/AFP)

Next round of Iran-US nuclear talks likely to be held in Oman this weekend

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Vehicles drive past an anti-Israel banner showing numerous locations in Israel as a Yemeni dagger (jambiya) with writing in Farsi reading: "All targets are within range, Yemeni missiles for now!" and in Hebrew "All targets are within reach, we will choose," in Tehran, Iran, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ExplainerIran maintains tough rhetoric on Israel and US, even while seeking nuclear deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Then-Knesset Finance Committee chair Moshe Gafni (3rd from left) and other ultra-Orthodox lawmakers pictured in the Knesset as the 2025 state budget law is passed, March 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Haredi parties to boycott government votes over failure to pass IDF exemption law

Ultra-Orthodox MK warns that if legislation doesn’t pass during current Knesset session, ‘we will have a very big problem sitting in such a government’

Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen in the Knesset, January 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu said seeking to give ‘unemployed’ deputy minister role in forming AI policy

Likud MK Ariel Kallner speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, May 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Lawmakers debate controversial 80% tax bill on foreign government donations to NGOs

More Headlines

Anti-government protesters clash with police outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Violence erupts near Knesset as police forcibly disperse anti-government protesters

Eyal Yaffe arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, March 29, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-government activist indicted for indecent act against police officer at protest

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

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

Hundreds of schools, kindergartens stay shut as teachers continue unofficial strike

Friedrich Merz reacts after he was not elected new chancellor in the first voting process at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Friedrich Merz’s bid to be German chancellor fails in parliament in stunning defeat

By STEFANIE DAZIO and Kirsten Grieshaber

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

Award-winning German director Wim Wenders revisits the French school in Reims where WWII ended, in the short film 'The Keys to Freedom,' released May 5, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)

Award-winning German filmmaker Wim Wenders shoots documentary at Nazi surrender site

By AFP

Illustrative: Police stand guard outside the Iranian embassy after a small group of protesters threw paint at the building in London, September 25, 2022. (AP/ Alastair Grant)

UK police extend arrest warrants for Iranian nationals held in terror probe

By AFP and ToI Staff

Founder and CEO of Barstool Sports Dave Portnoy is seen before the Loyola (Il) Ramblers and Florida Atlantic Owls game in the Barstool Sports Invitational at Wintrust Arena on November 8, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images/AFP)

Dave Portnoy retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in ‘F*** the Jews’ sign incident

By AP

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