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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (not in picture) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP)

Deal said aimed at bolstering Iran nuclear talks

Trump announces US truce with Houthis, who say their strikes on Israel will continue

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

President says rebel group agreed to cease attacks on US vessels, in what Omani mediator says will ensure Red Sea freedom of navigation; Israel caught off guard by announcement

US President Donald Trump waiting to greet Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the West Wing of the White House, in Washington, May 6, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Reports: Iran pressed Houthis into truce with US to build ‘momentum’ in nuclear talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Family members and representatives of the 59 remaining hostages stand in front of the Knesset on May 5, 2025, to state that the Israeli public agrees that victory cannot be achieved without returning the hostages (Courtesy Hostages Family Forum)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 7: Day 579 – Trump cuts deal with Houthis, leaving Israel out in cold

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza hold a press conference in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Unbearable’ dread: Hostages’ families demand answers after Trump says only 21 alive

‘What does Trump know that we do not?’ demands Alon Nimrodi, whose son is still in Gaza, as Israel maintains official number of living captives in Gaza still 24

US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Assistant to the President, Senior Adviser and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff after Witkoff's swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump says three hostages have died, only 21 now living; Israel: Figure remains at 24

Captivity survivor Dafna Elyakim speaks at the Civil Advocacy Center's TEEN SPIRIT conference, on May 6, 2025. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Teen ex-hostage says Hamas captor would touch her, tell her he wanted to marry her

Op-ed: Day 579 of the war

His first term was remarkable for Israel from the start. What is Trump up to this time?

Direct talks with Hamas, confused dealings with Iran, an unworkable vision for Gaza and now an agreement with the Houthis, all uncoordinated with Netanyahu. Without evident influence, Israel can only hope there is much yet to be revealed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Donald Trump (R) speak during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on February 4, 2025. (The White House, via Wikipedia)

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May 7: Trump says there’s ‘a lot of talk’ about Gaza, ‘you’ll be knowing more in next 24 hours’

Several wounded in two separate West Bank attacks, manhunt underway * Vance says US-Iran nuclear talks on the ‘right pathway’ * 1 killed, 10 wounded as boat capsizes near Eilat

8:44 pm

Witkoff wraps up briefing to UN Security Council ambassadors, meets Danon
8:32 pm

Trump: Options on Iran's centrifuges are 'blow them up nicely or blow them up viciously'
8:21 pm

Report: Arrested Iranian nationals were planning attack on Israeli Embassy in London

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. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says he’s not planning to stop in Israel on next week’s Mideast trip

US president says he’ll visit Jewish state ‘at some point,’ teases ‘very, very, very big announcement’ that will be made before he leaves for trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE

Iran's first drone-carrier warship in the Persian Gulf, February 6, 2025. (Sepahnews via AP)

Trump plans to rename Persian Gulf, officials say

Smotrich says Gaza to be ‘totally destroyed,’ population ‘concentrated’ in small area

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Ultranationalist minister says population will be ‘totally despairing’ and want to leave the Strip, also predicts West Bank will be annexed before end of government’s term

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

National Unity chief MK Benny Gantz speaks at the 'Settltments Conference' organized by National Religious newspaper Makor Rishon in the West Bank settltment of Ofra, May 6, 2025. (Screen capture: Makor Rishon)

Gantz says Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 was a ‘mistake’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Raina Greenfest

The day I dodged a ballistic missile

We’d just landed when something streaked from the sky. It slammed into the ground, 300 yards away, and a giant splash of brownish-red earth exploded upward like a volcano

Steven Greenberg

Shut down Yeshiva University over a gay club on campus?

When YU leadership maligns these young men, it shows how poorly it understands their own students, their commitment to Torah, and their need for support

Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on May 4, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Airlines further extend pauses on Israel flights, in sign they may stay away longer

By Sharon Wrobel

Most carriers suspending their Tel Aviv route for days, with British Airways halting service until mid-June, after missile from Yemen landed inside grounds of Ben Gurion Airport

Houthis, assessing $500 million damage from Israeli strikes on airport, vow response

By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

Truce agreement with US won’t halt missile, drone attacks on Israel, vow Iran-backed Yemen rebels; IAF intercepts drone launched ‘from the east’

A Houthi rebel walks next to a destroyed plane at Sanaa International Airport on May 7, 2025, a day after Israeli warplanes struck Yemen's terror group-held capital Sanaa. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Indian soldiers walk along a street in Wuyan near Indian-administered Kashmir's main city of Srinagar after a loud explosion was heard on May 7, 2025. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)

India strikes Pakistan after tourist attack; Islamabad vows to ‘settle the score’

Pakistan says it shot down five Indian fighter jets, reports 26 civilians killed by missile strikes, as India accuses Pakistani troops of ‘arbitrary firing’ across Kashmir frontier

Reporter's notebook

Charlie Summers

Left in ashes by wind-whipped inferno, Canada Park grapples with near-total devastation

70% of the reserve was torched in last week’s Jerusalem-area fires, laying waste to hiking and cycling trails, but forester Nitai Zakharia says park will be back, even if it takes decades

A CSS volunteer stands guard outside a synagogue during a security training drill, in Westchester County, New York, April 28, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Exclusive'I'm part of a big family and I'm protecting that family'

In first, US Jewish security outfit opens boot camp for volunteer synagogue guards

New Community Security Service facility drills trainees in surveillance, intel, threat response and Krav Maga, as Jews build out defense array to counter antisemitic threats

People transport their belongings along the Al-Rashid road linking northern and southern Gaza, April 2, 2025. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Almost half of Gaza Palestinians willing to ask Israel to help them leave — poll

Ramallah think tank finds majorities in Gaza and West Bank oppose Hamas disarmament, unconvinced Israel will withdraw if demands met; 87% deny Hamas committed ‘the atrocities seen in videos’ from Oct. 7

Women from Mishmeret 101 take part in a silent sit-in at the US Consulate building in Jerusalem to urge the government to complete all phases of the hostage deal to bring everyone home, February 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

US cuts separate reporting channel for its diplomats covering Palestinians

Lebanese army soldiers and rescue workers gather next to a damaged car after an Israeli strike, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, early Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Hamas, Hezbollah commanders killed in IDF strikes in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Explainer

Knesset summer session to focus on Haredi draft, efforts to curb public media

Bills under discussion would shutter Kan broadcaster, split the attorney general’s position into two, and impose 80% tax on foreign donations to nonprofits

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with the architects of the proposed judicial overhaul, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and MK Simcha Rothman (standing) in the Knesset on February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police during a protest against being drafted to the army, in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox incensed as IDF chief orders boost in community’s conscription

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a joint press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on May 7, 2025. (Stephanie Lecocq / POOL / AFP)

Syria confirms backchannel dialogue with Israel on security matters

By Nurit Yohanan, Reuters and ToI Staff

Syrian president says talks aimed at ‘easing tensions’; report says they began in mid-April, centered on building confidence between Damascus and Jerusalem

This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressing representatives and dignitaries of Syrian communities during the National Dialogue Conference called for by the country's new authorities in Damascus on February 25, 2025. (SANA/AFP)

Syrian leader to meet Macron in first European visit

By AFP and ToI Staff

Troops of the newly established 946th Air Defense Battalion pose in front of an air defense system in northern Israel, May 6, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Revived air defense battalion to aim new weapons at drone threat in north

By Emanuel Fabian

Yuval Raphael, winner of 'Rising Star' and Israel's 2025 Eurovision contestant, speaks to the media after her win in Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, January 22, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Dozens of former Eurovision participants call to bar Israel from 2025 competition

EBU director rejects letter, says contest promotes ‘inclusion through music,’ as Yuval Raphael holds her first rehearsal in Basel, Switzerland ahead of next week’s show

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

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa pan censorship after UK shows canceled

By Jessica Steinberg

Jacob Bardugo at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin and other Likud ministers accuse pro-Netanyahu commentator Bardugo of blackmail

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Jacob Bardugo denies accusation; Karhi and Zohar support justice minister, as firebrand Likud MK assails them for triggering calls to investigate premier’s confidant

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a tech conference in Ness Ziona, May 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bennett’s new party aims to ‘restore security to Israel,’ draft ultra-Orthodox

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during the Israel Information Technology Conference in Ness Ziona, May 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ex-PM Bennett, Ben Gvir deny report alleging exchange of ‘hush money’

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A few students go back to school in Tel Aviv following a country wide teachers strike over a cut in their wages, May 6, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Escalating nationwide strike, teachers threaten mass resignations over salary cuts

A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)

New documents shed light on ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele’s escape from Nazi Germany

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin cut a ribbon to unveil the Memorial Candle monument in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020 to commemorate the people of Leningrad during the Second World War Nazi siege on the city. (Amit SHABI / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu thanks Putin for helping secure release of Russian-Israeli hostages

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and AFP

Captain Alfred Dreyfus, second from right, speaks with General Gillain, center, after being awarded the Legion of honor award during a ceremony marking Dreyfus' rehabilitation, at Ecole Militaire in Paris, on July 21, 1906. (Photo by AFP)

French lawmakers want Dreyfus promoted, 130 years after treason scandal

By AFP

Israel’s NSO ordered to pay Meta $168 million for using WhatsApp to plant spyware

By Reuters and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) with Police Chief Commissioner Daniel Levy mark Memorial Day at Mount Herzl military cemetery on April 30, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Despite deal with AG, Ben Gvir denies ceding power over police promotions

By Charlie Summers

The national flag of the People's Islamic Republic of Iran flies outside its embassy in London, February 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Iran ‘disturbed’ by UK’s arrest of Iranians in two counter-terror raids

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Jeff Horing, co-founder and managing director of New York-based venture capital firm Insight Partners, (left), during a visit at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, on May 6, 2025. (Courtesy of Insight Partners)

On Israel visit, Wiz investor commits to back local entrepreneurs and startups

By Sharon Wrobel

Aliza Sherman, left, seen here in an undated photograph, was murdered in 2013. An arrest was made in the case in April 2025 (Facebook via JTA)

Divorce lawyer for Aliza Sherman, murdered in Ohio in 2013, arrested over her killing

By AP and ToI Staff

At the 2024 Fresh Paint art fair, which will be held May 21-26, 2025 (Courtesy)

Art powerBiggest art fair to take place in little-known Israel Electric compound

By Jessica Steinberg

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