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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 8, 2025

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78 arrested; 2 campus officers wounded

Columbia University calls in police after anti-Israel activists invade library

Demonstrators call for an ‘intifada revolution,’ disrupting studies before finals week, as the Ivy league school grapples with pressure from Trump administration

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather near a main gate at Columbia University in New York, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

US charges man for assaulting Jews in NYC, including Columbia students

Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College, testifies before the House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing on antisemitism on American campuses onCapitol Hill in Washington, May 7, 2025. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

GOP lawmakers berate Haverford College chief for silence on antisemitism discipline

By AP and ToI Staff

Ex-hostage Damari decries Pulitzer given to Gazan writer who legitimized their abduction

Emily Damari lashes out at prize committee for bestowing honor on Mosab Abu Toha, who called captives ‘killers’ and cast doubt on Bibas children’s murder in social media rants

A sign with the poem "What A Gazan Should Do During An Israeli Air Strike," by Mosab Abu Toha (inset) is seen at the University of California, Berkeley, pro-Palestinian student encampment, May 4, 2024. (Jay L. Clendenin/Getty Images via JTA)

US President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One prior to departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on May 1, 2025 (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump: Iran’s centrifuges will either ‘blow up nicely’ in a deal or ‘viciously’ without one

But hours earlier, US president told reporters he hasn’t decided whether he’ll allow Iran to have a limited enrichment program, and nodded at Houthi ‘bravery’ for weathering US strikes

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a discussion at the Munich Leaders meeting hosted by the Munich Security Conference at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, May 7, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

US Vice President Vance says Iran nuclear talks on ‘right pathway’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police officers guard a barrier close to the Israeli embassy, the destination for a National March for Palestine in central London on February 17, 2024. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

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

By Nava Freiberg

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Analysis

Trump ditched Israel with surprise Houthi truce. That doesn’t bode well on Iran

Days after Yemeni group caused untold economic damage by hitting Ben Gurion Airport, the US president blindsided his allies; this has no doubt unsettled Jerusalem amid nuclear talks

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)

Damage and debris at Sanaa International Airport on May 7, 2025, (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Katz threatens Houthis, Iran with ‘heavy blows’ as Israel grapples with US truce fallout

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tamir Nimrodi was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, from his army base near Erez Crossing. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

May 8: Mother of Tamir Nimrodi says he’s one of the hostages who may no longer be alive

Chicago’s Robert Prevost named as Pope Leo XIV, first American pontiff; his first words: ‘Peace be with you’ * Arab countries pushing Hamas to accept hostage deal to stall IDF offensive in Gaza, official says

8:16 pm

PM congratulates new pope, wishes him 'success in fostering hope and reconciliation among all faiths'
7:34 pm

Appeals court overturns decision to release top Netanyahu aide from police custody
7:24 pm

IDF suspends reservist from combat duty over video calling to blow up Al-Aqsa Mosque

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

IDF Gaza op plan said to list hostages as least important goal

Netanyahu says 21 hostages are definitely alive, but there is ‘doubt’ about 3 others

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

PM’s remarks come after comments by wife Sara as well as Trump contradicted official Israeli estimate of 24 living captives remaining in Gaza

Blood and scattered objects cover the floor of Gaza City's Thai restaurant following an Israeli strike on May 7, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Hamas-run authorities say at least 48 killed in series of IDF strikes in Gaza

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Ruhama Bohbot, mother of hostage Elkana Bohbot, poses for a portrait at home in Mevaseret Zion, Israel, May 7, 2025. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Mother of hostage Elkana Bohbot fumes over mixed signals on how many captives dead

By Melanie Lidman

Palestinians living around their tents in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 7, 2025.(Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Leading agency shuts its Gaza soup kitchens amid continued Israeli aid ban

By AP and ToI Staff

US-based World Central Kitchen, which was serving 133,000 meals a day and baking 80,000 loaves of bread, says Israel’s blockade of Strip means there is no food left

Palestinian schoolgirls leave a UNRWA school in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on May 8, 2025, as Israeli security forces prepared to close the school. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Israel shutters UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem, in line with ban on aid agency

By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Soldiers stand near an Israeli army mobile canon at a position by Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, on May 6, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 8: Day 580 – IDF poised to begin phase two of its plan to defeat Hamas

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

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Abortion, #FreePalestine & Hannah Einbinder

Slogans claiming solidarity with oppressed women by pushing a false narrative are worse than just annoying

Containment, not conquest: The Morag Corridor and the war over meaning

In the war of narratives, Israel’s enemies traffic in symbols, erasing Israeli strategy

Palestinians sift through debris following an Israeli strike in the Bureij refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, May 7, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Inside story

US pressuring humanitarian groups to get behind Israeli aid plan for Gaza

Trump administration indicating to organizations, such as World Food Program, that their US funding could be slashed if they don’t take part in initiative that is opposed by UN

Palestinians try to receive a hot meal prepared by volunteers, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 6, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Witkoff briefs UN Security Council envoys on Israel’s Gaza aid plans

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

Security forces at the scene of a shooting attack near the Reihan checkpoint in the northern West Bank, May 7, 2025. (Courtesy)

3 soldiers wounded, 2 seriously, in West Bank attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Two reservists come under fire close to Reihan checkpoint; moments later, Palestinian rams car and stabs soldiers near Hebron

Study: 12% of reserve soldiers report PTSD symptoms after Gaza combat service

By Diana Bletter

Reporter's notebook

3 months into major Jenin operation, IDF signals gains as residents face ruin

With over 100 terror operatives killed and hundreds arrested, Israel claims campaign improving security, as much of Jenin refugee camp remains decimated

A Border Police officer enters an armored vehicle in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, April 7, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

Elana Kaminka, mother of Lt. Yannai Kaminka, who fell on October 7, 2023, saving lives at the Zikim IDF base. (courtesy)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to bereaved mother Elana Kaminka: End the Gaza ‘forever war’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Peace activist tirelessly promotes dialog between Israelis and Palestinians — and protests the Netanyahu government, which she holds accountable for her soldier son’s death on Oct. 7

'Loud and virulent support for Hamas and Hezbollah'

Report details ‘terrible,’ normalized antisemitism at UK universities

Testimonials presented to House of Lords find sharp spike in anti-Jewish activities since Oct. 7, show Jewish students are ‘frightened’ to be on campuses

A pro-Palestinian student walks in a tent outside the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated with the flag of Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 massacre in Israel. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

80 years after Nazi Germany’s surrender, antisemitism is rising worldwide, report finds

Israel Barsuk poses in his Brighton Beach, New York, apartment, circa 2005-2015. Barsuk fought for the Red Army against the invading Germans and Axis allies. (Jonathan Alpeyrie)

Photo essay

To mark 80 years to Germany’s surrender, a war photographer chronicles Jewish WWII veterans

By Jonathan Alpeyrie

As Victory in Europe Day is celebrated on May 8, the stories of those who fought in the Red Army for freedom are captured in photos and interviews on the battles against Axis forces

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Ben Cohen sits for an interview with Tucker Carlson on May 5, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)

Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s goes on Tucker Carlson and says, ‘I love Jesus Christ’

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press briefing, February 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Upstate NY legal battle underlines Hasidic community growing pains

New York attorney general backs federal intervention over allegations that town of Forestburgh blocked Jewish development; town rejects ‘inaccurate’ characterization of dispute

Analysis

‘The final deadline’: Could the IDF conscription crisis bring down Netanyahu’s government?

Without a bill shielding Haredim from the draft, the Knesset’s ultra-Orthodox parties are weighing tactics from boycotting votes on coalition legislation to toppling the government

United Torah Judaism MKs hold a faction meeting in the Knesset, January 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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Pakistan military says it shot down 25 Israeli-made drones launched by India

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox pilgrims pray at the grave of Rabbi Naphtali Hakohen Katz, a 17th-century Kabbalist, in the Ortakoy neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, January 17, 2023. (David I. Klein/JTA)

Survey finds 38% of American Jews believe in afterlife

Smoke billows from the site of Israeli airstrikes on hills near the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, May 8, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

IDF: Jets target ‘significant underground’ Hezbollah site in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

View of an empty classroom at a school in Givatayim, during a teachers' strike, on May 6, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Teachers reach new deal with Finance Ministry to end strike action over wage cuts

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces that he will step down from his position on June 15, in an address at a memorial event for fallen Shin Bet personnel, April 28, 2025 (Screenshot)

Despite Shin Bet chief’s departure, AG asks court to rule on core issues behind dismissal

By Jeremy Sharon

Black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signaling that cardinals failed to elect a new pope in the first ballot of their conclave in the Vatican on May 7, 2025. (Andreas SOLARO / AFP)

Black smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney as conclave first day ends without new pope

By Nicole Winfield

An F/A-18 Super Hornet launches off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt on July 5, 2024, in the South China Sea. The Roosevelt is replacing the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Navy's campaign against attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. (Seaman Aaron Haro Gonzalez/US Navy, via AP)

Another $60 million US fighter jet goes overboard from carrier in Red Sea

By AP and ToI Staff

Aerial view of Ma'ale Adumim, a West Bank settlement outside of Jerusalem, February 25, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

Union presses Norway wealth fund to divest from firms that aid Israel in West Bank, Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Magen David Adom first responders search for people who fell overboard from a boat that overturned in Eilat on May 7, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Man killed, 9 others injured after boat capsizes off coast of Eilat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court, before the start of his testimony in the trial against him, May 7, 2025. (Moti Milrod/POOL)

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By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

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