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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 10, 2025

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Palestinians struggle to obtain donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UAE rejects Israeli request to fund Gaza aid plan, says it fails to address crisis

Emirati official says stance could change if initiative amended to meet dire needs, but initial refusal marks major blow to plan not yet fully off the ground

Hamas hostages Yosef-Haim Ohana and Elkana Bohbot appear in a Hamas propaganda video published by the terror group on May 10, 2025. (Screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

May 10: In Hamas propaganda video, fellow hostage says Elkana Bohbot has stopped eating, drinking

US envoy Huckabee denies Trump is snubbing Israel by skipping it on upcoming Mideast visit * Airlines extend cancellation of Tel Aviv routes after Houthi attack on airport

7:38 pm

'He's got your back': Huckabee says Trump's decision to skip Israel on Mideast visit isn't a snub
7:29 pm

Slain captive's mother: Netanyahu sends our children to die for his 'lust for power'
7:14 pm

Mother of captive soldier slams 'insufferable abandon' with which politicians, media talk about number of living hostages

Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, attends a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 7, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

‘Don’t give up on us’: Hostage’s mother appeals to Trump before Saturday night rallies

‘They’d been fighting for a thousand years’: US president reportedly expresses frustration at difficulties in reaching a ceasefire in Gaza

Illustrative: Hamas terrorists carry their guns in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, ahead of the release of Israeli hostages on February 22, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Report: US removes demand to disarm Hamas as part of ceasefire deal

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Volunteer security team members from the Gaza border hone their shooting skills at at an IDF range. (Magen Yehuda)

Reporter's notebook

IDF joins forces with NGO to turn community security teams into lean fighting machines

After Oct. 7 failures led to the killing of 48 civilian first responders, a grassroots org launches Magen 48 to professionally train security volunteers from 66 Gaza border communities

Iran's terror proxies are a 'secondary issue,' says envoy

Witkoff: Iran must dismantle uranium enrichment facilities, ship material ‘far away’

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US special envoy says Tehran can expand civilian nuclear activities but must get rid of all centrifuges, as talks set to resume in Oman on Sunday

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, listening to French President Emmanuel Macron prior to a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP)

Pakistani people flash victory signs as they celebrate after the ceasefire between Pakistan and India, in Multan on May 10, 2025 (Shahid Saeed MIRZA / AFP)

Trump announces India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire

Nations confirm agreeing to halt cross-border attacks after most serious military confrontation in decades

Indian army personnel stand next to explosives, carried by a drone, after it was intercepted by India, on the outskirts of Amritsar, on May 10, 2025. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP)

India, Pakistan indicate willingness to pull back from brink as conflict escalates

By Munir Ahmed, AIJAZ HUSSAIN, SHEIKH SAALIQ and RAJESH ROY

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, gestures and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the media as they arrive for a meeting in New Delhi, India, Jan.15, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

AnalysisIndia’s drone strike in Pakistan spotlights Israel’s role in South Asian conflict

By Stav Levaton, Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

‘Honey, he’s had enough of you’: Trump’s Mideast moves increasingly seem to sideline Israel

After campaigning on his backing for Israel, analysts say US president no longer taking Netanyahu into account amid series of decisions that suggest shift from first term policies

People walk next to a sign with portraits of US President Donald Trump (L) and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in central Jerusalem on May 7, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

'Felt that I was going insane' due to feeling of loneliness

Ex-hostage Omer Shem Tov says he refused captors’ demand to fell building on IDF troops

Former captive recalls currying terrorists’ favor by taking care of cooking, maintenance in tunnel where he was held alone for some 400 days after his friends Maya and Itay Regev were freed

Former hostage Omer Shem Tov speaks to Channel 12 in the network's recreation of a tunnel where he was held captive in Gaza, in an interview broadcast May 8, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Dr. Noya Shilo, head of the Return to Life Center at Sheba Medical Center, walks with two hostages released from Gaza captivity in February 2024. (Courtesy/Sheba Medical Center)

Inside story'We’re learning and relearning and unlearning'

Facing a hostage situation without precedent, Israeli hospitals innovate to rehabilitate

By Diana Bletter

With few guidelines to assist them in reacclimating child hostages, the elderly, and abductees held for hundreds of days, doctors have forged their own protocols to help former captives thrive

Michael Millenson

My Mom at Hitler’s bunker

What was it like for Charlotte to come face-to-face with the Fuhrer’s war minister? What questions was she allowed to ask?

Jewish masculinity, Trump and college antisemitism

We have put our faith in education. Yet fresh images of our dead children pile upon the old, and we wonder: why must it be their blood that teaches?

Israeli troops deploy at a position near the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on May 8, 2025 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

IDF says it razed major tunnel in Rafah after Hamas operatives provided location

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army destroys infrastructure in Gaza after getting intel from men who surrendered

An undated photo of Nour Bitawi, a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative killed by Israeli security forces on May 9, 2025 (Social media)

IDF says ‘most wanted West Bank terror operative’ killed in Nablus operation

By Emanuel Fabian

A man wearing a shirt celebrating the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel at funeral rally for Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, in New York City, February 23, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New York passes law backed by Jewish groups to crack down on masked crime

Legislation establishes offense of ‘evading arrest by concealment of identity,’ a watered-down version of proposals aimed at combating upsurge in antisemitism

Anti-Israel protesters exit Columbia University's Butler Library after occupying it on May 7, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Columbia suspends more than 65 students for anti-Israel library takeover

Hundreds of people gather in Somerville, Massachusetts on March 26, 2025, to demand the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University, who was arrested on March 25 by federal agents. (AP Photo/Michael Casey)

Judge frees Tufts Turkish student; anti-Israel op-ed insufficient to justify detention

Israelis on Tel Aviv beach run for safety as missile sirens sound, May 9, 2025. A missile fired by the Houthis in Yemen was intercepted beyond Israel's borders. (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

IDF says it shot down Houthi missile that triggered sirens across central Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Latest attack since Israeli strikes in Yemen and ceasefire between Iran-backed group and US causes no direct damage or injuries; Katz warns Israel will respond

At Jerusalem ‘peace summit,’ thousands demand end to Gaza war, two-state solution

By Charlie Summers and Rossella Tercatin

Second conference of its kind since Oct. 7 draws broader ideological mix amid rising despair over hostages’ fate; ex-PM Olmert attends event, which Macron and Abbas address remotely

Aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Qatargate suspect Jonatan Urich arrives for a Supreme Court hearing on his appeal against his remand in custody, in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Report: Netanyahu aide Urich received payments from Qatar after war broke out

Channel 13 report says police hold documents, text messages and bank data linking Jonatan Urich to Doha from period when Israel was weighing Qatari offers to mediate for hostages

Jonatan Urich, who was arrested in the so-called Qatargate investigation, arrives for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Netanyahu aide to remain in custody until Monday after Supreme Court rejects appeal

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Obituary

Andrew Silow-Carroll

‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years

The Brooklyn-born immigrant, who satirized and explained Israel’s politics and culture for largely English audiences at home and abroad, died last month at 87

Yaakov Kirschen drew his 'Dry Bones' comic strip, which at one point ran in 35 newspapers around the world, for over 50 years. (Image via Amazon.com/ via JTA)

A recreation of released hostage Moran Stella Yanai's jewelry stand from the Nova rave at '07SH10AH23,' an exhibit through May 14 curated by Simon Durban (Courtesy)

New exhibition recreates ex-hostage’s Nova jewelry stand

By Jessica Steinberg

More than a dozen Israeli artists bring contemporary works to the 07SH10AH23 exhibit in Tel Aviv

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A member of the New York Police Department patrols in front of the synagogue Congregation Bais Yaakov Nechamia Dsatmar on October 13, 2023. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Federal security grants to US synagogues to resume after two-month Trump freeze

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative: Tunisian Jews stand next to a car in the Hara Kebira, the main Jewish quarter in the resort island of Djerba, after attending a ceremony at the Ghriba synagogue following a shooting spree by a police officer on the southern Tunisian island on May 10, 2023. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Tunisian Jewish man stabbed in Djerba ahead of pilgrimage to island synagogue

By AFP and ToI Staff

FILE - Ed Martin speaks at an event hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., at the Capitol in Washington, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Trump yanks key nomination for prosecutor who called Nazi sympathizer ‘extraordinary’

By JTA and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets Germany's then-opposition leader, now Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Germany’s new chancellor holds first phone call with Netanyahu

By AFP and ToI Staff

A pedestrian on the campus of Yeshiva University in New York City on August 30, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Yeshiva University rescinds approval of LGBTQ+ student group

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Yousef Awad Abu Rqayiq (X; used in accordance with clause 27a of thecopyright law)

8-year-old killed, several others hurt in shooting on Bedouin wedding convoy in south

By Charlie Summers

An ultra-Orthodox man is seen in front of a sign for an IDF recruitment office during a protest against conscripting Haredi men to the military, in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After October 7, IDF said to increase penalties for deserters, but not draft dodgers

S&P reaffirms Israel’s credit rating but maintains negative outlook amid Gaza war

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference, Feb. 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

NY state budget weakens oversight of yeshivas in blow to secular education advocates

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod will host three guest musicians in new concert series, 'From East to West,' playing Israeli venues from May 16-June 19 2025 (Courtesy)

African rhythmsAndalusian Orchestra Ashdod to host jazz pianist, Berber singer and Ethiopian saxophonist

By Jessica Steinberg

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