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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 11, 2025

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Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman (Courtesy)

Body of soldier Zvi Feldman, missing for 43 years, recovered from Syria by Mossad, IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Remains found in ‘heart of Syria,’ in ‘covert, complex’ operation by non-Israeli agents working for Mossad; officials vow to return 3rd missing soldier from 1982 battle of Sultan Yacoub

Illustrative: A Middle East Airlines commercial aircraft prepares for takeoff on the tarmac of the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, November 1, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Purge of Hezbollah from Beirut airport satisfying Israeli, US officials — report

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks while US President Donald Trump listens before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump’s meeting with Saudi ruler said set to include leaders of PA, Lebanon, Syria

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Crown Prince bin Salman expects US president to agree to condition Saudi normalization with Israel on Palestinian statehood, source tells Arab media

American and Saudi Arabia flags are seen during a meeting of US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, at the Pentagon in Washington, February 24, 2025. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

AnalysisSaudi-Israel deal remains elusive as Trump visits in bid for $1 trillion bonanza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (R) and US First Lady Melania Trump (2nd R), posing for a picture with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi (L) and Saudi Arabia's then king Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud during the inauguration of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology "Etidal" in Riyadh, May 21, 2017. (BANDAR AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP)

Trump aims for ‘historic return’ to region, taking in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, not Israel

By AFP

Ambassador: Whether to settle Gaza is for Israel to decide

‘He still loves you’: US envoy insists Trump-Israel relationship is as strong as ever

In series of interviews, Huckabee says president not ‘snubbing’ Israel by skipping it on Mideast trip, US will ‘never get in the way’ of Israel’s self-defense, even against Iran

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Israeli television in an interview aired May 10, 2025. (Screenshot/YouTube)

People walk past a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 1, 2025. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP)

An American brand on every street: The surprising Saudi obsession with the US

By Sofiane Alsaar and Rania Sanjar

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From Bees to Agrivoltaics: How KKL-JNF Supports Israel’s Food Security

In the face of foreign embargoes, war damage to farmlands and adverse impacts on crop yields, KKL-JNF bolsters the strength of Israel’s food supply chain in surprising ways.

Edan Alexander was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

May 11: Source: US didn’t brief Israel on efforts to free Edan Alexander until after deal was reached

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Hamas says it will free American-Israeli hostage after recent talks with US * Witkoff said set to arrive in Israel to facilitate release, which is expected on Monday

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Netanyahu insists ties with Trump are ‘excellent’ amid reports of growing rift

International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan attends a United Nations Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on January 27, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)

Sexual allegations against Khan spurred Israeli ICC arrest warrants, report suggests

International Criminal Court chief prosecutor heard of allegations against him just weeks before seeking arrest of Netanyahu and then-defense minister Gallant

Participants at David's Circle in Koh Phangan, Thailand, March 2025. (Inor Kagno)

'We had to escape the sirens, the trauma was never-ending'

On a serene Thai island, a holistic healing center provides relief for traumatized Israelis

By Eliyahu Freedman

Survivors of the Oct. 7 massacre, discharged IDF reserves soldiers, and others gather in David’s Circle, a lush jungle sanctuary, to help each other – and themselves

Iran, US begin 4th round of talks in Oman, with focus on uranium enrichment

Iranian FM Araghchi and US special envoy Witkoff to speak directly and via Omani mediators, as Israel looks on with concern

Left: US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Paris, France, April 17, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP); Right: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow, Russia, April 18, 2025. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Pool Photo via AP)

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, shakes hands with his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan during their meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 10, 2025. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran vows not to back down from its ‘nuclear rights,’ as talks with US set to resume

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Steven J. Frank

Sorry, Israel – Trump needs a win!

Intransigent Hamas, defiant Iran and hostile Houthis are cramping the US president’s style. Guess who may pay the price.

Charles E. Savenor

When my mother told me to leave

When grief suspended time, her courageous – and surprising – response set me back on track to take my first steps towards healing

Protesters hold signs with images of the hostages at a weekly anti-government protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, May 10, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Hostages’ families warn of ‘lost opportunity of the century’ as Hamas airs new clip of captives

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Amid rallies, Hostages Forum decries ruinous insistence on continuing war; in latest video, hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana says Elkana Bohbot tried to harm himself, refuses to eat or drink

Freed Israeli hostage Tal Shoham, who was held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, demonstrates how his captors handcuffed him, in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

‘I vowed to speak for those who can’t’: Ex-hostage urges Israel, US to push for deal

Holocaust survivor dies 2 weeks after great-grandson killed in Gaza as she visited Nazi camp

Asaf Cafri died in Strip while great-grandmother Magda Baratz and his father visited Bergen-Belsen; her son says death of Asaf was ‘very hard’ for her

Asaf Cafri (left), an IDF reservist who was killed in Gaza on April 25, 2025, and his great-grandmother, Holocaust survivor Magda Baratz, pictured on a billboard set up in Rishon Lezion in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day before his death. (Oren Dai/Rishon Lezion Municipality)

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Shalom Yerushalmi

PM may call early elections to preempt Haredim over IDF draft, ministers say

Amid ultra-Orthodox threats to topple government, Netanyahu mulls national vote as way to salvage voters who won’t tolerate community’s wartime exemption, senior minister tells ToI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at Tel Aviv District Court to testify in his criminal trial, May 6, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

Haredi Jews protest and clash with police during a protest against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews to the Israeli army, Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 11: Day 583 – Is coalition really in danger over Haredi draft bill?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Sam Sokol and Sue Surkes

Troops of the Golani Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued on May 10, 2025. (Israel Defense FOrces)

IDF says terrorists near defeat in Rafah, fighting now limited to one neighborhood

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says some 60 terror targets across Gaza hit in past day; Hamas authorities report over 20 killed and dozens more wounded

State prosecution said mulling charges against Likud MK for outing Shin Bet agent

Tally Gotliv vows she won’t show up for preliminary hearing, claiming parliamentary immunity from prosecution

Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks during a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem on March 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu (center) and MK Nissim Vaturi (right) attend a protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of severly abusing a Palestinian inmate, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Three coalition members summoned for questioning over July riot at IDF holding facility

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Avi Dichter attend a committee meeting in Jerusalem, November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-Shin Bet chief Dichter, now a Likud minister, said among PM’s candidates to head agency

Likud MK Avichai Boaron speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee, February 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers struggling financially, claims MK behind controversial salary bill

While asserting that his legislation is not intended to raise public officials’ wages, Likud’s Avihai Boaron insists some are having trouble making ends meet

Radio show host Jacob Bardugo speaks at the annual Jerusalem Conference of Channel 20 in Jerusalem, on March 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police investigate after ministers accuse pro-Netanyahu pundit Bardugo of blackmail

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Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)

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By Nicole Winfield

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa speaks during an interview with AFP in Paris, on May 8, 2025. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

Ecuador leader says Israel will provide intelligence to help country’s war on cartels

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