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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 13, 2025

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The aftermath of an IDF strike on what it says was a Hamas underground command center below the European Hospital in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, May 13, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

May 13: IDF airs clip purporting to show tunnel exposed by strike targeting Hamas leader

By Michael Bachner, Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Islamic Jihad fires rockets at Israel in response to ‘Zionist massacres’ * Trump says US working to end Gaza war ASAP, hopes for Saudi-Israeli ties * Houthis fire 2 missiles at Israel

9:09 pm

Israeli strikes reported in Gaza's Jabalia after IDF warning
8:51 pm

PM said to assure Haredi ally that no yeshiva students will be arrested in crackdown on draft evasion
8:41 pm

IDF airs clip purporting to show tunnel exposed by strike on Gaza hospital that targeted Hamas leader

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, right, and freed hostage Edan Alexander, second right, speak by phone to US President Donald Trump, alongside Alexander's family from Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center on May 13, 2025. (Office of the Special Envoy to the Middle East/X)

Released hostage Alexander speaks to Trump, tells Netanyahu he is weak but recovering

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Witkoff visits freed captive at hospital a day after his return from Gaza, facilitates call to Trump; Alexander not well enough to travel to Qatar to meet US president, family says

Hamas said to have kept him in cage, tortured him for weeks

US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander freed from Hamas captivity, reunites with family

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Following indirect talks with US, terror group releases 21-year-old in overture as Trump to start Mideast trip; hostage families torn between elation, concern for remaining captives

Released hostage soldier Staff Sgt. Edan Alexander, center, arrives at an IDF base near Re'im, May 12, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 13: Day 585 – Caged and tortured in Gaza, Edan Alexander returns home

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Released hostage Edan Alexander, center, reunites with his parents at an IDF base near Re'im, May 12, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

‘An out-of-body experience’: Parents, family of Edan Alexander elated at his return

By Nava Freiberg, Jessica Steinberg, Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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As Israeli negotiators head to Doha, PM assures coalition partners Israel won’t end war

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu reportedly says that unless Hamas agrees to disarm, Israel will accept only a temporary truce that frees some of the hostages; meeting wounded soldiers, PM said to predict ‘things you’ve never seen’ in Gaza

In this photo provided by the Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, convenes his security cabinet to vote on a ceasefire deal in Jerusalem, January 17, 2025. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

Families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza and supporters protest for their release in central Tel Aviv, May 12, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel sending negotiators to Doha for hostage talks, after US-Israeli captive freed

By Nava Freiberg, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 584 of the war

Trump puts an American First, and Israel rejoices

The freeing of Edan Alexander was a wonderful instance of US and Israeli interests overlapping. But Netanyahu was sidelined, and there is daylight between the two leaderships on a widening number of key issues, just as JD Vance had warned there would be

A crowd celebrates the release of hostage Edan Alexander in his hometown of Tenafly, New Jersey, May 12, 2025. (Lokman Vural Elibol / Anadolu / via Reuters)

The Democrats chairman Yair Golan leads his party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

As Edan Alexander freed, opposition chiefs accuse PM of bungling ties with Washington

A crowd celebrates the release of hostage Edan Alexander in his hometown of Tenafly, New Jersey, May 12, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In Edan Alexander’s New Jersey hometown, crowd cheers, sings, dances as he’s freed

‘We just can’t wait for him to come home’: Hundreds gather in Tenafly to watch live news broadcast of local hostage’s release from Hamas captivity

from the blogs

Edan’s pain, Qatar’s PR

After 584 days in hell, the freed captive is invited to go and thank the very regime that funded, sheltered, and protected his captors

US President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during an arrival ceremony at the Royal Terminal of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump gets grand welcome in Saudi Arabia, his landmark Mideast visit’s first leg

By Zeke Miller, AAMER MADHANI and Jon Gambrell

With Israel sidelined as US president makes first major trip of 2nd term, Trump eyes business deals and regional development in meetings with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on his way to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump starts Mideast trip with crush of problems, outsized certainty he has the answers

By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

This grab from footage shared by the US Central Command on March 15, 2025, shows a US F/A-18 Super Hornet attack fighter jet taking off from the US Navy's USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, reportedly amidst operations launched against Houthis in Yemen. (DVIDS / AFP)

How a floundering US campaign against the Houthis reportedly led Trump to a truce

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows six B-2 stealth bombers parked at Camp Thunder Cove in Diego Garcia on April 2, 2025 (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

US downgrades bombers deployed in Middle East as tensions with Houthis and Iran recede

By Reuters and ToI Staff

After US deal with Houthis and ‘encouraging’ talks with Iran, Pentagon sends home B-2 stealth bombers from Indian Ocean airbase, replacing them with B-52s, officials say

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi, speaks during a joint press conference with the President of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region (not in picture) in the regional capital Arbil on February 17, 2025. (Safin HAMID / AFP)

Iran says open to temporary uranium enrichment limits

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a news conference following his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 18, 2025. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Pool Photo via AP)

Iran warns Europeans of possible ‘irreversible consequences’ from reimposing sanctions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael representing Israel on the turquoise carpet next to the Basel Town Hall during the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland, on May 11, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Eurovision 2025

Eurovision kicking off in Basel with glitz, schmaltz and little love for Israel

Yuval Raphael expected to face boos and protests during competition’s second semifinal Thursday, though organizers have steadfastly resisted calls for Nova survivor’s ouster

Erin Molan speaking at the Nikraim LaDegel's 'Salute to Israeli Independence Day' event in Tel Aviv, May 5, 2025. (Denis Kappel)

Interview

Erin Molan vs. the world: From Australian news anchor to pro-Israel firebrand

By Ariela Karmel

The journalist became a hero in Israel and a target at home for her unwavering support after October 7, but her new role on Elon Musk’s X brings its own set of contradictions

Anat Thon-Ashkenazy

How many women run ministries? You guessed it: Zero

Of more than 30 ministries, not one has a female director. This government is out of step with the law and the public

Leo XIV: A papacy anchored in Israel’s embrace?

The Pope understands power and decline, and does not confuse the two: There will be no warm embraces for Hamas delegates under this papacy.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) welcomes President Isaac Herzog on May 12, 2025 at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

In Berlin, Herzog lauds 60 years of German-Israel ties, even as Gaza war casts shadow

President is first foreign leader to be hosted by newly elected chancellor, who calls countries’ friendship a ‘great treasure’; German president urges Israel to resume aid to Gaza

FILE - Participants of a demonstration of Reich citizens carry black and white and other flags in Potsdam, Germany, on November 14, 2020. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP, File)

Germany bans far-right extremist ‘Reich citizen’ group, arrests 4 of its leaders

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Freelance journalist Hassan Eslaiah, whom the IDF has indentifed as a member of the Hamas terror group's Khan Younis Brigade, is seen in front of a burning IDF tank during the October 7, 2023, onslaught. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli strike on hospital kills ‘journalist’ who invaded Israel with Hamas on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says it targeted ‘key terrorists’ at Nasser Hospital, where Gaza’s de facto PM was killed in March; Hassan Eslaiah, who IDF says was a member of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, had survived a previous strike

ILLUSTRATIVE — Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest the IDF draft outside the Jerusalem enlistment center, April 28, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Haredim threaten to bolt coalition as IDF launches operation against draft dodgers

By Sam Sokol and Emanuel Fabian

‘As soon as there is one arrest…we will shut down the government,’ United Torah Judaism official says

Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Abergel. (YouTube screenshot)

Renegade Shas rabbi to establish new party that supports Haredi conscription

Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Cabinet approves West Bank land registration process to ‘strengthen Jewish settlement’

By Jeremy Sharon

Move designed to register land ownership in Area C of West Bank; Smotrich says act will enable settlement development, and is part of ‘de facto sovereignty revolution’

A British activist being questioned by police in a photo released on May 13, 2025. (Police spokesperson)

British activist detained in West Bank, faces deportation over anti-Israel posts

By Stuart Winer and Charlie Summers

Pictures of slain al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh hang on the facade of the building housing the television station's office in Ramallah in the West Bank, after Israel issued a 45-day closure order on September 22, 2024. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Al Jazeera says Palestinian Authority has allowed it to resume work in West Bank

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The 'Natan-Melech/Eved Hamelech' bulla found in the City of David. (Eliyahu Yanai/City of David)

'Names reveal social hierarchies of ancient societies'

Ancient Israelites were more worldly than their insular Judean cousins, study shows

By Rossella Tercatin

Using statistical methods from field of ecological biodiversity, Israeli scholars analyze 1,000 First Temple period names and find that the northern state was likely more ‘cosmopolitan’

Archaeologists launch new excavation in West Bank at capital of ancient Israel

By Rossella Tercatin

FILE: Israelis and tourists enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv, as a heatwave hits the country, July 17, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Massive heat wave to hit Israel this weekend, meteorological service warns

Forecasts predict highs of 46.5°C (115°F) in Eilat, 37°C (99°F) in Tel Aviv, 38°C (101°F) in Jerusalem on Saturday, which could break 25-year records for May

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Police brawl with Orthodox Jewish men trying to smuggle a sacrificial goat into the Temple Mount compound (left) and the baby goat concealed in a Rami Levy shopping bag on May 12, 2025. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Cops arrest 9 Jewish men for trying to smuggle sacrificial goat onto Temple Mount

By Charlie Summers

The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/ Richard Drew, File)

Judge slams police for using AI to write legal argument, citing nonexistent laws

Acting Supreme Court President Justice Isaac Amit at a hearing for a petition filed by families of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, October 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

In blow to government, court strikes down appointments process for civil service head

By Jeremy Sharon

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq is taking legal action against the Department for Business and Trade over several decisions, May 13, 2025. (Ben Whitley/PA via AP)

Rights groups take UK government to court over supply of F-35 parts to Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (left) Netanyahu at the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong); Then-defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 5, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel asks ICC to withdraw arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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)

Court orders Qatargate suspect Urich released to 10 days’ house arrest

By Jeremy Sharon

Founders (right to left) of Israeli quantum software startup Classiq: Nir Minerbi, Amir Naveh, and Dr. Yehuda Naveh. (Courtesy of Eyal Toueg)

Tel Aviv startup pulls in $110 million to become the ‘Microsoft of quantum computing’

By Sharon Wrobel

Aaron Koller teaches at Cambridge University during the 2022-23 school year. (Shira Hecht-Koller via JTA)

In first since role created by Henry VIII, a Jew will helm Hebrew studies at Cambridge

By Shira Li Bartov

Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch, a Chabad emissary in Kyiv, celebrates the funeral of a Ukrainian Jewish soldier in June 2024. (Courtesy)

Kyiv rabbi seeks IDF guidance to avoid cremating Jewish soldiers in Ukraine

By Rossella Tercatin

Gary Lineker (left) and the post he shared, May 12, 2025. (Combo photo via UK Jewish News)

From our partnerTop UK soccer presenter Gary Lineker shares post with rat image ‘explaining’ Zionism

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