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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 14, 2025

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Palestinians evacuate after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for several schools and a hospital in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Live updates (closed)

May 14: Spain PM calls Israel a ‘genocidal state,’ sparking summoning of Madrid’s envoy

Over 65 ex-hostages urge Israel to seize ‘historic momentum’ for deal to free all captives * Fresh strikes reported at Gaza hospital where IDF targeted Muhammad Sinwar

9:25 pm

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it will begin aid distribution by end of May
9:18 pm

PM condemns 'horrific' West Bank shooting of Israeli couple en route to hospital delivery room
8:54 pm

Responding to 'bully' Trump, Iran president says 'martyrdom far sweeter than dying in bed'

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Syrian President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025. (Bandar AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP)

Trump: Sharaa backs Israel ties but has 'lot of work to do'

Trump urges Syria’s Sharaa to join Abraham Accords, praises him as ‘attractive, tough guy’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Netanyahu said to have asked US president not to lift sanctions on country, which Trump announced on Tuesday he would do, citing requests by Saudis and Turkey

President Donald Trump looks on as he leaves the Royal Palace after a signing ceremony with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says he’ll lift sanctions on Syria, restore ties with new president Sharaa

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Trump tells Gulf leaders Iran must end support of proxies under nuclear deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Tehran ‘must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars,’ US president says at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Riyadh; Iran’s FM calls remarks ‘deceitful’

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US President Donald Trump speaks during the Saudi-US investment forum at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump pans 'neocons' in defending isolationist foreign policy

Visiting Riyadh, Trump tells Saudi Arabia: You’ll join Abraham Accords in your own time

US president acknowledges hosts not rushing to normalize ties with current Israeli government as Gaza conflict rages, says he’s working to end the war ‘as quickly as possible,’ return all hostages; only mentions Israel once

US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Trump signs deals with Saudis, including biggest-ever $142 billion arms agreement

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People walk past an electronic billboard that shows US President Donald Trump, left, shaking hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the pro-normalization message 'We are ready,' in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

Poll: 61% of Israelis back Saudi normalization; 69% support hostage deal, ending war

Op-ed: Day 586 of the war

Hailing Syria, arming Saudis, dealing with Iran and Houthis, Trump relegates Israeli concerns

The US president is making a slew of deals, decisions and alliances central to the daily well-being and geostrategic future of a marginalized Israel. Gaza could be next

A handout picture provided by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows US President Donald Trump (L), Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (R), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) posing for a picture in Riyadh on May 14, 2025 (SANA / AFP)

A screenshot of an undated video released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 17, 2023, shows Hamas commander Muhammad Sinwar, right, riding in a car traveling through a tunnel under the Gaza Strip. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF, Shin Bet confirm killing Oct. 7 'journalist' overnight

Hamas’s Gaza leader Muhammad Sinwar targeted in IDF strike, fate unclear

By Emanuel Fabian

At least 16 reported killed in strike that military says hit Hamas command center under Khan Younis hospital; IDF urges Jabalia residents to flee after rockets fired at Israel

Witkoff: Hamas is afraid of Trump, and should be

Witkoff gifts his late son’s Star of David to ex-hostage Edan Alexander

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

US envoy said to tell released soldier he’d be doing Andrew, who died in 2011 at 22, a ‘great honor’ by wearing chain; Trump to Alexander: ‘You’re a bigger celebrity than I am’

Released hostage Edan Alexander wears a Star of David necklace given him by US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, which had belonged to Witkoff's late son Andrew, May 13, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Former hostage Edan Alexander, left, in a photo uploaded by him a day after his release from captivity in Gaza, May 13, 2025. (Insragram/@edan_alexander1)

‘Home sweet home’: Edan Alexander publishes first social media post since release

Pro-PM commentator attacks family over mom's 'ungratefulness'

Parents of released hostage Edan Alexander thank Trump and Witkoff, not Netanyahu

By Jessica Steinberg

In statement at Tel Aviv hospital day after son’s release, they urge PM to negotiate to free remaining captives; Edan said kept with bag over head at times, has lasting injuries from torture

Yael Alexander gives a statement a day after her son Edan was released from 584 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, as other members of the family listen, at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, May 13, 2025 (Alon Gilboa / Hostages' Families Forum)

Republican nominee Donald Trump and Arab Americans for Trump chair Bishara Bahbah at a campaign event ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. (Bisharah Bahbah/X)

Inside storyBahbah got number of Hamas member from Arafat's widow Suha

Palestinian-US political activist operated key backchannel in Edan Alexander’s release

Bishara Bahbah passed messages between Witkoff and senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, and succeeded in convincing terror group to free the American-Israeli hostage unconditionally

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and US hostages envoy Adam Boehler (center left and right) meet with relatives of hostages held in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, May 13, 2025. (Paulina Patimer / Hostages Families Forum)

US envoys, headed to Doha for truce-hostage talks, tell families they’re optimistic

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Druze clerics greet each other as they await visiting counterparts from Syria in a bus through a border barrier guarded by Israeli soldiers, near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on April 25, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Reporter's notebookSyrian Druze experience violence, humiliation under new regime

‘Maybe God put Druze in Israel to save the Druze there’: Minority fights for Syrian cousins

By Diana Bletter

For the 150,000-strong member Druze community, attacks against their brethren across the border cause concern and a commitment to strengthen their rights as Israeli citizens

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Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jeremy Sharon and Amy Spiro

Daily Briefing May 14: Day 586 – Famine in Gaza? UN-linked group admits data not strong

Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon on a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report claiming famine looms; Amy Spiro on 60 years of Israel-Germany ties – and the Eurovision

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)

Some IDF officers warn Gaza could face starvation in weeks without new aid – report

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, May 5, 2025. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

Food security NGO warns of ‘critical’ famine risk in Gaza; Israel says study ‘flawed’

By Jeremy Sharon

People take cover as a siren warns of an incoming missile fired from Yemen, on a train in Jerusalem, May 13, 2025. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

Houthi missile downed amid sirens in Jerusalem; IDF warns Yemen of impending strike

By Emanuel Fabian

No injuries or damage reported in morning attack from Yemen, which follows two missile launches aimed at Israel the previous day

A boy draped in a Palestinian flag carries a mock rocket during a weekly anti-US and anti-Israel rally organized by Houthi supporters in Sanaa, Yemen, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Israel intercepts Houthi ballistic missile; 2 hurt running for shelter

By Emanuel Fabian, Sharon Wrobel and ToI Staff

Travelers lining up to check in for flights at Ben Gurion Airport, May 7, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Foreign airlines demand passenger compensation changes to lure them back to Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

Rockets, resilience, and children during war

That time a siren rang out and we danced in the safe room… and that other time we were in the park and the 9-year-old made sure we were all safe

Leo XIV could be just the pope for the Jews

US Catholicism knows Jews well, and that familiarity may pave the way for the new pope to improve Jewish-Catholic relations, over time

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

PM accuses Macron of standing with Hamas and spreading ‘blood libels’ against Israel

By Nava Freiberg, Stav Levaton and AFP

After French leader calls block on Gaza aid ‘shameful,’ Netanyahu slams him for echoing ‘despicable Hamas propaganda’ while Katz says Macron ‘should not lecture us on morality’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron (L), as they hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

Macron: EU may revisit cooperation pacts with Israel over PM’s ‘shameful’ Gaza policy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An anti-Israel protest in front of the Japan National Press Club, where Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar is scheduled to hold a press conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2025. (Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Protesters chanting ‘genocide’ try to enter Sa’ar press conference in Tokyo

By Nava Freiberg

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Attorney general urges conscription of all draft-age Haredim starting this summer

Enlisting yeshiva students is ‘an essential security need,’ says AG’s office, calling for enhanced enforcement and stronger sanctions against evaders

Then-Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (leavened food) of the State of Israel ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday, in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ex-chief rabbi: If Haredi draft dodgers arrested, ultra-Orthodox will leave Israel

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces the creation of an antisemitism task force in City Hall, New York City, May 13, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New York City mayor opens new task force aimed at combating antisemitism

Eric Adams cites need for ‘decisive action’ as he announces Office to Combat Antisemitism, 1st of its kind in a major US city, amid upsurge in anti-Jewish hate crimes

The Israeli flag flutters between the European (L) and the German flag in front of the Reichstag building hosting the Bundestag, the German lower house of Parliament in Berlin, while the German chancellor gave a speech on the Israel-Hamas conflict during a Bundestag session on October 12, 2023. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Survey: 82% of Europeans don’t consider fighting antisemitism a priority

US film director Quentin Tarantino and his wife, Israeli singer Daniella Pick, arrive for the Opening Ceremony and the screening of the film "Partir un Jour" (Bye Bye), at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 13, 2025. Pick is wearing a yellow ribbon pin in support of the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. (Valery Hache/AFP)

Gaza war, Trump dominate politically charged opening of Cannes Film Festival

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tarantino’s Israeli wife dons yellow pin for hostages; Juliette Binoche laments death in recent IDF strike of Gazan photographer who is subject of documentary premiering at festival

Left: Ebony figurine discovered in an excavation at Tel Malhata in the Negev. Right: Tomb excavated at the site of Tel Malhata in the Negev. (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority; Svetlana Talis/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'No such artifact had ever been identified in our region'

Wood from India, made in Africa: 6th century figurines found in Christian tombs in Israel

By Rossella Tercatin

Mysterious owners of the artifacts, possibly a mother and child, might have moved to Byzantine village in the Negev from Egypt or the Horn of Africa

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Pope Leo XIV appears at the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for his first Sunday blessing after his election, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

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Education minister threatens universities’ funding over student Nakba events

By ToI Staff and AFP

Watchdog warns of ‘gruesome’ migrant worker deaths in World Cup host Saudi Arabia

By GIUSEPPE CACACE

Actor Charlie Chaplin appears in a scene from his 1925 film 'The Gold Rush.' (AP Photo)

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People leave Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 17, 2025. (Sophie Park / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Harvard expands lawsuit after Trump terminates another $450 million in grants

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