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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 17, 2025

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A Yemeni youth carries a mock missile during an anti-Israel rally in solidarity with Palestinians and the Gaza Strip, in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa, May 16, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

May 17: IDF intercepts Houthi ballistic missile after sirens activated across central Israel

Israeli guarantee to not resume Gaza war said to be main obstacle in current hostage talks * Eight said arrested over brawl with cops, counter-protesters at Saturday night rallies

11:11 pm

IDF says it successfully intercepted Houthi ballistic missile
11:06 pm

Israel's Yuval Raphael comes 2nd at Eurovision 2025, as Austria wins
11:03 pm

Sirens sound across central Israel after missile launch from Yemen; IDF working to down projectile

This picture, taken from near the Gaza border in southern Israel, shows smoke billowing over destroyed buildings on the Gaza Strip during reported Israeli bombardment, May 17, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

IDF launches major new Gaza op, ‘seizing’ key areas; Palestinians: Dozens killed in strikes

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Gideon’s Chariots offensive involves taking control of ‘strategic areas,’ military says; troops said advancing on Deir al-Balah, where ground forces have not operated since Oct. 7

Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee Gaza City on May 16, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

US reportedly developing plan to resettle 1 million Gazans in Libya

By Agencies and ToI Staff

NBC News says proposal is serious enough to have been discussed with Libyan leaders; unclear where in the North African country the Palestinians would live, or how they’d get there

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, January 15, 2025. (Louai Beshara / AFP)

UN rights chief: Apparent ‘push for permanent demographic shift’ in Gaza amounts to ethnic cleansing

By AFP and ToI Staff

US actor Joaquin Phoenix arrives for the screening of the film 'Eddington' at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 16, 2025. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

More Hollywood stars join protest letter over Gaza ‘genocide’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Juliette Binoche and director Guillermo del Toro amog those condemning ‘propaganda that constantly colonizes our imaginations’

US Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, appears on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (not in picture) on CBS, May 15, 2025. (Screen capture: Youtube/The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)

Bernie Sanders: Democrats ‘not speaking up’ on Gaza due to fear of pro-Israel lobby

Women from a broad spectrum of Israeli society gather for Kumi's first conference at Sapir College, near Sderot, in southern Israel, on February 26, 2025. (Noa Sharvit)

In Western Negev, budding female entrepreneurs rebuild their communities, and themselves

Over 300 women join Kumi, started by Australian-born Israeli, to gain confidence, skills, seed funding, and more as they pursue projects aimed at meeting often-overlooked needs

The day after Gaza: Israel must not inherit the ruins

We are a nation that has already learned, too many times, what happens when we inherit what we never intended to own

Menachem Rosensaft

Yes, Trump can fire Holocaust Memorial Council appointees

And no, dismissing members who were put in place by previous administrations does not echo Nazi oppression

Analysis

AP and ToI Staff

Watching Trump from afar, Israel fears being left out of new Mideast it helped create

On regional tour that skipped Israel, US president says he ‘didn’t ask’ Jerusalem before lifting Syria sanctions, the latest in a series of moves that seemed to sideline Netanyahu

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left, welcomes US President Donald Trump during an official welcoming ceremony at the Amiri Diwan in Doha, Qatar, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US President Donald Trump (center) prepares to board Air Force One in Abu Dhabi at the end of his Middle East tour on May 16, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump says he did not consult Israel before restoring ties with Syria’s Sharaa

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘We want Syria to succeed,’ US president says as he wraps up 4-day Mideast tour that skipped Israel, which is deeply suspicious of Damascus’s new Islamist leader

Lebanese army soldiers stand next to a destroyed car that was targeted in an Israeli drone strike in Abu al-Aswad in southern Lebanon on May 17, 2025. . (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF says it killed Hezbollah commander in drone strike in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media accompanying him aboard Air Force One, after leaving Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, at the end of his Middle East tour on May 16, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Tehran again denies getting any document

Trump: Iran given draft deal proposal, ‘I don’t know’ if Netanyahu can get hostages out

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Wrapping up Mideast trip, US president warns ‘something bad will happen’ if Tehran doesn’t quickly respond to nuclear offer; says Gaza humanitarian situation must be ‘taken care of’

A handout picture provided by the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office shows him addressing teachers and education officials from across the country in Tehran on May 17, 2025. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Khamenei: Trump lies about bringing peace to region; Israel a ‘cancerous tumor’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Israel Police car in Tel Aviv on April 12, 2020. (joseh51camera/iStock by Getty Images)

16-year-old Israeli arrested for carrying out tasks on behalf of Iranian agents

Flights resume at Sanaa airport, 11 days after Israeli strikes ‘completely disabled’ it

By AP and Emanuel Fabian

Flight from Jordan lands at Yemen’s Houthi-controlled main airport only week-and-a-half after strike destroyed the terminal and six planes, and left craters on its runway

Sanaa International Airport on May 7, 2025, a day after Israel's military warplanes struck Yemen's Houthi rebel-held capital Sanaa. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Smoke rises from the Hodeidah port in western Yemen following an Israeli airstrike, May 16, 2025. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF pounds Houthi ports in Yemen, threatens to kill leader, after missile, drone attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Police officers work the scene of a stabbing at the Temple Mount's Chain Gate, in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 16, 2025. (Israel Police)

Police officer stabbed in Old City of Jerusalem, assailant shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Attacker from East Jerusalem charged at cop near Temple Mount’s Chain Gate and stabbed him in the back, moderately wounding him, police and medics say

People shop at the BIG Fashion Glilot mall, March 4, 2025 (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Open seven days a week, flashy new mall near Tel Aviv rekindles Shabbat battle

Backed by the local mayor, BIG Fashion Glilot defies law limiting commercial activity on Jewish day of rest, drawing attempted government crackdown and Haredi boycott

Illustrative: Firefighters battle blazes in Jerusalem, May 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Fire breaks out near Jerusalem as extreme heat could reach 25-year high

Public urged to stay away from Haruvit Forest as firefighters battle flames; heat wave expected to subside Sunday

Karim Ahmed Khan, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor, speaks during a news conference at the Ministry of Justice in Khartoum, Sudan, August 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

ICC prosecutor Khan on leave amid sexual misconduct probe

By Reuters and ToI Staff

UN investigation into alleged assault by the prosecutor, who is behind arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, reportedly nearing its end

Hapoel Jerusalem soccer club memorializes Hersh Goldberg-Polin in 100th year logo

By Jessica Steinberg

Sports association kicks off centennial year with new image featuring devoted fan who was murdered in Hamas captivity

Analysis

11 thinkers from across the spectrum weigh in on what might end the Gaza war

Despite polls of Israelis, Palestinians and US Jews saying that all want a negotiated end to fighting, the conflict continues. Experts from each group give their vision of a way out

Israeli mothers call to end the war in Gaza and for the release of hostages outside the US Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, May 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

The results of a vote on a resolution for the UN Security Council to reconsider and support full UN membership for the Palestinian Authority as the State of Palestine is displayed during a special session of the UN General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York, May 10, 2024. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

UN conference on two-state solution to Israel-Palestinian conflict set for June

By AFP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Joe Rogan attends UFC 274 at Footprint Center on May 7, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images/AFP)

Joe Rogan defends Kanye West’s ‘Heil Hitler,’ echoes antisemitic stereotypes in song

By Grace Gilson

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)

Three Iranians charged with suspected espionage in UK

By AFP

Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Afrikaner resettled by US Jewish group as a refugee denies accusations of antisemitism

The Palestinian flag flies at Providence, Rhode Island's City Hall on Friday, May 16, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Jewish mayor of Providence ‘disheartened’ by Palestinian flag flown at City Hall

By Grace Gilson

Holocaust denier Candace Owens speaks on stage during conservative group Turning Point USA's 'The Peoples Convention' at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, June 14, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsk /AFP)

Candace Owens says she was target of death threats by New Jersey Jewish man

By Grace Gilson

Ukraine's top negotiator and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov (C), next to deputy head of Ukraines military intelligence Vadym Skibitsky (R) and Ukraine Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya (3rd L), speaks to journalists after a meeting with the Russian delegates in Istanbul on May 16, 2025. (Kemal Aslan/AFP)

Ukraine-Russia talks in Turkey yield POW swap, but little signs of progress on truce

By Ania TSOUKANOVA

Hadi Matar walks into Chautauqua County court in Mayville, New York, where he was sentenced for 25 years in prison for the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, May. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie in 2022 sentenced to 25 years in prison

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

Illustrative: A worker unloads Gaza aid from a truck inside a US ship at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

US aid cuts leave food for millions, including Gazans, moldering in storage

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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