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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union stand behind a gate at the eastern entrance of Jenin camp during a visit to the city of Jenin, on May 21, 2025. (Mohammad MANSOUR / AFP)

Diplomats warn of consequences; Italy summons Israeli envoy

Troops fire in air to ward off foreign diplomats touring Jenin; IDF apologizes

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Army says group strayed from approved route; videos show representatives from UK, France, Canada, Russia, China and elsewhere scrambling for cover as shots ring out

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

May 21: Kibbutz that lost 4 members on Oct. 7 slams PM for saying ‘nothing’ happened there

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Netanyahu claims his remarks about Ein Hashlosha ‘were misunderstood’ * Countries summon Israeli envoys after IDF warning shots at diplomats in Jenin

11:07 pm

UN says it has 'collected and dispatched' 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid into Gaza
10:17 pm

PM insists actions by Western nations demanding end to Gaza war 'won't influence' Israel
8:58 pm

After kibbutz's fury, PM claims remark that 'nothing' happened in Ein Hashlosha on Oct. 7 was 'misunderstood'

Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier killed in booby-trapped Gaza building as strikes pound Strip

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu, 20, buried under rubble in Khan Younis amid expanded IDF offensive; humanitarian groups say assistance not reaching Gazans, too little entering enclave

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published on May 11, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 21: Day 593 – The ‘Rafah model’: IDF’s new operational plan for Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike at a gas station and tents, in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on May 20, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Gaza medics say at least 60 killed over past day as IDF forges ahead with new offensive

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy speaks to MPs during a statement on Israel and the war in Gaza in the House of Commons, in London, on May 20, 2025. (House of Commons / AFP)

'It is dangerous. It is repellent. It is monstrous'

‘Indefensible’: UK freezes trade talks with Israel amid global outrage over Gaza war

By Nava Freiberg

In furious speech, Britain’s foreign secretary denounces expanded war; Jerusalem says rift with key ally and trading partner ‘will not divert’ plans; EU reviewing ties in response to aid shortage

Head of the Nachala Settlement Movement organization Daniella Weiss takes questions during a press conference at an event to promote the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza, October 21, 2024 (Jeremy Sharon / The Times of Israel)

UK sanctions ‘extremist settlers,’ illegal outposts, citing ‘Israeli failure to act’

By Jeremy Sharon

Pope Leo XIV blesses the crowd at the end of his first weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square in The Vatican on May 21, 2025. (Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)

Pope Leo makes ‘heartfelt appeal’ for Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 593 of the war

End the war to get back the hostages. Save Israel

Netanyahu knows his coalition will collapse if he revives the kind of agreement he and his ministers accepted in January. That should not, and need not, faze him

Clockwise from top left: Hostage Matan Zangauker speaks in a Hamas propaganda video issued on December 7, 2024. (Screenshot: Telegram); Palestinians receive meals from volunteers in Deir al-Balah, in the Gaza Strip, on April 19, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the District Court in Tel Aviv on May 19, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Israeli soldiers operating in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 28, 2024 (Oren Cohen/Flash90).

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press following a House Republican meeting at the US Capitol on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump ‘frustrated’ with Gaza war, wants Israel to ‘wrap it up’ – report

A truck carrying aid enters the Gaza Strip from the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing, on May 20, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Israel allows UN to bring 93 aid trucks into Gaza as international pressure mounts

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies, ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

UN says aid distributed via ‘existing systems’ though new US-Israeli mechanism set to begin in coming weeks; UN official claims 14,000 babies could die in ’48 hours’ if no aid

Children sit with plastic buckets as displaced Palestinians collect water in Gaza City, on May 20, 2025, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Rubio: US ‘pleased’ by lifting of Gaza aid blockade, but deliveries still not enough

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) attends a meeting of the World Jewish Congress, seated alongside WJC President Ron Lauder (center) in Jerusalem, May 20, 2025. (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)

WJC president says Smotrich remarks on Gaza harm Israel, asks why PM doesn’t stop him

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Former PM Olmert tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’

Comments criticizing war spark immediate backlash from right-wing politicians, who accuse him of ‘stabbing soldiers in the back’

The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, May 20, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Golan defends ‘killing babies’ comment, says it was directed at ‘failed’ government

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir visits the Gaza Strip, May 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel will seize more of Gaza if Hamas doesn’t free hostages, IDF chief warns

By Emanuel Fabian

Zamir tells Gazan civilians that their leaders, not Israel, ‘brought destruction’ upon them, as hostage talks appear to once more reach an impasse in Doha

Then-outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, March 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Halevi tells bereaved families ‘we could have been better’ on Oct. 7

We reservists are burning out

We conquer one block in Gaza and retreat the next day. We risk our lives while fuel trucks cross into enemy territory

Christopher Solomon

It’s time for Israel to make peace with Syria

Israel’s handling of the new regime smacks of the Cold War, but that no longer makes sense. Instead, Israel can turn an enemy into a partner, step by step

Posters of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, May 19, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM recalls top members of Doha negotiating team, citing ‘Hamas refusal’ of hostage deal

By Nava Freiberg, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Source involved in talks disputes Netanyahu’s claim that Israel accepted Witkoff’s proposal; hostage families accuse government of having ‘no real plan to return the last hostage’

Release hostage Yarden Bibas speaks to Channel 12, in an interview on May 20, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Released hostage Yarden Bibas says he encountered Yahya Sinwar in tunnel

Hostage Matan Zangauker speaks in a Hamas propaganda video issued on December 7, 2024. (Screenshot: Telegram)

Hostage Matan Zangauker struggling to stand, suffering severe health issues – report

A handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on November 4, 2019, shows the atomic enrichment facilities Natanz nuclear research center, some 300 kilometers south of capital Tehran. (HO / Atomic Energy Organization of Iran / AFP)

New US intel suggests Israel readying to strike Iranian nuclear facilities — report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

CNN says it’s unclear whether Israeli leaders have made a final decision to attack, though one source says likelihood they will do so ‘has gone up significantly in recent months’

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Lacking Haredi manpower, IDF turns to womanpower: 1 in 5 fighters are now female

By Tal Schneider

During recent Knesset committee discussions, IDF representatives revealed that women now make up 20.9% of the combat force. Among them are a growing number of religious women

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Ultra-Orthodox students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva in Jerusalem, on September 9, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Study: Ultra-Orthodox only pay 4% of total national taxes, costing economy billions

A document belonging to Israeli spy Eli Cohen that was recovered from Syria along with some 2,500 other items in a covert Mossad operation made public on May 18, 2025. (Prime Minister's Office)

Sources: Syrian gov’t found Eli Cohen dossier after Assad’s fall, offered it to Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

After Israel announced recovery of archive in ‘covert and complex Mossad operation,’ sources tell Reuters that Sharaa okayed its return to ease Israeli hostility and as gesture to Trump

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 20, 2025, in Washington. (AnnaMoneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

Rubio warns Syria could be weeks away from civil war, ‘country splitting up’

By Shaun Tandon

Thomas Barrack, nominee to serve as the US ambassador to Turkey, testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski /Getty Images via AFP)

US to appoint its ambassador to Turkey as special envoy for Syria, sources say

By Timour Azhari and Jonathan Spicer

Circassians commemorate the Circassian Mourning Day in Kfar Kama on May 21, 2024. (Courtesy/Adam Choshha)

'I'm part of this country'

Mourning their genocide, Israeli Circassians hold fast to multilayered identity

By Diana Bletter

Over 160 years after their people were expelled from the Caucasus, residents of Kfar Kama maintain their language and culture while embracing life as Israelis and Muslims

Israel's Yuval Raphael performs 'New Day Will Rise' during the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, at the St. Jakobshalle arena in Basel, Switzerland, on May 17, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Eurovision organizers dismiss claims of voter fraud after Israel tops televote

Spain, Belgium, Finland cast doubt on Yuval Raphael’s popularity; demand ‘transparency’ from EBU, which asserts there were no ‘suspicious or irregular voting patterns’

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, right, speaks on a panel with Liberties editor Leon Wieseltier and Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt at 'The End of an Era: Jews and Elite Universities,' a symposium at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, May 18, 2025. (John Halpern via JTA)

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At US campus symposium, billionaire Bill Ackman solitarily defends Trump’s Harvard feud

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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Posters for the proposed Golden Dome for America missile defense shield are displayed before an event with US President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump selects design plans for Israeli-inspired ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense shield

By Mike Stone and Jeff Mason

Writer Sasha Vasilyuk, whose debuty novel, 'Your Presence Is Mandatory,' won the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature on May 20, 2025 (Credit: Christopher Michel)

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By Jessica Steinberg

View of a massive wildfire near Latrun, outside of Jerusalem, April 30, 2025. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Probe rules out arson in massive Jerusalem-area blazes – report

By Charlie Summers

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz looks at his phone as he prepares for a TV interview at the White House on May 1, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP)

Messages from dozens of US officials found in leaked breach of Israel-founded app

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A branch of Bank Leumi in central Jerusalem (Maxim Dinshtein/Flash90)

Major banks’ profits surge as they cash in on wartime credit and fee growth

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: German federal police guards at the border control station Kiefersfelden, southern Germany, May 15, 2025. (Michaela Stache / AFP)

Germany busts far-right group for planning attacks on political opponents

By Geir Moulson

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