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What Matters Most On Friday, May 23, 2025

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Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the Israeli Embassy in the US, killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy, Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Investigators recover 21 bullet casings from the scene

Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, told police he ‘did it for Gaza’

By Luke Tress and Agencies

Elias Rodriguez shot victims in the back at close range, court documents say; FBI investigating his apparent writings and far-left political affiliations

The suspect in the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested, May 21, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Washington shooting suspect was anti-Israel activist, railed against Seattle’s ‘whitening’

By Grace Gilson

The suspect in the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested, May 21, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Purported manifesto of DC shooting suspect appears online

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on May 19, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit in Kingston upon Hull, England, March 13, 2025. (Oli Scarff/Pool via AP); France's President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 7, 2025. (Michel Euler/Pool/AFP); Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a rally in Toronto, on April 4, 2025. (Peter Power/AFP)

Security upped at all Israeli embassies after DC killings

PM: Starmer, Macron, Carney ’emboldening Hamas,’ are on ‘wrong side of humanity, history’

‘When mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice,’ says Netanyahu, after leaders of UK, France, and Canada issue joint statement

A man, standing behind police tape, talks on his cell phone outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that killed two people, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Fatal DC shooting is grim validation for those who warned of ‘Free Palestine’ violence

By PHILISSA CRAMER

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen (left) and Israeli Ambassador to the EU and NATO Haim Regev (right) take part in a tribute to the victims of the October 7 attack, at the European Parliament in Brussels, October 11, 2023. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

Israeli envoy to EU warns of a ‘diplomatic erosion’ of ties as war drags on

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Analysis

After deadly shooting, US Jewish security leaders urge vigilance amid threat of copycats

Killings in Washington could inspire other attacks, experts warn, as murders bring threat of far-left violence into focus

Mourners outside the White House in Washington, DC, May 22, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

A K-9 unit arrives at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025, following a shooting that left Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim dead on May 21. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

‘He never should have made it inside that building’: Security lapses in DC museum killings

By Andrew Lapin

A police car patrols near a Chabad center in Miami Beach, Florida, May 22, 2025, following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)

Jewish groups urge $1b in federal funding to secure institutions after deadly DC attack

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Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim (Courtesy)

Israeli embassy staffers killed in Washington aspired to Middle East bridge-building

Friends and colleagues remember the couple as driven by a desire to forge regional ties through diplomacy, and for their ‘unwavering belief’ in peace and equality

A TikTok post celebrating Elias Rodriguez. (Screenshot via JTA)

Pro-Palestinian social media accounts cheer killing of Israeli staffers at DC museum

Reporter's notebook

Jews in Washington voice their sorrow, fear and anger after deadly shooting

Mourners seeking connection gather at the killing site at capital’s Jewish museum, sing and pray at vigil outside White House

Mourners outside the White House in Washington, DC, May 22, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Raif Rashed, an Israeli Druze and the owner of Taboonia, wraps up a pita with labneh in May 2025. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)

No strangers to violence, New York Israelis say they are undeterred by DC shooting

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Emergency personnel work at the site where two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, May 21, 2025. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

Israelis shaken by deadly DC museum shooting: ‘I’m afraid to go abroad’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Jews, it’s time to fight for America

The US is no longer the safe haven it was, and that is exactly why it needs us to stand against the elements that threaten to implode it from within

Why I’m breaking up with the two-party system

We need to stop outsourcing our thinking to the political echelons; neither party represents Judaism – and neither guarantees Jewish safety (Behar/Bechuotai)

Gazans flood a bakery in Nuseirat refugee camp during a distribution of bread amid a slightly eased Israeli aid blockade on May 23, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

Live updates (closed)

May 23: Israel says 83 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Friday

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Footage shows hundreds of Gazans thronging bakery distributing bread amid slightly eased Israeli blockade * Report: PM’s only conversation with Zini about Shin Bet post was during brief car chat 2 weeks ago

9:04 pm

Poll: Golan gained more voters than he lost after 'killing Gazan babies' comments
8:59 pm

Most Israelis believe PM more interested in staying in power than winning war or freeing hostages — poll
8:20 pm

Billy Joel cancels concert dates over brain condition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and then-IDF Maj. Gen. David Zini at the Tzeelim training base in southern Israel, May 8, 2025. (GPO)

Netanyahu’s pick for Shin Bet chief ousted from IDF for going behind army chief’s back

By Emanuel Fabian

Zamir was not consulted ahead of PM’s naming of Maj. Gen. David Zini, an active duty general; PM met Zini during visit to a base this month; PMO: Zini won’t have role in Qatargate probe

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and then-IDF Maj. Gen. David Zini at the Tzeelim training base in southern Israel, May 8, 2025. (GPO)

Defying AG’s order, Netanyahu selects IDF general as next Shin Bet chief

By Jeremy Sharon and Emanuel Fabian

Qatargate suspect Jonatan Urich (right) arrives at a hearing at the Central District Court with his attorney, Amit Hadad, on May 22, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Qatargate suspect set for release from house arrest after court rejects state’s appeal

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Displaced Palestinians walk through a makeshift tent camp at the Gaza City port on May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF soldier seriously hurt in north Gaza as dozens of Palestinians said killed in strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military says 98th Division has returned to the enclave, operating in Khan Younis; Hamas-run Gaza civil defense says 52 killed in aerial bombardment in past day

Bono poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Bono: Stories of Surrender' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2025. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Bono: ‘Hamas, release the hostages, stop the war. Israel, be released from Netanyahu’

As U2 receives award, frontman praises aid workers as ‘the best of us,’ calls for ‘Israel to be released from far-right fundamentalists that twist your sacred texts’

Austrian singer Johannes Pietsch, known as JJ, celebrates with the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest trophy after winning the grand final at the St. Jakobshalle arena in Basel on May 18, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Austrian Eurovision winner says he hopes Israel will be barred from contest next year

By Amy Spiro and Agencies

A relief sculpture rests on a gate to the entrance of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Trump administration bans Harvard from enrolling foreign students, citing antisemitism

By Gregory WALTON

Homeland security secretary says university ‘perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies,’ has ‘racist’ DEI policies

A relief sculpture rests on a gate to the entrance of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Exchange students in limbo as Trump’s ban on Harvard foreign enrollment takes effect

By Agencies and ToI Staff

AnalysisWill the DC killings lead Trump to crack down harder on pro-Palestinian activists?

An Arrow 3 interceptor is launched over central Israel during a ballistic missile attack from Yemen on May 22, 2025. (Courtesy/Etai Davidovich)

In 4th attack on Israel in week, IDF intercepts Houthi missile fired from Yemen

By Emanuel Fabian

No injuries or damage in latest attack carried out by Iran-backed group; 38 ballistic missiles launched since late March

A man rides a motorbike in a narrow alleyway at the Burj al Barajneh camp for Palestinian refugees in Beirut's southern suburbs on May 20, 2025. (Joseph EID / AFP)

Lebanon will start disarming Palestinian refugee camps in June, official says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Feb. 25, 2025; Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, March 19, 2025. (AP Photos Stringer, Mark Schiefelbein)

US and Iran negotiators in Rome for 5th round of nuke talks, with focus on enrichment

By AP and ToI Staff

Mossad head Barnea, PM confidant Dermer said set to meet with US envoy Witkoff on talks’ sidelines, as Iran says it won’t agree to end all enrichment, vows to ‘protect’ material

Israeli Air Force fighter jets take off for airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, May 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Ahead of new round of talks with US, Iran warns Israel against attacking nuclear sites

By Agencies and ToI Staff

'A terrorist hub? It's an Israeli narrative'

As IDF demolishes hundreds of houses in West Bank camps, residents are determined to return

By Nurit Yohanan

Palestinians, whose homes were destroyed in counter-terror operation, speak of hardships after months of displacement; some say they only found out after the fact

The home of Nihaya al-Jundi, in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem, which was demolished by the IDF in February. (Courtesy)

Footage shows a reported settler attack on the West Bank village of Bruqin; a car is seen engulfed in flames, May 23, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Eight said wounded as dozens of settlers attack Palestinian village; no arrests

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Yeshiva students listen to a Torah lesson at the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem on August 16, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

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An illustration of the Wix.com ecommerce platform in action (Courtesy)

Website builder Wix buys Israeli startup to ramp up GenAI video creation tools

By Sharon Wrobel

Tel Aviv-based Hour One, set up in 2019, is a developer of software that turns text-based content into videos with computer-generated characters based on real people

Sami Zayn at WrestleMania Goes Hollywood at SoFi Stadium on April 1, 2023, in Inglewood, California. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images/AFP)

'We draw the line at him involving his personal opinions'

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By Andrew Lapin

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The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Toul on May 22, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Israeli strike kills Hezbollah operative in south Lebanon; jets target weapons depots

By Emanuel Fabian

Likud MK Amit Halevi attends a meeting of the Knesset National Security Committee, October 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

After Knesset clash, Likud MK Halevi vows to continue challenging defense minister on war

US director Scarlett Johansson during a photocall for the film 'Eleanor the Great' at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 21, 2025. (Sameer AL-DOUMY / AFP)

Great expectationsScarlett Johansson makes directorial debut with Holocaust-tied film

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