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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 25, 2025

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Protesters call for a deal to end the war in Gaza and return the remaining hostages, outside the IDF military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on May 24, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

May 25: US said asking Israel to delay expanded Gaza offensive for time for talks with Hamas

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In blow to Israeli-backed aid effort, CEO of group supposed to manage it resigns * US National Security Council staff fired en masse, including Mideast, Israel, Iran chiefs

8:57 pm

US said asking Israel to delay expanded Gaza offensive for time for talks with Hamas
8:04 pm

Ex-hostage Liri Albag questioned for an hour at JFK due to system still recording her as hostage
7:51 pm

Israeli racer crashes out of Indy 500 after losing control, hitting crewmates

A wounded Palestinian child, the only surviving child of doctor Alaa al-Najjar, lies in a hospital bed at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after an Israeli airstrike on May 23, 2025, allegedly hit their home. Al-Najjar lost 9 of her 10 children in the attack, which occurred shortly after she had left for work. (Hani Alshaer / Anadolu via Reuters)

Gazans say 9 children of doctor couple killed in Israeli strike; IDF looking into report

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army acknowledges attack on suspects in Khan Younis, says it came after warning for civilians to leave ‘combat zone’; all standing infantry and armored brigades now deployed to Strip

Cpt. (res.) Ron Finer arriving at the Beit Lid military prison to serve a 20-day sentence, May 25, 2025. (Screen capture: Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF reservist sentenced to 20 days in jail for refusing to serve in Gaza

Captain Ron Finer, who has served over 270 days since October 7, is a member of Soldiers for Hostages group; objects to ‘never-ending’ war in Gaza, ‘abandonment’ of hostages

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Chief Military Advocate Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash 90/File)

Katz bans IDF top lawyer from key legal event, drawing pushback from chief of staff

By Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton

Defense minister cites ‘political content’ at Bar Association confab as reason for excluding Military Advocate General; Army says important to publicly justify military operations

PM’s choice to head Shin Bet criticized Halevi for ‘prioritizing’ hostages — report

By Jeremy Sharon

‘You prioritize the return of the hostages over destroying Hamas,’ Zini reportedly told then-IDF chief months ago; sources close to Netanyahu said unsure appointment will go ahead

Maj. Gen. David Zini visits families of fallen Israeli soldiers during Memorial Day at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on April 30, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/ Flash90)

NYT: US-registered Gaza aid group is ‘brainchild’ of Israelis, its funding is unclear

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation formed by businessmen, reservists with links to government; Haaretz: Key Israeli defense bodies bypassed in selection of security firm as contractor

Palestinians struggle to receive cooked food distributed at a community kitchen in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians gather to fill their containers with water in the Nuseirat camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip on May 24, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Letter shows Israel may let humanitarian groups in Gaza stay in charge of non-food aid

By AP and ToI Staff

Released hostage Naama Levy speaks at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, on May 24, 2025. (Alon Gilboa/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

'I saw you in this square. I knew people were fighting for me'

Ex-hostage Naama Levy tells rally her greatest fear in captivity was IDF airstrikes

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

‘I was convinced every single time that I was finished,’ former captive says of Israeli bombings, as she addresses thousands-strong crowd; hundreds at vigil for killed Gaza children

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

IDF strikes on Hamas compound nearly killed Edan Alexander in captivity, dad reveals

Protesters at Begin Road in Tel Aviv on May 24, 2025, carry a large banner, 'Save the Hostages End the War' (Credit: Dana Reany/Israeli Pro-Democracy Movement)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 25: Day 597 – As IDF increases Gaza strikes, ex-hostages share fears

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Freed Israeli hostage Agam Berger meets with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris, May 23, 2025. (French Foreign Ministry)

Former hostage Agam Berger to French FM: ‘Diplomatic solutions’ won’t end conflict

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

At meeting in Paris with Jean-Noel Barrot, Berger urges firm stance against Hamas, as French-Israeli tensions mount over Gaza and push for Palestinian state recognition

Patricia Levinson

Tears streamed down our faces: Remembering Jerusalem Day, 1967

We heard the shofar blown on the radio. Three weeks later, we stood before the Western Wall and reverently touched the stones

Austin Reid Albanese

The forgotten Jewish soldier in my hometown square

A monument with a star of David tells of a time when Americans knew that Jewish families had sacrificed alongside their Christian neighbors

Israeli Ambassador the US Yechiel Leiter appears on the PragerU "Real Talk" broadcast in an interview released on May 22, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli envoy to US accuses Netanyahu’s political opponents of ‘blood libel’

Appearing on right-wing podcast, Yechiel Leiter also claims the premier is currently being tried on ‘trumped-up charges,’ falsely says he was indicted in submarine graft case

Prof. Robert Putnam. (Harvard University)

Interview

‘We need a moral revolution’: Social scientist Robert Putnam on fixing a fractured society

By Ariela Karmel

In Israel to accept an award from the Jonathan Sacks Institute, the Harvard professor and author reflects on polarization, pluralism and his friendship with the late UK chief rabbi

The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan is interviewed on Channel 12, May 24, 2025. (Channel 12)

After controversy, Yair Golan says Israel ‘certainly does not’ kill Gaza babies ‘as a hobby’

After backlash, left-wing leader says he was expressing his fear that extremist government members would like to do so; ‘Is this the Israel we want? I genuinely ask myself that’

Inside Story

Charlie Summers

Activists say attempts to keep left-wing protesters in jail aim at stifling dissent

Police asked to keep demonstrators arrested at an anti-war rally this month behind bars for a week, while right-wing protesters against aid to Gaza were questioned and let go

Prominent left-wing activist Alon-Lee Green is arrested by police during anti-war protest in Sderot, near the Gaza border on May 19, 2025. (Standing Together Movement/Courtesy)

Debris from an intercepted Houthi ballistic missile that landed in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank, May 25, 2025 (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF intercepts Houthi missile fired from Yemen, in third attack in four days

By Emanuel Fabian

Sirens sound in Jerusalem area, southern West Bank settlements and communities near Red Sea, sending hundreds of thousands to shelters; no injuries or damage reported

Tawfeek Barhom poses with the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film for 'I'm Glad You're Dead Now' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, May 24, 2025. (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Arab Israeli filmmaker wins prize at Cannes: ‘This is for Palestine and for peace’

Tawfeek Barhom’s ‘I’m Glad You’re Dead Now’ earns Palme d’Or for short film as hundreds of attendees at international film festival sign anti-Israel petition

Director Jafar Panahi, winner of the Palme d'Or for the film 'It Was Just an Accident', poses for photographers at the awards ceremony photo call at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 24, 2025. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Dissident Iranian filmmaker urges working for ‘freedom’ as he takes Cannes top prize

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People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Auschwitz museum sounds alarm over ‘harmful’ AI images of Holocaust victims

Screen capture from video of a clash between Israeli settlers and Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Bruqin, May 25, 2025. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers said to raid Palestinian village for 2nd time in 3 days; no arrests

This handout photograph taken and released by Turkish Foreign Ministry press service on May 24, 2025, shows US Ambassador to Turkey Thomas Barrack (L) shakes hands with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) during a meeting in Istanbul. (Handout / Turkish Foreign Ministry, AFP)

Syrian leader hailed by US envoy for moves on ‘relations with Israel,’ foreign fighters

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Three women walk along the Corniche at dusk, with the Doha skyline in the background, in Doha, Qatar, May 15, 2025. (Fatima Shbair/AP)

Rights group accuses Qatar of decades of ‘intimidation’ against Baha’i minority

By AFP

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