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What Matters Most On Monday, May 26, 2025

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Troops of the 36th Division operate in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published on May 26, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 26: IDF division completes Rafah operations, pushes into Khan Younis in new offensive

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation taps interim head after previous director quit * Tens of thousands attend Jerusalem Day Flag March amid clashes, chants of ‘Death to Arabs’

8:58 pm

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it began aid distribution today
7:29 pm

UK police arrest 53-year-old white British man after Liverpool apparent ramming; probe underway
7:10 pm

'She should be brought to justice': Ministers urge Netanyahu to ignore AG, appoint Zini as Shin Bet chief

Demonstrators protest against the Israeli government and for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, May 24, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel rejects latest proposed hostage-ceasefire deal, senior official says

By Nava Freiberg, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Responding to report Trump is set to announce new truce for around 70 days and release of 10 hostages, Israeli official says Hamas terms are unacceptable

People watch as smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on May 25, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Hamas authorities say at least 23 killed in strikes across Gaza; IDF doesn’t comment

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan

Hamas terrorists attack an army base next to the Erez Crossing, on October 7, 2023, in footage released by the terror group. (Screenshot: Telegram)

Government backs bill to form special tribunal to prosecute Oct. 7 terrorists

By Jeremy Sharon

People watch as smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on May 25, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Israel says Gaza aid starting distribution through controversial new mechanism

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation confirms it will hand out supplies Monday despite resignation of CEO; dozens said killed as IDF reports hitting school being used by terror groups

Palestinians line up to receive a hot meal at a food distribution point in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip on May 21, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

In blow to Israel-backed Gaza aid effort, CEO of group tasked with managing it resigns

By Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

Illustrative: A pro-Israel counter-protester at an anti-Israel demonstration in Times Square, New York City, January 1, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

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IDF troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip in a handout photo published on May 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF aims to capture 75% of Gaza Strip in 2 months in new offensive against Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians to be pushed into three small zones, as new aid delivery mechanism set to start Monday; military says no change to collateral damage policy in airstrikes

Troops of the Givati Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published May 26, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 26: Day 598 – How the IDF plans to seize 75% of Gaza in 2 months

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, May 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief Zamir, in Gaza, says battle against Hamas ‘not an endless war’

By Emanuel Fabian

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz takes part in a discussion on stage during the opening day of the 'Re:publica 25' digital conference in Berlin on May 26, 2025. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Germany’s Merz says Israeli strikes on Gaza no longer justifiable as fight against Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘I no longer understand what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip,’ German chancellor says in TV interview, says he will hold call with Netanyahu to voice concern

A Muslim woman prays during an event to mark the 10th anniversary of the kidnapping of students from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok by Boko Haram, in Lagos, Nigeria, April 14, 2024. (AP/Sunday Alamba)

Netanyahu compares October 7 hostages to girls kidnapped by Boko Haram

PM recorded telling families Israel doing more than any other country to return its abducted citizens, but mass kidnappings are not unique to Hamas

Former hostage Liri Albag is interviewed on Channel 12 on March 5, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Liri Albag detained for an hour at New York airport due to outdated system warning

Released hostage Omer Wenkert speaks to the Israel Bar Association conference on May 25, 2025. (Screen capture via Walla)

Former hostage says Hamas captors sprayed him in the eyes with pesticide

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

Levin: Only thing under attack is sovereignty of the people

AG: ‘Not a warning, but reality – under cover of war, regime change has sped up greatly’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Baharav-Miara declares at Bar Association confab that governance changes already felt, joining Supreme Court head Amit in highlighting erosion of judicial independence

President Isaac Herzog speaks at an event at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, May 25, 2025. (Haim Zach/GPO)

In message to Netanyahu, Herzog warns against disobeying High Court rulings

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

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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)

Shin Bet officials said threatening to quit if ‘messianic’ Zini confirmed as agency chief

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

PM’s choice to lead agency heard on tape telling Gaza border residents that efforts to rescue hostages delay Hamas’s destruction, claims it’s their job to prevent future attacks

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

Explainer

Netanyahu’s appointment of David Zini as Shin Bet chief is fraught with obstacles

The IDF general was selected despite conflict of interest concerns, the AG’s explicit instructions to PM not to make appointment, and a problematic job interview

Inside story

Stav Levaton and Agencies

Trump’s huge Saudi arms deal may be limited by US pledge to preserve Israel’s military edge

As Riyadh eyes advanced weaponry, Washington’s commitment to Israel’s defense supremacy means coveted F-35 fighter jets likely won’t be part of $142 billion in potential sales

Israeli F-35i and American F-15 jets hold an exercise over Israel, November 29, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albares gives a press conference during the Madrid+ For the Implementation of the Two States Solution meeting of European and Arab nations in Madrid on May 25, 2025. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP)

Spain proposes imposing sanctions on Israel to force end to Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Spanish foreign minister urges allies to impose arms embargo, as well as individual sanctions on people trying to ‘ruin the two-state solution forever’

People walk near an anti-US mural over the former US embassy in Tehran, on May 20, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran rejects temporary freeze on enrichment, says it’s not worried about sanctions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Day after Trump hints agreement may be imminent, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry says interim deal not on table while president says Tehran ‘will survive’ even if talks fall apart

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists before boarding Air Force One from Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, May 25, 2025, after spending the weekend in New Jersey. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump says US saw ‘real progress’ in latest talks with Iran, predicts ‘good news’

By Jacob Magid and AP

Aerial view of Ma'ale Adumim, a West Bank settlement outside of Jerusalem, February 25, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

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Right-wing Israelis march through the Damascus Gate into the Arab Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem during the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March, June 5, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Capital braces for skirmishes ahead of Jerusalem Day nationalist Flag March

By Charlie Summers

National religious youth set to throng the Old City’s Muslim Quarter in annual parade to the Western Wall

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

Envoy to US to be summoned for hearing over remarks bashing PM’s political opponents

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, speaking to American outlet Prager U, accused the ‘extreme left’ of ‘blood libel’ for claiming Netanyahu is prolonging the Gaza war

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during the US Coast Guard Academy's 144th Commencement, in New London, Connecticut, on May 21, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/ AFP)

US homeland security chief flies to Israel for memorial for slain embassy staffers

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Joseph Neumeyer (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

American-German national charged with trying to firebomb US embassy’s Tel Aviv branch

At the Fresh Paint art fair in Tel Aviv, through May 26, 2025 (Courtesy Fresh Paint)

Craft and commerce

Fresh Paint fair brings new Israeli art to potential collectors

By Jessica Steinberg

Six-day Tel Aviv art event introduces artists and their works to new audiences, with everything for sale

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France's President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron disembark from the plane upon their arrival at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on May 25, 2025 (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

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Robert Shwartzman is introduced before the start of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

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By AP and ToI Staff

L: Russian President Vladimir Putin at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside of Moscow, Russia on April 24, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP); R: US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Illustrative: Police at a crime scene in Abu Snan in northern Israel, August 22, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90/File)

Couple found dead in northern Israel after suspected murder-suicide

By Charlie Summers

Iranian director Jafar Panahi poses with the trophy during a photocall after winning the Palme d'Or for the film, 'Un simple accident' (A Simple Accident) during the closing ceremony at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 24, 2025. (Miguel Medina/AFP)

Iran summons French envoy after foreign minister lauds dissident filmmaker

By AFP

Women pushing strollers walk past the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/ Getty Images via AFP)

School vouchers would expand across US under federal proposal cheered by Orthodox groups

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

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