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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 27, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Jerusalem Day state ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, May 26, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Captive's mom: PM engaged in psychological terror against us

PM suggests hostage deal imminent, then walks back remark; families denounce ‘abuse’

Netanyahu claims he wasn’t speaking literally when saying he hoped to make an announcement on the captives ‘today or tomorrow,’ sparking flood of inquiries from desperate families

Anti-government, pro-hostage deal protesters hold a demonstration outside the Begin Street entrance to the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 24, 2025. The writing on the ground reads: 'Nobody in the government is innocent.' (Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hostage families fume after Netanyahu appears to tease deal only to dash hopes

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff arrives for a signing ceremony at the Royal Palace in Doha on May 14, 2025. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

Witkoff: Israel prepared to accept temporary ceasefire; Hamas should do the same

A screenshot of IDF video showing a drone strike in southern Lebanon’s Majdal Zoun on May 26, 2025, that it said killed a member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force. (X screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

May 27: IDF says member of Hezbollah’s Radwan force killed in south Lebanon drone strike

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

New Gaza aid group says 8,000 boxes distributed Tuesday, enough for 462,000 meals * Palestinians report settler attack on village near Nablus, cars set on fire

8:34 pm

US official who spread antisemitic rhetoric online becomes Pentagon press secretary
8:30 pm

Israeli criticism of Gaza aid workers is 'beyond cynical,' fumes UN official
7:47 pm

Israel says 95 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Tuesday

Palestinians pick up boxes of humanitarian aid at a distribution site managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on May 26, 2025. (GHF)

New Gaza aid body starts operating, pans Hamas threats toward those cooperating with it

GHF doesn’t reveal how much aid so far delivered, but says quantity will increase each day; group names new CEO after previous one resigns due to concerns over Israeli restrictions

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid addresses the Knesset plenum, May 26, 2025. (Danny Shem-Tov/Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Lapid suggests Israel is funding foreign ‘shell companies’ distributing Gaza aid

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on May 26, 2025. (Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Hamas executes four Gazans it accuses of looting aid as it tries to assert control

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

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American Intifada: How Israel became the progressive Left’s villain

Chronicling the ideological shift that transformed Israel from liberal cause to progressive target despite unchanged facts, the latest book from Uri Kaufman.

Yair Golan (right) speaks at a conference in Beersheba as hecklers call him a traitor, on May 27, 2025. (screen capture: Kaye College's Sderot Conference via Facebook)

With calls of ‘traitor,’ hecklers disrupt Yair Golan speech at conference

The left-wing Democrats party leader argues back that protesters are tearing the country apart; opposition leaders condemn jeers, far-right minister Ben Gvir praises them

What we did, and why

We were told victory was, finally, just around the corner. We were told total victory meant total destruction.

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

The cognitive ring of fire endangering Jews everywhere

ISNAD, a shadowy network of influencers, isn’t just a threat to online discourse. It’s a threat to physical safety.

An ultra Orthodox man looks on as teenagers train for the military in Jerusalem on July 26, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

'Not an issue of faith, but rather of lifestyle'

Study finds growing numbers leaving Haredi community, but many staying religious

By Rossella Tercatin

According to Out for Change survey, two-thirds of former ultra-Orthodox identify as observant or traditional and high numbers report still having good relationships with family

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (Pool via AP)

Noem: PM knows he needs US, needs our president as his ally

Report: Netanyahu-Trump phone call on Iran was marked by heated disagreements

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

After meeting premier in Jerusalem, Trump loyalist Kristi Noem says his aides later told her ‘that they don’t remember a bilateral meeting that was quite that candid and direct’

Marchers chant ‘Death to Arabs,’ skirmish with shopkeepers and cops at Jerusalem Day parade

By Charlie Summers

Ben Gvir slams Gaza humanitarian aid while kicking off nationalist march into Old City: ‘Our enemies deserve only a bullet to the head’; activists erect giant sign urging mass expulsion of Palestinians

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on Jerusalem Day, May 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says Jewish prayer, including full prostration, permitted at Temple Mount

Anti-war activist Itamar Greenberg detained by police at a Tel Aviv demonstration on the evening of May 25, 2025. (Screenshot/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-war protester says prison guards threatened to tattoo Star of David on his face

Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her welcome ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG tells Netanyahu that choosing Zini to head Shin Bet ‘invalid and unlawful’

By Jeremy Sharon

Gali Baharav Miara says PM must not be involved in any way in appointing new Shin Bet chief; ministers demand she be ousted, ‘brought to justice’

A billboard showing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara accuses her of spinning tales against the government, in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2024. The billboard dubs Baharav-Miara 'judicial seamstress to the government,' in a Hebrew-language pun on her office's name. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 27: Day 599 – Netanyahu, AG and High Court edge closer to crisis

By Jessica Steinberg, Jeremy Sharon and Diana Bletter

Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky in a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, November 25, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson/ File)

Likud MK: IDF lawyer ‘stained in blood of troops’ for probing their alleged wrongdoings

An Israeli soldier on the border fence with Syria, in the northern Israeli town of Majdal Shams, on May 9, 2025. (Michael Giladi/FLash90)

Israel and Syria holding face-to-face meetings at border to calm tensions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Syrians represented by border governor Ahmad al-Dalati, Israel by unnamed security officials; talks are on ‘absence of war,’ not normalization, for now

A screenshot of video from social media appearing to show the interception of a ballistic missile fired from Yemen toward Israel, early May 27, 2025. (X screenshot)

IDF downs two missiles fired from Yemen in latest Houthi attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Sirens sound in northern West Bank settlements for first projectile, sending thousands to shelters; no injuries or damage reported

An Air France Airbus A320 approaches for landing in Lisbon, Portugal, October 10, 2023. (AP/Armando Franca)

Air France to resume flights to Tel Aviv, while Lufthansa pushes off return

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: The Israeli flag and the European Union flag are seen at EU headquarters in Brussels, on January 25, 2023. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

Israel warns Europe that Palestine recognition may be met with West Bank annexation

By Stav Levaton and Agencies

Reports say ministers tell UK, France and others that Israel is considering annexing Area C of West Bank and legalizing outposts; Sweden summons Israeli envoy over Gaza aid

Palestinians mourn the death of people killed in an Israeli airstrike outside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 18, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

800 British judges and lawyers call for UK to sanction Israel over Gaza conflict

By Jeremy Sharon

The Norwegian Parliament on April 29, 2019, in Oslo. (Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)

Norway’s parliament said to reject blanket divestment from firms in West Bank, Gaza

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Forces cleared major junction, stopped abduction of 12 workers in Mefalsim on Oct. 7

Military probe finds Yamam and Shin Bet officers’ actions halted Hamas’s advance during onslaught, enabled troops to reach other areas under attack

A car destroyed by Palestinian terrorists is seen at Shaar Hanegev Junction near Sderot, on October 7, 2023. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

Ethiopian priests, or kesim, stand with their umbrellas at the state memorial ceremony for Ethiopian Jews, May 26, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

At event for 40th anniversary of Operation Moses, Israel’s Ethiopians share pride and pain

As Israel recalls the 1985 covert mission that rescued 8,000 Ethiopians from war and famine, the community extols its achievements, but racism still abounds

A 1,600-year-old mosaic discovered in a Byzantine monastery is on display for the first time at Merhavim Regional Council’s headquarters in Western Negev, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on May 27, 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'This is the work of a true artist'

Kaleidoscopic 1,600-year-old monastery mosaic on display for first time in the Negev

By Rossella Tercatin

Roaring lions, gazelles fleeing wolves and a farmer wiping sweat from his forehead are among the scenes from Byzantine Israel depicted on the artifact

Interview

War costs put Israel’s public services at risk of collapse, says former central bank head

Without policy shift, social welfare won’t meet needs of population; quality of life and economic growth will be harmed, says Karnit Flug, ahead of this week’s IDI conference

Former Bank of Israel governor Prof. Karnit Flug speaks at the Eli Huwitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, May 2024. (Oded Karni)

Agricultural fields in northern Israel, February 13, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Israeli philanthropists, a rare breed, coalesce to fund carbon-slashing projects

The Israeli Climate Action Fund, better known as PAI, has no PR or website, but its deep-pocketed members bring diverse backgrounds and strengths to the fight on emissions

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US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee pose for a picture during a memorial event honoring slain Israeli embassy employees in Jerusalem on May 26, 2025. (Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP)

Foreign Ministry hosts memorial service for embassy workers killed in DC shooting

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, May 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill requiring every government to formulate national security strategy set to become law

A French riot policeman stands guard outside the Paris Synagogue, two days after security measures were reinforced near Jewish temples and schools, in central Paris, on October 9, 2023. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

Watchdog: French textbooks cover Israel, antisemitism, and the Holocaust, but gaps remain

Issa Al Hasan bends over as he sits at his place in the courtroom in Düsseldorf, Germany, May 27, 2025, at the start of his trial over a deadly knife attack that killed three people in August 2024. (Ina Fassbender / AFP)

Suspected Islamic State member pleads guilty to deadly stabbing at German festival

By AFP

Tel Aviv police chief Haim Sargrof, left, and other senior cops at the scene of a suspected deadly robbery in Tel Aviv on May 27, 2025. (Police Spokesperson)

Elderly man killed in apparent Tel Aviv mugging

Firefighters try to extinguish a large fire that broke out in the Jerusalem Forest, May 26, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Wildfire rages near Jerusalem, leading some residents of Yefe Nof to evacuate homes

This undated photo is said by Iranian media to show Ehsum Bagheri, a judge in the Islamic Republic who was reportedly stabbed to death in the southern city of Shiraz, May 27, 2025. Above him is a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Judge stabbed to death in southern Iran, assailants at large, state media says

Likud MK Ariel Kallner speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, May 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Leading Jewish philanthropists blast ‘dangerous’ government-backed NGO taxation bill

By Jeremy Sharon

Police and emergency personnel deal with an incident after a car collided with pedestrians near the Liver Building during the Premier League winners parade in Liverpool, England, May 26, 2025.(Jon Super/AP)

UK police say driver who plowed into soccer fans not believed to be terrorist

By brian melley and Steve Douglas

Trump mulls transferring $3 billion in federal Harvard grants to trade schools

By David Shepardson and Jonathan Allen

Director Marcel Ophuls shows the Berlinale Camera award after he is honored for his lifetime achievement during the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, February 11, 2015. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Director of French Holocaust documentary ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ dies at 91

By Thomas Adamson

From the interior of an infinity mirror room created by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, now part of the permanent collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, beginning in June 2025 (Credit Kfir Sivan)

ReflectionsKusama infinity room joins Tel Aviv museum’s permanent display

By Jessica Steinberg

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