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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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Former hostages, and relatives of hostages, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, marking 600 days of the hostages' captivity, May 28, 2025 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Abandoned, forgotten’: Relatives of 58 hostages held in Gaza mark 600 days since Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Captives’ loved ones rage against government as protesters across the country call for hostage deal and new elections, almost 20 months after terrorist assault

A demonstration at the beach in Tel Aviv to mark 600 days in captivity for the hostages, May 28, 2025 (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

May 28: Smotrich warns he ‘will not allow’ Israel to agree to Witkoff’s hostage deal proposal

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Footage from Gaza shows hundreds breaking into warehouse, stealing flour * 62 protesters arrested after storming Likud HQ, projecting Qatari flag on outside of building

11:03 pm

'France stands by them': Macron issues Hebrew tweet marking 600 days since hostages abducted on Oct. 7
8:02 pm

Israel says 121 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza today
7:57 pm

Protesters, cops face off outside Likud HQ-turned-'Qatar Embassy' after dozens storm building; at least 57 said arrested

Pictures released by the Israeli Air Force showing planes returning after intercepting a missile attack from Iran, April 14, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

US officials concerned Israel may strike Iran nuke sites without much warning – NYT

Despite impasse over enrichment, US and Iran may issue interim declaration of principles soon in bid to stave off Israeli attack, report says; claims Israel could gear up for strike in 7 hours

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran executes man it convicted of spying for Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to journalists attending a weeklong seminar at the agency in Vienna, Austria, on May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

UN nuclear chief says ‘jury still out’ on US-Iran talks, but dialogue a good sign

By Jon Gambrell

Promoted LivestreamJPPI

Rebuilding Northern Israel

When Israel’s north emptied after October 8, Nissan Zeevi of Kfar Giladi stayed. Now he wants to bring families back. A story of fear, resilience, and the fight to rebuild the Galilee.

A Yemenia plane destroyed in an Israeli airstrike at Sanaa International Airport in Yemen, May 28, 2025. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel strikes Houthi-held Sanaa airport after repeated missile attacks by Yemeni group

By Emanuel Fabian

Latest bombing destroys last remaining plane used by Houthis, Defense Minister Katz says; Netanyahu says Iran responsible for ‘aggression from Yemen’

Illustrative: Fighters from the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah train in southern Lebanon, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 28: Day 600 – A guided tour of the IDF’s war of 7 fronts

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Op-ed: Day 600 of the war

And what if Hamas doesn’t blink?

Netanyahu has plunged Israel into a high-risk, morally alarming game of chicken with Gaza’s ultra-cynical terrorists

Clockwise from top left: A Palestinian sits over the contents of a food package distributed by a US-backed foundation in western Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2025. (AFP); Relatives of Israeli hostages and supporters protest for their release at the beach in Tel Aviv, marking 600 days of the hostages’ captivity, May 28, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Jerusalem Day state ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, May 26, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90); 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)

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz takes part in a discussion in Berlin on May 26, 2025. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Germany threatens ‘steps’ against Israel over Gaza, escalating criticism of war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

L to R: US envoy Steve Witkoff meets families of hostages in Tel Aviv, on May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty); Mossad chief David Barnea attends a ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Barnea, Dermer reportedly set to meet Witkoff amid efforts to secure hostage deal

Claire E. Sufrin

Even when terror takes our dearest, hope sustains us. My family proves that

In the wake of the most painful losses and through the hardest moments, we risk stepping forward, toward the potential for something better

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Wearing the hostage pin

At 600 days, a cloud weighs on my bright yellow symbol of the souls who must come home. There seems to be no end to this war and time is running out for them

Men hold food packages after Gazans broke into a US-backed foundation pledging to distribute humanitarian aid in western Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2025. (AFP)

Police clear protesters trying to block aid at Ashdod port

Gazans overrun Strip’s new aid center; operator says distribution has resumed

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF confirms it fired shots into air, not at center itself; US-backed aid group says centers have given out 8,000 food boxes; UN says mechanism far from reaching aid targets

Palestinians carry boxes containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed organization approved by Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

US will push for countries to fund Gaza aid group once it demonstrates results — official

Left to right: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan attends a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York, January 27, 2025 (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on Jerusalem Day, May 26, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90).

ICC prosecutor was readying warrants for Smotrich, Ben Gvir before his leave – report

Karim Khan, being probed for sexual misconduct, said to have been preparing war crimes charges against finance and national security ministers for promoting West Bank settlements

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

IDF, civil defense squad repelled terrorists at Kerem Shalom on Oct. 7, saving residents

Only one civilian wounded during Hamas’s assault on border community during the terror onslaught; dozens of terrorists killed trying to approach the kibbutz

A Hamas terrorist is seen opening fire inside Kibbutz Kerem Shalom on October 7, 2023. (South First Responders)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Prof. Elie Podeh: When the IDF disengaged from Gaza, 20 years ago

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

With the IDF on the brink of recapturing the Strip, Podeh discusses the events that led up to Israel’s unilateral decision in 2005 to pull out — and how it took many partners to pull it off

View of the outpost of Homesh, in the West Bank, on May 29, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Security cabinet said to secretly okay establishment of 22 new West Bank settlements

Smotrich and Katz reportedly led vote last week to build new communities and legalize existing outposts, including Homesh and Sa-Nur, which were evacuated amid 2005 Gaza withdrawal

Radical settler activist Neriya Ben Pazi pictured with his family at his illegal farming outpost HaMahoch in the West Bank. Another of Ben Pazi's farms, the Rimonim Farm, has received state funds through the Agriculture Ministry (Courtesy: Honenu legal aid organization)

High Court presses IDF, police to enable displaced Palestinian villagers to return home

By Jeremy Sharon

Israeli troops storm a currency exchange shop next to signs warning people not to deal with the Gulf exchange company in Hebron in the southern West Bank on May 27, 2025. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Israel launches anti-terror raids on West Bank money changers

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses the Foreign Ministry's international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem in a recorded video message, May 28, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Rubio: Murders of Israeli embassy staff a reminder of importance of ‘never again’

Delegates from 40 countries attend Foreign Ministry’s antisemitism conference in Jerusalem, first major event of Israel’s yearlong IHRA presidency

'We will carry your torch, we will continue your mission'

Murdered Israeli Embassy staffer remembered for ‘all she had done to further peace’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

‘If you’re really interested in doing something for Gaza… you could have asked’ Sarah Milgrim, says rabbi at Kansas City funeral, in remarks seemingly addressed at shooter who yelled ‘Free Palestine’

Rabbi Doug Alpert speaks at the funeral of Sarah Milgrim at Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas, on May 27, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)

Family and friends arrive at Congregation Beth Torah for a funeral for Sarah Milgrim, a staffer at the Israeli Embassy who was killed last week outside a Washington, DC, Jewish museum, May 27, 2025, in Overland Park, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Kansas Jewish community holds funeral for Israeli Embassy staffer slain in DC

By MARGERY A. BECK

Pastor Chad Holland Messianic congregation Kings of Kings in Jerusalem honors Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim on May 25, 2025, after their murder in an antisemitic attack in Washington DC. Lischinsky used to belong to the congregation’s youth group. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We are faithful citizens in the land"

For Messianic Jews in Jerusalem, Yaron Lischinsky’s murder was a personal loss

By Rossella Tercatin

Marginalized in Israel, adherents of the controversial movement maintain the holiness of both the Bible and the Christian Gospel, placing an emphasis on the Jewish identity of Jesus

France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto attend a press conference at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on May 28, 2025. (BAY ISMOYO / AFP)

Indonesia: If Israel recognizes a Palestinian state, we will recognize Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Alongside visiting French leader, President Subianto also calls for rights and ‘guaranteed safety’ for Israel, ahead of French-Saudi two-state solution confab next month

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

Pedestrians walk past a mural depicting dark and shadowy Israeli soldiers on the International Wall on the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 19, 2024. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

Ireland’s cabinet formally backs trade ban on West Bank settlements

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Iraqi workers restore the shrine of Rabbi Isaac Gaon in central Baghdad's al-Kifah neighborhood on April 21, 2025.(AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Rabbi apparently died in 688; almost nothing is known of him

Resurrecting its past, Iraq’s tiny Jewish community restores a long-forgotten shrine

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ancient tomb of little-known Rabbi Isaac Gaon, revered in the past as a holy site with healing and fertility powers, is repaired after decades of neglect

Young Hasidic men walk in an 18th century Jewish cemetery in the small Ukrainian town of Berdychiv, July 30, 2018. (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

'We couldn't close the synagogue forever'

Once a center of Jewish life, Berdychiv’s tiny community struggles amid Ukraine war

By Theia Chatelle

As conflict grinds on and funds are redirected to Israel in the wake of Oct. 7, religious survival is difficult for the few left in a town that was 80% Jewish before the Holocaust

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Yehuda Cohen, director general of the Chief Rabbinate. (Chief Rabbinate)

PM’s pick for acting Civil Service head is under investigation by the Civil Service

By Jeremy Sharon

Henrik Olin, Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the National Unit for Security Cases, and Reena Devgun, Senior Prosecutor at the National Unit against International and Organized Crime, announcing indictment of Swedish man Osama Krayem, for gross war crimes and terrorism in Syria, on 27 May 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. (TT News Agency/Jonas Ekstromer/via REUTERS)

Sweden charges jihadist over Jordanian pilot burnt to death in Syria

By AFP

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing in Jerusalem on May 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu repeatedly slams IDF chief, opposed his appointment – report

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives, with his wife, at the beginning of a summit where the leaders of 47 European countries and organizations are to discuss security, defense and democratic standards, in Tirana, Albania, on May 16, 2025. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

Turkey’s Erdogan appoints team to draft new constitution, drawing fear of power grab

By AP

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 seeks to cut $100 million in federal contracts for Harvard

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Collin Binkley

Maxim Rybnikov (right), London-based director at S&P Global Ratings, speaks via video conference at the Israel Democracy Institute’s Eli Hurvitz conference on Economy and Society in Jerusalem, May 27, 2025. At left is former Bank of Israel director Karnit Flug. (Sharon Wrobel/Times of Israel)

S&P warns Israel’s credit rating at risk of downgrade amid judicial jitters, Gaza war

By Sharon Wrobel

Education Minister Yoav Kisch attends a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee in Jerusalem, May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education minister unveils ramped-up Jewish, Zionist studies, mandatory Bible class

Kingsley WIlson, a US Department of Defense official appointed as deputy press secretary at the Pentagon in May 2025. (X)

US official who promoted antisemitic conspiracies appointed Pentagon press secretary

By Grace Gilson

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