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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 29, 2025

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Families and supporters of Israelis held hostage by the Hamas terror group in Gaza block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, marking 600 days of the hostages' captivity, May 28, 2025. (Flash90)

Israeli official: Witkoff's talk with Dermer was 'uneasy'

New US deal outline would see 10 live hostages freed, 60-day truce, option to resume war

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Right-wing ministers, hawkish hostage families come out against proposed deal, saying Hamas is ‘on its knees’ and IDF must drive terror group to surrender and release all captives

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff (L) speaks as US President Donald Trump looks on during a swearing in ceremony for interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Witkoff says US to issue new Gaza terms, has ‘very good feelings’ on reaching hostage deal

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump invites US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff to respond to a question in the Oval Office of the White House on May 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 29: Day 601 – Why Witkoff has a ‘good feeling’ about hostage negotiations

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Families of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and activists protest for their release outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 28, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

May 29: US says Israel okayed latest Gaza ceasefire proposal before it was sent to Hamas

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Some ministers pan outline, which would see 10 live hostages freed, 60-day truce, option to resume war * Defense Ministry civilian contractor killed in blast during IDF operation in north Gaza, army says

9:02 pm

COGAT says 76 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza today
8:43 pm

Netanyahu will undergo routine medical exam tomorrow; Levin to be acting PM
8:43 pm

Lebanese media reports Israeli strike near 25 km from border

Baby of pregnant terror victim dies after fighting for his life for two weeks

By Jeremy Sharon

Ravid Haim was born by emergency C-section after his mother Tzeela Gez was shot and killed by a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank when on her way to give birth

Hananel Gez, widower of terror victim Tzeela Gez, with their baby Ravid Haim who was delivered in an emergency C-section following the Palestinian shooting attack that killed his mother. The baby died on May 29, 2025. (Courtesy of the Gez Family)

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Trump: I told Netanyahu striking Iran would be ‘very inappropriate,’ as deal is close

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

Iranian sources say Tehran may agree to pause uranium enrichment in exchange for frozen funds, while permanent deal negotiated; US officials say idea yet to be discussed at talks

US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing in ceremony for interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro (R) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset on May 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM claims ‘tremendous achievements’ in Gaza war that have ‘changed face of Middle East’

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: A general view of new buildings being built in the Israeli settlement of Aliyah, south of Nablus in the West Bank, May 21, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

A 'crushing answer to Palestinian terror'

Defense minister confirms government approval of 22 new West Bank settlements

Katz, Smotrich hail establishment of new communities, legalization of wildcat outposts as ‘protective wall’ for Israel, boosting ‘hold on Judea and Samaria,’ obstructing path to Palestinian state

Defense Minister Israel Katz at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 24, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Israel to begin deporting citizen terror convicts paid by Palestinian Authority

A rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, May 28, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protesters outside Ron Dermer's home call on him to resign

‘600 days of failure’: Thousands join nationwide rallies urging hostages’ release

By Jessica Steinberg, Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

At Hostages Square protest, freed captive Iair Horn recalls fear of death while in Hamas captivity; 62 protesters arrested after storming Likud party HQ, clashing with police

Sexually assaulted, nearly killed in an airstrike: Rescued hostage Ori Megidish speaks

Soldier says Hamas guard would grope her, IAF bomb hit house where she was held; she was treated in a Gaza hospital where doctors sewed her wounds without anesthetic

Rescued hostage Ori Megidish during an interview broadcast on May 28, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Palestinians storm a UN World Food Program warehouse and carry bags of flour in Zawaida, Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip, on May 28, 2025. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

Four Palestinians die in storming of Gaza UN food warehouse; IDF was not in area

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At least 2 said killed by gunshots at site in Deir Al-Balah, Hamas denies firing; Israel-backed aid group claims terror group falsely reporting injuries at its hubs

Displaced Palestinians, some carrying a bag of rice, return from an aid distribution center in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2025. (AFP)

Gaza aid group opens 2nd distribution center, day after first site swarmed by crowds

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Nava Freiberg

A screenshot of an undated video released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 17, 2023, shows Hamas commander Muhammad Sinwar, right, riding in a car traveling through a tunnel under the Gaza Strip. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)

Netanyahu tells Knesset Muhammad Sinwar killed; IDF has yet to confirm

By ToI Staff and Reuters

A Ryanair plane at Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv. March 2, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

Low-cost carrier Ryanair follows British Airways in dropping Israel flights until August

By Sharon Wrobel

Irish budget airline is among the many foreign carriers that halted services to Tel Aviv after a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis struck grounds of Ben Gurion Airport

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UAE issues rare warning to Israel after summoning envoy over Jerusalem Flag March

Official tells ToI ‘it’s utterly unfathomable Israel allowed annual spectacle of unchecked violence to proceed amid Gaza carnage,’ says Abu Dhabi expects ‘decisive steps to end it’

Right-wing activists hold up a banner reading in Hebrew "67 - Jerusalem in our hands; 2025 - Gaza in our hands" below another banner that reads "Without a Naqba, there is no victory" as they gather with Israeli flags outside the Damascus Gate of the walled Old City of Jerusalem on May 26, 2025, during a flag march for Jerusalem Day. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani talks to the press as he arrives for an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers ahead of potential peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in Turkey, in Antalya, on May 15, 2025. (OZAN KOSE / AFP)

Italy’s right-wing government joins allies in urging Israel to end war in Gaza

By JTA and ToI Staff

Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld

The Torah was a gift, and ‘fair use’ is the very point of revelation

Unlike the copyrighted books Zuckerberg may be pirating, the Torah is a free source of wisdom designed for group ownership

Austin Reid Albanese

This verse is carved on synagogues across America. Do we still believe it?

Citing Isaiah’s vision, 19th century rabbis declared, without apology, that Judaism had a message for all peoples

Protesters attend a march against antisemitism in London, UK, December 8, 2024. (Campaign Against Antisemitism)

Inside story

More organizations are fighting surging antisemitism. But how many do we need?

In a once-niche field of Jewish advocacy, a complicated mix of interest groups is now battling hatred, often with overlapping missions and contradictory messages

L to R: The Democrats leader Yair Golan, National Unity leader Benny Gantz, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, lead their respective faction meetings at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025. (All photos Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Yair Golan urges center-left merger for ousting Netanyahu, but Lapid uninterested

By Stav Levaton and Michael Bachner

The Democrats head calls for Yesh Atid and National Unity to join forces with him, insists broad center all on the same team; officials close to opposition leader say it’s a losing strategy

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf arrives at a United Torah Judaism party meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 19, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

UTJ said upping threats to ditch coalition over failure to pass Haredi draft exemptions

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack raises the American flag at the US ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria, on May 29, 2025. (SANA via AP)

US reopens ambassador’s residence in Syria, suggests non-aggression pact with Israel

Raising flag in Damascus, American envoy Tom Barrack says Israel-Syria conflict solvable through dialogue, as Washington rolls back Assad-era sanctions

A laser interception system deployed to northern Israel, in an undated photo published by the Defense Ministry on May 28, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reveals it used laser system to intercept dozens of Hezbollah drones last year

By Emanuel Fabian

New system is lower-powered version of Iron Beam; six months into ceasefire in Lebanon, military reorganizes forces on northern border

A Lebanese army jeep patrols in the southern Lebanese border village of Sarada after Israeli forces pulled out, on February 19, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Lebanese army said dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure more quickly than expected

Palestinian residents of Maghar al-Deir pack up belongings as they flee the West Bank village on May 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

'It felt like war, I've never seen such things in my life'

In the West Bank, settler harassment swiftly uproots a Bedouin hamlet

By Nurit Yohanan

Entire community of Maghar al-Deir flees within days after Israelis set up shepherding outpost 100 meters from homes and begin intimidating residents, amid ongoing campaign

Analysis

Rossella Tercatin

‘Jerusalem is supposed to be cosmopolitan’: Hundreds attend interfaith peace march in city

Religious leaders and ordinary citizens gather outside Old City as response to unrest during nationalist Flag March and to mark 600 days since Gaza war began

Hundreds take part in an interfaith march for peace in Jerusalem on May 28, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

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A Conversion Authority rabbi gives a lesson on Judaism to people undergoing conversion in Jerusalem, Israel on January 3, 2022. (Courtesy of the Conversion Authority)

Ahead of Shavuot, thousands of converts remain unrecognized by state, stuck in limbo

By Rossella Tercatin

European Union High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas gives a press conference in Brussels, on May 28, 2025. (Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)

AnalysisEU hardens tone on Israel, but will it lead to concrete steps?

By AFP and ToI Staff

Gal Gadot attends the 11th Breakthrough Prize ceremony at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, on April 5, 2025. (Michael Tran/AFP)

Five arrested in London for trying to disrupt filming of movie starring Gal Gadot

By AFP and ToI Staff

Graphic warnings on cigarette packages from around the world. (Courtesy/Israel Cancer Association)

Ahead of World No Tobacco Day, Knesset votes to require graphic images on smoking products

By Diana Bletter

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, on May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo, invoking Gazan kids’ ‘lifeless bodies,’ calls for truce, hostage release

By Grace Gilson

Israeli-American rapper Kosha Dillz. Following the cancellation of a screening of his film "Bring the Family Home" by the Facets Film Forum, the Chicago Jewish Alliance rescheduled the screening at the Wilmette Theater in suburban Chicago on May 13, 2025. It was then cancelled again. (Ronit Bezalel via JTA)

Chicago cinema relents after canceling pro-Israel movie screening, then cancels it again

By Grace Gilson

Hassan Chokr handles a Mac-10 machine gun (L), and points a 12-gauge shotgun (R), in surveillance images filed in court. (US Department of Justice)

Michigan man who harassed parents, kids near synagogue pleads guilty to gun crime

By Grace Gilson

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) meets with PA President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 25, 2024. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

AnalysisAs Macron mulls Palestinian state recognition, analysts warn move may ‘not be helpful’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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