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What Matters Most On Friday, May 30, 2025

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Visitors at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, May 27, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

White House: Israel 'signed off' before proposal sent to Hamas

PM said to principally back Witkoff outline; Hamas may okay it — with reservations

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan, Nava Freiberg and Stav Levaton

Hamas official says proposal ‘doesn’t respond to any of our people’s demands,’ but doesn’t reject it; terror group wants edits so Israel will be more clearly prevented from resuming war

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on May 28, 2025, Washington. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP)

DocumentFull text of Witkoff’s proposal for 60-day Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal

Israeli Air Force fighter jets take off for airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, May 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 30: Confirming first Syria strike in weeks, IDF says it targeted anti-ship missiles

Trump says Gaza deal ‘very close’ * Hamas consulting on ceasefire and hostage release plan; Katz: Take it or be destroyed

10:05 pm

Musk vows to stay Trump's 'friend' in odd black-eyed farewell
8:30 pm

Israel will block Saudi-led delegation of FMs from visiting West Bank -- official
7:51 pm

Confirming first Syria strike in weeks, IDF says it targeted anti-ship missiles stored near Latakia

Saudi Arabia's Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, left, speaks with President Masoud Pezeshkian during their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, April 17, 2025. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Saudis warned Iran to reach agreement with US or risk war with Israel – Gulf sources

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Saudi prince told Tehran the region can’t bear more escalation; response was that Iran wants nuke deal but won’t end enrichment; WSJ says US prepping ‘term sheet’ that includes enrichment ban

US President Donald Trump addresses a meeting of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders in Riyadh on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Report: Saudi, Qatari, UAE leaders told Trump they oppose strike on Iran

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Friday Focus with AJC head Ted Deutch: Calls for ‘intifada’ don’t bring social justice

After a young couple was murdered in an antisemitic attack outside a American Jewish Committee event, its CEO denounces unchecked inflammatory rhetoric surrounding the war in Gaza

A man walks in front of a damaged Yemeni plane at Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, May 29, 2025, a day after Israeli airstrikes on the Houthi-controlled airport. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

After Sanaa airport strike, Houthis say they’ll start targeting Israeli civilian planes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran-backed rebels make threats after Israel again hits Houthi infrastructure in response to repeated ballistic missile and attacks on Israel

A Home Front Command warning of incoming missile fire appears on a jumbotron during the final of the Israel State Cup between Hapoel Beersheba and Beitar Jerusalem at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, May 29, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

IDF downs missile fired from Yemen in week’s 6th Houthi attack

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF soldier seriously wounded by accidental misfire

Defense Ministry civilian contractor killed during IDF operations in northern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

David Libi, 19, hit by bomb while operating heavy machinery, army says, as Israeli attacks reportedly kill dozens; US- and Israeli-backed Gaza aid agency opens 3rd distribution site

David Libi, a Defense Ministry contractor killed in Gaza on May 29, 2025. (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook'Right now is what I’d call the cease between fires'

Six months after ceasefire, some in north are slow to recover as fears of new fight lurk

By Diana Bletter

Rebuilding amid detritus of 13-month war, Shtula residents embark on a prolonged comeback, while Kibbutz Sasa mourns loss of elderly evacuees who couldn’t stand to be away

ISIS claims first attack on Syrian government forces since Assad’s fall

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Terrorists took wrong turn trying to reach sensitive intel base on Oct. 7, probe finds

10 Hamas infiltrators instead attacked adjacent Home Front Command base, where 8 soldiers were killed; troops from another nearby base and other forces eliminated all attackers

Hamas terrorists are seen in the Home Front Command's Southern District base near Urim, on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12 news)

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NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani declared he’s anti-Zionist at 2021 protest, video shows

Clip shows socialist, in 2nd place ahead of primary, rejecting Jewish sovereignty in Israel, insisting anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitic, amid questions over his position on Israel’s right to exist

New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani responds to a question during the New York City Mayoral Candidates Forum at Medgar Evers College, April 23, 2025, in New York. (AP/Frank Franklin II)

A Ben & Jerry's shop in Burlington, Vermont, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Ben & Jerry’s US-based board decries ‘genocide in Gaza,’ in escalation of fight with owner

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg stages a United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) protest outside a UN representative office in Yerevan on November 15, 2024. (Karen Minasyan / AFP)

Greta Thunberg to try to visit Gaza on ‘Freedom Flotilla’ ship

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators protest against the government and for the release of the hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip, outside the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 28, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

All 61 protesters arrested at ‘600 days of failure’ protests released

By Jeremy Sharon

Detainees kept in Salameh police station; all given restraining order from Likud HQ, 14 required to post NIS 1,800 bond

Leetal Caidar Benzvi

The retreat no one wants to be invited to

Mornings began in silence — sometimes with movement, sometimes with tears. We didn’t come to fix each other. We came to witness

Charles E. Savenor

We are not hiding

Every time we minimize hate-filled aggressions, we normalize them – like that time I didn’t respond to the guy harassing me (and nobody else did either)

A child helps plant a new vineyard at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in this undated promotional image (Courtesy/Kerem Shalom)

Looking to slow life down and join a kibbutz? It’ll cost you

Once Zionist experiments in communal living, today’s kibbutz communities still have much to offer… for those with the right mindset and deep enough pockets

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in May 2025

Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans seen beating an Arab bus driver in Jerusalem on May 29, 2025 (Screencapture/ X used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Beitar Jerusalem fans attack Arab bus drivers after team’s loss, no arrests so far

Victim says dozens of fans pounced on him upon realizing his ethnicity, police took 20 minutes to arrive; labor union says ‘every day brings us closer’ to murder of transit worker

The Codex Sassoon, the world’s oldest nearly complete Hebrew Bible, on permanent display for the first time at ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv in May 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

'The Bible is the soundtrack of Jewish history'

Codex Sassoon, oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, displayed in Israel after Oct. 7 delay

By Rossella Tercatin

In time for Shavuot, the country also welcomes another centuries-old unique manuscript, the Shem Tov Bible, which too was once part of David Solomon Sassoon’s collection

Illustrative: Israeli tourists at Ras Sheitan in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on April 5, 2021. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

National Security Council sharpens warning against ‘high risk’ travel to Sinai

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Body warns of spike in terrorist threats to Israelis visiting Egyptian peninsula, which has seen a steep drop in tourism from Israel since Oct. 7

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police during a protest against the military draft in Bnei Brak, November 17, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Shas said to join threat to bolt coalition over failure to pass draft exemption bill

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Rabbis of Sephardic ultra-Orthodox faction to convene after Shavuot to discuss issue, party officials say, amid similar ultimatum from Ashkenazi counterpart UTJ

Israeli children visit their reservist father in Southern Israel, December 17, 2023. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images via JTA)

'I've spent more time in uniform than with my newborn son'

As IDF raises reservist call-up cap to 450,000, weary troops decry low Haredi enlistment

By Deborah Danan

Prolonged deployments since Oct. 7 have harmed the economy and the mental health, family relationships and careers of reservists, while exemptions keep ultra-Orthodox off the front lines

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Yariv Levin attend a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on December 24, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu undergoes ‘routine colonoscopy’; Levin fills in as acting PM

By Lazar Berman

A protester holds a sign reading 'There are no universities left in Gaza' amid the commencement ceremony on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Libby O'Neill / Getty Images via AFP)

US judge says she will block Trump freeze on foreign students at Harvard

By Gregory WALTON

The motorcycle of Fouad Alian, an East Jerusalem Palestinian, after he was killed in a suspected nationalist hit-and-run on May 22, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Suspect in killing of Arab parkgoer to remain in custody, Jerusalem judge rules

By Charlie Summers

Holocaust survivor Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, who wore the same hand-knit sweater to the first Passover seder every year for the past 75 years, has died at 100. (Karen Goldfarb)

Holocaust survivor, star of documentary who took up dancing at 88, dies at 100

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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