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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 31, 2025

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (front) visits an exhibition of the country's nuclear industry achievements in Tehran, June 11, 2023, accompanied by the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami (L). (Khamenei.ir/AFP)

Report could lead to triggering of renewed sanctions

Damning IAEA report spells out Iran’s past secret nuclear activities; PM: Stop Iran now

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Findings include 2003 tests of detonator for nuclear bomb; UN watchdog also says Tehran now has enough uranium, if enriched further, for 9 bombs; Netanyahu’s office urges world to ‘act now to stop Iran’

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump says US, Iran ‘fairly close’ to reaching nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian (2nd R) and the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) chief Mohammad Eslami (R) during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, on April 9, 2025 (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

‘Fake info’: Iran protests Austrian intel report that says its nuke program is ‘well-advanced’

Demonstrators set fire to placards during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of hostages held captive in Gaza, outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on May 31, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

May 31: Hamas official insists group didn’t reject US offer, slams ‘complete bias’ toward Israel

Hamas changes to hostage deal proposal included demand for 7-year truce, says Israeli official * Father of slain hostage accuses PM of risking captives, inciting violence in Israel

8:11 pm

Senior Hamas official insists group didn't reject Witkoff's offer, decries 'complete bias' toward Israel
8:05 pm

Hamas changes to hostage deal proposal include demand for 7-year ceasefire, Israeli official says
8:04 pm

Hamas responsible for continued war in Gaza, FM Sa'ar declares after group responds to truce proposal

Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud attends the Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response in Gaza, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Would be most senior Saudi visit to West Bank since 67

Israel to block Saudi-led delegation of Middle Eastern ministers from visiting West Bank

Senior Israeli official says Jerusalem won’t cooperate with moves that harm its security, claiming PA’s Abbas was slated to use visit to advance Palestinian statehood

Eli Sharabi in conversation with Tzufit Granot at his book launch at ANU - The Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, May 30, 2024. (Guy Gueta)

A book to wake up the world: Ex-hostage Eli Sharabi launches memoir of captivity and survival

By Ariela Karmel

In first book by a returned Israeli hostage, Sharabi recounts 491 days in Hamas captivity, mourns his wife and daughters, pleads for urgent release of those left behind

US President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to US Steel - Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, May 30, 2025, to mark the deal between Nippon Steel and US Steel. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump says Gaza deal ‘very close,’ suggests announcement could be imminent

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Hamas says it’s still reviewing proposal; Trump believes terror group wants to accept it and ‘get out of that mess’; Defense Minister Katz: Hamas must take the deal or be destroyed

IDF chief said to tell communities near Gaza he will ‘not let war drag on indefinitely’

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Eyal Zamir quoted as saying Hamas can be defeated ‘within months,’ and that the moment will come when he will announce that result

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

A young Palestinian waits to collect donated food at a food distribution kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel claims Hamas losing control over Gaza civilians as GHF ramps up aid operations

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

10 calls to action: Free the hostages, ceasefire, and a path to peace

If the international community signed on to this list and acted swiftly to implement it all, we’d make good progress

Ruthie Hollander

Stop platforming ‘Good Jews’. It’s a pernicious form of antisemitism

Their marginal status becomes a symbol of virtue for audiences who want to hear Jewish condemnation of Israel

Interview'My father's life was a blank space, a dark silhouette'

Paper trail: How a series of ads in a WWII-era UK daily revealed a tragic family history

By Robert Philpot

Julian Borger traced his father’s escape from post-Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a new memoir

A United Airlines flight lands at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, March 31, 2025 (Yossi Aloni/ FLASH90)

United Airlines announces resumption of New York-Tel Aviv flights from June 5

By Sharon Wrobel

US carrier says decision comes after detailed assessment and ‘close work with unions’; airline had suspended flights after Houthi missile impacted at airfield on May 4

Analysis

Could nations angry over Gaza war close their skies to Israeli planes?

Some fear Israel could face more isolation, including bans on local carriers, as even Western allies threaten repercussions if the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza don’t end

An El Al plane parked at Ben Gurion Airport, May 7, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli soldiers seen near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, on March 4, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

'This isn't just about discomfort'

As more women head to war, IDF uniforms designed for men expose female troops to risks

By Tal Schneider

The army’s one-uniform-fits-all approach means a fifth of combat soldiers are operating in clothes, vests and other gear unsuited to their physiques, harming safety and effectiveness

Macron warns France could harden stance; Israel: He’s on ‘crusade against Jewish state’

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Lazar Berman

Israel says it lifted blockade last week after French leader fumes that it continues to block Gaza aid; Germany says it’ll assess arms shipments based on humanitarian situation

France's President Emmanuel Macron gives the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore on May 30, 2025. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Protesters hold banners and wave Palestinian flags during an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally in Barcelona on January 20, 2024 (LLUIS GENE / AFP)

Barcelona ends ‘friendship agreement’ with Tel Aviv over Gaza war

By AFP

Thom Yorke performs with Radiohead at Philips Arena, Atlanta, April 1, 2017. (Robb Cohen/Invision/AP)

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke condemns ‘cynical’ Hamas, ‘extremist’ Netanyahu government

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Artist writes that ‘intimidation and defamation’ by ‘opportunistic groups’ has hurt his mental health; ‘The Free Palestine refrain does not answer why hostages have not returned’

Aviv Geffen, left, Art Garfunkel and James Garfunkel at a Tel Aviv concert on May 29, 2025 (Courtesy screengrab)

Troubled watersAviv Geffen hosts Art Garfunkel in Tel Aviv, calls for end to war

By Jessica Steinberg

Jewish and Arab residents of Jerusalem gather near San Simon Park to mourn Fouad Alian, who was killed in the area on May 22, photo taken May 30, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem residents mourn Arab parkgoer killed in ramming, demand police action

By Charlie Summers

Family of deceased say Fouad Alian was killed in nationalist murder, his ‘only crime’ was being Arab; custody of prime suspect in hit-and-run extended until Tuesday

Magen David Adom vehicles in Kafr Qasim, March 28, 2025 (MDA)

2 killed in Kafr Qasim criminal shooting, taking year’s Arab violent death toll to 100

One of the victims was son of man killed in 2016 terror attack; suspect arrested, motive said to be family feud; video shows diners taking cover in central city as gunman opens fire nearby

Supporters of Poland's presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki hold Polish flags as they gather to attend a campaign rally in Warsaw on May 25, 2025, a week ahead of the second round of presidential elections. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

Poland to vote for next president, with Holocaust history an apparent item on the ballot

By Shira Li Bartov

In Sunday’s crucial runoff election, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor faces a right-wing historian who helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite the country’s role in the Holocaust

This aerial photo shows the port of the Syrian city of Latakia on March 10, 2025. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

IDF says it targeted anti-ship missile depots near Syria’s Latakia; one said killed

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

First reported Israeli airstrike in Syria since May 3; Katz: No immunity for any party that poses a threat to Israel

A vehicle targeted in an IDF drone strike near Deir ez-Zahrani, Lebanon, on May 31, 2025 (Social media)

Local Hezbollah rocket unit commander killed in south Lebanon drone strike, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

More Headlines

US President Donald Trump (seated) speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In odd, black-eyed farewell, Musk vows to stay Trump’s ‘friend,’ denies drug allegations

By AFP

Illustrative: Riot police disperse protestors in front of the city hall during a rally in support of Istanbul's arrested mayor, in Istanbul, on March 24, 2025 (OZAN KOSE / AFP)

Turkish authorities order detention of dozens of opposition officials in crackdown

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