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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 2, 2026

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Metropolitan Police officers stand on duty as people attend a rally organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism, opposite Downing Street in central London on April 30, 2026, following the stabbing of two Jewish men the day before in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London. (Photo by CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

Green Party leader criticizes police for taking down stabber

Top UK cop: Jews facing greatest ever threat; Starmer mulls banning some anti-Israel protests

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Days after Golders Green stabbing, London police chief Mark Rowley seeks funding for 300 armed officers to protect city’s Jewish community, cites ‘epidemic’ of antisemitism

A Green Party poster displaying in a window in London on April 29, 2026. (Carl Court/Getty Images via JTA)

UK Green Party candidate posts about killing Zionists from Anne Frank parody account

By Shira Li Bartov and Grace Gilson

US President Donald Trump speaks with the media before taking off from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, May 1, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

President says plans exist to 'blast the hell out of them'

Iran submits new proposal to end war; Trump says he’s ‘not satisfied’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Offer sent via Pakistan said to envision US unwinding blockade at start of Hormuz talks rather than as precondition; suggests nuclear negotiations in exchange for sanctions relief

A tanker, left, and a car carrier are anchored at sea in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from the coast near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, May 1, 2026.(AP/Fatima Shbair)

US warns shippers that paying Iran to traverse Hormuz may incur sanctions

By timothy gardner

Footage released by the IDF on June 21, 2025, shows the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Iran's Isfahan nuclear facility. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF official says Iran war will be ‘one big failure’ if enriched uranium not removed

By Emanuel Fabian

Inside story

‘Eyes and ears of the Jewish community’: NYC’s Shomrim watch groups take up counter-terrorism

Once only trained to prevent street crime, teams now receive lessons on counter-terror tactics and spotting threats, bringing the local patrollers deeper into overall Jewish security network

The Shomrim neighborhood defense group in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, September 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Elkana Bar Eitan

In a Hummer in Lebanon, I saw the future of the Jewish People

Young diaspora yeshiva students are risking their lives without abandoning Torah — their choice throws a painful question back at the Haredi world

Those Trump officials quoting (and misquoting) the Bible

Biblical rhetoric in American life has helped sustain a pluralistic moral vision, but is it good for the Jews?

Inside Story

Once the left wing of US Jewry, is J Street now the new center?

Lobby’s views haven’t moderated, but as Democratic support for Israel has fallen, its effort to push back on anti-Zionism has moved it into the mainstream — awkwardly for Israel

Then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the J Street National Conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, December 4, 2022. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

BAE Systems’ Robotic Technology Demonstrator strikes ground target with APKWS laser-guided rocket, in an undated photo. (Business Wire via AP)

US approves arms sales of over $8.6 billion for Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and UAE

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Almost $1 billion okayed for laser-guided weapons kit for Israel; US said to warn European allies to expect delivery delays for weapons as Iran war drains stockpiles

US Vice President JD Vance visits with service members during a refueling stop at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, April 24, 2025. (Kenny Holston/Pool Photo via AP)

US pulling 5,000 troops from Germany amid spat with Trump over Iran war

US military reaches deal with 7 tech firms to use their AI on classified systems

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, May 2, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

May 2: Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv against ‘government of debacle and disaster’

Netanyahu to convene security cabinet Sunday to discuss Iran * Report says possible return to fighting in Gaza also on the agenda * AG said expected to soon file indictment against PM’s chief of staff

9:16 pm

NYC's New School rejects student senate's vote to defund campus Hillel
9:07 pm

Netanyahu to convene security cabinet tomorrow as tensions simmer with Iran; report: return to Gaza fighting to also be discussed
8:12 pm

AG expected to file indictment against PM's chief of staff Tzachi Braverman in coming weeks - report

Settlers burn village's electric cables, hamper IDF response

2 settlers fire at Israeli paraglider, Palestinian homes, in separate incidents

By Emanuel Fabian

Both are members of West Bank ‘area defense force’ units, made up of reservists; paraglider mistaken for terrorist infiltration; second settler arrested, has weapon confiscated

An Israeli paraglider is seen over the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank, May 2, 2026. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

British author Howard Jacobson (Courtesy)

Interview'Supposedly civilized, educated people rejoiced at Oct. 7'

With gallows humor, UK author Howard Jacobson takes on post-Oct. 7 ‘bloodlust’ for Jews

By Robert Philpot

A Jewish teacher slowly unravels as he sees the world’s reaction to the barbarity of Hamas’s assault, in new novel ‘Howl,’ that finds the comically absurd in today’s darkest events

Brazilian activist Thiago Avila speaks during a press conference by the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Tunis, early on September 10, 2025. (YASSINE MAHJOUB / AFP)

Two detained Gaza flotilla leaders brought to Israel for questioning

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian-Spanish citizen Saif Abu Keshek, Brazilian Thiago Ávila to be questioned and provided consular visits; Israel says they are tied to a US-sanctioned Hamas front group

Personnel work at the Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC), a command centre in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, on November 19, 2025. (Ahikam Seri / AFP)

Board of Peace denies plans to shut down ceasefire coordination HQ in Israel’s south

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

Sadie Sandler's 'Roommates' is featured on this week's The Reel Schmooze. (Netflix)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘Roommates’ and ‘How to Make Challah’: Different slices of Jewish American pie

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor on a Sadie Sandler Netflix vehicle — currently #1 in Israel — and a 13-minute intergenerational indie short

A Spirit Airlines 319 Airbus approaches Manchester Boston Regional Airport for a landing, June 2, 2023, in Manchester, New Hampshire (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

US’s Spirit Airlines declares immediate bankruptcy amid Iran war price fuel surge

By Sabrina Valle, David Shepardson, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Doyinsola Oladipo

Telling passengers not to go to the airport, the major, low-cost US airline cites ‘oil prices and other pressures’ for abruptly shutting down after failing to secure Trump-proposed bailout

Smoke billows from the scene of an explosion in southern Lebanon, as seen from the border community of Granot HaGalil in northern Israel, May 1, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Hezbollah drones wound 4 troops; IDF urges civilians to leave south Lebanon town

By Emanuel Fabian

Home Front Command tightens security guidelines in border communities amid continued attacks; Lebanese state media reports four, including a woman, killed in IDF strikes in south

Dr. David Hasan, the founder of The Gaza Children Village, speaks at Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 28, 2026. (Courtesy of Rabbi Daniel Greyber via JTA)

'For once, Jews and Muslims are just eating and hanging out'

US synagogue helps Palestinians raise money for Gaza, finds common ground over falafel

By Grace Gilson

Daylong fundraiser results from relationships formed between rabbi, Palestinian restaurateur and Duke neurosurgeon who seek peace, reconciliation and a good bowl of hummus

A Russian drone strike on the Chabad Or Avner Jewish school in the city of Odesa, Ukraine, on April 30, 2026, caused significant damage. (Rabbi Moshe Azman/X)

Ukrainian Jewish school, orphanage struck in overnight Russian drone attack; no injuries

By Zev Stub, ToI Staff and Agencies

Jewish institutions sustained serious damage; Russia launches over 600 drones at Ukraine in under 24 hours

Artist Doron Adorian in her Tel Aviv studio (Courtesy)

Reporter's NotebookShe focuses on thistles, prickly plants with purple flowers

Artist from war-torn north relocates to Tel Aviv, discovers success with works of kibbutz views

By Jessica Steinberg

Doron Adorian evacuated after October 7, 2023, is welcomed by city’s art community as the ‘northern refugee.’ Now her art hangs on the wall of former US ambassador to Israel Jack Lew

Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi in a meeting on women's rights in Tehran, Iran, on July 3, 2008. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Jailed Iranian Nobel winner Mohammadi hospitalized in ‘catastrophic’ condition

By Sarah El Deeb

Rights lawyer’s foundation says her health decline comes ‘after 140 days of systematic medical neglect’; family ‘fighting for her life’ after severe cardiac crisis

A member of Iran's security forces stands guard on an armored vehicle plastered with the pictures of, from left, Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei, his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei and founding Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini, during the funeral procession of Revolutionary Guard commanders killed in the regional war, on March 11, 2026. (Atta KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s largest crypto exchange enables IRGC to move millions despite sanctions

By Gavin Finch, Allison Martell, Denise Ajiri, James Pearson and Elizabeth Howcroft

Mierle Laderman Ukeles speaks with a sanitation worker in an archival photo. (Courtesy Toby Perl Freilich via JTA)

'We're all created in God's image'

New film profiles Jewish feminist who is NYC Sanitation Department’s official artist

By Jackie Hajdenberg

‘Maintenance Artist’ looks at Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 50-year partnership with the municipal workers and her belief, rooted in Jewish identity, that people are more than their societal roles

More Headlines

Police and medics at the scene of a double homicide near Ramle, May 2, 2026. (Israel Police)

Two men shot dead in apparent underworld hit in central Israel

A police officer confiscating a Palestinian flag from the Hadash youth center in Umm al-Fahm on May 1, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police raid Arab-majority party offices and confiscate Palestinian flag

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