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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 5, 2026

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IDF soldiers drive a tank inside a village in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)

May 5: German FM says Israel has ‘every right’ to be in south Lebanon, but warns of damages from war

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

UAE says it came under drone, missile attack from Iran for second day * IDF chief says military ‘closely monitoring’ situation in Gulf and prepared to ‘respond with force’

8:57 pm

IDF: Hezbollah fired rockets at troops in south Lebanon, no injuries caused
8:52 pm

Syria says it arrested a Hezbollah cell plotting assassinations of government officials
8:38 pm

IDF: Palestinian suspects hurled Molotov cocktail in West Bank, fled inside church

In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency on May 4, 2026, two men sitting in a skiff are seen fishing near a vessel anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. (Amirhossein KHORGOOEI / ISNA / AFP)

Iran restarts attacks on Emirates as US fights to restore traffic in Strait of Hormuz

By Agencies, ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

UAE says 15 missiles, 4 drones fired, sparking fire at oil facility in first major attack since ceasefire; US says it sunk 6 small Iranian boats as ships come under missile fire

This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor shows the Natanz Nuclear Facility near Natanz, Isfahan province, in central Iran on March 7, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor / AFP)

Iran no further from nuclear weapon than before war, US intel agencies assess

By Gram Slattery, Jonathan Landay and Erin Banco

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 5 – Why Trump still doesn’t want to go back to war

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Religious Zionism chairman Bezalel Smotrich (L) and Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas (R). (Sraya Diamant/David Cohen/Flash90)

Far-right leader says 'intention is far worse than error'

Smotrich: Including Arab party in government ‘a thousand times’ worse than Oct. 7 failures

By Michael Bachner and Sam Sokol

Finance minister under fire after comments, claims ‘evil liars’ in media taking them out of context; Bennett accuses Smotrich, PM of trying ‘to make people forget the atrocities’

Sharon Sharabi (L) and Avigdor Liberman (R) in an undated photo released May 4, 2026 (Yisrael Beytenu)

Yisrael Beytenu, said to eye merger with Eisenkot, adds hostages’ brother to ranks

By Ariela Karmel

Maj. Gen. Bluth: 'There is discrimination to some extent'

Top IDF officer admits unequal enforcement against Israeli, Palestinian stone-throwers

By Stav Levaton, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Central Command chief says using live fire on settlers would have ‘severe sociological consequences’; IDF revokes a permit for Palestinian villagers to plow their land after settler disruption

IDF soldiers stand behind a masked settler swinging a slingshot while hurling stones at Palestinians who had gathered for the annual olive harvest season, during an attack by Israeli settlers on the West Bank village of Beita, south of Nablus, on October 10, 2025. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Palestinians inspect a burned vehicle following an attack by Israeli extremist settlers in the Wadi Rahim area of Hebron in the West Bank, May 1, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

EU, PA announce program to support Palestinians facing settler violence in West Bank

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox men attend Lag B'Omer celebrations on Mount Meron, northern Israel, on May 4, 2026. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Haredi masses breach Meron, flouting wartime Lag B’Omer restrictions

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Police deny reports that thousands reached Galilee shrine illegally, even as revelers recount bypassing restrictions with ease; Ben Gvir lauds cops for working ‘very gently’

Israeli climber Ayala Kerem in competition in this undated photo. (Jan Virt/IFSC)

'People don’t understand how hard it is to be the first'

High ambition: Rising star eyes Olympic ascent for Israeli climbing

By David Wiseman

24-year-old Ayala Kerem believes she can represent the Jewish state at the 2028 LA Games — and that an Olympic push could help raise interest in the emerging field

Man to plead guilty in deadly Colorado firebombing attack on rally for Israeli hostages

By AP

Court documents show Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who faces possibility of life in prison, plans to take different approach in state case after pleading not guilty in federal one

Suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman is seen as he launched an attack on demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages, at an outdoor mall, June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. (Lisa Turnquist via AP)

New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, center left, visits a synagogue defaced with a swastika, in Queens, New York City, May 4, 2026. (Courtesy/ New York City Council Speaker's Office)

NYC Jews targeted in 60% of hate crimes last month; swastikas sprayed on synagogues

University of Michigan professor Derek Peterson praises campus pro-Palestinian protesters during his commencement speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2, 2026. (Screenshot via YouTube via JTA)

U of Michigan apologizes after professor hails Gaza protesters in graduation speech

By Andrew Lapin

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks, during a meeting with leaders from across society to discuss tackling antisemitism, at Downing Street in London, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (Hannah McKay/Pool Photo via AP)

UK’s Starmer holds summit on antisemitism, says attacks are ‘a crisis for all of us’

By Zev Stub, ToI Staff and Agencies

Board of Deputies of British Jews says it presented UK leaders with steps to bolster community’s security, ‘they must now prove their commitment with action’

The scene of an apparent arson attack targeting a former synagogue on London's Nelson Street, May 5, 2026. (Shomrim.)

UK Counter Terrorism police probe arson attack at former London synagogue

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jewish library and Chabad in suburb near Buenos Aires attacked; no injuries reported

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Eliyahu Berkovits

Lag B’Omer at Mt. Meron: What both sides get wrong

The pilgrimage to Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s grave is rooted in a longing for the transcendent – calls for violence come from a dangerous, and misguided fringe

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

What Yair Garbuz painted back into view

The late artist pushed Israelis to question our automatic – and seemingly common-sense – assumptions about moral superiority

'The liver functions somewhat like an ant colony'

In world first, Israeli scientists map digital atlas of healthy human liver

By Diana Bletter

Weizmann Institute, Sheba Medical Center, and Mayo Clinic researchers find differences in human and mouse livers; study can help improve treatment for fatty liver disease

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers discovered that a glucose transporter protein (green) operates in the core of the liver lobule in humans (left), whereas in mice (right), it functions at the periphery. In red is a control protein expressed in the core in both humans and mice. In blue are cell nuclei. (Courtesy/Weizmann Institute of Science)

A woman, 24, (left) with Gorham-Stout disease, or vanishing bone disease, which caused her right leg to be noticeably shorter than her left leg, before treatment. Right, with the leg-lengthening implant in her thigh. (Courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)

Israeli doctors use 3D printer to lengthen woman’s leg in treatment for vanishing bone disease

By Diana Bletter

In first such procedure in the country, Hadassah surgeons lengthen by 8 centimeters limb of patient suffering from very rare Gorham-Stout disease, replacing disintegrated tissue

What Matters Now podcast

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Israel has re-embraced Hamas rule in Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Describing a rat-infested Gaza Strip and further entrenchment of the terror organization, the head of Realign for Palestine weighs in on the lack of momentum with the Board of Peace plan

Head of Realign for Palestine Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on this week's What Matters Now. (courtesy / AP)

Brazilian activist Thiago Avila is escorted into the Ashkelon Magistrate's Court on May 5, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP)

Court remands 2 flotilla activists until Sunday; lawyer claims one was on fishing trip

By AFP and ToI Staff

A video released by Cornell University shows one angle on an interaction between President Michael Kotlikoff and student protesters on April 30, 2026. (Screenshot)

Anti-Israel students surround car of Cornell president; he rejects their claim he tried to run them over

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Left-wing student group release clip appearing to show Michael Kotlikoff backing into one of them, who shouts that the car ran over his foot; school says they were harassing him

Leon Botstein leading the American Symphony Orchestra in Johann Christian Bach's "Symphony in G minor" in the program "Sons of Bach" at Alice Tully Hall on December 19, 2019 in New York, NY. (Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images via JTA)

Bard College president of over 50 years to retire over Epstein ties

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Jonatan Urich arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shin Bet quietly reverses ban on Urich accessing Prime Minister’s Office – report

Security agency said to grant Netanyahu aide, a key suspect in several police probes, renewed access after talks with senior PMO official

French Jewish pilgrims light candles at the Ghriba synagogue, Africa's oldest synagogue, on Tunisia's southern island of Djerba on May 4, 2026 during the annual pilgrimage to the Jewish holy site. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Photo essay

Organizers tout uptick in pilgrims to Tunisia Lag B’Omer fest 3 years after deadly attack

By AFP

Around 200 Jewish pilgrims make trip from abroad to Africa’s oldest synagogue, after annual fest that once attracted thousands only saw a few dozen participants in last 2 years

Bahati, with one of her beloved tires. (Ramat Gan Safari)

Heavyweight heritage

Ramat Gan Safari bids farewell to Bahati, iconic 65-year-old elephant

One of the oldest recorded female African elephants in the world, she bore five calves and boasts a lineage of 52 elephants across European zoos

Three new books draw on Jewish examples in providing advice for would-be protesters. (Crown; Wicked Son; Mariner Books; illustration design by Grace Yagel/ JTA)

'How do we bring our values into this moment?'

Jewish authors borrow from the past in new ‘mini-genre’ of ‘how-to’ activism literature

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Arriving at a moment of protest fatigue and political polarization, three books for would-be dissidents draw on a long tradition of making good trouble

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Yemanu Binyamin Zelka, who was stabbed and killed at his Pizza Hut job in the early hours of Independence Day. (Social media, undated; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

One suspect in Zelka murder tells cops: ‘Everyone was hitting him. What, should I stop?’

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Israeli fintech startup BridgeWise uses proprietary AI to generate analysis for investors across 70,000 global securities. (Courtesy)

Israeli fintech startup partners with Elon Musk’s X to gauge market sentiment

By Sharon Wrobel

Excess gas is burned at the Bazan oil refinery in Israel's northern city of Haifa late on March 19, 2026 (Odd Andersen / AFP)

High Court allows Bazan to build new power plant after old one damaged by Iran

This image provided by NAOJ shows artist’s impression of the trans-Neptunian object (612533) 2002 XV93 occulting a background star. (Ko Arimatsu/NAOJ via AP)

Small worldAtmosphere spotted on celestial body in far reaches of solar system

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