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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 6, 2026

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026. (Shalev Shalom/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

May 6: Netanyahu convenes security cabinet, says he will speak to Trump about Iran developments

US said to tell Israel that Iran showing ‘surprising openness’ on transferring its uranium stockpile overseas * Trump indicates one week needed to finalize deal with Iran to permanently end war

8:32 pm

S&P 500, Nasdaq end at record highs on hopes for US-Iran peace deal
7:46 pm

All-clear given in Metzad after suspected terror infiltration found to be false alarm
7:45 pm

Mamdani backs police protest response, criticizes Israel real estate event at synagogue

Anti-Zionist protesters in New York City, May 5, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Police berated as 'pedophile protectors... pieces of shit'

Protesters bearing Hezbollah flag scuffle with NYPD while marching on synagogue

Demonstration against Israel real estate event draws hundreds, who chant ‘Death to the IDF’ and ‘End the settler Zionist state’; counter-demonstrators warn ‘Antizionism is a hate movement’

People attend a candlelight vigil at Lafayette Square across from the White House in Washington, on May 22, 2025, for the two Israeli Embassy staffers killed in a shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum the previous day. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

ADL: Antisemitic assaults in US hit record high in 2025 as overall incidents declined

Op-ed

We’re not in the 1930s… yet

Diaspora Jews the world over face a rising tide not ‘merely’ of Israel-hatred but, increasingly, of Jew-hatred. And where social media incitement, misrepresentation, religious indoctrination and miseducation lead the public, politicians are quick to follow

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 neighbourhood of northwest London (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

Bodycam footage from August 6, 2024, shows an officer aiming a taser gun at an intruder at Elbit UK's site in Bristol, England, after the intruder struck a police officer with a sledgehammer. (Screen capture: Channel 4)

Four Palestine Action members convicted over 2024 raid on Israeli arms firm’s UK site

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police officers at Prince Alfred Park in Sydney on December 21, 2025. (GEORGE CHAN / AFP)

Despite mayor’s cancellation, ‘Globalize the intifada’ event proceeds in Sydney

US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began setting conditions for clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz, April 11, 2026 (US Central Command Photo)

Claiming ‘great progress’ in Iran talks, Trump pauses US naval escorts in Hormuz

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Tehran says it wants ‘comprehensive agreement’ as FM meets with Chinese counterpart; Netanyahu said to speak with UAE president on recent Iranian attacks

A woman waves an Iranian flag in front of an anti-US billboard referring to US President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz at Valiasr Square in Tehran, Iran, on May 5, 2026. (AFP)

Iran threatens Hormuz shipping, as Trump said to shelve strikes amid diplomacy

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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, May 5, 2026. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Iran ceasefire ‘not over,’ US ‘not looking for a fight,’ Hegseth says after Tehran fires on Gulf

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and Nava Freiberg

ToI in southern Lebanon

‘Defending from the goal line isn’t enough’: IDF entrenches grip in southern Lebanon

Israeli flags line Lebanon’s southern coastal road, as military razes structures deep inside ‘security zone’; Hezbollah launches drone during journalists’ visit

An Israeli soldier stands by a 'I Love Naqoura' sign on the coastal road in southern Lebanon, May 5, 2026. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun posing with US ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa (L) at the presidential palace of Baabda, east of Beirut, on November 17, 2025. (HANDOUT / Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

US doubles down on urging Lebanese president to meet Netanyahu, unfazed by his refusal

A British police officer speaks to a member of the public after two Jewish men were stabbed by a terrorist in the Golders Green neighborhood, which has a large Jewish community, in London, April 29, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

London cops announce new unit to protect Jews amid surging antisemitic violence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Metropolitan Police says ‘community protection team’ will start with 100 officers who’ll combine neighborhood patrols with ‘specialist protection and counterterror capabilities’

Green Party supporters carry placards at their General Election Manifesto launch - Real Hope, Real Change, at Sussex County Cricket Ground in Hove, East Sussex, England, June 12, 2024.(Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

UK Green Party said to probe dozens of council candidates over antisemitism

A bonfire is lit as members of the Hasidic Jewish community in Stamford Hill, north London, celebrate the Lag B'Omer festival, Britain, May 5, 2026. (REUTERS/Toby Shepheard)

London Jews celebrate Lag B’Omer amid fear and uncertainty over spate of attacks

By Reuters and ToI Staff

FILE - Author R.F. Kuang poses for a portrait near Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Chinese-American author supports boycotting Israel

Anti-Israel novelist’s new book includes minor Israeli character, prompting online backlash

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Rebecca ‘R. F.’ Kuang is accused of ‘normalizing Israel,’ following leak of excerpt from ‘Taipei Story’ in which an unnamed musician is identified as Israeli; some cancel preorders

Peta Jones Pellach

When a nun is knocked down in Jerusalem’s Old City, help her!

Violence against Christians and Muslims, and the silence surrounding it, is corroding the very Jewish values we claim to defend

Crowded shuks and nosy cab drivers can save Jews’ relationship with Israel

Many in the Diaspora love Israel’s human spirit even when they are exhausted by the politics surrounding it

Don’t call it a ‘situation’

Israelis’ way of coping with chronic threats doesn’t work in this uncertain time between war and peace

Rebecca Liebermann Nissel

Buying blue-and-white at Trader Joe’s

When the call went out to counter a boycott of Israeli products, I tried to do my part; the rest of my community beat me to it

Exclusive

Board of Peace won’t hold Israel to truce terms if Hamas doesn’t okay disarmament offer

In letter obtained by ToI, US-led body indicates Israel not adhering to key parts of ceasefire’s 1st phase, but says it won’t have to if Hamas doesn’t accept decommissioning framework

IDF troops operate at a cemetery in Gaza City during a search for the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, in a handout photo issued on January 27, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 6 – Pay-to-slay is here to stay?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Inside story

Gaza rebuild priced at $71 billion, with most homes and nearly all businesses destroyed

First comprehensive report since ceasefire, compiled by World Bank, UN and EU, finds war caused over $35 billion of direct damage and over $22 billion more of economic losses

In this drone photo, Palestinians walk in an intersection surrounded by buildings destroyed during two years of Israeli army bombardments in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP)

Incoming IAF chief Maj. Gen. Omer Tischler (left), IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (center) and outgoing IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar at a handover ceremony at the Tel Nof Airbase, May 5, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

At handover ceremony, outgoing Air Force chief calls for ‘external’ Oct. 7 inquiry

By Emanuel Fabian

Satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC shows the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near the city of Dimona, Israel, July 5, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

30 Democratic lawmakers ask Rubio to reveal details of Israel’s nuclear program

By Lazar Berman

Letter, which is expected to be ignored, claims US ‘cannot develop a coherent nonproliferation policy’ for Mideast without disclosing details on alleged Israeli atomic arsenal

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Amy Acton speaks at a primary election night campaign event after winning the party's nomination for governor in Columbus, Ohio, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

Democrats win big in US special elections, but Trump reinforces hold on GOP

By JONATHAN J. COOPER, HUMERA LODHI and SIMRAN PARWANI

Unused footage from a 1997 documentary on Hasidim, housed in CUNY's archives, shows Chabad emissaries teaching children how to wrap tefillin in post-Soviet Moscow. (Screenshot)

Exclusive'We're opening things up that hadn’t been opened in a while'

9 miles of archives: NYC Jewish history documents come to life in CUNY trove

City University of New York public system’s material includes Yiddish jokes, posters for champion boxers, and student newspapers discussing same issues as today

The Democrats chairman Yair Golan speaks in a video statement published May 5, 2026. (Screen capture: X/Yair Golan)

Golan: Zionist opposition must partner with Arab party Ra’am to topple government

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

The Democrats chief says public embrace of MK Mansour Abbas is ‘appropriate Zionist response’ after Smotrich said Arabs’ inclusion in last government was worse than Oct. 7 debacle

Former Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen (left) and Yashar party chief Gadi Eisenkot at a press conference in Tel Aviv, May 5, 2026. (Arik Marmor)

Former Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen joins Eisenkot’s Yashar party

By Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel

Former IDF Druze Battalion commander Col. (res.) Wajdi Sarhan. (Kinan Heno/Brothers' Alliance)

Former IDF commander Wajdi Sarhan launches first Druze political party in decades

By Ariela Karmel

Israel's Noam Bettan performs during his first rehearsal on the Eurovision stage in Vienna, Austria, May 3, 2026. (Corinne Cumming/EBU)

Vienna police bracing for protests and ‘disruption attempts’ at Eurovision next week

By Reuters and Amy Spiro

Song contest, where anti-Israel demonstrations have been a regular feature, begins May 12 in Vienna; police to ban drones, work with FBI and institute airport-style security

A group gathers with a Palestinian flag in front of the main entrance wearing the names of artists who have been killed in Gaza, at the Venice 2026 Biennale Art, Italy, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Venice Biennale previews in chaos, overshadowed by row over Israeli and Russian participation

By AP and ToI Staff

French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting, "Madame Alphonse Daudet," left, is seen at the Musée d'Orsay museum's new permanent gallery dedicated artworks recovered after World War II whose ownership remains uncertain, in Paris on May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

New gallery at Paris museum reckons with French role in Nazi art looting

By Thomas Adamson

Musée d’Orsay displays works that have been unclaimed since the Nazis obtained them during WWII, when the art market in Paris grew rich on the looted property of slaughtered Jews

Shina Shabso and her husband Itzik prepare cheese pastries for a wedding in the Circassian village of Rehaniya in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, on April 30, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP)

For tiny Circassian community, food and language sustain ancient heritage amid conflict

Living in two northern villages, Israel’s estimated 5,000 Circassians – Sunni Muslims who serve in the IDF – hope to preserve their community while contending with Hezbollah attacks

Israeli lawmakers listen to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Knesset in Jerusalem during Modi’s official visit to Israel on February 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State comptroller says government bloated, inefficient, with widespread dysfunction

By Ariela Karmel

Audit finds too many ministries, constant reshuffles have disrupted governance, weakened services, contributed to failure to rehabilitate northern Israel

Education Minister Yoav Kisch speaks during the Israel Prize ceremony on Israel’s 78th Independence Day in Jerusalem, April 22, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education minister demands university chiefs sign pledge to keep politics off campus

Jonathan Pollard speaking during an interview with Channel 13 on May, 5, 2026. (X screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-spy Jonathan Pollard says he’s entering politics, slams Netanyahu and Bennett

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Dory Manor, left, and Moshe Sakal of new Hebrew publishing house Altneuland. (Courtesy via JTA)

'Hebrew has always been a global language'

New Hebrew press in Berlin seeks to build literary home outside of Israel

By Shira Li Bartov

Founders of Altneuland, the first such publishing house since the Jewish state’s inception, embrace Israeli writers – and readers – while spurning government funding

More Headlines

The New York Times' July 25 front page showing a picture captioned: "Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, about 18 months, with his mother, Hedaya al-Mutawaq, who said he was born healthy but recently diagnosed with severe malnutrition." On July 30, the paper acknowledged that he "had pre-existing health problems affecting his brain and his muscle development."

Palestinian photographer who captured ‘devastation and starvation in Gaza’ wins Pulitzer

By JTA and ToI Staff

Alon Jackson (right) and Idan Gour, co-founders of Israeli agentic AI security startup Astrix Security. (Courtesy)

US tech giant Cisco buys Israeli AI cyber startup to protect digital workforce

By Sharon Wrobel

FILE: Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media at Downing Street, in London, March 16, 2026. (Brook Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP)

AnalysisLocal elections in UK could hasten end of embattled PM Keir Starmer’s tenure

By Jill Lawless

Members of the Security Council listen as Ambassador Abdullah Ali Fadhel Al-Saadi of Yemen speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Draft UN resolution threatens sanctions on Iran unless it opens Strait of Hormuz

By AP and ToI Staff

A view of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Supreme Court overturns rape conviction after review

By Jeremy Sharon

Tevel Shabtai (Facebook/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli hiker found dead in Japan after 5-day search

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