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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 7, 2026

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US President Donald Trump meets with UFC fighters, May 6, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump reportedly paused Hormuz op after Saudis denied use of airspace; US awaits Iran deal response

Riyadh rejects report as US officials say Gulf states were surprised by Project Freedom, which triggered fears of fresh fighting; top Iranian negotiator mocks US for halting operation

Motorbikes drive past a billboard with graphic showing the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the U.S. and Israel strikes on Feb. 28, with his framed fist amongst his supporters framed fists in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US, Iran said closing in on framework for permanent deal, as Trump renews bomb threats

By Agencies, Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

Iranian army soldiers stand in front of a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a pro-regime rally in Tehran, Iran, on April 29, 2026. (AFP)

Iran’s Pezeshkian says he recently met with yet-to-be-seen supreme leader

By AFP

Analysis

Fighting for attention, podcasters are stoking outrage against Israel and Jews

Commanding large audiences, hosts like Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker keep listeners hooked for hours by saying shocking things, often against the Jewish state. With nothing to rein them in, their sway may only be growing

Streamer Hasan Piker, left, shows his phone on a live Twitch stream as producer Mauricio Miranda films during a campaign event for Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Greenwood Elementary School in Olney, Maryland. (Google Streetview via JTA)

US Jewish group calls for ‘zero tolerance’ as antisemitism surges in school district

By Grace Gilson

Morton Schapiro (CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia, public domain)

Georgetown Law graduation speaker backs out after students protest his ‘Zionist opinions’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Live updates (closed)

May 7: Following clash, Trump threatens more force if Iran doesn’t agree to deal

Earlier, US said it struck Iranian targets in ‘self defense,’ and ‘does not seek escalation * Iran accuses US of violating ceasefire, says air defenses activated in Tehran * Herzog reportedly met with pro-Netanyahu journalist to discuss pardon

8:52 pm

Iran news agency reports air defenses activated in Tehran, fresh sound of explosions in Bandar Abbas
8:46 pm

US hit Iranian coastal city and an island in Strait of Hormuz, US official tells Fox
8:30 pm

Iran says it fired missiles at 'enemy units' around Hormuz after US targeted Iranian tanker

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Analysis

Anger over handling of Hezbollah fight could put Netanyahu’s northern support at risk

Traditionally a Likud stronghold, areas along Lebanon border could shift backing away from PM’s party due to unpopular ceasefire and sense that government has failed to bring real security

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with troops in the Israeli-controlled buffer zone in southern Lebanon, on April 12, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

People gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Beirut's southern suburbs Haret Hreik neighborhood on May 6, 2026. (Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)

IDF kills top Hezbollah commander in first strike in Beirut in almost a month

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

IDF soldier seen placing cigarette in Virgin Mary statue’s mouth in Lebanese village

By Emanuel Fabian

Image taken weeks ago in same village where soldier smashed Jesus statue; military says soldier will be disciplined in latest act of vandalism to be posted online

A soldier places a cigarette into the mouth of a Virgin Mary statue in Debel, southern Lebanon, in a photo circulated online on May 6, 2026. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A man kicks a nun in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 28, 2026. (Screenshot/Israel Police)

Man who attacked nun in Jerusalem indicted for assault with religious hatred motivation

By Jeremy Sharon

From the blogs

The soul of a soldier

The scandal was not just the disrespectful act, but the warning it carries about how war can eventually loosen the moral limits of an entire generation

Tents housing displaced Palestinian families are seen in the central Gaza Strip's Bureij refugee camp on May 1, 2026. (Eyad Baba / AFP)

Israel says it coordinated delivery of rat pesticides to Gaza to counter infestation

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hundreds of cartons of specialized poisons, 20 tons of pesticide reported delivered in conjunction with US-led Coordination Center, as warm weather and tent city sewage attract rodents

After cancer revelation, court orders PM to submit sealed medical records in libel case

By Jeremy Sharon

Judge says Netanyahu must file records by May 13, after journalist being sued by PM over claims he was in poor health requested that his doctors be summoned to testify on his medical status

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the courtroom of the Tel Aviv District Court in the trial against him, October 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MKs Avigdor Liberman (front right) and Gadi Eisenkot (bottom left) in the Knesset, September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid speculation of merger, Eisenkot and Liberman say they’re ‘deepening cooperation’

Media warned over Polanski cartoons with anti-Jewish tropes

UK holds local elections, with left- and right-wing populist parties expected to surge

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Polls show PM Starmer’s Labour losing ground amid discontent and Epstein scandal, pushing Polanski’s anti-Israel Greens and Farage’s anti-immigrant Reform UK to the forefront

A man puts up 'polling station' signs at a makeshift polling station set up at St John's Parish Hall in central London on May 7, 2026, as polls open for local elections. (Peter Nicholls / AFP)

ToI founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 7 – Golders Green terror shows rising threat to world Jews

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu

Arab youth to politicians: Lay out concrete plans and we’ll vote

Surveys debunk the notion of Arab citizens as apathetic and find they prefer well-defined political objectives over vague promises about future change

Why my synagogue raised funds for a Gaza school

If we only know how to say no to what is dangerous, and not yes to what is hopeful, we will forfeit the future we claim to seek

A plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 27, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Contentious proposals dominate planned legislative blitz as Knesset readies to resume

By Ariela Karmel

FILE: New immigrants from France arrive on an "Aliyah Flight" at Ben Gurion airport. August 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ministerial panel to vote on bill that would bar citizenship for non-Orthodox converts

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in the Knesset on November 24, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

PM said to ask Haredim to again shelve draft exemption bill — this time until after election

By Sam Sokol and Emanuel Fabian

An ultra-Orthodox Jew walks past Belgian soldiers as they patrol during religious services in Antwerp, Belgium January 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Belgium indicts 3 Jewish mohels, sparking diplomatic spat with Israel and US

By Zev Stub, Lazar Berman and Rossella Tercatin

After Sa’ar accuses Antwerp of antisemitism, his Belgian counterpart claims probe was initiated by representatives of Jewish community in country where only doctors allowed to perform medical procedures

Plaques installed in April 2026 inside the Cathedral of St. Michael in Brussels explain and apologize for the antisemitic violence depicted in the stained glass windows. (Courtesy of Flora Cassen)

Brussels cathedral installs plaques apologizing for medieval pogrom depicted in its stained glass

By Grace Gilson

A woman takes out money from a Bank HaPoalim ATM machiine in Tel Aviv on December 9, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel’s competition watchdog declares top 5 banks an oligopoly, targets deposits

By Sharon Wrobel

Hapoalim, Leumi, Mizrahi Tefahot, Discount and First International control 98% of banking sector’s assets, competition watchdog says; critics denounce their huge profits, excessive fees

This undated photo shows the Beth Avraham Yoseph synagogue in Toronto, Canada. (Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Man charged for shooting at two Toronto-area synagogues in March

By Michael Horovitz

Accused, a minor at the time, fired shots at separate synagogues 30 minutes apart over Shabbat; is indicted on illegal weapons and property damage charges

Protesters gather outside the High Court in London on July 4, 2025 to support a challenge to the Home Secretary's decision to proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror laws. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

Canadian Jewish groups call for designating Palestine Action a terrorist entity

By Grace Gilson

Gunman Naveed Akram in the course of a deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025. (Screengrab used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Bondi Beach terrorist to face 19 extra charges over Hanukkah massacre

Officials say Naveed Akram faces extra charges over intent to murder and resisting arrest; hearing held over gag order on some names of victims and survivors of attack

Illustrative photo of a person standing on a scale. (Richard Villalon/iStock)

Over half of Israeli adults are overweight or obese, Knesset Health Committee told

By Diana Bletter

31.4% of 7th graders overweight; officials blame high cost of medications, inadequate health services in low-income areas, lack of accessible educational materials in Arab, Ethiopian sectors

More Headlines

From L to R: Shaylee Atary arrives at a court hearing in Tel Aviv, May 6, 2026; Naama Shahar arrives for an interrogation of the man she recently accused of raping her, at a police station in Tel Aviv, May 6, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man suspected in two highly publicized rape cases released to house arrest

By Michael Horovitz

FILE - Lights glow in Rutgers University's Old Queens building, April 4, 2013, in New Brunswick, NJ. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Rutgers disinvites graduation speaker who claimed Israel ‘trains dogs to sexually assault prisoners’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pope Leo XIV, left, greets US Secretary of State Marco Rubio upon his arrival for talks in the pope's private library at the Vatican, May 7, 2026. (Vatican Media via AP)

Rubio meets pope in Vatican amid ongoing feud between Trump and Catholic leader

Rabbi Yosef Shoveli speaks in a sermon, uploaded on October 16, 2018. (YouTube screenshot/Arutz Hatorah)

Meron rabbi arrested after cult watchdog warned of sex abuse in strictly run group

By Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather ahead of a Europa League soccer match between PAOK and Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv in the port city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Wednesday, September 24, 2025. (AP/Giannis Papanikos)

Irish athletes, celebrities urge boycott of upcoming soccer games against Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

FILE - This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

US judge releases note that cellmate says he found after Epstein first attempted suicide

By Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister

Ch. Supt. Ruti Hauslich arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem, April 16, 2026, after filing a lawsuit against Itamar Ben Gvir over his refusal to promote her, despite the opinion of police's senior command. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police officer receives promotion after Ben Gvir drops opposition

Cole Tomas Allen (LinkedIn)

Iran war possibly motivated Trump dinner shooting suspect, US intel report finds

By Ted Hesson, Jana Winter and Andrew Goudsward

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

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2025. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Far-right agitator arrested for allegedly spitting on ex-PM Olmert; judge frees him

Relatives pose for a photograph holding a Holocaust plaque in German reading "Johanna Berger, born in 1893, lived here; deported on Nov. 17, 1941, murdered on Nov. 25, 1941 in Kowno/Kaunas Fort IX," prior to the placing of the so called "Stolperstein," in front of her former home in Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

InterviewAs new Holocaust memorial stone laid in Berlin, relative says plaque serves as substitute for grave

By AP

From 'A Plate of Hope and Color' exhibit for lone soldiers in Tel Aviv, through May 8, 2026 (Courtesy)

Plated hopeArtists paint dinner plates for lone soldier charity

By Jessica Steinberg

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