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What Matters Most On Monday, May 11, 2026

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A woman holds the Iranian flag as she stands in front of an anti-US billboard in Tehran, Iran, on May 10, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Trump: Iran has been 'playing games' with US for 47 years

‘Unacceptable’: Trump rejects Iran response to US peace offer, as Netanyahu insists war ‘not over’

By Nava Freiberg, Agencies, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

State media says Tehran rejected proposal that would mean ‘surrender,’ demanded reparations, control of Hormuz; PM tells ’60 Minutes’ conflict will continue until uranium removed from country

US President Donald Trump speaks on May 11, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says Iran ceasefire ‘on life support’ after Tehran submitted ‘garbage’ proposal

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 11 – Will ‘unacceptable’ Iran proposal push Trump to war?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CBS News' '60 Minutes' in an intrerview aired May 10, 2026. (Screenshot/60 Minutes)

Repeats vow to wean Israel off US military aid within decade

Netanyahu concedes he bears some responsibility for Oct. 7, but says ‘everyone’ shares it

By Michael Bachner

‘The real issue’ is what’s happened since, PM tells CBS’s ’60 Minutes’; says Iran regime’s fall isn’t guaranteed; admits ‘we’ve not done well on propaganda war,’ calls claim Israel is hostile to Christians an ‘incredible fabrication’

L-R: Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chairman Simcha Rothman, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Yisrael Beytenu MK Yulia Malinovsky in the Knesset, May 10, 2026. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

‘A modern Eichmann trial’: Lawmakers tout imminent passage of law to try Oct. 7 perpetrators

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 11, 2026. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Live updates (closed)

May 11: Trump holds high-level security meeting on Iran, with renewed fighting reportedly on the table

Lebanon urges US ambassador to push Israel to halt strikes * IDF eliminates Hezbollah launch cell after rocket attack on troops * Netanyahu blasts EU sanctions on violent settlers

8:53 pm

Lebanon urges US ambassador to push Israel to halt strikes
8:40 pm

Knesset approves forming military tribunal to try Oct. 7 perpetrators, 'deliver justice'
8:17 pm

CBS News: Pakistan providing refuge to Iranian military planes as it mediates between sides

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Portrait of Abraham Foxman, then national director of the
Anti-Defamation League, May 7, 2009. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

ObituaryKnown as 'Jewish pope,' he transformed ADL into a juggernaut

‘He pursued a world without hate’: Former Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman dies at 86

By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and JTA

Successor Greenblatt hails Foxman, who served from 1987 to 2015, as ‘iconic Jewish leader, passionate advocate for the Jews and Israel’; Herzog mourns ‘Zionist, humanist, and friend’

From the blogsAbe Foxman carried the moral weight of a generation

Lebanese PM: 'Support peace’ with Israel after demands met

IDF reservist killed in Hezbollah explosive drone attack in northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Alexander Glovanyov, 47, survived by wife, baby daughter, teen son; 3 troops lightly injured in drone attack in south Lebanon; IDF probing strike that killed man, 12-year-old daughter

Warrant Officer (res.) Alexander Glovanyov (Courtesy)

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern village of Kfar Jaouz on May 10, 2026. (Abbas Fakih / AFP)

Hezbollah airs drone footage showing strike on Iron Dome battery in northern Israel

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

'In any other country, there would be a national outrage'

Facing ‘epidemic of hate,’ UK Jews hold Downing Street rally decrying antisemitism

As many as 20,000 come out on Sunday afternoon; speakers warn that attacks on Jews pose a threat to the country’s democratic values

Participants at a rally against antisemitism in London, May 10, 2026. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Israel's Noam Bettan and his backup dancers performing 'Michelle' during a rehearsal for the Eurovision on May 6, 2026, at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. (Alma Bengtsson/EBU)

Inside storyIsrael's Noam Bettan is predicted to finish 6th

Boycotts, beats and bling: Eurovision’s 70th edition kicks off in Vienna

With the focus once again on Israel, singers from 35 nations will compete for the top prize in the colorful contest, amid heavy security, expected protests and backstage tension

From left to right: Hostages Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka and Alon Lulu Shamriz, who were killed mistakenly by IDF troops in Gaza on December 15, 2023. (Courtesy)

Mother of hostage killed by IDF gunfire says troops were told to open fire on sight

By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian

Soldiers involved in the December 2023 killing of three Israelis in Gaza told Iris Haim they were operating under broad orders to ‘shoot to kill,’ leading to her son’s tragic death

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir attending a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Zamir warns Knesset that military urgently needs more soldiers amid multifront war

By Stav Levaton

Iran’s Bluff: Playing a weak hand like a winner

Tehran’s economy is collapsing, its currency is in free fall — so why does the regime still negotiate like it holds all the cards?

Feeling like Freud at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Were the mental health crises I witnessed in American Jewish teenagers a symptom of a political destabilization already on its way?

Special Relationship 2.0

Past top Israeli, US officials reveal new vision for ties rooted in tech partnership

As US support drops, ex-envoy Tom Nides and ex-IDF intel chief Amos Yadlin present Technology Alliance, in which both countries would invest $2 billion a year into joint projects

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides speaks to the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations, in Jerusalem on February 19, 2023. (Amit Elkayam)

A meeting of the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, October 19, 2025. (Maayan Taof/ GPO)

Ministers back bills giving government ‘sole discretion’ over senior appointments

Ministerial Committee for Legislation pushes off decisions on proposals to cancel Oslo Accords, bar immigration and citizenship for non-Orthodox converts

Dean Livne, tapped on May 10, 2026, as the Central Elections Committee acting director-general. (Screenshot/Globes)

Central Elections Committee taps acting director-general following shock resignation

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing in Jerusalem on May 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Payout for worker who said Sara Netanyahu threw tomatoes and olives at her – reports

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Inside story

Nurit Yohanan and Reuters

Abbas seen positioning son for Palestinian leadership, dismaying those seeking new blood

Recent meetings between businessman Yasser Abbas and top PA officials, along with upcoming Fatah vote, stir angry speculation that president wants to keep power in his family

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, flanked by his two sons Yasser (L) and Tarek (R), gives a short statement before leaving a hospital near Ramallah in the West Bank on May 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of the European Political Community in Yerevan, Armenia, May 4, 2026. (AP/ Anthony Pizzoferrato)

EU’s top diplomat ‘hopeful’ bloc will vote to sanction violent West Bank settlers

Israeli settler Meir Goldmintz walks past a parked bulldozer inside the Sa-Nur settlement, south of Jenin in the West Bank on May 7, 2026. (Photo by Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP)

For settlers, reestablishing Sa-Nur in the West Bank is a dream realized

By Marie DHUMIERES

US Air Force refueling aircraft are seen parked on the tarmac of the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on February 25, 2026. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Civil aviation head says US refuelers at Ben Gurion are crowding out civilian planes

By Sharon Wrobel

Shmuel Zakai laments Israel’s airport is now a ‘US military base’; warns of higher fares, lower availability because the American planes are taking up all the parking spots

Knesset Economics Affairs Committee, led by chairman MK David Bitan discusses compensation for airlines who suffered losses, and passengers whose flights were cancelled during the US-Israel war with Iran, May 10, 2026. (Courtesy of Knesset Economics Committee)

Knesset panel demands state help cover losses to passengers and airlines during Iran war

By Sharon Wrobel

A Jewish couple is wed in a mass wedding ceremony in Kyiv, May 2026. (Courtesy of JCC Kiev)

Mazal tough

Amid Ukraine ceasefire, Jewish couples wed in joint ceremony in Kyiv

A 92-year-old couple was among those married during the May 9-11 truce put in place in honor of Victory Day

Mordechai David and other right-wing provocateurs harrass Naor Narkis and his partner (both in blue) at the Cinemateque in Tel Aviv on May 9, 2026 (Screenshots via X/Ofri Eitan)

Far-right provocateurs hurl homophobic abuse at gay secularist activist in Tel Aviv

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Group led by government-aligned Mordechai David trails Naor Narkis and partner, calling them ‘f*ggot’ and ‘tranny’; gang also said to yell the pair is ‘sick with AIDS’

Eight-year-old Dor Wolynitz finds a 1700-year-old figurine fragment while hiking in the Negev, in a discovery announced by the Israel Antiquities Authority on May 11, 2026. (Akiva Goldenhersh/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'I was looking for special things to bring to class'

Eight-year-old boy finds 1,700-year-old statuette fragment while hiking in Negev

By Rossella Tercatin

Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist says the artifact might depict Roman god Jupiter

Israeli police forces investigate the scene of a shooting incident in Ramle in central Israel on May 11, 2026. One woman was killed and several others were injured. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Woman shot dead, three injured in Ramle; police arrest husband

By Charlie Summers

Police probe shooting rampage as likely femicide after initially suspecting terror motive; hours later, teenager shot, injured in Lod after he and friends said playing with gun

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Art looted from Jewish collector hanging in home of Dutch SS leader’s family, sleuth says

By Richard Carter

Illustrative: US Soldiers prepare to launch a stinger missile during African Lion 26 at Cap Draa, Tan-Tan, Morocco, May 1, 2026. (US Army photo )

US says body of soldier found after two went missing during exercise in Morocco

By AKRAM OUBACHIR

Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests. (John MacDougall / AFP)

Iran executes man who worked in ‘satellite field’ for allegedly spying for Mossad, CIA

A handout picture released by the Marine Nationale (French Navy) on May 6, 2026, shows the French Navy's Carrier Strike Group that includes the flagship aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (unseen) and its escort transiting the Suez Canal en route to the southern Red Sea to pre-position for a possible mission to restore navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. (Handout/Marine Nationale (French Navy)/AFP)

UK, France to host meeting of defense ministers on Hormuz, amid Iran threats

By AFP

An Iranian man walks past an anti-US and anti-Israel mural painted on a wall, in Tehran, Iran, on May 10, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iranian businesses said resorting to mass layoffs amid wartime economic struggles

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping participating in a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik, File)

AnalysisIran war sets cooler tone for Trump’s upcoming China trip than his first-term visit

By Will Weissert

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