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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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Head of the UTJ party Yitzhak Goldknopf (left) in a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, March 20, 2026. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

May 12: Coalition lawmakers urge Haredi parties not to topple government over draft exemption bill

Saudi Arabia said to have carried out retaliatory strikes on Iran during war * Several Hezbollah drones explode in Israeli territory, injuring two IDF soldiers

8:47 pm

4.6 magnitude earthquake felt in Tehran, Iranian media reports
8:12 pm

Israel's Noam Bettan performs at Eurovision over anti-Israel chanting
7:26 pm

Netanyahu's lawyer a candidate for State Comptroller -- report

Screenshot of the recorded testimony of Darin Komarov, a survivor of the Nova Music Festival massacre to the Civil Service Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children. (Courtesy, Civil Commission)

Report is 'act of documentation, accountability, remembrance'

Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds

By Jeremy Sharon

Rape, sexual torture, mutilation and postmortem sexual abuse found to have been used to ‘terrorize’ Israeli society, with images of the atrocities ‘weaponized’ through social media

Members of the Israel Prison Service stand guard next to Hamas terrorists caught during the October 7 massacre and the ensuing war in Gaza, at a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Knesset passes law establishing military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators

By Ariela Karmel and Jessica Steinberg

‘Blood libel’: Israel rejects NYT column alleging widespread rape of Palestinian inmates

After Nicholas Kristof cites report by Euro-Med Monitor as evidence, Israeli Ambassador to US Leiter highlights its leaders’ photos with Hamas officials

Anti-Zionist protesters in New York City, May 11, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Anti-Zionist protesters march through NYC Jewish neighborhood, chanting for intifada

Demonstration against Israel real estate event in Brooklyn marked by scuffles with residents as police keep two sides separate

Protesters against anti-Zionism, in New York City, May 5, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Upcoming symposium aimed at tackling anti-Zionism shows movement gaining steam

YouTuber Tyler Oliveira (left) seen after being denied entry into Israel at Ben Gurion airport, in a video posted to social media on May 12, 2026. (Screenshot/JBN via X)

Israel blocks antisemitic YouTuber Tyler Oliveira from entering country

A man waves an Iranian flag for a pro-government campaign under a billboard with graphic showing Strait of Hormuz and sewn lips of US President Donald Trump in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, on May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

'Trump is going to hit them a bit,' senior US official says

Iran says forces ready to respond to attacks as Trump reportedly mulls renewing war

By Lazar Berman, Stav Levaton, Jacob Magid and Reuters

Ghalibaf says only option is to accept ‘Iranian rights’ laid out in its ceasefire proposal; Tehran also threatens to enrich uranium to weapons-grade 90%; Pakistan said hosting Iran’s military aircraft despite mediator role

An image of text messages apparently sent from Iran to Israelis calling on them to cooperate with the Islamic Republic on May 12, 2026 (Israel Police)

Iran sends mass text message to Israelis, inviting them to share intelligence

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Construction site of the Mubarak al-Kabir port project on Bubiyan Island, Kuwait, August 20, 2011. (Gustavo Ferrari/AP)

Kuwait says it stopped armed Iranian team from attacking one of its islands

By AP

Op-Ed

Nitsan Alon and Eran Shamir-Borer

We were there. The Supreme Court did not tie the IDF’s hands on the Gaza border

Two former senior IDF officers: Baseless claims that the Court restricted open-fire rules before the October 7 attacks are merely a pretext to dodge a state commission of inquiry

A picture taken on March 30, 2018 from the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz across the border from the Gaza Strip shows tear gas grenades falling during a Palestinian protest, with Israeli soldiers seen below in the foreground. (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy (Muki Schwartz) / On October 13, 2023, Israeli soldiers inspect the site of the Nova music festival where at least 340 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the attack by Hamas militants on Oct 7, near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

ToI podcast

Cochav Elkayam-Levy: Hamas weaponized rape and humiliation on Oct. 7

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Cochav Elkayam-Levy

Head of Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children launches massive report on terrorists’ tactical sex crimes and warns that they have already been replicated

Analysis

Was Abe Foxman the last ‘Jewish pope’?

The longtime ADL director, who has died at age 86, personified the post-Holocaust battle against antisemitism. He also spoke for a US Jewish consensus that doesn’t exist anymore, if it ever did

In this June 17, 2015 photo, Anti-Defamation League national director Abe Foxman, center, poses for photos with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, left, and national security advisor Susan Rice during a reception for a dinner in Foxman's honor in New York. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Inside story

Citing Israel’s ‘international crimes,’ NYC student government trying to defund Hillel

New School’s student senate voted to block funds for Jewish club due to Israel ties in 1st vote of its kind in US, drawing pushback from university president

Protesters target Hillel at Baruch College, part of the CUNY system, in New York City, June 6, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen speaks outside the Hall of Justice in San Jose, California, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Judge bars Jewish DA from trying Stanford anti-Israel protesters, alleging conflict

By Niva Ashkenazi

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Saudi Arabia’s strange war: Appease Iran, rebuff Israel

Riyadh’s muted response to Iranian aggression reveals a leadership driven more by fear and domestic troubles than coherent regional strategy

Where does US aid to Israel actually go?

The billions sent to Israel do not disappear overseas — they circulate through American factories, weapons labs and strategic interests

Bill to bar non-Orthodox converts from immigrating postponed

Divisive bill barring non-Orthodox practices at Western Wall back on Knesset agenda

By Rossella Tercatin

Legislation would give chief rabbis ultimate authority at holiest site for Jewish prayer, could see non-Orthodox worship branded as ‘desecration,’ carrying 7-year jail term

Yizhar Hess, a World Zionist Organization vice chairman and senior representative of the Masorti/Conservative Judaism (left), discusses with an ultra-Orthodox worshipper at the Western Wall in an undated picture. (Courtesy)

IDF troops operate at the Litani River in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo published by the military on May 12, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it carried out weeklong raid on Hezbollah sites beyond Lebanon’s Litani River

By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton, Agencies and ToI Staff

Terror group’s leader says weapons not a subject of Israel-Lebanon talks; IDF censures commander for letting soldiers into Bint Jbeil to say Kaddish for fallen loved ones

Interceptor missiles are fired at Iranian ballistic missiles over central Israel, March 9, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel not short of missile interceptors, insists chair of Rafael defense firm

By Stav Levaton, Reuters and ToI Staff

Move endangers gov't funding, donations to settler groups

EU foreign ministers approve sanctions on violent Israeli settlers, Hamas leaders

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

New Hungarian leadership lifts veto on measure, which targets 7 organizations and individuals; Netanyahu says EU morally bankrupt for drawing symmetry between Israel and Hamas

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)

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg in today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 12: Extremist settlers dealt a blow with EU sanctions

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stand as a thick plume of smoke from a US-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility late Saturday rises into the sky in Tehran, Iran on March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

UAE secretly launched strikes on Iran during war, attacked oil refinery — report

By ToI Staff and Reuters

April attack on Persian Gulf site only specific instance mentioned in report; US said to welcome Abu Dhabi’s involvement after other Gulf countries refused to join war effort

United States ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, March 11, 2026. (Seth Wenig/AP)

In first official confirmation, US envoys say Israel sent Iron Dome to UAE

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks before signing a proclamation in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, May 5, 2026. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Hegseth faces new round of questioning from Congress on the Iran war and more

Netanyahu defends his pick for Mossad chief; said to blast outgoing head for opposition

By Lazar Berman

David Barnea reportedly said Roman Gofman unfit for the post because he violated IDF procedures in 2022 scandal; AG also opposes appointment; PM claims ‘political considerations’ at play

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, his military secretary, whom he nominated on December 4, 2025, to be the next director of the Mossad. (Prime Minister's Office Spokesperson)

View of the ancient archaeological site of Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 12, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Knesset advances controversial West Bank antiquity bill in first reading

By Rossella Tercatin

Legislation’s critics maintain it amounts to de facto annexation, while supporters say it is necessary to preserve territory’s unique heritage

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)

IDF jails soldiers for photo of cigarette in mouth of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Soldier seen in picture given 3 weeks, photographer given 2 weeks; army says it ‘respects freedom of religion’ after several incidents involving soldiers in Christian village Debel

A fiber optic-guided FPV drone is seen in footage published by Hezbollah on May 7, 2026. (Hezbollah media office)

Ukraine’s envoy laments lack of Israeli ‘interest’ in country’s drone expertise

By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Curator Avital Bar-Ishay and artist Belu-Simion Fainaru at the Israel pavilion at the Israel pavilion at the Venice 2026 Biennale Art, May 11, 2026. (Courtesy)

'The hubbub is politics. The audience is here for the art'

Despite protests, Israeli Biennale pavilion opens, includes Jewish mystical symbols

By Jessica Steinberg

Tubes dripping with water, mezuzah scrolls and locks printed with commandments make up ‘Rose of Nothingness,’ artist Belu-Simion Fainaru’s installation

Holocaust stories and images generated by artificial intelligence are sparking debate among educators and historians. (Illustration by Grace Yagel for JTA)

'If we don't use these tools, we’re going to remain behind'

Experts debate whether AI-generated Holocaust content aids memory or distorts it

By Toby Axelrod

A World Jewish Congress clip of Anne Frank highlights potential and peril of new tools as firsthand testimony dies out — and opportunists capitalize on endless supply of ‘slop’

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A police forensic officer works inside a cordon set up near Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, northwest London, on April 19, 2026, the scene of an overnight arson attack. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Suspect in UK ex-synagogue arson was in touch with person with Iraqi number, prosecutors say

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Police clash with ultra-Orthodox protesters in Jerusalem, October 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Knesset passes law barring police from spraying ‘skunk’ liquid on protesters

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

At the opening night of the 25th Docaviv film festival in Tel Aviv, May 11, 2023 (Courtesy)

Popcorn timeDocAviv hosts 10 days of screenings throughout Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer enters his car to leave after delivering a speech at the Coin Street Neighborhood Center in Waterloo, London, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK’s Starmer under pressure as ministers reportedly ask him to step down

By Elizabeth Piper, Andrew MacAskill and Sam Tabahriti

Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper speaks during a news conference with Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, after their talk on April 20, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP/ Eugene Hoshiko)

UK slaps sanctions on dozen people and entities deemed ‘criminal proxies’ of Iran

Cole Allen, after he was detained for opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, on April 25, 2026. (US Secret Service)

Suspect in attempted Trump assassination at White House press gala pleads not guilty

By Andrew Goudsward

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