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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 13, 2026

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) attends a Knesset plenum session marking the body's 77th birthday and the 60th anniversary of its building, on February 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

May 13: With elections ahead, cabinet ministers reportedly handing out jobs to associates

PM’s embattled pick to lead Mossad says he’ll go ‘all the way’ to get job — report * Gaza Board of Peace envoy says truce holding but ‘far from perfect,’ Hamas can stay as political party

8:58 pm

UAE denies that Netanyahu secretly visited country during Iran war
8:51 pm

US senator's son accosts NY congressman with drunken antisemitic tirade — report
8:22 pm

Government approves plan to upgrade Ashkelon desalination plant

Degel HaTorah MKs meet with the spiritual leader of the Knesset faction, Rabbi Dov Lando, in his home in the central Israel city of Bnei Brak, May 12, 2026. (Courtesy Rabbi Dov Lando)

Elections must in any case be held by late October

Haredi factions push to dissolve Knesset, increasing likelihood of slightly earlier elections

By Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel

Degel HaTorah spiritual chief says it has ‘lost trust’ in PM over failure to pass army exemption bill; move would need support of Shas to succeed; opposition hopes to begin process Wednesday

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, left, and former prime minister Naftali Bennett embrace during a rally of their joint party Together in Tel Aviv on May 12, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

At new party’s first rally, Bennett vows to ‘unite the nation’ and enact constitution

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Likud MK Ariel Kallner addresses the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, May 13, 2026. (Noam Moskowitz/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Call for ‘independent’ inquiry removed from coalition bill establishing Oct. 7 probe

Op-ed

Bring it on? Why the ultra-Orthodox, the opposition, and maybe Netanyahu think earlier elections will work for them

Haredi leaders believe forcing the vote on an earlier date will boost their support, the PM can see some potential benefit, and the opposition is evidently delighted. Thing is, they can’t all be right

Rabbi Dov Lando casts his vote at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, in Bnei Brak, on February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90/ File)

Op-edUltra-Orthodox parties break with Netanyahu but know they have nowhere else to go

By Shalom Yerushalmi

US President Donald Trump, right, speaks as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Promoted ContentShalom Hartman Institute

Rational or reckless? War, Iran, and the limits of strategy

Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with Chief Policy Officer at the Israel Policy Forum, Michael Koplow to assess a volatile and uncertain moment in U.S.–Iran–Israel relations.

Despite anti-Israel chants in arena, Israel’s Noam Bettan advances to Eurovision final

Singer says boos were quickly drowned out by support and that he felt he was ‘just singing to Israel’; 4 activists removed from event hall by security after interruptions

Israel's Noam Bettan celebrates qualifying for the grand final, during the first semifinal of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, May 12, 2026. (AP/Martin Meissner)

Jury member Paul Laverty appears during the opening ceremony of the 79th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Cannes-winning writer claims actors ‘blacklisted’ for opposing Israel amid Gaza war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Irish writer and director Graham Linehan reacts as he has to queue up to enter upon arrival at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, on November 25, 2025. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Irish writer calls public broadcaster’s decision not to air Eurovision ‘antisemitic’

By AFP

The New York Times building is seen in New York City, on May 6, 2026. (Michael M. Santiago/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Accused of ‘blood libel,’ NYT defends column alleging Israeli rape of Palestinian inmates

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Jewish groups announce protest against ‘libels’ outside newspaper’s Manhattan offices; ex-PM Olmert says column misrepresented his words so they appeared to validate allegations

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 13 – Does the IDF stand idly by in the West Bank?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Yehuda Sherman. (Courtesy Samaria District Council)

Palestinian man to be indicted for killing settler in fatal March car ramming

By Charlie Summers

Sherwin Pomerantz

Nicholas Kristof’s illogical, overreaching anti-Israel rant in the NYT

An accomplished reporter should know better than to rely on unreliable sources that convey bias instead of nuance

The devil wears cleats

Despite their TikTok attention spans, my adolescent sons were into the long-form drama about fashion, work, identity, and power – and I learned not to sell them short

Is Hamas really rebuilding or is Israel preparing the ground for more war?

Deadlocked over Hamas disarmament, the sides should adopt the kind of international guarantees that helped end the Northern Ireland conflict

I love Jerusalem too much to pretend it holds only one story

I celebrate the miracle of Jews’ return to this holy place, but we must acknowledge the others who are attached to it or risk losing the united city we cherish

Hezzie Raymond and Tamara Sireling Raymond, along with their 9-month-old son, attend the Aliyah Day fair at StoneX Stadium in north London, May 10, 2026. (Omri Dagan for the Jewish Agency for Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Record high number of British Jews attend aliyah fair as antisemitism roils country

By Lianne Kolirin

Some 1,200 turn out for Sunday event offering practical advice on moving to Israel amid rising levels of hatred and violence, though data doesn’t yet point to mass exodus

Pennsylvania judge leaves Democrats over party’s ‘coddling’ of antisemitism

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Soros’s philanthropic foundation commits $30M to fighting antisemitism, anti-Muslim hate

By JAMES POLLARD

US President Donald Trump stands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on his visit to the White House, in Washington, November 18, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Saudi Arabia covertly launched strikes on Iran during war, sources say

By Reuters and Lazar Berman

Strikes were ‘tit-for-tat’ for Iranian attacks on kingdom; UAE, which similarly struck Islamic Republic before and after truce, said to have coordinated at least one attack with Israel

Mossad chief David Barnea (L) and Shin Bet chief David Zini at a Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 20, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Reports: Mossad, Shin Bet chiefs secretly visited UAE during Iran war

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Placards featuring portraits of Iranians executed by the Iranian regime are placed on the snow-covered pavement during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Iran executes man accused of spying on behalf of Mossad

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump waves from the stairs of Air Force One as he boards upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, May 12, 2026, for a trip to China to meet President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Tehran said to retain 70% of its missiles and launchers

Trump says US will ‘finish the job’ against Iran, ‘peacefully or otherwise’

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

‘I don’t think we need any help with Iran,’ US president insists as he heads to China; Islamic Republic remains defiant, claims US must accept its ‘rightful and definitive demands’

Motorbikes driving past a billboard showing the slain Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, in downtown Tehran, Iran, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

AnalysisIran gambles that Trump will blink first in Hormuz standoff, but risks overplaying its hand

By Stuart Williams

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, watches as acting Under Secretary of Defense and Comptroller Jules Hurst III testifies at a House Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing for the US Department of Defense, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pentagon says US cost of Iran war approaching $29 billion

By Frankie TAGGART

Iranian women walk past American-Jewish artist Roy Lichtenstein's 'Brattata' as they visit an exhibition called: 'Art & war' displaying some artworks of American pop artists at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, on May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

'Everybody missed visiting museums'

Amid ceasefire, Iranian museum opens ‘Art & War’ exhibit, including US Jewish artist

By AP and Rossella Tercatin

Artwork by Roy Lichtenstein is among the pieces chosen by Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art for its first exhibit since reopening

High Court demands documents to review Mossad chief’s appointment, but unsure it can intervene

By Jeremy Sharon

Asking why key questions weren’t raised by selection panel, justices order IDF officer to file affidavit over claim Roman Gofman lied to army and abandoned a jailed teen he had worked with in 2022

Incoming Mossad director Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman arrives for a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pallbearers escort the casket at the funeral of former ADL chief Abraham Foxman at Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, New York, on May 12, 2026. (JTA)

Abraham Foxman laid to rest, in elegy for last generation of Holocaust survivors

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Former ADL chief, who was hidden as a child in Poland by his Catholic nanny, said his life’s work combatting antisemitism was a duty to the children who perished, grandson recalls

Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg poses at his home in Leer, Germany, on December 30, 2024. (FOCKE STRANGMANN / AFP)

ObituaryAlbrecht Weinberg, who survived several camps during Holocaust, dies at 101

By AP

'Figures in the Ghetto,' by Zvi Hersz Szylis (Art Collection, Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem)

12,000 came to see the original 1940 ghetto art exhibit

In the Łódź Ghetto, Jews defied Nazis through art. Now it is exhibited in Jerusalem

The second-largest city in Poland had a thriving Jewish cultural scene before The Third Reich incarcerated 164,000 Jews for slave labor. A Yad Vashem exhibit shows their resilience

Inside story

Charlie Summers

Rash of teen violence renews focus on south Tel Aviv gang linked to migrants’ kids

Robberies, assaults and more attributed to SSQ group, largely made up of children without legal status, underlining chronic complaints by locals; some see marginalization at fault

Security camera footage of a violent robbery of three boys eating in a restaurant in north Tel Aviv on April 20, 2026. (Screenshot/X)

A person is seen inside a burning vehicle as men attempt to put out the fire after an airstrike hit a car in the coastal town of Barja, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Mustafa Jamalddine)

Israeli strikes on highway south of Beirut kill 8, including 2 children, Lebanon says

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

State media also reports strikes in south Lebanon as IDF says it’s targeting Hezbollah in the area following evacuation warnings for seven villages

A poster of Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem outside shelters at the Imam Ali Housing Compoundm near the city of Hermel in Lebanon's northeastern Bekaa valley on February 4, 2026. (Joseph EID / AFP)

Hezbollah chief: Iran-US deal is best chance to end Israeli ‘aggression’ in Lebanon

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

View of a newly constructed Jewish residential area in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev, with the West Bank security barrier in the background, on November 19, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90 )

Belgium refuses to renew passport of Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem area beyond Green Line

By Nava Freiberg

Annabelle Herciger-Tenzer, a Pisgat Zeev resident who immigrated to Israel in 1980, says Belgian consulate’s rejection of her request ‘was simply like being slapped in the face’

FC Barcelona player Lamine Yamal holding a Palestinian flag as he celebrates with his team atop a bus after winning the Spanish La Liga soccer title in Barcelona, Spain, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo)

Barcelona soccer star Lamine Yamal raises Palestinian flag during title parade

By AP

This video grab taken from a handout footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry on May 12, 2026, shows the test launch of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile. (Handout / Russian Defense Ministry / AFP)

Russia tests new nuclear-capable ICBM, which Putin boasts as world’s ‘most powerful’

Sarmat, known by NATO as Satan II, is Russia’s first post-Soviet ‘super heavy’ missile; Putin says it carries warhead 4 times bigger than any US missile, will deploy this year

Posters for the proposed Golden Dome for America missile defense shield are displayed before an event with US President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield to cost $1.2 trillion, far more than planned

By AP

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The vineyards of the Ramat Negev Winery are part of the new Negev wine appellation, as of April 2026.(Nira Tzadok)

Negev desert wins recognition as unique international wine region

By Jessica Steinberg

View of the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in the southern city of Eilat, January 14, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

State bodies, NGOs up in arms over oil company’s plan to move into fiber optics

Interior view of the new National Library of Israel, 2023. (Iwan Baan/File)

Story timeFour authors named as finalists for Sami Rohr Prize

By Jessica Steinberg

Two dolphins seen during an Israel Nature and Parks survey of marine mammals and birds, May 10, 2026. (Matan Benedict, Delphis)

Eye podMarine survey spots rare bird and thriving dolphins

Illustrative image of Holstein dairy cows. (JackF, iStock by Getty Images)

Farmers urge policy shift on foot-and-mouth outbreak as farms become overcrowded

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, and Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly attending the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, July 6, 2025. (Eraldo Peres/AP)

War overshadows BRICS forum bringing together Iran and UAE in India

By Aftab Ahmed and Saurabh Sharma

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