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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 16, 2026

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Hamas Gaza chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, then the commander of the terror group's Gaza City Brigade, is seen in a video released by Hamas’s military wing in May 2022 (social media)

IDF confirms Hamas Gaza chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad killed in airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian

Sources in terror group also confirm death of Haddad, known as ‘the Ghost’ and long sought by Israel; was one of last surviving architects of Oct. 7 onslaught and had in the past ‘surrounded himself with hostages’

Palestinians react to a fire following an Israeli strike on a residential building in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strike targets Hamas military leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad, ‘last architect of Oct. 7’

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Noam Bettan from Israel performs the song 'Michelle' during the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Live updates (closed)

May 16: Herzog tells Eurovision runner-up Bettan he ‘brought honor’ to Israel with ‘perfect’ performance

IDF reports striking around 100 Hezbollah targets this weekend * Mom of slain soldier demands Oct. 7 state inquiry: ‘What are they hiding?’ * Iranian media says Pakistani minister arrived in Tehran ‘to facilitate’ US-Iran talks

11:41 pm

Herzog tells Eurovision runner-up Bettan he 'brought honor' to Israel with 'perfect' performance
10:21 pm

WATCH: Eurovision Song Contest results being announced
9:56 pm

Trump shares image warning of 'calm before the storm' amid reports Iran war could resume

Inside story

On synagogues, playgrounds: In NY, swastika graffiti is increasingly common and rarely prosecuted

Nazi symbols are mushrooming around New York, often targeting Jewish sites and including at least three sprees in recent months, following an increase last year, according to ADL data

A swastika on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, May 13, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani smiles during an address marking his first 100 days in office, in New York City, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Mamdani posts Nakba Day video, saying the ‘catastrophe’ continues until today

Noam Bettan from Israel arrives on stage ahead of the dress rehearsal for the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Israel’s Noam Bettan prepares to take the stage at partly boycotted Eurovision final

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli delegation said to believe ‘Michelle’ could win the public vote; Finnish violinist-singer duo and acclaimed Australian star are favorites to take the contest

US said to suspect Iran behind gas station hack

As Iran talks stall, Israel and US prepping to renew war as soon as next week – report

Commandos could be put on the ground to extract nuclear material, US officials tell New York Times; senior Israeli official reportedly says fighting would last ‘days to weeks’

This photo released on May 12, 2026 shows US Marines with Maritime Raid Force rappelling out of an MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25, during helicopter and roping sustainment training aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli at sea on May 8, 2026. (US Marine Corps photo)

The Israeli and United Arab Emirates flags seen on the side of a road in the city of Netanya, August 16, 2020. (Flash90)

AnalysisUAE chooses to deepen ties with Israel amid war with Iran, risking rift with Saudis

By AFP and ToI Staff

A smoke plume rises from a fire sparked by an Iranian drone attack at Dubai International Airport in Dubai on March 16, 2026. (AFP)

UAE rejects ‘attempts to justify Iranian terror’ after Tehran alleges role in war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Porous ceasefire extended for 45-days after third round of Israel-Lebanon talks

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

US says two days of talks ‘highly productive,’ while Israeli envoy says ‘potential for success is great,’ even as Hezbollah clashes with troops, fires rockets and drones at north

US officials host the third round of talks between Israel and Lebanon at the State Department on May 15, 2026. (State Department)

A woman looks on from the window of a damaged building following overnight Israeli strike on Lebanon's southern city of Tyre on May 16, 2026. (Kawnat HAJU / AFP)

IDF launches strikes targeting Hezbollah for 1st time since Lebanon ceasefire extended

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Settler filmed brutally clubbing dog in Palestinian village

Police open investigation into attack on canine; no reports of arrests after series of settler attacks across the West Bank on Friday, including burning of mosque overnight

An Israeli settler clubing a dog in the Palestinian village of Atara in the central West Bank on May 15, 2026. (Screen capture/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

This photo from a criminal complaint unsealed Friday, May 15, 2026, by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, shows Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, right, with Qassem Soleimani, then-commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force. (US District Court for the Southern District of New York via AP)

Iraqi militia commander charged in US for plotting attacks on Jewish targets for Iran

By Luke Tress and Agencies

US prosecutors say Mohammad Al-Saadi, a Kataeb Hezbollah member and IRGC operative, coordinated close to 20 recent attacks in Western countries claimed by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya

The suspect in the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested, May 21, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Prosecutors seek death penalty for man charged with killing Israeli DC embassy staffers

By AFP

An aerial view of the Ein Hatzeva archaeological site south of the Dead Sea in an undated picture. A new study published in the journal Levant on April 27, 2026, suggests that the ancient fortress at the site was built by the biblical kingdom of Israel in the first half of the 8th century BCE and not by the Assyrian empire as previously thought. (Asaf Peretz/ Israel Antiquities Authority)

'Our research fills in a void in this time period'

How ancient seeds are rewriting the history of biblical-era trade with Arabia

By Rossella Tercatin

New radiocarbon dating of Ein Hatzeva fortress on ancient trade route in the Arava suggests it was built 2,800 years ago by the Kingdom of Israel, shoring up Bible’s account

Iran tells its diaspora to die for the country

Missions in 15 countries are recruiting nationals for a martyrdom campaign. Why aren’t host states seeing this for what it is?

Israel lost the ‘propaganda war’ because of policies

Netanyahu’s framing — that Israel is a virtuous actor being buried under lies — leaves no room for accountability

Exclusive

Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Backers of Abbas rival excluded from Fatah confab, despite Egypt’s push for inclusivity

After PA president gave non-committal response to visiting Egyptian official, members of Dahlan-led faction left out of major gathering where elections held for party’s top panels

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd L) chairs the eighth Fatah conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 14, 2026. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war, in Gaza City, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

US mulls asking Israel to provide PA tax funds for Trump’s Gaza plan — sources

By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

The opening ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem, July 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Games are a Zionist tradition that predates the Jewish State

In the shadow of another Iran war, Maccabiah Games in Israel set to go ahead in July

After last year’s international competition of 8,000 Jewish athletes from around was canceled, organizers cautiously hope the 2026 redo will meet expectations

Left: Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters during a demonstration in London, Feb. 17, 2024; (R) A demonstrator stands on the head of the South Bank lionon the side of the Westminster Bridge, during a Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march in London, Sept. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan)

Police estimate law enforcement operation will cost $6 million

Tens of thousands set to rally in London for concurrent far-right, anti-Israel protests

By AFP and ToI Staff

4,000 police officers to deploy alongside horses, dogs, drones and helicopters; restrictions aim to keep 2 groups apart; major soccer event also being held in UK capital

A general view of New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police on Feb. 3, 2012 (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

‘You’re going to get beheaded one by one, you dirty Jews,’ London man threatens

Forensic officers search the area after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London's Golders Green neighborhood on April 29, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Man who stabbed 2 Jews in Golders Green to stand trial next year, London court hears

By ToI Staff and Reuters

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘Cast a Giant Shadow’: A 1966 ode to Israel’s first general, Mickey Marcus

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

The opinions of ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor diverge starkly on this old classic. Stay tuned to see who gave it a ‘meh’ and who thought it was ‘not bad’

Anti-Israel US Senate candidate with covered up Nazi tattoo splits Jewish Democrats summit

By Joseph Strauss

Jewish Democrats divided over whether to back Graham Platner, who may be hope for party to retake Senate, but supports ending US military assistance to Israel

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Maine, speaks at a town hall in Ogunquit, Maine, October 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

(L-R) Texas US Senate candidate James Talarico (D); Texas congressional candidate Maureen Galindo (D). (Elías Valverde II/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images / screenshot via YouTube via JTA)

Top Texas Democrat won’t campaign with candidate who wants ‘prison for American Zionists’

By Andrew Lapin

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee gestures during a news conference in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 15, 2026. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images via JTA)

Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen won’t seek reelection after GOP carved up his district

By Andrew Lapin

US President Donald Trump prays at the first cabinet meeting of his second term at the White House, in Washington, DC, in February 26, 2025. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images/JTA)

Trump’s ‘Shabbat 250’ call divides US Jews ahead of National Mall prayer rally

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Call marks first time a US president has urged marking of Shabbat; some Orthodox rabbis have embraced it, while those on Jewish left warn of blurring between religion and state

Kehillat Israel congregants gather in the remodeled sanctuary, while it is still under construction, ahead of the ceremony on May 15, 2026. (Courtesy of Kehillat Israel)

Congregation returns to Los Angeles synagogue that was damaged in 2025 wildfire

By Grace Gilson

Daniela Gerson is the author of 'The Wanderers.' (Kait Lavo via JTA)

Interview

Author tracing family’s Holocaust survival finds partner’s ancestors took same path

By Shira Li Bartov

Daniela Gerson says that like her grandparents, most of the 300,000 Polish Jews who lived through the war were not in camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia

Activists have set up a pro-Palestinian camp on Hamburg's Moorweide, which a German court permitted over the objections of the city and Jewish community, May 10, 2026. (Bernhard Sprengel/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

German court allows anti-Israel encampment in Hamburg park where Nazis deported Jews

By Shira Li Bartov

Demonstration for Nakba Day triggers outcry from local Jews, who call it a ‘mockery of victims of the Holocaust’; many activists accused of ‘holding antisemitic positions’

Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor, left, and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation.' (Public domain)

Sealed files on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele to be opened, Swiss intel agency says

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Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff poses for a portrait in the A.D. White House on June 6, 2024. (Ryan Young / Cornell University via JTA)

Cornell trustees back Jewish president after anti-Israel students mob his car

By Andrew Lapin

US President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, May 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says Islamic State’s second-in-command killed by US and Nigerian forces

By AP

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker speaks at a campaign rally for Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate in the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Jewish groups call on UK to bar ‘dangerous’ Hasan Piker amid antisemitic attacks

Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool)

Judge declares mistrial in Harvey Weinstein rape retrial amid deadlocked jury

By Jennifer Peltz

Screenshot from an advertisement for US Jewish charity Kars4Kids. (YouTube screenshot/Kars4Kids)

Judge bars Kars4Kids from advertising in California, saying it misled donors about Jewish mission

By Grace Gilson

Police arrest one of eight individuals suspected in the fatal shooting of Wael Saeida, in the Galilee town of Umm al-Ghanem on April 14, 2026. (Israel Police)

5 suspects, including teen, indicted in deadly shooting in north caught on camera

By Charlie Summers

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