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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 23, 2026

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US President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to board Air Force One at Morristown Airport, in Morristown, New Jersey, on May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Iran warns of crushing and bitter response if war resumes

Trump said weighing new Iran strikes as he seeks ‘decisive’ victory; Netanyahu frozen out of talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Reports say Trump, ‘frustrated,’ has reviewed possible targets but not yet made decision; Netanyahu ‘banished from the cockpit,’ forced to rely on regional sources and intel for details

Motorbikes drive past a billboard showing the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the US and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, in downtown Tehran, Iran, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Qatari team in Tehran for talks; Trump says skipping son’s wedding to stay in capital

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump raises a fist as he departs after delivering a speech about the economy at Rockland Community College Fieldhouse in Suffern, New York, on May 22, 2026. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

AnalysisThree months in, is Trump losing the war against Iran?

By Matt Spetalnick

In this handout picture provided by the Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA), Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (R) meets with Pakistan's Army Chief Syed Asim Munir in Tehran on May 23, 2026 (ICANA NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

May 23: Contradicting Trump, Iranian media says Strait of Hormuz will stay under Iran’s management

But Iranian officials tell NYT that Tehran has agreed to MoU, Hormuz will reopen * After Trump says deal to be announced ‘shortly,’ senior GOP senators criticize reported terms as a ‘nightmare for Israel’ * Israel said to regard deal as very problematic

10:08 pm

Hormuz will stay under Iran's management, Trump's post 'inconsistent with reality' — Iran's Fars news
10:00 pm

Right-wing activists protest outside IDF chief's house, said to call him 'traitor'
8:47 pm

Trump: Deal with Iran 'largely negotiated,' Hormuz to be opened, call with Netanyahu 'went very well'

European powers urge Israel to end W. Bank settlement expansion, tackle settler violence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Italy, France, Britain and Germany say Jerusalem is ‘undermining stability’ and harming prospects for a two-state solution

An Israeli soldier stands guard during the inauguration ceremony for the newly legalized Jewish settlement of Yatziv, near the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in the West Bank, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Anti-Israel protesters in New York City, May 5, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NY lawmakers reintroduce Mamdani bill targeting nonprofits linked to settlements

Anti-Israel protesters in New York City, August 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Three-quarters of Democrats oppose aid to Israel, poll finds

Security forces extract Israelis from the Palestinian-controlled West Bank city of Nablus, May 23, 2026. (Civil Administration)

Group of deaf, nonspeaking Israelis extracted from Nablus after being invited for lunch

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Twenty-three Israelis detained by Palestinian security forces after crossing into Area A city, which Israelis are prohibited from entering, then transferred to Israeli forces

Freed Gaza flotilla activists allege Israeli abuse including rape; Israel denies claims

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Italian and German officials say they are probing allegations made by their citizens, including kidnapping and sexual assault, as EU members discuss imposing sanctions on Ben Gvir

Activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla disembark a plane upon arriving at Istanbul Airport, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Dr. Nadia Khir, right, the first female Druze doctor in Israel, consults with a Druze woman in the Clalit health clinic in Julis, Western Galilee, on May 22, 2026. (Courtesy)

Interview'I needed so much courage'

First female Druze doctor in Israel awarded prize for breaking barriers

By Diana Bletter

Dr. Nadia Khir honored with prestigious Habama Shelahen prize for blazing trail 35 years ago; ‘wanted to help’ women in her community who couldn’t seek care from male practitioners

Ambassador Leiter, leave your poison machine in Jerusalem

Progressive Jews in the US deserve representation and respect, not partisan attacks from a diplomat tasked with strengthening Jewish unity abroad

What Adam Sandler knows about being Jewish

A joke in a teen comedy hides a Shavuot lesson about the meaning of accepting — and choosing — Judaism today

The youths being led away from the Temple Mount by police after attempting to break through, on May 22, 2026. (Screenshots/ X/Yossi Eli)

Police arrest 13 for trying to ‘sacrifice’ bread on Temple Mount to mark Shavuot

Suspects said to bring loaves of bread for the harvest holiday instead of an animal sacrifice, as activists did earlier this month and in April

Former Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Jansa smiles during addressing the media at the Parlament in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on Sunday, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Slovenia changes path as pro-Israel, Trump-admiring former PM Janez Jansa retakes helm

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jansa’s stance on Israel and EU expected to shift country away from policies of outgoing Robert Golob, who adopted strong pro-Palestinian approach during his term

Musician Elai Botner, center, performs in the reopening ceremony for The Shack pub in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on May 20, 2026. (Ido Shalom/Kibbutz Nahal Oz via Facebook)

Laughing and dancing again: Kibbutz Nahal Oz reopens pub abandoned after Oct. 7

The Shack, rebuilt with help from the Bazan oil firm and Dutch and German volunteers, is dedicated in memory of soldier who defended the kibbutz and was later killed in Gaza

Billions seen flowing through Binance to Iranian entities

Sanctioned Iranian businessman helped regime skirt sanctions using crypto exchange — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

WSJ says Babak Zanjani has moved some $850M for Islamic Republic on Binance, which is being ‘used as a financial artery for the IRGC’ despite Trump’s pardon of the firm’s founder

A picture made available on March 6, 2016, shows Iran's billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani (C) in a court, in Tehran. (Tasnim News/AFP)

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, July 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US intel chief Tulsi Gabbard resigns citing husband’s health, amid claim she was forced out

Gabbard appeared to be increasingly sidelined ahead of the war with Iran, and afterward was reluctant to support it

People inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on May 23, 2026. (KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)

IDF says it attacked Hezbollah sites, as at least 5 reported killed in south Lebanon

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Military says overnight strikes targeted underground weapons production site in Beqaa and other infrastructure in Tyre, where state media reports ‘severe damage’ to a hospital

Smoke rising from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the Nabatieh village in southern Lebanon on May 22, 2026. (Abbas Fakih/AFP)

IDF kills Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, as drones trigger border sirens

By Stav Levaton, AFP and ToI Staff

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim gestures during a gathering at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., Monday, April 12, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Interview'His Jewish identity did not even extend to eating bagels'

New biography hits the high and low notes of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim’s life

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Author Daniel Okrent doesn’t miss a beat analyzing the music, lyrics — and complicated personality — of the extremely secular Jewish maverick who revolutionized American musical theater

Police at the scene where a man and woman were found shot and killed in their car near Mishmar Ayalon, May 22, 2026. (Israel Police)

Couple in their 40s found shot dead in car; Shin Bet reportedly involved in probe

Police backing away from initial assessment that deaths were murder-suicide and someone stole the gun; the couple had gone hiking in central Israel

Members of the local Jewish community look on as Metropolitan Police officers patrol the streets in Stamford Hill, north London on October 2, 2025. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

Man jailed for 5 years over series of violent antisemitic threats near London synagogue

36-year-old threatened six people in Stamford Hill, including synagogue manager whose car window he smashed with a stone

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Emergency services respond to a bus crash on Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Street, on May 18, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

11-year-old girl dies of injuries from bus crash in Tel Aviv earlier this week

FILE - The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, February 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

UN nuclear nonproliferation negotiations fail to yield agreement

By AFP

A general view of rescue team members and emergency vehicles arriving at the Liushenyu coal mine after a gas explosion in Changzhi, in northern China's Shanxi province, on May 23, 2026. (CNS / AFP)

Gas explosion at Chinese coal mine kills at least 90 people, state media says

In this photograph taken through a glass fence, Muslim pilgrims are seen praying around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, on May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Pilgrims for annual hajj in Mecca surpass 2025 numbers despite Middle East war

By AFP

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