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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 24, 2026

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US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Trump listens to a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, on December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

PM said to tell Trump Israel must retain freedom of action

Trump said to assure Netanyahu he will thwart Iran nuke program as Israel fears ‘very bad’ deal

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Israel deeply concerned over plan that gives Iran time, money, falls short of key security needs, with regime’s nuclear activities only up for discussion later, no commitment to export uranium stockpile, terror proxies intact

Vessels are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, off the port city of Khasab on Oman's northern Musandam Peninsula on May 17, 2026. (AFP)

US-Iran deal said to open strait for 60 days, push off talks on regime’s nuclear program

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks to members of the media as the Trump cabinet briefs members of Congress on Iran, at the US Capitol on March 3, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

‘Nightmare for Israel’: Senior GOP senators criticize alleged terms of emerging Iran deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli drone flies over Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Live updates

May 24: Iran claims it downed an Israeli surveillance drone; IDF says not familiar with incident

Leaders of Islamic countries reportedly backed Trump on Iran deal during phone call, but request to join Abraham Accords met with silence * Arab parties urge Ra’am to join efforts to revive Joint List

8:44 pm

Trump requested Muslim leaders normalize ties with Israel if Iran deal reached -- report
7:37 pm

Arab parties urge Ra'am to join efforts to revive Joint List
7:20 pm

3.5 earthquake felt in northern Israel; no injuries or damage reported

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during an event at the White House in Washington, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Iran says nuclear issue pushed off; mixed signals on Hormuz

Trump says deal with Iran ‘largely negotiated, will be announced shortly,’ Hormuz will be opened

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president claims call with Netanyahu ‘went very well’ but Israel said to see emerging deal as ‘very big problem’; Trump also holds ‘very good’ conference call with regional leaders, mediators

Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman speaks to the Knesset plenum on February 23, 2026. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesman's Office)

Liberman slams emerging Iran deal, accuses Netanyahu of failing to win war ‘on any front’

By Jeremy Sharon

Political reporter Tal Schneider joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 24: Why Israel could object to potential Iran deal

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Tal Schneider

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A Basque police officer beats a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla upon their arrival at Bilbao Airport on May 23, 2026. (Idurre Etxaburu / AFP)

Israel 'demands' Spain explain its treatment of the activists

Spanish police beat and detain returning Gaza flotilla activists amid clashes at airport

By AFP and ToI Staff

Cops filmed hitting anti-Israel activists and supporters with batons and dragging them on floor. Violence comes days after global outcry, including from Madrid, over Ben Gvir’s taunting of bound, kneeling detainees

France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot gives a press conference after a crisis meeting in Paris on March 2, 2026. (Thibault Camus / POOL / AFP)

France bans Ben Gvir over ‘reprehensible actions’ toward Gaza flotilla activists

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Discharged IDF soldier from US dies of apparent suicide after struggling with PTSD

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Alex Miller, 23, was moderately wounded in a 2022 car-ramming attack, lost close friend in 2025 Gaza combat; as an only child, required special permission to enlist

Discharged IDF combat soldier Alex Miller (Courtesy)

Staff Sgt. Noam Hamburger (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier killed in northern Israel by Hezbollah drone from Lebanon

By Stav Levaton

Two other soldiers reportedly hurt in attack, including one in serious condition; IDF releases video of UAV wounding combat military photographer in south Lebanon earlier in week

Analysis

In Knesset breakup ado, Netanyahu, Haredim seen jostling for leverage, not a ballot date

As Likud takes control of dissolution process triggered by ultra-Orthodox demands for draft exemption, analysts say sides locked in a power struggle but may not actually want early elections

Ultra-Orthodox lawmakers attend a vote to dissolve the Knesset, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally against the detention of yeshiva students who evaded conscription outside the IDF's Beit Lid military prison, August 14, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Haredi bill aims to reduce draft dodgers’ sentences if religious needs ‘violated’

UTJ’s Porush claims there is ongoing ‘violation of basic religious rights’ of Haredi evaders in military prison, even though IDF provides for the religious needs of soldiers

The digital afterlife of October 7

I’ve studied how terrorists weaponize media to amplify trauma, but understanding the mechanism hasn’t made living through it any easier

Glilot, 47 years later

The unheeded warnings of the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre still haunt me after another generation of attacks on civilians

‘Are you a baby killer?’: Israeli couple harassed by employee at California hotel

Hotel staffer repeatedly asks pair if they served in IDF and calls them ‘baby killers,’ as antisemitic and anti-Israel attitudes surge in US

Screenshots from a video of a hotel employee harassing an Israeli couple in California, May 23, 2026. (Social media)

Screen capture from video of a right-wing protest outside the home of IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, May 24, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Right-wing activists protest outside IDF chief’s house, call him ‘traitor’

Demonstrators angry at jailing of soldier who wore a controversial, unauthorized ‘Messiah’ patch on combat uniform; opposition figures blame government

Inside story

Citing security, IDF appears to sharply accelerate uprooting of West Bank olive trees

Palestinians and activists say the military is razing trees on private land at an unprecedented pace, questioning whether claims they provide cover for attacks justify the widespread campaign

Khaled Shamlawi near uprooted olive trees in the West Bank village of Haris, on May 13, 2026. (Nurit Yohanan/Times of Israel)

Demonstrators holding signs as they gather near the Francis Scott Key Bridge during rally in support of the Iranian people and to condemn the execution of political prisoners in Iran, in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2026. (Amid Farahi/AFP)

Iran executes first man accused of espionage during current war with US and Israel

By AFP

Mojtaba Kian is convicted of sharing information related to Iran’s defense capabilities during the nearly 40-day Israel-US war with the Islamic Republic

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the US president, and her husband Jared Kushner pose during a summit on Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on October 13, 2025. (Yoan Valat/Pool/AFP)

Iraqi IRGC operative behind attacks on Jewish targets plotted to kill Ivanka Trump — report

Iran's national soccer team players stand onstage as they are greeted by a crowd during a pro-government gathering before their departure for training and friendly matches in Turkey ahead of the World Cup at Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran, Iran, May 13, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian soccer team moves World Cup base camp from US to Mexico

By AP

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike, in Deir al-Balah, in the Gaza Strip, May 24, 2026. (Khalil Kahlout/Flash90)

Three said killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, including one-year-old

By Nurit Yohanan, Stav Levaton and AFP

IDF does not comment on strike, but says it hit Hamas arms depots in recent days as violence continues unabated amid shaky ceasefire

Israeli windsurfer Tamar Steinberg, who won the gold medal at the World Cup in Hyeres, France, April 25, 2025. (Sailing Energy / Israel Sailing Association)

Israel wins gold and silver medals at European windsurfing championship

Tamar Steinberg takes the title in Portugal as fellow Israeli windsurfers place 2nd and 4th in women’s tournament

At least two killed as Russia uses hypersonic Oreshnik missile in mass attack on Kyiv area

By SAMYA KULLAB and VASILISA STEPANENKO

Russia says the large-scale attack, using drones and missiles, was retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on ‘civilian facilities on Russian territory’

A man carries a box from a burning trade center after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

More Headlines

Evidence markers are seen on a crime scene after police responded to reports of shots fired near the White House, May 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Suspect shot dead after firing near White House security checkpoint, Secret Service says

By AP

The scene of a light plane crash near Tel Adashim in northern Israel, May 24, 2026. (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)

2 killed as light aircraft crashes near Tel Adashim in north

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Pilgrims from the West flock to hajj in Mecca despite uncertainty in war with Iran

By Haitham el-Tabei

Turkish riot police standing guard outside the Republican People's Party (CHP) headquarters in Ankara, on May 24, 2026. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Turkish police storm opposition party’s offices, fire tear gas and rubber bullets

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