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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 27, 2026

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Mohammed Odeh, right, along with senior Hamas leaders Rafa’a Salameh, Abu Obeida, and Mohammed Deif, in an undated photo. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Katz says Israel advancing 'voluntary emigration' from Strip

Hamas military chief Mohammed Odeh killed by Israel, 11 days after predecessor slain

By Stav Levaton, Nava Freiberg and Nurit Yohanan

Gaza media affiliated with terror group says Odeh killed with wife and sons; Netanyahu and Katz vow Israel to ‘continue pursuing everyone who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre’

Defense Minister Israel Katz speaking during a ceremony returning a stone from the Western Wall that had been kept at HaKirya military base, to the Davidson Center in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 4, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Katz said to reverse security funding cuts for Gaza border communities, after backlash

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Palestinians offer Eid al-Adha prayers beside the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli bombardment, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Live updates (closed)

May 27: IDF says 2 Hamas operatives targeted in Gaza strike; 7 reportedly killed, 18 wounded

Oil prices fall by around 5% as Iran talks continue * Trump threatens Oman over control of Hormuz * UC Berkeley student is refused diploma while holding Palestinian flag, video shows

9:32 pm

Gazan health officials announce 7 killed, 18 wounded after IDF said it targeted 2 Hamas operatives
8:36 pm

Dozens of archaeologists petition High Court to block appointment of new Antiquities Authority head
8:05 pm

UC Berkeley student is refused diploma while holding Palestinian flag, video shows

Analysis

Trump’s emerging Iran deal forces Israel to seek guarantees, not victory

With framework risking drawn-out nuclear talks and questionable freedom of action, Jerusalem left with little to do but reach clear terms with DC on handling future threats

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) meets with Defense Minister Israel Katz (L) and IDF chief of staff Eyal Zamir at the Kiriya in Tel Aviv on May 26, 2026 (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

A man rides his motorbike past a banner depicting the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C), assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei (2nd R), and his son, current leader Mojtaba Khamenei (R), displayed along a street in Tehran on May 25, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP) /

Rubio says Iran negotiations will take ‘a few days’ as Tehran vows response to US strikes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prof. Haim Cohen, Director of the Sagol Healthy Human Longevity Center at Bar-Ilan University’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. (Courtesy/Bar-Ilan University)

'Aging may be more plastic than we once believed'

In step toward immortality, Israeli scientists say they can ‘rewind’ aging in mouse livers

By Diana Bletter

SIRT6 ‘longevity’ protein reverses DNA structure in new peer-reviewed study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University and US National Institute on Aging; treatment seeks to extend healthy human lifespan

Op-ed

Reported terms of Trump’s Iran deal would confirm the war as an epochal failure

US president claims to have almost finalized a ‘Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE’ with Iran; he’s also mused that Iran might ‘perhaps’ join the Abraham Accords. Wishful thinking cannot mask an unfolding catastrophe for Iranians, the free world and Israel

US President Donald Trump salutes during the playing of 'Taps' at the 158th National Memorial Day Observance coinciding with the nation's 250th anniversary, at the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery, May 25, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon)

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's Daily Briefing. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 27 – Dread in Israel as Trump aims to seal Iran deal

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi attends the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset on May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition races ahead with bills targeting media, in defiance of legal objections

By Ariela Karmel

MKs advance legisalation to take control of Kan’s budget, split broadcasting overhaul to push part of it ahead, and add measure that will help pro-government Channel 14, in drive ahead of elections

Opposition party leaders spar over potential inclusion of Haredim in future coalition

Democrats’ Golan slammed after undated clip showed him saying he would sit with ultra-Orthodox if it was the only way to oust Netanyahu-led Likud and far-right; Lapid and Bennett vow no compromise on draft exemptions

Left to right: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Opposition Leader Yesh Atid MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on May 25, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Leader of the Democrats party Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gilad Erdan take part in a special ceremony for a new bulletproof ambulance donated by the Harvest Christian Fellowship to Magen David Adom, at the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ex-Likud minister Gilad Erdan says he is considering establishing right-wing party

Analysis

Low test scores, interrupted studies, diverging values: How dire is Israel’s school system?

The poor results of a national science test are raising alarm bells. Experts say the problems run far deeper, are more urgent and are harder to solve

Children play beside a fragment of an Iranian ballistic missile that landed in a schoolyard in Peduel in the West Bank, March 23, 2026. The Hebrew graffiti on the missile chunk reads: 'The people of Israel live.' (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Analysis

The blood on my fat Jewish hands

I refuse to excuse the dehumanizing scourge of anti-fatness – even when the fat jokes are used to mock people I find despicable

Israeli troops operate in southern Lebanon, in a photo cleared for publication May 24, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

US said to warn Israel not to bomb Beirut

IDF pushes north of Lebanon security zone; Netanyahu says Israel seizing ‘strategic positions’

By Stav Levaton, Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff

Clashes reported in several towns north of Litani River; IDF says it carried out over 100 strikes in south, east; Lebanese media: 12 killed, including children, in overnight Beqaa strike

Marziyeh Amirizadeh

You cannot make a deal with a regime that uses lies as a strategic weapon

As long as the ideological Islamic Republic remains in power, the US has no partner for peace and cannot win, no matter what Trump claims

Ben Gvir reflects how far Israel has strayed from Torah values

Jewish law is unequivocal: Enforcing rules is essential, but humiliating anyone – whether sinner, downtrodden, or flotilla protester – is categorically forbidden

Illustrative: Americans outside the Israel Museum wait for a glimpse of President Donald Trump's motorcade on May 22, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

'If the shekel gets stronger I don't know if I'll make rent'

A stronger shekel has become a pressing problem for Americans building lives in Israel

By Theia Chatelle

Drop in purchasing power hits expats who’ve maintained financial ties to the US, while weakened dollar also affects exporters and nonprofits, who receive much of their funding from abroad

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu review a military honor guard on April 3, 2025, in Budapest, Hungary. (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Hungarian lawmakers repeal ICC withdrawal initiated by Orban in gesture to Netanyahu

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Parliament votes 133-37 to pass new PM Magyar’s bill to stay in criminal court, nixing move announced by his predecessor as he hosted Israeli PM in defiance of arrest warrant

Left: Laila Jahjah, a nine-year-old girl who was shot and killed outside her home outside her home in Arara, a northern Arab village on May 27, 2026. (Facebook) Right: police forces operate at scene of the shooting.(Screenshot/Ynet)

9-year-old girl shot dead amid family feud in Arara; police arrest father as suspect

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Police accuse relatives of destroying evidence after father allegedly shot his own daughter by accident, while aiming for his brothers in argument that erupted at family gathering

Palestinian-French lawyer Salah Hamouri talks to reporters at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris after being deported from Israel over his ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror organization on December 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Israel says French-Palestinian lawyer operated East Jerusalem terror network from overseas

By Charlie Summers

France-based Salah Hamouri, whose Jerusalem residency was revoked over PFLP ties, allegedly recruited five East Jerusalemites to ‘promote militant terror activity,’ say Shin Bet, police

French far-left party La France Insoumise (LFI) candidate in Marseille's mayoral election Sebastien Delogu speaks during a campaign meeting, in Marseille, south of France, March 7, 2026. (Philippe Magoni/AP)

France probes alleged local election interference by Israeli company

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Democratic Congressional candidate Maureen Galindo, in a campaign video posted on May 25, 2026. (Screenshot: Instagram/Maureen Galindo for US Congress)

Antisemitic Congress candidate loses Texas primary but gets 40% of vote

Maureen Galindo, who called for the imprisonment and castration of ‘billionaire Zionists,’ secures more than 5,700 votes in runoff election

Protesters inside an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian students and activists wrap scarves on their faces as they demonstrate on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California, on May 1, 2024. (Etienne Laurent/AFP)

Trump administration files fresh suit against UCLA over ‘antisemitic hostile work environment’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protesters outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence, May 26, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Jewish groups lead protest of hundreds outside Mamdani’s residence

In first Jewish protest at mayor’s mansion, crowd chants ‘Mamdani’s got to go,’ amid increasing frustration in community with City Hall

Caroline Glick, international affairs adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attends the FOZ Ambassadors Summit in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM seeks to tap hardline aide critical of progressive Jews to serve as NY consul general

Anti-Zionist protesters with a Hezbollah flag outside a synagogue in New York City, May 11, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New York State passes buffer zone bill to protect houses of worship

Foreign Ministry accuses detained flotilla activists of faking their injuries

Ministry mockingly hails ‘miracle’ recovery of German activist filmed lying on a stretcher with a neck brace when deported to Turkey, standing upright two days later in Germany

L-R: German pro-Palestinian activist Nesrin Zeaiter is seen lying on a stretcher with a neck brace at an airport in Istanbul, Turkey, where Israel deported her on May 21, 2026; and flashing a victory sign, on her feet and without the neck brace, upon arrival in Germany's Hanover Airport on May 23, 2026. (Screen capture: Israeli Foreign Ministry via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Former IDF military advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is released to house arrest outside Neve Tirtza Women’s Prison in Ramle, November 7, 2025. (Flash90)

IDF chief formally dismisses ex-military advocate general over Sde Teiman scandal

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Dr. Nachum Nathan, left, and Prof. Ziv Shulman of Weizmann Institute of Science. (Courtesy)

'It's a new approach to vaccines for cancer patients'

In a world first, Israeli scientists find ‘memory’ B cells can target ovarian tumors

By Diana Bletter

Immune cells not only remember viruses, but can also secrete tumor-fighting antibodies, say Weizmann Institute researchers; study could further development of cancer vaccines

More Headlines

Elbit Systems' Watchkeeper XR tactical UAV. (Courtesy of Elbit)

Elbit’s profit soars as global defense needs drive record order backlog

By Sharon Wrobel

Local residents look at fire trucks at the site of a fire which broke out at a supermarket in the Golders Green neighbourhood in north London on May 27, 2026. (Photo by Toby Shepheard / AFP)

Fire ravages major kosher supermarket in London’s Golders Green, electrical fault blamed

By ToI Staff and AFP

A police officer stands guard at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany, following a stabbing there on February 21, 2025. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Berlin police arrest man suspected of encouraging Holocaust Memorial stabbing attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) attends the reburial ceremony of Ukrainian nationalist leader Andriy Melnyk, who collaborated with the Nazis, at the National Military Memorial Cemetery near Kyiv on May 25, 2026. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP via JTA)

Ukraine reburies Nazi collaborator with state honors, drawing Israeli condemnation

By Grace Gilson

A car goes up in flames after it exploded, causing the death of its driver on Route 2, near Or Akiva on May 26, 2026. (Screenshot/Magen David Adom)

Man killed in car explosion in central Israel; second apparent bombing in a day

By Charlie Summers

A solar field in Timna, southern Israel, built by EDF Renewables Israel and formally opened on December 15, 2021. (EDF Renewables Israel)

Energy Ministry presents strategic roadmap for renewable energy by 2035

Members of a UN investigative team take samples near the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen)

Syria locates materials from Assad’s chemical weapons program, arrests suspects

By Anthony Deutsch

US President Donald Trump speaks during the 158th National Memorial Day Observance coinciding with the nation's 250th anniversary, at the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, May 25, 2026, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump undergoes yearly physical amid concerns over age, health and stamina

By Collin Binkley

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