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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

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US film director Quentin Tarantino and his wife, Israeli singer Daniella Pick, arrive for the Opening Ceremony and the screening of the film "Partir un Jour" (Bye Bye), at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 13, 2025. Pick is wearing a yellow ribbon pin in support of the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. (Valery Hache/AFP)
May 14, 2025, 5:50 am
Gaza war, Trump dominate politically charged opening of Cannes Film Festival
Tarantino’s Israeli wife dons yellow pin for hostages; Juliette Binoche laments death in recent IDF strike of Gazan photographer who is subject of documentary premiering at festival
By AFP and ToI Staff
Education Minister Yoav Kisch attends a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee in Jerusalem, May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 13, 2025, 9:55 pm
Education minister threatens universities’ funding over student Nakba events
Finance minister says he’ll implement demand to punish Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University for protests commemorating Palestinians ‘catastrophe’; schools slam ‘illegal’ move
By ToI Staff and AFP
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi, speaks during a joint press conference with the President of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region in the regional capital Arbil on February 17, 2025. (Safin HAMID / AFP)
May 13, 2025, 3:59 pm
Iran says open to temporary uranium enrichment limits
But Deputy FM Takht-Ravanchi notes that talks with the US about his country’s nuclear program have yet to address such specifics
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israeli singer Yuval Raphael, representing Israel with the song, 'New Day Will Rise,' walks on the turquoise carpet next to the Basel Town Hall, with protesters' Palestinian flags behind, during the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel on May 11, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
May 11, 2025, 11:48 pm
Israel’s Yuval Raphael and her team met by protests, threat as Eurovision week kicks off
Kan files police complaint after man makes throat-slitting gesture and spits at Israeli delegation; Palestinians flags fly as participants walk ‘turquoise carpet’ to open contest
By Amy Spiro, AFP and ToI Staff
Left: US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Paris, France, April 17, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP); Right: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow, Russia, April 18, 2025. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Pool Photo via AP)
May 11, 2025, 9:44 pm
Tehran says 4th round of nuclear talks difficult, while US ‘encouraged’
Three-hour meeting focuses on enrichment; sides plan to meet again; FM Sa’ar says US and Israel agree on need to dismantle enrichment sites
By AFP, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump (R) and US First Lady Melania Trump (2nd R), posing for a picture with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi (L) and Saudi Arabia's then king Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud during the inauguration of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology "Etidal" in Riyadh, May 21, 2017. (BANDAR AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP)
May 10, 2025, 10:20 pm
Trump aims for ‘historic return’ to region, taking in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, not Israel
US president’s first Middle East visit since returning to office comes amid talks with Iran and as he looks to sign a deal with the Saudis, but Israel is notably not on the agenda
By AFP
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa speaks during an interview with AFP in Paris, on May 8, 2025. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)
May 10, 2025, 7:41 pm
Ecuador leader says Israel will provide intelligence to help country’s war on cartels
Daniel Noboa says UAE has also said it will help in fight against cocaine traffickers
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets Germany's then-opposition leader, now Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
May 10, 2025, 1:53 am
Germany’s new chancellor holds first phone call with Netanyahu
Friedrich Merz tells PM that existence of Jewish state is part of post-Nazi Germany’s raison d’etat; readout says he also raised ‘humanitarian crisis’ in Gaza, ‘situation in Syria’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Tunisian Jews stand next to a car in the Hara Kebira, the main Jewish quarter in the resort island of Djerba, after attending a ceremony at the Ghriba synagogue following a shooting spree by a police officer on the southern Tunisian island on May 10, 2023. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)
May 10, 2025, 1:24 am
Tunisian Jewish man stabbed in Djerba ahead of pilgrimage to island synagogue
Community representative says victim hurt but ‘doing well’ after being attacked for still unclear motive, says he was ‘bothered a lot’ by FM Sa’ar’s call for Tunisia to protect Jews
By AFP and ToI Staff
Houthi supporters chant slogans during a weekly anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 18, 2025. Some of the placards bear the group's slogan "God is the greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, a Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam." (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
May 9, 2025, 5:00 am
After relentless US bombing campaign, Yemen’s Houthis are biggest victors of truce
Analysts say agreement fails to curb ambitions of rebel group, which finds itself becoming increasingly indispensable in Iran’s eyes
By AFP and ToI Staff
US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a discussion at the Munich Leaders meeting hosted by the Munich Security Conference at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, May 7, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
May 7, 2025, 8:20 pm
US Vice President Vance says Iran nuclear talks on ‘right pathway’
Vance says Iran can have civilian nuclear power but not bombs; ‘We think there is a deal here that would integrate Iran into the global economy’ while ending ‘any chance they get a nuclear weapon’
By AFP and ToI Staff
This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressing representatives and dignitaries of Syrian communities during the National Dialogue Conference called for by the country's new authorities in Damascus on February 25, 2025. (SANA/AFP)
May 7, 2025, 3:17 pm
Syrian leader to meet Macron in first European visit
French president to host Ahmed al-Sharaa, an ex-Islamist chief still under a UN travel ban, as deadly sectarian violence in Syria sparks human rights concerns
By AFP and ToI Staff
Captain Alfred Dreyfus (2nd R) speaks with General Gillain (C) after being awarded the Legion of honor award during a ceremony marking Dreyfus' rehabilitation, at Ecole Militaire in Paris, on July 21, 1906. Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced on May 6, 2025 that he submitted a proposal to France's National Assembly lower house of parliament to posthumously promote captain Alfred Dreyfus to the rank of "general de Brigade," one week after a similar proposal was submitted by the senate's socialist group. (Photo by AFP)
May 6, 2025, 11:52 pm
French lawmakers want Dreyfus promoted, 130 years after treason scandal
Nod to falsely convicted French Jewish military officer would advance modern battle against antisemitism, draft law says
By AFP
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin cut a ribbon to unveil the Memorial Candle monument in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020 to commemorate the people of Leningrad during the Second World War Nazi siege on the city. (Amit SHABI / POOL / AFP)
May 6, 2025, 10:05 pm
Netanyahu thanks Putin for helping secure release of Russian-Israeli hostages
Phone conversation marks annual celebration of Nazi defeat, with leaders emphasizing Soviet role in World War II victory
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and AFP
People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025. (AFP)
May 6, 2025, 2:47 pm
International Court of Justice throws out Sudan genocide case against UAE
ICJ says it ‘manifestly lacked’ jurisdiction to rule, points to ‘reservation’ stipulated by United Arab Emirates against countries suing each other, when it joined court in 2005
By AFP and ToI Staff
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