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What Matters Most On Monday, May 14, 2018

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Israeli soldiers walk amidst smoke from a fire in a wheat field near the Kibbutz of Nahal Oz, along the border with the Gaza Strip, which was caused by incendiaries tied to kites flown by Palestinian protesters from across the border., May 14, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

South Africa says it’s recalling Israel envoy over Gaza violence

By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman

Pretoria says decision comes in response to the ‘indiscriminate and grave manner of the latest Israeli attack’ on Palestinians

7:09 pm

Hamas health ministry: Death toll from Gaza protests rises to 55
6:33 pm

White House blames Hamas for Palestinian deaths on Gaza border
6:23 pm

Foreign Ministry confirms South African ambassador recalled

US President Donald Trump in a video message shown at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Screen capture: JW Player)

In video at Jerusalem embassy opening, Trump stresses commitment to peace

By Alexander Fulbright

US president says recognition of city as Israel’s capital has ‘been a long time coming,’ ‘may God bless’ all who serve in new embassy

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman delivers a speech at an Orthodox Union (OU) ceremony ahead of the United States Embassy move to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018 in Jerusalem. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

US envoy: Trump embassy move is his ‘most popular’ decision with American public

The Israeli and the American flags are screened on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, on May 13, 2018, on the eve of the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In Jerusalem, GOP senators slam Democrats for skipping embassy opening

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian protesters look at tear gas and smoke billowing from burning tires, east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Mohammed ABED)

58 Palestinians said killed, including terror operatives, in Gaza border riots

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gaza ministry says 2,700 hurt; army shoots men planting bomb, strikes Hamas post after gunmen fire at troops; protesters hurl rocks, burn tires as US embassy dedicated

File: Masked Palestinian protesters carry tires to be set on fire, during clashes with Israeli troops, at the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 12, 2018 (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

PA, Fatah call for West Bank clashes over US embassy move to Jerusalem

A Palestinian boy protester runs carrying a tire towards a fire during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza strip east of Gaza City on May 4, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Iran is funding Hamas’s violent campaign at Gaza border, Shin Bet says

By Judah Ari Gross

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Orthodox Union in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Courtesy)

Israel’s justice minister calls Trump the ‘Churchill of the 21st century’

By AP and ToI Staff

As US moves its embassy to Jerusalem, Ayelet Shaked says president ‘reversed Chamberlain’s policy of capitulation’

US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 6, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump calls Jerusalem embassy move ‘a great day for Israel’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former US ambassador Dan Shapiro speaks at a Times of Israel event in Jerusalem, July 2, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Obama’s ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro not invited to US embassy opening

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt attends a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, on July 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)

Trump Mideast envoy: Moving embassy to Jerusalem ‘necessary condition’ for peace

By ToI Staff and AFP

Jason Greenblatt says relocation is ‘not a departure’ from US commitment to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; top Palestinian official: It’s a hostile, illegal act

Romney slams Trump’s choice of ‘bigot’ pastor for Jerusalem embassy prayer

By AP and ToI Staff

On eve of Israel embassy move, US says it is ‘hard at work’ on peace

By AFP and ToI Staff

Theresa May: UK will not move its embassy to Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Foreign Ministry's reception to celebrate the US Embassy’s relocation from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, on May 13, 2018. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Reporter's notebook

Ahead of official embassy opening, it’s Jerusalem of red-white-and-blue

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Ministry throws a lavish gala reception for top US and Israeli officials, key players over years of bilateral relations — and even some foreign diplomats

Rivlin: Diplomatic ‘blockade’ on Jerusalem has been broken

Tens of thousands parade through Old City of Jerusalem during annual Flag March

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Opening tense week, government okays huge East Jerusalem ‘sovereignty plan’

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the welcome ceremony at Foreign Ministry, ahead of the official opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Trump is making history,’ Netanyahu says ahead of US Embassy opening

Speaking at Foreign Ministry celebration on the eve of mission move to capital, PM vows: ‘In any peace that you could possibly imagine, Jerusalem will remain as Israel’s capital’

Jerusalem soccer team to be renamed ‘Beitar Trump’

Iran calls Trump ‘feebleminded’ for moving US embassy to Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Erdogan: In Mideast, US has chosen to be part of the problem, not solution

By AFP and ToI Staff

Amid black smoke from burning tires, Palestinian protesters run from teargas fired by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, May 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

IDF gears up for mass Gaza riots, warns that Hamas plans to ‘massacre’ Israelis

By Judah Ari Gross

Over 100,000 Palestinians expected to take part in ‘March of Return’ protests on Monday; IDF fears hundreds may try to breach border fence, attack nearby Israeli towns

Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City, on May 11, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Ahead of planned mass riots, Israel warns Gazans: ‘Don’t be Hamas’s puppets’

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian security forces loyal to the Palestinian Authority stand at the gate of the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on May 13, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

UN warns of collapse of services in Gaza unless fuel gets in

By AP and ToI Staff

Workers load medical supplies onto a truck bound for the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom Crossing on May 13, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Who gains from burning Gaza’s only fuel pipelines?

It will take weeks to repair Kerem Shalom’s diesel and gasoline terminal after rioters, allegedly directed by Hamas, set them alight

Still image from video obtained on September 11, 2012, of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri speaking from an undisclosed location. (AFP/Site Intelligence Group)

Al-Qaeda head calls for jihad on eve of US embassy move to Jerusalem

By AFP

Pastor John Hagee, head of Christians United for Israel, at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem's Old City on May 11, 2018. (courtesy CUFI)

Interview

Top pro-Israel evangelical leader sees ‘wellspring’ of support for Jewish state

The team working at the Tel 'Eton archaeological excavation in Israel's Shphelah region. (Courtesy Avraham Faust/ Tel 'Eton Archaeological Expedition)

Biblical proportions

Proof of King David? Not yet. But riveting site shores up roots of Israelite era

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Reporter Ziv Genesove speaks to residents of Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on election day, May 12, 2018. (Ziv Genesove/ Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

As they vote in Iraqi elections, Kurds say they feel abandoned by Israel

By Ziv Genesove

On the streets of Iraqi Kurdistan on election day, an Israeli journalist speaks to locals about their relationship with the Jewish state

Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr (C-L) shows his ink-stained index finger and holds an Iraqi flag outside a polling station in the holy city of Najaf on May 12, 2018, as the country votes in the first parliamentary election since declaring victory over the Islamic State terror group. (AFP Photo/Haidar Hamdani)

Iraqi Shiite cleric front-runner in partial election results

In this photo from May 12, 2018, people dismantle campaign posters for parliamentary candidates in Ramadi, Iraq. The vote Saturday saw a record low turnout, with 44 percent of eligible voters casting ballots. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

At Iraq’s polls, voters seek patronage and jobs

Democratic congressional candidate and chaplain for the Connecticut Department of Corrections Rabbi Shaul Praver stands outside the Cheshire Corrections Institution. (Cathryn J. Prince/ Times of Israel)

Rabbi who ministered to Sandy Hook shooting victims runs for Congress

By Cathryn J. Prince

David-Seth Kirshner

A front row seat for history

My fellow Democrats and Conservative Jews should really be here with me for this miraculous US Embassy move

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

So much more than news from Jerusalem

The Old City thrums with harmony — and dissonance — of real people and going about their daily lives

A Potemkin embassy

As a longtime Jerusalem resident, I don’t worry the city will be divided — I fear we won’t learn to share it

Just call me Anti-Assimilation Lady

Jews on my Indiana college campus feel Jewish, but they don’t connect to any of the Judaism I know

More Headlines

Winner of the Eurovision 2018 song contest Netta Barzilai seen as she arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport on May 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Back in Israel, Eurovision winner glad ‘we gave a reason for country to rejoice’

By David Sedley

An American flag flowerbed planted next to the compound of the US consulate in Jerusalem, which will host the new US embassy on May 13, 2018, AFP PHOTO / Ahmad GHARABLI

Israel media reviewThe mission and the madness: 10 things to know for May 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Graffiti reading "Jews wake up" found at the scene of an apparent hate crime attack in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat on May 14, 2018. (Yesh Din)

Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem targeted in apparent hate crime

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif holds talks with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (not pictured) at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing on May 13, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Thomas Peter)

Iran FM in Moscow as Russia moves to save nuclear deal

By AFP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes part in a joint press conference with South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha (not pictured) at the State Department in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Pompeo says US wants to work with Europeans on new Iran deal

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI

The deputy chief of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Kassem, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in the Shiite group’s stronghold in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 13, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah: Iranian missile barrage affirmed ‘new balance of deterrence’

By ToI Staff and AP

Newspaper Editor George Osborne poses for photographers on arrival at The Evening Standard Film Awards in central London, on February 8, 2018. (Grant Pollard/Invision/AP)

Minister of the tribeFormer UK chancellor of exchequer ‘delighted’ to discover he’s Jewish

Satellite image allegedly showing damage to buildings at Damascus International Airport caused by a May 11 Israeli airstrike, released by ImageSat International, on May 13, 2018. (ImageSat International)

New images show damage at Damascus International Airport from Israeli strike

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Pastor Scott Lively, Republican gubernatorial candidate for Massachusetts. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Pastor who said gay Nazis behind Holocaust to run for Massachusetts governor

By JTA

Head of Britain's MI5 Andrew Parker speaks on security threats in October 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

MI5 head: Islamic State planning ‘devastating’ attacks in Europe

By ToI Staff and AFP

Masoud Shojaei. (CC BY-4.0 Tasnim/Wikipedia)

Iran World Cup squad includes stars banned for playing against Israel

By AFP

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism conference, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on March 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Group that got funds from charity headed by US envoy ‘is not on terror list’

By JTA

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