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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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Mourners carry the body of Mohammed Dwedar a 27 year-old Palestinian killed during clashes along the Gaza border the previous day, during his funeral in Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on May 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Two Palestinians killed as clashes erupt in Gaza, West Bank for second day

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and Agencies

Protests on border draw some 4,000 after funerals held for 60 people killed in deadly clashes in the Strip a day earlier

Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces near the Gaza-Israel border in Rafah, Gaza on May 14, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel girds for second day of violence amid fears protests may spread

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces near the Gaza-Israel border in Rafah, Gaza Strip on May 14, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Arab Israelis strike over deadly clashes on Gaza border

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

For Hamas, dancing on the brink of chaos is a winning tactic

After a day of shocking losses in Gaza, there came a point when the terror group almost lost control, and engaged in some hurried course correction

A Palestinian boy holding his national flag looks at clashes with Israeli security forces near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Palestinian truck drivers wait to cross the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on January 14, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel reopens Gaza crossing, but Palestinians turn back some trucks

By Judah Ari Gross

A Palestinian woman holding her national flag looks at clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018 (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Palestinians say baby, killed by tear gas, among 60 Gaza dead; IDF disputes this

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the inauguration ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

‘You have made history’: Netanyahu hails Trump at Jerusalem embassy opening

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

‘You can only build peace upon truth,’ PM says at ceremony inaugurating new mission in capital; Rivlin thanks US counterpart for keeping promise

Kushner: ‘Truth’ drove Jerusalem embassy opening, Iran deal withdrawal

By Alexander Fulbright

European countries blast US embassy move to Jerusalem

By Agencies and ToI Staff

For Republicans, Jerusalem embassy opening is a grand ol’ party

By AP

Op-ed

As America endorses Israel in Jerusalem, Hamas shows it never will

6 takeaways from the festive, bloody, tumultuous afternoon when the US opened its embassy in the capital

CNN shows the US embassy opening in Jerusalem on a split screen with violence on the Gaza border, May 14, 2018 (Screenshot)

Chuck Schumer ‘applauds’ Trump for opening Jerusalem embassy

By Eric Cortellessa

Abbas pans new US embassy as a ‘settlement outpost’ in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Australian PM: Hamas is to blame for Gaza deaths

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan answers questions after giving a speech at Chatham house in London on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Adrian Dennis)

Turkey recalls ambassadors to Israel, US over Gaza ‘genocide’

By Alexander Fulbright

‘Israel is a terrorist state,’ Erdogan says of response to Hamas-led riots on border; Foreign Ministry says it has not received official notice

Netanyahu: Erdogan knows all about ‘terrorism and slaughter’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Ireland dresses down Israeli ambassador over Gaza border deaths

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

South Africa recalls envoy to Israel over ‘violent aggression’ on Gaza border

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Analysis

Abandoning the split screen, Israeli TV tunes out Gaza to bask in Trump’s love

Intended or not, Hebrew coverage of the feted US embassy move to Jerusalem could be seen as a rejection of Palestinian grievances in favor of Israeli celebration

The media at the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel threatens to kill Hamas leaders if riots continue — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Police shove Arab MK to the ground during protest outside new US embassy

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Clashes in West Bank as Palestinians mark Nakba Day, protest new US embassy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook

Unfazed by Gaza riots, Jerusalem celebrates itself — and Donald Trump

By Raphael Ahren

The US embassy dedication was a distinctly partisan affair, with pastors and politicians thanking God for the president’s courage and leadership in recognizing Israel’s capital

People watch as US President Donald Trump speaks on a video screen during the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reform Jewish head expresses ‘alarm’ over Gaza deaths

By JTA

Israel media reviewSplit derision: 7 things to know for May 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Egypt condemns Israeli deadly force in Gaza; Turkey says US also to blame

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians run for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018. (AFP/ MAHMUD HAMS)

US quashes Security Council call for probe of Gaza deaths

By AFP

Body to hold emergency meeting Tuesday; UN statement would have expressed ‘outrage at killing of Palestinian civilians exercising their right to peaceful protest’

White House: Blame for Gaza violence ‘rests squarely’ with Hamas

By Alexander Fulbright

Pence calls Trump the greatest defender Israel ever had in White House

By Eric Cortellessa

Minister urges PM to ask for ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ to be listed on US passports

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian protesters gathering along the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, May 14, 2018. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

IDF calls Gaza riots ‘unprecedented,’ insists it followed rules as dozens killed

By Judah Ari Gross

Minister threatens to kill Hamas’s Gaza leader Sinwar

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Defending Gaza action, Netanyahu says Israel has obligation to secure border

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Justice minister plays down prospect of war crimes charges over Gaza deaths

By ToI Staff and Agencies

File: In this photo taken on April 13, 2018, US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a UN Security Council meeting at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP Photo/Hector Retamal)

Live updates (closed)

Haley to UN: Gaza violence not connected to US embassy move

US envoy lashes Security Council’s ‘double standards’ in emergency session to discuss Gaza border clashes

11:04 am

Censuring Turks, Israel says it 'won''t tolerate' ill treatment of diplomats
6:22 pm

Corbyn in 2010 resolution tried to get Israel kicked out of Eurovision
6:21 pm

Erdoğan vows 'strong message' from Islamic summit on Palestinians

Illustrative: Cancer cells. (Pixabay)

Israeli researchers say they have found a way to curb growth of cancer cells

By Shoshanna Solomon

Scientists at Ben-Gurion University develop a molecule that inhibits development of a protein that is active in many tumors

Conflict? What conflict?

Make no mistake: Eurovision, the embassy, the Gaza border — all distract us from Netanyahu’s corruption cases

Donniel Hartman

I can’t give in to my paralysis about Gaza

It is because the events at the border are a war against Israel that I seek public debate over moral means of battle

I’m a proud Israeli, and it’s complicated

Political issues are rarely as simple as yes or no, good or bad; the US Embassy move is no exception

Looking for heresy in all the wrong places

‘Why Open Orthodoxy is not Orthodox,’ inflates the challenges posed to Jewish law (Book Review)

Professor and zoologist Yael Dayan, (left), who shepherded the new Natural History Museum from concept to reality (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Long-dead wild animals get new life on view at Tel Aviv nature museum

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Winner of the Eurovision 2018 song contest Netta Barzilai performs at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on May 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Jubilant Tel Aviv welcomes Netta Barzilai for Eurovision victory concert

By Melanie Lidman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses Palestinian leaders in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 14, 2018. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Abbas goes into hospital for ‘minor’ operation

Illustrative: Israeli children run to a bomb shelter during a Color Red alarm warning of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip, January 8, 2009. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90/File)

False alarm triggered on Gaza border, amid sky-high tensions

By Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks on a screen via a video link during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the death of Hezbollah top commander, Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed in an explosion in Damascus, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon, on May 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah chief says Iran rocket fire on Golan marks start of ‘new phase’

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, MK Avi Dichter (Likud), leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF has ‘enough bullets for everyone,’ senior MK says of deadly Gaza clashes

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A poster with US billionaire George Soros in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, July 6, 2017. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Soros fund quits Hungary over government’s ‘repressive’ policies

David Ivry, president of Boeing Israel (left), Assembrix co-founder and CEO Lior Polak, center, and JC Ahn, a Boeing representative, offset project manager (Courtesy)

Boeing signs accord with Israeli startup that secures 3D printing of parts

By Shoshanna Solomon

A newly hung sign points to the US embassy in Jerusalem, inaugurated on May 14, 2018. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Neighbors of the new US embassy in Jerusalem fret over traffic, rising rent

Natalie Portman attends the 27th Annual EMA Awards at Barker Hangar on September 23, 2017, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Natalie Portman will receive ‘Jewish Nobel’ despite refusal to come to Israel

By JTA

Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova created a tribute to Israel in honor of its 70th anniversary. (Courtesy)

Dust in the windWinner of ‘Ukraine’s Got Talent’ gives Israel a sandy birthday present

By Tracy Frydberg

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