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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 17, 2018

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The mother of a Leila Ghandour, a Palestinian baby of 8 months who according to Gaza's health ministry died of tear gas inhalation during clashes in East Gaza on May 14, 2018, holds her at the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on May 15, 2018. On May 16, the ministry said the cause of death had not been definitively established. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Gaza’s health ministry now says it doesn’t know cause of baby’s death at border

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘We are awaiting pathologist’s report,’ says spokesman. Layla Ghandour’s reported death from tear gas Monday made headlines. Family said to acknowledge she had hole in heart

A Palestinian suspect is interrogated by Israeli soldiers after he was arrested infiltrating into Israeli territory from Gaza during a border riot on May 15, 2018. (Screen shot: Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian caught at Gaza fence says Hamas plans riots so ‘people won’t revolt’

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar speaks to Al Jazeera on May 13, 2018. (Screen capture: MEMRI)

Hamas co-founder admits ‘we are deceiving the public’ about peaceful protests

I was at the Gaza border, we did all we could to avoid killing

Thousands of people rushing at you is terrifying, yet we stayed calm and tried to minimize Palestinian casualties

A bullet, apparently from Gaza, that struck a home in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on May 16, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Machine gun fire from Gaza hits nearby Israeli homes in Sderot, no injuries

By Judah Ari Gross

In separate incident, shots fired at troops on Gaza border, IDF tank responds by targeting Hamas position

Illustrative: A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli flares illuminating the Palestinian coastal enclave, on July 7, 2014. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

IDF planes strike Hamas ‘terror targets’ in northern Gaza Strip

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales attend a reception at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on May 16, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu credits army’s ‘determination’ for drop in Gaza clashes

By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren

Op-ed

World must tell Gaza’s Hamas-abused masses the truth: There will be no ‘return’

Palestinians are being mobilized for a ‘right’ they do not have and a ‘return’ that will not happen. Why does the international community insist on helping Hamas delude them?

A Palestinian protester holds bolt cutters amid black smoke from burning tires near the fence during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, May 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Dozens of London Jews say Kaddish for Palestinians killed in Gaza

By JTA and ToI Staff

Outrage over exhibit honoring Gaza dead at Jerusalem arts school

By Michael Bachner

Israel media reviewShooting for a narrative: 7 things to know for May 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to AFP journalists in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Lars Hagberg)

Canada slams ‘inexcusable’ use of live fire at Gaza border, says citizen injured

By Alexander Fulbright

Without directly mentioning Israel, PM Trudeau condemns ‘reported use of excessive force and live fire,’ calls for inquiry

Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Islamist Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, speaks during a protest east of Khan Younis on April 6, 2018 (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Hamas leader says group reached deal with Egypt to stop riots from escalating

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt, on December 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Egypt’s Sissi exhorts both sides to avoid further deaths in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara, Turkey, February 16, 2018. (AP Photo/ Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey says it’s helping Palestinians sue Israel in International Criminal Court

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

‘Israel should account for its actions’ at Gaza’s border fence, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tells Turkish media

Ministers lambaste Turkey amid diplomatic spat, but ‘no intention’ to cut ties

By Michael Bachner

Amid diplomatic spat, Yair Netanyahu posts ‘Fu*k Turkey’ on Instagram

Israeli news crew attacked in Turkey amid diplomatic fallout

The cast of Seinfeld. (Wikimedia Commons, Andromedoide)

Much ado about nothing

Over 70 hours of new footage revealed for 20th anniversary of ‘Seinfeld’ finale

By Yaakov Schwartz

Prof. Amnon Shashua, left, senior VP at Intel and CEO of Mobileye, arrived on stage at CES in the backseat of an autonomous car during the preshow keynote of Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich, right, in January 2018. (Walden Kirsch/Intel Corp)

Mobileye inks largest-ever deal to provide self-driving tech for 8 million cars

By Shoshanna Solomon

Technologies to be installed in unnamed European automaker’s vehicles; Intel confirms agreement; financial terms not disclosed

Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit attends the Arab Foreign Minister's meeting in Cairo on July 27, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)

Live updates (closed)

Arab League chief calls for international probe of Gaza violence

At meeting Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, Ahmed Abul Gheit demands ‘credible investigation into the crimes committed by the occupation’

6:30 pm

Merkel signals no wide-ranging compensation over Iran sanctions
6:12 pm

4 held for stabbing, critically wounding Eritrean asylum seeker
5:25 pm

Israel denies Hamas claim that it walked away from prisoner exchange talks

Demolition begins on the abandoned Dolphinarium building in Tel Aviv on May 15, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Show’s over for Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium eyesore

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative: A skeleton of a donkey dating to the Early Bronze Age III (approximately 2700 BCE) found at the excavations of the biblical city Gath. (Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project)

Hauling ass

Earliest evidence of bridle use found on 4,700-year-old donkey from Bible’s Gath

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Teeth of beast of burden used in ritual burial from circa 2,700 BCE show wear that correlates to use of bit, predating arrival of horses to the region by hundreds of years

Temple Mount soil being sifted in the city of Petah Tikva by Yeshurun High school students (Inbal Dasberg/Temple Mount Sifting Project)

Archaeologist for a day: Find Temple Mount treasures — at a school near you

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Sivan Rahav Meir

To Gaza youth: It wasn’t always like this

Your leaders have electricity and water in their mansions when they send you to die for their beliefs

Shayna Goldberg

‘But you can’t say “stupid” about people’

When you go looking for a relationship, don’t settle for Netta’s anthem of ‘not your toy!’

Taking an autovisual journey with Rimini Protokoll as part of the Israel Festival 2018 (Courtesy Mike Vonotkov)

At Israel Festival, a journey through Jerusalem as performance art

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

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)

US, Gulf Arab states place sanctions on Hezbollah leadership

The West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad, January 10, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Parents sue Shin Bet, claiming agency failed to stop informant son from suicide

Deputy Attorney General Avi Licht attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on June 19, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Deputy AG resigns after complaining of politicization in Justice Ministry

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes (composite image: Flash90)

Case 2000 said reopened over new evidence; PM to be questioned again

By Michael Bachner

Dr. Ami Appelbaum, Israel Innovation Authority, left, Dr. Gilad Litvin, Chief Medical Officer, CorNeat Vision, center, and Dr. Irit Yaniv of Accelmed; Tel Aviv, May 17, 2018 (Alexander Elman)

Blood test device, artificial cornea win Israel life-sciences startup race

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) walks through the senate basement following a vote on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images via JTA)

Campaign robocall refers to Sen. Dianne Feinstein as ‘traitorous’ Jew

By JTA

Illustrative: Electronic capacitors. (Eric Schrader/Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA-2.0)

UN probing Turkish shipment of Israeli-made equipment to Iran — report

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

President Donald Trump announcing his decision to leave the Iran nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, May 8, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump says some migrants are ‘animals’

By AFP

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat seen taking a selfie with Jerusalemites as he tours "First Train Station" in Jerusalem on March 24, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor rejects council vote to close First Station on Shabbat

By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman

CNN panelists discuss a meeting Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had with Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, May 16, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Monkeys to manhoodCNN panel discusses rabbi who compared black children to monkeys

Still from video of a comedy sketch by the Eretz Nehederet satire show depicting Education Minister Naftali Bennet wearing joke tefillin, May 16, 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)

Satirical TV show uses religious items in skit, drawing fury

By Stuart Winer

The cast of Israeli drama series 'Fauda' (Ohad Romano via JTA)

‘Fauda’ makes Israeli-Palestinian conflict a must-see TV hit

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