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What Matters Most On Friday, May 18, 2018

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A picture taken from Kibbutz Nahal Oz across the border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli soldiers in position as Palestinians gather along the security fence, on May 14, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)

‘Agreeing’ with Hamas, Netanyahu defends Israeli actions on Gaza border

Prime minister says leaders of terror group are correct when they say protests aren’t peaceful and most of those killed were members

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman gives a statement to the media during his visit in Katzrin, May 11, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Liberman vows to defend troops amid calls for probe into Gaza clashes

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Muslims pray at the Temple Mount on July 27, 2017.(AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Israel girds for first Friday of Ramadan amid heightened tensions

Smoke is seen following reports of explosions at Hama air base in Syria on May 18, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

11 said killed, dozens hurt in blasts at Syria’s Hama air base, cause unclear

By Judah Ari Gross

Conflicting accounts emerge for what set off huge explosions at military airfield; Sky News Arabia reports attack on powerful Iranian air defenses, others say it was an accident

File: A Palestinian protester carries a burning tire during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers near Ramallah in the West Bank on, May 11, 2018. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Israel media reviewNothing’s quiet on any front (except Gaza?): 8 things to know for May 18

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Why Hamas beat a tactical retreat after near-descent into full war with Israel

Yahya Sinwar, the Israel-loathing terror group’s Gaza leader, has a reputation as a particularly notorious killer. But after Monday’s deadly clashes, he clamped down

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, speaks to foreign correspondents in his office in Gaza City, May 10, 2018. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Egypt to keep Rafah crossing with Gaza open until end of Ramadan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

6 days after rioters burn crossing, Gaza’s fuel lines to partially reopen

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel denies rejecting Hamas prisoner swap offer

Live updates (closed)

Erdogan likens Israeli ‘brutality’ in Gaza to Nazi murder of Jews

By Alexander Fulbright

Turkey’s president calls on Muslim world to resist Israel’s ‘tyranny,’ as PM Yildirim says Jewish state ‘imitating Hitler and Mussolini’

5:29 pm

Erdogan likens Israeli 'brutality' in Gaza to Nazi murder of Jews
5:25 pm

56 Palestinians said hurt in Gaza border clashes
4:54 pm

Turkish PM: Israel 'imitating Hitler and Mussolini'

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein attends a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on May 18, 2018 in Geneva. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

UN rights chief: Israel’s Gaza response ‘wholly disproportionate’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

As Human Rights Council considers Pakistani resolution for probe, Israeli envoy says death toll ‘can only be attributed to Hamas’s cynical exploitation of its own population’

Thousands of employees of the U.N agency for Palestinian refugees demonstrate in support of their organization following US funding cuts in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

UN Palestinian refugee agency is ‘part of the problem’ — Swiss minister

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (r) meets with Paraguay President Horacio Cartes, at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on July 19, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Paraguay to open Jerusalem embassy next week

By AP and ToI Staff

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivers a speech at his ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party weekly meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. (Kayhan Ozer/Pool Photo via AP)

Erdogan hosts Islamic summit to back Palestinians, condemn Israel

By Ezzedine SAID

In midst of an election campaign, OIC gathering, and mass rally in Istanbul intended to send a ‘strong message to the world’ against Jewish state

Kuwait's Ambassador to the United Nations Mansour Al-Otaibi, left, talks to Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad Mansour at the start of a UN Security Council meeting, May 15, 2018 in New York. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Kuwait urges international force on Gaza border

By ToI Staff and AFP

AnalysisDespite high intensity, Israel-Turkey spat could be over within months

By Raphael Ahren

Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo in the new movie 'Solo: A Star Wars Story.' (Courtesy Lucasfilm)

Spoiler alert

Jewish actor flies solo through interstellar Ellis Island in new ‘Star Wars’

By Jordan Hoffman

Opening worldwide May 23, the quick-moving Han Solo standalone flick’s star Alden Ehrenreich is a force to be reckoned with

First Muslim superhero film ‘in the works’ – report

Composer Khaled Mouzanar, from right, director Nadine Labaki, actors Zain Al Rafeea, and Yordanos Shiferaw pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Capharnaum' at the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 17, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Film fest review

Cannes wrap-up: Few Jews, but some anti-Semitism on the silver screen

By Jordan Hoffman

Zsuzsa Fritz, director of the Balint JCC in Budapest. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Hungary’s ‘missing’ Jews come out of hibernation to take community’s helm

By Yaakov Schwartz

#MeToo at Mount Sinai

How could the Children of Israel stand in God’s powerful presence and truly consent to His command?

Laurel or Yanny? How about Israel or Gaza?

What an ambiguous computerized voice can teach about getting to peace in the Middle East

Learning Torah with Joe Lieberman

The former US senator is spreading the word on Shavuot, celebrating one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history

Ruth didn’t have to convert to ‘Orthodox Judaism’

If you really understand Jewish law, you know that legal categories do not address every case in the same way

Chef Alon Shaya; (Rush Jagoe) Labneh cheesecake with pomegranate caramel and candied nuts. (Penguin Random House)

Shavuot recipe inside

An Israeli-American chef uses his influences from Bulgaria to the Big Easy

By Rich Tenorio

More Headlines

French policemen stand in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris on April 22, 2017. (AFP/Geoffroy van der Hasselt)

France says it foiled suspected chemical terror attack

By AFP

Scott Wallace, Democrat nominee for Pennsylvania's First District. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Democratic nominee for Congress led fund that gave to BDS groups

By JTA

Illustrative: Firefighters battle a wildfire near Nataf, outside of Jerusalem, on November 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid heat wave, brushfires cause flight delays, train and road closures

File: Construction of Ramon International Airport, in Timna, north of Eilat, southern Israel, January, 2016. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel builds unique ‘missile net’ to protect new airport near Eilat

By AFP

Aaron Schlossberg, left. (Twitter)

New York lawyer in hot water after racist rant goes viral

By AP

Thousands of Jewish marchers wave the Israeli flags as they celebrate Jerusalem Day by dancing through Damascus Gate on their way to the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police say they foiled Jerusalem Day stabbing attack

A picture taken on May 17, 2018 shows the face of Iraqi Shiite cleric and leader Muqtada al-Sadr adorning the plastic cover of a cell phone, on display at a peddlar's stall in a market street in the capital Baghdad. (AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

After upset Iraqi vote, US prepares to embrace a former foe

By Josh Lederman

File: Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich (2nd-L) and Jerusalem police chief Yoram Halevy (2nd-R) seen during a briefing at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on June 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to hold talks with senior cop beyond police chief’s back

Ralph Dannheisser, born in 1938 and whose family fled the Nazi regime to the US in 1940, poses for a photo in Frankfurt am Main on May 8, 2018. (AFP/Yann Schreiber)

Germany loses Holocaust reminder as survivors dwindle

By Tom BARFIELD

A picture shows cardboard cut outs of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle set up in a car decorated with the colors of the Union Flag in Windsor on May 17, 2018 ahead of the couple's royal wedding. (AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN)

Trip adviserIsrael tourism ad to be shown for UK Royal wedding

This June 6, 1944, file photo shows American soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force securing a beachhead during initial landing operations at Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Weston Haynes, File)

Respected British magazine publishes defense of Nazi German troops

By JTA

Guatemala President Jimmy Morales speaks during the official opening ceremony of the Guatemala embassy in Jerusalem on May 16, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

US thanks Guatemala, urges others to move embassies to Jerusalem

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