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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 29, 2018

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A picture taken from Gaza City on May 29, 2018, shows a smoke billowing in the background following an Israeli air strike on the Palestinian enclave. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Live updates (closed)

No sign of ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas sites amid ongoing fire from Gaza

By Tamar Pileggi and Judah Ari Gross

Late night barrage sends residents across Gaza border region running for cover; IDF says some 70 projectiles fired into Israel in most serious flare-up since 2014

11:44 pm

New barrage launched against Gaza border communities
10:24 pm

Fresh barrage fired toward Eshkol regions, many explosions reported
10:24 pm

IDF: Over 2 dozen Hamas positions bombed in second wave of reprisals

The remains of a mortar shell that struck the yard of a kindergarten in the Eshkol region, near the Gaza border, on May 29, 2018. (Shay Machluf)

28 mortar shells strike southern Israel in largest barrage since 2014; 1 injured

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli man walks past a kindergarten yard, after mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip exploded near it, in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Ein Hashlosha on May 29, 2018. Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a barrage of mortar shells at southern Israel on Tuesday, the army said, causing no injuries but raising tensions in the border area. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

‘Our kindergarten is the safest place,’ teacher tells kids after mortar attack

By Michael Bachner

A Palestinian man mourns near the body of Mohammed al-Radeia, 30, prior to his funeral in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2018. The Palestinian man was killed by Israeli tank fire into northern Gaza earlier in the day, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said. An Israeli army spokeswoman told AFP that two Palestinian men tried to breach the border fence "with the intention of carrying out an attack." (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Islamic Jihad: Mortar barrage a ‘welcome response’ to IDF operation

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists march during a military drill near the border with Israel, east of the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 27, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Behind Islamic Jihad’s barrage of attacks on Israel, the hand of Iran

It is hard to believe that the Gaza terror group would have opened fire on Israeli citizens, potentially pushing the Strip toward war, without the support of its Iranian sponsors

Israel media reviewShell in May and go away: 7 things to know for May 29

By Joshua Davidovich

EU, UN condemn ‘indiscriminate’ attack on Israel from Gaza

By Michael Bachner

Machine gun fire from Gaza strikes southern Israel as border tensions leap

By Judah Ari Gross

Iron Dome missiles intercept rockets from Gaza seen in the sky over the Southern Israeli city of Sderot, on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fresh barrage of missiles fired from Gaza; several intercepted

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

At least six new rounds of warning sirens go off in communities near border; two rockets said to land near Kibbutz Re’im

A picture taken from Gaza City on May 29, 2018, shows a smoke billowing in the background following an Israeli air strike on the Palestinian enclave. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Israeli planes strike dozens of Gaza targets after mortar barrage

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a conference with science ministers from around the world in Jerusalem on May 28, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows to respond ‘with great force’ to mortar barrage from Gaza

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

The al-Qusayr military air base in western Syria. (Google Earth)

Hezbollah men, including commander, said killed in Syria strike blamed on Israel

Attack reportedly wrecks operational coordination center near Al-Qusayr, close to where munitions depot belonging to group was destroyed in a raid on Thursday

Israel’s national security adviser on way to US to talk Iran policy with Bolton

Report: Syria bans Iran from using its hangars after Israeli strikes

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel, Russia said to reach secret deal on pushing Iran away from Syria border

By Alexander Fulbright

'The Bed Sitting,' 1953. This rare and previously unpublished photograph is part of a series taken at the guest villa in the estate of Joseph Schenck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox. (© The Archives LLC / Iconic Images)

Photographer’s lost trove of Marilyn Monroe photos sees daylight for first time

By Jenni Frazer

Police officers redirect traffic in the eastern Belgian city of Liege on May 29, 2018, near the site where a man shot and killed three people before being shot dead by police. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)

Gunman reportedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ kills three in Belgian city

By Sue Surkes and AFP

Investigators look at possible terror motive after two police officers and a passerby shot dead in eastern city of Liege; attacker also killed

The owner of England's Chelsea Football Club, Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, as he leaves court in London, October 4, 2011. (AP/File)

Chelsea owner Abramovich immigrates to Israel, becomes country’s richest citizen

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Interior Ministry confirms Russian billionaire who has had UK visa issues landed at Ben Gurion Airport, received ID card; will live in Tel Aviv mansion he bought from Gal Gadot

Will we have another war this summer?

At least they waited to launch missiles at us until after I finished burying my mother near the Gaza border

Iceland’s circumcision debate is far from over

Lawmakers are still considering a measure that would require consulting boys before the procedure

Withholding a divorce is a form of violence

What’s the difference between the recalcitrant husband and the one who hits his wife? Not too much

On my meds, off my meds

Anti-depressants allowed me to scratch away at a very lost identity, but then they imprisoned me

Zionist Union MK Eitan Cabel attends a party faction meeting at the Knesset on January 22, 2018. (Flash90)

Veteran Labor MK: Annexation the only way to save two-state solution

Responding to criticism over plan to annex settlement blocs, Eitan Cabel tells Times of Israel his party is out of touch with the public it represents

A Palestinian vineyard near Ramallah targeted in an apparent hate crime attack on May 29, 2018. (Iyad Haddad/B'Tselem)

Palestinian vineyard near Ramallah targeted in apparent hate crime

File: The settlement of Har Bracha in the northern West Bank in September 2014. (Flash90)

One Palestinian shot, another flees, after breaking into settlement home

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit addresses an Israel Bar Association event in Nazareth Illit on May 1, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Attorney general: Coalition MKs are pushing laws aimed to weaken courts, police

Prosecution leaning toward indicting PM for bribery in gifts probe — report

By Michael Bachner

AG to Sara Netanyahu: Give back state funds, then I’ll decide on indictment

By Raoul Wootliff

MKs push ahead with bill curbing High Court in West Bank land disputes

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Venice's chief rabbi, Scialom Bahbout (YouTube screenshot)

Venice’s chief rabbi takes row with Israeli Rabbinate to Knesset

By Marissa Newman

Scialom Bahbout protests Chief Rabbinate’s refusal to recognize his conversions, says argument ‘nearby’ rabbinical courts in Rome, Milan are sufficient doesn’t hold water

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York. (Courtesy, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah/JTA)

Rabbinate official appears to blacklist alumni of liberal Orthodox yeshiva

By Marissa Newman

Shas MK David Azoulay during a Knesset committee meeting. February 13, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Shas minister, chief rabbi protest hat and jacket ban for Haredi prisoners

By Marissa Newman

The Israeli Navy's Dakar submarine, which sank in January 1968. (Defense Ministry's IDF Archives)

50 years after enigmatic sinking, Israel releases footage of search for lost sub

By Judah Ari Gross

State archives distributes chilling recording of Moshe Dayan telling Dakar sailors’ families their loved ones were likely dead, designated missing

More Headlines

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)

US peace envoy slams ‘reverse flotilla’ trying to break Gaza blockade

By Raphael Ahren

Halma Plc's chief innovation & digital officer Inken Braunschmidt (Courtesy)

UK-based Halma seeks to tap into Israeli tech to push business forward

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) at an international science ministers convention in Jerusalem on May 28, 2018. (Jorge Novominsky/GPO)

Netanyahu announces program to enhance IDF’s intel with ‘quantum technology’

By Michael Bachner

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2018. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Despite boycott of US, PA intelligence chief met Pompeo in Washington — report

By Michael Bachner

An Israel Air Force F-16, December 31, 2015. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90/File)

Moscow: Reports Israeli jets intercepted over Lebanon are ‘amateur nonsense’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Onions in the fields of Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel on May 28, 2018, after 200 kilograms of onions were stolen. (Galil Golan)

Teary-eyedHundreds of kilograms of onions swiped in kibbutz heist

By Michael Bachner

One of the restored buildings of Sergei's Courtyard, the late 1800s hostel for Russian pilgrims, now renovated to its former glory. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

In rare move, Russian embassy to host its National Day party in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Eli Groner, director-general of the Prime Minister's Office, arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the PMO in Jerusalem on September 3, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/ Pool/ Flash90)

Top Netanyahu aide Eli Groner stepping down

Illustrative: An Israel Police patrol car. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

One woman killed, another badly hurt in suspected drive-by shooting

The Chabad student center in Oxford, UK. (Screen capture: Google Street View)

Muslim Labourites condemn 2 anti-Semitic attacks in Oxford

By Michael Bachner

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