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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 30, 2018

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A photo taken from Gaza City on May 29, 2018, shows smoke billowing in the background following an Israeli air strike against a military target in the Palestinian coastal enclave, in response to repeated mortar and rocket attacks on southern Israel. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Sirens triggered in southern Israel 166 times in 22 hours

If Hamas holds fire we will too, Israeli official says amid respite in attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

In response to largest attack since 2014, military pummels dozens of Hamas, Islamic Jihad positions in the Strip – but not the people firing the shells and rockets

A home in the southern Eshkol region damaged by mortar fire from the Gaza Strip early on May 30, 2018 (courtesy: Eshkol Regional Council)

Dozens of rockets and shells fired into Israel overnight, house hit

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Intelligence and Transportation Minister Israel Katz attends a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Amid respite from Gaza missile attacks, ministers deny Hamas claims of ceasefire

By Michael Bachner and Tamar Pileggi

Photo from inside a Hamas attack tunnel that the Israeli military destroyed in airstrikes on May 29, 2018. The army said the tunnel extended into Egypt and from there 900 meters into Israeli territory (Courtesy IDF)

Israel destroys ‘unique’ Hamas tunnel extending into Israel via Egypt

Army strikes in Gaza seal off tunnel — intended for both smuggling and attacks according to IDF — that reached 900 meters into Israel

Smoke billows after a mortar fired from the Gaza Strip hit near a railway track near Sderot in southern Israel on May 29, 2018.
(AFP / Jack GUEZ)

Gaza terror rocket hits Strip’s own power lines, leaves Palestinians in dark

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier takes cover as rocket sirens blare in southern Israel on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Three soldiers hurt as south buffeted by Gazan fusillades

An operator walks by an Iron Dome missile defense battery near the city of Sderot in southern Israel on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

After failures in 2014 war, Iron Dome shows it can now down mortar fire too

This isn’t the first time the missile defense system has intercepted shells that are in the air for just 15 seconds, but it’s the first major operational test — and it passed

Army says some rockets, mortars fired from Gaza were made in Iran

Despite ongoing fire, schools near Gaza border set to open Wednesday

Palestinians say Gazan injured in border clashes died of wounds

By AFP and ToI Staff

Joe Newman of alt-J (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

(Not a) concert review

Alt-J tonight and please God no war with Gaza in the morning

Taking a break from the day’s awful news to enjoy soaring harmonies among thousands of young Israelis should have been surreal. In fact, it’s just part of what passes for normality

Singer Shakira speaks to the crowd during the Global Citizen Festival concert on the eve of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Thursday, July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

BDS supporters rejoice as Shakira shakes off Israel gig rumors

By David Sedley

Argentina's coach Jorge Sampaoli shouts instructions to his players during a friendly soccer match between Argentina and Haiti at the Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, May 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina soccer coach complains ‘from sporting point of view’ about Israel trip

By AFP

Illustrative: The site where a mortar shell from Gaza hit a kindergarten in southern Israel on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

International sympathy rains down as Israeli diplomats go on offensive

US calls rocket and mortar fire ‘reprehensible,’ Italy tweets solidarity, and Ireland blames Hamas, in flurry of condemnation of attacks from Gaza

Germany condemns ‘malicious’ Palestinian attacks on Israel

By Michael Bachner

Kuwait at UN seeks to set up international ‘protection’ mission for Palestinians

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel media reviewRockets’ red glare: 7 things to know for May 30

By Adiv Sterman

US President Donald Trump (right) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on March 5, 2018, in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Live updates

White House says Israel to hold back on settlements over Trump’s ‘concerns’

After 2,000 new West Bank homes advanced on Wednesday, US says it remains ‘firmly committed to pursuing a comprehensive peace between Israelis and Palestinians’

6:29 pm

State conversion program due to close because of budget shortfall
6:03 pm

Court extends open-ended gag order in Netanyahu-Bezeq graft probe
6:00 pm

Firefighters gain control over brush fire at entrance to Jerusalem

Joseph Schneider holds a pistol. (Courtesy National Library of Israel)

In photos

Family of refusenik puts on display the world’s only photos of Soviet gulag life

By Yaakov Schwartz

In this photo taken on January 8, 2018, actress Roseanne Barr attends the Disney ABC Television TCA Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, California. (AFP PHOTO / VALERIE MACON)

Roseanne blames sleeping pills for racist comments, later deletes tweet

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Star of scrapped sitcom roundly mocked on Twitter for claiming Ambien set her off

In this photo taken on January 8, 2018, actress Roseanne Barr attends the Disney ABC Television TCA Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, California. (AFP PHOTO / VALERIE MACON)

Hit reboot ‘Roseanne’ axed over star’s racist tweet

By AFP

In this Jan. 8, 2018, file photo, Roseanne Barr participates in the "Roseanne" panel during the Disney/ABC Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. ABC canceled its hit reboot of "Roseanne" on Tuesday, May 29, 2018, following star Roseanne Barr's racist tweet that referred to former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the "Planet of the Apes." (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Roseanne’s other problematic tweet was about George Soros

Illustrative photo of used cigarettes. (Flickr/włodi/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Knesset approves crackdown on smoking in public places, but excludes itself

By Michael Bachner

MKs expand ban to include concerts, event halls, sports venues, zoos, parking lots; parliament self-designates as an exempt workplace, but will close most smoking areas

Michael Eisenberg

To repair Gaza, first do some harm

A 30-year plan to change Palestinian attitudes, and yield prosperity and peace

Why I’m done with grades

You want to teach life-long learners? Grow students’ souls? Stop crippling them with report card stress

The tip of the iceberg that is Gaza

The mess that Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and, yes, Israel wrought

When is freedom of religion hypocrisy?

Had the airport tefillin-wearer been female, she’d have been taken to task for being a ‘provocateur’

Jewish immigrants on the deck of the Pan York on the day they arrived in Israel, August 14, 1948. (Yad Vashem Archives)

New Yad Vashem exhibit chronicles Jewish yearning for Israel during Holocaust

By Tracy Frydberg

Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich applauds his players after they defeated Arsenal 6-0, in an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on March 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Abramovich is latest of more than 30 Russian Jewish tycoons to move to Israel

Many are drawn by tax breaks for new immigrants to Israel; others seek the advantages of an Israeli passport, such as visa-free entry to the European Union

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

Abramovich will require visa to work in UK if he enters on new Israeli passport

More Headlines

Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London on March 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN)

In Britain, poll indicates, 23% ‘unwilling’ to have a Jew in the family

By JTA

Mouli and Edna Azrieli, the owners of Fink's, a legendary Jerusalem bar, now part of the 'London in Jerusalem' exhibit at the Tower of David Museum, open until December 2018. (Courtesy, Oded Antman)

Jerusalem visits ye olde British mandate era for a spot of nostalgia

By Jessica Steinberg

The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City, with Mughrabi Ascent bridge in foreground (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Shaky wallsIn Venice, Israel exhibits 1,600 years of architects’ fixes for religious rifts

By Renee Ghert-Zand

An undated image distributed by the North Korean government on September 3, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Korea’s state media said Kim inspected a hydrogen bomb. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

CIA says North Korea won’t denuclearize, but may open Western burger joint

By Michael Bachner and Agencies

File: A picture taken on May 29, 2018 shows fishing boats carrying a group of Palestinian activists who are protesting Israel's naval blockade on Gaza, getting set to sail from Gaza City harbor. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israel intercepts protest boat trying to break Gaza blockade

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman speaks at the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Democrats say they weren’t invited to Jerusalem embassy ceremony

By JTA

Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt, right, and Federal Prosecutor Wenke Roggen address a media conference in Brussels, May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Belgium killings were a terror attack, prosecutors say

In this May 17, 2018 file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens looks on before speaking at an event near the capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens resigns amid sex scandal

By DAVID A. LIEB

A woman takes a picture of an installation set up by a global civic organization Avaaz ahead of the EU council meeting in Brussels on May 28, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)

Pro-Palestinian activists place 4,500 pairs of shoes in Brussels square

By JTA

A Merck researcher does work on quantum materials (PRNewsFoto/Merck KGaA)

How quantum physics can make Israel more secure

By Shoshanna Solomon

A rare blue whale seen off the coast of Eilat on May 29, 2018. (Nature and Parks Authority, courtesy)

Cetacean sightingRare blue whale spotted off Eilat coast

Nadav Sela, suspected of murdering his wife, his two children and a neighbor's son in the Northern town of Migdal, seen at the Magistrate's Court in Nazareth on February 26, 2017 (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Man convicted of killing wife, kids, neighbors’ child in chilling attack

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