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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 4, 2019

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A picture taken in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 5, 2019 shows an explosion following an airstrike by Israel. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Over 400 rockets shot from Gaza since Saturday morning, IDF says

Army says it has hit 180 sites in Gaza; rocket sirens sound after short break; Gazans say death toll in Strip up to 6, including mother and baby Israel says it did not kill

3:50 am

IDF: 180 rockets shot overnight, 60 sites in Gaza hit by airstrikes
3:35 am

Over 200,000 kids in south get day off school
3:03 am

Rocket fire returns to communities near Gaza border

Women look at the damage caused by a rocket fired from Gaza that hit a house in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, Saturday, May 4, 2019 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Army says 200 rockets fired toward Israel, injuring 2; IDF hits targets in Gaza

IDF says dozens of projectiles intercepted by Iron Dome; Army strikes 30 targets as sirens sound in border communities, Rehovot, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Beit Shemesh

The interior of a house hit by a rocket in the Eshkol Regional Council on May 4, 2019. The family had escaped to a shelter moments earlier (Israel Police)

Over 100 rockets launched into Israel from Gaza; Iron Dome intercepts dozens

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Gaza border in southern Israel on March 15, 2019. (Flash90)

Amid rocket attacks, opposition leaders and local residents lambaste Gaza policy

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Why the Gaza rocket fire? Because Hamas thinks Israel is vulnerable to extortion

Ahead of Independence Day and the Eurovision Song Contest, Gaza’s terrorist rulers see a rare opportunity to pressure Israel, which it knows is desperate for calm

The interior of a house hit by a rocket in the Eshkol Regional Council on May 4, 2019. The family had escaped to a shelter moments earlier (Israel Police)

Illustrative: Israeli army jeeps patrol on the border with the Gaza Strip on October 17, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Improvement in condition of IDF officer wounded by Gaza gunfire

Soldier’s status stable after operation, hospital says; female soldier who was lightly hurt is released to her home

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops on the Gaza border, May 3, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

After 2 soldiers shot, IDF checks whether Gaza sniper targeted senior officer

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

A family at kibbutz Nahal Oz, southern Israel. May 17, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Despite rockets, arson balloons, Israeli communities on Gaza border keep growing

Alongside financial incentives, towns and villages said to offer community spirit sought by many young families. Population of battered Sderot set to almost double by 2050

Left to right, front row: Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz in the Knesset's plenary hall during the swearing-in ceremony of Knesset members as a new session opens following the 2019 elections, on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Report: PM mulling law to allow more than one minister per ministry

Netanyahu’s negotiating team weighing new measure in order to satisfy demands of all six parties set to form coalition; Yisrael Katz likely to be made permanent foreign minister

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with MK Miki Zohar during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on December 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu loyalist said to file bill to grant PM immunity from prosecution

Actor playing Holocaust victim Eva Heyman on the Eva.Stories Instagram account (Screen capture/Instagram)

Instagram account memorializing Holocaust victim reaches over 120 million views

Project earns praise for using social media to bring story of Eva Herman, a young girl killed by Nazis, to new audiences, but some accuse makers of trivializing tragedy

Eva.Stories is a dramatized version of the life of Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl killed in Auschwitz. (Screenshot from Eva.Stories on Instagram via JTA)

AnalysisInstagram Holocaust story caused controversy. Here’s what teens think

By Josefin Dolsten

Although it is removing bigots, Facebook says it will allow Holocaust denial

Social media giant boots anti-Semites, extremists, conspiracy theorists, but says it will permit content that is ‘wrong or inaccurate,’ including denying genocides

Chaim Chesler, left, and Nobuki Sugihara during a Holocaust commemoration event at Mir, Belarus, May 2, 2019. (Limmud FSU/Boris Brumin)

A Holocaust rescue is remembered in Belarus with the son of Chiune Sugihara

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Why the anti-Israel narrative is winning, and why that matters

Regardless of whose fault it is, Palestinian suffering garners sympathy and it’s in Israeli interests to keep trying for a resolution

Rabbi Bigman: The left thinks our problems began in 1967. They’re wrong

’I think Palestinian aspirations for a state are a good thing — I think the violent means they have used are abhorrent’

Argentina's writer Jorge Luis Borges talks in his Buenos Aires apartment on November 20, 1981. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)

Jorge Luis Borges’ love for Israel and Jews revealed in new book

By JTA

The photographer uses a process that gives her work a weathered, antique look. (Kali Spitzer/via JTA)

A thousand words each

Native-Jewish artist documents story of her dwindling people through photos

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

New York University flag (Sushi Olin/Flickr via JTA)

NYU department votes to boycott its school’s own Israel campus

A worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Oct. 26, 2010. (AP/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour)

Official: US acts against Iranian uranium enrichment

By Matthew Lee and ToI Staff

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a ceremony commemorating the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran’s Rouhani urges unity in face of America’s ‘war on hope’

By AFP

House Appropriations subcommittee Chairman Rep. Peter Visclosky, D-Ind., and Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn. (left) listen to testimony during a hearing on US Air Force budget request for FY 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US bill would withhold military aid to Israel over detention of Palestinian kids

By JTA

King Abdullah II of Jordan addresses the World Economic Forum at the Dead Sea, Jordan on April 6, 2019. (WEF via AP, Pool)

Jordan’s King Abdullah II reshuffles top brass amid fears of instability

By AP

A tombstone in the northern West Bank village of Hawara vandalized with a Star of David in an apparent hate crime attack on May 3, 2019. (Yesh Din)

Jewish youth wounded in West Bank stoning near town vandalized in hate crime

Illustrative: high school students in Holon, central Israel, May 21, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Police arrest two students for attacking teacher in Beersheba high school

In this photo released by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, authorities work at the scene of a plane in the water in Jacksonville, Florida, May 3, 2019.(Jacksonville Sheriff's Office via AP)

Boeing 737 skids into Florida river at end of runway, no deaths

By AP

North Korean soldiers look at the South side at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea fires short-range missiles into sea, Seoul says

An Egyptian Type 209 submarine in Kiel, Germany in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Egypt receives third German submarine of four promised in deal

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