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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 5, 2019

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Israelis gather near a car that was hit by an anti-tank guided missile fired from the northern Gaza Strip, which killed the driver, near Yad Mordachai in southern Israel, on May 5, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

2 more Israelis killed by Gaza fire; IDF assassinates Hamas moneyman

By Judah Ari Gross

Terror groups in Gaza fire over 600 rockets and mortars at Israel, launch anti-tank missile at car north of Strip, as fighting enters second day and Israeli death toll climbs to 3

Moshe Agadi, 58, who was killed when a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip scored a direct hit on his home in Ashkelon in southern Israel early on May 5, 2019 (courtesy)

Israeli father of 4 killed as rocket hits Ashkelon home during overnight barrage

Shrapnel holes scar the wall of a kindergarten in the southern town of Sderot after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in its yard on May 5, 2019. (Sderot Municipality)

Sderot kindergarten heavily damaged by rocket

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip fire rockets toward Israel from on May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Live updates (closed)

Amid reported truce, most schools in southern Israel to open Monday

Palestinian reports say ceasefire in effect since 4:30 a.m., no rockets fired for several hours after ‘intensive’ Egyptian, UN efforts to broker Gaza ceasefire

5:02 am

Palestinians say truce reached with Israel to end deadly Gaza flareup
3:40 am

Islamic Jihad official says truce based on Israel easing Gaza conditions
3:01 am

Schools in southern Israel to remain closed Monday

Gearing up for days of fighting, IDF sends tank reinforcements to Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

As over 450 rockets pummel Israel, military says it hit more than 220 targets in raids, including cross-border attack tunnel, underground Hamas rocket production facility

The house of Moshe Agadi, 58, killed from shrapnel wounds after his house was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel on May 5, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Smoke billows above buildings during an Israeli airstike on Gaza City in response to rocket fire from the coastal enclave on May 4, 2019. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

IDF denies killing Gazan baby and pregnant woman, blames failed rocket launch

By Judah Ari Gross

Residents inspect the damage to a building in Gaza City, May 4, 2019. (AP/Adel Hana)

Erdogan blasts Israel after building used by Turkish news agency in Gaza bombed

By AFP

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

In ‘cash for calm’ bid, Hamas shows it’s ready to fight

The terror group’s vast networks of tunnels give it endurance as it rains rockets on Israel — in a bid to extort concessions at a sensitive time

A picture taken from the southern Israeli village of Netiv Ha'asara shows rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on May 4, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

(Above and at article top:) The military wing of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad terror group releases a video threatening rocket attacks on the nuclear reactor in Dimona and other sensitive sites in Israel, May 4, 2019. (Screen grab)

In video, Islamic Jihad threatens attacks on Dimona reactor, Ben Gurion Airport

Palestinians are seen crossing at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israel closes Gaza crossings, fishing zone in response to rocket fire

Raymond and Mirjam Reijnen and their three young children, immigrants from the Netherlands, whose home in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council was struck by a rocket fired from Gaza on May 4, 2019. (Facebook)

Dutch immigrant family: ‘We looked at each other and realized the house was hit’

The Reijnens from Holland were inside when rocket struck their kibbutz home; in Rehovot, soccer game disrupted as 10-year-olds drop to the ground amid wailing rocket sirens

Staff members at the ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran residential home for children and adults with mental and physical disabilities move beds for the home's residents into a protected area due to the rocket attacks overnight on May 4, 2019. (courtesy ALEH)

As rockets rain down on south, home races to protect wheelchair-bound residents

By Melanie Lidman

An explosion is seen among buildings during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave on May 4, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

250 rockets fired at Israel; IDF bombs 120 Gaza sites, including attack tunnel

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli air defense system Iron Dome takes out rockets fired from Gaza near Sderot, Israel, May 4, 2019. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media review

Not Gaza’s toy? 7 things to know for May 5

By Joshua Davidovich

A round of fighting just ahead of the Eurovision song contest has most thinking the terror group is playing chicken with Israel and people are frustrated at being stuck in a looper

Illustrative: Israeli security forces take cover on the side of a highway near the Gaza border as the incoming rocket siren is heard on May 5, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

In video, Gaza rocket explodes meters away from bus full of soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Security footage shows the moment a rocket hits the town of Kiryat Gat, May 4, 2019 (Screen grab via Channel 13 news)

Video shows the moment rocket hits Kiryat Gat, badly injuring 80-year-old woman

Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, May 4, 2019 (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Netanyahu says he’s ordered IDF to continue ‘massive strikes’ in Gaza

PM says Hamas paying a ‘very heavy price’ for its rocket fire as ministers call for escalation, renewal of targeted assassinations

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz gives an impromptu press conference in a bomb shelter at Yad Mordechai as rockets fly overhead on May 5, 2019. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Gantz says Israel should ramp up Gaza strikes until deterrence restored

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds consultations with the IDF's Chief of Staff, the directors of the ISA & NSC and security officials at the Kiriya in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2019 (Courtesy)

Netanyahu said to tell IDF to ‘deal a hard blow’ to Gaza terror groups

Palestinian rockets fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 4, 2019. (AP/Adel Hana)

US condemns Gaza rocket attacks, backs Israeli right to self-defense

State Department and envoy Jason Greenblatt call on Gaza terror groups to cease ‘abhorrent’ attacks

Nikolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, speaks during a press conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Gaza City, September 25, 2017. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)

UN envoy says working with Egypt in bid to end Gaza fighting

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

A picture taken from the Gaza Strip on May 4, 2019 shows rockets being launched toward Israel (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

European leaders strongly condemn Gaza rocket fire on Israel

By Raphael Ahren

The singing group D Mol from Montenegro at their first rehearsal May 4, 2019 in Tel Aviv for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. (Andres Putting, EBU)

Eurovision performers fly in for rehearsals and tours, despite rocket barrages

By Jessica Steinberg

Contest’s executive producer Jon Ola Sand says ‘rehearsals will continue as normal’; has said he does have a Plan B but hasn’t given details

The singing group D Mol from Montenegro at their first rehearsal May 4, 2019 in Tel Aviv for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. (Andres Putting, EBU)

Eurovision entrants rehearse in Tel Aviv as rockets rain on south

Philip Goldwasser

How do you solve a problem like USCJ?

You start by dissolving it and setting its flagship youth org, USY, free to fend for — and rebrand — itself

Pinchas Goldschmidt

US synagogues need what Europeans have – armed guards

Liberal gun laws in the United States are part of the problem, but they can also be part of the solution

Students argue with police officers during a rally in support of opposition leader Juan Guaido and against Nicolas Maduro at Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela, May 2, 2019. (Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images/via JTA)

How Venezuela’s remaining Jews are hanging on amid the crisis

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Israeli startup Insightec has developed a helmet-shaped medical device to target areas of the brain with ultrasound waves to lower the tremors of Parkinson's and Essential Tremor (Courtesy)

Israeli startup uses ultrasound waves to reduce Parkinson’s tremors

By Federico Maccioni

The Carmel Medical Center hospital in Haifa. (Courtesy)

Facing criticism, Haifa hospital reinstates Israeli flags for Independence Day

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on October 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Woman suing Sara Netanyahu seeks to haul PMO officials into court

Rescuers on a hillside near Kibbutz Heftsiba in northern Israel on May 4, 2019 after an ATV accident that left three dead and one seriously hurt. (Channel 12 screen capture)

Three killed, one seriously hurt in ATV accident in north

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