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What Matters Most On Monday, May 6, 2019

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Israelis watch an air show during the festivities of the 70th Independence Day, on April 19, 2018, in Tel Aviv. (AFP PHOTO / Ahmad GHARABLI)

Israel’s population tops 9 million, including 45% of world Jewry

Independence Day eve statistics show 2% increase since last year; population expected to reach 15.2 million by 2048

US-made Israeli air force T-6 Texan II planes fly over while performing during an air show as part of the 70th Independence Day celebrations on April 19, 2018, in Tel Aviv.
I(AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

As Gaza fighting ends, IDF reminds public of planned flyby practice

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a mandate to form a government, April 17, 2019. (GPO screenshot)

As ceasefire goes into effect, Netanyahu says Gaza campaign not over

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

PM says Israel hit terror groups ‘with great force,’ is readying for next round of fighting; Hamas: Conflict ‘will not end until we regain our rights’

IDF chief Aviv Kochavi visits Southern Command in undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief: Israel destroyed hundreds of ‘terror targets’ in Gaza

Senior Likud party member Gideon Sa'ar is seen during a campaign stop at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, on April 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud’s Sa’ar joins opposition in lambasting ceasefire deal with Hamas

Israeli emergency personnel gather at the site of a rocket attack in the southern Israeli town of Ashdod on May 5, 2019. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Ceasefire appears to take hold around Gaza after deadly flareup

Terror groups say truce in place from 4:30 a.m. after 4 Israelis killed in two-day conflict; 29 Gazans dead, many of them terrorists; Israel lifts security restrictions

An aerial view of the Tamar gas-processing rig off the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, June 23, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Amid rocket fire, Israel shuts Tamar offshore gas field as precaution

By Stuart Winer

The remains of what the IDF says was the Hamas terror group's cyber unit in the Gaza Strip, which was destroyed in an Israeli Air Force strike on May 4, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it thwarted a Hamas cyber attack during weekend battle

By Judah Ari Gross

A car bursts into flames after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on May 5, 2019. (Flash90)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Hamas and Israel amped up violence, but flareup stuck to a well-worn script

Both sides intensified their attacks in this weekend’s bloody battle, but ultimately kept to the same strategy, ending up more or less back where they started

AnalysisGaza ceasefire leaves Israel and Hamas exactly where they were before

By Avi Issacharoff

Minister Gilad Erdan briefing US officials in Jerusalem, May 5, 2019 (courtesy)

Gaza rockets ‘proof’ that withdrawals bound to fail, Erdan tells US diplomats

By Raphael Ahren

Prezuazman is fourth Israeli killed by Gaza fire on Sunday

21-year-old Israeli-American killed in Ashdod rocket attack laid to rest

‘I don’t understand why this is happening, but I am sure that you have fulfilled your purpose on this earth,’ says Pinchas Menachem Prezuazman’s father as he is laid to rest

Pinchas Menachem Prezuazman. (Courtesy)

Ashdod man killed by rocket, raising death toll to 4, amid massive bombardment

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israelis killed by rocket fire, anti-tank missile identified

Ashkelon father of four buried as Gaza conflict rumbles in background

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

Cabinet ministers ‘shocked’ by army media briefing regarding Gaza ceasefire

Sources said to accuse IDF officials of trying to cast government as solely responsible for truce, cite ‘classified’ reason fighting was stopped

6:27 pm

Cabinet ministers 'shocked' by army media briefing regarding Gaza ceasefire
5:57 pm

PM said to offer to make Smotrich police minister, give him influence over justice system
5:52 pm

Israel to build wall to protect road targeted with anti-tank missile near Gaza

A car bursts into flames after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on May 5, 2019. (Flash90)

Analysis

However this round of conflict with Hamas ends, it won’t solve the root problem

As in all past flare-ups, Gaza’s terrorists are out to loosen Israel’s security blockade. But Israel can never consent, as Hamas would then simply import more devastating weaponry

Israeli soldiers seen near IDF tanks stationed near the Gaza border, May 6, 2019 (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Israel media reviewBack to Strip one: 8 things to know for May 6

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini in the Oval Office of the White House, May 3, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Amid Gaza violence, Trump says US supports Israel 100% in defending its citizens

President warns Gazans that rockets will only bring ‘more misery,’ tells them to give peace a chance; Democratic group urges 2020 hopefuls to stand with Jewish state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts a delegation of US diplomats in his Jerusalem office, May 5 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

‘Enough is enough!’: Attacks on Israel ‘unconscionable,’ US ambassadors tell PM

By Raphael Ahren

Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, speaks during a EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) at the European Council in Brussels on November 20, 2018. (John Thys/AFP)

EU laments the ‘unspeakable suffering’ Gaza rockets inflict on Israelis

By Raphael Ahren

A patient waits for a room in the Sourasky Medical Center Ichilov in Tel Aviv. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Corridor Nation: As hospitals gasp for funds, patients wait out in the hallways

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s health expenditure is way below its OECD peers’. This leaves Startup Nation lacking beds, doctors, nurses, MRIs and CT scanners — and looking to tech as a possible savior

The return of Avraham Sutzkever

The ’greatest Yiddish poet who ever lived’ was a Holocaust hero who, when he came to Israel, was largely ignored

From Oy to Joy: A call for positivity in Jewish engagement

’Your exclusive focus on Jewish victimhood really inspires me,’ said no Jewish millennial ever

Shayna Goldberg

Ema, should I stand still or should I run?

Whether memorializing national tragedies or fleeing Gaza rockets, our children are learning core lessons about the meaning of life in Israel

Catherine Chatterley

Faked hate crimes, anti-Semitism and Linda Sarsour

Some words of optimism for those horrified by a hoax and freaked out by the visit of a controversial political activist

From left to right, Wynn Handman, Jeremy Gerard, and Michael Douglas answer questions at the 'It Takes A Lunatic' world premiere during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on May 3, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

Film review

97-year-old Jewish pillar of modern American theater feted with film at Tribeca

By Jordan Hoffman

Bernadette Lafont in Nelly Kaplan's 'A Very Curious Girl.' (YouTube)

Jewish women of film

50 years later, this feminist witchy movie remains super relevant

By Rokhl Kafrissen

A Los Angeles couple, Craig Gilmore, left, and David Crocker, pose in front of a 17th painting, "Portrait of a Lady" by the Flemish artist Melchior Geldorp at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, April 5, 2019. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Looted Nazi art and LGBT rights merge in recovery of Polish painting

By Vanessa Gera

More Headlines

Illustrative: Demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest outside Israel's embassy in Caracas, January 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

US anti-Semitism envoy: We may reconsider ties with countries deemed anti-Israel

Illustrative: A swastika spray-painted at a playground in Lakewood, New Jersey, August 2016. (AP)

Jewish home in New Jersey vandalized with swastikas and hate messages

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein speaks to community members and congregants about the shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue during a candlelight vigil for the victim of the attack at Valle Verde Park in Poway, April 28, 2019. (Sandy Huffaker/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Belarus Jews mourn Poway synagogue victim at community’s largest event

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The USS Abraham Lincoln deploys from Naval Station Norfolk, in the vicinity of Norfolk, Virginia, on April 1, 2019. (Kaitlin McKeown/ The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

Fearing attack on its forces, US sends carrier force to Middle East, warns Iran

By Robert Burns and Catherine Lucey

The co-founders of Bonobo.ai, left to right: Ohad Hen, Idan Tsitiat, Efrat Rapoport and Barak Goldstein (Nitzan Gur)

US Salesforce buys Israeli conversation-AI startup Bonobo

By Shoshanna Solomon

This image taken from video provided by Instagram user @artempetrovich, shows the SSJ-100 aircraft of Aeroflot Airlines on fire during an emergency landing in Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 5, 2019. (@artempetrovich via AP)

At least 40 dead in Russian plane’s fiery emergency landing

Illustrative image of security prisoners in the Ofer Prison facility near Ramallah, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

East Jerusalem resident charged with spying for Hamas

Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, walks down Madison Avenue, May 4, 2019, in New York (AP Photo/Jonathan Carroll)

Michael Cohen heads to prison in Trump hush-money scheme

By Michael R. Sisak and Jim Mustian

Boxes moving along a conveyor belt at an Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, California, January 19, 2015. (File: AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / JUSTIN SULLIVAN)

Amazon chiefs set to meet with Israel merchants ahead of local e-commerce start

By Shoshanna Solomon

Netanel Sandrusi, suspected of being the driver who ran over an 11-year-old boy and then fled the scene is taken to court in Jerusalem, April 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Third suspect arrested in hit-and-run of Jerusalem child

Illustrative: Locust eating corn crops (Oleksandr Yuchynskyi, Getty Images)

Locusts spotted infesting Israel’s southeastern Arava area

Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo, left, and Wa Lone, are handcuffed as they are escorted by police out of the court Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar after being sentenced to seven years in prison. (AP /Thein Zaw)

Israeli tech used to imprison journalists in Myanmar — report

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