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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 7, 2019

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A young Palestinian rides a horse-drawn cart on May 6, 2019, in front of a building that was damaged during an Israeli airstike on Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

IDF appears to be openly at odds with government over Gaza

After flareup, military warns current Gaza policies leading region back to war

By Judah Ari Gross

Army tells reporters it was instructed to wrap up fighting before holidays, Eurovision, and was kept from carrying out wider attacks; cabinet minister disputes claims

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with IDF commanders after a security briefing in Beersheba, May 6, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

PM pushes back on Gaza ceasefire criticism, says ‘rules of game’ have changed

A picture taken from the Gaza Strip on May 4, 2019, shows smoke billowing following an airstrike by Israel in response to rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Gaza official: Israel agreed to implement ceasefire concessions within a week

Illustrative: A barrage of rockets being fired from the Hamas-run Gaza into Israel on May 5, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

35 rockets and shells got through; Iron Dome intercepted 240

Hamas says it beat Iron Dome with concentrated salvos. The IDF says it didn’t

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Officials say that despite new tactic by Gaza terror groups, relatively few projectiles managed to penetrate Israel’s missile defense system, which had an 86% success rate

In rocket-scarred south, quiet returns but anger simmers

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF probing why road where man killed by Gazan anti-tank missile was kept open

By Judah Ari Gross

UN envoys tour rocket-hit Ashkelon

A Hamas-appointed government employee in Gaza signs a document to receive 50 percent of her long-overdue salary from funds donated by Qatar, while others wait in the queue, at the main Gaza Post Office, in Gaza City, December 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Qatar pledges to send $480 million in aid to West Bank and Gaza

Palestinian Authority to receive $300 million for health and education initiatives, remainder to finance humanitarian and UN programs

AnalysisUnder Trump, US a mere bystander in Israel-Hamas ceasefire efforts

Damage is seen in a residential area after it was hit a by a rocket fired from Gaza in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon,, May 5, 2019. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media reviewMiniwar, what is it good for? 10 things to know for May 7

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Avi Issacharoff

An escalation that achieved nothing, and a ceasefire that won’t hold for long

The understandings that ended this flareup are precisely the understandings that held before it started. The border protests won’t stop, and neither will the incendiary balloons

Siren error causes confusion in Tel Aviv

President visits bereaved families of Israelis killed by rocket fire

Hebrew media spreads fake Hamas video claiming to show deadly missile strike

Palestinians and Israelis attend a shared memorial ceremony commemorating the fallen on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2017, as Israel marks its annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Court overrules bid to ban Palestinians from joint memorial ceremony

Netanyahu slams ‘mistaken’ decision by High Court over annual ceremony bringing together grieving Israeli and Palestinian families

Illustrative: Border Police officers guard the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem on March 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF to close off West Bank, Gaza for Memorial and Independence Days

By Judah Ari Gross

Relatives carry the body of a Palestinian, who was killed in Israeli strikes the previous day, during a funeral ceremony in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza Strip on May 6 2019. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Most terrorists killed in Gaza escalation were from Islamic Jihad

Blog

Our Alex’s IDF service was his salvation, not his downfall

The pain of losing our son while he was serving in the IDF was made worse by baseless talk of his death as a suicide

Shayna Abramson

Peace from the ground up

Enough politics — when people from both sides truly want peace, they will demand leaders who pursue peace, and replace those who do not

Vaccines, the ultra-Orthodox, and the red line of religious freedom

This is a clear case of ’my right to swing my fist ends where another’s nose begins’

The ultimate shadow strike to safeguard Israel

Yaakov Katz writes a page-turning account of the never-before-told story of how Israel took out Syria’s nuclear reactor

Helen Maryles Shankman

Thanks for the iMemories

The videos of our milestones make me want to tell my younger self to stop fretting, stop cleaning, cuddle the kids, and enjoy the moment

US President Donald Trump smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, after signing a proclamation formally recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Susan Walsh)

US Jews more likely than Christians to think Trump favors Israel ‘too much’

Pew poll finds American Jews split between backing Israel and liberal tendencies, while evangelicals overwhelmingly back administration’s policies on Israel

US President John F. Kennedy and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion get together for a talk at the Waldorf Towers in 1961 (Walter Kelleher/NY Daily News via Getty Images, JTA)

Kennedy warned Eshkol US support was ‘jeopardized’ without nuclear inspections

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat-Michigan, stands on the floor before US President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Rashida Tlaib blasts New York Times headline on latest Gaza flareup

Demonstrators protest in Tel Aviv outside a joint Memorial Day event for bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families on May 7, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Right-wing activists protest joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day event

Dozens demonstrate outside ceremony in Tel Aviv for bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families, with some chanting ‘death to Arabs’

6:03 pm

Right-wing activists protest joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day event
5:51 pm

Palestinian-born activist says CIA notified Norway of threat against him
5:36 pm

IDF chief to families of fallen soldiers: 'There is no consolation but there is meaning'

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)

Report: Mossad intel of looming Iranian attack led US to send in carrier force

By ToI Staff and AFP

Deploying USS Abraham Lincoln to vicinity of Iran, US National Security Adviser John Bolton says it came after ‘a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings’

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)

US-Iran tensions rise ahead of anniversary of deal pullout

By Jon Gambrell

Illustrative: Muslim worshipers hold Palestinian and Malaysian flags following Friday noon prayers At Jerusalem's Old City's al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount, December 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

2018 saw record number of tourists visit Israel from Muslim countries

By Raphael Ahren

Among the visitors: almost 55,000 citizens of countries that do not have formal relations with Israel, including 14,000 Malaysians… and six Saudis

Students walk through the Tel Aviv University campus in Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Number of Arab Israelis studying high-tech doubles since 2012

By Shoshanna Solomon

A screen capture from a video posted by the Muslim American Society's Philadelphia chapter (screen capture via MEMRI)

Philadelphia probes video of local Muslim kids talking beheadings, Jerusalem

By AP and ToI Staff

In clip, children seen moving to anthem used by Islamists, one girl calls for ‘liberating’ Al-Aqsa; Muslim American Society calls it ‘disturbing’

A couple embrace near a growing memorial across the street from the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California, April 29, 2019 (AP Photo/Greg Bull)

In the wake of Poway attack, Chabad to press for ‘moment of silence’ in schools

A photo of Lori Gilbert-Kaye at the Chabad of Poway, California, May 3, 2019. (Gabrielle Birkner/JTA)

Week after deadly shooting, Poway community embraces life with spirited service

By Gabrielle Birkner

2018 Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai performs at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on May 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis

Jessica Steinberg

Countdown to a ‘douze’-y of a Eurovision celebration

Now that the Gaza flareup is over, Tel Aviv is pulling out all the stops for the international song contest, aiming to hit just the right note for its many visitors

Part of the technical area of the Eurovision stage in Tel Aviv, May 5, 2019. (Thomas Hanses, Eurovision)

UTJ freezes coalition talks in protest of Eurovision work on Shabbat

More Headlines

Chef Michael Solomonov. (courtesy Michael Persico)

Top chefIsraeli restaurant Zahav takes top honor at US culinary awards

By AP

Miki Ganor attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State cancels deal with Miki Ganor in submarine graft case

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki listens during a joint press conference with Germany's chancellor, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on February 16, 2018. (Michele Tantussi/Getty Images via JTA)

Poland won’t pay for WWII property because Poles were greatest victims, PM says

By Katarzyna Markusz

Doll believed to be made with the hair from a Jewish girl killed in the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Anatolian Toy Museum)

Turkish toy museum says it has doll with hair from Holocaust victim

By JTA

Illustrative: A hacker at work. (supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)

Two Israelis arrested in international dark web takedown involving FBI

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Yehuda Biadga (Screen capture: Twitter)

Policeman cleared in shooting of Ethiopian-Israeli who rushed him with knife

Illustrative: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks after Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May lost a vote on her Brexit deal in the House of Commons, London, Tuesday January 15, 2019. (House of Commons/PA via AP)

London Jewish group releases 15,000 page report on Labour Party anti-Semitism

File: Nathan Milikowsky in 2013, in San Francisco (Drew Altizer Photography)

Netanyahu withdraws request for legal defense money from his cousin

Arafat Irfaiya, charged with the rape and murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher is brought for a hearing at the Jerusalem District court, on March 7, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Accused killer of teen Ori Ansbacher ruled fit to stand trial

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner is seen during a meeting on immigration in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 23, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Washington state man arrested for threatening to kill Jared Kushner

An Israeli Air Force Avia S-199, derived from the German Messerschmitt, in 1948 (Public Domain)

US film producer buys rights to story of foreign pilots who helped build IAF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Likud candidate Gideon Sa'ar as he arrives for a Likud faction meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After Sa’ar bashes ceasefire, Likud source claims he wants to topple Netanyahu

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