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What Matters Most On Monday, May 10, 2021

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Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces on the Temple Mount/al-Aqsa mosque compound on May 10, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

IDF says it hit 130 targets in Gaza overnight after 200 rockets fired at Israel

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Massive barrage targets Ashkelon at dawn as Hamas threatens to turn city ‘into hell’; Hamas says 20 killed in attacks

3:45 am

IDF says it hit 130 targets in Gaza overnight as 200 rockets fired at Israel
3:23 am

Three Israelis reported wounded in barrage on Ashkelon
2:55 am

Hamas says it launched barrage on Ashkelon after IDF strike on civilians

An Israeli policeman holds his weapon as he stands next to an injured Israeli man after his car crashed when a mob pelted his car with stones outside Jerusalem's Old City, May 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Arab rioters attack Jewish man’s car near Old City; he crashes into one of them

By Judah Ari Gross

Video footage shows Palestinian youths hurling rocks at the car, trying to drag the driver and passengers out; police officer protects the car’s occupants, firing pistol in the air

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces on Temple Mount aka the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Police alter Flag March, keeping it away from Damascus Gate

Some 300 Palestinians, 21 cops said hurt in latest heavy clashes in Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and Agencies

Police forces again burst into Temple Mount after attacks from Arab demonstrators, amid sky-high tensions surrounding Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem Day and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood

Palestinians evacuate a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli security forces in Jerusalem's Old City on Jerusalem Day, May 10, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

Abbas slams Israel’s ‘brutal storming’ of Temple Mount, ‘assault on worshipers’

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

A view into the Temple Mount compound amid clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces, May 10, 2021 (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

Op-ed

Israel, frozen in a fateful moment, on Jerusalem Day at noon

Amid escalating violence and political dysfunction, a snapshot from a city, and a country, balanced on a knife-edge

Police officers clash with protesters outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on May 09, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

25 wounded, 23 arrested in Arab protests in Jerusalem and across Israel

By Aaron Boxerman

A window of Al-Aqsa Mosque is seen shattered following renewed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police in Jerusalem's Old City on May 10, 2021 (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 10 – On Jerusalem Day, marking 54 years of (dis)unity

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

Jewish men pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City on the eve of Jerusalem Day, May 09, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

To mark Jerusalem Day, ancient city’s ‘unique’ tech scene is celebrated in video

By Shoshanna Solomon

A sand structure celebrating Jerusalem Day, which falls on May 10, at Tel Aviv's Jerusalem Beach (Courtesy Kfir Sivan)

Shore thingTel Aviv celebrates Jerusalem Day at the beach

By Jessica Steinberg

Police close Temple Mount to Jews on Jerusalem Day; major clashes at holy site

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hard-right MKs pan ‘capitulation to Palestinian violence,’ while on the left, legislators encourage moves to reduce tensions

Israeli police officers clash with Palestinian protesters near Damascus Gate just outside Jerusalem's Old City on May 9, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

UN Security Council to hold emergency meet on escalating Jerusalem violence

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court delays session on Sheikh Jarrah evictions amid Jerusalem violence

By Aaron Boxerman

Rockets are fired toward the sea during a military drill by members of the Mujahideen Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian movement of the same name, along a beach off of Gaza City, on April 24, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

3 rockets fired from Gaza in early morning attack, at least 1 intercepted

By Judah Ari Gross

Launches triggers sirens in Sderot, nearby towns; military announces it is closing the Strip’s pedestrian Erez Crossing until further notice

IDF Chief fo Staff Aviv Kohavi, right, meets with Border Police officers who responded to a shooting attack in the West Bank two days prior, on May 9, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF sends 3 more battalions to West Bank in bid to curb violence

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel pushes back against US ‘concern’ over Jerusalem violence

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat tells US counterpart that international intervention is only rewarding those who are provoking rioting

Israeli National Security Council chairman Meir Ben-Shabbat (right), and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. (Flash90, AP)

Protesters from IHH, a Turkish pro-Islamic organization hold a rally outside Israel's consulate in Istanbul, late Sunday, May 9, 2021, in support of Palestinians in the latest round of violence in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

International condemnation of Israel grows over Jerusalem violence, evictions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a special cabinet meeting to mark Jerusalem Day, at Jerusalem City Hall, May 9, 2021 (Haim Zach / GPO)

In swipe at Biden, Netanyahu pledges to ‘build in Jerusalem’ despite ‘pressure’

Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, on May 6, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Report: Lapid, Bennett may ink preliminary coalition agreements within a day

Negotiations on forming a government that would replace Netanyahu as prime minister said to be advancing, with a view to swearing-in next week

Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on April 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Islamist Ra’am said ready to give crucial support for a Lapid-Bennett government

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism MKs Yisrael Eichler, center, and Meir Porush in the Knesset, January 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

2 Haredi MKs call on Netanyahu to step aside to avert Bennett-Lapid government

Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)

Report: Israel shared Soleimani’s phone numbers with US hours before his slaying

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Information helped attacking teams track movements of Iranian al-Quds commander, who was killed in a January 2020 drone strike in Baghdad, US sources tell Yahoo news

File: Iranian former chief of the Revolutionary Guards Mohsen Rezai takes part in an anti-US demonstration in the capital Tehran, January 3, 2020, following the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Qasem Soleimani in a US strike on his convoy at Baghdad international airport. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Military candidates in Iran elections raise worry of further IRGC control

By AFP

Israeli rescue forces and police at the scene after a mass fatality scene during the celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer on Mt. Meron, in northern Israel on April 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Two safety engineers from Meron disaster detained for questioning

Development marks first interviews by police since last month’s tragedy at religious festival, where 45 people were crushed to death

Sivan Rahav Meir

Jerusalem is a prophesy being realized in our generation

After millennia of yearning and destruction, we received a gift and it is up to us to show we are deserving of it

Daniel Chamovitz

The emptiness of a politician’s promise

What if our leaders stopped making empty promises as if we were toddlers and spoke instead about values and vision?

The underdogs who changed Jewish history

What does it take for those ’least likely to succeed’ to achieve greatness? Maybe it’s divine intervention; maybe it’s something more

Jerusalem’s monstrosities of urban renewal

Economic urban densification is most certainly necessary, but nothing like this. Major reforms to our planning and building bureaucracy are needed urgently

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Dermer suggests Israel should prioritize support of evangelicals over US Jews

Former envoy to US says evangelical Christians make up ‘backbone’ of Israel’s support in US, while Jews are far smaller in number and include some of state’s fiercest critics

Then-MK Dov Lipman during a Yesh Atid party meeting in the Knesset, January 6, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Woman sues ex-MK Dov Lipman for sexual harassment in counterclaim

Former Yesh Atid lawmaker has been seeking damages, after plaintiff and another accuser warned others about him in private #MeToo Facebook group

Gal Gadot in an interview with Channel 12 News on May 9, 2021. (Screen capture: Channel 12 News).

Gal Gadot bemoans violence against women, says relative was killed by husband

File: An Israeli Navy submarine sails in front of a Sa'ar 5-class corvette in the waters south of Tel Aviv as part of the Israeli Navy's flotilla in honor of Israel's 70th Independence Day on April 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Several indicted in submarine affair; ex-navy chief, Netanyahu’s cousin off hook

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Cases closed against PM’s former lawyer David Shimron and past navy leader chief Eliezer Marom; other suspects face charges including money laundering, tax offenses

'Bhagwan has been a specter hovering over my entire life'

Daughter learns to forgive but not forget mother’s involvement in cult

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In new memoir ‘When She Comes Back,’ Ronit Plank delves into painful childhood memories of abandonment by parent who followed guru featured in Netflix’s ‘Wild Wild Country’

Signs shows the distances of Beirut and Jerusalem, that set at a road that links to a UNIFIL base where the Lebanese and Israeli delegations meet, in Naqoura, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Analysis

Drowning in crises, Lebanon now galvanized to solve offshore gas row with Israel

Seeing exploitation of reserves as ticket out of economic woes, Beirut backs off maximalist claims to woo Jerusalem back to the table, but a bevy of spoilers may get in the way

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Eran Zahavi and his wife, Shay, in a video posted on May 9 2021. (Screen capture: Channel 12 News)

Family of Israeli soccer star Zahavi robbed at gunpoint in their Amsterdam home

Screenshot from a video being shared on social media said to depict an Iranian man accidentally setting himself alight after attempting to burn an Israeli flag, posted on May 8 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Video shows Iranian man burning Israeli flag, which then sets him on fire

Iran President Hassan Rouhani (L) and Saudi Arabia King Salman. (AP)

Iran confirms talks with Saudi Arabia but says ‘too soon’ to discuss results

By AFP

Filipino workers and their children protest against their their imminent deportation outside Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on June 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court hearings to resume for dozens of Filipino carers, kids facing deportation

Bavaria's State Prime Minister Markus Soeder lays a wreath of flowers during a commemoration on the occasion of the 100th birthday of anti-Fascist Sophie Scholl, who was killed by the Nazi regime in 1943, in the staircase of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich on May 7, 2021. (Peter Kneffel / POOL / AFP)

Germany commemorates Sophie Scholl, icon of resistance to Nazi regime

Anat Guetta, chairman of the Israel Securities Authority, speaks during a Knesset Finance Committee meeting, June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s securities regulator sets out terms for Tel Aviv SPACs

By Shoshanna Solomon

'Barça, The Exhibition', an interactive exhibit of the Barcelona soccer club, will open on July 15 through August 31 at Holon's Toto Arena (Courtesy Proactiv, FC Barcelona)

You'll have a ballBarca premieres interactive soccer exhibit in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

From 'Kibutznikim,' a HOT comedic drama being remade for US TV (Courtesy HOT TV)

Communal livingKibbutz dramedy adapted by ‘Orange Is the New Black’ writer

By Jessica Steinberg

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