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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 11, 2021

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A building in Ashkelon where a woman was killed by a rocket fired from Gaza, May 11, 2021 (Zaka)

Hamas says it fired 137 rockets in one 5-minute burst

2 women killed by rockets in Ashkelon amid massive barrages from Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Caregiver from India, Soumya Santosh, 32, dies in assault; second victim not immediately identified; Iron Dome malfunction leads to failed interceptions

Live updates (closed)

IDF strikes Hamas leaders amid heavy rocket attacks; major rioting in Lod

Huge barrage launched at 3 a.m., hours after previous wave; Arab violence nationwide; emergency declared in Lod, troops rushed in as synagogues, stores burned by Arab mobs

3:49 am

In widescale airstrikes, Israel destroys police stations across Gaza
3:39 am

Two wounded as rocket hits home in Bareket
3:30 am

Palestinian reported killed in West Bank clash with IDF

Arab Israelis hold violent protests nationwide; dozens held

Arab Israeli killed amid violent riots by Arab mob in Lod; Jewish suspect held

Two injured, with witnesses saying they were shot during riots in which stones, firebombs thrown at Jewish-owned homes; Arab mob attacks school, synagogue, staff at local hospital

A rabbi inspects the damage inside a religious school in the central Israeli city of Lod, on May 11, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Avi Korkas examines the damage to a municipality office that was torched in a night of violence between Arab Israeli protesters and Israel Police in the city of Lod, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)

As tensions soar, Rivlin urges Arab Israeli leaders to be ‘clear voice’ for calm

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

In Jerusalem, I’m holding onto hope

Ours is a long and ancient story that whispers though the stones and streets and ancient hillsides. It will carry us through

Michal Lashansky

Rockets are flying, and we’re supposed to carry on as usual?!

What if the siren sounds while my 10-year-old is outside by herself? I think I’ll pick her up today…

Anne Rothenberg

UNRWA feeds Palestinians a steady diet of Jew-hatred

Hadassah urges the US Congress to insist on reform and oversight to rid the UN agency of curricula demonizing Jews and Israel

We’ve been here before, often, and the children on both sides pay the price

It is the most important responsibility of our generation: a just and durable resolution to what we call the ’Israeli-Palestinian conflict’

The live Behind the Headlines webinar will take place on May 12, 2021, at 7 p.m. Israel Daylight Time. (Times of Israel)

Behind the Headlines

Israel under fire: Join ToI Community for live Q&A TODAY with our senior editors

In a special Behind the Headlines for ToI Community members only, this Wednesday, May 12, readers can query panelists for their perspective on the ongoing crisis in Israel

An Israeli firefighter extinguishes a burning vehicle after a rocket launched from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip hit the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on May 11, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Analysis

Yet another deepening round of conflict shows Israel still unable to deter Hamas

Gaza’s terror chiefs manifestly have no compunction in sowing devastation in Israel ‘every Monday and Thursday,’ notes a former national security adviser, pleading for a rethink

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Hamas thinks Israel will want to end this conflict quickly; it could be wrong

The terror group got its ‘victory pictures’ but has no exit plan for the violence it started, Gaza is paying a heavy price, and Netanyahu may not rush to end the IDF counterstrikes

Medics evacuate an injured man at the scene where an apartment building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on May 11, 2021. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system intercepts rockets launched by Palestinians terrorists in the Gaza Strip, above the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, on May 10, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Gaza terrorists fire barrages at Jerusalem, southern Israel, raising fear of war

By Judah Ari Gross

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 11 – Israel under fire: An escalation on multiple fronts

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

Israelis wave national flags during a Jerusalem Day march, in Jerusalem, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Police change route of Flag March through Old City as Jerusalem simmers

Religious Zionism MKs are guarded by police as they arrive at the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on May 10, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Separated by cops, Joint List, Religious Zionism MKs face off in East Jerusalem

An overhead view of an Ashkelon home badly damaged by a rocket fired from Gaza on May 11, 2021. A man was seriously hurt in the attack. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Gaza terrorists fire hundreds of rockets at Israel; IDF pummels Hamas targets

By Judah Ari Gross

At least 28 Israelis hurt, 3 seriously; 23 Palestinians said killed, among them children; military says most were Hamas members or were killed by errant Gazan rockets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the official state ceremony for Jerusalem Day on Ammunition Hill, May 10, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu vows Hamas will pay ‘heavy price’ for firing rockets at Jerusalem

The Knesset plenum clears following a rocket alert on May 10, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Gaza rocket fire forces temporary clearing of Knesset plenum and Western Wall

Rockets are launched from Gaza Strip towards Israel, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

UN condemns Gaza rocket fire, Israel’s response to Jerusalem riots

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Spokesperson for organization’s rights chief urges Israel to allow ‘freedom of expression and assembly’ on Temple Mount; Rivlin holds an emergency briefing with EU ambassadors

A Palestinian man runs away from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces in front of the Dome of the Rock Mosque at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 10, 2021. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

UN Security Council statement on Jerusalem held up by US

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Rockets fired toward Israel from Gaza are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome on May 10, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Analysis

In Jerusalem crisis, Hamas sees opportunity to retake center stage

After incessant rocket barrages, leaders of Gaza’s ruling terror group say they’re not interested in further escalation, but conflict could still get out of hand

Screen capture from video of a fire on the Temple Mount, May 11, 2021. (Twitter)

Footage shows blaze on Temple Mount during Jerusalem Day celebrations

Police stand guard outside the Jerusalem District Court as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his corruption trial there, April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Jerusalem District Court evacuated amid rioting in nearby Old City

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas speaks during a press conference in Nazareth, April 1, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

TV: Lapid, Bennett had planned to announce they had a gov't

Ra’am freezes coalition talks with ‘change bloc,’ amid violence

By Alexander Fulbright

Source in Islamist party says unclear if negotiations will resume before Lapid’s mandate to form coalition expires; anti-Netanyahu parties call for forceful response to attacks

A combination image showing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL) and Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas March 23, 2021. (Flash90)

Netanyahu met with Ra’am chief, urged him not to back Lapid-Bennett coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend the swearing-in ceremony of Israel's Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem, on April 6, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky / POOL / AFP)

Pro-Netanyahu bloc forces votes on right-wing bills, seemingly to divide rivals

A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on March 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli research explains post-vaccine grogginess, and why it’s not worrying

By Nathan Jeffay

First digital monitoring of COVID shot recipients shows vitals spike but return to normal within three days, demonstrating ‘vaccine safety’

A vial of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 in Seattle, January 24, 2021. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

Israel set to vaccinate 12- to 15-year-olds after FDA okays Pfizer shot

By Stuart Winer

Jonathan Pollard speaks at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva Jerusalem Day gala on May 10, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Pollard: ‘Jew-hatred’ a foundational belief of ‘Amalek’ Biden administration

Convicted spy who recently moved to Israel is honored at Jerusalem Day event at prominent yeshiva, launches into diatribe against Democrats, Palestinians, Jordanians and UN

A stock market ticker in the lobby of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, March 15, 2020. (Flash90)

Israeli shares slide, shekel weakens as Gaza tensions soar

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mood in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is also dampened by Monday’s US share slide; if fighting is prolonged then risk to market will increase in short term, Leumi economists say

Israeli shekels, Jerusalem. (Orel Cohen/ Flash90)

Digital shekel may be coming as Bank of Israel preps an ‘action plan’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Facebook faces $1.8 million fine for buying firms without Israeli regulator nod

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rabbi Jennifer Weinstein inside Gutterman's Funeral Home, May 15, 2020, Woodbury, New York. (Photo by Jonathan Alpeyrie/Polaris Images)

US synagogues touched by COVID adapt to serve grieving congregations

More Headlines

President Reuven Rivlin announces he is tasking Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid with forming a new government, during a speech at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, May 5, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Knesset vote for President Rivlin’s successor set for June 2

Agtech firm TomaTech says it has cracked the DNA to create resistance to the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV).

Agtech firm discovers markers to make tomatoes resistant to dread virus

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this image provided by the US Navy, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy fast in-shore attack craft, a type of speedboat armed with machine guns, speeds near US naval vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, on May 10, 2021. (US Navy via AP)

Iran rejects US claim that speedboats sparked incident

By AP

James Franco, left, and Seth Rogen arrive for "The Disaster Artist" at the Paramount Theatre during the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, March 12, 2017. (Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

Seth Rogen says no plans to work with James Franco amid sexual misconduct claims

Illustrative: An Israeli Apache helicopter flies during an aerial show at a graduation ceremony for soldiers who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 29, 2016.(Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Syria says IDF chopper bombs site near border, 1 injured, in rare daytime strike

By Judah Ari Gross

UltraSight, formerly On-Sight Medical, has developed AI-based ultrasound guidance technology for cardiac diagnosis (Courtesy)

Heart ultrasound-guidance startup gets $13 million from investors

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A man protests coronavirus restrictions with a yellow star and a photo of Anne Frank outside the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. (@ZSKberlin/Twitter via JTA)

Germany wants ban on wearing yellow star to protest pandemic lockdowns

By Toby Axelrod

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Registration opens in Iran’s presidential vote; hardliners seen as ascendant

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Lakeith Stanfield arrives at a screening of the Oscars in London, April 26, 2021. (Alberto Pezzali/AP)

Actor Lakeith Stanfield apologizes for moderating chat room full of antisemitism

By JTA

Faye Schulman lights a candle at a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at a UJA Federation building in Toronto in 2013. (Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images via JTA)

Holocaust survivor whose photos documented the partisan resistance dies

Hanaan Juhar, 3, who was injured in a fire her home in the town of Jisr az-Zarqa, and died on May 10, 2021. (Courtesy)

Girl, 3, succumbs to injuries sustained in fire that killed her brother

Ambulances, police cars and a truck are parked at a school after a shooting in Kazan, Russia, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Roman Kruchinin)

At least seven eighth-graders dead in school shooting in central Russia

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