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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 13, 2021

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Man, 60, critically wounded as rocket hits 7-story building in Ashkelon

IDF launches major bombardment of Gaza Strip from air, sea and land as Netanyahu vows to extract a ‘heavy price’ from Hamas; dozens of rockets launched at southern Israel

3:33 am

Rockets sirens sound in communities near Gaza
2:24 am

White House pushing ceasefire but recognizes sides not there yet -- source
1:25 am

Two more men wounded in Ashklelon rocket attacks

Rockets are launched towards Israel from the southern Gaza Strip, on May 12, 2021 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF hits Hamas center with dozens of operatives; barrages on Tel Aviv, Beersheba

By Judah Ari Gross

Child hurt running to shelter; terror group says it used long-range missile in failed attack on Eilat, and launched new ‘suicide drones’; IDF hits four anti-tank missile teams

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza rocket volleys target south at dawn as IDF hits key Hamas positions

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Jewish-Arab violence rolls through cities like wildfire, with police overwhelmed

By Itamar Sharon and Stuart Winer

Leaders horrified as hooligans fill streets, burning, beating, shooting, smashing; Netanyahu says may send army into towns; Bat Yam mob assault on Arab man decried as ‘un-Jewish’

Border Police in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, amid violent riots between Jews and Arabs across Israel. May 11, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Gantz orders callup of Border Patrol reserves as Jewish-Arab violence spirals

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Aby Har-Even, a former head of the Israel Space Institute, during a lecture at Bar-Ilan University, in February 2013. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Ex-head of Israel space program critically injured when rioters burn Acre hotel

By Stuart Winer

Airplanes at Ben Gurion International Airport, on May 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Israel shuts Ben Gurion Airport to incoming flights; US airlines start canceling

Amid dangers posed by ongoing rocket fire from Gaza, arriving planes diverted to Ramon airport near Eilat; departures continue from Ben Gurion; US airlines begin canceling flights

An aerial view of the Israeli Tamar gas processing rig 24 kilometers off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon.

Chevron shuts Tamar offshore gas platform as Hamas says it targeted facility

Acre's Jewish-owned Uri Buri restaurant, known for its commitment to coexistence, after it was attacked and heavily damaged in riots in the city, May 13, 2021. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Op-ed

Israel, Hamas and our vicious internal rupture: An attempt at moral clarity

We’re deep in two wars – against a cynical terror-state next door and an explosion of murderous intolerance within. No country can tolerate the former, or function amid the latter

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Ido Avigal, who was killed in his home in Sderot by a rocket fired from Gaza, on May 12, 2021. (Twitter)

IDF: 1,300 rockets, mortar shells fired since Monday

5-year-old boy killed, dozens others injured as Gaza rockets pound Israel

Fresh volleys target south, center of country; Ido Avigal, 5, fatally struck by shrapnel that penetrated window of fortified room in Sderot during major Hamas barrage

Leah Yom Tov (Courtesy)

Grandmother, child, teen girl, caregiver: Victims in Israel of Gaza rockets

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Staff Sgt. Omer Tabib, 21, from the Nahal Infantry Brigade, who was killed when an anti-tank guided missile struck his jeep north of the Gaza Strip on May 12, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Jeep hit by anti-tank missile in deadly attack was parked in open view of Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Betrayal in the Galilee

I’ve lived in beautiful, quiet northern Israel for almost 3 years, and my Arab Israeli neighbors had earned my trust. Now I’m mad… and oh so disappointed

If you’re a Jewish educator this week…

You prepared your lessons, and then news from Israel changed everything. So you redid your lessons and comforted your students. What about yourselves?

Israel forgot herself

PM Netanyahu and his government were blindsided, having left the country vulnerable to a shabby, terrorist militia of fundamentalist fanatics

Donniel Hartman

I cannot just put my anger aside until things are quiet

No question Hamas is a repulsive, immoral enemy. And yet, Israel, enamored by its own power, has failed its duty to strive to be smarter, more just, more visionary

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 13 – As rockets rain, is Israel on the brink of civil war?

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

A man beats a man lying prone on the ground in Bat Yam, amid interethnic violence across Israel, May 12, 2021. (Kan TV Screenshot)

Jewish mob’s vicious attack on presumed Arab in Bat Yam caught live on Israel TV

Analysis

Iron Dome has saved many lives, but has it made Israel safer?

Though tactically a runaway success, some believe the active missile defense system blunted Israel’s traditional boldness and gave leaders cover to let the Hamas threat fester

Iron Dome in action, on May 13, 2021. (Avichai Socher/IDF)

Senior Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas official tells Russia: We’re ready for ceasefire with Israel

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Paramedics take a COVID-19 patient to a ward after doing an X-ray at a government-run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Israel’s promising ‘precision’ COVID drug starting trial in Greece next week

By Nathan Jeffay

Medicine hailed as a ‘huge breakthrough’ by inventors and as a ‘miracle drug’ by Netanyahu embarks on path to possible approval, in hope it will help crisis spots like India

An illustration of Fabric's, formerly CommonSense Robotics, micro-fulfillment centers (Courtesy

Super-Pharm looks to expand robotic facilities as online demand booms

By Shoshanna Solomon

Then-US vice president Joe Biden waves as he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk to give statements to the press in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool)

Biden tells Netanyahu he hopes violence will be ‘closing down sooner than later’

By Jacob Magid and AFP

President says US diplomacy in high gear on Hamas conflict, stresses Israel has a right to defend itself; PM signals not yet interested in ceasefire, says tackling terror targets

Biden official heading to Israel amid efforts to end Gaza fighting

25 House Democrats call on Blinken to condemn East Jerusalem evictions

UN Security Council to hold 3rd meeting in a week on Israel-Palestinian clashes

By Jacob Magid and AFP

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

No coalition talks until Jewish-Arab violence abates, says kingmaker Abbas

Ra’am leader urges calm and doesn’t rule out joining a Lapid government, but won’t pay attention to politics until clashes end

Illustrative: Israeli riot police face off with a Jewish man as clashes erupted between Arabs, police and Jews, in the mixed town of Lod, central Israel, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)

From far-right to Islamist parties, leaders condemn Jewish-Arab violence

Trevor Noah devoted a 'Daily Show' segment to the Gaza-Israel conflict. (Screenshot from YouTube)

War of words

From Gal Gadot to Trevor Noah, celebrities weigh in on the Israel-Gaza violence

By Gabe Friedman

As rockets rain down on Israel and mobs riot in the streets, the Hollywood elite take to their social media accounts to make their opinions on the conflict public

In this March 11, 2021 file photo, Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang holds a news conference in the Dumbo neighborhood of New York. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

With Andrew Yang tweet, Israeli-Palestinian conflict spills into NYC mayor race

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Pakistani actress Veena Malik talks to media at a local police station in Lahore, Pakistan on April 13, 2010. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

Amid Gaza fighting, Pakistani actress quotes Hitler about killing Jews

By JTA and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian rally in Berlin, May 12, 2021 (video screenshot)

Germany vows ‘no tolerance’ after Israel-flag burning outside synagogues

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Border Police officers stand at a checkpoint near Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs on January 19, 2018. (Border Police)

Palestinian man tries to stab Israeli soldiers in Hebron, is shot — IDF

Bereaved relations of Ahmad Daraghme, an officer in the Palestinian Authority intelligence services killed by Israeli soldiers, weep at his funeral in his home village of Laban al-Sharqiya on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 (WAFA)

PA: 2 Palestinians shot by IDF were security officers, not terrorists

By Aaron Boxerman

Nayax is a provider of cashless payment services (Courtesy)

Fintech firm Nayax starts trading on TASE after IPO of shares

By Shoshanna Solomon

From Deca Dance, outdoor performances by Batsheva Dance Company's youth ensemble at Tel Aviv's Ganei Yehoshua park at the end of May 2021 (Courtesy Askaf)

Baby stepsBatsheva brings youth ensemble outside, for Deca Dance

By Jessica Steinberg

Poland's lawmakers after voting – some in parliament, some remotely – in Warsaw, Poland, on May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland gives money to group led by student who made antisemitic remarks

By Katarzyna Markusz

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