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What Matters Most On Friday, May 14, 2021

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Smoke billows above buildings after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City in the Gaza Strip early on May 15, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Rockets rain on south; Hamas says kids among 7 killed in Israeli strike

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Police, Arab rioters clash in north; 2 Arab kids hurt as Jaffa home firebombed, Acre theater, symbol of coexistence, torched; Projectiles from Syria fall in Golan Heights

3:36 am

Rocket warning sirens in Beersheba, communities near Gaza
3:22 am

WATCH: IDF hits Hamas intelligence center in Gaza
2:13 am

Video shows Israelis firing at Palestinian rock throwers in East Jerusalem

US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with Republican senators in the Oval Office of the White House on May 13, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says he doesn’t think Israel overreacting in response to Gaza rockets

US president says question is how to get Hamas to stop ‘indiscriminate’ attacks; Washington blocks Security Council meeting on issue, where Israel would likely have been criticized

AnalysisHamas rockets squandered moment in which US sympathies were with Palestinians

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz speaks from the House Floor on May 13, 2021. (Screen capture/US House of Representatives)

US House speeches on Gaza expose growing rift in Democratic party on Israel

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett arrives for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his official residence in Jerusalem on April 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid: Bennett is wrong; now is the time for change

Bennett rules out ‘change gov’t’ amid national unrest, renews talks with Likud

By Tal Schneider and Raoul Wootliff

Yamina leader tells associates that ‘when there is a wave of pogroms by Arabs across the country, and when IDF forces must be involved, this is a reality-changing event’

Palestinians place Hamas flags atop the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem's Old City on May 10, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

In rocket war ‘for Al-Aqsa,’ Hamas has already won the Palestinian leadership

No matter how the fighting in Gaza goes, Fatah is sidelined and the Gaza-based terror group has made deep inroads into the Arab Israeli street

Rockets from Gaza, on right, are seen in the night sky fired towards Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021, while Iron Dome interceptor missiles, on left, rise to meet them. (Anas Baba/AFP)

Photo EssayDeadly duel: Photos capture battle between Iron Dome and Hamas rockets

Smoke rises following Israeli missile strikes on Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

‘Reconsider travel to Israel’: US issues advisory for Israel, West Bank and Gaza

By Jacob Magid and AP

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

I spent the night in a bomb shelter with my kids before. Last night was different

My family moved to Israel for many reasons, but certainly, this was not one of them. I do not want such violence to be the reality here

This is your country and we will not let the violence win

We will not abandon the country to those who try to exploit our every frustration to turn against each other

Tuning in from afar: I reach across the sea with my radio app

I listen to Israel Army radio’s finest, interrupted by sirens warning of incoming missiles, and remember that this news isn’t a far-away abstract story

A prayer for my daughter

May she grow up to see the day when Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians see each other as brothers and sisters

Israel must establish the rules of the game

Hamas’s long-planned attack is an effort to position itself as the defenders of Jerusalem. Israel must shatter the terror group’s assumptions

Andrew D. Lappin

The Arab street is quiet – and the reason is Iran

With Tehran’s fingerprints on Hamas rockets, countries in the region know they may be next. So why is Biden so keen for a rapprochement with Iran?

Palestinians protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 9, 2021, in solidarity with Palestinian families facing Israeli eviction orders in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Analysis

With Israel and Gaza already beset by chaos, West Bank ‘explosion’ looms

Palestinian Authority security forces have cracked down on some protests; Hamas’s influence said to be spreading widely in the area, sparking fears that relative calm may not last

Soldiers stand by the scene of the suspected car-ramming and stabbing attack near a military post near Ofra in the West Bank on May 14, 2021. (Courtesy / Ofra Youth)

IDF says stabbing attack thwarted in West Bank; Palestinian assailant killed

By Emanuel Fabian

From the blogs

I grew up in a divided Jerusalem. I’d like to live in a shared one.

Saving the Zionist enterprise while respecting the Palestinian right to self-determination requires courage and leadership – which are sadly lacking

An explosion lights the sky following an Israeli air strike on Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

IDF: Overnight bombardment targeted Hamas’s tunnel network under Gaza City

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says 160 aircraft dropped 450 missiles on 150 targets in operation, as ground troops in Israel struck terror operatives who try to attack them

An explosion lights the sky following an Israeli air strike on Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip early on May 14, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Israeli air, ground forces bombard northern Gaza in heaviest strike yet

By Judah Ari Gross

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L) and MK Itamar Ben Gvir (R). (Flash90)

Police chief said to blame far-right lawmaker Ben Gvir for ‘internal intifada’

In briefing, Kobi Shabtai reportedly tells Netanyahu the Kahanist MK always ‘shows up to fan the flames,’ as police begin to gain control of unrest

Israeli special forces gather in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod on May 13, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Soldier viciously beaten in Jaffa, synagogue burned in Lod, as rioting deepens

Supporters of the Israeli suspects involved in the shooting death of an Arab man in Lod during rioting in the central Israeli city, outside the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, May 11, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

4 Jewish suspects held over fatal shooting of Arab in Lod are released on bail

Demonstrating for calm and coexistence at the Oranim junction in south Jerusalem, May 13, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Jews and Arabs start to push back against violence, rallying nationwide

Shocked by series of arson and mob attacks in Jewish-Arab cities and beyond over recent days, Israelis demonstrate for calm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting Border Police officers in the central Israeli city of Lod, May 13, 2021.(Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu calls for administrative detentions to quell Arab-Jewish violence

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A police officer on horseback amid an Israeli Arab crowd during clashes early in the Second Intifada, on October 20, 2000. (Flash90)

In nights of Arab-Jewish violence, memories of October 2000

By Aaron Boxerman

Residents look in shock, after a rocket directly hits a house in Ashkelon, southern Israel, early morning on August 26, 2014. (Flash90/File)

Explainer

Parenting under fire: As rockets rain, a bomb shelter guide for Israeli parents

By Nathan Jeffay

Expert insight into managing your children’s’ mental health: Don’t tell them to stop being scared, embrace the tears, and expect regression, like bedwetting, says therapist

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

IDF: Hamas chiefs spurred to launch war after seeing Monday Temple Mount clashes

By Judah Ari Gross

Military Intelligence believes group hopes to paint itself as ‘defender of Jerusalem’; Israeli strikes on Hamas, Islamic Jihad setting them back for years to come, army assesses

A screen capture from a video released by Hamas's military wing on May 13, 2021, about the Ayyash missile, which the terror group claimed has a range of 250 kilometers. (Screen capture)

Hamas makes unverified claim it’s using new rocket that can hit all of Israel

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, talks with filmmaker David Grubin about his PBS series, 'The Jewish Americans,' on January 10, 2008 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

'She was still making history in her passing'

In posthumously published book, Ruth Bader Ginsburg puts own stamp on her legacy

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A personally chosen collection of favorite legal briefs, US Supreme Court opinions and dissents, and recent speeches aim to show how Jewish jurist fought for a more perfect union

Dr. Jonathan Rieck, director of the Emergency Medicine Department speaks at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon on May 12, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

In war-weary Ashkelon, resilience, experience and concern over one fresh twist

Residents and emergency room doctors alike have lived stoically through innumerable rounds of conflict with nearby Gaza, but internal Arab-Jewish violence has them shocked

A coffee shop in Tel Aviv's Ibn Gabirol street, May 13, 2021 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

In Tel Aviv, between sirens, one resident reflects it’s ‘quiet like Yom Kippur’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Singer Miri Mesika performed at the first of nine concerts at Acre's Metzuda stage, prior to the recent unrest and riots disrupting the northern city (Courtesy City of Acre)

Singers back on stage, but current unrest may threaten planned shows

By Jessica Steinberg

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

Window of shelter where rocket shrapnel killed boy appears to have been sound

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Military spokesman says Ido Avigal’s death at home in Sderot was caused by an ‘incredibly rare’ convergence of events, as rocket piece shot through protective metal plating

Mourners attend the funeral of Israeli soldier Omer Tabib, 21, in Elyakim in northern Israel, on May 13, 2021. Tabib was killed when Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired an anti-tank missile near the border. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Hundreds attend funeral of Omer Tabib, IDF soldier killed by anti-tank missile

Illustrative image: A woman in a conversion court. (Flash90)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: A proposed cure for conversion ‘perversion’ in the State of Israel

For Shavuot, an in-depth conversation with Rabbi Seth Farber on the history of conversion — and how it all went awry in the Jewish state

Pro-Palestinian protesters stop a London bus as they participate in a demonstration against Israel, in central London on May 11, 2021. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

European Jews brace, yet again, for antisemitic attacks spurred by Gaza unrest

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Many fear ‘the import of the conflict’ phenomenon will increase assaults; in 2014, Europe saw the worst wave of antisemitic violence since the Holocaust amid Israel-Hamas fighting

French gov’t seeks to ban pro-Palestinian protest in Paris, citing 2014 clashes

More Headlines

Rihanna performs onstage during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Aug. 28, 2016. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Rihanna draws praise, criticism after solidarity with both Israel and Gaza

By Gabe Friedman

Smoke and flames rise after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, May 12, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza faces increasing power, water shortages, partly because of own rocket fire

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Aerial view of the Rosh Hanikra-Achziv marine nature reserve. (Shai Cabassa, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

IDF: 3 rockets fired from Lebanon hit sea off northern coast

By Judah Ari Gross

China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying gestures during a press conference held at the Foreign Ministry in Beijing on December 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Liu Zheng)

China says US ‘ignoring’ plight of Muslims by blocking UN meeting on Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File: Palestinian doctors and medics walk inside the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, May 13, 2021. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza’s hospitals, already struggling amid COVID, now face wounded from strikes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is seen through a plexiglass lectern in the court room of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

ICC may probe current Israel-Gaza round of violence in war crimes investigation

Yarona and Liron Weinberg, both officers in the IDF, headed back to the army with the recent escalation and decided to give their planned Golan honeymoon to another recently wedded couple from the south (Courtesy Yarona Weinberg)

The honeymoonersNewlywed officers will give honeymoon away to couple from the south

By Jessica Steinberg

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington, April 5, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

Blinken dismisses Republican calls to cease nuclear talks due to Hamas rockets

By Jacob Magid and AFP

An illustrative image of a business deal on a Zoom call. (nensuria; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli startups raising funds virtually and faster, survey shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

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