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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 15, 2021

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Rockets are launched towards Israel from Rafah, in the southern the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas terror group, on May 15, 2021. (Said KHATIB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

After 3-hour overnight lull, fresh rocket sirens set off in Gaza border towns

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

No immediate report of injuries * Hawkish Dem joins progressive colleagues in criticizing Israeli strikes * IDF said to target Hamas leader Sinwar during nighttime counterstrikes

3:52 am

China blames US for Security Council inaction on Gaza
3:26 am

Israel Railways announces Herzliya-Lod-Beersheba line won't run today
3:22 am

Rocket sirens blare in Gaza border towns

Fire and smoke rise from the al-Jalaa Tower, which housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, as it is destroyed in an Israeli airstrike after the IDF warned the occupants to leave a building it said was a Hamas asset, Gaza City, May 15, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF: Hamas using international press as human shields

IDF fells Gaza tower used by media outlets, says it housed Hamas military assets

By Emanuel Fabian

Occupants were warned and given time to leave; IDF says 12-story Al Jala building was used by Hamas intel; AP: We’re horrified; US to Israel: Safety of journalists is paramount

Rescue workers on the scene where a rocket hit fired from the Gaza Strip hit Ramat Gan, killing one, May 15, 2021 (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Man killed in Ramat Gan rocket strike as barrages batter center, south of Israel

An Israeli inspects the damage to his house following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on May 15, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Rockets batter southern Israel; 10 Gazans, including kids, killed in IAF strikes

Firebomb victim Muhammad pictured shortly after his home in Jaffa was attacked. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Arab boy seriously hurt in firebombing of Jaffa home; riots spread across Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Violence flares between Arab and Jewish communities across the country; protesters clash with police in northern towns, East Jerusalem

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod, where cars were torched as well as shops damaged, as clashes erupted between Arab and Jewish residents on May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Shin Bet aiding attempt to clamp down on Jewish-Arab ‘terror’ wracking cities

From the blogs

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

It is dark in Israel tonight

What’s been burning in our streets these past few nights is more than property. What’s crumbling, what’s burning, is our ability to trust.

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)

Israeli airstrike on Gaza house said to kill family of 10, mostly kids

By ToI Staff and AP

Three-story house in al-Shati camp turns to rubble; military says leading Hamas figures were meeting in the building

Members of Israeli security and emergency services work on a site hit by a rocket fired from Gaza in Ramat Gan, where an Israeli man was killed, on May 15, 2021. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

While Israel makes tactical gains, Hamas is proving the strategic victor

Four insights into a conflict which highlights that Israel’s 12-year policy of seeking to placate the Gaza monster must change

I grew up in a mixed Jewish-Arab city. Violence there frightens me more than rockets from Gaza.

The long process of healing requires an honest attempt at a more equitable relationship between the state and its Arab citizens

An open letter to Trevor Noah

We are not in an entirely post-truth society yet, at least I hope not, where facts no longer exist and opinions, even those of a celebrity, rule the day

Interview'He says he worked as a gigolo, but we don't know it's true'

Director Billy Wilder’s pre-WWII European journalism is revealed – and revealing

By Jordan Hoffman

Prior to writing and directing Hollywood blockbusters, the filmmaker zipped around Germany and Austria as a reporter, and his colorful early writings are now available in book form

Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City targeted the Ansar compound, a site linked to the Hamas terror group, on May 14, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Report: IAF bombing of Hamas ‘metro’ smashed miles of tunnels; no info on deaths

Air force officer: Operations such as this likely ‘make the enemy want to stop… but we will continue to act for as long as necessary’

Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli border with Gaza, amid the escalation of Palestinian and Israeli violence. May 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

With invasion that wasn’t, IDF suspected of duping foreign press to trick Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

Lebanese protesters demonstrate along their border with Israel on May 14, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Lebanese man killed as protesters rush Israeli border fences

IDF fires tank rounds at rioters who break through fence on frontier, set fires near Metulla; demonstrators in Jordan also approach border

Israeli soldiers stand guard after firing flares above the northern town of Metulla, by the border with Lebanon, following a pro-Palestinian protest across the border in the Lebanese Khiam area, on May 14, 2021 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

3 rockets shot at Israel from Syria after Hezbollah man killed in border fracas

A Palestinian throws a burning tire onto a pile during clashes with Israeli forces near the Jewish settlement of Beit El near Ramallah in the West Bank on May 14, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

At least nine Palestinians reported killed as violence spreads to West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians report 500 injured in clashes, including by live fire; IDF says 3,000 participate in violent riots that involve stone-throwing, Molotov cocktails

Black smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City targeted the Intaj Bank linked to Hamas on May 14, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Israel and Hamas likely to reach ceasefire in coming days — diplomat

Official says intensified Israeli bombing campaign on Thursday and Friday likely last blows before agreement to halt fighting, after Hamas sends signals it’s ready to take a break

Black smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City targeted the Intaj Bank linked to Hamas on May 14, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Netanyahu vows unrelenting response to Hamas; Arab-Jewish violence spreads

The Austrian Federal Chancellery raised the Israeli flag as a sign of solidarity, in Vienna on May 14, 2021. (HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / AFP)

Israel says US, Europe allies supportive on Gaza conflict; not so the Arab world

By Lazar Berman

Netanyahu, Ashkenazi thank Western counterparts; Arab states express criticism — often highlighting Jerusalem more than Gaza

(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, stand on the Blue Room Balcony during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Israel’s escalation with Gaza puts new Gulf partners in diplomatic bind

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Austrian Federal Chancellery raised the Israeli flag (Up L) as a sign of solidarity, in Vienna on May 14, 2021. (HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / AFP)

Austria, Slovenia fly Israeli flags in show of support

By AFP

Illustrative: A protester waves a flag during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians, in Paris, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Organizers vow to push ahead after court upholds ban on Paris anti-Israel rally

By Emmanuel Duparcq

French police fear violent ‘acts against synagogues and Israeli interests’ Saturday, like those that took place during anti-Israel protests amid 2014 Gaza war

Demonstrators against Israel hold signs at a rally in Vienna, Austria, where protesters chanted in Arabic about a massacre of Jews, May 13, 2021. (Courtesy of Austrian Union of Jewish Students via JTA)

Anti-Israel protesters in Vienna chant about massacre of Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

Progressive lawmakers lament US policy that ignores Palestinians, blast IDF strikes; more moderate colleagues closer to Biden offer ‘unwavering’ support for Jewish state

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 14, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Rabbinical students urge US Jews to hold Israel accountable for ‘rights abuses’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

The Islamic School of Seattle in 2007. Community figures hope to turn the property into a multifaith cultural center. (Screenshot/YouTube)

In Seattle, a Jewish school turned mosque is bringing Jews and Muslims together

By Emily Alhadeff

More Headlines

A dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine is pictured at Clalit Health Services, in a gymnasium in the central Israeli city of Hod Hasharon, on February 4, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel may begin vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds by end of May

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza City, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

US sending already-announced aid to Palestinians as conflict intensifies

In this Feb. 17, 2020, file photo, former Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani speaks to journalists at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Ex-Iran parliament speaker, judiciary chief register to run for president

Newsmax says host Grant Stinchfield is on a previously scheduled vacation following his comments about Israel. (Screenshot via JTA)

Newsmax host who called Israel ‘home country’ of US Jews is temporarily off air

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