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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 16, 2021

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US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield attends a Cabinet meeting with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House, on April 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

US for 3rd time blocking Security Council joint statement calling for ceasefire

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Statement would criticize both sides for ongoing violence * IDF says it struck Hamas-dug tunnel shaft located near kindergarten * Congress sees 1st bipartisan call for ceasefire

2:03 am

US for 3rd time blocking Security Council joint statement calling for ceasefire -- diplomats tell ToI
1:51 am

First bipartisan call for ceasefire issued from Democrat Chris Murphy, Republican Todd Young
1:16 am

Police arrest 7 Jewish East Jerusalem residents in shooting of 2 Palestinians

Palestinians carry one of survivers from under the rubble of a building, after it was struck by Israeli strikes, in Gaza City, May 16, 2021 (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

‘Screams under the rubble’: 42 said killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza City

By Aaron Boxerman

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah lift its flags (C) alongside those of Iran (L) and Palestine, during an anti-Israel protest in the southern Khiam area by the border with Israel, facing the northern Israeli town of Metula, on May 14, 2021. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

Report: Hezbollah has ‘no interest’ in Gaza fighting spreading to Lebanon

Lebanese official tells newspaper that the terror group and its patron Iran don’t want to impact the nuclear talks with world powers

Iranian Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani (L) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (R). (AP)

In phone call, Iran’s Quds Force chief applauds Hamas leader for Israel attacks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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)

UAE said to warn Hamas planned Gaza infrastructure projects are in danger

From the blogs

Evan Fallenberg

A violent mob destroyed the oasis we created in Acre

Can the people in this sad, beautiful, ravaged land ever learn to respect the differences and distinctions between us and use them for an enhanced joint future?

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)

Amid growing US pressure, Israel said considering Gaza ceasefire

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

US officials, including close allies of Israel, raise concerns over recent IDF raids, begin calling for Jerusalem to wrap up fighting; Israeli officials reportedly agree

Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a rocket strike in Ramat Gan that killed Gershon Franco, 50, on May 15, 2021 (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

‘No ceasefire yet’: Israel said to want IDF to complete ‘missions’ against Hamas

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Smoke billows from a fire following Israeli airstrikes on multiple targets in Gaza City, early on May 16, 2021 (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Heavy rocket fire hits center, south; Hamas leader’s home targeted in IAF strike

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a televised address, May 15, 2021. (GPO)

Netanyahu: Gaza operation is ‘just and moral,’ a few days of fighting lie ahead

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Condemning ethnic violence in Israel, PM says country won’t tolerate ‘pogroms,’ and those who act like ‘terrorists’ will be dealt with as such

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Joe Biden (R). (Flash90/AP)

Netanyahu assures Biden that Israel is seeking to limit Gaza civilian casualties

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Then-US vice president Joseph Biden, left, walks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 10, 2010. (AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill/File)

In their first phone call, Abbas urges Biden to intervene, stop Israeli attacks

By Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid

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)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 16 – Trying to clear the fog of the Hamas-Israel war

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

The moment a rocket slammed into the road outside a gas station in Netivot, May 16, 2021 (Screen grab/Kann)

Footage shows rocket slamming into Israeli street, just meters from gas station

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

Palestinians inspect destroyed buildings following overnight Israeli airstrikes in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

While all eyes are on Gaza, Gaza is only half the story

The terror group fired its first massive rocket volley on Monday hoping for a quick, decisive exchange. Instead, it dragged beleaguered Gaza into the next Hezbollah war

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Running in circles in Jerusalem

Shadi’s chest heaved and burned and his heart raced, but this was part of the job – he knew what he signed up for when he became a cop

Northern Ireland’s lesson for Israel

My work to help end sectarian violence in my country taught me inter-communal conflict can not be resolved from within the comfort zone of absolutist positions

Drawing Moses: From the sublime to the ridiculous

That moment of divine revelation when God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai? Artists have been trying to show what happened for centuries (Shavuot)

Ilana Goldstein Saks

Err on the side of kindness

The Book of Ruth embodies a living Torah, where human practice and divine intent come together, a perfect celebration of the day the Torah was given

Screen capture for the arrivals flight board at Ben Gurion Airport, May 16, 2021. (Ben Gurion Airport)

Dozens of flights canceled as rocket fire disrupts Israeli air travel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

International carriers scrap flights amid violence, but Israeli airlines still flying; services could resume later in the week, depending on developments

Palestinians inspect the damage caused to a building in the West Bank town of Azzun, after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip impacts nearby, on May 15, 2021 (Screenshot: Twitter)

Gaza rocket aimed at Modi’in to ‘avenge’ Palestinian deaths hits West Bank town

By Emanuel Fabian

Saeed Mousa, an Arab Israeli who was assaulted by a Jewish Israeli mob, at Ichilov Medical Center, May 14, 2021. (video screenshot)

Arab man beaten by Bat Yam Jewish mob calls for calm: ‘We’re all human beings’

Saeed Mousa describes merciless assault by extremists, captured on film: ‘I was going to the beach. What did I do to deserve this? Is it my fault I was born Arab?’

Israeli flags are ripped up and thrown from a building during a protest in London, May 15, 2021 (Screen grab/Twitter)

Protests also held in Madrid, Geneva, Rome

Israeli flags ripped, walked on as thousands attend protests in European cities

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Organizers say 100,000 gather near Israeli embassy in London; Corbyn: ‘End the occupation now’; Paris police use tear gas at illegal rally; Israeli reporter attacked in Berlin

Leicester City soccer players Wesley Fofana and Hamza Choudhury hold a Palestinian flag after their FA Cup final win over Chelsea, May 15, 2021. (Twitter screenshot)

Leicester City soccer players raise Palestinian flag after UK cup victory

By AFP

Some of the victims of the Gaza rocket fire: Top row (L) Omer Tabib (R) Ido Avigal; 2nd row (L) Leah Yom-Tov (R) Soumya Santosh; 3rd row (L) Nadeen Awwad (R) Khalil Awwad; 4th row (R) Nela Gurvitch (L) Ramat Gan after the rocket strike (Oren ZIV / AFP)

A child, a teen, a man unable to run: 10 Gaza rocket victims in Israel

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Since the outbreak of violence last Monday night, 8 Israeli civilians, an Indian national, and one soldier were killed by projectiles fired from Palestinian enclave

Muhammad, 12, who was injured by a firebomb at his home in Jaffa, pictured in his bed at Sheba Medical Center (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

12-year-old burnt by firebomb amid Arab-Jewish violence sees condition improve

By Nathan Jeffay

Thanks to mother’s quick reaction and medical staff’s work, doctor says it’s ‘almost certain’ Muhammad will recover fully from Jaffa attack, after plastic surgery and rehab

A police patrol car on fire in the city of Lod, May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Police say they were ‘underprepared’ for Jewish-Arab violence engulfing cities

Thousands of demonstrators observe Nakba Day in Sakhnin, northern Israel, on Saturday, May 15, 2021 (Credit: Ali Siryouji/Joint List)

‘We’ll shout against the killing’: Thousands rally for Nakba Day, coexistence

By Aaron Boxerman

U~s President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Washington, May 13, 2021. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Hamas rocket barrages, IDF’s response catch Biden with no envoys in Israel

By Tal Schneider

Washington has yet to appoint a new ambassador, and other key posts are empty, while events on the ground are forcing the US and Israel into a flurry of diplomatic activity

Ori Kol of FakeReporter in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy of Ori Kol via JTA)

To curb ethnic riots, ex-intel officers volunteer to spy on extremists online

Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of Dimona dance during festivities marking the Shavuot festival in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, May 26, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Dimona’s African Hebrews launch campaign to stay put as deportations loom

Population Authority: ‘We’re asking them to go back to their country, one of the most developed in the world, but every few years they come with new people out of the blue’

Yaniv Iczkovits, author of 'The Slaughterman's Daughter.' (Photo by Eric Sultan)

Interview'I wanted this lost world to come to the entire world'

Israeli Wingate prizewinner’s novel brings female empowerment to the shtetl

Set in a 19th-century Pale of Settlement, Yaniv Iczkovits’s ‘The Slaughterman’s Daughter’ sees a woman trained to perform a job reserved for men bring her sister justice

More Headlines

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dance at the end of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem on June 9, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Citing danger, top Haredi rabbis urge avoiding visits to Western Wall on Shavuot

Incoming IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman speaks at a ceremony in which he took over for outgoing spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis on September 15, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF spokesman denies deliberately misleading press on nonexistent Gaza invasion

By Judah Ari Gross

Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a rocket strike in Ramat Gan that killed one person, May 15, 2021 (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

EU to hold urgent talks on fighting between Israel and Gaza terror groups

By AFP

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers disperse Palestinian demonstrators during an anti-Israel demonstration over tensions in Jerusalem, at the Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the West Bank, May 11, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

IDF: Palestinian man attempts to ram soldiers with car, is shot dead

Damage after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the Ramat Gan Safari, May 15, 2021 (Screen grab/Ynet)

Surgical strikeMonkey injured by shrapnel when Gaza rocket hits Ramat Gan zoo

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

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