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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 19, 2021

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Explosions light-up the night sky above buildings in Gaza City as Israeli forces carry out strikes on the Palestinian enclave, early on May 18, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Tense quiet in Gaza border towns after overnight strikes inside enclave

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

US hints it won’t back Security Council resolution calling for truce * Fight in Congress over response to violence intensifies * ADL offers reward for info on LA antisemitic attack

4:41 am

IDF: 80 rockets were fired from Gaza last night; none launched in last 6 hours
2:58 am

Lone Republican to support call for Israel-Gaza ceasefire walks back move
1:51 am

US readout of Blinken-Ashkenazi call highlights discussion of 'efforts to end violence'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) in a briefing to over 70 foreign diplomats and reporters about the fighting with the Gaza Strip, at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 19, 2021. (Prime Minister's Office)

Netanyahu says Israel could ‘conquer’ Gaza if ‘deterrence’ not achieved

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM tells foreign envoys Israel in no hurry to reach a ceasefire with Hamas: ‘We’re not standing with a stopwatch’

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv on February 27, 2019. (Flash90)

Likud minister says ‘no way to avoid’ temporary Gaza takeover to disarm Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Gideon Sa'ar during a Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar said weighing power-sharing government with Netanyahu, if made PM first

An Israeli in her home after a rocket hit from the Gaza Strip, in the southern city of Ashdod, on May 18, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Op-ed

The next round will be worse, unless Israel reasserts control of its destiny

The Hamas terror-state is causing violence on many fronts, fueling internal Israeli hatreds, harming us globally. The IDF response, however effective, is no substitute for strategy

Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto answers journalists' questions during an interview at the Hungarian Embassy in Paris on May 18, 2021. (BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)

Hungary FM slams EU’s ‘one-sided’ statements on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shahar Beine, 22, with her newborn 7 days old daughter (in the cradle) sits inside a public bomb shelter, during a rocket barrage fired from the Gaza strip at the Southern city of Ashkelon, on May 18, 2021. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

France circulates draft UN Security Council resolution urging Gaza ceasefire

Elysee Palace says core text stresses end to shooting and involvement of United Nation’s top-level forum; resolution would require formal US veto if Washington opposes

Rockets are launched towards Israel from Gaza City (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israel, Hamas deny ceasefire expected on Thursday, as US ups pressure

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

The rubble of a Gaza Strip high-rise building destroyed by the IDF is seen via satellite image, May 16, 2021. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

EU top diplomat urges Israel-Palestinian ceasefire after meeting of FMs

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli security forces face off with Palestinian protesters in the West Bank city of Hebron on May 18, 2021 (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

2 soldiers shot in West Bank, 3 Palestinians killed by gunfire amid unrest

By ToI Staff, Agencies, Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Troops hospitalized with leg wounds; source of shooting that killed two demonstrators unclear; clashes also break out in Jerusalem

A Cellcom service station in Jerusalem on November 5, 2015 (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Settlers pull plug on telecom firm over its act for Jewish-Arab coexistence

Rockets are launched towards Israel from the southern Gaza Strip, on May 17, 2021. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Top general: This Gaza conflict will be a success if it brings 5 years of calm

By Judah Ari Gross

Head of IDF Operations acknowledges Israel was caught off guard by Hamas rocket fire at Jerusalem, but says it turned the tables, setting back terror group considerably

Hamas military commander Muhammad Deif (courtesy)

IDF twice tried, failed to kill Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif last week

By Judah Ari Gross

Rockets are launched towards Israel from Gaza City (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Hamas says it targeted air force bases in barrages toward south, central Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 19 – Will Israel heed international pressure for ceasefire?

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

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The Russian man from next door and I put out a Molotov cocktail fire, as an Arab man rushed after the culprit – a sign of the times, yet one that gives me hope

Sivan Rahav Meir

3 foreign workers: Remember them too

Agricultural workers, caregivers, and more: they are part of the human landscape of Israel, and we must protect them… and mourn them

Sir Mick Davis: To fight extremism, Israel must first fix its politics

Writing in the Jewish News, a major UK donor to Israel says Israel must stop trying to ‘manage’ the Palestinian conflict and start trying to solve it

‘Are you religious?’ For American Jews, that’s the wrong question.

Many young US Jews say they don’t have any religion, which means that Judaism is practiced in creative, innovative ways; it’s not grounds for panic

Screen capture from video of Manchester United players holding a Palestinian flag after a game, May 17, 2021. (Twitter)

Soccer players battle out Israel-Gaza conflict on the field and online

By Stuart Winer

Israeli and, especially, Palestinian flags are being raised around the world by players showing their support for one side or the other in ongoing fighting

Police shoving reporters near the scene of a car ramming attack in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on May 16, 2021. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)

Covering unrest from up close, Israel’s journalists increasingly in line of fire

By Tal Schneider

At least 20 members of the media have been assaulted while reporting on raging national discord, and one channel has given extra security to anchors as threats proliferate online

Illustrative image: a bootle of Prozac (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Israeli study: Food supplement could lower Prozac dosage, reduce side effects

By Nathan Jeffay

Taken alongside drug, plant-derived substance shown to reduce dose needed to calm mice; researchers hope this could translate to humans

Chairman of the Jewish Agency Isaac Herzog at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, February 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Isaac Herzog, Miriam Peretz announce candidacy for presidency as race warms up

By Tal Schneider

Jewish Agency chief and ex-Labor leader Herzog seen as frontrunner, followed by Israel Prize winner Peretz; ex-Likud MK Yehudah Glick drops out ahead of midnight deadline

President Reuven Rivlin meets with the Yesh Atid party at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, April 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin undergoes medical checks after ‘irregular’ back pain

US Sen. Ted Cruz listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 20, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP, File)

US Republicans seek to use Israel-Hamas fighting to divide Democrats

By Agencies and ToI Staff

GOP members attempt to highlight progressive views slamming Jewish state to portray rival party as anti-Israel

Workers listen to US President Joe Biden speak at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, in Dearborn, Michigan on May 18, 2021. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

AnalysisBiden in a bind: Israel, Gaza fighting overshadows US president’s domestic plans

By Jonathan Lemire, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Josh Boak

Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., speaks during the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on the administration foreign policy priorities on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. (Ting Shen/Pool via AP)

Top Democrat won’t urge delay of $735m sale of precision missiles to Israel

A boy walks past graffiti on a wall in Arabic and Hebrew which reads "Jaffa is not for sale" in the historic Arab neighborhood of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

In Jaffa, Arab fears of eviction stoke tensions with the Jews next door

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana and acting Police Chief Kobi Shabtai visit a temporary roadblock on Route 1 outside Jerusalem on January 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After riots, police chief pans ‘terrorists from both sides,’ enraging minister

Amir Ohana berates Kobi Shabtai over ‘outrageous’ equivalence between Jewish and Arab assailants in mixed-city violence; First 116 indictments said to have all been against Arabs

Family and relatives attend the funeral of Yigal Yehoshua, who succumbed to injuries after he was wounded during Arab-Israeli riots in Lod, May 18, 2021 in Hadid. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘You believed in coexistence’: Lod Jewish man killed by Arab mob laid to rest

Israeli Arabs protest against violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities, in the Arab town of Majd al-Krum in northen Israel on October 3, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Ombudsman: 95% of police probes of violent crime in Arab areas yield no charges

Haviva Ner-David, rabbi and author whose first novel, 'Hope Valley,' tells the story of a friendship between two women, one Jewish Israeli and the other Palestinian (Courtesy Haviva Ner-David)

Memoirist turns to fiction with tale of Arab, Jewish women’s unlikely friendship

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

US President Joe Biden drives the new electric Ford F-150 Lightning at the Ford Dearborn Development Center in Dearborn, Michigan on May 18, 2021. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Road rageBiden jokes he’ll run over reporter if asked again about Israel

Workers roll up a red carpet after a welcome ceremony held by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. (AP/Alexander F. Yuan)

Israel accuses Chinese state TV of ‘blatant anti-Semitism’

By AP

Actor/comedian Charles Grodin, appears at a news conference announcing him as host of CNBC's new primetime show "Charles Grodin" in New York on Nov. 15, 1994. (AP/Marty Lederhandler, File)

Obituary‘Midnight Run,’ ‘Heartbreak Kid’ star Charles Grodin dies at 86

Eden Alene performing at the semifinal round of the 2021 Eurovision in Rotterdam, Netherlands (Courtesy screengrab)

Eurovision seasonIsrael’s Eden Alene makes it into Eurovision finals

By Jessica Steinberg

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks following his cabinet meeting in Ankara, May 17, 2021. (Mustafa Kamaci/Turkish Presidency via AP)

Turkey rejects US claim Erdogan made ‘anti-Semitic’ remarks about Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

One of the open-air locations in the city of Lod that was to house part of the Zumu community-based mobile museum exhibit, scheduled to open on May 18, 2021, but postponed due to unrest and violence in the mixed Arab and Jewish city (Courtesy Zumu)

Culture, interruptedTraveling museum postpones art exhibit planned for Lod

By Jessica Steinberg

Mobileye provides technology in the area of software algorithms that could enable autonomous cars. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Toyota picks Mobileye, Germany’s ZF for driver assistance tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Special police during an investigation into links to the Hezbollah terror group seen in Muenster, western Germany, April 30, 2020. (Martin Meissner/AP)

German police raid three newly banned groups linked to Hezbollah

Explorium's co-founder Or Tamir (YouTube screenshot)

From the webExplorium raises $75 million to expand data science platform

Illustrative image: researcher examining a bacterial culture plate (iStock)

Swiss pharma firm Ferring, Israel’s CytoReason join to battle bowel disease

By Shoshanna Solomon

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