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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 20, 2021

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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi (C) visit a building that was hit by Hamas rocket fire from Gaza, on May 20, 2021, in Petah Tikva. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

‘Showing friendship’: European ministers visit in act of solidarity with Israel

By Lazar Berman

A protester at a rally calling for the return of the civilians and the remains of Israeli soldiers held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, May 19, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Electric company union: No repair to Gaza power lines until captives returned

Palestinians celebrate in the streets following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City on May 21, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

No rocket fire from Gaza or IDF strikes reported, as truce appears to take hold

Ceasefire comes after 11 days of fighting * Biden commends Netanyahu for Gaza truce, vows to replenish supply of Iron Dome missiles * Blinken heading to region

3:15 am

Jews attacked in New York City amid pro-Palestinian protest
3:10 am

No rockets fired from 2 a.m. as ceasefire appears to be holding
2:53 am

Egyptian delegations to monitor ceasefire

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden speak in front of media prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Biden to Netanyahu: I expect significant de-escalation today; PM: Battle goes on

In 4th phone call between the leaders, US president sharpens tone, pushes for ceasefire; Netanyahu says he’s ‘determined to continue this operation until its goal is achieved’

The UN Security Council chambers in New York. (Norway Mission to the UN/Twitter)

US hints it will oppose French Security Council resolution calling for ceasefire

Rockets are launched by Palestinian terror groups into Israel, amid Israeli-Palestinian fighting. in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 19, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Senior Hamas official: Ceasefire can be reached within ‘one or two days’

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

A home hit by a rocket fired from Gaza in the city of Ashkelon, May 20, 2021 (Magen David Adom)

After lull, Hamas resumes rocket fire, shoots anti-tank missile at empty IDF bus

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israel resumes airstrikes on targets in Gaza as efforts for ceasefire said to gain steam; heavy barrages target Ashkelon, Beersheba, Gaza border communities

Israeli residents and rescue teams are pictured outside a building hit by a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, in the southern city of Ashdod, on May 17, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

IDF officer: Hamas is looking for a ‘major success’ before the end of fighting

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli security forces at the scene where part of a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the southern port city of Ashdod, May 19, 2021. (Flash90)

Hamas pummels south, central Israel with rocket salvos on 10th day of fighting

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shows visiting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas fragments of a drone that Israel says was launched by Iran toward northern Israel, which was brought down by the Israeli military, on May 20, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/Government Press Office)

Netanyahu: Drone downed by IDF this week was armed, launched by Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Ilustrative: Israeli soldiers guard in Metula, on the border between Israel and Lebanon, northern Israel, on May 14, 2021, after Lebanese protesters crossed the Israeli border fence. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF: 4 rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon, 1 intercepted; no injuries

By Judah Ari Gross

Chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami speaks at a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, on November 25, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Iran Guards commander hails Hamas rocket barrages on ‘broken, downcast’ Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators assault Jews at a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles, on May 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators assault Jews in Los Angeles

By Andrew Lapin

Local authorities open hate crime investigation into attack at sushi restaurant, during which the assailants allegedly used antisemitic language to determine who was Jewish

Erica Mena in 2015. (Wikimedia Commons)

Reality TV star Erica Mena: ‘Special place in hell’ for ‘these Jewish people’

By JTA and ToI Staff

The Meridian Industrial park, which houses a building co-owned by Elbit Systems, in Leicester, United Kingdom. (Google Maps)

Pro-Palestinian activists storm UK factory co-owned by Israel defense firm Elbit

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, second right, listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Rouhani hails ‘major’ progress in nuke talks; other countries say hurdles remain

By Nasser Karimi

Iran’s president claims ‘big step’ has been taken to revive 2015 nuclear pact, with solutions to issue of sanctions; other parties to talks indicate there is still a way to go

Deputy Secretary General and Political Director of the European External Action Service (EEAS), Enrique Mora, addresses the media as he leaves the 'Grand Hotel Wien' where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran took place in Vienna, Austria, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

EU official chairing Iran nuclear talks touts ‘substantial progress’ toward deal

By David Rising and Philipp Jenne

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, via JTA)

Ocasio-Cortez drafts resolution to block $735m sale of missiles to Israel

Measure almost certain not to pass, given strong support for Jewish state in Congress, but it’ll spark further debate on Israel, which growing number of Dems now criticizing

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)

AnalysisGaza violence presents fresh hurdle to Biden’s tested friendship with Netanyahu

By AAMER MADHANI and Ellen Knickmeyer

Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, laughs with US Vice President Joseph Biden after signing the guest book ahead of their meeting at Peres's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday March 9, 2010. Biden says there is a "moment of opportunity" for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

AnalysisBiden’s decades-long pattern with Israel: Public support, private scolding

By AAMER MADHANI

Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya

Israel’s mixed Jewish-Arab cities are on fire. Here’s how to put out the flames

The government can start by allocating funding to boost prospect for Arab citizens of Israel and close the close glaring socioeconomic gaps

Kenneth Jacobson

The world’s immoral, deadly silence on Hamas and Hezbollah

In leaving Israel to deal alone with terror groups’ assault on civilians, the international community ensures the conflict will continue and become more destructive

Donniel Hartman

Why Israel lost this war

As criticism of the war shifts to a foundational critique of Israel itself, Israel can’t afford to not make its case. This it can do only by reclaiming the moral high ground

Will you please stop lecturing us on ‘complexity’ and ‘nuance’?

Those words have come to justify terrorism. I prefer words like ’solidarity’ and ’concern’. Have you been on the road during a rocket attack? I have

Randa Aweis, 58, an Arab woman who has just received a kidney from Yigal Yehoshua, a Jewish man killed by Arab rioters in Lod, May 2021. Dr. Abed Halaila, head of the transplant department at Hadassah Medical Center, is standing next to her. (courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)

Jewish riot victim’s kidney gives new lease on life to Arab woman

By Nathan Jeffay

‘This Jewish kidney has now become part of me,’ says Randa Aweis, after transplant from Yigal Yehoshua, killed by Arab Israelis in Lod; ‘We’re just people, we need to live together

An illustrative image of solidarity at the workplace (fizkes; iStock at Getty Images)

‘For we are brothers’: Arabs, Jews in tech call for healing social rifts

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel is ‘being tested’ and is at ‘edge of the abyss,’ says consortium of 35 VC funds and 130 startups; just as citizens fought COVID so must they fight for solidarity

Jewish Google employees call for tech giant to publicly support Palestinians

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Google reportedly speeding up digital wallet launch in Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Flames and smoke billowing after an Israeli airstrike on the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 19, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/FLASH90)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 20 – 2 steps forward to Israel-Hamas ceasefire, 2 steps back

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

Illustrative photo of antisemitic graffiti on a building near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, 2016. (Courtesy: Michaela Brown)

Antisemitic attacks on campus increased by 600% in 6 years

With Israel-Gaza crisis, students ask US colleges to declare war on antisemitism

By Cathryn J. Prince

Violent incidents around America highlight need to teach pupils and faculty how to combat hatred on campus, while over half of young Americans don’t know what ‘antisemitism’ means

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Arab League's parliament on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 (screenshot: Palestine TV)

Abbas accuses Israel of ‘war crimes,’ calls Gaza operation ‘state terror’

By Aaron Boxerman

PA president says he’ll see to it that Israel is prosecuted by the ICC over ongoing fighting

In security video released by the Israel Defense Forces, a Palestinian woman can be seen firing toward the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on May 19, 2021. (Screen capture)

Palestinian woman fires at Israelis outside West Bank settlement, is shot dead

Shlomo Lampert, far right, who founded Ir Miklat, an organization dedicated to clearing out apartment bomb shelters in poor Israeli neighborhoods during the recent crisis with Gaza (Courtesy Shlomo Lampert)

Clearing out helter-skelter, group makes room for people in junk-jammed shelters

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: A 2011 marriage ceremony of an interfaith couple from Boston. (Courtesy Jared and Laurie Berezin)

'Interfaith families are being rejected outright'

Most US kids of intermarriage raised Jewish; parents want institutions to notice

A recent Pew study shows that over the last decade, most Jews have wed non-Jewish partners – but 2/3 of them imbue children with some Jewish identity, and this seems to be growing

Presidential candidates Miriam Peretz and Isaac Herzog (Meir Elifor, courtesy)

And then there were 2: Isaac Herzog and Miriam Peretz to compete for presidency

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Jewish Agency chief and ex-Labor leader receives signatures of 27 MKs; Israel Prize-winning educator garners 11 signatures; 3 other candidates drop out; Knesset votes on June 2

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Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sweden probes Jewish doctor for not using anesthetic when circumcising babies

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A woman and child take cover as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, on a road between Ashkelon and Sderot, southern Israel, on May 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

35-country pan-American group designates Hamas a terrorist organization

By JTA and ToI Staff

Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni, Shimon Matalon, Elazar Mordechai Goldberg, Moshe Bergman and Daniel Morris; 5th row (L-R): Ariel Achdut, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Hanoch Slod, Yedidya Fogel, Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Moshe Tzarfati, Nahman Kirshbaum and Eliyahu Cohen.

Ultra-Orthodox party leader backs official state inquiry into Meron disaster

Italian tenor Francesco Meli performing in 'Aida' in 2017; the opera singer will perform in Israel on May 29, 2021 (Courtesy Monika Rittershaus)

Benvenuto!Italian tenor set for Israel gig, after coronavirus ‘silence’

By Jessica Steinberg

Fake news uncovered by student volunteers at the IDC Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, central Israel. (Courtesy IDC)

Students expose fake social media reports on Israel-Gaza, to set record straight

A Syrian man who lives in Lebanon hangs on his chest a portrait of Syrian president Bashar Assad, as he casts his ballot for his country's presidential election at the Syrian embassy in Yarze, east of Beirut, Lebanon, May 20, 2021. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Syrian expatriates cast early ballots in symbolic presidential vote

By AP

A train station in Chigwell, a London-area town where a rabbi was beaten amid antisemitic epithets. (Wikimedia Commons)

UK police arrest 2 men they say assaulted rabbi in hate crime

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative image: Medical workers, one Jewish and one Arab, holding signs calling for peace, at Rambam Medical Center, May 2021 (courtesy of Rambam Medical Center)

Docs on callArab medics go all out to give Jewish colleagues a Shavuot break

By Nathan Jeffay

Sunbit co-founders right to left: Prof. Tamir Hazan, Oranit Maizel, Tal Riesenfeld and Arad Levertov (Courtesy)

From the webFintech company Sunbit raises $130 million at $1.1 billion valuation

In this March 24, 2021, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he speaks during his ruling party's congress inside a packed sports hall in Ankara, Turkey. (Turkish Presidency via AP, File)

Turkish Jews defend Erdogan against antisemitism charge by US

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Upstream Security's monitoring and control center for vehicle cybersecurity (Yarin Taranos Photography)

Japan’s Mitsui insurance invests $36 million in Israel’s Upstream Security

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israelis try to extinguish a fire caused from a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, on May 16, 2021 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tortoises, snakes burned to death in south in fires sparked from Gaza

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