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What Matters Most On Friday, May 21, 2021

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

Hamas claims victory as Palestinians celebrate at end of 11-day conflict

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Ceasefire that went into effect at 2. am. appears to be holding; military says jets hovered over Gaza to prevent potential massive barrage at central Israel in final hours

A screenshot of a video released by the Hamas terror group showing an anti-tank missile hitting an IDF bus near the Gaza border, May 20, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Hamas anti-tank missile hits IDF bus moments after 10 soldiers alight

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan addresses the General Assembly on May 20, 2021. (Screen capture/UN)

Israeli, Palestinian envoys lob accusations of ‘genocide’ at UN Gaza session

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement at a press conference after the Gaza ceasefire, Tel Aviv, May 21, 2021. At his side is a screen showing Gaza terror commanders killed in Operation Guardian of the Walls (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

'We will respond to every instance of aggression,' PM vows

Netanyahu: Any Gaza rocket fire will be met with ‘whole new level of force’

PM says rules have changed, Israel to take much tougher stance against Hamas; Gantz sees urgent need for diplomacy, peace built on ‘rubble’ of Hamas leaders’ homes

A man walks his dog near the beach in Ashkelon, Israel, Friday, May 21, 2021, after a ceasefire took effect between Hamas and Israel. (AP Photo/Maya Alerruzzo)

Many residents of south are angered by ceasefire, yet optimistic about the quiet

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers from Home Front Command visit families inside a bomb shelter in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on May 18, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Gaza border town residents forced to stay in shelters for hours amid mortar fire

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A general view of Gaza City prior to the start of a ceasefire brokered by Egypt between Israel and the two main Palestinian terror groups in Gaza on May 20, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP)

Fragile truce between Israel and Hamas takes hold amid hopes to end fighting

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Violence continues until minutes before ceasefire goes into effect at 2 a.m.; Biden offers assistance, sees ‘opportunity’ to move toward peace; Israel and Hamas claim success

US President Joe Biden speaks about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the Cross Hall of the White House, May 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden hails Israel, Hamas ceasefire, sees ‘genuine opportunity’ to move forward

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)

International community welcomes ceasefire, calls for restarting peace talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli security forces and Palestinian Muslim worshippers clash at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, at Temple Mount, on May 21, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Hours after Gaza ceasefire, Palestinians, police clash on Temple Mount

By Aaron Boxerman

According to Israeli police, Palestinians hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at officers; Palestinians say at least 20 injured; pro-Hamas protests in West Bank

Illustrative: Israeli police officers seen during clashes with protesters in Jerusalem's Old City, May 18, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

After ceasefire, security forces brace for possible West Bank, Jerusalem clashes

By Emanuel Fabian

Muhammad Mahameed Kiwan, 17, who died of gunshot wounds in Umm Al-Fahm, May, 2021. (Courtesy)

Arab teenager dies after allegedly being shot in head by police, raising outcry

By Aaron Boxerman

Supporters of the Palestinians march in New York Thursday, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Jews attacked, one person burned amid pro-Palestinian protests in New York City

Fireworks thrown from car in heavily-Jewish Diamond District as protesters shout ‘F**king Zionists’; Jewish diners attacked at a restaurant; consulate slams ‘toxic’ demonstrations

Planes at Ben Gurion International Airport, on May 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

US airlines resuming flights to Israel after ceasefire

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US lawmakers condemn spike in antisemitic attacks * Gantz urges diplomatic solution to Strip * COGAT temporarily reopens Gaza crossings to let in humanitarian aid

10:51 pm

Biden vows to help 'rebuild' Gaza Strip
10:50 pm

Talking to Abbas, Blinken stressed commitment to Gaza reconstruction
8:51 pm

US airlines resuming flights to Israel after ceasefire

A Muslim worshipper wears a Hamas flag during a protest against Israel following Friday prayers near the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound atop Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Why Hamas (most of all) and Netanyahu (for now) are the winners of this mini-war

The losers, needless to say, are the citizens of Gaza and Israel, as the Islamist terror group makes strategic gains beyond even its own expectations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara meet Vice President of the United States Joe Biden (center) in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010 (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

Analysis

With Gaza ceasefire, Biden can claim success for ‘arm around Israel’ approach

White House was accused by Dem. progressives, allies abroad of lacking urgency and coddling Israel, but latest escalation was brought to a close after a relatively short 11 days

President Joe Biden speaks about a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, in the Cross Hall of the White House, May 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden may spearhead effort to revive Gaza, in part to gain leverage on Hamas

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 18, 2021. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken to visit Israel, region in coming days to discuss ‘recovery efforts’

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a briefing on the conflict with terror groups in the Gaza Strip held for foreign envoys in Tel Aviv, May 19, 2021. (Sebastian Scheiner / POOL / AFP)

Politicians across spectrum slam PM for Gaza failures, reported ceasefire terms

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

As truce holds, some MKs say the agreement is ’embarrassing’ and doesn’t change the reality; Sderot mayor: ‘It seems nobody wants to defeat Hamas’

In this May 19, 2021, photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a briefing to ambassadors to Israel at the Hakirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool, File)

AnalysisBibi’s back: 11 days of fighting have bolstered Netanyahu’s survival prospects

By Josef Federman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem, prior to Israel's 73rd Independence Day, on April 11, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Right-wing lawmakers pan Netanyahu for ceasefire with Hamas

By Raoul Wootliff

Rockets are launched towards Israel from Gaza City, on May 20, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Israel media review

Until we meet again: What the press is saying about the Gaza ceasefire

By Joshua Davidovich

Skepticism over the chances that the halt in fighting will hold for the long term is high, and questions over what may come are rampant. One thing is certain: Israel didn’t win

US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, right, is greeted by Michael Ratney, US Consul General to Jerusalem, left, Martin Indyk, US special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, second left, and Daniel Shapiro, US Ambassador to Israel, right, upon his arrival in Tel Aviv on Dec. 12, 2013 (AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool)

Biden to send diplomat Michael Ratney to Jerusalem until new ambassador tapped

An Israeli firefighter walks next to cars hit by a missile fired from Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Explainer

How Hamas grew and upgraded its weapons arsenal to strike Israel

Despite intense surveillance and tight restrictions, the terror group has produced and procured thousands of long-range rockets and other arms

From the blogs

What John Oliver doesn’t get about the war in Gaza

A real friend, says the popular HBO host, would tell Israel it’s committing war crimes (it’s not). Better would be the real friend who tells Oliver he’s got it all wrong

Cover of 'The Lost Shtetl' by Max Gross. (courtesy)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Escape reality into ‘The Lost Shtetl,’ the town that Hitler missed

Author Max Gross lifts up the veil on his mysterious book about a small Polish Jewish town that fell off the map for decades till it abruptly encountered modernity

A woman walks through burnt rubble in Lod on May 19, 2021, as clean-up and rebuilding begin in the central city following riots a week earlier. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Inside Story

Lazar Berman and Aaron Boxerman

Hateful rioting in Lod gives way to cautious rebuilding, but unease persists

Jews and Arabs continue to blame each other and the police, as the scarred mixed city slowly licks its wounds and comes back to life

Arab Israelis gesture and wave Palestinian flags during the funeral of Mousa Hassouna in the central Israeli city of Lod near Tel Aviv, on May 11, 2021. Hassouna was killed during clashes with Israeli security following an anti-Israel demonstration over tensions in Jerusalem. (AFP)

Inside Story

In Lod unrest, Arab fury against ‘settler’ Jewish newcomers boils to surface

Residents of working class city say riots tapped into tensions with Garin Torani, a group of national-religious newcomers that reject being anti-Arab and say they are there to stay

From the blogs

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The sun will rise and we have work to do

I’m not going anywhere. My Arab neighbor and the Arab cab driver and my Arab ob-gyn aren’t either. We are bound to this land, and to each other. And we need to figure this out

Rethinking Damascus Gate

What if an architectural redesign were enough to bring peace to one of the most dangerous areas of Jerusalem?

How an American left lens can get Israel wrong

The western narrative of colonialism doesn’t explain this painful, lasting conflict between two indigenous peoples struggling to share one homeland

More Headlines

Bianna Golodryga interviews Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on CNN, May 20, 2021. (Screenshot via JTA)

Pakistan’s foreign minister: Israel has ‘deep pockets’ and controls the media

By Gabe Friedman

A man stands near a damaged vehicle at the site of bomb blast during a a pro-Palestinian rally, in which six people were killed and another 14 wounded, in Chaman of Pakistan's Balochistan province near the Afghanistan border on May 21, 2021. (AFP)

6 killed by blast at pro-Palestinian rally in restive southwest Pakistan

By AFP

Sagi Rosenbaum, the principal of a Ra’anana school, seen hurling stones during riots in Lod, on May 14, 2021. (Screenshot / Kan)

Ra’anana school principal filmed throwing rocks at Arab protestors in Lod riot

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on February 25, 2021, examining wages at large profitable corporations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Sanders introduces resolution to halt $735 million arms sale to Israel

Tom Aharon in his video responding to John Oliver. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Serious stuffIsraeli comedian Tom Aharon takes on John Oliver over Israel criticism

By Gabe Friedman

Channel 20 correspondent Kobi Finkler during a May 19, 2021 broadcast. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Right-wing channel axes reporter who lamented lack of Arab Israeli casualties

Dr. Gerald Rockenschaub, the World Health Organization director in the Palestinian territories, (L), listens to Palestinian doctors during a tour of the Limb Reconstruction Center at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis City, southern Gaza Strip, March 5, 2020. (Adel Hana/AP)

WHO issues $7 million emergency appeal for Palestinians amid conflict

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Ronen Zvulun and Ozan Kose/AFP)

Erdogan sues rival for comparing him to Netanyahu

A traffic jam on Highway 2 (the coastal road) near Netanya, northern Israel, October 22, 2019. (Flash90)

Smart mobility firms join forces to tackle accidents and traffic on the roads

By Shoshanna Solomon

El Al Airlines' Boeing 737s are pictured on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, March 10, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP/ File)

From the webIsraeli carrier El Al to slash jobs as deepens cost cuts

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