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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 23, 2021

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Rockets from Gaza, on right, are seen in the night sky fired towards Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021, while Iron Dome interceptor missiles, on left, rise to meet them. (Anas Baba/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Most Israelis say neither Israel nor Hamas emerged as winners in Gaza fighting

By Michael Bachner

Polls by Channels 12, 13 both find plurality of public oppose ceasefire; Knesset deadlock predicted to persist if elections held today

6:37 pm

4 Israelis killed in cable car crash in Italy, including 2-year-old
6:16 pm

Most Israelis don't think either side emerged as winner in Israel-Hamas fighting
6:02 pm

Gaza fishermen take to water again after ceasefire

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

‘Guardian of the Walls’ wasn’t the resounding victory the IDF had hoped for

Though it had clear successes on the tunnel front and elsewhere, the military failed to prevent terror groups in Gaza from firing over 4,000 rockets and mortar shells at Israel

A soldier from the Israeli military's Home Front Command walks outside a house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon that had been struck by a Hamas rocket on May 20, 2021. (Edi Israel/FLASH90)

A ball of fire erupts from a building in Gaza City's Rimal residential district on May 20, 2021, during Israeli strikes on the Hamas-controlled enclave in response to rocket fire (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Minister: From now on, we’ll preemptively strike Hamas rocket activity

Hamas police walk through debris from a destroyed building that was hit by an airstrike previous to a ceasefire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, Saturday, May 22, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Hamas warns Gazans not to help Israel prepare for next conflict — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters burn an Israeli flag as they demonstrate in support of the Palestinian cause outside the Israeli Embassy in central London on May 22, 2021. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

Pro-Palestinian protesters in London burn Israeli flag, liken Israel to Nazis

By Stuart Winer and AFP

UK protest organizers claim 180,000 attended largest pro-Palestinian rally in British history; speaker says ‘they have learnt nothing from what happened to them in Europe’

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

Suspect arrested in pro-Palestinian assault on Jews in Los Angeles

By Mark Kennedy

Palestinians inspect the damage to their homes following a ceasefire between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Op-Ed

Hamas’s forever war against Israel has a glitch, and it isn’t Iron Dome

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Why Hamas promises another war soon, and another and another. And why it won’t work

Gaza media building owner complains to ICC, says Israeli strike a ‘war crime’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed

Losing the war: The rising cost of Israel’s lapsed support for 2-state solution

There’s no safe path to a deal. Hamas’s rise shows the dangers of withdrawal. But no longer backing two states, even in principle, makes Israel more vulnerable when conflict erupts

(From L-R) Jordan Valley Regional Council chairman David Elhayani, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman applaud after the government authorized the legalization of Mevo'ot Yericho, a West Bank settlement, at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Jordan Valley Regional Council, September 15, 2019 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

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

UN Security Council urges ‘full adherence’ to Gaza ceasefire

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

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

‘Hour by hour’: Behind the scenes of Biden’s push for a ceasefire in Gaza

A French demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag as he demonstrates in solidarity with Palestinians in Bayonne, southwestern France, on Saturday, May 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 23 – A war of narratives: How Hamas became the ‘good guy’

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

Yahya Sinwar (R), leader of the Palestinian Hamas terror group, is greeted by supporters in Gaza City on May 22, 2021, as he arrives to pay condolences to top Hamas commander Bassem Issa who was killed along others in Israeli airstrikes. (Hatem RAWAGH / AFP)

Hamas’s Sinwar emerges to claim victory; group warns against hits on leaders

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli children in a bomb shelter during a rocket barrage fired from the Gaza strip at the southern city of Ashkelon, on May 18, 2021. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

As Gaza ceasefire holds, 2.4 million kids head back to school in south, center

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Erris Langer Klapper

5 things that the ceasefire won’t fix

Silence wrongly signals that Israel isn’t relevant for American Jewry, but of course it is, and we won’t root out hatred unless we actively stand against it

For God’s sake, Islam and Judaism can make peace

The rift can heal with the help of interfaith dialogue anchored in a deep understanding of Islam’s 2 contrasting views on Jews and Judaism

Irene Zisblatt visits her grandparents' grave with her daughter Robin in the 1998 documentary 'The Last Days.' (Courtesy)

InterviewThe Nazis poured all final efforts into killing these Jews

Now’s the time to watch 1998 Holocaust doc ‘The Last Days,’ currently on Netflix

By Jordan Hoffman

Oscar-winning film produced by Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation interviews Hungarian survivors in a jarring but even more relevant wakeup call amid rising global antisemitism

Israelis protest for calm and coexistence between Israeli Jews and Arabs in at HaBima square in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2021 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Dispel the darkness: Thousands of Jews, Arabs rally for coexistence in Tel Aviv

By Simona Weinglass

Demonstration, which also calls for two-state solution, comes after violent riots in mixed cities and Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza

Muhammad, the Jaffa boy seriously injured when his home was firebombed on May 14, 2021 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Further improvement in condition of boy badly hurt in Jaffa firebombing attack

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett delivers a statement to the press at the Knesset on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Breaking silence, Bennett rages at gov’t, signals openness to ‘change coalition’

By Raoul Wootliff

Yamina head calls political leadership during recent tensions a ‘national embarrassment,’ says ‘a number of options’ exist for forming a new government

A group of religious Jews visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, after it was reopened to the public, May 23, 2021. (Courtesy)

Following Gaza ceasefire, Temple Mount opened to Jews for first time in 20 days

Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian rioters at flashpoint site on Jerusalem Day immediately preceded barrage of rockets from Gaza on the city, and 11-day conflict

Israeli security forces fire tear gas to disperse Palestinians at Jerusalem's Temple Mount compound on Jerusalem Day, May 10, 2021. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Top ultra-Orthodox MK to Netanyahu: Keep the Temple Mount closed to Jews

Illustrative: A man walks in a mostly empty market in Nazareth, on January 26, 2016. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Pushed into loan sharks’ pockets, many Arab Israelis are living on borrowed time

By Tal Schneider

With banks shying away from Arab communities, the only path to credit for many is gray market lenders, who offer easy cash at high interest and deadly results for failing to repay

File: Israeli security forces on horseback disperse Palestinian demonstrators during protests against Israel at the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, on May 18, 2021 (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Clashes between Palestinians, police in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah

Law enforcement working to restore order at site that was at center of recent flareup; police arrest 2nd suspect in firebombing of Jaffa home that wounded two children

Lod Mayor Yair Revivo voting at a polling station in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod when he was running for mayor, October 22, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Lod mayor threatens to report Arab councilor to Shin Bet security service

Israeli Police Chief Kobi Shabtai on January 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police chief warns Jewish-Arab violence inside Israel could resume — TV

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

Iran denies UN inspectors access to images of nuclear sites

By AP

International Atomic Energy Agency chief to give statement as Tehran may have already deleted 3 months of footage from enrichment facilities across the country

Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top US commander for the Middle East, speaks to the media after arriving in Syria to meet with US and allied commanders and troops, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Lolita C. Baldor)

Top US commander in Middle East says more work needed to counter Iranian drones

By Lolita C. Baldor

More Headlines

Dua Lipa arrives at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center, March 14, 2021. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Singer Dua Lipa slams ‘ugly campaign’ criticizing her for pro-Palestinian stance

Illustration of people sitting in the audience at the Cinemateque in Tel Aviv. March 9, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Movie theaters set to reopen after 14-month COVID shutdown

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Republican of Georgia) arrives for a House Republican caucus candidate forum to replace outgoing conference chair, Rep. Liz Cheney (Republican of Wyoming) at the Capitol on May 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Far-right congresswoman compares US House mask mandate to Nazi yellow star

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko at the European Chamipnships in Budapest, May 21, 2021 (video screenshot)

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko wins historic gold at European Championships

Two police officers patrol an almost empty Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral, center, and Spasskaya Tower in Moscow, Russia, April 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Health Ministry issues virus travel warning for Russia, Seychelles, Argentina

By Stuart Winer

Alix Dobkin poses in a t-shirt that reads 'The Future'is Female" in Preston Hollow, NY in 1975. Dobkin, the lesbian singer and feminist activist, died in her home from a brain aneurysm and stroke. She was 80. (Liza Cowen via AP)

Singer and pioneering lesbian activist Alix Dobkin dies at 80

By THALIA BEATY

Italy's Maneskin wins Eurovision 2021 (Screenshot)

Italy wins Eurovision 2021; Israel places 17th

By Jessica Steinberg

File: Hassan Diab holds a press conference at Amnesty International Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, following his return to Canada, on January 17, 2018. (Lars Hagberg / AFP)

Paris court rules Lebanese man accused of 1980 synagogue bombing to stand trial

By AFP

Pro-Palestinian protesters in Berlin, Germany take part in a demonstration against Israel amid the fighting in Gaza between the Israeli military and Hamas, May 15, 2021. (Stefanie Loos/AFP)

Jewish man assaulted in Berlin in apparent antisemitic attack

Players greet each other at the end of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier group F football match between Israel and Scotland at Bloomfield stadium in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on March 28, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Step up: Israeli shoe-tracking startup Playermaker joins FIFA innovation program

By Shoshanna Solomon

Bangladeshi Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Baitul Mukarram Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 14, 2021. (Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP)

Bangladesh said to remove ‘except Israel’ from travel terms in new passports

By Stuart Winer

The town of Anata, with the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev in the foreground. ( Mohamar Awad/Flash 90)

4-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead in suspected clan fight

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