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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 25, 2021

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 25, 2021 (Haim Zach / GPO)

'Leaders on both sides need to set a better course'

Blinken in Jerusalem: US will aid Gaza without helping Hamas

By ToI Staff and Agencies

America committed to Israel’s security, top diplomat tells Netanyahu, who warns of ‘powerful’ response if Hamas attacks and lauds Biden’s call for Palestinians to recognize Israel

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

Over 500 Biden campaign staffers urge him to ‘hold Israel accountable’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Blinken heads to region to bolster ceasefire, block Gaza aid from reaching Hamas

Illustrative: Federal, state and local law enforcement stand outside the Jewish Children's Museum following a bomb threat, Thursday March 9, 2017 in Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

New York orders stepped up-protection of Jewish sites after antisemitism spike

By ToI Staff and JTA

‘Hate has no place in our state,’ says Gov. Cuomo, ordering increased patrols at synagogues, schools and other Jewish community facilities

US President Joe Biden speaks during a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, in the East Room of the White House on May 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden says ‘despicable’ antisemitic attacks ‘must stop’

Illustrative: Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert's TikTok account was hit with antisemitic messages. (Campaign Against Antisemitism via JTA)

Holocaust survivor wishes TikTok Shabbat Shalom, gets hit with antisemitic hate

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses the media in Jerusalem on May 25, 2021. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Blinken: Hamas’ foothold in Gaza could slip if US-led rehabilitation successful

After meeting Abbas, US top diplomat announces Jerusalem consulate to Palestinians will reopen, says administration seeking $75 million in aid

6:19 pm

UN Human Rights Council to mull international probe after Gaza conflict
6:07 pm

Abbas accidentally calls Blinken 'Secretary Clinton'
5:51 pm

US opposes evictions, payments to terrorists, settlement activity, says Blinken

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Evangelical Christian movement and a mission of approximately 800 members of Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel (CUFI) organization, in Jerusalem on March 18 2012. (Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90)

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Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey

Since 2018, backing for Israel dropped from 75% to 33%; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump

Then-Deputy Secretary of State Thomas R. Nides (center) talks to South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan (right) in Seoul, South Korea, on February 29, 2012. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man, Pool)

Thomas Nides accepts Biden offer to serve as next US envoy to Israel – source

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the West Side Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa, March 26, 2021. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Pompeo reportedly planning trip to Israel on heels of successor Blinken

Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar speaks to Britain’s Sky News from his home in the Gaza Strip, on May 24, 2021. (Screenshot: Sky News/ Youtube)

Hamas co-founder to UK TV: Israel has no right to exist

Shortly after ceasefire takes effect, Sky News interviews Mahmoud al-Zahar, who hails terror group’s attacks on Israel’s crowded civilian areas

A Jordanian mobile field hospital passes into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza from Israel, on May 21, 2021, after a ceasefire brokered by Egypt between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas terror group. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

As ceasefire holds, Israel reopens Gaza crossings for humanitarian aid

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

A screen capture of a tweet from 2014 by BBC journalist Tala Halawa in which she wrote 'Hilter was right' and that Israel is 'more Nazi than Hilter.' (Twitter via JTA)

Palestinian BBC journalist tweeted ‘#HitlerWasRight’ in 2014 comment on Gaza war

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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From the blogs

This world record was set for the world’s best reason: Bringing Jews home

30 years ago, 1,088 passengers boarded an El Al plane in an audacious airlift of Ethiopian Jews. By the time they reached Israel, the count ballooned to 1,122

Flowers and a candle lie in front of the Stresa to Mottarone cable car departure station, in Stresa, northern Italy, May 24, 2021. (Antonio Calanni/AP)

Israeli boy who survived cable car crash improves; relatives’ bodies head home

By ToI Staff and AP

Pope Francis offers prayers for ‘little Eitan,’ sole survivor of disaster in Italy that killed his parents, brother and grandparents; boy remains sedated with multiple injuries

Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, northern Italy, as seen from the aerial photograph, May 23, 2021. (Vigili del Fuoco Firefighters via AP)

Hospital: Father’s embrace saved Israeli child from death in cable car crash

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian volunteers clear the rubble at a street in Gaza City, after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes during Operation Guardian of the Walls, May 23, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Looking to rebuild again, war-weary Gazans see little hope for a swift recovery

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: The WhatsApp communications app on a smartphone, (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

WhatsApp blocks accounts of Gaza-based journalists in Hamas chat

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli border police and mounted security forces arrive on May 16, 2021 at the scene where a car-ramming attack wounded several people in East Jerusalem. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Palestinian shot dead by Border Police in predawn operation near Ramallah

By Aaron Boxerman

From the Blogs

Why Blinken will have a tough sell

The Biden administration cannot solve the conflict today, but it can shrink it by helping both sides take small steps toward a two-state solution

Protesters hold placards and banners in London, Saturday, May 22, 2021, as they take part in a rally supporting Palestinians. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

UK Jews fear antisemitism has risen to unprecedented heights after Gaza protests

By Cnaan Liphshiz

David and Goliath: On the modern state of Israel

We are precariously perched among stronger, richer nations sworn to destroy us. So we wield power, and curb it, and worry about our national body and soul

Iran’s deadly agenda for Palestine

Until the world grasps the destructive role of Iran in the region, it will keep blaming the wrong parties, and there will be no peace for Israelis and Palestinians

Jeff Mendelsohn

Calls to cut aid to Israel are dangerous and embolden Hamas

A small but vocal chorus in Congress have joined in efforts to blame and demonize Israel, undermining its right to defend its citizens from attack

Biden backed Israel in Gaza. Now it’s time to return the favor.

The US president’s mix of support and restraint enabled Israel to bring the Gaza fighting to an optimal close. Israel must now heed his call to return to peacemaking

Nurse Fadi Kasem (left) reunites with Mor Janashvil, who he saved after a lynching (courtesy of Galilee Medical Center)

'I had lost consciousness when he got to me'

In emotional reunion, Jewish victim of Arab mob thanks Arab nurse who saved him

By Nathan Jeffay

Fadi Kasem accompanied a sheikh to a riot scene in Acre in an effort to calm ethnic tensions, ended taking care of badly beaten Mor Ganashvili

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod, where cars were torched as well as shops damaged, as clashes erupted between Arab and Jewish residents on May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Over 1,550 suspects arrested in Jewish-Arab rioting

Ayala Ben Gvir, center, the wife of right wing politician MK Itamar Ben Gvir, argues with police as she stands with other right wing demonstrators outside a high school in Jerusalem passing out flyers against a commemoration ceremony for prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 14 years earlier, October 29, 2009. (Abir Sultan/FLASH90)

WhatsApp shuts accounts of far-right activists, among them MK’s wife

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

As Blinken heads here, PM hints Israel may take independent action against Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In unusually stark remarks, PM says he appreciates US friendship, but there could be a situation where Tehran’s nuclear threat necessitates ‘brave and independent decisions’

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, outgoing Mossad director Yossi Cohen, right, and incoming director David Barnea at a ceremony conferring the Prime Minister's Award on exceptional Mossad agents, May 24, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

David Barnea, former top agent, appointed next Mossad chief

Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran's judiciary, waves to media as he attends at the Interior Ministry to register his candidacy for the June 18 presidential elections at the elections headquarters of the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, May 15, 2021. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Iran’s constitutional monitor okays 7 for presidential vote, bars Rouhani allies

By Jon Gambrell

Sharks swimming in the shark aquarium in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. October 7, 2014. (FLASH90/File)

Archaeology

Bad Judeans? Despite biblical ban, non-kosher fish were eaten in ancient Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, right, and Israel Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman at a joint press conference in the Knesset dealing with Israel's foreign policy, February 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid strikes first coalition agreement, handing Liberman the treasury

Still lacking a majority, Yesh Atid leader moves to lock down deals with center-left; agreement provides minimum income for elderly and two new hospitals in periphery

Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Yair Lapid (right). (Flash90)

Lawmakers fast-track bills to curb Netanyahu’s ability to form a government

Former CEO of the Walla news site Ilan Yeshua arrives for his cross-examination in the graft trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trialEx-CEO testifies Walla owner said Netanyahu and his aides acted like ‘criminals’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Israeli drone was intercepted by Iron Dome during Gaza fighting — IDF

Military confirms accidentally downing one of its own unmanned reconnaissance aircraft

Illustrative: An IDF soldier from the Artillery Corps launches an Elbit Skylark drone, known in the IDF as a Sky Rider, on January 21, 2013. (Cpl. Zev Marmorstein/Israel Defense Forces)

A mysterious air base is seen being built on Yemen's volcanic Mayun Island in this April 11, 2021 satellite photograph from Planet Labs Inc. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Mysterious air base pops up on volcanic island off Yemen

By Jon Gambrell

An illustration of IAI's SatGuard’s simulation (Courtesy)

IAI unveils system to extend satellite life span by flagging and fixing mishaps

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Illustrative: Israeli rescue forces and police at the scene of the fatal crush during Lag B'Omer celebrations on Mount Meron, in northern Israel, on April 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Knesset panel fast-tracks bill to form commission of inquiry into Meron disaster

Israelis, some wearing protective face masks and some not, on the streets of Tel Aviv, April 21, 2021. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

As pandemic wanes, Israel’s indoor mask mandate said set to be lifted in 2 weeks

The Ryanair plane carrying opposition figure Raman Pratasevich, lands at the international airport outside Vilnius, Lithuania, May 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Belarus claims it forced plane to land over Hamas threat; terror group denies it

Participants in the first post-COVID Birthright Israel trip, after landing in Israel after a year-long hiatus for the organization, on May 24, 2021. (Erez Uzir/Courtesy)

In sign of pandemic’s waning, first Birthright trip in a year lands in Israel

Left to right Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan signs the agreement to collaborate with Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Resource Development Prof. Alon Wolf; May 6, 2021 (Sharon Tzur, Technion Spokesperson’s Office)

Technion, Brazil’s Albert Einstein Hospital team up on research, student swaps

By Shoshanna Solomon

The aftermath of an allegedly antisemitic attack at the Chaverim Congregation in Tucson, Arizona on May 18, 2021. (Chaverim Congregation via JTA)

After spike in attacks, NBA teams take social media stances against antisemitism

By Gabe Friedman

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israeli firms suffer $369 million in damages from Gaza conflict

By Shoshanna Solomon

Hundreds gather in Skokie, Illinois, in a demonstration against antisemitism, May 23, 2021. (Yvette Alt Miller)

Hundreds rally against antisemitism in Jewish suburb of Chicago

By Yvette Alt Miller

Colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, in an undated photo. (AP/Google, Connie Zhou)

Israel signs deal for cloud services with Google, Amazon

By Shoshanna Solomon

An Israeli airstrike on a terror target in the Gaza Strip, May 16, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90 via JTA)

Hundreds of Dutch academics sign call to cut ties with Israel over Gaza fighting

By JTA and ToI Staff

A band performs a tribute to Amit Golan, an Israeli pianist who passed away in 2010, during the Jerusalem Jazz Festival in Jerusalem on September 8, 2020. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Ear candyFestival of jazz standards and blues is back at Israel Museum

By Jessica Steinberg

Chabad of South Broward. (Google Street View)

Suspect arrested in south Florida synagogue harassment

By AP

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