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What Matters Most On Friday, May 28, 2021

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Palestinian supporters of the Hamas terror group's military wing attend a parade in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 27, 2021, as Hamas claims victory following an 11-day conflict with Israel.(SAID KHATIB / AFP)

IDF preparing for possibility truce will fall apart; Hamas holds victory parade

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense officials warn ceasefire is highly unstable, could quickly deteriorate into conflict again; Army chief says getting ready ‘for next campaign’

In this May 19, 2021, photo, an Israeli artillery unit fires shells toward targets in Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF Intelligence hails tactical win in Gaza, can’t say how long calm will last

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (L) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz (R). (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Minister)

Gantz seeks to extend IDF chief’s tenure by a year amid ‘regional challenges’

By Emanuel Fabian and Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Delegates arrive at the assembly hall of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

UN rights council orders unprecedented open-ended probe of Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh attends a meeting with foreign reporters at al-Mat'haf hotel in Gaza City, June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/ Adel Hana)

Hamas chief’s niece has been hospitalized in Israel for over a month — report

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)

UN appeals for $95 million in Gaza aid for ‘immediate’ humanitarian needs

Thousands gather at Toronto's Nathan Philips Square for a protest against Israel and in support of Palestinians on May 15, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Canada’s Jews reeling after wave of antisemitic attacks sparked by Gaza conflict

By David Lazarus

Tensions flare between pro-Palestinian, pro-Israeli activists in rallies across country, with Jews being spat on, cursed, physically and verbally assaulted in several instances

Organizers of a mass virtual rally against antisemitism on May 27, 2021 are urging participants to post images, such as this one, on social media and include #ActAgainstAntisemitism. (Actagainstantisemitism.org)

23K join virtual rally against antisemitism uniting leaders from both US parties

By JTA, Jacob Magid and AP

Analysis

Progressive Democrats pan antisemitism while lumping it with other forms of hate

From Sanders to The Squad, many lawmakers apparently unwilling to decry attacks on Jews without also denouncing Islamophobia or ‘all forms of racism’

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hold a news conference in Washington, DC, November 14, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

Illustrative: A sticker with a swastika is seen in Anchorage, Alaska, on May 25, 2021. (Anchorage Police Department)

Swastika stickers slapped on Alaska Jewish museum, gay bar

By MARK THIESSEN

The crime scene in Binyamina where police suspect a Jewish mob beat an Arab driver on May 27, 2021. (video screenshot)

Jewish mob beats Arab driver in Binyamina; Jewish family home firebombed in Lod

In Binyamina some 10 assailants smashed victim’s windows, yanked him out and struck him repeatedly; none hurt in Lod incident

Arab Israelis protest against the shooting death of Musa Hassouna outside the Central District Court in Lod on May 28, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Rally held in Lod for Arab man shot dead in recent ethnic clashes

Police officers clash with Arab Israeli rioters in Ramle in central Israel, on May 10, 2021.(Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Fears of ‘civil war’: Crisis hotline flooded with calls during city riots

By Zeela Kotler Hadari

Excavating the Bible: Eilat Mazar was a founder of Israel

Mazar’s excavation found compelling evidence of a 10th cent. BCE Israelite kingdom that just might have been David’s. Here’s the story of how she got started

Is inclusion a Jewish value?

Jewish society needs a concept of ’membership,’ where the disabled, the neurodiverse, and any who are marginalized are all equal members in good standing

Israel’s White Paper? US Jews find locked doors

The Law of Return isn’t working. American Jews aren’t being allowed to move to Israel. What is going on?!

Peta Jones Pellach

Context matters: Why Miriam and Aaron dare rebuke Moses

The body’s needs and desires are not wrong, but they can be distracting, and when you talk to God regularly, you just may need to set them aside

August Maturo as 'Joshua' and dog 'Caleb' in 'Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog' (JDog Films)

Director interview'We must keep Holocaust stories alive any way we can'

Man’s best friend is hero in ‘family’ Holocaust film told through dog’s eyes

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Based on successful Israeli novel, movie ‘Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog’ pares down complex narrative to convey historical and ethical lessons to younger generations

A view shows a journalist working by a cable car's wreckage covered with a tarpaulin on May 26, 2021 on the slopes of the Mottarone peak above Stresa, Piedmont, three days after a crash that killed 14 (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)

Manager admits fault in cable car crash as authorities probe deactivated brakes

Local media says officials may make further arrests amid possibility more workers knew about issue; Israeli parents, toddler killed in crash laid to rest in Israel

The Biran family, with Eitan on the right. (Courtesy)

Israeli boy critically hurt in Italy cable car crash communicating with aunt

By AFP and ToI Staff

Spectators watch riders of the pack in Sovazza during the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2021 cycling race on May 28, 2021. (Luca Bettini / AFP)

Giro d’Italia riders to donate prize money to cable car crash victims

By AFP

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves upon arrival at Queen Alia International Airport, in the Jordanian capital Amman, on May 26, 2021. (Alex Brandon/POOL/AFP)

Blinken warns Israeli leaders Sheikh Jarrah evictions could spark new violence

Top US diplomat says he passed along concern during visit to region, during which he heard of interest from both sides in maintaining Gaza ceasefire

Illustrative: Lawmakers in the Dail, the lower house of Ireland’s parliament, in 2020 (video screenshot)

Irish parliament denounces Israeli West Bank policies as ‘de facto annexation’

By AP

Rep. Jamie Raskin attends a listening session with staff members at Mary's Center, a community health clinic, in Silver Spring, Maryland., Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Jewish Democrat spearheads push to expedite aid to Palestinians

Catfish swim in Ein Afek Nature Reserve, east of Kiryat Bialik, Israel, on April 24, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Catfish, sharks, and eels, oy vey! Non-kosher fish eaten by Israelites

A new archaeological study of fish remains finds that regardless of biblical ban, ancient Holy Land residents didn’t get the memo that fins and scales are a must

Syrian President Bashar Assad supporters hold up national flags and pictures of Assad as they celebrate at Omayyad Square, in Damascus, Syria on May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

95.1%: Syria’s Assad wins 4th term in sham election, will rule till 2028

By AP

No vote held in areas of worn-torn country controlled by rebels where at least 8 million displaced civilians live; 5 million refugees in neighboring countries refrain from voting

Syrians wave national flags and carry a large portrait of their president as they celebrate in the streets of the capital Damascus, a day after an election set to give the current President Bashar Assad a fourth term, on May 27, 2021 (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Assad election win hailed by Iran as ‘big step’ for peace

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah coughs during a May 25, 2021, address (Twitter screenshot)

Hezbollah deputy says Nasrallah ‘is fine’ after IDF claimed he contracted COVID

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (left) surveys the wreckage of a Petah Tikva apartment hit by Hamas rocket fire, May 21, 2021. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Interview

With Jews and Israel under assault, Indiana governor here to ‘answer the call’

By Lazar Berman

Eric Holcomb meets Netanyahu, visits Iron Dome battery; says both parties stand against Hamas terrorism

Massachusetts city adopts resolution critical of Israel; BDS measure falls short

By Penny Schwartz

Patti Smith, Julian Casablancas among 600 musicians to urge boycott of Israel

By JTA

Likud MK Nir Barkat speaks at the Kohelet Forum Conference in Tel Aviv on February 12, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud minister Katz accuses MK Barkat of ‘subversive’ action against Netanyahu

Finance minister expresses outrage as former Jerusalem mayor calls conference to announce his ‘vision’ for the country

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid during a ceremony at Netiv Ha'avot, at the West Bank's Elazar settlement, on July 23, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Lapid and Bennett meet to once again discuss forming government

Illustrative: Tova Friedman, an 82-year-old Polish-born Holocaust survivor, holds a photograph of herself as a child with her mother, who also survived the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, in New York, December 13, 2019. (World Jewish Congress via AP)

'The testimony itself has a life after it’s given'

New Shoah Foundation podcast connects Holocaust testimony with today’s headlines

By Matt Lebovic

Drawing from USC Shoah Foundation’s audiovisual archive, ‘The Memory Generation’ seeks to ‘expand the pyramid of memory’ by giving survivors’ voices contemporary relevance

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Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at a press conference on January 17, 2020. (Flash90)

AG to indict Litzman for obstruction of justice, breach of trust in Leifer case

A 3D illustration of breast cancer (Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli study suggests method to reduce dangers of cancer-causing protein

By Nathan Jeffay

Danny Fenster, right, with his brother Bryan at a friend's wedding in Krakow, Poland in September 2019. (Courtesy of Bryan Fenster via JTA)

American Jewish journalist detained in Myanmar while trying to leave country

By Stacy Gittleman

Daniel Kolben with her father, famed choreographer and dancer Amir Kolben, ahead of their new work for the Israel Festival, being performed June 9, 2021 (Courtesy Relly Avrahami)

No place like home?Dancer, musician daughter explore family wounds at Israel Fest

By Jessica Steinberg

Theology students from Missouri, the first vaccinated tour group to visit Israel in over a year, at Ben Gurion Airport, May 27, 2021. (Michael Dimenstein/GPO)

Tourism Ministry welcomes US theology students as 1st tour group in over a year

Illustrative: Demonstrators against Israel hold signs at a rally in Vienna, Austria, where protesters chanted in Arabic about a massacre of Jews, May 13, 2021. (Courtesy of Austrian Union of Jewish Students via JTA)

Man punched on Austrian train for asking passengers to stop denying Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sara Netanyahu at a voting station in Jerusalem, during national elections, on March 23, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

State won’t file civil lawsuit against Sara Netanyahu in illegal catering case

The Facebook app is shown on a smart phone, April 23, 2021. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Facebook reverses ban on posts claiming COVID-19 was lab-made

By AP

Illustrative: People stand near a gift shop in the old Jewish Quarter of Toledo, Spain, on February 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Gerard Julien)

Genesis Group donates $4 million in COVID relief to European Jewish institutions

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ido Bruno, a professor of design at Bezalel, has stepped down as director of the Israel Museum after four years in the position (Courtesy Eli Pozner)

Israel Museum director steps down after four years

By Jessica Steinberg

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