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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 2, 2023

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Smoke rises above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launches air strikes on the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave on late April 6, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel, Gaza terror groups reportedly agree to ceasefire

By Joshua Davidovich and Luke Tress

Israeli warplanes attack Hamas in response to dozens of rockets; warning sirens continue to go off in southern Israeli communities

2:30 am

Rocket siren goes off near Gaza, after reported ceasefire
2:13 am

IDF releases footage of airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza
1:19 am

Israel, Gaza terror groups reportedly agree to ceasefire

Israeli security forces and emergency personnel cordon-off an area in Sderot on May 2, 2023, following rocket fire from Gaza. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Hamas: Palestinians won't let this crime pass by in silence

Rockets fired, terror groups warn ‘price to be paid’ as hunger-striking suspect dies

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israel readies for escalation after Khader Adnan found dead; 4 projectiles fired from Gaza, no injuries; Islamic Jihad says his death is ‘lesson for generations’

Khader Adnan, an Islamic Jihad spokesman, during a television interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Senior member of Islamic Jihad dies in Israeli custody after 86-day hunger strike

Samaria Regional Council chair Yossi Dagan inspects damage caused to an Israeli-owned car following a shooting attack near Avnei Hefetz in the northern West Bank, May 2, 2023. (Sergei Kamshev/Samaria Reigonal Council)

1 injured as Palestinian gunman opens fire at Israeli vehicles in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Inside story

Tolerance Museum, a ‘people’s parliament,’ will partially open in mid-May

Jerusalem must be one of the most challenging cities in the world in which to successfully build a tolerance museum. The capital is a microcosm, and an extreme example, of the rifts in Israeli society -- between Jews and Arabs, ultra-Orthodox and secular, and many more subcategories of the population. But Jonathan Riss, operating manager for the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem,... Continue Reading

A staircase that looks as if it's floating, at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, April 27, 2023. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem. (Shai Gil, for the MOTJ)

Tolerance Museum and Jerusalem Municipality turn new page, agree to work together

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University of Haifa presents: Dig, Dive, and Discover your Master’s, on land and underwater

UHaifa international’s Master degree programs in prehistoric, coastal and underwater archaeology are paving the way as global game changers in archaeological research.

President Isaac Herzog, left, and his wife Michal Herzog arrive at Buckingham Palace in London, September 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

Herzogs to represent Israel at weekend’s coronation of King Charles III in London

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President, wife to attend Buckingham Palace reception, will walk to Westminster Abbey on Shabbat; religious leaders’ greeting won’t be amplified due to Jewish participants

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 2: Gaza vows reprisal after prisoner dies. How concerned is IDF?

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on Khader Adnan; political correspondent Tal Schneider on Knesset theatrics; and legal reporter Jeremy Sharon on a very polite US Speaker McCarthy

An Israeli soldier stands under a surveillance camera at a checkpoint in the flashpoint Palestinian city of Hebron on November 9, 2021 (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Israel increasingly using facial recognition to track Palestinians – Amnesty

IDF says it carries out ‘necessary security, intelligence operations’; human rights group says basic rights violated; activist laments tech not used to find Jewish attackers

Oriane Ben Kalifa, a former Border Police officer accused of assaulting a Palestinian woman in Jerusalem's Old City, seen as she arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, May 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Border Police officer convicted of assaulting East Jerusalem woman at checkpoint

By Stuart Winer

Tel Aviv District Chief of Police Amichai Eshed is greeted by protesters during a rally against the government's judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2023. (Erik Marmor/ Flash90)

TA police chief refuses to discuss transfer with commissioner: ‘An invalid procedure’

‘Whose demonstration was bigger?’ is not necessarily the question

A strong show of support on the street and even a 64-seat Knesset majority don’t make the proposed overhaul right

Sarit Silverman

Early childhood education is more than a cost-of-living issue

How will affordability help raise thriving children in conditions of crowding, staff shortages, and poor training?

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the damage after an alleged Israeli strike targeting the Aleppo International Airport in Aleppo, Syria, September 7, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Syria says Aleppo airport forced to shut after Israeli airstrike; 1 soldier killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Jordanian MP Imad al-Adwan speaks at the Jordanian Parliament in Amman, February 2022. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel has yet to decide whether to send detained Jordanian MP back home — diplomat

By Lazar Berman

Jordanian Foreign minister Ayman Safadi (R) meets his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in Amman on May 1, 2023, ahead of a regional meeting on Syria (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Jordan says regional talks with Syria step toward ending Damascus isolation

In this photo released by KhabarOnline News Agency on September 18, 2019, Ali Reza Akbari speaks in an interview. (KhabarOnline News Agency via AP, File)

Report: Israel got intel on Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program from executed spy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

NY Times says UK told Israel about nuclear activity at Fordo based on info from Ali Reza Akbari, who was hanged in January; Russia assisted Tehran in identifying source of leak

Repeats informal DC invitation for PM if no Biden invite

McCarthy extols ties at Knesset, vows full support for Israeli security against Iran

By Jeremy Sharon

In an effusive and enthusiastic speech to the Knesset plenum, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy pledged Monday that the US would continue to fully fund Israel’s security needs, while denouncing Iranian aggression in the Middle East, as well as efforts to isolate Israel internationally. In a speech replete with... Continue Reading

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks at a special session of the Knesset plenum, May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Screen capture from video of May Golan, Minister for the Advancement of Women, center-right, shouting at Yesh Atid MK Merav Ben-Ari, top-left, during a Knesset debate, May 1, 2023. (Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Likud’s Golan made a minister, ejected from Knesset plenum during row minutes later

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a debate in the Knesset on May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset summer session opens with slugging match over judicial overhaul

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Justice Minister Yariv Levin, right, during the opening of the summer session of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

White House reiterates Netanyahu visit not yet planned, after McCarthy vows invite

National Security Council spokesperson says premier will get invitation at some point, after Republican House speaker says he’ll invite Netanyahu to Washington if Biden doesn’t

Leader of the National Unity Party MK Benny Gantz speaks during a faction meeting of the National Unity Party at the Knesset, on May 1, 2023. (Yonatan SIndel/Flash90 )

Gantz: No progress in talks with government on judicial reform compromise

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the opening of the summer session of the Knesset, on May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rules PM was not in contempt by saying he’d involve himself in overhaul

Arab-Christian Scouts march at the Virgin Mary Procession in Haifa, Israel on April 30, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

'We’re not foreign, we’re from here'

In Haifa, Catholics fly Israeli flags at mass march celebrating Virgin Mary

By Canaan Lidor

Some participants at procession says it is a testament to the robustness of the Christian-Arab community in the Jewish state

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance is seen on the coast of central Israel. (Magen David Adom)

Man shot dead near Wadi Ara as wave of deadly crime continues

Resident of Ma’ale Iron rushed to hospital in critical condition, but doctors unable to save him; shooting comes hours after crime world figure dies in car explosion

The scene of a car explosion in Kiryat Bialik on May 1, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

23-year-old killed in suspected criminal car bombing in northern town

Israel's startup's pick-and-go, self-checkout shopping carts to be deployed at Hastok's home design and household concept stores. (Courtesy)

Israeli startup inks NIS 30m deal to deploy smart carts at local home design stores

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel’s Hastok home design and household chain will integrate 1,000 smart shopping carts at its 40 stores across the country

Israeli startup Imagindairy uses precision fermentation technology to teach microorganisms such as yeast or fungi to produce animal-free milk proteins. (Tal Shahar/Imagindairy)

Israel’s Imagindairy nabs Danone as strategic investor for cow-free dairy products

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative photo of fruit and vegetables in the Mahane Yehuda market, October 13, 2017. (Stuart Winer/Times of Israel)

Number of Israelis harmed by pollution more than doubled in past decade — ombudsman

Annual state comptroller report slams agriculture and health ministries for failing to control pesticides, pillories Environment Ministry for not tackling environmental damage

The Tarbin Tribe of Bedouins lives next to the Dudaim dump site, the largest landfill in Israel, near the city of Rahat in southern Israel, seen on August 10, 2016. (Yaniv Nadav/ Flash90/ File)

Israel falling far behind its own global warming emissions targets

Jeremy Gordin offers a toast in an undated family photo. (Courtesy/Gordin family via JTA)

Obituary

South African Jewish journalist Jeremy Gordin murdered in home burglary at 70

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

Prominent reporter killed in March robbery after decrying crime in Johannesburg; he studied in Jerusalem, headed local version of Playboy and a working-class tabloid during career

Hamada Iqtiet. (Courtesy)

6-year-old Palestinian boy mauled to death by lion in private Gaza zoo

By AP

Police say Hamada Iqtiet climbed fence and reached opening in cage before lion attacked him

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The Guardian has apologized for running a cartoon by Martin Rowson depicting outgoing BBC director Richard Sharp in what critics say used antisemitic imagery and tropes. (Screenshot/The Guardian, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

The Guardian apologizes for cartoon of outgoing BBC chair criticized as antisemitic

By Gabe Friedman

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 2, 2017. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

In major address, ADL chief focuses on anti-Zionists and threats to Orthodox Jews

The scene of a fatal car crash on Route 40 at the Negev Junction, April 26, 2023. (MDA)

Woman remanded in custody over Negev car crash that killed baby

Cheese production at the Tnuva Tel Yosef dairy plant, December 21, 2015 (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Tnuva announces price hikes on unregulated dairy products in fresh blow to consumers

Tech workers march in Tel Aviv to protest against the government's planned overhaul of the judicial system, January 31, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Government agency warns judicial uncertainty will damage tech ecosystem

By Sharon Wrobel

Skver Hasidic movement bans use of artificial intelligence as window to ‘heresy’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (left), receives the Champion of Global Human Health Award from Professor Yitshak Kreiss, director general of Sheba Medical Center, Washington, April 30, 2023. (Ron Sachs/CNP)

Sheba Medical Center presents Dr. Anthony Fauci with award for COVID cooperation

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jeffrey Epstein, on March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

Noam Chomsky, Ehud Barak among names on Jeffrey Epstein’s newly uncovered calendar

By Andrew Lapin

Then New York State Senator Anna Kaplan is introduced during opening day of the 2019 legislative session in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Albany, New York, January 9, 2019. (AP/Hans Pennink)

Jewish politician files for congressional run against George Santos in New York

Yaala Getzov's fantastical collage, part of 'The Nature of Things' exhibit at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens through June 22, 2023 (Courtesy Yael Ilan)

Garden of dreamsFantasy meets reality in botanical art exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Actor Brett Gelman proposed to his longtime girlfriend, musician Ari Dayan, in Jerusalem last month. (Screenshot via Instagram via JTA)

Upside down on one knee‘Stranger Things’ star Brett Gelman proposes to girlfriend in Jerusalem

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Barbra Streisand presents the award for best musical at the Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2016. ( Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Such nachasBarbra Streisand to get the ‘Jewish Nobel’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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