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What Matters Most On Friday, May 12, 2023

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A municipality worker inspects the damage to an apartment building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Rehovot, Israel, Friday, May 12, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

David's Sling makes 2nd-ever successful interception

Rockets fired at Jerusalem area and south, shattering calm amid Gaza truce efforts

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

No injuries, but homes, greenhouse damaged as West Bank settlement bloc and Beit Shemesh bombarded for first time in this round of fighting, ending over 10 hours of relative quiet

Ahmad Abu Deka (left), the deputy commander of Islamic Jihad's rocket forces (Courtesy); Abu Deka's home after a strike by Israel on May 10, 2023 in the Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP).

Gaza strike kills deputy commander of Islamic Jihad rocket forces, after chief slain

By Emanuel Fabian

File - Iron Dome intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, May 11, 2023. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

Europe, Egypt urge truce between Israel and Gaza terrorists as fighting intensifies

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and AFP

Senior Israeli official: Fire will be met with fire

Israeli killed in Rehovot, several hurt as Gaza rockets manage to pierce Iron Dome

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The latest round of fighting between Israel and Gaza terrorists claimed its first Israeli victim Thursday evening, as one person was killed and five others injured when a rocket fired from the Strip slammed into an apartment building in the central town of Rehovot. The deadly attack, coupled with several other rocket hits... Continue Reading

Police and rescue forces at the scene where a rocket fired from Gaza hit and damaged a building in Rehovot on May 11, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Police at the scene where a rocket fired from Gaza into Israel, hit and damaged a house in Rehovot on May 11, 2023. (Flash90)

IDF: Iron Dome malfunction to blame for deadly Rehovot rocket strike

By Emanuel Fabian

The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires to intercept a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, near Ashkelon, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

US blocks China-led Security Council initiative to issue statement on Gaza violence

Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike the in Gaza Strip, May 12, 2023, amid fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel walks away from ceasefire talks as rockets begin flying again

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Diplomatic source says IDF preparing ‘significant’ response to barrages on south, Jerusalem area; Netanyahu said to order more targeted strikes against Islamic Jihad

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) faction of the Religious Zionist party, raises an Israeli flag in Safra Square in Jerusalem on April 20, 2022, at the start of a planned nationalist march. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Egypt seeking swift ceasefire as nationalist flag march in tense Jerusalem looms

A Palestinian man recovers items from the rubble of a building hit by an earlier Israeli airstrike in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on May 12, 2023. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

Gaza ceasefire appears to take shape as rockets, airstrikes give way to tense calm

Smoke rises above buildings in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, following an Israeli strike on May 12, 2023. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel, Islamic Jihad said weighing new Egyptian offer for Gaza ceasefire

Proposal reportedly includes humanitarian truce starting at midnight, hours after top commander in terror group killed in strike

9:39 pm

S&P affirms Israel’s credit rating, warns of 'persistent' domestic, regional risks
8:37 pm

Man shot dead in Nazareth, the latest murder in the Arab community
8:21 pm

Palestinians say Egypt has circulated a new ceasefire proposal

Singer Aviv Geffen performs live at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv on May 11, 2023. (Koko/Flash90)

Tens of thousands attend Tel Aviv outdoor rock concert despite threat of rockets

With Gaza barrages ongoing and first Israeli fatality just hours before, crowds stream to Aviv Geffen show; video shows Iron Dome intercept rockets in the distance

Israeli soldiers return from the Gaza Strip on August 05, 2014. (Dave Buimovitch/Flash90)

Smotrich, Strock say Israel will have ‘no choice’ but to eventually retake Gaza

In separate interviews, far-right ministers slam 2005 disengagement, stress option to reconquer territory not currently on table, but argue it will be in the long term

Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, a veteran Al Jazeera journalist who was shot and killed during clashes between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen while covering an IDF raid in Jenin on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Courtesy)

On anniversary, IDF spokesman apologizes for Shireen Abu Akleh’s death for 1st time

Exactly a year after Al Jazeera reporter was shot dead while covering an IDF operation in the West Bank, Daniel Hagari tells CNN ‘we are very sorry’ for incident

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early May 11, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two Palestinians die of wounds sustained in West Bank shootouts with IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

A general view shows houses in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, May 10, 2023. (Wisam Hashlamounn/ Flash90)

Yesha settler umbrella group says over half a million Israelis live in West Bank

Organization says settler population grew 2.2% in 2022, with Modiin Illit, Beitar Illit, Ma’ale Adumim, and Ariel the largest cities

Auschwitz museum criticizes ‘tasteless’ ice cream stand near iconic ‘Death Gate’

By Canaan Lidor

Commemoration professionals in Poland have criticized the opening of an ice cream stand just outside the museum on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau former death camp. The stand – its walls emblazoned with a drawing of an ice cream cone and a pink-colored logo reading “icelove” as well... Continue Reading

An ice cream stand sits outside of the former Auschwitz camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (Dagmar Kopijasz of the Foundation of Memory Sites Near Auschwitz-Birkenau)

Lithuanian lawmaker Remigijus Žemaitaitis stands in the Seimas, thee national parliament, in 2019. (Courtesy of the Order and Justice party)

Lithuanian lawmaker in hot water after quoting song urging kids to kill Jews

By Canaan Lidor

Students from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools School for Advanced Studies protest during a statewide walkout in protest of censorship and the state's rapidly changing education policies in Miami, Florida, April 21, 2023. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Florida rejects Holocaust textbooks for falling afoul of ‘woke’ education ban

By Andrew Lapin

Roman Vishniac and his daughter Mara c. mid-1930s. (© Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley)

Interview'He regarded himself as a mixture of Moses and Superman'

Daughter helps turn lens on pioneering photographer father Roman Vishniac in new film

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘Vishniac,’ screening at DovAviv from May 11, filmmaker Laura Bialis shows a man who documented pre-Holocaust European Jewry, then reinvented himself as a self-styled scientist

7 lessons from Operation Shield and Arrow

Those of us who aren’t dashing to bomb shelters can act in solidarity with those who are by taking on these ’best practices’

Miriam Friedman Morris

Art and letters in a fledgling Israel, by my father, David Friedmann

Arriving in Haifa, the artist, at 56, was listed as ’not employable.’ Little did they know the talent he brought to the new Jewish state

Tunisia names synagogue gunman, says attack was premeditated and targeted shrine

By AP and ToI Staff

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian national guardsman behind an attack that killed five people intentionally targeted the ancient synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba in a premeditated act, Tunisia's interior minister said Thursday, as authorities also revealed the assailant's name. The mass shooting on Tuesday sparked panic... Continue Reading

Tunisian Interior Minister Kamel Fekih speaks during a press conference in Tunis, May 11, 2023. (AP/Hassene Dridi)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his campaign rally in the Sultangazi district of Istanbul, on May 12, 2023. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

Erdogan rallies his base ahead of Sunday’s toughest election in his 20-year reign

By Fulya Ozerkan and Burcin Gercek

Turkish president trailing in polls behind secular challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who aims to stabilize faltering economy and restore civil liberties

Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP) chair and presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu gestures on stage during a rally in Kocaeli, Turkey, on April 28, 2023. (Yasin AKGUL/AFP)

Erdogan’s main rival alleges Russia posting ‘deep fakes’ in lead-up to elections

By AFP

Participants in infamous 2015 ‘hate wedding’ avoid jail time, get community service

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Thursday sentenced five men to community service for participating in the so-called 2015 "hate wedding" during which revelers were filmed mocking the victim of a Jewish terror attack in which members of a Palestinian family were burned alive. In the footage, wedding guests... Continue Reading

Screenshot from a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killing of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Reporter's Notebook

Carrie Keller-Lynn

When lightning strikes twice: Repeat rocket hits break calm on an Ashkelon street

Miryam Keren was in her kitchen when the warning siren sounded on Wednesday, making it to her safe room seconds before a rocket fell in her back garden. Shockwaves were so strong that her car was hurled across the street, and part of her home was completely destroyed. "She's almost 80. We're thinking of moving... Continue Reading

A home destroyed on the previous day from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket, Ashkelon, May 11, 2023 (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Courtesy)

ToI podcast'Every camp wants to see its side standing its ground'

What Matters Now to ToI analyst Haviv Rettig Gur: The political perils of conflict

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

After the Gaza conflict ends, PM Netanyahu faces another battle — to pass the budget. Once he does, we will learn his true stance on the judicial overhaul

Illustrative: Police and community safety vehicles at a Jewish event in Brooklyn, New York City, May 19, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New York governor announces $25 million in funding for hate crime prevention

Package comes as Jewish New Yorkers contend with regular antisemitic incidents, remain most targeted group in NYC

A sign advertises Yeezy shoes made by Adidas at Kickclusive, a sneaker resale store, in Paramus, NJ, Tuesday, October 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Adidas to sell Yeezy shoes, donate proceeds after Kanye antisemitism row

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS

Jeff Sharlet’s 'The Undertow' explores the religious landscape of the far right. (Jeff Goodwin via JTA)

'Most Republicans have absorbed some element of QAnon'

A Jewish journalist takes sides in America’s ‘slow civil war’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In his book ‘The Undertow,’ Jeff Sharlet chronicles his trip across the US interviewing far-right nationalists and conspiracy theorists who are still in thrall to Donald Trump

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The scene of a suspected double homicide of a son and his mother in the coastal city of Netanya, May 12, 2023. (Magen David Adom spokesperson)

Mother, son found dead in Netanya home in suspected double homicide

By Michael Horovitz

Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder (center) receives an award from the Conference of European Rabbis, while standing alongside CER president Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (right) and Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, in Munich, May 9, 2023. (Marc Müller/CER)

Brexit forces European rabbinical group to decamp for Munich

By Toby Axelrod

Police secure a synagogue in Essen, Germany, October 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

German-Iranian charged over Tehran-directed plans to burn down synagogue

By AFP

Europe seeks to lead world in building guardrails around AI amid rise of ChatGPT

A view of the Mosul Museum in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on May 11, 2023 (Waleed AL-KHALED / AFP)

Mosul Museum to reopen after 20-year closure, Iraq war and Islamic State ransacking

By AFP

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

Israeli man shot dead in East Jerusalem refugee camp; police say not terror

A member of the military walks past an MBDA Storm Shadow/Scalp missile at the Farnborough Airshow, southwest of London, on July 17, 2018. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)

UK sending Ukraine long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to beat back Russians

By AP

The scene of a suspected murder of a woman in her 50s at her apartment in the central city of Rishon Lezion, May 12, 2023. (Magen David Adom spokesperson)

Man arrested after ex-wife found stabbed to death in Rishon Lezion

By Michael Horovitz

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid provided by Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah set out for Syria from Beirut's southern suburbs on February 12, 2023. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

US authorities seize Hezbollah-linked website domains in counterterrorism effort

By AP

Maayan Domanovich. (Courtesy National Transplant Center)

Young woman indicted for reckless homicide over Negev car crash that killed baby

From right to left: Marian Cohen, chairman of the Israel Hi-Tech Association; Maya Schwartz, CEO of the Israel Hi-Tech Association; and Dongbeom Lee, chairman of KISIA sign agreement on cybersecurity cooperation, May 10, 2023. (Credit: Israel Hi-Tech Association)

Israel high-tech and Korea industry groups sign accord on cybersecurity cooperation

By Sharon Wrobel

Jason Schwartzman poses at the the FX portion of the Television Critics Association Winter press tour on January 9, 2020, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Fine-tunedNew comedy stars Jason Schwartzman as cantor, Carol Kane as his student

By Gabe Friedman

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