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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 14, 2023

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Smoke and fire rise from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Gaza, May 13, 2023. The building was owned by an Islamic Jihad official. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)

2 killed in Israel; 28 killed in Gaza, 10 of them civilians

Tense calm between Israel, Islamic Jihad appears to hold, ending 5-day conflict

Following last-minute rocket salvo and retaliatory IDF strikes in Gaza, parties hold fire in Egypt-mediated ceasefire that went into effect late Saturday

Smoke and fire rise from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Gaza, May 13, 2023. The building was owned by an Islamic Jihad official. (AP/Ashraf Amra)

Israel, Islamic Jihad agree to ceasefire after five days of fighting

By Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian trucks loaded with aggregate, iron and cement enter through the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 1, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel reopens Gaza crossings, shut since launch of Operation Shield and Arrow

Gaza post-mortem

Operation Broken Record: Israel is already counting down to the next Gaza conflict

The five-day battle between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Gaza Strip dubbed Operation Shield and Arrow, which ended with a ceasefire Saturday night, was the first major conflict overseen by military chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi. The round of fighting was considered successful, but dragged on longer than needed,... Continue Reading

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul outside the Knesset on April 27, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Justice minister said warning he could quit if part of overhaul not passed soon

Levin reportedly demanding that at least part of the plan be approved in current Knesset session, even without broad agreement with opposition

6:28 pm

Polls show Netanyahu's recent popularity deficit shrink after Gaza op
6:11 pm

Hamas's Mashaal faces anger for attending Qatar wedding during Gaza fighting
6:05 pm

Ben Gvir expected to take part in religious nationalist Flag March in Jerusalem

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Well done’: Netanyahu hails IDF, Shin Bet performance in Gaza operation

In first comments since ceasefire took effect Saturday night, PM claims Israel made substantive gains by eliminating terror leaders

Smoke and fire rise from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Gaza, May 13, 2023. The building was owned by an Islamic Jihad official. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)

‘We made no promises’: FM Cohen says Israel offered PIJ nothing beyond ceasefire

Rockets are fired from Gaza City towards Israel on May 13, 2023.(MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israel, US, UN thank Egypt for role in mediating ceasefire with Islamic Jihad in Gaza

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Op-ed

Israel’s Gaza operation met its goals in seconds; trouble is, it went on for 5 days

At a joint appearance last Wednesday, late on the second day of Israel's Operation Shield and Arrow against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant proclaimed that the prime goals of the operation had already been achieved -- indeed that they were achieved in what Netanyahu specified were the... Continue Reading

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza City on May 10, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Noa Kirel of Israel during the flag ceremony during the Grand Finale of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, England, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 14: Operation Shield and Arrow wrap; bittersweet Eurovision battle

Closeup of the outside of the arguably Late Bronze Age lead curse tablet discovered on Mount Ebal in 2019. (Michael C. Luddeni/Associates for Biblical Research)

ArchaeologyWere Israelites literate when they entered the Holy Land?

Academic article on controversial 3,200-year-old ‘curse tablet’ fails to sway experts

By Melanie Lidman

Year after team hails bombshell discovery of oldest Hebrew writing in Holy Land, details of the find hit a peer-reviewed journal. But some academics don’t see any inscription at all

A giant election billboard of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the People's Alliance's presidential candidate, during a campaign rally in Istanbul, Turkey, May 13, 2023. (Emrah Gurel/AP)

Polls open in Turkey for knife-edge presidential vote that could unseat Erdogan

By Remi Banet, Fulya Ozerkan and Burcin Gercek

Country’s longest-serving leader and his Islamic-rooted party face their most serious challenge ever from secular 6-party alliance led by Kemal Kilicdaroglu; high turnout expected

A person holds a ballot at a polling station for parliamentary and presidential elections in Ankara, Turkey, on May 14, 2023. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

ExplainerErdogan put to the test by secular alliance as Turkey votes in pivotal election

By AFP

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My sweet baby girl is in Paris, and I don’t know how she got there

She’s the one doing the changing; I’m the one have the growing pains

‘Small Gifts’: About a place where Judaism is in the air

Rami Kleinstein’s song welcoming Sabbath represents my Israel – that beautiful fusion of religious and secular

Noa Kirel of Israel performs during the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, England, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Eurovision 2023

Sweden wins 2023 Eurovision, while Israel’s Noa Kirel finishes in 3rd place

‘Unicorn’ propels Israel to best finish since its 2018 win with ‘Toy’ by Netta Barzilai, who was on hand in Liverpool to sing alongside other past Eurovision icons at grand final

Britain's King Charles III, left, speaks with President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal during a reception at Buckingham Palace, in London, May 5, 2023 for overseas guests attending his coronation. (Jacob King/Pool Photo via AP)

King Charles said to signal interest in a trip to Israel

Visit would be the first by a sitting British monarch; Conservative politician says initial prep already underway; Gaza flareup reportedly delayed effort

Abdullah Abu Jaba, a Palestinian laborer from the Gaza Strip who was killed by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket, May 13, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gaza rocket killed Palestinian Abdullah Abu Jaba, also seriously injured his brother

Death of father of 6 at Israeli construction site near border without functioning bomb shelter highlights urgency of providing solutions for foreign workers, says aid group

Israeli soldiers are deployed at the scene where a Palestinian gunman opened fire at soldiers in the West Bank town of Huwara, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli forces detain Palestinian gunmen accused of March attack on troops in Huwara

By Emanuel Fabian

Yamam officers break into apartment in West Bank’s Nablus, arrest suspects without any resistance; two soldiers had been injured in the drive-by shooting

This handout photo shows a knife that a a Palestinian man allegedly tried to use to stab Border Police officers near the northern West Bank settlement of Shaked, May 13, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police: Palestinian shot dead after trying to stab officers at West Bank checkpoint

By Emanuel Fabian

Downsized anti-overhaul rallies held amid ongoing Gaza rocket threat

Hundreds at Tel Aviv march, 5,000 attend rally in Haifa, as main organizers cancel events in center and south of country on fifth day of conflict with Islamic Jihad

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a press conference, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 30, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Netanyahu, Smotrich hail S&P for affirming credit score, shrug off overhaul warnings

Friends and family attend the funeral of Aviel Hadadd, who was killed during a shooting attack outside a synagogue in the Tunisian island of Djerba, at the cemetery in Netivot, May 12, 2023. (Flash90)

Israeli killed in Tunisian synagogue attack buried in Netivot amid Gaza fighting

By Michael Horovitz and AP

Brother-in-law says family hoped Aviel Haddad would come back from Djerba pilgrimage with a bride, instead he ‘returned in a coffin’

Inside story

Growing ‘End Jew Hatred’ movement sparks controversy amid right-wing links

New York Jewish Week, via JTA — Last month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Jewish Democrat, proclaimed April 29 “End Jew Hatred Day,” citing “an urgent need to act against antisemitism in Colorado and across the country.” Similar proclamations came from New York Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican, and dozens of other elected officials nationwide. But in the New York City... Continue Reading

A woman encourages people to sign a petition calling for an end to "Jew Hatred," outside the offices of then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo, October 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

'We’re starting to see this as a profoundly Jewish issue'

US Jewish institutions awaken to climate crisis, with hundreds pledging action

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Long a top priority for American Jews, climate change hasn’t been high on the agenda for the organizations serving them – but that’s beginning to change

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People line up outside the Interior Ministry office to renew their passports, in Tel Aviv, on May 14, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Israelis swamp passport offices at launch of marathon drive for travel documents

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a media conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Zelensky says looming offensive aims to retake lost ground, not attack Russia

By Frank Jordans

Screen capture of the Rose Garden, Jerusaelm. (Google Street View. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Injunction issued against Jerusalem municipality over park cafe’s Shabbat restriction

Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan speaks during a US House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Rashida Tlaib says she ‘struggles’ with prospect of uprooting West Bank settlements

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