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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 5, 2024

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May 5: After deadly Hamas rocket attack, Israeli strikes on Rafah said to kill 16

3 troops killed in barrage to Gaza crossing * CIA chief heads to Qatar as hostage talks said ‘near collapse’ * Herzog: We said ‘never again’ but Holocaust horrors echoed on Oct. 7

10:09 pm

Hamas health authorities claim 16 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza's Rafah
8:50 pm

IDF: Two rockets fired from Syria struck open areas in Golan Heights
8:33 pm

$400 million increase in federal funding made available for places of worship in US

Thousands gather for a march against antisemitism in Paris, France, November 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Sylvie Corbet)

Antisemitism seems to have 'taken firm root' in US academia

Antisemitism surging, report finds, prompting fear for future of ‘Jewish life’ in West

By Canaan Lidor

The US saw a 103% increase in incidents fueled by Gaza war, a global report for 2023 shows, while France stands out with near-quadrupling of cases

From left to right: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir, Prime Minister and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, and Religious Zionism head MK Bezalel Smotrich, in 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Nobody needs to tell me what to do’: PM pushes back on far-right pressure over Rafah

Netanyahu says Israel won’t agree to a hostage deal that requires ending the war; Gallant: IDF op in south Gazan city could come ‘very soon’; Ben Gvir: IDF’s hands are being tied

National Security Council Chairman Tzachi Hanegbi speaks to Channel 12, May 4, 2024. (Screen capture: Channel 12; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

National security adviser: Rafah op a sure thing, Sinwar ‘living on borrowed time’

This graphic released by the Israel Defense Forces on May 4, 2024, shows Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Iman Zareb, who the military and Shin Bet said was killed in a strike in Rafah. (Israel Defense Forces)

Islamic Jihad commander who led Oct. 7 assault on Sufa killed in Rafah strike — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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Protesters block roads, clash with cops as PM accused of scorning hostage deal

By Charlie Summers and Iddo Schejter

Three arrested, including ex-aide to MK, at anti-government demonstrations with hostage families to protest prolongment of war and decry Netanyahu’s insistence on Rafah operation

Palestinians walk with their belongings in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip on May 4, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)

Hamas indicates it may agree to deal; Israeli official insists truce won’t end war

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Tal Schneider

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks at the McCain Institute's Sedona Forum in Sedona, Arizona, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Jake Bacon)

Agreeing to Gaza truce deal should be a ‘no-brainer’ for Hamas, Blinken says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

The war against the Jewish story

The ease with which anti-Zionists have managed to portray the Jewish state as genocidal marks a historic failure of Holocaust education

Police seize Al Jazeera broadcast equipment as network pulled off air in Israel

By Jeremy Sharon

Orders given to cease broadcasting the channel, close its offices in Jerusalem, confiscate equipment, block website; National Unity boycotts vote, saying timing may harm hostage talks

Police raid the Al Jazeera offices in East Jerusalem on May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Protesters hold posters of the Palestinian flag as they demonstrate near the entrance of the Institute of Political Studies, Sciences Po Paris, occupied by students, in Paris, France on April 26, 2024. (Julien De Rosa / AFP)

Inside story'It was my dream school, but I won't go even if accepted'

‘Good Jews oppose Zionism’: French Jewish students say campus no longer a safe space

By Canaan Lidor

Post-October 7 anti-Israel agitation and the antisemitism it unleashed are pushing promising candidates away from French schools. Last week’s protests may be the tipping point

Linda Broenniman

‘I did what any decent human being would do’

I knew my mother Dr. Clara Ambrus was a med student in Hungary during World War II, but I had no idea she’d been a hero

Caught between antisemitism and the First Amendment

An American-Israeli, there is a tension that might be impossible to resolve. I embrace the friction. Meanwhile, the war rages on

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Daily Briefing May 5: Day 212 – Oct. 7 victims’ graves reopened to ID more burnt corpses

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on strike on Islamic Jihad commander in Rafah, ‘pressure cooker’ tactics on a terror cell in the West Bank and controversial IDF appointments

Illustrative: Campus police stand between demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment on the campus of the University of Chicago and counter demonstrators after a brief skirmish between the groups on May 3, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 4: Day 211 – Are US high schools the next Gaza war battleground?

Druze woman hailed for October 7 heroism gives up Independence Day honor after threats

Nasreen Yousef, who helped save her community, Yated, from Hamas massacre by gleaning information from terrorists, tells organizers she has since faced intimidation from Arabs

Nasreen Yousef. (Screenshot taken from Channel 12/Keshet TV, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).

Dr. Tamara Kolitz, an endocrinologist from Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center cares for a Holocaust survivor in his home. (Courtesy of LeMa'anam)

Interview'Some distrust doctors because of their Holocaust experiences'

How a cadre of 1,500 MDs began paying house calls to Israel’s Holocaust survivors

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Post-October 7, non-profit LeMa’anam faces greater challenges in meeting the medical needs of elderly survivors, many who have been re-traumatized by the war

Judith Tzamir, a Holocaust survivor from Germany, poses for a portrait in her family home in Kibbutz Mefalsim, southern Israel, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A Holocaust survivor takes a different route to remembrance after October 7

By AP and ToI Staff

German-born Judith Tzamir, whose kibbutz fended off Hamas attack, will attend March of the Living for first time; ‘I don’t want to lose my home again,’ says displaced octogenarian

A photo of the Sylt concentration camp on the island of Alderney after the Nazi surrender, May 1945. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum/ via Antiquity Publications)

UK to probe possible cover-up of Nazi camps on English Channel island

Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, and Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, inspect the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

How Yad Vashem is implementing AI to give every Holocaust victim a name

By Matt Lebovic

The World Holocaust Remembrance Center works to pinpoint victim names previously lost among 230 million text documents; museum seeks to record 5 million victim names by 2029

Israeli troops operate in the town of Dayr al-Ghusun, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, May 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

5 Palestinian gunmen killed, Israeli officer seriously hurt in 12-hour West Bank op

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops raid town near Tulkarem to eliminate terror cell behind recent attacks; airstrikes, shoulder-launched missiles, bulldozers used against building where suspects were holed up

Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

Report: Anti-Israel campus protesters were prepped for months by outside activists

WSJ finds students consulted with and received training from groups that have supported Hamas and attacks on Israel; NYT finds pro-Israel protesters started clash at UCLA

Anti-Israel demonstrators at Columbia University Campus unfurl a banner as they barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall, naming it after Hind Rajab, a Palestinian Gazan six-year-old girl killed in an Israeli airstrike amid Israel's war on Hamas, April 30, 2024, in New York City. (Marco Postigo Storel via AP)

NYPD official: Items found at Columbia show protesters were far from benign

Tents, flags and other supplies remain at Deering Meadow on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, Ill. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, a day after the university and protest organizers announced an agreement which largely ended anti-war demonstrations that have lasted days. (AP Photo/Melissa Perez Winder)

As some colleges make deals to end protests, critics say they’re incentivizing unrest

By Andrew Lapin

Pro-Israel activists at a counter-demonstration at the George Washington University campus in Washington, DC, May 2, 2024. (Tani Levitt)

'Our safety is not being protected right now'

In the shadow of an anti-Israel encampment, Jewish GWU students rally against hate

As police spurn the DC school president’s request to dismantle an occupied ‘liberation zone’ and antisemitism hotspot on campus, groups show up in support of Israel

Screen capture from video of pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashing with police at the University of Virginia, May 4, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

25 arrested at University of Virginia amid pro-Palestinian campus activity across US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian student protesters and activists attend a demonstration at the entrance of Lausanne University's (UNIL) Geopolis building, occupied by anti-Israel students, in Lausanne on May 4, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Irish, Swiss students join anti-Israel protest wave by staging campus encampments

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Republican US Senate candidate Dave McCormick speaks outside an anti-Israel encampment at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

US Senate races increasingly roiled by divisions over anti-Israel campus protests

By AP and ToI Staff

As campaign rhetoric sharpens, many Republicans slam rivals over inadequate response to antisemitic or pro-Hamas rhetoric, while Democrats seek to tread fine line

In this photo taken from video provided by Stacey J. Spiehler, a pro-Palestinian protester is confronted by hecklers at the University of Mississippi, May 2, 2024, in Oxford, Mississippi. (Stacey J. Spiehler via AP)

Congressman shares clip of man making monkey gestures at Black anti-Israel protester

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

Rep. Elissa Slotkin speaks to reporters March 2, 2023, in Detroit, about her candidacy for the US Senate in 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

The unexpected Michigan Senate race that could determine control of the chamber

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI

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An aerial view of the Knesset showcasing the solar panels on its roof and on adjacent buildings. The panels will be able to produce up to a third of the Knesset's energy consumption. (Courtesy: Knesset)

Bill to keep homeowners on ex-church land out of leaseholder limbo wins broad support

Christian pilgrims hold candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, a day before Easter, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 4, 2024. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

'Blessed sight'Cheers and flames at Jerusalem’s ancient ‘Holy Fire’ event

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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