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What Matters Most On Monday, May 6, 2024

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Illustrative: Tents at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on April 30, 2024. (AFP)

Senior Hamas official decries 'dangerous escalation'

IDF tells 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate eastern Rafah ahead of planned offensive

By Emanuel Fabian

Military uses flyers, texts, phone calls to call on Gazans to leave specific areas; Gallant to US: Israel has ‘no choice’ but to launch operation in Strip’s southernmost city

Palestinians hold leaflets dropped by Israeli planes calling on them to evacuate ahead of an Israeli military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 6: Day 213 – War at a crossroads as IDF orders partial Rafah evacuation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video statement, May 5, 2024. (Screen grab via Government Press Office)

Katz: Sinwar has no intention of releasing all the hostages

Netanyahu calls suggestion he torpedoed Cairo hostage-truce talks ‘a complete lie’

By Lazar Berman

PM to meet with CIA chief William Burns in Jerusalem as US attempts to revive negotiations; Israeli official insists Jerusalem believed on Saturday that a deal was possible

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip and their supporters demand a deal for their loved ones' release, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas departs Cairo as latest hostage, truce talks said to be nearing ‘collapse’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video statement, May 5, 2024 (Screen grab via Government Press Office)

Netanyahu: Ending war as part of hostage deal would keep Hamas as threat to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Top L-R: Sgt. Michael Ruzal and Staff Sgt. Ruben Marc Mordechai Assouline; bottom L-R: Staff Sgt. Ido Testa and Staff Sgt. Tal Shavit, killed in a Hamas rocket attack near Kerem Shalom, May 5, 2024. (Courtesy)

Israel strikes Gazan city in response, allegedly killing 16

4 soldiers killed, 10 hurt inside Israel by Hamas rocket attack from Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops stationed on border near Kerem Shalom hit by barrage fired from terror group’s last major stronghold; in response, Israel seals the crossing, where aid trucks pass through

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Footage taken from Gaza purports to show Israeli flares over Rafah as the IDF says it is striking Hamas targets, May 6, 2024 (Social media)

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May 6: Israel rejects Hamas truce terms but sending team to Cairo for fresh talks

US believes Rafah incursion limited, Israel said to tell Egypt that troops will withdraw after targeted operation * Protesters urge government to take deal, call off offensive

10:01 pm

US believes Rafah strikes not start of major operation -- official
9:49 pm

Palestinian reports claim Israeli tanks, troops pushing into Kerem Shalom crossing
9:30 pm

Police clear Ayalon freeway for second time; mother of hostage says time for deal is now

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Digital antisemitism: The largest propaganda machine since the Holocaust

Social media is spreading unprecedented Jew-hatred, and that’s before AI starts using algorithms to discriminate against Jews

The day ‘Never Again’ became an empty slogan

How can we feel safe when protesters on college campuses called for the complete eradication of the Jewish State?

Sarah Ansbacher

Secrets of an old warehouse in Bratislava

A bullet factory in Slovakia once housed Jews in appalling conditions. And then it was used for an even more nefarious purpose

As I rocked the baby in my arms, he cried off and on. I tried every trick I knew but he wasn’t ready to sleep. And then the siren sounded

People holding Israeli flags pose for a photo at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, May 6, 2024 during the annual Holocaust remembrance event, the 'March of the Living' in memory of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust victims. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

At Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors scarred by October 7 march in a show of resilience

By Canaan Lidor

Despite the existential fears triggered by the onslaught, Israel remains a safe haven, the survivors and their relatives say during March of the Living

A mural portraying Polish-Israeli Holocaust historian and educator Alex Dancyg, who was taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, with the subtitle referring to him as 'Ambassador of Dialogue,' can be seen in Warsaw, Poland on October 19, 2023. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Son of Holocaust educator held hostage in Gaza joins March of the Living in Poland

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Hostage’s niece tells their family’s Holocaust and Oct. 7 stories

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalemites gather for a different kind of Zikaron Basalon, as Tamar Pearlman hopes family’s story of survival will help Alex Dancyg withstand Hamas captivity

Tamar Pearlman, left, niece of Hamas hostage Alex Dancyg, speaks about her uncle's Holocaust history at a Zikaron Basalon event in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2024. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Protesters hold placards with the picture of 21-year-old Omer Shem Tov during a demonstration to ask for the release of hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attack, in Tel Aviv, on December 2, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP)

Hostage families, freed captives to share stories with journalists for Yom Hashoah

Hannah Gofrit, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor speaks to a crowd of people in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square at Holocaust Remembrance Day event on evening of May 5, 2024. (Courtesy of Hostages and Missing Families Forum/Paulina Patimer)

Hostage families and Holocaust survivors vow ‘Never again’ while marking Yom Hashoah

By Charlie Summers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

PM at Yad Vashem: Oct. 7 was not a Holocaust, but only because Israel can defend itself

Marking Yom Hashoah, President Isaac Herzog also says the Hamas massacre of October 7 ‘echoed the horrors’ of the Holocaust, but does not compare to WWII atrocities

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, May 6, 2024. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu heckled at Yad Vashem wreath-laying ceremony

Family and friends of Elyakim Libman attend his funeral outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 5, 2024. (Gershon Elinson/ Flash90)

‘Sweet, smiling, smart’: Elyakim Libman, Oct. 7 victim found last week, laid to rest

By Michael Horovitz

Security guard at Supernova festival stayed behind to save others, was believed to be kidnapped to Gaza until he was found mistakenly buried with another body

Oldrich Stransky, b. 1921, photographed in Prague, Czech Republic, 2014. (Dennis Carlyle Darling)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Dennis Darling’s recently published large-format book includes black-and-white portraits and moving testimonies of Jews who were children and teens in Nazi ghetto near Prague

A visitor is seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, several days ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Study: Grief Israelis feel on Holocaust Remembrance Day can help ease political rifts

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hebrew University social psychologists find that periodic national days of mourning and commemoration can serve the important purpose of reducing ideological antagonism

At the Königin Luise Schule in Cologne, Germany, students watch as 'Stumbling Stone' memorials are installed for Holocaust victims who were expelled by the school during Nazi rule (courtesy)

'It's about their school, their street, their neighborhood'

German students research fates of their school’s Jews to bring Nazi-era horrors home

By Matt Lebovic

Against backdrop of October 7 massacres and surge in global antisemitism, US consultant Terry Mandel visits Germany to expand award-winning Holocaust memory project based in Cologne

Israel's Eden Golan (center) rehearsing her song 'Hurricane' ahead of the Eurovision in Malmo, Sweden, on April 30, 2024. (Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU)

'This year is not just another Eurovision... It's a mission'

Eurovision set to kick off in Sweden under shadow of anti-Israel protests, threats

Eden Golan to perform ‘Hurricane’ in competition’s 2nd semifinal Thursday, as Malmo police bring in reinforcements armed with submachine guns from Denmark, Norway due to high alert

Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the end of the day's proceedings in his criminal trial at the New York State Supreme Court in New York City, on May 3, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/Pool/AFP)

Trump accuses Biden of ‘running a Gestapo administration’ to win elections

By Doina Chiacu

In audio recording from private address to donors heard by US media outlets, Republican presidential candidate also attacks prosecutors involved in his criminal indictments

Rabbi Meir Shapiro sits in the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in a photograph taken between the yeshiva's opening in 1930 and his death in 1933. The fate of the yeshiva's library under the Nazis is a subject of mystery. (Courtesy Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center)

'It proves that probably thousands more are still around'

Thought to be destroyed by Nazis, books of the Lublin Yeshiva Library are turning up

By Shira Li Bartov

Though story has it that the texts were burned in 1939, this is uncorroborated. Local Piotr Nazaruk has located and digitized 850 of them – the tip of the iceberg, he says

Students chant in support of Palestinians during the University of Michigan's spring 2024 Commencement Ceremony at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 4, 2024. (Katy Kildee/Detroit News via AP)

Pro-Palestinian protesters bring Gaza war to US college graduations

By JTA and ToI Staff

From Michigan to Boston, students have found ways to give voice to their anti-war, anti-Israel campaigns during commencement ceremonies, with such displays expected to continue

People stand guard outside an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel demonstrators on the campus at the University of Southern California, May 4, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Protesters pack up anti-Israel encampment at USC after police threaten arrests

By AP and ToI Staff

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Benjamin Ze'evi, is brought for a court hearing, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on October 19, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court nixes murder case against former minister’s son due to statute of limitations

Ambulances at the scene of a shooting in Lod on May 5, 2024. (Magen David Adom)

3 Arab Israelis shot dead in separate incidents on Sunday, as crime wave persists

A damaged car during rocket fire from south Lebanon toward Kiryat Shmona near the Lebanese border on May 5, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Man slightly hurt, damage caused in barrage of over 60 Hezbollah rockets at north

By Emanuel Fabian

The 75th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on April 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Independence Day preparations disrupted by clash between minister, Knesset speaker

Jordan's Queen Rania speaks to CBS's "Face the Nation" in an interview aired May 5, 2024. (Screenshot, CBS)

Jordanian queen says she tries to put herself in shoes of hostages’ mothers

FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 19, 2024, a Russian tank fires at Ukrainian troops from a position near the border with Ukraine in Russia’s Belgorod region. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Russia to hold nuclear weapon drills after ‘provocative statements’ about Ukraine

By AP

File - University of Glasgow rector Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a Palestinian-British surgeon specializing in conflict medicine, speaks during an interview at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon, December 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Prominent British-Palestinian surgeon denied entry to France for Senate meet on Gaza

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer talks after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, May 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

US synagogues and other places of worship get $400 million boost for security

By AP

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man during a search operation in the West Bank village of Baita, August 21, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Report: Shin Bet forgoes arresting terror suspects due to prison overcrowding

Illustrative: Rodeph Sholom synagogue, New York. (Jim.henderson / Wikipedia)

Police investigate series of at least 4 bomb threats at New York City synagogues

Founders of Israeli startups take part in seventh cohort of accelerator program run by consulting firm Deloitte. (Courtesy)

Amid war, Deloitte kicks off 7th cohort for Israel startup accelerator program

By Sharon Wrobel

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima lay a wreath during a solemn annual national service to commemorate the dead in World War II in Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 4, 2024. (Remko de Waal/ANP/Pool Photo via AP)

Netherlands holds muted World War II memorial amid tight security due to Gaza war

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