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The Weekend Edition

The Best Reads of the Week for Sunday, May 14, 2023

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

Reporter's Notebook

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

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Within a few years, two homes on same Ashkelon street destroyed by direct rocket hits from Gaza; 9 months after last major flareup, no improvement in Ashkelon shelter situation

An Israel soldier blocks a road near the border with Gaza, southern Israel, on May 10, 2023. (Flash90)

Op-ed

At the root of the latest Gaza-Israel flareup, implacable rejection of Israel

The Shin Bet chief said Israel ‘closed a circle’ with the killing of three notorious Islamic Jihad commanders. But our enemies are intent on keeping it open

In this handout photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a security cabinet meeting at military headquarters in Tel Aviv on May 9, 2023. (Avi Ohayan/GPO)

Analysis

For Netanyahu, the storm before the calm?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Things are looking up for the prime minister. If he can finish the Gaza fighting with public support intact and pass a state budget by month’s end, he will be all but unassailable

AnalysisBen Gvir solves his own coalition crisis, leveraging Gaza op to pump up his base

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Analysis

Amir Bar Shalom

Israel needs a new policy to push Hamas out of its comfort zone

Amid the hostilities between Israel and Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the advice of the security establishment, issued a clear directive to ministers: Keep Hamas out of your rhetoric. Up until Friday, only two ministers broke ranks: Energy Minister Israel Katz, a Likud MK who reportedly got a scolding as a result, and Finance... Continue Reading

Hamas terrorists in Gaza City on December 10, 2022. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

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

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

Meir Ben Shabbat

Israel can nullify the threat of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Israel must act to continue the success of Operation Shield and Arrow, including deterring Hamas from joining PIJ’s attacks

Evacuation diary: Fear of driving

We Gaza border kibbutzniks have been warmly welcomed in Nahariya, but I’m too old for this nonsense. I need my home

Tzipora Lifchitz

Mic drop at the ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ premier

I worried that Netflix would get Orthodox Jewish dating wrong – until I realized that they aren’t the ones in the wrong

How one little girl and her mom gave me hope

Advocating for sexual abuse survivors, I hear all about the predators, but I also know the heroes who have the tough conversations that stop abuse

In this picture taken on May 9, 2023, police secure an area near the Ghriba synagogue following a shooting attack on the resort island of Djerba (YASSINE MAHJOUB / AFP)

Analysis

Tunisia terror attack threatens to deal ‘mortal blow’ to rare Jewish pilgrimage

By Canaan Lidor

The slaying of two Jews and a soldier risks undoing a Jewish-Arab interaction maintained by the annual visits of about 8,000 French, Israeli and other Jews to the Arab country

French imam asks Israelis to continue Tunisia pilgrimage despite terror attack

By Canaan Lidor

3 Ethiopians waiting to immigrate to Israel killed in Gondar fighting

By Canaan Lidor

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

By Michael Horovitz and AP

Haredi Jews celebrate Lag B'Omer at Mount Meron on May 8, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

At Meron pilgrimage, joy and grief mix as Haredi traditions and secular Israel clash

By Canaan Lidor

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

Sol Nayman hugs a participant of the March of the Living event during Nayman's first visit in 84 years to Stoczek, Poland on April 20, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

In Poland, Canadian Holocaust survivor returns to native village as sole local Jew

By Canaan Lidor

Israel's Noa Kirel rehearses her Eurovision song 'Unicorn' on stage at Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, UK, May 3, 2023. (Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU)

Eurovision 2023

Israel hoping Noa Kirel’s star power can fuel a come-from-behind Eurovision win

Experienced pop singer seeks to ride ‘Unicorn’ to the top of the song contest in Liverpool, but faces tough competition from Sweden, Finland and France

Eurovision 2023Israel’s Noa Kirel rides ‘Unicorn’ to Eurovision grand final

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

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

Felipe Colombo, left, performs with an Israeli bandmate in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2023. (Courtesy/ Photo by Ortal Dahan Ziv)

Interview

Nineties nostalgia sweeps Israel as Argentine heartthrob Felipe Colombo returns

By Pablo Méndez Shiff

Singer Yehuda Poliker performs on May 11, 2023, at the opening night of the 25th Docaviv Film Festival which is screening 'The Child Within Me,' about his life. (Courtesy: Docaviv)

Film festival

Jessica Steinberg

Singers, eco-activists, designer dreams: True tales at 25th Docaviv

Dozens of documentaries being screened at 10-day film festival hosted by Tel Aviv Cinematheque

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan in Israel for the 11th Jerusalem Writers Festival May 8-11, 2023 (Courtesy Chen Wagshall)

InterviewPrize-winning author Jennifer Egan avoids tech, but imagines it for her characters

By Jessica Steinberg

Author Margaret Atwood speaks at the National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony Thursday, March 16, 2017, in New York. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Protests are altering Israel’s trajectory, says Handmaid’s writer Margaret Atwood

By Jessica Steinberg

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

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

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A rare Mediterranean monk seal, later named Yulia, resting on a beach in central Israel, May 13, 2023. (Guy Levian/Nature and Parks Authority)

Sealwatch

In first, endangered seal snoozes on central Israeli shore

By Michael Horovitz

Nature and Park Authority volunteers arrive to guard rare Mediterranean Monk Seal, urge public to keep distance until she returns to sea

Animation: Alzheimer's disease brain shrinkage. (National Institute on Aging, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli study reveals molecular basis for female Alzheimer’s patients’ rapid decline

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Pile of scrap white goods including fridges and freezers waiting to be recycled. (JohnDWilliams, iStock at Getty Images)

ToI investigates

Fridge recycling heats up, but most old appliances still end up in landfills

Lack of regulations or enforcement allows companies to fudge official reports and avoid paying for disposal, with goods still being smuggled to Palestinians for burning

Company that offers farmers intel on trees adapts tech to measure carbon absorption

Israel’s first hydrogen refilling station for vehicles opens in north

Health expert: Government move to sidestep clean air law is a ‘license to kill’

In Sussita, a marble pillar lies next to a platform that likely once held a statue donated by a prosperous couple who moved to Caesarea. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Revamped as a national park, ancient Sussita’s rich history is even more accessible

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

A waste of an outfit

By Rivka Herzfeld

Having a key to an elevator somewhere in the synagogue building does not make the building handicapped accessible

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