Operation Guardian of the Walls

A man passes by cars torched after a night of violence between Israeli Arab protesters and Israeli police in the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Lod, central Israel, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)

January 4, 2022, 7:51 pm

Thousands applied for gun licenses after May violence, new data shows

Applications for firearms rocketed from around 9,500 a year to nearly 20,000 in 2021, Public Security Ministry says, though the number of granted permits has dropped 20% since 2009

By Amy Spiro

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, flames rise from containers at the scene of a missile attack, at the port of the coastal city of Latakia, Syria, early Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. (SANA via AP)

December 28, 2021, 5:09 pm

In 2022, IDF to focus on curbing Tehran in Syria, prepping strike on Iran nuke sites

Military pressing full steam ahead with effort to develop credible threat against Tehran’s nuclear facilities, while also preparing for next potential Gaza conflict

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Smoke rises following Israeli missile strikes on Gaza City on May 13, 2021. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

December 25, 2021, 4:42 am

UN moves forward with unprecedented open-ended probe against Israel

United Nations General Assembly approves budget for investigation set up after Gaza conflict in May; envoy Gilad Erdan calls commission ‘despicable and biased’

By TOI staff

The scene where an apartment building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on May 11, 2021 (Flash90)

December 7, 2021, 6:41 am

Six months after Gaza conflict, battered Ashkelon no better protected from rockets

Southern city was the most heavily targeted in May, with two fatalities and tens of thousands of residents unable to access shelters or protected rooms. Nothing has changed since

By atar nussbaum

Police are seen in Lod during ethnic rioting in the mixed Jewish-Arab city in central Israel, May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

December 2, 2021, 1:55 pm

2 Arab residents of Lod indicted for shooting of Jewish man during May violence

Amsalem Hasouna and Iyad Hasouna charged with ‘serious’ offenses; are relatives of Mousa Hasouna, who was shot to death in the city a few days earlier in disputed circumstances

By TOI staff

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, on May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

November 19, 2021, 10:03 pm

IDF chief said to order acceleration of plans for attack on Gaza rocket stocks

Military sources say plan aimed at undercutting terror groups’ ability to fire rockets during early stages of a future conflict after failure to properly target them in May war

By TOI staff

Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ Flash90/ File)

November 15, 2021, 8:23 am

Arab men attacked by Jewish gang in Bat Yam in apparent nationalist assault

Victims, one in wheelchair, were sitting with Jewish friends; group asked if they were Arab and then returned with weapons; 3 hospitalized, including one with head wound

By TOI staff

Activists protest Israel’s military actions in Gaza outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC on May 18, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

November 10, 2021, 10:47 am

US Jews failed to anticipate antisemitic violence during Gaza conflict – study

Tel Aviv think tank finds that community organizations struggled to enlist traditional allies in fight against Jew-hatred

By Lazar Berman

A thick column of smoke rises from the al-Jalaa Tower as it is destroyed in an Israeli airstrike after the IDF warned the occupants to leave, Gaza City, May 15, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

October 24, 2021, 9:54 pm

Former IDF general: Bombing AP tower in Gaza in May conflict was an ‘own goal’

Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, who led military’s probe into PR issues related to the operation, says bringing down the 12-story building caused Israel more harm than good

By Judah Ari Gross

Malek Hassuna (L) carries a picture of his late son Mussa, who was shot dead on May 10, as he sits with Effi Yehoshua, brother of Yigal Yehoshua, killed on May 11, in Lod on August 18, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

October 22, 2021, 10:54 am

Prosecutors clear suspects in deadly shooting of Arab Lod man during May riots

Four suspects ruled out as culprits in death of Mussa Hassuna, while a fifth is off the hook due to uncertainty and claims that he was acting in self-defense

By TOI staff

A convoy of cars filmed on London's Finchley Road, with passengers yelling antisemitic obscenities, on May 16, 2021. (Screenshot)

October 8, 2021, 2:32 pm

4 UK pro-Palestinian convoy suspects in court over call to rape Jewish women

Lawyers indicate activists will deny charges; the men allegedly shouted ‘F*** their mothers, rape their daughters’ with loudspeakers while driving through Jewish area in May

By TOI staff and AFP

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators assault Jews at a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles on May 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

September 22, 2021, 9:46 am

2 charged with hate crime for May attack on Jewish diners in Los Angeles

Suspects indicted on felony counts of assault for anti-Semitic attack that was part of a wave of incidents during conflict between Israel, Gaza terror groups

By Agencies

September 20, 2021, 1:33 pm

Four UK pro-Palestinian activists charged after calling for rape of Jewish women

Police say suspects likely intended ‘to stir up racial hatred’; drove in convoy with loudpeakers through London Jewish area during May fighting between Israel and Gaza terrorists

By AFP and TOI staff

Israeli security forces spray protesters with skunk water during clashes in Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, on May 19, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

September 19, 2021, 4:21 pm

2 Umm al-Fahm men indicted for alleged attack on ambulance during May’s unrest

Suspects charged with aggravated terrorist assault for attack that included blocking vehicle carrying wounded officer who had been shot, in move designed to ‘worsen his condition’

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Israel's Moanes Dabour, left, fights for the ball with Scotland's Liam Cooper during the Euro 2020 playoff semifinal soccer match between Scotland and Israel, at the Hampden stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

September 6, 2021, 5:04 am

Arab soccer star’s brother on Al-Aqsa fracas: ‘He didn’t mean to hurt anyone’

National team’s Moanes Dabour was booed by fans Saturday, when he scored in win over Austria, in wake of a post he wrote on Jerusalem tensions during May’s unrest in the capital

By TOI staff