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From the blog of Paul Mirbach at The Times of Israel

Gaza rocket kills Israeli child as Arab-Jewish violence rages in Israel May 13, 2021 9:24 am A dumpster is set on fire in Yafo amid violent protests across Israel, May 11, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash 90) Advertisement (JTA) — A rocket from Gaza killed a 5-year-old child in the Israeli city of Sderot, bringing Israel’s death toll to seven in its exchange of fire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In Gaza, 83 people have died, including 14 children, according to Save t...

Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett on the march, April 21, 2021. Yamina party chairman Naftali Bennett said Thursday after a private meeting between his faction and that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud that a “Shinui – government of change” for Israel is finished. Given the current security situation in the country, and particularly the “state of emergency” that has developed in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, Bennett said the Israeli government with Yesh Atid chai...

Les députés de tous bords politiques ont crié leur indignation face à des "prémices d'une guerre civile" et appellent au calme après émeutes et lynchages

In southern Israel, residents embrace resilience and courage in face of rocket fire In southern Israel, residents embrace resilience and courage in face of rocket fire “We’ve had three wars and so many escalations using weapons and bombs, and we aren’t in any place different than we were in 2008. Has anything changed? Maybe it’s time to do something different," said Adele Raemer, a school teacher and resident of Kibbutz Nirim. (May 12, 2021 / JNS) At 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning, I got ...

While the Israeli Air Force parried rocket attacks from Gaza, violent clashes on the ground with Palestinian rioters continued as well on Tuesday. The police station in the Old City of Akko was burned to the ground by a mob of hundreds of Arab rioters. Large numbers of police were deployed there and in other northern

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In a rocket attack on the town of Lod, a father and his 16-year-old daughter were killed. It was not coincidental that Hamas targeted Lod after some of the town’s Arab residents went on the ra...

Lod resident Rinat Bloch told Channel 12 News, however, that Dahan’s description couldn’t be further from the truth, describing violence she witnessed right outside her window and the threat she felt. “We sat at home tonight and felt there was no one to protect us; we said we would bring in people, especially, to protect us,” she said. “Here is a text from a friend telling me her life is threatened, who is sitting this moment in a neighborhood that [police] said is completely quiet!...

Should Israel be more interested in evangelicals than American Jews? Featured Column Should Israel be more interested in evangelicals than American Jews? As a crisis builds with Jewish support remaining iffy, former ambassador Ron Dermer’s suggestion about the need for allies rather than critical friends raises an important dilemma. (May 12, 2021 / JNS) Now that he’s no longer Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer is free to tell it completely like it is. Speaking at a conf...

Violence on the ground in Israeli cities paralleled the war in the air with Gaza terrorists for a second night on Wednesday. Israeli news media was calling it “chaos,” as reports streamed in of bloody clashes between Arabs and Jews in Akko, Haifa, Lod and Bat Yam. In Akko, a Jewish man, around 30, was reportedly