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David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of Still Life with Bombers (2004) and A Little Too Close to God (2000), and co-author of Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The Jerusalem Report (1998-2004).
A May 13 photograph at Acre s Jewish-owned Uri Buri restaurant, known for its commitment to coexistence, after it was attacked and heavily damaged in riots in the city (JALAA MAREY / AFP)
From across our southern border, an Islamic terrorist organization is firing hundreds of rockets indiscriminately across half or more of the country, in the current phase of its ongoing declared effort to remove the world’s only majority Jewish state from our biblical homeland.
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Israelis carry out Torah scrolls from a torched synagogue in the central Israeli city of Lod, following a night of heavy rioting by Arab residents in the city, on May 12, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday condemned “bloodthirsty” Arab rioters over violence in Jewish-Arab cities across the country, calling the riots in the central city of Lod a “pogrom,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was reminiscent of dark periods in Jewish history.
Israel ordered a massive boost earlier Wednesday to police forces deployed in cities with Jewish and Arab populations. The move came hours after a state of emergency was declared in the central Israel city of Lod, where intense Arab rioting late Tuesday saw three synagogues and numerous shops set on fire, along with dozens of cars.
Mass violent protests take place in Haifa, Tiberias Lod and Acre, where a Jewish man was beaten with sticks and rocks; in Bat Yam, an Arab man was beaten with batons after Jewish ultranationalists staged a riot in the city, smashed window shops
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