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Follow May. 13, 2021 Signs of a tumultuous night in Lod, signs of things spinning out of control, are clearly visible in the streets the following day. The enormous rocks that were thrown at the police litter the street. Damaged traffic signs are only being slowly repaired. On every street in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood in this central Israeli city with a mixed Arab and Jewish population, is what’s left of a cars that had been damaged or set on fire in rioting by hundreds of young Arab male residents of Lod. Roughly 30 vehicles have been torched, most of them owned by Jews. No one has bothered to tow them away. For now, they remain there as a tangible reminder of how things spun out of control in this city against the backdrop of the fighting between Israel and Hamas and its allies in Gaza. “Believe me when I tell you that I have no idea how it happened, where all this hatred came from,” said Mahmoud, 50, as he looked at the blackened hulks of two burned-out ca ....