Israel’s population tops 9 million * Gaza truce holds; victims buried; Netanyahu slammed, including by Likud rival * Israel’s hospital crisis * The greatest Yiddish Poet

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Monday, May 6, 2019 [Israel’s population tops 9 million, including 45% of world Jewry]( By [TOI staff]( [Independence Day eve statistics show 2% increase since last year; population expected to reach 15.2 million by 2048]( [As Gaza fighting ends, IDF reminds public of planned flyby practice]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [As ceasefire goes into effect, Netanyahu says Gaza campaign not over]( By [TOI staff and Raoul Wootliff]( [PM says Israel hit terror groups ‘with great force,’ is readying for next round of fighting; Hamas: Conflict ‘will not end until we regain our rights’]( [IDF chief: Israel destroyed hundreds of ‘terror targets’ in Gaza]( By [TOI staff]( [Likud’s Sa’ar joins opposition in lambasting ceasefire deal with Hamas]( By [TOI staff]( [Ceasefire appears to take hold around Gaza after deadly flareup]( By [TOI staff]( [Terror groups say truce in place from 4:30 a.m. after 4 Israelis killed in two-day conflict; 29 Gazans dead, many of them terrorists; Israel lifts security restrictions]( [Amid rocket fire, Israel shuts Tamar offshore gas field as precaution]( By [Stuart Winer]( [IDF says it thwarted a Hamas cyber attack during weekend battle]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Analysis [Judah Ari Gross]( [Israel and Hamas amp up violence, though flareup sticks to well-worn script]( [Both sides intensified their attacks in this weekend’s bloody battle, but ultimately kept to the same strategy, ending up more or less back where they started]( [Analysis / Gaza ceasefire leaves Israel and Hamas exactly where they were before]( By [Avi Issacharoff]( [Gaza rockets ‘proof’ that withdrawals bound to fail, Erdan tells US diplomats]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [21-year-old Israeli-American killed in Ashdod rocket attack laid to rest]( By [TOI staff]( [‘I don’t understand why this is happening, but I am sure that you have fulfilled your purpose on this earth,’ says Pinchas Menachem Prezuazman’s father as he is laid to rest]( [Ashdod man killed by rocket, raising death toll to 4, amid massive bombardment]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Israelis killed by rocket fire, anti-tank missile identified]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Ashkelon father of four buried as Gaza conflict rumbles in background]( By [Jacob Magid and TOI staff]( Live updates [Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar’s criticism of Gaza ceasefire slammed as ‘uncalled for’]( By [TOI staff]( [‘The prime minister makes decisions responsibly,’ Culture Minister Miri Regev says, after Netanyahu rival said truce deal ‘very lacking’ for Israel]( Analysis [David Horovitz]( [Another conflict with Hamas that won’t solve the root problem]( [As in all past flare-ups, Gaza’s terrorists are out to loosen Israel’s security blockade. But Israel can never consent, as Hamas would then simply import more devastating weaponry]( [Israel media review / Back to Strip one: 8 things to know for May 6]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Amid Gaza violence, Trump says US supports Israel 100% in defending its citizens]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [President warns Gazans that rockets will only bring ‘more misery,’ tells them to give peace a chance; Democratic group urges 2020 hopefuls to stand with Jewish state]( [‘Enough is enough!’: Attacks on Israel ‘unconscionable,’ US ambassadors tell PM]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [EU laments the ‘unspeakable suffering’ Gaza rockets inflict on Israelis]( By [Raphael Ahren]( ToI investigates [Corridor Nation: As hospitals gasp for funds, patients wait out in the hallways]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israel’s health expenditure is way below its OECD peers’. This leaves Startup Nation lacking beds, doctors, nurses, MRIs and CT scanners — and looking to tech as a possible savior]( Top Ops [Asher Weill]( [The return of Avraham Sutzkever]( [The ’greatest Yiddish poet who ever lived’ was a Holocaust hero who, when he came to Israel, was largely ignored]( [Benji Levy]( [From oy to joy: A call for positivity in Jewish engagement]( [’Your exclusive focus on Jewish victimhood really inspires me,’ said no Jewish millennial ever]( [Shayna Goldberg]( [Ema, should I stand still or should I run?]( [Whether memorializing national tragedies or fleeing Gaza rockets, our children are learning core lessons about the meaning of life in Israel]( [Catherine Chatterley]( [Faked hate crimes, anti-Semitism and Linda Sarsour]( [Some words of optimism for those horrified by a hoax and freaked out by the visit of a controversial political activist]( Film review [97-year-old Jewish pillar of modern American theater feted with film at Tribeca]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( Jewish women of film [50 years later, this feminist witchy movie remains super relevant]( By [Rokhl Kafrissen]( [Looted Nazi art and LGBT rights merge in recovery of Polish painting]( By [Vanessa Gera]( More Headlines [US anti-Semitism envoy: We may reconsider ties with countries deemed anti-Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Jewish home in New Jersey vandalized with swastikas and hate messages]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Belarus Jews mourn Poway synagogue victim at community’s largest event]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Fearing attack on its forces, US sends carrier force to Middle East, warns Iran]( By [Robert Burns and Catherine Lucey]( [US Salesforce buys Israeli conversation-AI startup Bonobo]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [At least 40 dead in Russian plane’s fiery emergency landing]( By [Jim Heintz]( [East Jerusalem resident charged with spying for Hamas]( By [TOI staff]( [Michael Cohen heads to prison in Trump hush-money scheme]( By [Michael R. 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