“The battle is not over,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of the conflict with the Gaza Strip-ruling Hamas on Wednesday.
Netanyahu was speaking at an official state ceremony for Israel’s annual Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism. The speech came after a weekend of fierce fighting between Israel and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups in Gaza.
Hundreds of rockets were fired at Israel’s southern communities over a two-day span, killing four civilians. A ceasefire was announced on Monday.
“We are carefully weighing our next steps to ensure Israel’s security,” Netanyahu pledged, according to Hebrew news site Walla.

Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky held what was called a “historic” meeting on May 6 in Kiev with the six leading representatives of the country’s Jewish community.
The meeting with the chief rabbis of Ukraine’s six most populous regions—geographically representing the entire country—included Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki of Dnipro, Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz of Kharkov, Rabbi Avraham Wolff of Odessa, Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm of Zhitomir and Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski of Donetsk. Rabbi Moshe Asman, rabbi of the central Brodsky synagogue in Kiev, also attended.

Oklahoma City – A former U.S. soldier from Oklahoma who was pardoned this week for his 2009 conviction for killing an Iraqi prisoner says he initially didn’t answer the White House’s phone call to tell him of the pardon. Michael Behenna said Wednesday that he was on the phone with his father when the call [...]

As festivities kick off, president says when he was a boy he couldn't fly Israeli flag, while today it is everywhere -- even space

Detectives are investigating after a Miami Beach cafe received a disturbing phone call on Monday.
Detectives gathered evidence, including phone records and recordings, from Bagel Time Café on Alton Road after the owner, Yehoshua Nodel, said his wife got the call from a man who began asking strange questions.
“(He) wanted to know if we’re Jewish. Wanted to know if our workplace is Jewish. She said, ‘Yes.” So he said, ‘Oh, I know all of you Jews in the world, what you do. I’m going to expose you all,'” Nodel said.
The Nodel’s received several more strange call from the man, who continued to threaten the couple, who eventually turned the case over to the police.

Brooklyn, NY – The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is looking into an attack that took place yesterday in Williamsburg as a possible bias incident after a 39 year old Chasidic man was hit in the head by an unidentified man in broad daylight. Police said that the attack took place at approximately 7:40 PM [...]

As Israel prepared to observe yet another Remembrance Day, the Neturi Karta extremists did not disappoint as they were out at Jerusalem’s Kikar Shabbos to protest the day.
At some point on Tuesday night, they tore an Israeli flag off of an Egged bus that was halted due to their protest.

An op-ed by Sergei Glazyev appears to float conspiracy theory that Zelensky wants to replace ethnic Russians with Jews from Israel in eastern Ukraine

The room at Washington's signature performing art space will echo topography of country, with walls lined in Jerusalem stone and panels representing the tribes of Israel