A planned meeting on Monday, May 6, 2019, between Yahadut Hatorah and Likud coalition negotiators was canceled at the behest of Yahadut Hatorah, as the chareidi lawmakers were angered after learning of the mass Chilul Shabbos that will take place as Israel hosts the Eurovision Song Contest.

The second day of Rosh Chodesh Iyar passed with a minimal showing of Women of the Wall (WoW) at the Kosel on Monday. There was less than twenty women present, surprising many as a new government is forming and the matter of the future of an egalitarian prayer area and other issues important to Reform Jewry are yet to be determined.

Despite reports of the ceasefire, and despite the fact that the quiet in the southern communities has been maintained since the morning hours and that the special instructions of the IDF Homefront Command have been removed, Prime Minister Netanyahu makes it clear: “The campaign is not over.”
“In the past two days, we have hit Hamas and the Islamic Jihad with great force,” Netanyahu said.

President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin was Menachem Avel on the Prezuazman family, whose son Pinchas Menachem HY”D was killed yesterday by flying shrapnel in Ashdod.

Palestinian officials said a ceasefire agreement has been reached with Israel to end a recent surge of violence in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel that has led to the deaths of at least 24 Palestinians and four Israelis.

Ambulance sirens are heard fairly often during a regular day and even more so when a national emergency is occurring. Over the past few days, as air raid sirens in the south of Israel have become far too common, the ambulance sirens, which can sound similar, have been causing people to panic unnecessarily and believe that an air raid siren is sounding when there isn’t one.

Hamas has fired 600 rockets into Israel from Gaza since the start of the Jewish Sabbath. Three Israelis have been killed and 131 Israeli civilians are being treated for injuries.

Major General Kamil Abu-Rokun who heads the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) division in the military announced that as of tomorrow Israel will no longer be allowing gasoline to enter into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing.

During the night (motzei Shabbos), Israel Air Force planes attacked more than 60 terrorist targets throughout Gaza, and since Saturday night the IDF has attacked about 200 terrorist targets in Gaza.
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Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva during the night transferred patients from non-fortified areas to protected areas in light of renewed warfare, the Hamas rocket fire from Gaza.