On Thursday morning, a Jewish man was stabbed as he walked to synagogue, but he survived. The latest eruption of Israeli-Arab warfare bears many of the hallmarks of past conflicts: round after round of Israeli airstrikes on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and salvos of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel. But this time, a distinctly different type of violence has spilled over into Israeli cities, some of them with mixed Jewish and Arab populations living closely intertwined lives. Ramat Eshkol, a hardscrabble neighborhood near the old quarter of Lod, has been one of the hottest flash points of violence in the town. Israeli flags flying out the windows mark some of the Jewish apartments.

Source: New York Times May 13, 2021 16:41 UTC