Times of Israel:
After a rocket is intercepted over the skies of Ashdod on Monday night, interrupting an outdoor production of “The Sound of Music,” the Hebrew papers on Tuesday wonder if Israel ought to expect an encore of last summer’s Gaza war. Meanwhile, an Arab lawmaker’s outburst on the Temple Mount has pundits questioning his sanity and Israeli policy.
Some 5,000 people were evacuated from an Ashdod open-air theater as the sirens rang out, Yedioth Ahronoth reports. “The classic musical was presented under the stars and with a huge crowd comprised of city residents and 1,500 residents of the Gaza border towns, who were given a special invitation [to the event],” it reports.
“Oded Feldman, a producer of the show, told Yedioth Ahronoth last night that the siren was triggered as the curtain fell. ‘The actors were already in the wing — and they quickly dropped to the floor.’”
In a column for the paper, Matan Tzuri laments that for residents of the south, “nothing has changed” since the 50-day conflict in 2014.
“The rocket fire is renewed but is not new,” he writes.
“Indeed, nothing has changed since Operation Protective Edge. The simple and loyal citizens deserve at least the absolute minimum, a new and quiet situation. In the history of the world, after every war, something new began. It didn’t matter what, but something new happened. And only here did a long and difficult war come to an end, in which soldiers fought like lions, citizens displayed model resilience, and we’re back to same point: the trickle of rocket fire that will turn into the next war, in who knows how long.”
Yedioth channels its inner Jewish mother in its front-page spread, which panics about chicken shortages and rising vegetable prices in Israeli supermarkets. The daily features no less than four separate items about stock in four supermarkets around the country. “The shelves are empty,” its headline reads…
