Smashed ice cream parlours and burned synagogues leave Israel facing new threat from the inside While the rockets raining on Gaza and Israel are a familiar sight, sectarian clashes inside Israel this week have come as a shock to many 15 May 2021 • 7:06pm Israelis take cover in a shop as a siren rings during an attack of rockets from Gaza, in the country's Mediterranean city of Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv. Credit: AFP As Henry Sasin watched the news unfold of Arab and Jewish riots across Israeli cities, he received a widely circulated message on his phone. “I am honoured to invite you to take part in a mass murder of Arabs," it read.