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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 7, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett shake hands in this image released by Netanyahu's Likud party after the two men announced that they had reached an agreement that would see Jewish Home join a Netanyahu-led coalition, Wednesday, May 6, 2015 (photo credit: new media/Likud)

With less than 2 hours to spare, Netanyahu secures a coalition

PM informs president he’s clinched a 61-seat government after 11th-hour talks with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett, expresses hope for an expanded coalition by next week

Hoping to woo Herzog, Netanyahu to keep Foreign Ministry in back pocket

By Adiv Sterman

Jewish Home makes it official with Likud deal

Herzog pans new Netanyahu government as ‘national failure’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces he's fired Ministers Lapid and Livni and is calling new elections, in a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 2, 2014. (Photo credit: Emil Salman/POOL)

AnalysisOp-ed

Netanyahu promised a ‘better, more stable government.’ And we got this?

By David Horovitz

Would the PM have put himself, and us, through this whole election nightmare if he’d known he’d wind up pleading with Naftali Bennett for a wafer-thin majority?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving at the weekly cabinet meeting, April 19, 2015. (photo credit: Flash90/Olivier Fitoussi, Pool)

Analysis

How Netanyahu’s election victory became a political rout

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The prime minister made significant concessions to his partners — and still got an unwieldy coalition in an unfriendly Knesset

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat (YouTube screen capture)

Ramallah blasts new Netanyahu government as ‘against peace’

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with UTJ's Meir Porush in the Knesset, on April 29, 2015, after the two parties signed a coalition agreement. To Netanyahu's right is UTJ leader Yaakov Litzman. (Courtesy, Likud Party)

A glance at the challenges facing Israel’s new government

By AP

Live updates (closed)

Likud MK threatens to break up coalition if he isn’t made minister

By Jonathan Beck

Ayoub Kara, No. 24 on the party’s list, says ‘cabinet must have a Druze member’; Obama congratulates Netanyahu on securing government

Lynette Nusbacher

The bacon sandwich makes no difference

She voted for David Cameron, because he’s a moderniser — and not for Ed Miliband, because he’s got Balls

Letter from Kathmandu

In Nepal amidst the chaos of hundreds of injured people queuing for food to keep them alive

Andrew Silow-Carroll

What’s your Jewish handshake?

Why it’s not crazy for Reform Jewish kids to learn the words and melodies of the traditional grace after meals

Ed Miliband, the leader of Britain's Labour Party, takes a question during an election campaign news conference, April 29, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Matt Dunham, File)

Ed Miliband’s cousin in Tel Aviv isn’t sure she’d vote for him

By Rahel Jaskow

Miri Krimolovsky, Israel Radio’s cultural reporter, remembers would-be British PM fondly, says ‘it will be a big surprise if he wins’

Protestors demonstrate as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative party David Cameron (R) leaves with his wife Samantha after voting at a polling station in Spelsbury on May 7, 2015 as Britain holds a general election (photo credit: AFP/ LEON NEAL)

Britons head to polls in suspense-filled election

By AFP

Country faces choice between David Cameron’s center-right Conservatives or Ed Miliband’s center-left Labour in what appears to be closest race in decades

Dr. Asher Monser checks a reluctant toddler at the IsrAID mobile clinic in a village ten hours northeast of Kathmandu. (Photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Clinic in a backpack brings Israeli relief to remote Nepal areas

By Melanie Lidman

Palestinian terrorists from the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, squat in a tunnel, used for ferrying rockets and mortars back and forth in preparation for the next conflict with Israel, as they take part in military training in the south of the Gaza Strip, on March 3, 2015. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

IDF to follow up on claims of Gaza tunnel under kibbutz

After private firm concludes subterranean activity below Nirim, army agrees to conduct investigation

A US F-15E Strike Eagle during a training run in Utah in 2010. (US Air Force)

US may sell Saudis bombs once only offered to Israel — report

Possible bunker buster sale, along with offering F-35s to UAE, reportedly being weighed as part of American effort to allay regional fears of Iran deal

View of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan near Jerusalem's Old City, on April 29, 2015. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Jewish activists move into building in Arab Jerusalem neighborhood

By Rahel Jaskow

Structure in Silwan was once the synagogue of a village built there for Yemenite immigrants in the 1880s, NGO claims

Illustrative photo of a construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, December 2012 (AP/Dan Balilty)

Israel okays 900 East Jerusalem homes, peace group says

By AFP and ToI Staff

District planning committee said to authorize project in ultra-Orthodox neighborhood; Interior Ministry plays down report

A view of the Sudanese city of Omdurman (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Bertramz CC BY 3.0)

Sudan unsure where downed drone came from

By AFP

Army says it shot down a reconnaissance aircraft after residents report hearing explosions near military site

The cast of 'Fauda,' the YES drama about undercover agents in the West Bank, co-created by Avi Issacharoff, who writes for The Times of Israel (Ohad Romano)

Chaotic television

Israelis won over by TV drama ‘Fauda’

By Jessica Steinberg

Ultra-realistic show about hunt for fictional Hamas terrorist renewed for second season

Natalie Portman (Courtesy)

Natalie vs. Netanyahu

Portman ‘very upset’ by Netanyahu win

By Tamar Pileggi

Despite criticism of PM, the Israeli-American actress careful not to use her platform to ‘shit on Israel’

Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather around a bonfire during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in Bnei Brak on May 6, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Lag B’Omer bonfires spark air pollution spike

Pollution up tenfold in parts of Bnei Brak, Jerusalem

Doron Myersdorf, CEO of StoreDot (BBC screenshot)

StoreDot promises electric car that charges in 5 minutes

By David Shamah

After developing the technology to recharge cellphones in seconds, Israeli start-up sets its sight on the EV market

Illustrative: Mohammad Nourizad appears with a bloody face after protesting outside the home of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khaminei, October 14, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy/Abazar Noorizad)

From ally to dissident, Iran activist defies the ayatollahs

By Elhanan Miller

More Headlines

Former TA district attorney Ruth David arrives at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, after being arrested in connection with the investigation against lawyer Ronel Fisher (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former district attorney arrested in major bribery case

By Daniel Bernstein

A Saudi Arabian Airlines plane in Paris in 2011 (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia)

In the wingsSaudi plane lands in Israel… empty

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber performs during a concert in Tel Aviv, April 14, 2011. (photo credit Gili Yaari/Flash 90)

Routing 'round RouhaniIran fails to keep Instagram Bieber-free

By Raphael Satter

An ultra-Orthodox man studying religious texts with a computer at a Yeshiva in Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

NJ telecom firm to launch cybersecurity yeshiva

By JTA

FIFA President Sepp Blatter at a press conference in Jerusalem, on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. (photo credit: Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

FIFA to host Israeli and Palestinian soccer heads

By AP

Jonathan Vadei, owner of the 'alternatively-kosher' Carousela, has just won a legal battle (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

In about-face, state okays private kosher certification

By Jessica Steinberg

Anti-racism groups and unions join a protest outside the high security prison in Korydallos, near Athens, where the trial of 69 members of the Greek extreme right Golden Dawn party started, April 20, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)

Golden Dawn leaders snub trial for second time

By Sophie MAKRIS

A smattering of MKs in the Knesset plenum on May 4, 2015. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media review61 is the loneliest number

By Joshua Davidovich

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