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What Matters Most On Friday, May 20, 2016

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Outgoing Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon announces his resignation from the Knesset on May 20, 2016, at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

'This is existential... I fear for Israel's future'

Leaving politics, Ya’alon warns of ‘dangerous’ forces who ‘took over’ Likud, Israel

Ex-chief of staff, being replaced as defense minister by Liberman, urges Likud voters, a ‘sane, respectable and responsible public,’ to fight back

Ya’alon quits politics over ‘lack of faith’ in Netanyahu

Ya’alon resignation draws flood of praise, consternation

More Israelis prefer Ya’alon to Liberman as defense minister — polls

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, Avigdor Liberman, center, and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in the Knesset on November 12, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Analysis

The winners and the losers in the emerging coalition shake-up

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu has just made his worst rival his ally, and his ally his worst rival; Ya’alon is out — but he’ll be back; Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick is in; and Herzog may have just lost everything

Amir Peretz, November 10, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

What Liberman could learn from Israel’s last non-general defense chief

Like dovish Labor Party ex-leader Amir Peretz, Liberman lacks credentials for security position, must avoid mismanagement of military

PA: Liberman appointment shows Israel no partner for peace

PM, Liberman said to agree to revive bill on death penalty for terrorists

Coalition with Liberman will still back two-state solution, Israeli official says

In this Saturday, May 7, 2016 photo, Eritrean Christian Orthodox migrants attend a mass at a makeshift church in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Photo essay

Eritrean migrants find escape in Tel Aviv church

By Oded Balilty

Makeshift center of worship provides spiritual relief to hundreds of migrants facing hardship in Israel

Shabbat and holidays are occasions to bask in God’s presence, as people can’t sustain perpetual spirituality (Emor)

David Sarna Galdi

Between a vine and a hard place

Should a glass of wine from the West Bank have moral ramifications?

How El Al’s vigilance helped him achieve spiritual readiness, as he prepares for his ordination as a priest

Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog talks to Channel 2 television on May 19, 2016 (screen capture)

Herzog: World leaders were pushing for unity government

By Daniel Douek and Marissa Newman

Defending failed bid to enter coalition, opposition leader says most of deal to join coalition was written up, but PM ‘balked’ at diplomacy; invites Ya’alon to join Zionist Union

A still image taken from an April 15, 2016 Channel 2 report on the Qalandiya checkpoint, which highlighted the difficulties Palestinian workers face crossing into Israel from the West Bank. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Ya’alon, Kahlon unveil plan to upgrade West Bank checkpoints

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense minister says two-year, NIS 300m scheme will result in 30-50% drop in waiting times for Palestinians

A Palestinian woman and her children wait for the light rail, in the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat in north Jerusalem. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Security forces foil planned stabbing in Jerusalem

Palestinian, 16, arrested in possession of butterfly knife, allegedly admits to intending to attack police

Michael Manor, owner of Mother Nature's Miracle, and his daughter, office manager Shahar Groode at farm headquarters on the island of Hawaii (Lisa Klug/Times of Israel)

Expat Israelis cultivate ‘kibbutz’ vibe in Hawaiian paradise

Illustration. Palestinian students protest at a checkpoint entrance in the divided West Bank city of Hebron on May 12, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

Flashpoint Hebron neighborhood partially reopens after 8-month IDF closure

By Judah Ari Gross

Nonresidents aged 15-30 still barred from Tel Rumeida, but other restrictions have been eased, army says

Palestinian imprisoned journalist, Mohammed al-Qiq hugs flashes the sign of victory as he arrives in his village Dura, in southern West Bank after he was released from the Israeli Nafha Prison on May 19, 2016. (AFP/ HAZEM BADER)

Israel frees Palestinian who spent months on hunger strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

Mohammed al-Qiq, accused of working for Hamas, fasted for 94 days to protest his administrative detention

Incoming head of the IDF Gaza Division Yehuda Fuchs (left) shakes hands with Southern Command chief Eyal Zamir (center) during a ceremony marking the exit of Brig. Gen. Itay Virov (right), from the position, at the division's base near the Gaza border, May 19, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

As new Gaza commander comes in, IDF says its finger is on the trigger

By Judah Ari Gross

Southern Command chief: ‘We do not pursue war, nor do we fear it’; outgoing division chief heads to Ground Forces

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault gives a joint press during a foreign affairs ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, May 19, 2016. (AFP/JOHN THYS)

France to hold summit on Israel, Palestinians on June 3

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Kerry to attend Paris meet for 20 countries as French FM warns that ‘every day the situation on the ground gets worse’

A judge in the international competition at Rome's public Rose Garden stops to smell the roses. (Courtesy Rome Garden Authority)

The not-so-rosy history of Rome’s public Rose Garden

By Rossella Tercatin

For hundreds of years the Jews of Rome buried their dead here — until the Mussolini regime turned it into a narcissistic tribute

In this Thursday, May 19, 2016 video image released by the Egyptian Defense Ministry, an Egyptian plane flies over a ship during the search in the Mediterranean Sea for the missing EgyptAir flight 804 plane, which crashed after disappearing from the radar early Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Egyptian Defense Ministry)

Egypt army says plane wreckage found near Alexandria

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Cairo air and naval forces to continue search for debris from EgyptAir flight 804, which crashed in Mediterranean Thursday

New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman. (screen capture: YouTube)

Trump backers hurl anti-Semitic tweets at NY Times editor

By Gabe Friedman

Jonathan Weisman calls out racism among Republican candidate’s supporters and receives some in return

This photo taken on March 2, 2016 shows a combination of file photos of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on January 14, 2016 and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on February 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / PHOTO DESK)

Fox News poll gives Trump 3-point lead over Clinton

By Stuart Winer

Survey puts presumptive Republican nominee at 45%, compared to 42% for his Democratic rival; most doubt integrity of both

Elton John's last concert in Israel was in 2010, and he said that 'no one could have stopped him from performing in Israel' (Courtesy Shuki Weiss)

Thursday night's alright

Elton John promises a ‘wonderful, crazy’ night in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Israeli actress Ania Bukstein plays red priestess Kinvara in the latest season of epic fantasy TV show 'Game of Thrones' (Courtesy Ania Bukstein Facebook page)

Shalom WesterosIsraeli actors make their debuts in Game of Thrones

By Jessica Steinberg

Blackley Cemetery in Manchester (CC BY-SA Keith Williamson, Wikipedia)

Vandals deface graves in Jewish cemetery in Manchester

By Daniel Douek

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 15, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)

PM denies French fraud suspect gave him $1 million for campaign

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an elderly couple taking a walk in the Jerusalem Forest. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli life expectancy ranks among world’s highest

Dallas civil rights lawyer Ira Edwin Tobolowsky, who died in a fire on May 13, 2016. (Facebook via JTA)

Dallas Jewish lawyer was victim of ‘a hit,’ a friend says

By JTA

Swastikas painted in Rio Jewish neighborhood

By JTA

Members of the first graduating class of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (Courtesy)

First class of Technion-Cornell program set to graduate

Illustrative photo of Israeli police cars (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Policeman Natan Yossipov, hurt in Nazareth hit-and-run, dies

The Ontario Business Mission to Israel in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Ontario delegation signs business agreements in Tel Aviv

Illustrative: Doctors perform surgery on a patient at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Leukemia cure could be on the way, says med-tech firm Biosight

Leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party Avigdor Liberman speaks at a press conference in the Knesset, on May 18, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe age of Liberman

By Adiv Sterman

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