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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 21, 2016

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Former prime minister Ehud Barak being interviewed by Channel 10 on May 20, 2016. (Screen capture Channel 10)

Barak warns of ‘fascism’ in Israel’s government; Livni sees an ‘ethical crisis’

Former PM Barak says Ya’alon was ‘purged’ by Netanyahu; ex-FM Livni protests the choice of Liberman, who ‘opposes army’s code of ethics’

‘My conscience is clear,’ says Herzog as Liberman appointment roils Israel

Netanyahu reissues unity government offer to Zionist Union

Livni: Set aside egos, create bloc that can win elections

Roni Daniel, left, bangs his fist on the table during a Channel 2 studio debate, May 20, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Top Israeli reporter on live TV: Not sure I want my kids to stay here

Channel 2’s veteran military correspondent delivers despairing outburst during debate on latest coalition machinations

Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on March 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Defenseless Netanyahu must now move quickly to draft Liberman

Ya’alon’s resignation leaves PM with little wiggle room in negotiations with Yisrael Beytenu, which is facing its own mini-revolt. Meanwhile, shaky Herzog is hoping to draw in the dissatisfied from the right

PM ‘regrets’ Ya’alon’s resignation, refusal of Foreign Ministry

Hardline US-born rabbi Yehudah Glick to enter Knesset for Likud

By AFP and ToI Staff

Arab states ‘willing to change peace initiative, waiting to hear from PM’

Posters featured in 'Sign from Iran,' the new exhibit that opened at Jerusalem's Museum of Islamic Art on May 19, 2016 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Iranian poster art goes on display at Jerusalem museum

By Jessica Steinberg

In marked contrast to Iran’s anti-Semitic Holocaust cartoon contest, Israel’s Islamic art institute pays tribute to Persian history

David (Danny Hoffman) and Sarah (Sara Scur) in 'Soon By You' (Dignity Entertainment)

'The stakes are high in Orthodox dating'

New web series charts trials of searching for your bashert in the Big Apple

By Renee Ghert-Zand

‘Soon By You’ is humorous take on NY Modern Orthodox’s fumbling attempts to make a match

The plague on Israel’s house

Don’t worry about what the newly rejiggered leadership might do, they won’t do much…and that’s the problem

Defending my defense of Israel

As a Bernie Sanders supporter, he is best placed to stand against leftists who demonize the Jewish state

The Arab failure to destroy Israel

Nakba Day is not about pursuing a state for Palestinian Arabs, but about destroying the one Jewish state in the world

Right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) presidential candidate Norbert Hofer on May 20, 2016 (AFP Photo/Joe Klamar)

Far-right Austrian presidential hopeful accused of lying over Jerusalem terror incident

By AFP

Norbert Hofer claims he saw a woman armed with grenades being shot at Temple Mount in 2014. Times of Israel and other reports on incident are very different

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington, DC, March 21, 2016. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

Sheldon Adelson, RJC ‘laying the groundwork’ for a Trump trip to Israel

By Julie Bykowicz

Republican Jewish leaders already working on visit, the Guardian says, which will take place ahead of GOP convention

US National Rifle Association endorses Trump for president

By AFP

Unite behind Republican candidate or ‘kiss your guns goodbye’ if Clinton is elected, says NRA

A foreign journalist broadcasting from the Israel-Gaza border, July 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Foreign press group blasts Hamas’s ‘thuggish behavior’

Umbrella organization says Gaza rulers are banning journalists from Strip and curtailing them when they don’t like their reporting

Mahmoud al-Zahar speaks at a Hamas rally in Gaza on December 14, 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

Hamas on Liberman appointment: ‘Let him come near Gaza’

The headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Group that helped promote Iran nuke deal also funded media reports

By Bradley Klapper

Ploughshares Fund gave money to NPR, other news outlets to cover accord; says its money did not ‘influence editorial content in any way’

Vanderbilt graduate student Taylor Force was killed Tuesday March 8, 2016 in a terror attack in Jaffa. (Facebook)

Israel returns to PA bodies of Jaffa, Petah Tikva terrorists

One of bodies is that of Bashar Massalha, who killed US tourist Taylor Force in seafront rampage in March

Christian pilgrims wait in line to visit the tomb of Jesus in the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem Friday, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

After 200 years, Jesus’s tomb in Jerusalem being restored

By AP

Efforts to repair and conserve Church of Holy Sepulchre finally get under way

French Minister for Foreign Affairs Jean-Marc Ayrault speaks during a press conference in Paris, May 21, 2016. (AFP/Matthieu Alexandre)

Paris: No theories ruled out on EgyptAir crash after smoke report

By AFP

Ayrault says France’s ‘dual goal’ is ‘solidarity with the families but also transparency’ on why plane went down

Villagers from Umm al-Hiran sit in a tent on Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv on May 20, 2016. (Courtesy: Arab List Spokesperson)

Facing eviction, Bedouins seek support on chic Tel Aviv street

Offering food and coffee to passersby, residents of unrecognized villages who could lose their homes plead their case on Rothschild Boulevard

Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah is seen on a giant screen broadcasting his speech on May 20, 2016 in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut during a memorial ceremony to mark a week since slain Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine (portrait) was killed in an artillery attack near Damascus. (Joseph Eid/AFP)

Nasrallah: Hezbollah to bolster Syria presence after commander killed

By AFP

Terror leader vows revenge for death of Mustafa Badreddine near Damascus, says Israel was not responsible

Husband and wife Jewish-American bluegrass duo Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg are the faces of Nefesh Mountain (courtesy)

The hills are alive with the sound of Jewgrass

More Headlines

Eagles of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes performs on the stage of the Debaser Medis in Stockholm, on February 13, 2016. (Vilhelm Stokstad/TT News Agency/AFP)

Bataclan band’s concerts nixed after singer says he saw Muslims celebrating

By AFP

94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning arrives for his trial in Detmold, Germany, February 11, 2016. (Bernd Thissen/Pool Photo via AP)

Prosecutors seek 6-year sentence for ex-Auschwitz guard

By AP

Illustrative. A street vendor sells rice crackers from her bicycle in downtown Hanoi on May 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH NAM)

Israeli succumbs to injuries sustained in fall in Vietnam

Illustrative: Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

UC Irvine chancellor: Anti-Israel protesters ‘crossed the line of civility’

By JTA

The skyline of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 12, 2013. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Ontario anti-BDS bill defeated

By JTA

Homeless Israeli woman in Rio de Janeiro Olga Babaev (screen capture: Facebook)

Dignity and respectFacebook group helps homeless Israeli woman in Rio

By JTA

US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew talks to reporters during a press briefing in Sendai, northern Japan, Friday, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Elaine Kurtenbach)

World powers pledge to step up war on terrorist funding

By Elaine Kurtenbach

An Israeli-built Elbit Systems Hermes 450 unmanned aircraft is towed out of a hangar at the Hillsboro, North Dakota airport, where it was being used to collect agricultural data, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)

Israel’s Elbit brings drone tech to North Dakota farmers

By DAVE KOLPACK

A vigil in Buenos Aires on the first anniversary of Argentinean prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death, January 18, 2016. (Omer Musa Targal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Argentine prosecutor: Nisman may have been ‘induced’ to kill himself

By AP

Daniel Burman (YouTube screenshot)

Netflix acquires original series created by Argentine Jewish filmmaker

By JTA

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