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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 29, 2016

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Education Minister Naftali Bennet seen during a meeting with school students in Jerusalem, on May 29, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett steps up threats to quit coalition, topple government

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Jewish Home leader says he’ll protect soldiers ‘from within coalition or outside it’; Knesset speaker urges parties to reach deal to avoid ‘unnecessary elections’

In Tel Aviv, thousands protest Israel’s ‘fascist’ incoming defense minister

By Tamar Pileggi

Arab MKs tell US lawmakers new Netanyahu gov’t an obstacle to peace

By Tamar Pileggi

We are on the brink of another coalition crisis, says senior Likud MK

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati arrives with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal at a ceremony at Tehran university, Feb. 2, 2009. The picture frame features Iran's late leader Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Analysis

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: The administration keeps mum as Tehran elevates a ‘Death to America’-spouting radical, but speaks out as peace-promising Liberman joins Israel’s coalition. Go figure

Iran demands social media sites deliver data on its citizens

By AFP

Iran arrests 8 for producing ‘obscene’ music videos

By AFP

Conservative reelected as Iran parliament speaker

By AFP

Education Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem on May 29, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Zionist Union plummets, Likud stays on top in Knesset poll

By Raoul Wootliff and Joshua Davidovich

Yesh Atid would jump to second-largest party and Jewish Home leap to 14 seats were elections held today, survey finds

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard H. Bernstein was elected last year as the first visually-impaired judge to fill the position. After years of working as an attorney advocating for people with and without disabilities, Bernstein can continue his campaign from the bench (courtesy)

Justice is blind for Michigan residents

By Amy K. Rosenthal

Visually impaired Justice Richard H. Bernstein is a tireless advocate for the disabled. He’s also an 18-time marathon runner and an Ironman athlete. Why he feels blessed

Yehudit Jessica Singer

Rethinking the ‘singles crisis’

How her purchase of a complete set of dishes helped propel her across the bridge out of singlehood

Daniel S. Mariaschin

The futility of fairness at the UN

On the banality of yet another anti-Israel resolution that amounts to nothing less than a blood libel

Joshua Hammerman

Wait, wait…don’t lose it

10 things to do this Memorial Day weekend while stuck in traffic or waiting endlessly at the airport

Sara Netanyahu arrives to testify at the Menny Naftali trial at the Jerusalem Labor Court on May 10, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police recommend Sara Netanyahu stand trial on graft allegations

Sufficient evidence said found to indict prime minister’s wife, 2 others over financial irregularities at Prime Minister’s Residence

Former deputy police commissioner Yoav Segalovich together with Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid after announcing he would be joining the party, May 29, 2016. (Courtesy)

Former corruption-busting cop throws in lot with Yesh Atid

Firefighters and rescue personnel at the scene of a suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem, in which 20 people were wounded, on April 18, 2016, (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hamas cell accused of bombing Jerusalem bus nabbed

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet says group of 6 Palestinians from Bethlehem planned suicide blast, as well as future attacks in capital

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Fresno, California, May 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Violence, vitriol toward minorities come to define US presidential race

By Jesse J. Holland

2016 campaign surfaces deep-seated tensions that critics say are exacerbated by GOP candidate Donald Trump’s rhetoric

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives at a rally at the University of California, Riverside, in Riverside, California, May 24, 2016. (AP/John Locher)

Trump or not, ‘big data’ could be huge in 2016 vote

Anthony Graziano faces a possible life sentence after being found guilty on May 28, 2016 of terrorism for vandalizing and firebombing Jewish temples and a rabbi's home in 2012.

New Jersey man convicted of terrorism for synagogue firebombings

By AP and ToI Staff

Anthony Graziano, 24, faces life in prison for series of attacks, arson at rabbi’s home where family was sleeping

Samah, one of two female students in the class at the TRI/O Tech entrepreneurship hub in the Israeli-Arab town of Kafr Kassem (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

In Kafr Kassem, tech school gives Israeli Arabs start-up ‘chutzpah’

By Simona Weinglass

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (bottom left), Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat (top left), Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi (second from right) and Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa (right) speak during a meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss a French peace initiative in the Egyptian capital Cairo, on May 28, 2016. (AFP/Stringer)

Arab League endorses French peace initiative

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ahead of June 3 summit, Arab ministers back Paris push ‘and all Arab and international efforts’ for peace

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant on March 31, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Housing minister: Government policy not to build in West Bank

Galant indicates there are individuals, ministries that break agreement to limit construction; floats unilateral peace plan

An Israeli army tank is seen stationed near the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams, March 19, 2014. (AFP/Jalaa Marey/File)

At Syrian border, IDF seeks closer contact with civilians on other side

Army establishes liaison unit to help coordinate medical aid and keep watch on war-torn areas where the Assad regime holds no sway

Yemeni men walk past a building, damaged during an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition, in the capital Sanaa on November 29, 2015. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)

US blocks cluster-bomb sales to Saudis: report

By AFP

Move comes amid concerns over civilian casualties in year-long Saudi intervention in Yemen

More Headlines

In this photo taken in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan coast, Friday, May 27, 2016 rescuers help migrants to board the Italian Navy ship Vega, after the boat they were aboard sunk.(Raffaele Martino/Marina Militare via AP Photo)

Up to 700 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean this week

By Sarah El Deeb

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, center, after a speech at a May Day rally in London on May 1, 2016. (AFP/Justin Tallis)

UK Labour leader Corbyn ignores Herzog’s Yad Vashem invite

Illustrative: The Jordanian Parliament. (Jordan Parliament official)

King of Jordan dissolves parliament, appoints new PM

A young paralyzed boy uses the Sesame Enable phone (Courtesy)

Israel accelerator invests in tech for people with disabilities

Ian Gavrielov, a suspect in a double homicide in Rishon Lezion on May 25, 2016, was killed by police Saturday May 28, 2016 after a three-day manhunt. (Courtesy: Israel Police)

Suspect in Rishon Lezion double homicide killed by police

By Daniel Stieglitz and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of a police car. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Police: Gang rape of disabled woman likely not nationalistic attack

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Germany's main opposition leader Sahra Wgenknecht has her face covered with cream after activists threw a cake at her during a party congress in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, May 28, 2016. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)

Eat it tooGerman leftist leader hit with cake over migrant crisis

By AP

Then Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, April 22, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPlaying coalition chicken

By Joshua Davidovich

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