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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 6, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 29, 2018. (Amit Shabi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Cabinet to reconsider law authorizing PM to declare war without consultation

Less than a week after Knesset passes legislation, ministers said to realize that it was too extreme and accept proposal requiring proposal to be clarified

6:44 pm

Student groups at California college call for increase in funding for all but ‘Zionist’ clubs
6:30 pm

Several dozen Haredi protesters block major Jerusalem intersection
6:24 pm

In testimony over exorbitant food costs, Sara Netanyahu says she wasn't one in charge

Rabbi Aaron Panken (Hebrew Union College)

Rabbi Aaron Panken, Hebrew Union College president, killed in plane crash at 53

By JTA

Reform Jewish leader, who has helmed the movement’s flagship seminary since 2014, was a licensed commercial pilot

Education Minister Naftali Bennett arrives at the Prime Minister's Office to attend the weekly cabinet meeting on May 6, 2018. (Jim Hollander/AFP)

Legislation would let 61 MKs overturn court blocks on laws

Bill to rein in High Court gets ministers’ okay, but Kulanu vows to stop it

By Raoul Wootliff

While Jewish Home hails victory, Kulanu head Moshe Kahlon promises to battle the ‘supercession law’ championed by what he calls ‘extreme factions’

Zionist Union faction head Avi Gabbay speaks at the Israeli Social Conference 2018 in Tel Aviv on May 1, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu is turning Israel into Turkey, opposition chief charges

Illustrative: Israelis protest against corruption, urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, in Tel Aviv on February 16, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Protester arrested for trying to hang anti-Netanyahu sign at Giro d’Italia

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the press at the Kirya government headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Conflict with Iran better now than later

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime minister says Israel will do whatever it takes to prevent Iranian entrenchment in Syria; stresses importance of his upcoming meeting with Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an event marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, January 29, 2018. (Vasily Maximov/AFP)

Netanyahu to meet Putin next week as Iran tensions rise

File: A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 bomber taking off from the Hmeimim airbase in the Syrian province of Latakia, October 3, 2015. (AFP/Komsomolskaya Pravda/Alexander Kots)

Former defense minister: Israel was moments from downing Russian jet

An axe, lighter fluid, gloves, wirecutters and a lighter, which were in the possession of three Palestinian men who were shot dead as they entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip on May 6, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it killed three terrorists infiltrating from Gaza

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Army reports opening fire at four men trying to cross fence with the intention of damaging infrastructure or attacking soldiers

Hamas claims 6 gunmen were killed by exploding Israeli spy system, vows revenge

Six Hamas members killed as large explosion rocks central Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Fearing assassinations, Hamas boosts security around leaders — report

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Palestinian protesters fly a kite with a burning rag dangling from its tail, during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

In first, Israeli planes bomb Hamas post in response to Gazan ‘attack kites’

Army says site had been used to launch ‘burning incendiaries’ into Israel, stresses no connection to blast in Strip killing 6 the same day

In new videos, IDF accuses Gazans of faking injury, taking small kids to riots

AnalysisIn Gaza, setting fire to their own gas lines to fuel the flames of protest

By Avi Issacharoff

Malaysian police claim to find guns, van used by assassins of Hamas drone expert

Cyclists ride during the second stage at the Giro d'Italia near Beit Yanai on May 5, 2018. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Cyclists ready for desert sprint as Giro d’Italia races into final Israel stage

Residents of Israel’s south expected to come out to cheer riders before they transfer to Italy to conclude major bike contest

Israel media reviewVictory lap: 6 things to know for May 6

By Tamar Pileggi

Israelis make strong showing in Giro d’Italia’s Haifa-to-Tel Aviv Stage 2

By Melanie Lidman

Viviani wins 2nd stage of Giro d’Italia in Tel Aviv

Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, pretends to tear a piece of paper as he speaks about the Iran nuclear agreement while speaking at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and democracy at the Grand Hyatt, Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Giuliani indicates Trump will nix Iran nuclear deal

By Eric Cortellessa

President’s newest attorney says regime change in Tehran ‘more important’ than an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal

Trump team hired Israeli firm to discredit Obama aides, Iran deal – UK report

Macron: If Trump pulls out of Iran deal ‘it could mean war’

Iran’s Rouhani warns US it will ‘regret’ pulling out of nuclear deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Simon Slama, the only Jewish candidate on the Islamist Ennahda party's list for the municipal elections in the central coastal city of Monastir, speaks while campaigning on April 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Bechir Taieb)

In Tunisia’s first local vote since 2011, Jewish candidate runs on Muslim list

Simon Slama, one of country’s 1,200 remaining Jews, running on slate of Islamist party Ennahdha in the town of Monastir

A Lebanese Hezbollah supporter casts a ballot at a polling station during the Lebanon's parliamentary elections in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanese line up for vote billed as Riyadh-Tehran battle

Lebanese election registrars break the seals open from a ballot box as their poll station opens to receive voters in the first parliamentary election in nine years, in the coastal city of Byblos, north of the capital Beirut, on May 6, 2018. (AFP/Joseph EID)

Polls open in Lebanon as Hezbollah challenges Western-backed Hariri

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose for a photo at the PM's office in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. (AFP/Abir SULTAN)

Not so honest with Abe

Netanyahu falsely claims press reported ‘nothing’ on Japan PM’s visit

By Raphael Ahren

Media analysts find that Hebrew media carried more than four dozen items about Shinzo Abe’s 12-hour trip — which was mostly closed to the press

Israel and Diaspora Jewry: We really need to talk

Israelis must stop expecting US Jews to open their wallets and close their mouths: it’s time for a dialogue of equals

Hillel Schenker

A different approach to Iran: Talk to them

Netanyahu should extend his hand to Rouhani, we were allies in the past and we’ll be allies in the future

Farewell to drip irrigation and cherry tomatoes

Such signature Israeli innovations will become fewer and further between due to shortsighted funding cuts

Talia Chain showing off the Havdalah area of her Sadeh Jewish farm near London, April 17, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Outside London, British Jewry’s first communal farm in decades takes root

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with Austria's then-foreign minister Sebastian Kurz in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Amid row over far-right Freedom Party, Austrian chancellor to visit Israel

By Raphael Ahren

A group of Taiwanese visitors march in the 'Tabernacles' parade held by Christian groups each year on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, September 24, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli chutzpah, Taiwan’s Confucian culture can be a ‘great match’ in business

By Shoshanna Solomon

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives for the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister intervened to help secure Olmert’s early release — report

A construction site for new apartment buildings in Beit Shemesh photographed on February 21, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Beit Shemesh city officials arrested in graft case

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative photo of Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium during an international soccer match, on October 10, 2015. (Flash90)

Messi in Teddy: Jerusalem chosen as site of Israel-Argentina soccer match

By ToI Staff and JTA

Colombian singer Shakira, left, talks with Israeli president Shimon Peres at their press conference at the President's Conference in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

This is her momentShakira to play her first Israel gig in Tel Aviv in July

By ToI Staff and AFP

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