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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 14, 2019

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Supreme Court President Esther Hayut arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Safeguarding judges' independence a 'democratic cornerstone'

Supreme Court president invokes Nazi era in implicit swipe at Netanyahu

By Michael Bachner

Esther Hayut says judicial institutions can’t ‘withstand every attack’; PM said to be seeking legislation that would shatter judicial oversight

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem, on Israel's 71st Independence Day, May 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu slams ‘distorted’ reports on his plans to curb Supreme Court

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz speaks at the Knesset on May 13, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

In first Knesset speech, Gantz warns of ‘threat to democratic system’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, April 3, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu collects case files, paving way for pre-indictment hearing

By Raoul Wootliff

Following weeks of stalling, PM says his lawyers have accepted the material after agreeing to receive partial payment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset on February 13, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewLet’s twist again: 9 things to know for May 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on April 14, 2019. (RONEN ZVULUN /AFP)

Prosecution official: If PM doesn’t show for hearing, we’ll indict the next day

Analysis

Year after US embassy move, Jerusalem diplomatic influx fails to materialize

Since DC’s mission opened with great fanfare on May 14, 2018, only one other embassy has opened and stayed in the city — and it may close soon, while the EU is a major obstacle

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the official opening ceremony of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump unveil the inauguration plaque during the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

US warns of Palestinian attacks on anniversary of Jerusalem embassy move

By Michael Bachner

PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi speaks at a press conference in Ramallah on February 24, 2015. (WAFA/File)

Senior Palestinian official Ashrawi says US denied her visa

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative image of autism (KatarzynaBialasiewicz; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli study links autism to general anesthesia in C-sections

Ben-Gurion University research says other types of sedation for the surgery, such as epidural, still relatively safe

Dental surgery (Pixabay)

Israeli startup seeks to boost bone renewal and allow targeted drug delivery

By Shoshanna Solomon

Attendees of the 2019 MIXiii Biomed conference and exhibition held in Tel Aviv May 14-16, 2019. May, 14, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Israel’s life sciences firms said to raise record $1.5 billion in 2018

By Shoshanna Solomon

Police gather evidence at the scene of a stabbing in the Swedish city of Helsingborg in which a Jewish woman was reportedly seriously injured, May 14, 2019. (Screen capture: Aftonbladet)

Jewish woman stabbed, critically injured in Sweden

Victim, in her sixties, said to be active member of Helsingborg community; police treating case as attempted murder, not immediately clear if they see it as a hate crime

Illustrative: A broken window is seen at the center of the Jewish community center, after a suspected anti-Semitic attack in Rostock, northern Germany, January 8, 2009. (AP/ Thomas Haentzschel/File)

German officials say anti-Semitic incidents up 20% in past year

By AP and ToI Staff

Doug Harvey, 95, and Holocaust survivor Sophie Tajch Klisman, 89, right, greet each other in Commerce Township, Michigan, May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Holocaust survivor has emotional meeting with US veteran who liberated her camp

By Mike Householder

Illustrative: A general view of Saudi Arabia oil tanks at a plant in Haradh, about 280 kilometers (170 miles) southwest of the eastern oil city of Dhahran, March 22, 2006. Two pumping stations on a major Saudi oil pipeline were attacked by drones on May 14, 2019, halting the flow of crude along it, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia oil infrastructure hit by drones; Iran-backed rebels claim attack

Two pumping stations hit, bringing flow of crude to a halt as pipeline closed; assaults come days after Israeli TV said Israel warned the US that Iran was weighing such attacks

A cargo ship is seen moored at the port of Fujairah in the Gulf Emirate on May 13, 2019. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

Initial US investigation blames Iran for ship sabotage attacks

By Lolita C. Baldor

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the Oval Office of the White House on May 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

After tanker blasts, Trump warns Iran will ‘suffer greatly’ if it tries anything

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this photo released by the US Navy, a Sea Hawk helicopter prepares to land on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea, May 2, 2019. (US Navy/Michael Singley)

Wary of Iran, White House said weighing plan to send 120,000 troops to MidEast

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Proposal by Pentagon officials suggests deployment nearing Gulf War levels if Iran were to expedite nuclear program or target US forces

Clashes near Ramallah on Nakba Day, when Palestinians commemorate the “catastrophe” that befell them with Israel’s creation in 1948, May 15, 2018. (Flash90)

Iran: Israel the main cause of all regional crises, a threat to global peace

By Stuart Winer

Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi answers the press in the capital Tehran on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Iran says it has begun ‘measures’ to modify commitments to nuclear deal

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks prior to a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez at the US Capitol in Washington on February 13, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Pelosi slams Trump, Republicans for trying to ‘smear’ Tlaib, calls for apology

By Eric Cortellessa

House speaker says attacks against Michigan Democrat are ‘outrageous, gross misrepresentations’ of her comment on the Holocaust

Democrats say Trump and GOP are twisting Tlaib’s Holocaust remarks

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump joins GOP chorus rebuking lawmaker Tlaib for Holocaust comments

By ToI Staff and JTA

Trump praises Hungary’s Orban as ‘tough’ defender of Christians

The hosts of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, Bar Rephaeli, Erez Tal, and Lucy Ayoub on stage during a rehearsal ahead of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv on May 13, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Eurovision officially launches in Tel Aviv with first semi-final

17 countries compete for 10 spots in Saturday’s grand finale. Watch the livestream here, starting 10 p.m.

6:42 pm

Livestream Eurovision's first semi-final here
6:36 pm

US, France and Norway to assist in probe of ship sabotage in Gulf
6:30 pm

Likud MK rebuffs critics of his daughter dating an Arab: 'Get out of her life!'

From Rashida, with Love

Rep. Tlaib didn’t mean Palestinians provided safe haven for Jews after the Holocaust. What she meant was much worse

Protocols of the Zionist Colonial Navy

Let me tell you about how colonialists set sail from landlocked Minsk, Pinsk, and Kishinev to conquer the holy land and settle its green pastures

Interview

Simona Weinglass

New Yisrael Beytenu MK is an ex-spy handler, diplomat…and Roman empire expert

Eli Avidar recently penned a novel about leadership set in the reigns of three emperors, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Septimius Severus. Does he see modern parallels?

Yisrael Beytenu members Alex Kushnir (left), Eli Avidar (center) and party leader Avigdor Liberman at an Israel Independence Day picnic, May 10, 2019 (Facebook)

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman leads a party faction meeting at the Knesset on May 13, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Liberman says no more coalition talks, threatens to walk if demands not met

Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay addresses supporters and media, as the results in the elections are announced at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019. (Flash90)

Labor set to pick new leader in November as Gabbay clings to power

By Raoul Wootliff and Shalom Yerushalmi

Honoree Madonna accepts the advocate for change award at the 30th annual GLAAD Media Awards at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York, on May 4, 2019. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Madonna, ahead of Eurovision performance, says BDS won’t stop her music

Defying boycott calls, queen of pop vows to not be silenced and to speak out against human rights violations

Eurovision organizers say no to politics, but Israel still takes aim at BDS

By Jessica Steinberg

Anti-occupation billboard greets Eurovision visitors to Israel

Good techniqueEurovision producer says Israeli technical prowess ‘amazing’

By Jessica Steinberg

This file photo from February 19, 2014, shows WhatsApp and Facebook app icons on a smartphone. (AP/Patrick Sison)

Israeli company NSO Group suspected of hacking WhatsApp

By AP and ToI Staff

Facebook subsidiary patches ‘very scary vulnerability’ that infected phones via missed WhatsApp calls

Ali AlAhmed poses for a photograph in his office Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, in Washington (AP /Alex Brandon)

Iran-linked disinformation effort had a personal touch

By Raphael Satter

Arab pro-democracy activist, author and blogger Iyad el-Baghdadi attends a press conference in Oslo on May 13, 2019. (Ryan KELLY / NTB Scanpix / AFP)

Palestinian-born activist says Saudi criticism may have made him target

By AP

More Headlines

Im Tirzu movement activists demonstrate near to Arab Israeli and Israeli left wing activist students during a rally marking the Nakba anniversary day at Tel Aviv University on May 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Israeli ‘Canary Mission’: New website fingers ‘anti-Zionist’ academics

(R) Gideon Sa'ar seen during an election campaign tour of the Likud Party in Jerusalem on April 4, 2019. (Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90); (L) Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein attends an elections campaign event of the Union of Right-Wing Parties in Bat Yam on April 6, 2019. (Flash90)

Anti-miscegenation activist calls out Likud MK over daughter dating Arab Israeli

A car belonging to a Palestinian couple is seen after it was involved in a deadly crash reportedly due to stone-throwing by Israeli settlers at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank on October 12, 2018. (Zachariah Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights); Aisha Muhammad Talal Rabi (Courtesy)

Expert casts doubt in case against teen accused of killing Palestinian woman

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov at a press conference at the UNSCO offices in Gaza City, September 25, 2017. (Adel Hana/AP)

UN envoy says ‘last chance’ to prevent all-out war in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Trains are seen near the city of Sderot on July 15, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Authorities to expedite work to shield roads, trains near Gaza

Israeli soldiers seen near IDF tanks stationed near the Gaza border, May 6, 2019 (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

IDF said to restrict open-fire orders for troops near Gaza ahead of Eurovision

In this April 23, 2018, file photo, Stan Lee, left, and Keya Morgan arrive at the world premiere of 'Avengers: Infinity War' in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Elder abuse charges filed against Stan Lee’s former manager

Israeli security forces escort a group of religious Jews, as they visit the Temple Mount on Yom Kippur, September 19, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

For first time in decades, Temple Mount to be closed to Jews on Jerusalem Day

This March 18, 2012, photo shows a view of empty Kuwait Airways check-in counters at Kuwait Airport. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

Kuwait Air slapped with fresh Israel discrimination suit in Germany

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Man walks into police station to confess to brutal 1974 murder of female soldier

By Stuart Winer

Actor Mel Gibson poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Daddys Home 2', in London, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Mad Max and the bankersMel Gibson to play a super-rich ‘Rothchild’ in upcoming comedy

By Gabe Friedman

A private investigator tagged Malka Leifer as she spoke on the phone, while sitting on a bench in Bnei Brak, on December 14, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Fraud claim against Leifer calls suspect’s incompetency defense into question

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