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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 15, 2019

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Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski in Jerusalem on October 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli arrested for spitting at Polish ambassador, sparking diplomatic tempest

Poland condemns ‘racist’ attack, summons Israeli envoy in protest; Foreign Ministry expresses shock; suspect apologizes, claims he was called a ‘Zhid’ by security guard

A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein from 1936 discussing Austria's anti-Semitic policies at the time. (Courtesy Kedem Auction House)

Einstein letter mocking Austria’s anti-Semitic policies up for auction

By JTA

Illustrative image of a calf in a pen ahead of slaughter. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)

US anti-Semitism envoy: Europe’s kosher meat bans ‘forced expulsion’ for Jews

By JTA

In this undated photo released by Sepahnews, the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran (Sepahnews via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Iran Guards chief: We are ‘on cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy’

Hossein Salami says ‘this moment in history is the most decisive moment of the Islamic revolution’

7:02 pm

Iran Guards chief: We are 'on cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy'
6:16 pm

US says Iraq embassy evacuation due to 'imminent' threat from Iran
5:49 pm

White House says not signing 'Christchurch call' against online extremism

Screen capture from video of Swedish police at the scene where a Jewish woman was stabbed in Helsingborg, May 14, 2019. (Screenshot from Aftonbladet via JTA)

Man arrested in Denmark for stabbing Jewish woman in Sweden

Tuesday assault, which is feared to have been motivated by anti-Semitism, left victim in critical condition

A view of central Helsingborg, Sweden. (CC BY Lars Lundqvist, Flickr)

Brutal attack on Swedish woman sends shiver through tiny Jewish community

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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)

Sweden stabbing attack feared to be anti-Semitic

Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami speaks at the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Iran’s defense minister: ‘We will defeat the American-Zionist front’

Amid rising tensions, Amir Hatami tells Iranian military intelligence officials the country is at highest level of war preparedness, despite sanctions

As Iran tensions mount, US orders all nonessential staff to leave Iraq

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran’s supreme leader: There will not be a war with the US

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran drops commitment to cap uranium enrichment, as nuclear deal unravels

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

Unbridled government: How Netanyahu’s purported plan will cripple the High Court

Legislation reportedly at heart of coalition talks would mark the most significant change ever to Israeli constitutional law; it would also render Netanyahu immune from prosecution

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, February 1, 2015. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Netanyahu’s son lashes chief justice for purportedly comparing his dad to Hitler

Netanyahu said to have asked for cigars from Israeli billionaire on Memorial Day

Ashkenazi: History will judge those who give immunity to criminal suspects

Iceland's Hatari performs the song Hatrið mun sigra during the first semi-final of the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 at Expo Tel Aviv on May 14, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Iceland, which had courted controversy, urges unity and love

Tel Aviv Eurovision semifinal soars on glitz and stilts, with politics sidelined

By Joshua Davidovich and Jessica Steinberg

200 million watch song contest worldwide; favorite Australia and nine others make it through to Saturday’s final; hackers send threatening message to some viewers

Madonna lands in Israel for Eurovision performance

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Worker injured in Eurovision venue accident dies

Rabbis decry Eurovision Shabbat ‘desecration’

By AFP

A Eurovision video hack on the website of Israel's Kan public broadcaster on May 15, 2019 (screen capture)

Israeli broadcaster points to Hamas as perpetrator of Eurovision broadcast hack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Kan CEO says Gaza-based terror group apparently responsible for interrupting song contest’s website during semifinals with fake missile warning

Israel media reviewCrashing the party: 7 things to know for May 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Tel Aviv eyes tourism boon with ‘amazing’ Eurovision week

By Jonah Mandel

Hackers bust into Israeli site’s online Eurovision broadcast with missile threat

Palestinian demonstrators gather east of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on May 15, 2019, during a protest marking 71st anniversary of the "Nakba," or "Catastrophe," in 1948. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Thousands of Palestinians mark ‘Nakba’ with Gaza protests, West Bank marches

By Adam Rasgon, Judah Ari Gross and AP

At least 60 said wounded as 10,000 march on border, with rioting, rock-throwing reported; senior Hamas official: ‘Day of your slaughter, extermination and demise is approaching’

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at an event marking one year since the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Embassy is a ‘new shrine’ in ancient Jerusalem, US envoy says on 1st anniversary

By Raphael Ahren

Israel’s secret weapon is that it’s on God’s side, David Friedman declares at event marking year since embassy came to capital; PM thanks Trump for ‘politically incorrect’ decision

US President Donald Trump speaks at the Cameron LNG Export Facility on May 14, 2019, in Hackberry, Louisiana. ( Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Trump hails anniversary of embassy relocation to Jerusalem

By JTA and ToI Staff

Opposition leader Bill Shorten speaks at the launch of Labor's federal election campaign at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, May 5, 2019. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)

As Australia heads to polls, Labor vows to reverse Jerusalem recognition

By Raphael Ahren

Rashida Tlaib, you’ve got the history all wrong

When you distort the historical record, you block sincere efforts at peace — for, no, Israel was not a consolation prize for Jews after the Holocaust

Andrew Silow-Carroll

What did Rashida Tlaib say about the Holocaust? It’s probably not what you think

JTA editor takes a closer look at the controversial comments made by Michigan Democrat on the role of Palestinians in the fate of Jews after WWII

But Dad, if I wear my kipa, they’ll know I’m Jewish

4 steps to move American Jews through the pervasive fear that has followed the attacks

Shaina Be Hirsch

When it’s not all in your head: Hyperemesis gravidarum

I lost almost 40 pounds in pregnancy before the doctors took me seriously — and then I became allergic to the IV that was keeping me safe

Construction in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, near the city of Hebron, on April 2, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/ Flash90)

Construction of 20,000 settler homes started in Netanyahu’s decade as PM

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Peace Now reports that ground was broken for 2,100 Israeli houses beyond the Green Line in 2018, 37% of which are located east of West Bank security barrier

Illustrative: A housing complex where Mike Huckabee, who is now the US Ambassador to Israel, laid bricks, in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on August 1, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel/File)

Trump’s election appears to have boosted Israeli settlement construction

Participants in the March of Dignity gather in Kiev’s Maidan Independence Square for ceremonies marking the first anniversary of the Maidan Revolution that led to the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovic, February 22, 2015. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Analysis

5 years after the Ukrainian revolution, Jews there say it was a mixed blessing

With both a Jewish president and PM in office at the same time that WWII-era Nazi collaborators are celebrated, the local community waits to see how society’s attitude will pan out

Illustrative: Children play musical instruments during the celebration of Hanukkah at the Kharkiv Choral Synagogue, in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, December 5, 2018. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

A 1,200 year historyWho are the Jews of Ukraine?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative hacker image via Shutterstock

New details emerge about Israeli darknet and crypto suspects indicted in US

By Simona Weinglass

Money laundering suspect Tal Prihar sold khat and cannabis to Israelis; bank fraud suspect Ravid Yosef gave dating advice to Angelenos

Israeli spyware firm NSO operates in shadowy cyber world

By AFP

Rights lawyer says he was hacked with Israeli spyware in bid to get info on work

WhatsApp patches security flaw after suspected Israeli spyware injection

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, right, of United Torah Judaism holds a press conference after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin, April 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy minister accused of protecting sex offenders in at least 10 cases

UTJ leader Yaakov Litzman alleged to have pattern of aiding ultra-Orthodox convicts by pressuring corrections officials, Channel 13 report claims

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, left, speaks with Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, November 18, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman denies conspiring with Kahlon to prevent Netanyahu coalition

United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler at a Knesset committee meeting on November 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox MK accuses Liberman of ‘trying to hinder’ right-wing coalition

More Headlines

A home in the northern West Bank available for rent on Airbnb. (Samaria Tourism)

Activists urge Airbnb users to shut accounts over Israeli settlements

By AFP and ToI Staff

View of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on December 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

6 East Jerusalemites arrested for violating anti-terrorism laws

Boaz Harpaz arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 15, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-officer sentenced for spreading fake conspiracy against IDF chief

Mars, Incorporated, a US maker of candy and pet food, is joining forces with Jerusalem Venture Partners to scout for food technologies in Israel (YouTube screenshot)

US maker of Twix, M&M’s to scout for foodtech in Israel with JVP

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screenshot of the home page from the BBC documentary 'One Day in Gaza.'

BBC accused of using mistranslation to cover up Palestinian anti-Semitism

An illustration of a steak prototype produced in an Aleph Farms Ltd. lab out of cow cells (Courtesy

Test-tube steak maker Aleph Farms raises $12 million to bring product to market

By Shoshanna Solomon

The refurbished streets of Neve Tzedek (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

In Tel Aviv, 3% of apartments rented out permanently via Airbnb — report

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, left, lifts the trophy beside son and team president Jonathan Kraft, right, after winning the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game against the Los Angeles Rams, February 3, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

In Kraft prostitution case, key video evidence ruled inadmissible

A Palestinian man displays a 100 dollar bill, part of $480 million in aid allocated by Qatar, in Gaza City on May 13, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Qatar pledges to continue paying Gazan poor for six months

A capella group Quinta and a Half offers an eleven-song medley of Israel's Eurovision hits from the past. (Courtesy Quinta and a Half)

Eurovision mashupOpera sopranos, a capella harmonies in medleys of Eurovision classics

By Jessica Steinberg

John T. Earnest appears for his arraignment hearing on April 30, 2019, in San Diego. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

Poway synagogue shooter pleads not guilty to hate crime charges

By AP

Mel Gibson, right, directs Jim Caviezel on the set of Gibson's movie 'The Passion of The Christ' in 2003 (AP/Icon Productions, File)

Mel Gibson rep: ‘Rothchild’ movie unrelated to Jews

By JTA and ToI Staff

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