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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 16, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, walks through the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on April 8, 2019, a day ahead of Israel's parliamentary elections. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

TV report: Netanyahu briefs Likud MKs on ‘how to sell’ immunity law to public

Channel 12 says PM has ‘conclusively’ decided to pass legislation to evade prosecution in criminal cases against him, has yet to decide whether to also take on Supreme Court

Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid speaks to the media in the Knesset, on December 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition lambastes Netanyahu after report says he will push for immunity law

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on November 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / RONEN ZVULUN)

Israel media reviewStrengthening the PM’s immune system: 8 things to know for May 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an event marking one year since the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, on May 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid coalition talks impasse, Netanyahu said looking at non-majority government

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud party sources reportedly claim PM considering coalition without Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu by fielding just 60 of the Knesset’s 120 MKs — but Kahlon opposes the idea

(From L-R) MKs Idit Silman, Orit Strock, Eti Atiya, Ofir Sofer, Amir Ohana, Osnat Mark, Yuli Edelstein, Ariel Kellner, Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan, Rabbi of Yeshivat Homesh, Kati Shitrit, Miki Zohar and Michal Shir visit the evacuated northern West Bank settlement of Homesh on May 16, 2018. (Samaria Regional Council)

11 MKs visit evacuated settlement, declare ‘mission’ to return permanently

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

Netanyahu bemoans ‘impossible demands’ by prospective coalition partners

Document

Rahel Jaskow (translation) for The Times of Israel

Full text: The criminal allegations against Netanyahu, as set out by Israel’s AG

Amid reports the PM will seek legislation that will protect him from prosecution in 3 criminal cases, ToI publishes in English for the first time the full interim charge sheet

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

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

Live updates (closed)

WATCH: Second Eurovision semifinal in Tel Aviv

Participants from 18 nations compete for the right to duke it out in Saturday’s final

9:27 pm

Shows over, but Tel Aviv parties all night. Goodnight
9:21 pm

Eight countries sent home packing
9:10 pm

10 Eurovision semifinal winners announced

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

Israeli man charged with assault for spitting at Polish envoy

Arik Lederman also indicted for threatening behavior toward Ambassador Marek Magierowski and driver after security guard allegedly called the Israeli ‘Zhid’

Poland's ambassador to Israel, Marek Magierowski. (Poland Embassy photo)

Israeli apologizes for spitting at Polish envoy, as Warsaw demands justice

A Palestinian woman and her children wait for the light rail, in the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat in north Jerusalem. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

French company drops tender bid for light rail because it enters East Jerusalem

Jerusalem mayor asks Netanyahu to ban Alstom from participating in any projects nationwide after it pulls out of bid for construction of capital’s new branch

Top UK Labour official says Jerusalem should be run by international body

German parliament to denounce boycott movement as ‘anti-Semitic’

By Raphael Ahren

US Republicans launch bid to force House vote on BDS

Keith Jacks Gamble said his daughter was chastised for saying it was wrong for her fellow students to reenact the Sieg Heil salute. (Keith Jacks Gamble/Twitter)

11-year-old sent to principal’s office for telling students to stop Nazi salutes

By JTA

Tennessee schoolgirl reacts after classmates repeatedly make the Sieg Heil salute; after raising objections, she was told ‘to not address it again’

Las Vegas rabbi’s daughter targeted with anti-Semitic notes at middle school

Harvard Lampoon apologizes for sexualized Anne Frank photo

By JTA

Philadelphia Muslims apologize for video of kids talking beheadings, Jerusalem

By Michael Rubinkam

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to journalists during a visit to inspect a naval Iron Dome defense system in the northern port of Haifa on February 12, 2019. (Jack Guez/Pool/AFP)

PM said to tell his defense chiefs to keep Israel out of Iran-US tensions

Netanyahu convenes security heads to discuss potential escalation, speaks to Pompeo, TV report says; assessment is reportedly that Israel unlikely to be targeted

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)

Iran on the brink of ‘full-scale confrontation with the enemy,’ IRGC chief warns

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, walks to meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, May 16, 2019. (Eugene Hoshiko/Pool/AP)

Iran says US sanctions ‘unacceptable’ as crisis mounts

By Aya Batrawy and Mari Yamaguchi

A helicopter loads cargo onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea as the ship's strike group makes its way to the Persian Gulf, May 8, 2019. (US Navy/Michael Singley)

Analysis

Is Iran the new Iraq? Here are the similarities — and big differences

As America issues dire warnings about Iran, many elements resemble the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, not least among them the Israel factor

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as they attend the 38th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on May 15, 2019, in Washington. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Trump’s Iran moves trigger warnings, demands from Congress

By LISA MASCARO and SUSANNAH GEORGE

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (C) answers questions after a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono at the foreign ministry in Tokyo on May 16, 2019. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Zarif says Iran showing ‘maximum restraint,’ US escalation ‘unacceptable’

By AFP

Arabic petition with Hebrew writing from Cairo Geniza (Michelle Paymar)

Historical snapshot

Documentary unravels history — and digital future — of mysterious Cairo Geniza

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: A Haredi school in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, August 27, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Interview

The kids are not all right, expert warns — and that spells danger for Israel

By Simona Weinglass

Madonna poses for photographers upon arrival at the world premiere of the film 'The Beatles, Eight Days a Week,' in London, September 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Madonna confirmed at last for Eurovision performance in Tel Aviv

By AFP

After delays in contract talks and pressure from anti-Israel activists, pop diva confirmed for show during Saturday final of international song contest

Shalva band readies for guest gig after nixing Eurovision bid over Shabbat

Madonna reportedly briefly barred from Eurovision venue over unsigned contract

Amerivision?Eurovision, the kitsch song extravaganza, may be coming to America

By Jessica Steinberg

When you meet a Nazi at a gas station

You have one chance to respond to a man who tells you he’s got a Nazi Iron Cross tattooed on his chest — what do you say?

Why hasn’t Mel Gibson been cast out in Hollywood?

The misogynistic, homophobic anti-Semite is still working in Hollywood because he stuck to the #MeToo comeback script

Skara Brae: Built before Stonehenge, older than the wheel

The talmudic sages understood the conveniences of city life, beginning with indoor plumbing; but the very setting distances people from religion (Behar)

The rising crisis between the United States and Iran

Despite highly agressive rhetoric, both sides seem to understand that dialogue will be a less dangerous option than a military clash

View of the US consulate in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood, shortly before the building became the American embassy in Israel, February 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

PA files charges with UN court in bid to shutter US embassy in Jerusalem

Ramallah’s foreign minister says filing at International Court of Justice continues legal action initiated last year to reverse ‘provocative and illegal’ recognition of Jerusalem

At least 3 brush fires reported in area close to Gaza Strip

Israel foils attempt to mail ‘dual-use’ military equipment into Gaza

From our archivesEU to probe Palestinian textbooks for incitement to hatred, violence

By Michael Bachner

More Headlines

Beresheet impact site as seen by LROC 11 days after the attempted landing. Date in lower left indicates when the image was taken.
( NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)

Israel’s lunar ‘dark smudge’: NASA releases Beresheet moon crash site pictures

The Archimedes Group website's homepage, prior to May 16

Facebook bans Israel-based firm that ran campaigns to disrupt elections

By Shoshanna Solomon and AP

Illustrative: A seismograph for earthquake detection. (vchal; iStock by Getty Images)

Minor earthquake felt throughout Israel

By JTA

In this June 17, 2012, photo, a supporter of the National Democratic Party, NPD, attends a rally in Berlin (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP,file)

Court rules German public TV must air neo-Nazi campaign ad

By AFP

In this Jan. 13, 2011 file photo, Conrad Black arrives at the federal building in Chicago. President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump. Black's media empire once included the Chicago Sun-Times and The Daily Telegraph of London. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Trump pardons disgraced media mogul Conrad Black

By KEVIN FREKING

A Jewish man crosses a street in a Haredi Jewish area in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on April 9, 2019 in New York City. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

Hundreds attend ultra-Orthodox anti-vaccine event in New York

By ToI Staff and JTA

Kobi Marimi, Israel's contestant for Eurovision, in his 'postcard' video for Israel (Courtesy YouTube screenshot)

Song and DanceEurovision ‘postcards’ provide glamorous montage of Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Screen capture from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's video, released May 16, 2019, announcing his 2020 presidential bid. (YouTube screen capture)

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces run for US president

By Karen Matthews

Security camera footage shows a person suspected of having a connection to a fire at the home of a rabbi, which serves as a Chabad community center, in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 11, 2019. (Screen capture, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Massachusetts police investigating fire at rabbi’s home, Chabad center

In this May 10, 2019, photo, lounge chairs lie on a deserted beach in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

With Sri Lanka’s hotels empty, ‘resilient’ Israelis urged to visit

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right, at the White House, October 1, 2018. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Saudi paper urges Palestinians to look at Trump peace plan

Illustrative image of a man preparing meat at a kosher slaughterhouse (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Dutch animal party begins 2nd attempt to ban slaughter without stunning

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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