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What Matters Most On Friday, May 17, 2019

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Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn listens to a speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, on September 23, 2018, the official opening day of the annual Labour Party Conference. (AFP PHOTO / Paul ELLIS)

Hamas thanks UK Labour head Corbyn for Nakba Day support

A Palestinian rioter uses a slingshot to hurl a rock at Israeli troops during Nakba Day protests east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 15, 2019. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

Gaza border protest cancelled due to high temperatures, Ramadan fast

Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash speaks to journalists in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

UAE minister says dialogue with Israel is a ‘positive’ phenomenon

Likud MK Michal Shir at an orientation day at the Knesset, April 29, 2019. (Noam Moscowitz/Knesset)

Second Likud MK comes out against ‘wrong and unnecessary’ Netanyahu immunity bid

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Michal Shir joins former boss Gideon Sa’ar in publicly criticizing PM’s attempt to guarantee immunity from prosecution via legislation tailored for his personal interests

Senior Likud party member Gideon Sa'ar is seen during a campaign stop at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, on April 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Breaking ranks, influential Likud MK blasts immunity law for Netanyahu

Yair Lapid, right, and Gideon Saar in the Knesset on July 23, 2013. Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Opposition rallies around Likud’s Sa’ar for criticizing PM’s immunity bid

Analysis

A Netanyahu rival’s eminently reasonable attempt at political assassination

Gideon Sa’ar managed to present his objections to the PM’s plan for evading prosecution in the most loyal and helpful terms. Which is precisely why Netanyahu so fears him

Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in December, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former interior minister Gideon Sa'ar in the Knesset, December 23, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel media reviewLooking for Gideon’s men: 7 things to know for May 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Blue and White co-chairman Yair Lapid delivers a statement to the media at the Knesset, May 13, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Lapid tries to woo Liberman to the opposition, as coalition talks falter

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

President Donald Trump welcomes Switzerland's Federal President Ueli Maurer to the White House in Washington, May 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he hopes there’ll be no war between US, Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president makes comment ahead of meeting with Swiss president, reportedly aimed at opening communications with Tehran

In this photo provided by the US Navy, the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group transits the Suez Canal, May 9, 2019. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Darion Chanelle Triplett/US Navy via AP)

US warships enter Persian Gulf without incident amid soaring Iran tensions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Patrol boats belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shadow the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier on December 21, 2018 (AP /Jon Gambrell)

US official: Iranian missiles spotted on boats in Gulf

By AFP

Illustrative image of conceptual cyber attack code. (DaLiu/iStock by Getty images)

Iran claims to develop defense against Stuxnet-like attacks

Communications minister says Iranian scientists have created a firewall to block computer viruses from harming infrastructure, like bug that damaged nuclear centrifuges

Top Iranian general tells militias to ‘prepare for proxy war’ — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

AnalysisIn a war with US, Iran could have these proxies fighting by its side

By AP and ToI Staff

Hezbollah man convicted of scoping terror targets in New York

By AP

Analysis

Miriam Terlinchamp

A story to tell to my great grandchildren

It will be about how the generations who came before them responded to the pain in our world in three tangible ways

Or Bassok and Ruth Gavison

It’s not the Supreme Court’s job to fix the Nation-State law

With no constititonal framework to establish how the branches of government work together, Basic Laws are of the people

Underachievement and the Talmud: A corrective

Talmud education for Orthodox women and girls has disrupted a system that long kept knowledge and decision-making in the hands of men

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

Where do top 2020 Democratic hopefuls stand on Israel?

Each of the presidential contenders promises a radically different Israel policy to Trump’s. But some are more radical than others

Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders (All images AP)

Palestinian and left-wing Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to United Nations Building in New York on September 15, 2011. (AP/David Karp)

J Street poll: Most Democrats haven’t heard of BDS

By Eric Cortellessa

Democratic Party US Congress representatives Ilhan Omar (right) and Jan Schakowsky. (Ilhan Omar website)

Ilhan Omar and Jewish colleague co-write op-ed on fighting white supremacy

The cast in the revival of 'The Tsar Wants His Photograph Taken,' London, May 4, 2019. (Dr. Frank Abba Smith)

Dramatic resurrection

Kurt Weill operetta banned by the Nazis gets one-night-only revival in London

By Jenni Frazer

The Shalva Band performs at the second Eurovision 2019 semifinal in Tel Aviv on May 16, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

The real winners of 2nd Eurovision semifinal? Shalva Band wows the world

Not a dry eye in the house after Israeli band made up of musicians with disabilities performs in Tel Aviv; group founder says they’ve already received invites to play in Europe

Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau March 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Chief rabbi calls for 20 minute Shabbat extension over Eurovision ‘desecration’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Albania's Jonida Maliqi performs the song Ktheju tokës during the second semi-final of the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 at Expo Tel Aviv on May 16, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Favorites advance as Tel Aviv rocks to second Eurovision semifinal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bob Green (left), Robert Cameron and Pascal Rissewijick, all in Israel for Eurovision 2019, on a shuttle to the second semifinal on Thursday night, May 16, 2019 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

Jessica Steinberg

For Eurovision fans, even the bad music is good, so long as they can party

Soulful male crooners abound at the song contest, making it harder to dance along, but for flag waving diehards — including in the press room — there’s still good times to be had

People dance in one of the many DJ spots at the Eurovision Village in Tel Aviv's Charles Clore Park on May 16, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Locals get into Eurovision spirit with all-night Tel Aviv party

By Melanie Lidman

Screenshot from the Jewish Agency YouTube video of groups around the world signing Kobi Marimi's "Home" entry in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.

Sign me upHearing impaired sign along to Israel’s Eurovision entry

A worker tends to cannabis plants at the Tikun Olam growing facility in Israel. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Health Ministry to reschedule medical cannabis, allowing for sale in pharmacies

Under new guidelines, specialist doctors will be able to prescribe plant without license or approval, like any other medication

The Sorek A desalination plant, located south of Tel Aviv, on November 22, 2018. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Three groups bid to built Israel’s biggest desalination plant

In this January 30, 2019 photo, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried speaks at a pre-legislative news conference, in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)

Florida agriculture commissioner seeks tech, innovation ideas on Israel trip

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

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The monument to children killed in the Holocaust in Paris, France that was vandalized in May 2019 (European Jewish Congress)

Paris Holocaust monument for children ‘censored’ in unusual case of vandalism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this file photo taken on March 12, 2019, Mehdi Nemmouche looks on during the verdict at his trial for a 2014 terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels at The Brussels Justice Palace in Brussels (YVES HERMAN / POOL / AFP)

Belgium Jewish museum killer transferred to France over 2013 Syria kidnappings

By AFP

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)

Stabbing of Jewish woman in Sweden ‘not about religion,’ says suspect’s mom

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 29 (left), and Ziv Hajbi, 35, who were killed in a terror shooting in the Barkan Industrial Park in the West Bank, October 7, 2018 (screenshots: Facebook)

Mother of Barkan terrorist convicted for not acting to prevent attack

Pro-Israel supporters protesting outside the Irish parliament January 24, 2019, in opposition to a private member's bill that would criminalize the import and sale of settlement goods to Ireland. (Twitter)

State body wants to fund pro-Israel advocacy abroad

Illustrative: Police at a crime scene. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Elderly woman found stabbed to death in Holon home

A view of the Llaima volcano after it erupted in Chile's Conguillio National Park, Jan. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Juan Tejos)

Israeli hiker dies on volcano trek in Chile

Illustrative photo of an El Al plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, August 5, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al launches nonstop flights between Israel and Las Vegas

By AP

Eric Fingerhut, the CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America. (Hillel)

Eric Fingerhut tapped to head Jewish Federations of North America

Arab Israeli poet Dareen Tatour (right) and lawyer Gabi Lasky at the Nazareth District Court, May 16, 2019. (Facebook)

Arab Israeli poet partially acquitted of incitement

Illustrative: Young leaders attend the graduation ceremony of a training program conducted by the Abraham Fund Initiatives (photo credit: courtesy/Abraham Fund Initiatives)

Jewish-Arab coexistence group announces $12 million endowment fund

German Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender (2nd R) is congratulated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd L), Chairman of the Foundation Board, former Federal President Christian Wulff (L) and chairman of German news publisher Axel Springer, Mathias Doepfner, after she was awarded with the newly created 'Talisman' prize during a ceremony to celebrate 70th anniversary of the constitutional law (Grundgesetz) on May 14, 2019 in Berlin. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/DPA/AFP)

German Jews honor non-Jewish Zionist journalist

By Toby Axelrod

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