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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 18, 2019

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Kobi Marimi from Israel performs during a rehearsal ahead of the finale for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv on May 17, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel's entrant: 'Home' is 'My song. I sing it. I love it'

With Eurovision finally here, Israel’s unfancied Kobi Marimi is unfazed, upbeat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

200 million people worldwide set to watch song contest final from 10 p.m. in Tel Aviv; Netherlands, Sweden, Australia are favorites; Madonna, Netta Barzilai to play

From the webEurovision 2019: What to watch for in Saturday’s grand final

Shalva inspires broadcasters to offer more accessibility for Eurovision viewers

By Melanie Lidman

Final countdownEurovision dress rehearsal goes off without a hitch, but no Madonna

By Jessica Steinberg

Reporter's notebook

Yaakov Schwartz

As rowdy German parliament okays landmark anti-BDS law, far-right AfD wants more

Anti-immigration party, shunned by German Jewish community leaders, calls itself ‘Israel’s one true friend in parliament’ as it pushes for stronger legislation

People hold flags during a demonstration by Germany's nationalist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) on May Day in Erfurt, central Germany, May 1, 2017. (AP/Jens Meyer)

Lawmakers attend a polling at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 17, 2019. German lawmakers have approved a resolution denouncing the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel and describing its methods as anti-Semitic. (Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)

Germany denounces BDS as ‘anti-Semitic,’ reminiscent of Nazi-era boycotts

By Raphael Ahren and AP

A man reads an AfD website on his mobile phone in Gera, Germany, Friday, May 17, 2019 (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

German far-right dominates digital campaign for EU election

By Kirsten Grieshaber

In this photo taken on May 6, 2019 Austria's Vice-Chancellor and chairman of the Freedom Party FPOe Heinz-Christian Strache gives a press conference at the prime minister's office in Budapest (ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Head of Austria’s far-right FPOe resigns government amid corruption scandal

By AFP

Vienna’s government in crisis after Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache seen on hidden camera promising public contracts in return for campaign aid from a fake Russian backer

Leader of the French National Front Marine Le Pen, left, and Far-right top candidate of the National Rally party Jordan Bardella attend a press conference before a rally with right-wing EU leaders in Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 18, 2019 (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

France’s Le Pen predicts historic vote for populist parties

By AP

Guillaume Pradoura, an aide to National Assembly leader Nicolas Bay, posing in 2013 while wearing an Orthodox Jew costume. (screenshot news.konbini.com via JTA)

Aide to far-right French politician pictured wearing Orthodox Jewish costume

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: an ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple enjoys a sunny afternoon at the Tel Aviv port, February 5, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

A Chicago couple lives like Orthodox Jews — and preaches the word of Jesus

By Josefin Dolsten

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Likud MK Yariv Levin during a faction meeting at the Knesset on December 9, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud says immunity for Netanyahu won’t be a part of coalition deals

But PM still expected to push ahead with some sort of legislation after he puts together a government

Then-Blue and White MK Gadi Yevarkan in May 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Likud tries to tempt Blue and White MK to jump ship, join coalition — report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrates with his wife Sara before addressing Likud supporters as the the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Witness in PM’s case: He told me ‘Do everything Sara asks. Don’t be a leftist’

In this May 4, 2014, photo, an Etihad Airways plane prepares to land at the Abu Dhabi airport in the United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

US warns airliners flying in Persian Gulf of danger amid Iran tensions

By AP and ToI Staff

Diplomats say planes in region face risk of being ‘misidentified,’ as well as possible interference with navigation and communications equipment

AnalysisUS-Iran tensions test Trump’s ‘America First’ pledge

By Zeke Miller and Steve Peoples

Iran’s top diplomat presses efforts to save nuclear deal

By Nasser Karimi

Saudi newspaper calls on Washington to launch strikes on Iran

Illustrative: An explosion, reportedly during Israeli airstrikes near Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)

Syria says Israel carried out strike, claims to intercept missiles

By ToI Staff and Agencies

State news agency says air defenses shot down ‘hostile targets’ coming from the Golan; sounds of explosions reported near Damascus; Israel mum

Herman Wouk in 1975 (Alex Gotfryd/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Obituary

Herman Wouk, the legendary author who brought Judaism into the mainstream

Wouk, an Orthodox Jew, embodied the new postwar possibilities for American Jews and his writing helped normalize Judaism within the larger American landscape

This May 15, 2000, file photo, shows Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk in Palm Springs, California. (AP Photo/Douglas L. Benc Jr., File)

Obituary‘Caine Mutiny,’ ‘Winds of War’ author Herman Wouk dies at 103

By Hillel Italie

Mordo and Ella Ben-David. (Courtesy)

First person

1948 battlefield love story unfolds in forgotten letters recovered by their son

By Amir Ben-David

Baruch Frydman-Kohl

The day I met the Columbia astronauts’ families at the Israel Museum

On Ilan Ramon’s salvaged diary, the remnants of the Enoch scroll, and the ancient quest to reach beyond our limits

Evolution or revolution?

Though the Torah did not abolish slavery, it set in motion a process that led people to come to the conclusion that it was wrong of their own accord (Behar)

Palestinian demonstrator Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh waves a Palestinian flag during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the border fence east of Gaza City, May 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed/File)

Israel says no evidence troops killed Palestinian paraplegic in 2017 Gaza riot

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Army closes investigation into killing of Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh, whose death drew international attention

April is first month in over a year with no Israelis killed, wounded in attacks

By ToI Staff and JTA

Clashes reported in West Bank between Palestinians, settlers

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Two masked suspects break into settlement, flee after encountering patrol

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Hesh Kestin says his book "The Siege of Tel Aviv" is not Islamophobic. Its former publisher disagrees. (Photo of Kestin: Courtesy of Kestin; book cover: Amazon)

No bad publicity

Publisher backs out of novel about imagined Iranian attack on Israel

By Josefin Dolsten

In this file photo taken on January 25, 2019, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks with reporters at the US Capitol in Washington, DC (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Analysis

Democrats charge GOP with refusing to acknowledge far-right anti-Semitism

Opponents accuse Republican leaders of focusing on anti-BDS policy for political gain, while ignoring more serious threat of white nationalism

Police now probing 3 fires at 2 Boston-area Chabad houses

By Penny Schwartz

Palestinian activists don’t understand why they can’t enter the US

2 Democratic senators mock Trump’s Iran deal strategy on Twitter

More Headlines

A fire truck seen in Haifa as teams handle a flammable gas leak, May 18, 2019 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Flammable gas leak in Haifa causes shutdown of roads

Israeli company targeted Nigerian election in Facebook disinformation campaign

By Isabel Debre

Tomer Capon stars in the Israeli TV series "Charlie Golf One." (YouTube screenshot)

Whisky a go goIsraeli TV show set on an army base to be adapted by US network

By Curt Schleier

Undated handout photo issued by Greater Manchester Police of Jack Renshaw. A judge in Britain sentenced Renshaw, an alleged member of a banned British neo-Nazi group, to life in prison on Friday May 17, 2019 for planning to murder British Labour MP Rosie Cooper. (Greater Manchester Police via AP)

UK neo-Nazi who planned to kill lawmaker jailed for life

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli and American combat cameramen take part in a US military combat photography competition in Quantico, Virgina, in May 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF cameramen square off against US ‘shooters’ in combat photography contest

By Judah Ari Gross

St John's Wood synagogue in London (Screen capture: Google Maps)

From our partnerPolice investigate alleged racial abuse and assault near London synagogue

A vulture that fell ill after being poisoned is returned to the wild in Gamla, on the Golan Heights, May 16, 2019. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Rivlin says ‘national plans’ needed to protect animals after vulture poisoning

Protesters march through the halls of the Missouri Capitol outside the House chamber on May 17, 2019, in Jefferson City, Missouri, in opposition to legislation prohibiting abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

With sights set on Supreme Court, Missouri latest US state to restrict abortion

By Chris Lefkow and Charlotte Plantive

Illustrative: A view of the Williams College campus (YouTube screenshot)

Williams College gives pro-Israel group official status

By JTA

Illustrative - An undated view of San Francisco's East Bay area. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Closing of East Bay Jewish fed reflects changing fortunes in Northern California

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