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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 19, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Likud MK Benny Begin (L) at the Knesset on August 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Begin: MKs who back PM on this will be abusing their office

Veteran former Likud MK blasts Netanyahu’s ‘corrupt’ immunity bid

Benny Begin, who didn’t run for reelection in April, says PM ‘intends to misuse his leadership power for personal gain,’ urges lawmakers to oppose him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 1, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

200 lawyers threaten to shut down legal system over PM’s bid to curb High Court

By Michael Bachner

Spectators watch the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Politics (mostly) kept off center stage as Israel hosts Eurovision mega-event

By Joshua Davidovich

As expected, Netherlands wins contest and hometown crooner Kobi Marimi finishes close to last, but fears of pro-Palestinian protests taking over largely fail to materialize

Netherlands wins Eurovision Song Contest as Tel Aviv pulls off major event

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel media reviewPuttin’ on the glitz: 7 things to know for May 19

By Joshua Davidovich

Live updates (closed)Netherlands wins Eurovision; Iceland, Madonna bring Palestine messages to show

By Joshua Davidovich and Jessica Steinberg

Madonna and Quavo sing "Future" at the Eurovision Song Contest as two dancers walk arm-in-arm with Israeli and Palestinian flags on their backs, May 18, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

Madonna politicizes Eurovision with 2 dancers wearing Israeli, Palestinian flags

Singer, whose song ‘Future’ featured a call to make peace, rapped by European Broadcasting Union; other critics slam her singing

Madonna and Quavo sing "Future" at the Eurovision Song Contest as two dancers walk arm-in-arm with Israeli and Palestinian flags on their backs, May 18, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

Israel’s Eurovision chief: Madonna slipped Israeli, Palestinian flags into show

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Icelandic band Hatari hold up Palestinian flags during the live grand final of the Eurovision in Tel Aviv, May 19, 2019. (Screenshot/YouTube)

BDS rejects Icelandic group’s pro-Palestinian Eurovision protest

Spectators watch the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Reporter's notebook

Fans sing along to most pro-LGBT Eurovision, though winning song isn’t kitschy

By Jessica Steinberg

Audience love France for embracing difference, Iceland for counterculture message, Russia for putting its singer in a shower, and Azerbaijan for hooking up to a heart machine

Kobi Marimi of Israel performs the song "Home" during the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel’s Eurovision entry celebrates performance, despite disappointing finish

Screen capture from Kutiman's compilation video of the history of the Eurovision Song Contest broadcast on May 14, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)

WATCH: The 63-year-history of Eurovision in three minutes

Rescue forces at the scene after a fatal construction crane collapse at a site in Yavneh, May 19, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Four killed after crane collapses at construction site in Yavneh

Three killed by concrete slabs falling on them, fourth trapped atop the crane; labor minister appears to blame workers

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

ToI investigates

Who is behind Israel’s Archimedes Group, banned by Facebook for election fakery?

By Simona Weinglass

Website of company that boasted it would ‘change reality’ for its clients was registered by Grey Content advertising firm; Archimedes CEO used to head European Friends of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) listens to then-transportation minister Yisrael Katz during a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on May 19, 2019. (Ariel Schalit / various sources / AFP)

Ministers okay expanding cabinet as Netanyahu bemoans coalition talks impasse

By Raoul Wootliff

Measure would cancel 2013 law limiting the cabinet to 18 ministers; PM expected to hand out 26-28 portfolios to members of his new government

Labor chairman Avi Gabbay at the plenary Hall during the swearing-in ceremony of Knesset members on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Gabbay won’t run to keep Labor leadership, will stay in Knesset

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Yisrael Beitenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks in the Knesset on May 13, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Liberman hints entry into coalition won’t be conditioned on harsher Gaza policy

Eurovision’s two political protests: Contrast and compare

The Iceland delegation and Madonna both interjected pro-Palestinian messages: The difference between them was night and day

My mother’s minks: Her pelts, my punishment

I had nightmares of baby minks being captured, clubbed, and screaming my name as they took their last bloody breaths; I knew I would never ever wear fur

President Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, center, departs following an immigration speech by President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, May 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Live updates (closed)

US to begin pushing economic aspect of Israeli-Palestinian peace plan

By Joshua Davidovich

CNN reports administration will begin rolling out plan Sunday, announcing an international conference to be held in Bahrain meant to boost investment in Palestinians

6:44 pm

Kushner: Political process must come before economics
6:40 pm

Iraq news agency confirms Baghdad Katyusha attack, no casualties
6:38 pm

No immediate response from Israel, Palestinians

Thousands of Jewish marchers wave the Israeli flags as they celebrate Jerusalem Day by dancing through Damascus Gate on their way to the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rules nationalist Jerusalem Day march can pass through Muslim Quarter

Justices reject petition by Ir Amim organization to change route of annual parade, say police committed to preventing violence and incitement

The Israeli teen (L) suspected of killing Aisha Rabi in the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on January 23, 2019. (YouTube/Screen capture)

Supreme Court okays house arrest for teen accused of killing Aisha Rabi

Palestinians gather at the Rafah border crossing as they wait to travel into Egypt after the passage was opened for three days for humanitarian cases, in the southern Gaza Strip April 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

35,000 Palestinians left Gaza in 2018 via Egypt and Turkey – report

Hamas said to impose restrictions after young, educated Gazans exited for ‘vacations’ through reopened Rafah Crossing to escape and seek better lives in Europe

Illustrative: Palestinian security prisoners in Ofer Prison, north of Jerusalem, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

Hamas prisoners said to refuse to move to new ward, amid spat over phones

Illustrative: This picture taken on October 19, 2018 in Nahal Oz, from the Israeli side of the border with the northeast of the Gaza Strip, shows balloons carrying an incendiary device launched by Palestinians. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Suspected incendiary device tied to balloon cluster lands in IDF base

Footage aired by Syrian state media shows an air defense missile after it was fired during reported Israeli strikes near the capital Damascus on May 17, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Syria says air defenses intercept Israeli missiles, in 2nd incident in 24 hours

By ToI Staff and Agencies

State TV says military shot down ‘hostile targets coming from direction of occupied territories,’ a day after explosions heard in vicinity of Iranian and Hezbollah facilities

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)

Saudi Arabia, Iran Revolutionary Guards chief say not seeking war

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

Zarif plays down tensions as IRGC chief says Iran, US in midst of intel war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

More Headlines

Screen capture from a video broadcast by the Al Jazeera network which questions the established Holocaust narrative. (Twitter)

Al Jazeera pulls video claiming Jews exploited Holocaust to create Israel

By Stuart Winer

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, second right, arrives on stage to speak to party supporters flanked by his wife, Jenny, and daughters Lily, and Abbey, left, after his opponent concedes defeat in the federal election in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, May 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Australia’s ruling Conservative coalition elected to surprise third term

By Agencies and ToI Staff

(Collage by Emily Burack/JTA)

Love Jewish food? These 3 British podcasts are for you

By Rachel Myerson

Kanye West and wife Kim Kardashian West attend "The Cher Show" Broadway musical opening night at the Neil Simon Theatre on December 3, 2018, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Praise the Lord!Kim Kardashian, Kanye West name fourth child Psalm

Freelance work marketplace Fiverr files for IPO in New York

By Shoshanna Solomon

Actor Harvey Keitel attends the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit tribute to Martin Scorsese, presented by Chanel, on November 19, 2018, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Reel Crime StoryHarvey Keitel to play Meyer Lansky in gangster biopic

By AFP

From left, Geert Wilders, leader of Dutch Party for Freedom, Matteo Salvini, Jörg Meuthen, leader of Alternative For Germany party, Marine Le Pen, Leader of the French National Front, Vaselin Marehki leader of Bulgarian 'Volya' party, Jaak Madison of Estonian Conservative People's Party, and Tomio Okamura leader of Czech far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy, attend a rally organized by League leader Matteo Salvini, with leaders of other European nationalist parties, ahead of the May 23-26 European Parliamentary elections, in Milan, Italy, May 18, 2019. (Luca Bruno/AP)

European far-right leaders rally together in populist bid for bloc’s parliament

By Colleen Barry

In this December 4, 2018 file photo, Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, from left, hold a joint press conference after one year government in Austria at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austrian leader calls for snap election amid video scandal

By David McHugh and Kamila Jafaru

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally at Eakins Oval in Philadelphia, Saturday, May 18, 2019. (AP/Matt Rourke)

At 1st major rally, Biden calls for unity, knocks ‘divider-in-chief’ Trump

By Michael Mathes

Egyptian comedian Shaimaa Seif wears blackface in a TV comedy skit widely condemned as racist against Sudanese. (YouTube screenshot)

Egypt blackface sketch spotlights racism in region

Wisam Jawdat Yasin from the northern Israeli city of Tamra, shot dead on May 19, 2019. (Courtesy)

Arab Israeli man shot dead in northern city

Arnold Schwarzenegger at CinemaCon 2019. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

He'll be backArnold Schwarzenegger assaulted during event in South Africa

By AP

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