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What Matters Most On Monday, May 20, 2019

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Palestinians prepare to set fire to an Israeli flag and portraits of US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a protest at the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, April 13, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

W. Bank businessman Bashar al-Masri gets invite, rejects it

Palestinians reject US economic peace summit in Bahrain, say they won’t attend

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Senior officials say Palestinians were not consulted about ‘workshop’ in Manama; bid will fail without political solution

US will push economic side of peace plan at late June ‘workshop’ in Bahrain

By Eric Cortellessa

Bahrain vows support for Palestinians after economic ‘workshop’ announced

By Raphael Ahren

Israel media review(Economic) peace is coming! 7 things to know for May 20

US President Donald Trump gestures as he delivers remarks on immigration at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on May 16, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump warns if Tehran attacks, it will be ‘official end of Iran’

Amid soaring Gulf tensions, US president issues stern warning to Islamic Republic: ‘Never threaten the United States again’

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)

Hitting back at Trump, Zarif says ‘genocidal taunts won’t end Iran’

In this Friday, May 17, 2019, photo, released by the US Navy, the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, right, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge, left, are seen from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as they sail in the Arabian Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael Singley, US Navy via AP)

Trump: I don’t want to fight but we can’t let Iran have nuclear weapons

By ToI Staff and AP

Live updates (closed)

Trump says US has not reached out to Iran for talks

UN voices concern over fiery rhetoric from Tehran and Washington, says it’s mediating with officials on both sides to calm situation

6:26 pm

Greenblatt: 'History will judge PA harshly' for boycotting peace workshop
6:21 pm

Pittsburgh won't enforce gun controls until lawsuits resolved
5:59 pm

Senator warns of 'overwhelming' Iran strike if US threatened

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)

Poll finds 56% of Israelis oppose Netanyahu immunity bill

Other than Likud voters, majority of public think PM should step down if indicted

AnalysisNetanyahu has given up on new immunity law, will make do with the current one

By Shalom Yerushalmi

3rd Likud MK speaks out against Netanyahu immunity bill, says it will hurt party

Likud MK decries online abuse against him for denouncing immunity bill

By Raoul Wootliff

IDF soldier Michaela Levit, 19, whose body was found on her army base in central Israel on May 15, 2019, in a photograph posted to her social media on October 14, 2018. (Instagram)

'We are shocked and hurting'

Family searching for answers after US-born IDF lone soldier dies by suicide

By Judah Ari Gross

Michaela ‘Mika’ Levit, 19, was found dead outside her base last week, having left a note to her family describing recent ‘hardships,’ her cousin says

File: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki inspect a military honor guard on February 16, 2018 in front of the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP Photo/John Macdougall)

Polish PM: Paying Holocaust property restitution would be ‘victory for Hitler’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Poland is only European Union country that hasn’t passed laws regulating compensation of looted or national property, and Morawiecki says it never will

A view of the entrance to the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Polish ex-diplomats say Warsaw officials politicizing Israeli spitting incident

By JTA

Polish politician Konrad Berkowicz puts a skullcap on the head of rival lawmaker Anna Krupka during a debate in Kielce on May 18, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)

Polish candidate puts kippah on rival, says her party ‘kneels to Jews’

Analysis

In Brexit UK’s Euro vote, a populist accused of using anti-Semitic tropes leads

They’ve asked to leave Europe, but Britons must this week choose new EU parliamentarians. Heading the polls is Nigel Farage, a right-winger increasingly criticized by Jewish groups

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage gestures on an open topped bus while on the European Election campaign trail in Sunderland, England, Saturday, May 11, 2019. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

Illustrative: People hold up placards featuring Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (L) and Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE) during protests against Austria's far right holding its so-called Academics Ball in Vienna, Austria on January 26, 2018. (AFP/APA/HANS PUNZ)

Austrian Jewish head praises downfall of far-right leader

By Raphael Ahren

Police and Rabbi David Wolkenfeld investigating suspected arson outside Anshei Sholom B'nei Israel synagogue in Chicago on May 19, 2019. (screen capture: Fox32 Chicago)

Chicago synagogues targeted in rash of suspected hate crimes

Authorities investigating Molotov cocktails found outside Congregation Anshe Sholom; police giving ‘special attention’ to Jewish schools, businesses and houses of worship

Illustrative photo: Sheriff's crime scene tape is placed in front of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, after a shooting on April 27, 2019, in Poway, California. (Sandy Huffaker/AFP)

US senators introduce bill to boost security funds for synagogues

By JTA and ToI Staff

File: A sign marks the entrance of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, October 20, 2010. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

Brandeis president condemns vandalism of Israel Week art installation

By JTA

What hides behind liberal values on campus

On a visited to US colleges with Reservists on Duty, I found not only anti-Zionism, but also anti-Semitism in the mainstream

Aryeh Ben David

What’s missing from the Jewish conversation? God

All the thoughtful, creative ideas in the world can’t replace deep, personal, engagement with the beating heart of Judaism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Analysis

Price of expanding cabinet: Up to NIS 300m just in expenses and bureaucracy

Measure would cancel 2014 law limiting the cabinet to 18 ministers; PM expected to hand out 26-28 portfolios to members of his new government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on May 19, 2019. (Ariel Schalit/POOL/AFP)

After ultimatum, PM accuses state panel of denying him right to legal defense

Police sappers armed with anti-drone guns guard the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds during the Eurovision Song Contest on May 18, 2019. (screen capture: Channel 12)

Cops on Tel Aviv roofs for Eurovision forced down 80 drones; none were attacking

Bomb squad chief says sappers with anti-drone guns neutralized but did not shoot the UAVs, which were flying near competition venues despite skies having been declared off limits

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a hybrid robot that can fly and drive and squeeze into tight spaces using the same motor (Courtesy)

Ben-Gurion University researchers create hybrid flying/driving robot

By Shoshanna Solomon

Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson, of Iceland's Hatari, sings at the May 18 finale of Eurovision 2019, while a sign language interpreter gives a spirited translation of his vocals. (Courtesy Twitter screen grab)

All the rageClip of Eurovision sign language interpreter rocking out goes viral

By Jessica Steinberg

Bradley Tusk, CEO and founder of Tusk Ventures, which invests in startups that operate in highly regulated environments, Tel Aviv, May 15, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Interview

Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli entrepreneurs less prone to ‘tantrums’ than Americans: Tusk Ventures CEO

Bradley Tusk, often called the ‘fixer’ as he helps startups navigate the quagmire of regulation to grow their businesses, is recording a podcast on Israeli startups

More Headlines

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky holds Bulava, the Ukrainian symbol of power, during his inauguration ceremony at the parliament in Kiev on May 20, 2019. (Genya Savilov/AFP)

Ukraine’s new president sworn in: ‘We must defend our land like Israelis’

By AFP

Screenshot of Al Jazeera video alleging Israel exploited the Holocaust that the network pulled off the internet May 18, 2019, citing violations of its editorial policy. (Middle East Media Research Institute, Screenshot)

Al Jazeera suspends journalists over Holocaust video

A man walks near an open bomb shelter in the northern Israeli city of Safed on December 4, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

IDF tests new pinpointed rocket alert system in northern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Zakaria Zubeidi, then the local commander of Fatah's terrorist wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, sits in a car decorated with a poster of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, December 2, 2004. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

Former terror leader charged with carrying out fresh shooting attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

AnalysisThe chemical refineries in Haifa: One leak too many?

Protesters for women's rights hold a rally on the Alabama Capitol steps to protest a law passed last week making abortion a felony in nearly all cases with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

AnalysisWhat do Jewish texts say about abortion?

By Rachel Mikva

Students at Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium high school in Tel Aviv producing spirulina. (Courtesy - JustSpirulina.org )

A Tel Aviv high school program is helping to feed the world, with spirulina

A picture from November 19, 2017, shows a general view of the Arab League headquarters during a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Arab League calls on Germany to reverse anti-BDS motion

By AFP

In this April 22, 2019, file photo, Colin Jost, left, and Scarlett Johansson arrive at the premiere of "Avengers: Endgame" at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Wedding bells are in the future for actress Scarlett Johansson and Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost. Johansson's publicist Marcel Pariseau tells The Associated Press Sunday, May 19, 2019, that the private couple is officially engaged after two years of dating. Pariseau says no date has been set for the nuptials. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Jost in translationScarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are engaged

By AP

The scene where a crane collapsed at a construction site in Yavneh, killing four people and injuring two, May 19, 2019. (Flash90)

Four placed under house arrest as police probe deadly crane accident

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: The scene of a drive-by shooting in the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm that left a 14-year-old boy wounded on December 26, 2018. The white car in the center was the target of the shooting, police said. (Hadashot TV screen capture)

Arab Israeli shot and killed in second fatality of day

Lionesses rest in an enclosure on April 10, 2019, at the Al Ma'wa For Nature and Wildlife in Jerash, Jordan. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Animals traumatized by Mideast conflicts find safe haven in Jordan

By Mussa Hattar

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