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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 21, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with MK Miki Zohar during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on December 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu loyalist refiles bill to grant PM immunity from prosecution

By Raoul Wootliff

Legislation sponsored by Miki Zohar would require that indictments against lawmakers be approved by House Committee, which he chairs, and by Knesset

Top attorneys launch campaign to ‘save the High Court’ from right-wing lawmakers

Israel media reviewProsper and live long: 7 things to know for May 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu asks AG to put off pre-trial hearing by a year, is refused – reports

Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York courthouse following his release from prison after 30 years, on November 20, 2015 in New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jonathan Pollard charges Netanyahu doesn’t care about returning him to Israel

By Michael Bachner

In rare interview, ex-spy says government prioritizing other issues and missing chances to raise issue with US president; PM responds that he ‘remains committed’ to returning him

6:27 pm

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to hold cabinet meeting in Israel
6:10 pm

Security source says armored vehicles approved months ago at US request
5:25 pm

Jonathan Pollard charges Netanyahu doesn't care about returning him to Israel

Analysis

Drop the cynicism. The Bahrain economic confab is a big step forward

Peace won’t break out after the Manama summit, but the mere fact than an Arab capital is hosting the rollout of Trump’s initiative is highly meaningful

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (C-R) is greeted by Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa (C-L) after arriving in Manama International Airport in Manama on January 11, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool/AFP)

Bahrain: Sole aim in hosting US peace confab is to back Palestinian cause

Kahlon intends to attend US-Bahraini economic peace confab

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

AnalysisFailure to launch? Economic workshop signals little appetite for US peace plan

By Avi Issacharoff

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, May 8, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Rouhani: In current situation, Iran chooses path of ‘resistance only’

By ToI Staff and AP

Iranian president says he won’t walk away from nuke deal because it would bring more sanctions; Trump says willing to talk, but provocations will be met with ‘great force’

Trump willing to talk with Iran, but provocations will be met with ‘great force’

By ToI Staff and AP

Iran quadruples low-enriched uranium production

By ToI Staff and AP

Congress to Trump: Protect Israel as Syrian civil war ends

The Knesset plenary hall during the swearing-in ceremony of Knesset members as a new session opens following the elections, on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

MKs advance bill to expand cabinet, giving Netanyahu more coalition leeway

By Raoul Wootliff

Divisive 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

Likud said working with ultra-Orthodox on new enlistment bill to entice Liberman

Ultra-Orthodox parties suspect PM’s son nixed their state comptroller candidate

By Stuart Winer

Coalition nominates Matanyahu Englman as candidate for state comptroller

Israeli soldiers stand guard along the Gaza border east of the city of Rafah in the southern Strip during Nakba Day protests on May 15, 2019. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Israel, Hamas said to agree to six-month ceasefire in Gaza

Terror group will halt violence along border; in return, Israel to widen fishing zone, negotiate various improvements to civil life, Channel 12 reports

Israel extends Gaza fishing zone, apparently as part of ceasefire with Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

Prisons Service to cut amenities being sold to terror convicts

Islamic Jihad tried to down an IDF chopper during fighting this month – report

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

My life hangs on a needle inside an egg

You reached for immortality and had a child, who is now tied to the raw, pulsating muscle of your heart. That’s your life from now on.

Ilana Kaufman and Ari Kelman

Jews of Color and who counts in the Jewish community

Our new study shows US Jewry is a whole lot less white than you might think and helps ensure everyone is being honored and served

Shooting at the sky won’t stop climate change

How cornflakes and disposable cups can make the world a better place (Bechukotai)

Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz (L) gives an award to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an inaugural ceremony of a new interchange at the central West Bank settlement of Adam on December 11, 2018. (Yossi Zamir)

Analysis

How settler leaders worked to reelect Netanyahu and what they want in return

While they’ve sparred with him in the past, prominent West Bank mayors put aside differences to campaign door-to-door for PM’s Likud party days after his on-air annexation pledge

Border Police prepare to demolish a home in the Tapuah West outpost on May 21, 2019. (Border Police)

Border cops raze three buildings at illegal northern West Bank outpost

Oren Jay Sofer, author of 'Say What You Mean.' (Courtesy)

Author interview

Say what you mean: A Jewish Buddhist’s key to nonviolent communication

By Jen Maidenberg

Madonna performs at the 2019 Eurovision song contest (Screencapture/YouTube)

Back in tune

Madonna posts edited video of her off-key Eurovision performance

After being criticized for quality of vocals, the pop star uploads a clip of her appearance fixed to be the way it was intended to sound; critics post comparisons between the two

Illustrative: Travelers at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

Eurovision official says he was mistreated at airport: ‘Never want to come back’

Women who took their tops off at a protest by ultra-Orthodox men in Jerusalem on May 18, 2019. (screenshot)

Unorthodox methods

Jerusalem Haredi protesters flee after women strip down to bras

Ultra-Orthodox males demonstrating against Eurovision Shabbat ‘desecration’ leave scene rather than look at immodestly clad females

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Beatie Deutsch was the top woman finisher in the 13-mile race in Riga on May 19, 2019 (Beatie Deutsch/Facebook)

Ultra-Orthodox mother of 5 from Jerusalem wins Riga half-marathon

Illustrative: a Jewish genealogist from New Jersey takes a look at name registers at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, central Germany, May 8, 200. (Michael Probst/AP)

German Holocaust archive puts over 13 million documents online

By AP

Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather around the bonfire during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, outside of Tel Aviv, on May 17, 2014. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Ahead of heat wave, Israelis urged to hold their fire on Lag B’Omer

By Melanie Lidman

MyHeritage headquarters in Or Yehuda. (MyHeritage/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)

Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage takes on DNA health screening

Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)

Germany to return papers of Kafka’s friend Max Brod to Israel

By Ryland James

Jill Cooper Udall leads a seder aboard a US military aircraft 30,000 feet over Vietnam, April 19, 2019. (Courtesy of Cooper Udall)

When 9 senators celebrated a Passover seder at 30,000 feet over Vietnam

One of the 12 draft pages of Israel's Declaration of Independence that the High Court of Justice has ruled must be handed over to the state archives (Courtesy of Kedem Auction House)

Supreme Court rules drafts of Declaration of Independence can’t go under hammer

A private investigator tagged Malka Leifer as she spoke on the phone, while sitting on a bench in Bnei Brak, on December 14, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Final ruling on Malka Leifer’s mental fitness for extradition to be in September

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

Yavne construction site shut after 4 killed in crane collapse

World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder on October 13, 2014. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

WJC chief slams Polish PM: ‘Poles profiteered from Jewish assets for decades’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Adele Bitton. (Courtesy)

Baby born on birthday of sister who died from stone-throwing attack

An illustration of Seedo’s technology for the automated growing of cannabis. (Seedo)

Medical cannabis firm Seedo sets up distribution center in Rotterdam

By Shoshanna Solomon

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