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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 22, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, confers with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearing postponed until October

Attorney general refuses PM’s request for a full-year delay, says public interest is for a speedy resolution

Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir in the Knesset, February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition blasts PM, attorney general after indictment hearing delayed

The Efrat settlement in the Etzion Bloc, November 27, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Netanyahu doubles down on West Bank annexation after ex-generals speak out

Op-ed

7 days in May: Moshe Kahlon’s chance to save Israeli democracy from Netanyahu

Finance minister said last year the PM would have to go if he were indicted. As Netanyahu now seeks legislation to keep himself out of the dock, Kahlon is best-placed to stop him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon deliver a joint statement to the press about a new tax reduction, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset House Committee Chairman MK Miki Zohar (Likud) leads a discussion on canceling the 2013 law limiting the number of ministers, at the Knesset, May 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK pushing immunity bill boasts High Court will soon be ‘irrelevant’

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) is seen during a Knesset vote to revoke a law limiting the number of government ministers, on May 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

PM said set to nix immunity law, focus on High Court override to avoid charges

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes part in Independence Day celebrations at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 9, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel media review

It was always about the court, even when it wasn’t: 8 things to know for May 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Reports indicate that Netanyahu and friends never intended to push through a new immunity law, rather using it as a distraction while they pursue a bill to override the High Court

Ushers, at left, escort MK Mickey Levy (Blue and White) out of a Knesset committee debate on a bill to remove limits on the number of cabinet ministers that can be appointed by a government, May 21, 2019. (Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Knesset meeting on lifting limits on ministers turns angry, sees walkout

Illustrative: A Hamas tunnel from Gaza to Israel, 2014. (AP Photo/Jack Guez, Pool)

Officer who joined patrol: You had to see it to believe it

How the IDF let a rabbinical mystic search for border tunnels, then spurned him

By Avner Hofstein and Anabel Zamir

Officers who went with him claim Galilee-based Rabbi Yehuda found 6 tunnels on Lebanon border, and 31 on Gaza border, years before IDF exposed them. Today, the army is dismissive

Illustrative image of a spy. (cyano66; iStock by Getty Images)

In bid for cutting-edge spy tech, Mossad expands scope of investment arm

By Shoshanna Solomon

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, left, gives a joint press conference with Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, center, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, right, and their Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, in Cairo, Egypt, July 5, 2017. (Khaled Elfiqi, Pool, via AP)

UAE, Saudi Arabia to attend US economic peace confab in Bahrain

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Abu Dhabi ‘welcomes’ announcement of summit, highlighting potential benefits to Palestinians — who are staying away; Riyadh to send its economic minister

InterviewHebron businessman with ties to settlers may be lone Palestinian at Bahrain meet

File: Palestinian security forces in Hebron, November 14, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel okays armored cars for PA security forces, to settlers’ chagrin

What Goliath quaffed?

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israeli scientists brew groundbreaking ‘ancient beer’ from 5,000-year-old yeast

Using pottery sherds from four Holy Land sites, interdisciplinary team isolates and revitalizes six strains of ancient yeast to create alcoholic beverages of yore

Tasting the biblical-style beer produced from ancient yeast strains dormant for thousands of years. (Yaniv Berman/ Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Remains of believed Second Temple-era Jews, exposed when their tombs near Jericho were damaged, are re-interred at the nearby Kfar Adumim settlement on May 21, 2019. (Courtesy Regavim)

Remains of Second Temple-era Jews reburied after their West Bank tombs damaged

then-prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, on October 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Significant progress said made in coalition talks between PM and Liberman

After Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu chair meet for first time in nearly a week and a half due to impasse in negotiations, TV report says sides closer to signing deal

6:24 pm

In first, Germany votes against anti-Israel text at World Health Organization
6:21 pm

Progress said made in coalition talks between PM and Liberman
6:16 pm

Arab-Israeli couple whose engagement at IDF ceremony went viral says nobody will rent them an apartment

A person pauses in front of Stars of David with the names of those killed two days earlier in a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Poll: 73% of American Jews feel ‘less secure’ than 2 years ago

By Eric Cortellessa

Nearly 60% think Trump bears ‘some responsibility’ for the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shootings, according to findings from the Jewish Electorate Institute

It’s a Democratic lovefest at a Reform movement policy conference

US files new federal charges in California synagogue shooting

By AP

Questions raised over planned Florida Cabinet meeting in Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Jonathan Pollard speaks to Channel 12 news, May 21, 2019 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Ex-spy Pollard accuses Israel of not caring about ‘getting us home’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In rare interview, former Navy analyst restricted from moving to Israel under terms of parole complains Jerusalem prioritizing other matters over lobbying for him

Aerial view of the small village of Kela Alon in the Golan Heights, near the site of a new community to be renamed to honor US President Donald Trump. (Golan Regional Council)

US, Israeli officials to dedicate Golan town named for Trump in June

The weakest constitution in the world

The Override Clause would provide the government with yet another legal avenue for restricting Israelis’ fundamental rights

Ksenia Svetlova

Economic peace? Not while the ice cream is melting at the checkpoint

Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ offers Palestinians financial incentives in return for giving up their dreams of sovereignty — that’s a pipe dream

A sex offender is lighting the Lag Ba-Omer bonfire. Again.

Rabbi Eliezer Berland was convicted of heinous acts. Where is the outcry from MKs, the Religious Affairs Ministry or the Chief Rabbi?

The forecast for Jordan’s stability is rocky with considerable risk

With the kingdom facing dire economic and political challenges, Israel’s talk of annexing the West Bank could increase the turmoil

Participants at a public prayer at the Kuropaty memorial site in Minsk, Belarus, April 4, 2019. (Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

In Belarus, anti-Semitism erupts when Jews open eatery near Stalin-era gravesite

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Protests against a Minsk restaurant have turned violent and anti-Semitic, challenging the local Jewish population and the country’s authoritarian government

Germany hands Israel thousands of Kafka confidant’s papers

By David Rising

Concerned Jews urge European voters to reject extremes

Partei poopersNot everyone laughing at German satire party’s Nazi-name stunt

By AFP

Lahav Shani who was appointed to succeed Zubin Mehta as the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. (Courtesy Marco Borggreve)

Tough act to follow

In shadow of legendary mentor, wunderkind maestro to lead Israel Philharmonic

By Josef Federman

Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. (NASA)

New exhibit of astronaut Ilan Ramon diary opens at Israel Museum

Diary that survived space shuttle crash displayed alongside and compared to fragments of biblical Book of Enoch

From 'Mrs. G.' a documentary being shown at the 2019 Docaviv about Lea Gottlieb, the designer and founder of Gottex Swimsuits (Courtesy DocAviv)

Variety is in the spotlight at Docaviv, Tel Aviv’s annual film fest

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Hezbollah deputy secretary general Naim Qassem (photo credit: AP/Grace Kassab)

Israel lashes top UN official for praising Hezbollah deputy chief

By Raphael Ahren

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

Icy receptionIceland pro-Palestinian band may sue El Al over bad plane seats

Illustrative image of a scientist in a lab (anyaivanova; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel fund picks 14 research teams in NIS60m bid to boost personalized medicine

By Shoshanna Solomon

Palestinian fishing boats are seen in the Mediterranean Sea at the port in Gaza City on May 10, 2019. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Israel to return dozens of impounded Gaza fishing boats — report

A mural of Leila Khaled in the West Bank, June 16, 2013. (Ian Walton/Getty Images via JTA)

San Diego State center apologizes for using photo of Palestinian terrorist

Nahal Prat (Wadi Kelt), a nature reserve and park in the Judean desert, Israel (Public domain/Wikipedia)

Amid ‘extreme’ heat wave, officials close parks, restrict holiday bonfires

People walk on Red Square enjoying a sunset in Moscow, Russia, May 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Jewish woman, 22, murdered in Moscow; shuttle driver arrested — report

An Egyptian vulture in flight over the Gamla nature reserve on the Israeli Golan, May 2013. (Wikipedia/Вых Пыхманн/CC BY-SA)

Egyptian vultures return to Carmel mountains after 60-year absence

Illustrative photo: This image, from a video posted on September 18, 2013, shows Syrians in protective suits and gas masks conducting a drill on how to treat casualties of a chemical weapons attack, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP)

Monitor says no evidence of new Syria chemical attack

By AFP

Rabbi Eliezer Berland lights a bonfire during the celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer on Mt. Meron in northern Israel on May 3, 2018. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Sex convict rabbi set to be honored with bonfire-lighting, perhaps for last time

By Marissa Newman

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, left in sash, attends a ceremony honoring the victims of the 2012 Toulouse Jewish school shooting, on May 19, 2019, by naming two alleys in the city after the three victims. (Anne Hidalgo/Twitter/via JTA)

Paris alleys dedicated to children killed in Toulouse Jewish school attack

Israeli backpacker Bar Azoulay being interviewed on Israel's Channel 12 news after his plane from New Delhi to Istanbul carried out an emergency landing in the Iranian capital Tehran, on May 21, 2019. (Channel 12 screen capture)

Israeli man recounts ‘terrifying’ hours after emergency landing in Tehran

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