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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 23, 2019

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Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Likud Minister Dan Meridor at a party meeting in the Knesset in September 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former justice minister for Likud warns of Netanyahu ‘dictatorship’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Dan Meridor blasts plan that seeks to curb the court’s power and ensure PM’s immunity from prosecution, saying it would ‘bulldoze’ the legal system and erode democracy

Former Supreme Court president Dorit Beinisch (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former chief justice: Netanyahu seeking to ‘destroy’ courts to avoid prosecution

By Marissa Newman

Then-Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit the IDF's West Bank Division, near the Israeli settlement of Beit El, on January 10, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Yisrael Beytenu said poised to join coalition, Liberman to return to defense job

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party, left, at the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Report: ‘Override’ law to save PM from trial will be part of coalition deal

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

In constitutional earthquake, next Netanyahu government said set to empower MKs to relegislate laws Supreme Court strikes down, bar judges from overturning administrative decisions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu political party Avigdor Liberman sign a coalition agreement in the Knesset on May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewI go free with a little help from my friends: 7 things to know for May 23

By Joshua Davidovich

Kulanu MK Roy Folkman seen during a faction meeting on July 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Kulanu MK backs bid to rein in courts, is open to serving under an indicted PM

By Marissa Newman

(L-R) Deputy Health Minister and United Torah Judaism leader Ya'akov Litzman; Likud MK and former coalition chairman David Bitan; Interior Minister and Shas leader Aryeh Deri; and Likud Welfare Minister Haim Katz. (All photos by Flash90)

Analysis

Not just Netanyahu: The other 4 lawmakers who may need immunity from prosecution

Gambit to save PM could also help prevent corruption charges against Shas leader Deri, Likud’s Haim Katz and David Bitan; UTJ chief Litzman accused of aiding alleged pedophiles

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)

InterviewAdios, democracy? How Netanyahu’s proposed legislation would damage rule of law

Attorney Navot Tel-Zur seen in the courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 9, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

After payment issues, Netanyahu’s lawyer in graft cases quits

A fire raging next to the Romema neighborhood in Jerusalem on May 23, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Fires rage across Israel amid heat wave; homes evacuated, roads closed

Gazan arson balloons blamed for at least 11 fires in south

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli accused of helping sneak balloons into Gaza, possibly for arson attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel shrinks Gaza fishing zone after rash of arson balloons

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli soldier walks past a burning house amid extreme heat wave in Kibbutz Harel in central Israel on May 23, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Italy, Croatia, Greece and Cyprus offer to send firefighting planes to Israel

Foreign ministry thanks countries for willingness to help Israeli crews working to contain hundreds of blazes amid during heatwave

7:42 pm

Pentagon proposing US military reinforcements in Mideast
7:34 pm

Italy, Croatia, Greece and Cyprus sending firefighting planes to Israel
7:17 pm

Iran will not surrender to US even if bombed, Rouhani says

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and and Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (L) attend the opening session of the 30th Arab League summit in the Tunisian capital Tunis on March 31, 2019. (Fethi Belaid/Pool/AFP)

Palestinians officially refuse invitation to US economic peace summit in Bahrain

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

In a statement, PA rejects any representation at meeting planned for next month, says only ‘ending the Israeli occupation’ will bring financial prosperity

Khamenei: Iran’s youth ‘will witness demise of Israel, American civilization’

By ToI Staff and AP

Pompeo: White House has a ‘vision of peace’ to be unveiled in the summer

By Eric Cortellessa

At UN, Trump Mideast envoy tells Palestinians skipping peace summit ‘a mistake’

By Tamar Pileggi

In this file photo from June 12, 2018, German-born British author and illustrator Judith Kerr, poses for a photograph at her home in west London on June 12, 2018. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Obituary

Jewish children’s book author Judith Kerr dies at 95

By AFP

British writer, best known for ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea,’ fled Nazi Germany with her family at age 10, was awarded OBE for services to children’s literature, Holocaust education

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

British PM May set to resign Friday after final Brexit gambit fails – report

By ToI Staff and AFP

Latest proposal for vote on second referendum on leaving EU widely condemned, with more ministers stepping down and Conservatives expecting a battering in EU parliament elections

Illustrative: Screen grab taken from video of a packed chamber during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, April 3, 2019 (House of Commons/PA via AP)

British government postpones Brexit vote as crisis deepens

By Dario Thuburn

A mural reading 'The Future is Europe' is seen near the European institutions ahead of the European parliamentary elections in Brussels on May 14, 2019 (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Europeans head to polls in 28 countries in key moment for Euroskeptic far-right

Eilleen Eisenberg

Wait… so you mean this isn’t a date?

I knew just how that romantic dinner with the rabbi would go… (I couldn’t have been more wrong)

American Middle East strategy may be fraying

The US has put its eggs in the Saudi basket, and Israel is following suit — an approach that may soon backfire

Eliya Sfinofolos proposes marriage to Kerry Hassan on the 'Fauda' set, May 2019 (YouTube screengrab)

Lights, camera, wedding

In faked scene, ‘Fauda’ cast stages genuine marriage proposal

By Jessica Steinberg

Crew member has girlfriend hired for the show and then fictionally ‘kidnapped’ so that he can really ask her to marry him. Confused? So was she

Members of the 'Shtisel' cast in their Geula, Jerusalem milieu (Courtesy 'Shtisel')

Religious conflictLabor dispute threatens return of ‘Shtisel’ for 3rd season

By JTA

US actor Leonardo DiCaprio (L), Australian actress Margot Robbie, US film director Quentin Tarantino (2ndR) and his wife Israeli singer Daniella Pick and US actor Brad Pitt on the red carpet at the Festival Palace after the screening of the film "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" at the Cannes Film Festival in France, May 21, 2019. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

Quentin and his PickTarantino joined by Israeli wife at Cannes red carpet

Lion Black, left, and Shmuel Naky, right, pour beer and mead made with 3,000-year-old yeast that were brewed as part of an archaeological-microbiological study, on May 22, 2019. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Historic beer review

It’s not what Goliath drank, but ancient yeast brews still bring giant flavor

By Judah Ari Gross

The World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (CC BY-SA Thorkild Tylleskar/Wikipedia)

In first, Germany votes against anti-Israel measure at World Health Organization

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli ambassador thanks Berlin for ‘significant and principled stand’; resolution blaming Israel for poor health conditions in Palestinian areas passes with overwhelming majority

Remains of 1,214 Holocaust victims laid to rest in Belarus

By AP and ToI Staff

Vienna: Photos of Holocaust survivors defaced with swastikas

By AP and ToI Staff

BDS activists disrupt Israeli author’s book event in Germany

More Headlines

Archimedes Group, the Israeli social media influence company banned by Facebook, operates from offices inside this building in Holon, May 22, 2019 (Times of Israel)

ToI investigatesArchimedes Group, outed by Facebook for election fakery, works from Holon office

By Simona Weinglass

A fire apparently started by an Israeli settler outside the Palestinian village of Burin in the northern West Bank on May 17, 2019. (B'tselem)

B’Tselem: Settlers set fire to Palestinians’ fields, threw rocks at them

By Judah Ari Gross

Indian supporters and party workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bangalore dance and hold flags as they celebrate the results of India's general election on May 23, 2019. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP)

Netanyahu congratulates India’s Modi as early election results point to big win

By AFP and ToI Staff

Court upholds Israeli Jew’s prison sentence for inciting against Arabs

Dr. Daniel Kraft, Faculty Chair for Medicine at Singularity University and the Founder and Chair for Exponential Medicine; at the aMoon Summit; Neve Ilan, May 13, 2019 (Fabian Koldorff)

Patients of the future will be treated by virtual doctors, ‘health Waze’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Then-Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog helps a participant in a bar and bat mitzvah for deaf teens to unwrap his tefillin at the Nitzanim Synagogue in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019. (Nachshon Philipson)

80 deaf Israeli children have joint bar and bat mitzvah ceremony

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to go on an official state visit to Poland, on June 12, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90)

Travel site flaw reveals flight info of PM, security officials – report

Illustrative photo of managers at a construction site (milanvirijevic, iStock by Getty Images)

After worker deaths, construction work halts across country for safety reviews

A Jewish pilgrim lights a candle on the first day of the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the El Ghriba Synagogue, Africa's oldest, on Tunisia's Mediterranean resort island of Djerba on May 22, 2019. (Fathi Nasri/AFP)

Tunisian Jews mark Lag B’Omer in ancient Ghriba synagogue

By AFP

File: Children waving Israeli and American flags at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City, June 4, 2017. (Perry Bindelglass via JTA)

Feds: New Jersey man aided Hamas, threatened to kill Israel supporters

By Agencies and JTA

Police arresting an ultra-Orthodox teenager with autism in Jerusalem, May 22, 2019. (YouTube screenshot

Police accused of using excessive force on ultra-Orthodox teen with autism

Israel's Kobi Marimi performs the song "Home" during the Grand Final of the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 at Expo Tel Aviv on May 18, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

'Douze' bluesIsrael loses its Eurovision ‘douze points,’ retains rank

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