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What Matters Most On Friday, May 24, 2019

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Firefighters extinguish the remains of a fire in Kibbutz Harel, on May 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel battles new wave of wildfires on hottest day of the year

Firefighters survey damage from a fire in Kibbutz Harel, on May 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu thanks Egypt for sending firefighting helicopters, says PA offered aid

Effects of a fire in the central town of Mevo Modiim on May 23, 2019. (Israel Fire Service)

Village founded by singing rabbi Carlebach burns to ground in rash of wildfires

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation outside 10 Downing Street in central London on May 24, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Tearful British PM May resigns over Brexit stalemate, will step down on June 7

After failing to push deal through parliament, UK premier leaves office, setting off frenzied leadership contest

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation outside 10 Downing street in central London on May 24, 2019. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

As she resigns, British Jews thank Theresa May for being a ‘true friend’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Beatie Deutsch in Jerusalem, May 7, 2019. (Michael Bachner/Times of Israel)

Haredi mother of 5 marathon champion Beatie Deutsch is running for a cause

By Michael Bachner

Former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court president Barak: I’d quit if they passed the ‘override’ law

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Justices can’t protect Israel’s democracy if they don’t have the tools, warns ex-court head, castigating Netanyahu for planning ‘dramatic change’ to avoid prosecution for graft

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 1, 2019 (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bid to stifle court akin to those of pre-Nazi Germany, 98 retired judges say

Avigdor Liberman is hosted by UTJ leader Yaakov Litzman at a celebration on June 18, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

As Netanyahu mulls minority coalition, Liberman vows to oppose ‘theocracy’

After emergency meeting, parties decide to push ahead with forming government of 60 MKs; Yisrael Beytenu leader says this would effectively be an ‘ultra-Orthodox’ government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, February 3, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Running out of time, Netanyahu may seek to swear-in coalition without majority

Effects of a fire in the central town of Mevo Modi'im on May 23, 2019. (Israel Fire Service)

Israel media reviewBurning down the house: 7 things to know for May 24

An Israeli teen wrapped in an LGBT Pride flag near the settlement of Efrat, June 3, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

Year on, progress on LGBT acceptance in settlement bloc appears to stall

Illustrative: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a 'white pride' rally in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Dayton Jews cautioned to keep away from KKK rally

By JTA

Rabbi Ari Ballaban calls on community members to not go to counter-protest but rather attend ‘positive alternative programming’ sponsored by the local NAACP chapter

What is anti-Semitism? The question divides a US Jewish coalition

Sweden to host international conference against anti-Semitism

By AFP

Fascist symbols and rhetoric on rise in Italian EU vote

By Colleen Barry

An anti-abortion sign is placed outside of the Reproductive Health Services building in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 20, 2019. (Seth HERALD / AFP/Getty Images)

A Jewish woman makes a stand at one of Alabama’s last abortion clinics

By Josefin Dolsten

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., speaks during a fundraiser at the Wynwood Walls, Monday, May 20, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

US should ‘guide’ Israel like a wayward friend, Buttigieg tells Jewish leaders

By Eric Cortellessa

Democratic presidential hopeful says Palestinians don’t have necessary leadership for peace, but Washington should not endorse wholesale everything Netanyahu government wants

US Army soldiers move through Qayara West Coalition base in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, November 9, 2016. (AP/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Pentagon proposes bolstering US forces in Mideast amid Iran tensions

By AP

Barbara Rubin with video camera, photo taken by John 'Hoppy' Hopkins. (Estate of JVL Hopkins)

Film review

This Jewish ‘wild woman’ left the art scene she inspired for a life of Orthodoxy

By Jordan Hoffman

Honeymoon in Krakow

He said the city reminded him of every Holocaust movie ever, and, for the first time, I wondered whether I’d been wrong to feel magic there

Playing bridge in Israel

It’s the heroes I play with who turn the card game into so much more: an encounter with Zionist history

UN’s World Health Organization condemns Israel

What a waste of precious time, money, and resources, diverted from global health priorities to wage a (false!) prosecution of the Jewish state

The birth of hope

We are not wrong to strive to perfect the world; indeed, our refusal to accept suffering and injustice as inevitable is particularly Jewish (Bechukotai)

PlayerMaker's CEO Guy Aharon, left, former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, center, and Yuval Odem the COO of PlayerMaker. (Woody Rankin)

Former Arsenal manager Wenger invests in Israeli startup PlayerMaker

By Shoshanna Solomon

PlayerMaker has developed tech that tracks and analyzes soccer players’ technical, tactical and physical performance using sensors that are mounted on their shoes

Nobuki Sugihara, second from right, with Chaim Chesler, in blue shirt, and guests of Limmud FSU Minsk at the village of Mir, Belarus, during an unveiling of a plaque for Chiune Sugihara, May 2, 2019. (Boris Brumin/via JTA)

Hold the hype

Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara’s son sets record straight on his father’s story

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Eric Bacos, left, son of Air France pilot Michel Bacos who remained with his passengers when they were hijacked and held captive at Entebbe in 1976, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, May 23, 2019. (Haim Tsach/GPO)

Netanyahu meets son of French pilot who stayed with Israeli hostages in Entebbe

Libertador Avenue in North Palermo, Buenos Aires.(Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Rabbi attacked on Buenos Aires street by group shouting anti-Semitic slurs

By JTA and ToI Staff

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) gestures on stage during his victory speech at the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) headquaters after winning India's general election, in New Delhi on May 23, 2019. (Photo by PRAKASH SINGH / AFP)

Netanyahu speaks to Modi on India election win, moans about coalition woes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (R) receives a plaque marking Israel's 71st birthday at an event in the Israeli Embassy in Brasilia on May 22, 2019 (Courtesy of Israeli embassy in Brasilia)

In first, Brazil’s president celebrates Israeli Independence Day

By Marcus M. Gilban

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Sexual harassment prevention czar at Jerusalem theater charged with sex crimes

In this file photo from June 5, 2018, Harvey Weinstein arrives to court in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Harvey Weinstein said to reach deal to settle civil proceedings for $44 million

By AFP

Ilustrative. A woman dives intoa pond on Hampstead Heath in London, September 28, 2011. (Matt Dunham/AP)

Orthodox Jews protest opening of women-only London pond to trans swimmers

By JTA

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 says Iran won’t back down, ‘even if our land is bombed’

Howard Kaye, center, and his daughter Hannah Kaye, hug after the final letter is inked into the new Torah scroll dedicated to wife and mother Lori Kaye, who was killed when a gunman attacked the Chabad of Poway on April 27, 2019, during a celebration for the new scroll, foreground, at the synagogue on May 22, 2019, in Poway, California. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

California synagogue dedicates Torah to woman killed in terror attack

By AP

Screen capture from video showing alleged crime lord Assi Ben-Mosh, right, on a flight after being expelled from Colombia. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli wanted for sex trafficking in Colombia arrested in Portugal

By AFP and ToI Staff

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