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What Matters Most On Monday, May 27, 2019

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Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting regarding the coalition negotiations at the Knesset, on May 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman won’t budge on Haredi draft, likens pro-PM daily to ‘Stalin’s Pravda’

By Marissa Newman

Yisrael Beytenu leader concedes new elections would be unnecessary, but is adamant he can’t allow ultra-Orthodox to control matters of religion and state

Blue and White party leaders MK Benny Gantz, right, and MK Yair Lapid at a faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition to oppose Likud bill to dissolve Knesset, wants to try forming gov’t

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman sign a coalition agreement in the Knesset on May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid deadlock in coalition talks, Likud set to push bill to dissolve Knesset

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the Knesset's winter session on October 15, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

MKs approves special committee to dissolve Knesset

Netanyahu urges Liberman to reconsider joining his government, says he’s ‘doing everything possible’ to solve coalition deadlock, avert snap polls

12:10 pm

Likud meets to give Kulanu 2nd, 12th, 20th and final spots in joint list
7:06 pm

IDF strikes in Syria after Israeli fighter jet comes under fire
6:55 pm

Gantz: Netanyahu could have functioning government tomorrow if he wanted

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman announce a coalition agreement, May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Analysis

Elections again? Surely not! Or just maybe? Three key points

Liberman isn’t bluffing. Nobody knows if the ultra-Orthodox are. But Netanyahu desperately wants to avoid another round of voting

Then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman announces his resignation from his office following the ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, during a press conference in the Knesset on November 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewDown to the wire: 8 things to know for May 27

By Tamar Pileggi

Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer seen during a faction meeting in the Knesset, on December 31, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Yisrael Beytenu negotiator slams Netanyahu’s coalition compromise as ‘fake’

Chief Supreme Court Justice Esther Hayut adresses a legal conference in Eilat on May 27, 2019. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

‘What’s changed?’ Supreme Court head asks PM, who once lauded strong judiciary

For second time in as many weeks, Esther Hayut swipes at Netanyahu’s plan to shatter judicial oversight, quoting 2017 remarks in which he emphasized importance of independent court

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit addresses an Israel Bar Association event in Eilat, May 27, 2019 (screen grab via Channel 13)

AG slams ‘baseless’ argument that immunity bill is needed to protect premier

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Yisrael Beytenu head, Avigdor Liberman, right. (Flash90)

Netanyahu makes ‘last-ditch effort’ to avert elections, is snubbed by Liberman

Police spray water to try and disperse a protest by ultra-Orthodox Jews against the conscription of members of their community to the IDF at the entrance to Jerusalem on October 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Op-ed

The Supreme irony of Liberman’s bid to squeeze Netanyahu on Haredi army service

Yisrael Beytenu head is blocking PM’s coalition by insisting more ultra-Orthodox men are enlisted. But it’s only judicial oversight, which he opposes, that has kept his cause alive

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked addresses a legal conference in Eilat on May 27, 2019. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Shaked denies reports of possible joint run with Liberman

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett hold a press conference of the New Right Political party, in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)

New Right official: If elections called, party to run ‘with or without Shaked’

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage reacts as results are announced at the counting center for the European Elections for the South East England region, in Southampton, England on May 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Europe at crossroads as far right makes big gains in vote

By LORNE COOK and Mike Corder

Many turn their backs on centrist parties in favor of factions led by populists Salvini, Le Pen and Farage, as well as environmentalist parties

Poland’s ruling party tops EU polls after campaign marked by restitution fight

By AFP and ToI Staff

Anti-EU Brexit Party set for huge victory in vote Britain didn’t want to hold

Le Pen beats Macron in EU Parliament vote as far-right gains ground

Illustrative. A still from the 1998 film 'American History X' in which Edward Norton plays a reformer white supremacist. (Screen capture)

Teenage yeshiva boys save man with swastika tattoo from drowning in Boston

Students alert police officer, who pulls man with Nazi tattoo out of reservoir shortly before he would have died

Counter demonstrators against a KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio gather behind a security fence at Courthouse Square in the city's downtown on May 25, 2019.(Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images via JTA)

KKK members drowned out by hundreds of counter-demonstrators in Ohio

A sign warns people of measles in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, on April 10, 2019, in Brooklyn, New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NY Uber driver calls Hasidic woman ‘one of those f***ing measles people’

By JTA

The IDF Combat Engineering Corps released photos on May 26, 2019, showing the simultaneous detonation of 900 landmines during demining work at the Land of the Monasteries near Jericho. (IDF)

Baptism by fire

900 landmines detonated in Qasr al Yahud on the Jordan River

By Melanie Lidman

IDF Combat Engineering and NGO Halo Trust are in the process of demining 6,500 landmines from church compounds near Jericho

A tweet from POLITICO of their May 2019 cover story on Bernie Sanders. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Politico accused of anti-Semitism over Bernie Sanders illustration, tweet

Publication deletes original tweet accompanying article, which stated presidential candidate ‘might still be cheap, but he’s sure not poor’ after criticism from progressives, ADL

Professor Tal Dvir presents a 3D print of a heart with human tissue at Tel Aviv University on April 15, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

What do you do after you 3D-print a heart? Go straight back to work, apparently

By Shoshanna Solomon

Want to save democracy? Begin by studying Talmud!

That massive Jewish text is a call to take no claim of truth for granted, and to hold those in power to the highest standards of decency

Yes, Theresa May supports Israel

Brexit overshadows everything, so it’s hard to realize it, but she may be the greatest ally the Jewish state and Anglo-Jewry have ever had at Number 10

The erosion of Israel’s democracy

10 years of numbing legislation and the intolerant atmosphere have endangered the wellbeing of all Israeli citizens

Memorial Day: Equal, but not identical

Tens of thousands of Jews died wearing US military uniforms and defending the American dream, but that dream is not yet our reality

Picture taken by the US Defense Nuclear Agency in 1980, shows the huge dome built over top of a crater left by one of the 43 nuclear nuclear tests over Runit Island in Enewetak in the Marshall Islands. (GIFF JOHNSON / US DEFENCE NUCLEAR AGENCY / AFP)

On a Pacific island, a nuclear dome left behind by the US begins to crack

By Giff Johnson

‘The coffin is leaking its poison into the surrounding environment,’ warns local official, amid growing fears of radioactive disaster

US President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (not pictured) at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 27, 2019. (Eugene Hoshiko / POOL / AFP)

Trump on Iran: ‘If they’d like to talk, we’d like to talk’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposes stolen files on Iran's nuclear program in a press conference in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Mossad wins top defense prize for Iran nuclear heist

Nasim Pedrad, from left, Marwan Kenzari, Naomi Scott, Mena Massoud, Will Smith, Navid Negahban and Numan Acar react as confetti falls at the premiere of "Aladdin" on May 21, 2019, at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

How the new ‘Aladdin’ stacks up against a century of Hollywood stereotyping

By Evelyn Alsultany

More Headlines

Former Arab Israeli MK Basel Ghattas arrives at Gilboa Prison to serve his 2-year sentence, on July 2, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Ex-MK who smuggled cellphones to terrorists released from prison after two years

Illustrative. Firefighters try to extinguish a forest fire near Kibbutz Harel, on May 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Molotov cocktails said to spark blaze near Jerusalem neighborhood

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A car daubed with 'administrative price tag' in East Jerusalem, May 9, 2017. (Amar Arouri/B'Tselem)

Police arrest two Israelis suspected of vandalizing Palestinian property

Illustrative photo: An Israel Police vehicle after its tires are slashed allegedly by settlers near Yitzhar in the northern West Bank on May 25, 2019. (Israel Police)

Israeli teen arrested over attack on police convoy outside settlement

View of the Sea of Galilee as seen from the promenade of Tiberias on March 18, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

After 11-hour search, 5 people found alive, clinging to boat, on Sea of Galilee

Screen capture from video allegedly showing an off-duty Israeli army soldier setting fire to a Palestinian farmer's field, in the northern West Bank, on May 17, 2019. (B'Tselem)

IDF suspends soldier allegedly filmed setting Palestinian field ablaze

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

The May 27, 2019 front page of German daily Bild, featuring a cut-out kippah and urging readers to wear the Jewish skullcap in protest of anti-Semitic attacks. (Twitter)

Top German paper to print cutout kippah in solidarity with Jews

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Flash90)

Spain’s far right leader slams Yair Netanyahu as ‘ignorant and frivolous’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

An illustration of a steak prototype produced in an Aleph Farms Ltd. lab out of cow cells (Courtesy

New consortium to invest up to $100 million in Israeli foodtech, agtech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Participants in Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade, August 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem Pride organizers reject police proposal to ID participants

US-Israeli businesswoman Shari Arison seen leaving a police investigation at the Lahav 433 serious crime unit, in Lod, August 12, 2018. (Flash90)

Police to recommend charges against Israel’s richest woman

Eritrean migrant Russom Weldu Weldeslasie works at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 8, 2018. (Caron Creighton/AP)

Estimated NIS 700 million missing in ‘Deposit Law’ funding for asylum seekers

By Melanie Lidman

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