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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 28, 2019

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Backdropped by Jerusalem's Old City Walls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a press conference with Moshe Kahlon, January 21, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

As Israel slides toward elections, Likud set to approve merger with Kulanu

By Marissa Newman

Deal would give Moshe Kahlon four seats on right-wing slate, prompting anger within Netanyahu’s party

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)

Bill to dissolve Knesset, call elections on September 17 approved in 1st reading

AnalysisThe IDF and its need for troops aren’t the real issue in the Haredi draft battle

By Judah Ari Gross

Op-ed

Liberman’s capitulation or new elections? No, Netanyahu has a third option

What about SodaStream’s alchemist Daniel Birnbaum, or inspirational matriarch Marie Nahmias for PM? No, I’m not being serious. But then again, neither is Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hosted by Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party (left), at a meal to celebrate the birth of Litzman's grandson, June 18, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/FLASH90)

In public appeal to Liberman, Netanyahu says still time to avert snap election

By Michael Bachner

Liberman accuses Netanyahu of offering ‘dishonest’ coalition compromise

By Tamar Pileggi

Poll: Majority of public, including right-wing, oppose immunity for PM

‎Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut (C) and other judges on the court, ahead of a hearing on March 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Interview'After a certain amount of time, democracy disappears'

Israel is already in a constitutional crisis, leading law scholar warns

By Raphael Ahren

Suzie Navot is not against parliamentary immunity and wants the Knesset to be able to override the Supreme Court. But she’s also worried about a creeping erosion of democracy

President Reuven Rivlin (right) with an Arab leader at an Iftar dinner, May 28, 2019 (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin concerned over new elections’ potential to increase Jewish-Arab acrimony

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump says he hopes Netanyahu will manage to form coalition

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

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

How Liberman’s contempt for the PM could preemptively fell the coalition

With the Yisrael Beytenu chief entrenching himself in his positions and only two days left to reach agreement, hope for Netanyahu could come from the ultra-Orthodox parties

Blue and White party leaders (R-L) Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, Moshe Ya'alon, and Gabi Ashkenazi, during a faction meeting at the Knesset on May 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush /Flash90)

Opposition: If Netanyahu can’t form coalition, another MK should have a shot

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and incoming Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (left) hold a press conference in the Knesset on May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewOutmaneuvered and outnumbered: 8 things to know for May 28

By Tamar Pileggi

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)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman says he’s not interested in compromising, rejects meeting with PM

Threat of snap elections looms with less than 28 hours left to form a coalition, Yisrael Beytenu head tells Haredi parties it’s up to them to accept his offer on IDF draft bill

6:29 pm

Russia blasts US 'peace workshop' in Bahrain
6:05 pm

Special committee advances bill to dissolve Knesset, readying it for 2nd and final reading tomorrow night
5:57 pm

France has 'indication' of chemical attack in Syria, minister says

Illustrative: Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn waves to delegrates after giving his keynote speech on the final day of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, northwest England on September 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Oli SCARFF)

UK racism watchdog launches probe into Labour anti-Semitism allegations

Investigation to look at complaints of Jew hatred and party’s response; Labour may have to reveal internal texts, emails; campaigner: Corbyn is an anti-Semite, unfit for office

Illustrative. Larger-than-life portraits by Italian photographer Luigi Toscano line a fence bordering United Nations headquarters, January 23, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/ Kathy Willens)

Photos of Holocaust survivors on exhibit in Vienna vandalized for 3rd time

By JTA and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech in Munich, Germany, May 24, 2019. (Christof Stache/AFP)

Merkel: All German synagogues, Jewish schools need police protection

Chancellor admits constant battle with anti-Semitism, says Germans have to face ‘the specters of the past’

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)

German tabloid publishes cutout kippah to wear in solidarity with country’s Jews

By Toby Axelrod

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, October 24, 2018. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

German chancellor Merkel commits to ensuring security for Jews with kippahs

By AP and ToI Staff

Five of the 12 Jewish cadets who graduated from West Point stand together together with Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, superintendent of West Point. The cadets are, from left to right: Joshua Fernquist, Andrew Zinner, Noah Carlen, Rachelle David and Ryan Oppenheim (Courtesy Glenn Goldman)

Stars of all stripes

As it sets diversity record, West Point quietly graduates 1,000th Jewish student

By Cathryn J. Prince

Shayna Goldberg

Questions never asked

The world of Orthodox women’s Jewish education has changed rapidly, and it’s made my career, but too many were left behind

Bribery charges against Netanyahu wouldn’t hold water in a US court

Bibi and Sara allegedly did favors in return for positive publicity. Under American law, such a quid pro quo is not a crime

William Echikson

The tolerant Belgium I loved is gone

It’s not just the rise in anti-Semitic incidents that worry me, it is the failure of the Belgian politicians to denounce them

Michael Merdinger

The Boogeyman is coming

Even if you like what the override law means for today, the odds are good that you’ll have reason to hate it down the road

An Israeli F-16. (Hagar Amibar/Israeli Air Force)

IDF says it bombed Syrian anti-aircraft battery that fired at Israeli jet

By Judah Ari Gross

Syria claims Israeli retaliatory strike hit a military position in Quneitra region on Syrian Golan Heights, killing two soldiers

Illustrative photo of an Israeli Air Force drone (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Lebanese media: Israeli Air Force destroys own spying device north of border

A view of the border with Israel, from the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila, with Israeli vehicles driving on the right side and UN and Lebanese vehicles driving on the left, on December 4, 2018. (Ali Dia/AFP)

Lebanese rioters clash with IDF along border fence

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli soldiers gather at a position over an earth barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz on March 30, 2019, as Palestinians (background) protest to mark the first anniversary of the "March of Return" protests. (Jack Guez/AFP)

General defends use of live fire in Gaza, says less-lethal weapons ineffective

By Judah Ari Gross

Herzi Halevi tells international legal experts that IDF investigates ‘every bullet’ shot during border riots, hasn’t found case of indiscriminate fire

Abbas says Trump’s peace plan, Bahrain workshop will ‘go to hell’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF’s top lawyer: ICC has no jurisdiction in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Judah Ari Gross

Qatar to send team to Israel, Gaza in bid to address Strip’s electricity crisis

By Judah Ari Gross

Dancers from the Collberg Ballet will perform 'Figure A Sea', with music by Laurie Anderson, at the 2019 Israel Festival (Courtesy Israel Festival)

Analysis

Jessica Steinberg

This year’s Israel Festival dares audiences to challenge artistic boundaries

Two-week event begins May 30, with a jam-packed schedule of local premieres and visiting troupes aimed at stretching the imagination

A rehearsal of one of the dances in 'Body -- Dance -- Place' at the historic, now empty, YMCA pool in Jerusalem (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Fluidity in motionThe pool’s all dry but the dancers dive right in

By Jessica Steinberg

Rachel Wenitsky is the Jewish queen of satire. (Alma/via JTA)

Rachel Wenitsky is the Jewish queen of satire

By Arielle Kaplan

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of a nursery in a Jerusalem hospital's maternity ward. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Maternity wards let Jewish woman ask for bed without Arab roommate — report

Intel Corp,'s Haifa team has developed the new 10th Gen Intel Core processors that bring AI to the PC for the first time (Courtesy)

Intel launches new processors that bring AI to the PC, sired by Haifa team

By Shoshanna Solomon

HP Inc. will be installing an AI-based software developed with Israeli cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct in its next generation computers (YouTube screenshot)

HP to install Israeli cybersecurity software in next-generation computers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Police speak to model Marisa Papen and her photographer, as well as a group of ultra-Orthodox men, after she ran naked through their neighborhood, during the Purim holiday, on March 21, 2019. (Screen capture)

Strip provokerModel goes nude in Williamsburg, is chased by angry Hasidic mob

By JTA and ToI Staff

Terrorist leader Zakaria Zubeidi arrives for a court hearing at the Ofer military court, May 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court remands former Palestinian terror leader charged in recent attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Rabbi Aryeh Stern on May 10, 2015. (FLASH90)

Jerusalem chief rabbi urges mayor not to put up LGBT flags that ‘mar’ the city

By Michael Bachner

IDF soldiers from the C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate took part in the Spark Hackathon, held in May 23-24, 2019, to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and increase the quality of life of the survivors (IDF spokesperson's unit)

IDF soldiers join battle for Holocaust memory, dignity

By Shoshanna Solomon

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (2ndR) and Interior Minister Eckart Ratz (R) listen to speeches head of a confidence vote on May 27, 2019 in Vienna following the fallout from the "Ibiza-gate" scandal that toppled his coalition with the far-right. (ALEX HALADA / AFP)

Austria’s Kurtz ousted in no-confidence vote after calling for snap elections

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative - Emoji use on a smartphone. (Mlindri, Getty Images)

Uni-kosherEuropean rabbis want Jewish emojis with kippot

By Paul Shindman

A crime scene where a man stabbed 19 people, including children in Kawasaki on May 28, 2019 (JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS / AFP)

Child killed, 17 hurt in Japan mass stabbing attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Newly ordained Rabbi Daniel Atwood is congratulated by Rabbi Daniel Landes at the Jerusalem Theater, on May 26, 2019. (Sam Sokol/JTA)

First openly gay Orthodox rabbi ordained in Jerusalem

A flight attendant speaking to a passenger on an El Al flight from New York to Israel on November 16, 2018. (screen capture: Israel Hayom)

Ultra-Orthodox passengers on El Al ‘Shabbat flight’ file class action lawsuit

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