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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 29, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks to a party meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel to go back to polls on Sept. 17, after Netanyahu fails to build coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

Arab parties, Yisrael Beytenu join Likud to help dissolve Knesset after prospective coalition partners balk at PM’s last ditch compromise deal over conscription bill

10:22 pm

Litzman: Liberman chose a campaign of incitement against the ultra-Orthodox
9:30 pm

Netanyahu: Liberman is part of the Left, don't vote for him again
9:09 pm

Netanyahu fails to form coalition; MKs vote for new elections on September 17

Explainer

As Knesset debates its dissolution, here’s how coalition crisis might play out

Either Netanyahu will muster a coalition at the eleventh hour, or we’ll have new elections, or neither of the above. The next few frenzied hours will tell

President Reuven Rivlin (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the President's Residence in Jerusalem as Rivlin tasks Netanyahu with forming the next coalition, on April 17, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meeting Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and her deputy Hanan Melcer (L) at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 28, 2019. (Courtesy)

PM meets Supreme Court chief, a day after she slams him over judicial reforms

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and President Reuven Rivlin attend the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem, on Israel's 71st Independence Day, May 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin clarifies won’t intervene in coalition crisis before deadline passes

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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

Snap elections loom ahead of midnight deadline for coalition efforts

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Compromise seems off the table as Knesset session on dissolution bill begins; Likud minister says Liberman no longer part of the right; Meretz chief plans filibuster

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attend the opening ceremony of the Bahadim IDF Training Bases City in southern Israel, November 15, 2016. (Haim Bornstein/Pool)

Ahead of deadline, Liberman says he won’t cave to shocking, ‘powerful’ pressure

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem, on Israel's 71st Independence Day, May 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu advisers said to warn elections won’t give him time to secure immunity

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 9, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud okays merger with Kulanu, confirms Netanyahu as PM candidate

By Marissa Newman

Kahlon, formerly of the ruling party, to get 4 slots on slate in move infuriating some Likud MKs; premier’s rivals within party prevented from leading faction if snap election held

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the military draft. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

InterviewNo one really wants to solve ultra-Orthodox enlistment, says Israeli academic

By Omer Sharvit

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)

Israel media reviewSweating it out: 7 things to know for May 29

President Donald Trump with first lady Melania Trump gestures upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 28, 2019, from a state visit in Japan. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

‘The Jews always flip,’ Trump said after Cohen plea deal, according to new book

‘Siege: Trump Under Fire,’ by Michael Wolff, also alleges that Mueller drew up indictment against the president before shelving it

US President Donald Trump, left, meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, as national security adviser John Bolton, right, watches. May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump reportedly seeks Adelson’s advice amid differences with Bolton

By Eric Cortellessa

US National Security Adviser John Bolton arrives to speak at the commencement for the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut., May 22, 2019. (AP/Jessica Hill)

US national security adviser: Iran seeking nuclear arms

By AP and ToI Staff

In region, Bolton says Tehran has only one reason to boost uranium enrichment — ‘to reduce the breakout time to produce nuclear weapons’

President Hassan Rouhani (left) at a meeting of the Iranian cabinet, May 29, 2019. (Iran President official website)

Rouhani signals openness to talks if ‘cruel’ US sanctions lifted

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, after signing a proclamation formally recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Susan Walsh)

AnalysisNetanyahu uncommonly quiet as US-Iran crisis escalates

By Josef Federman

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, on February 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentiev)

Russia raps US for ‘blurring’ two-state solution with economic bonuses

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Moscow says Washington’s peace plan and upcoming economic workshop are an attempt to impose an alternative Israeli-Palestinian settlement

In this May 18, 2018 file photo, White House adviser Jared Kushner speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Kushner meets Morocco king on trip to push peace plan; will visit Israel, Jordan

US President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, on June 22, 2018. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem/Flash90)

Kushner, Greenblatt to visit Israel, Jordan this week to discuss US peace plan

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: June 10, 2014, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, a man wears a kippa with the flags of Germany and Israel. (Frank Rumpenhorst / dpa / AFP)

Interview

German envoy to Israel: Rise in anti-Semitism threatens cohesion of our society

‘We all regret that these fantastic Jewish institutions and schools have to be protected,’ Ambassador Susanne Wasum-Rainer tells Times of Israel. ‘But that’s our responsibility’

Felix Klein, the German government's first-ever special envoy to the Jewish community, at the 'Berlin wears a kippah' protest, April 25, 2018 (courtesy BMI)

Anti-Semitism czar asks Germans to wear kippa publicly in solidarity with Jews

By JTA and ToI Staff

SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum dances with employees during a Ramadan iftar breakfast at the Rahat factory on May 27, 2019. (courtesy SodaStream)

At SodaStream Ramadan break fast, hopes that peace will bubble up from Rahat

By Melanie Lidman

‘P is for Palestine’ is not for children

Sure, it’s an alphabet book with cheerful illustrations, but those pictures are also an insidious attempt to indoctrinate kids against the State of Israel

We Orthodox Jews desperately need gay rabbis

I ordained a gay rabbinical student because requiring people to hide or ’cure’ their sexuality violates the Jewish notion of Law

Happy birthday, Al Capone

To take the census, Moses had to know everyone’s age — go try finding that out when no one has a birth certificate (Parshat Bamidbar)

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Politico’s ‘cheap’ shot at Bernie Sanders

If you don’t want to be called an anti-Semite, you’d better avoid talking about Jews, money, and influence in the same tweet

Two Artillery Corps fighters and instructors in Shivta, Israel (Debbie Zimelman via JTA)

Photo essay

Josefin Dolsten

A photographer explores what it’s like to be a female combat soldier in Israel

Debbie Zimelman spent five years with young women serving in 20 combat units to create her book ‘Women on the Front Lines: Inside the Combat Units of the Israeli Army’

Still from 'Her Second Mother.' (Courtesy Kino Lorber)

Film retrospective

Yiddish film season brings back the best, and worst, from old country and new

By Jordan Hoffman

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

Israel reduces Gaza fishing zone again in response to balloon attacks

Boats from coastal enclave limited to 10 nautical miles from coast, three days after permitted area had been increased

Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze in the Eshkol region of southern Israel that was sparked by a balloon-borne incendiary device from the Gaza Strip on May 22, 2019. (Eli Cohen/Fire and Rescue Services)

Incendiary balloon sparks blaze in Gaza border region

Illustrative photo of a newborn baby (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

After 6 months apart, Gaza mother to join baby daughter in Jerusalem hospital

By Stuart Winer

More Headlines

University of Essex science lecturer Maaruf Ali. (YouTube screenshot)

UK lecturer accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial is dismissed

IDF soldiers respond to a shooting attack near the Ariel Junction in the northern West Bank on March 17, 2019. (B'Lev Hadashot)

IDF removes several soldiers from combat duty over response to terror attack

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Boris Johnson arrives at the Houses of Parliament, in London, March 27, 2019, for vote on alternatives for leaving the European Union. (Dominic Lipinski/PA PA via AP)

Boris Johnson, would-be British PM, faces court questions about Brexit claims

By Gregory Katz

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (L) talks to Republican donor Sheldon Adelson at a ceremony at Ariel University in the West Bank on May 27, 2019 where he was presented with the Honorary Fellowship Award for his dedication, leadership and commitment to the State of Israel (Courtesy/Governor’s Press Office)

Florida governor, Cabinet sued over plans to meet in Israel

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

2 men get prison for Auschwitz slain sheep nude protest

By Vanessa Gera

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Horwitz poses for a portrait May 1, 1998, during a visit to Los Angeles to promote his book, "Confederates in the Attic." (AP Photo/Susan Sterner)

Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, dies at 60

By AP

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis waves to the gallery as he makes his state of the state speech on the first day of legislative session, March 5, 2019, in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

On Israel visit, Florida governor signs agreements in various tech fields

By AP and ToI Staff

In this file photo from November 28, 2014, Football Federation Australia Chairman Frank Lowy smiles as he greets Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Australian billionaire Sir Frank Lowy makes aliyah

Illustrative - a member of the Knesset security guard detail at the entrance to the Israeli parliament, October 12, 2009. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Israeli arrested en route to Knesset with ‘martyr’ literature

In a 2009 oped for The New York Times, Robert Bernstein publicly broke from Human Rights Watch, the organization he helped found and long oversaw. (Elisabeth Bernstein)

Bob Bernstein, HRW founder who later slammed its anti-Israel bias, dies at 96

By AFP

Fire fighters at the scene of a fire in an apartment in the northern city of Safed, on May 25, 2019. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Children playing with fire caused blaze that killed toddler, assessment finds

The Australian Stock Exchange (Courtesy)

Australia Securities Exchange, wooing Israeli tech, seeks dual-listing with TASE

By Shoshanna Solomon

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