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What Matters Most On Friday, May 31, 2019

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16-year-old Yisrael Meir Nachumberg speaks to reporters from his hospital bed after he was injured in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 31, 2019. (Channel 13 screen capture)

'Suddenly I saw a long knife full of blood,' says victim, 16

Two hurt, one seriously, in stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City

By Judah Ari Gross

Suspected terrorist shot dead by police officers after severely wounding man near Damascus Gate, injuring a teen near the Hurva Synagogue

Israeli security forces at the scene where a Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded 47-year-old Gavriel Lavi at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian teen shot dead in West Bank, apparently while breaching fence

By Agencies and Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian Mulism worshipers gather at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on May 31, 2019 on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

260,000 Muslims pray peacefully at Al-Aqsa Mosque after terror attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (front) and former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman sit in the Knesset, May 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

1st polls since election called show Israel’s political deadlock would continue

Surveys published day after Netanyahu ran out of time to build a majority coalition find support rising for his nemesis Liberman, who would again hold balance of power

Bennett planning comeback, looking to unite small right-wing parties — report

Labor leader says party will merge with Meretz or Blue and White before election

Labor leader says he considered offer from Netanyahu to save Israeli democracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019. Netanyahu forced the dissolution of the Knesset that night, after it became clear that he was unable to win the support of Avigdor Liberman and thus could not form a majority coalition. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

Behind closed doors, Likud officials blame Netanyahu and think about what’s next

Party officials feel the PM’s political career is nearing its end, but they’re keeping quiet, at least for now

Likud minister claims Liberman tried to get Kahlon to turn his back on Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Elections 2019Deri accuses Liberman of anti-Semitism, then claims Russians don’t serve state

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu: Liberman ‘obsessed’ with sabotaging right-wing governments

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on May 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

TV report: Netanyahu’s legal problems mount as AG won’t delay his hearing

Following his resort to new elections, PM may now run out of time to pass legislation aimed at evading prosecution in three graft cases

Likud party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strewn on the floor following election night at the party's Tel Aviv headquarters, April 10, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Second time’s the charm?: 9 things to know for May 31

By Tamar Pileggi

Iranians burn an effigy of US President Donald Trump during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day in Tehran on May 31, 2019. (AFP)

Iran leaders mock Trump peace plan as thousands rally on anti-Israel Quds Day

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rouhani, Zarif join annual Tehran protests; demonstrators burn effigies of US president, Netanyahu; rallies in Iraq and Lebanon too

Iranian Jewish MP and representative of Iranian Jewish community Siamak Moreh Sedgh. (YouTube screenshot)

Iran’s Jewish MP says he looks forward to liberation of Jerusalem

Arab and Islamic states foreign ministers pose for a family picture during a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Arab League member states' top diplomats in Jeddah on May 30, 2019, ahead of the Gulf, Arab, and Islamic summits to be held in the holy city of Mecca on May 30 and 31, 2019. (Bandar Aldandani/AFP)

Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘sowing division’ to Israel’s benefit

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displays a map of Israel indicating the Golan Heights are inside the state's borders, signed by US president Donald Trump on May 30, 2019. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

Netanyahu shows off Trump’s map of Israel with Golan Heights

By AP

In bid to play down political chaos and focus on his foreign policy chops before going on to skewer rival Liberman, PM whips out gift from Kushner on which Trump scribbled ‘nice’

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)

US says Mideast conference in Bahrain to go ahead despite Israeli election

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a press conference in Gaza City on May 30, 2019. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Hamas leader thanks Iran for long-range rockets, threatens Tel Aviv

A resident stands next to burned grounds in Mevo Modi'im holds a sing that reads "Mevo Modiim Refugee Camp" in protest of the government's lack of support for the moshav, May 30, 2019. (courtesy Inbal Mustacchi)

Residents of burned moshav plead for answers as politics overshadows their loss

By Melanie Lidman

Anti-Semitism in Labour

UK Labour is subject of Jew-hate probe by anti-racism watchdog it helped create

Equality panel’s investigation comes as Corbyn’s party fails to enforce internal disciplinary measures; only far-right British National party was previously subject to such inquiry

Illustrative: Activists outside a meeting of the Labour National Executive Committee in London, Tuesday, September 4, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

Pete Willsman (Jewish News)

UK Labour suspends top official over claims against Israeli embassy

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Yeshivat Torah HaChaim head Rabbi Shmuel Tal gives a sermon on December 27, 2018. (Screen capture/Youtube)

Top rabbi blows lid off rabbinic scandal, rocking national religious public

Illustration above and top by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

Words of love

By Haim Watzman

Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean you should do it

The very fact that some perceive the teens who bang on doors and sing racist songs on Jerusalem Day as threatening is why it’s wrong

Yohanan Plesner

The ultra-Orthodox are enlisting

The Conscription Law was the trigger for new elections, but the recent campaign was personal; nobody’s talking seriously about the real issue

Liberman’s a weak leftist?

He’s a hawk’s hawk! He also believes in a secular state, and the unpredictable right-left divide highlights why we should keep nationalism and religion separate

Counting toward nationhood

Think the biblical census is irrelevant today? Think again, as it reveals essential truths about what is critical for a just, healthy society (Bamidbar)

Ronald S. Lauder, president, World Jewish Congress, speaks at the Kyiv Jewish Forum alongside Boris Lozhkin, president, Jewish Confederation of Ukraine. (Courtesy)

Promoted Content

The renaissance of the Ukrainian Jewish community

More than 500 Jewish and non-Jewish leaders gathered for the inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum. Enthusiasm for the event signaled a change in Ukraine’s status on the global Jewish map

One of the rooms at the new King Herod's Vaults Visitor Center, which opened at the Caesarea National Park on May 29, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Caesarea opens new NIS 80 million visitor center in reconstructed vaults

By Melanie Lidman

More Headlines

Entrants in a "Miss Hitler 2018" competition hosted on Russia's VKontakte social media network. (Screen capture via Hadashot news)

Russian social media network takes down page of ‘Miss Hitler’ beauty pageant

An image from footage released by Palestinian Islamic Jihad on May 30, 2019 purporting to be filmed from a drone dropping incendiary bombs on an IDF tank. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Islamic Jihad releases footage claiming to be drone attack on IDF tank

IDF seals off what it says is the longest cross-border attack tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel, May 30, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF destroys Hezbollah ‘flagship’ attack tunnel after studying it

By Judah Ari Gross

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speak to media prior to a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on May 31, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

In Germany, Pompeo voices concern over kippa warning to Jews

By AFP

Uber driver. (CC BY 2.0 Wikipedia/Alexander Torrenegra)

Palestinian Uber driver in LA boots Jews from car for attending Israel party

This file photo taken on February 19, 2019 shows a man believed to be North Korean negotiator Kim Hyok Chol (center L-blue tie) after arriving on an Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang, at Beijing international airport. (Ed JONES / AFP)

North Korea executed special envoy to US, other officials in March — report

By AFP

With the Mediterranean Sea as a backdrop, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to reporters on May 27, 2019, ahead of the first full day of a Florida trade delegation trip to Israel. (Jeff Schweers/Tallahassee Democrat via AP)

Florida Governor DeSantis meets Netanyahu in Israel

By AP

An Airbnb office in Toronto. (Wikimedia/Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler/CC0 public domain)

Hebrew speakers can now order an Airbnb in their native language

Illustrative: Participants in a think tank event hosted by the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative in Berkeley, California. (Courtesy/Jews of Color Field Building Initiative)

US Jews of color are chronically undercounted, researchers find

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative image of a circumcision. (yoglimogli, iStock by Getty Images)

Netherlands Health Ministry says Jewish circumcisers are breaking the law

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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