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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 1, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turns to speak to Labor party leader Avi Gabbay in the course of the Knesset vote to disperse and hold new elections, late on May 29, 2019 (Ynet screenshot)

To assuage double-cross fears, Netanyahu let Gabbay film him rejecting Liberman

TV report details desperate lengths to which PM went, in secret talks through Tuesday night, to create a package sweet enough to entice leftist Labor into his right-wing coalition

Former Mossad deputy Ram Ben-Barak at the Knesset, January 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Blue and White MK: Likud twice offered me defense minister job to join coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-defense minister Ehud Barak attend a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 21, 2012. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ehud Barak says Netanyahu is ‘finished,’ predicts Likud will turn on him

Head Tel Aviv zookeeper Johnny Zusia walking a tiger in the streets of Tel Aviv. (Courtesy Collection of Meitar Boris Carmi)

It all started with a pet store on Sheinkin Street

The crazy tale of Tel Aviv’s Rabbi Dolittle, who brought animal world to Israel

By Karen Chernick

Exhibit and new film ‘There Are No Lions in Tel Aviv’ tell curious, heartwarming tale of Mordechai Shorenstein, a Danish rabbi whose love for wildlife found an expanding audience

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, on October 29, 2018 in which eleven Jews were killed while at Shabbat services. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Far-left California Democrats want to link Israeli gov’t to Pittsburgh massacre

By JTA

Ahead of state party convention, progressives put forth draft resolutions condemning Jerusalem for stoking anti-Semitism and calling for rollback of Trump Israel policies

Emergency vehicles fill the parking lot at the Princess Anne Middle School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after a nearby shooting killed 12, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Vicki Cronis-Nohe)

12 people killed in Virginia Beach shooting; suspect dead

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

With new elections in Israel, Trump’s Mideast plan hits another hitch

Former US diplomats and experts say that time is working against the proposal as the US election campaign will be in full swing by the time Israel has a government

US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters, on September 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A view of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, most of which lies over the Green Line. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

EU slams Israel’s planned East Jerusalem construction as ‘obstacle to peace’

Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok addresses the United Nations Security Council during the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, September 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Dutch foreign minister defends diplomat promoting ‘one-state solution’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Detail from 'Seder,' painted in the United States by French-born artist Nicole Eisenman. (The Jewish Museum, New York, Purchase: Lore Ross Bequest; Milton and Miriam Handler Endowment Fund; and Fine Arts Acquisitions Committee Fund, 2011-3
© Nicole Eisenman)

Jews and LGBTQ rights

50 years after Stonewall Inn, US Jewish institutions take pride in LGBTQ support

By Cathryn J. Prince

Activist Barak Cohen (L) films himself accosting Sheldon Adelson (seated) in Tel Aviv (Screencapture/Twitter)

Sheldon Adelson accosted in Tel Aviv, cursed and told ‘you live too long’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Self-described anti-corruption activist Barak Cohen films himself shouting at the US casino magnate, who is one of Netanyahu’s staunchest supporters

Sacha Baron Cohen, star of the Showtime series "Who Is America?" poses before an Emmy For Your Consideration event for the show at Paramount Studios, May 15, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Sacha Baron Cohen says Trump would not be president without Twitter

Two young men stop to view police activity outside the Jewish Children's Museum following a bomb threat, Thursday March 9, 2017 in Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Note reading ‘Hitler is coming’ posted on Brooklyn Jewish Children’s Museum

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Police investigating incident as a hate crime; Governor Andrew Cuomo in response says state has ‘zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitism

Illustrative: Swastikas found drawn on an elementary school playground in Queens, New York, February 22, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

NY police say hate crimes nearly doubled in 2019, with most anti-Semitic

By JTA

A swastika, painted on the wall of the Stedelijk Museum overnight, is seen in Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 22, 2019 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

In first, Dutch government calls fighting anti-Semitism a national priority

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Then-Islamic Jihad Deputy Secretary-General Ziad Nakhaleh delivering a speech on August 14, 2018. (Screenshot: Palestine Today)

Islamic Jihad chief says Gaza groups can fire 1,000 rockets a day at Israel

Arson balloons spark three fires inside Israel; 7,000 Palestinians protest along Gaza border with hundreds rioting, 11 wounded

A knife found on a Palestinian trying to enter the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on May 31, 2019 (Police Spokesperson)

Police arrest Palestinian with knife at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs

The West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, October 21, 2018. (AP/ Majdi Mohammed)

EU criticizes Israel over planned auction of seized West Bank aid

By AFP

Saudi King Salman chairs an emergency summit of Gulf Arab leaders in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Saudi king says will reject US measures that ‘prejudice’ Jerusalem

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At summit of Muslim nations focusing on threats from Iran, countries also emphasize support for Palestinian rights ahead of US unveiling of its peace plan

Days before UK visit, Trump backs Boris Johnson, calls Meghan Markle ‘nasty’

By AP

UN atomic agency says Iran nuclear stockpiles growing, but still within limits

By KIYOKO METZLER

Hackers take down Iranian social security website

By AP

Lebanese Shiite Muslims listen to a speech by the head of the terror group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, transmitted on two large screens with a replica of the Dome of the Rock mosque, during the al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day, in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut on May 31, 2019 (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Hezbollah chief: Israel will ‘pay the price’ if US goes to war with Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hassan Nasrallah says all American forces and interests in Middle East will be annihilated if conflict breaks out, calls Trump peace plan ‘a historic crime’

In this Friday, May 11, 2018 photo, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese parliament speaker tells crude anti-Semitic joke during interview

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Lebanese Shiite Muslims listen to a speech by the head of the terror group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, transmitted on two large screens with a replica of the Dome of the Rock mosque, during the al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day, in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut on May 31, 2019 (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Nasrallah says Hezbollah has no factories for precision missiles

By AP and ToI Staff

Karin Kloosterman

The Israeli ’ambassador of Goa’ from Artjuna Cafe

Yoga, clean vegetables, and Israeli hospitality — what more could I ask for in India?

Gerald C. Skolnik

A Yankee fan learns from Bill Buckner

What can you do when you’ve commited a can’t-pull-it-back mistake that leaves you persona non grata in you community’s eyes?

People visit the Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 28, 2019, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Who are the Sacklers, the family at the center of the opioid crisis?

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Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter of the Gur Hassidic Dynasty attends a rally of United Torah Judaism party in Jerusalem ahead of the 2019 elections, April 8, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Who is the Admor of Gur, the Hasidic leader who plays coalition kingmaker?

Lithuania's Ninth Fort, a 19th century bunker complex that the Nazis and their helpers turned into a camp and execution area. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Lithuanian soldiers, officials honor late chaplain of Holocaust-era death squad

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Demonstrators carry the Palestinian flag during a protest march in Chicago d, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

After backlash, Chicago school pulls support for ‘Teaching Palestine’ course

Police help evacuate residents after a brush fire in Kiryat Shmona on May 31, 2019 ( Police Spokesperson)

Homes evacuated in Kiryat Shmona as wildfire rages

Illustrative: A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/ AFP/File)

Dutch museums will return 2 Nazi-looted paintings to Holocaust survivor’s family

By JTA

Illustrative: The Rabbinical Court in Tel Aviv on August 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)

Tel Aviv rabbinical court uses loophole to allow divorced woman to marry a kohen

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israeli protesters chant slogans as they march in the SlutWalk in central Jerusalem, on May 24, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands join Tel Aviv SlutWalk against sexual violence

President Reuven RIvlin with participants in Veterans Games in Jerusalem, May 30, 2019 (Mark Nriman/GPO)

From our partnerVeteran Games ‘unite extraordinary people’ from Israel and UK

By Justin Cohen

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