PM’s hearing postponed * Op-ed: 7 days to save democracy * UAE, Saudis to join Bahrain parIey * IDF let rabbi mystic search for tunnels * Insecu re US Jews * Goliath beer

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Wednesday, May 22, 2019 [Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearing postponed until October]( By [TOI staff]( [Attorney general refuses PM’s request for a full-year delay, says public interest is for a speedy resolution]( [Opposition blasts PM, attorney general after indictment hearing delayed]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu doubles down on West Bank annexation after ex-generals speak out]( By [TOI staff]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [7 days in May: Moshe Kahlon’s chance to save Israeli democracy from Netanyahu]( [Finance minister said last year the PM would have to go if he were indicted. As Netanyahu now seeks legislation to keep himself out of the dock, Kahlon is best-placed to stop him]( [Likud MK pushing immunity bill boasts High Court will soon be ‘irrelevant’]( By [Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff]( [PM said set to nix immunity law, focus on High Court override to avoid charges]( By [Michael Bachner and TOI staff]( Israel media review [It was always about the court, even when it wasn’t: 8 things to know for May 22]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Reports indicate that Netanyahu and friends never intended to push through a new immunity law, rather using it as a distraction while they pursue a bill to override the High Court]( [Knesset meeting on lifting limits on ministers turns angry, sees walkout]( By [TOI staff]( [How the IDF let a rabbinical mystic search for border tunnels, then spurned him]( By [Avner Hofstein and Anabel Zamir]( [Officers who went with him claim Galilee-based Rabbi Yehuda found 6 tunnels on Lebanon border, and 31 on Gaza border, years before IDF exposed them. Today, the army is dismissive]( [In bid for cutting-edge spy tech, Mossad expands scope of investment arm]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [UAE, Saudi Arabia to attend US economic peace confab in Bahrain]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Abu Dhabi ‘welcomes’ announcement of summit, highlighting potential benefits to Palestinians — who are staying away; Riyadh to send its economic minister]( [Interview / Hebron businessman with ties to settlers may be lone Palestinian at Bahrain meet]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Israel okays armored cars for PA security forces, to settlers’ chagrin]( By [TOI staff]( What Goliath quaffed? [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Israeli scientists brew groundbreaking ‘ancient beer’ from 5,000-year-old yeast]( [Using pottery sherds from four Holy Land sites, interdisciplinary team isolates and revitalizes six strains of ancient yeast to create alcoholic beverages of yore]( [Remains of Second Temple-era Jews reburied after their West Bank tombs damaged]( By [TOI staff]( Live updates [Firefighters work to extinguish 6 blazes caused by incendiary balloons from Gaza]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Authorities say man nabbed trying to use his Israeli citizenship to smuggle hundreds of thousands of balloons into coastal enclave]( [Poll: 73% of American Jews feel ‘less secure’ than 2 years ago]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Nearly 60% think Trump bears ‘some responsibility’ for the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shootings, according to findings from the Jewish Electorate Institute]( [It’s a Democratic lovefest at a Reform movement policy conference]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [US files new federal charges in California synagogue shooting]( By [AP]( [Questions raised over planned Florida Cabinet meeting in Israel]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Ex-spy Pollard accuses Israel of not caring about ‘getting us home’]( By [Michael Bachner and TOI staff]( [In rare interview, former Navy analyst restricted from moving to Israel under terms of parole complains Jerusalem prioritizing other matters over lobbying for him]( [US, Israeli officials to dedicate Golan town named for Trump in June]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Yuval Shany]( [The weakest constitution in the world]( [The Override Clause would provide the government with yet another legal avenue for restricting Israelis’ fundamental rights]( [Ksenia Svetlova]( [Economic peace? Not while the ice cream is melting at the checkpoint]( [Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ offers Palestinians financial incentives in return for giving up their dreams of sovereignty — that’s a pipe dream]( [Ben Frank]( [A sex offender is lighting the Lag Ba-Omer bonfire. Again.]( [Rabbi Eliezer Berland was convicted of heinous acts. Where is the outcry from MKs, the Religious Affairs Ministry or the Chief Rabbi?]( [Oded Eran]( [The forecast for Jordan’s stability is rocky with considerable risk]( [With the kingdom facing dire economic and political challenges, Israel’s talk of annexing the West Bank could increase the turmoil]( [In Belarus, anti-Semitism erupts when Jews open eatery near Stalin-era gravesite]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Protests against a Minsk restaurant have turned violent and anti-Semitic, challenging the local Jewish population and the country’s authoritarian government]( [Germany hands Israel thousands of Kafka confidant’s papers]( By [David Rising]( [Concerned Jews urge European voters to reject extremes]( By [Dave Clark]( [Partei poopers / Not everyone laughing at German satire party’s Nazi-name stunt]( By [AFP]( Tough act to follow [In shadow of legendary mentor, wunderkind maestro to lead Israel Philharmonic]( By [Josef Federman]( [New exhibit of astronaut Ilan Ramon diary opens at Israel Museum]( By [TOI staff]( [Diary that survived space shuttle crash displayed alongside and compared to fragments of biblical Book of Enoch]( [Variety is in the spotlight at annual Docaviv, Tel Aviv’s annual film fest]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( More Headlines [Israel lashes top UN official for praising Hezbollah deputy chief]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Icy reception / Iceland pro-Palestinian band may sue El Al over bad plane seats]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel fund picks 14 research teams in NIS60m bid to boost personalized medicine]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israel to return dozens of impounded Gaza fishing boats — report]( By [TOI staff]( [San Diego State center apologizes for using photo of Palestinian terrorist]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Amid ‘extreme’ heat wave, officials close parks, restrict holiday bonfires]( By [TOI staff]( [Jewish woman, 22, murdered in Moscow; shuttle driver arrested — report]( By [TOI staff]( [Egyptian vultures return to Carmel mountains after 60-year absence]( By [TOI staff]( [Monitor says no evidence of new Syria chemical attack]( By [AFP]( [Sex convict rabbi set to be honored with bonfire-lighting, perhaps for last time]( By [Marissa Newman]( [Paris alleys dedicated to children killed in Toulouse Jewish school attack]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Israeli man recounts ‘terrifying’ hours after emergency landing in Tehran]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved