LIVE: 7 hours to avoid new Israel election * Likud: Liberman wants to destroy Netanyahu * Author Wolff claims Trump said: The Jews always flip * SodaStream’s peace bubble

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Live updates [Likud source: Liberman seeks to destroy Netanyahu, supplant him]( By [TOI staff]( [As prospects of Knesset dissolution grow over failure to form coalition, official says PM’s one-time ally ‘dragging country to elections’; Yisrael Beytenu: ‘Spin and misdirection’]( Explainer [David Horovitz]( [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]( [PM meets Supreme Court chief, a day after she slams him over judicial reforms]( By [TOI staff]( [Rivlin clarifies won’t intervene in coalition crisis before deadline passes]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [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]( [Ahead of deadline, Liberman says he won’t cave to shocking, ‘powerful’ pressure]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu advisers said to warn elections won’t give him time to secure immunity]( By [Michael Bachner]( [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]( [Interview / No one really wants to solve ultra-Orthodox enlistment, says Israeli academic]( By [Omer Sharvit]( [Israel media review / Sweating it out: 7 things to know for May 29]( By [Jacob Magid]( [‘The Jews always flip,’ Trump said after Cohen plea deal, according to new book]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Siege: Trump Under Fire,’ by Michael Wolff, also alleges that Mueller drew up indictment against the president before shelving it]( [Trump reportedly seeks Adelson’s advice amid differences with Bolton]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [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’]( [Rouhani signals openness to talks if ‘cruel’ US sanctions lifted]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Analysis / Netanyahu uncommonly quiet as US-Iran crisis escalates]( By [Josef Federman]( [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]( [Kushner meets Morocco king on trip to push peace plan; will visit Israel, Jordan]( By [Sophie Pons]( [Kushner, Greenblatt to visit Israel, Jordan this week to discuss US peace plan]( By [Michael Bachner]( Interview [Raphael Ahren]( [German envoy to Israel: Anti-Semitism threatens cohesion of our society]( [‘We all regret that these fantastic Jewish institutions and schools have to be protected,’ says Susanne Wasum-Rainer. ‘But that’s our responsibility’]( [Anti-Semitism czar asks Germans to wear kippa publicly in solidarity with Jews]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( [At SodaStream Ramadan break fast, hopes that peace will bubble up from Rahat]( By [Melanie Lidman]( Top Ops [Melissa Landa]( [‘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]( [Daniel Landes]( [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]( [David Sedley]( [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]( Photo essay [Josefin Dolsten]( [A photographer explores what it’s like to be a female combat soldier]( [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’]( Film retrospective [Yiddish film season brings back the best, and worst, from old country and new]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Israel reduces Gaza fishing zone again in response to balloon attacks]( By [TOI staff]( [Boats from coastal enclave limited to 10 nautical miles from coast, three days after permitted area had been increased]( [Incendiary balloon sparks blaze in Gaza border region]( By [TOI staff]( [After 6 months apart, Gaza mother to join baby daughter in Jerusalem hospital]( By [Stuart Winer]( More Headlines [UK lecturer accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial is dismissed]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF removes several soldiers from combat duty over response to terror attack]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Boris Johnson faces court questions about Brexit claims]( By [Gregory Katz]( [Florida governor, Cabinet sued over plans to meet in Israel]( By [BRENDAN FARRINGTON]( [2 men get prison for Auschwitz slain sheep nude protest]( By [Vanessa Gera]( [Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, dies at 60]( By [AP]( [On Israel visit, Florida governor signs agreements in various tech fields]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Australian billionaire Sir Frank Lowy makes aliyah]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli arrested en route to Knesset with ‘martyr’ literature]( By [TOI staff]( [Bob Bernstein, HRW founder who later slammed its anti-Israel bias, dies at 96]( By [AFP]( [Children playing with fire caused blaze that killed toddler, assessment finds]( By [TOI staff]( [Australia Securities Exchange, wooing Israeli tech, seeks dual-listing with TASE]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved