MK Yair Lapid excoriated Prime Minister Netanyahu Monday, accusing Netanyahu of attempting to become a “dictator” and comparing him to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Speaking at a meeting of the Kichol V’lavan party, Lapid blasted Netanyahu’s effort to build support for an amendment to Israel’s Immunity Law, with the aim of extending immunity automatically to all sitting lawmakers. .
“We have been given a second chance,” said Lapid. “For all the wrong reasons, the right thing has happened. Netanyahu tried to form a government of extortion and extremism to keep him out prison. He failed. He wanted to be a dictator like Erdogan, he failed. The country told him, “enough. You’ve gone too far. We don’t work for you.”

Shortly after Prime Minister fired him from his post as education minister and diaspora affairs, Naftali Bennett announced that he would run again in the September election with his New Right party, which he co-founded with Ayelet Shaked, who was also simultaneously let go from her post as justice minister.
Although Shaked had announced her hiatus from politics after the New Right failed to meet the minimum threshold to enter Israel’s parliament, she and Bennett were reportedly set to meet later Sunday evening.
In a notably conciliatory tone, Bennett promised to help transition whoever would be appointed the new education minister.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, speaking about the unannounced US Mideast peace plan, said on Sunday that his country would not accept anything undesired by the Palestinians.
Speaking after breaking the Ramadan fast at a hotel in Cairo, Sisi also appeared to dismiss suggestions that Egypt might make concessions as part of the US plan.
The blueprint, still in draft form and billed by US President Donald Trump as the “deal of the century,” jettisons the two-state solution to ending the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, according to Palestinian and Arab sources.
It envisages an expansion of Gaza into parts of northern Sinai, under Egyptian control, Palestinian officials have told Reuters.

President Trump’s son-in-law and Mideast peace maven Jared Kushner does not believe that Palestinians are capable of governing themselves, he admitted in an interview.
“The hope is that they, over time, will become capable of governing,” Kushner said in a rare media appearance with “Axios on HBO” that aired Sunday, according to Bloomberg.
Kushner for the past two years has been crafting the White House’s secretive and much-anticipated Mideast peace plan with a goal of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.

A young man was arrested Sunday for saying Kaddish on Har Habayis.
The young man was released Monday under restrictive conditions banning him from the Har Habayis for a week.
Attorney Nati Rom, who represented the detainee on behalf of the Honenu organization, said: “In the morning, a group of Jews entered the Temple Mount accompanied by police, with dozens of Arabs yelling at them ‘Allahu Akbar’ disturbing the public order. After a long time, when they were in an isolated corner, the man prayed to his Creator.”
“Unfortunately, the Israel Police chose to detain those who were attacked while using violence during the arrest, and not to delay even one of the Muslim rioters who shouted at the group,” the lawyer added.

The last living survivor of the Sobibor death camp, died Monday at the age of 96 at a hospital in central Israel.
Rosenfeld was born in Ukraine in 1922 in the town of Ternovka, and in 1940 – with the breakout of World War II – was drafted into the Red Army. A year later he was captured by the Germans and sent to set up a labor camp in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, along with 230 other Jewish prisoners.
Rosenfeld escaped the camp along with 300 other prisoners in September 1943 during an uprising – led by Alexander Pechersky – in which 11 SS men were killed. Though many of the escapees were recaptured, Rosenfeld was able to hide out in the forest for the rest of the war, eventually making aliya in 1990.

NYC-area airline passengers left more than $131,000 in loose change and cash at TSA screening stations, NY DAILY NEWS reports.
Airline passengers crossing through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints left nearly $1 million in loose change and cash at screening stations this past fiscal year, and more than $131,000 of that cash came from the New York City area, according to a TSA report.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu took to Twitter Monday afternoon to respond to a statement by Member of Knesset Betzalel Smotrich, who is vying for the newly opened Justice Minister position in order to return Israel to a “Torah State.”
“The State of Israel will not be a halakhic state,” Netanyahu wrote definitively.
Smotrich’s statement fueled Netanyahu’s opposition from Lieberman’s camp and the left who believe that the charedim have too much power in the government.
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Following the ousting of Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, right-wing Israeli parliamentarian Betzalel Smotrich is vying for the role so his union of religious right parties can “restore the Torah justice system” in Israel.
“We want the justice portfolio because we want to restore the Torah justice system,” Smotrich said on Sunday, later telling Kan public radio on Monday morning that Israel needs to “return to the way it conducted itself in the days of King David, while adjusting for life in 2019.”
“The Jewish people will want (it). They’ll see how the law of the Torah is correct and just and moral and humane,” Smotrich touted.