MK and ministers from the Likud faction were asked to show up at the Knesset tomorrow to vote to dismiss the current Knesset.
“Hello everyone, Please be at tomorrow at 16:00 in the plenum to vote on the Knesset Dispersion Law. Attendance is mandatory. There are no excuses and no absences. Please confirm!” the message sent to the faction said.
The message appears to signal the end of negotiations to form a new coalition following last month’s Knesset elections.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Police and the Israel Securities Authority say they have enough evidence of wrongdoing against executives of Israel’s largest construction company including its former chairwoman, billionaire Shari Arison.
The Lahav 433 special investigations unit has wrapped up a year-long investigation of tens of millions of dollars in bribes paid by the Shikun and Binui company to public officials in several African countries in order to win lucrative building projects.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Rav Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin has been denied entrance into the United Kingdom by immigration officials, Yeshiva World News reported.
According to reports, Rubashkin was landing in Manchester from Israel, where he had spent Lag Ba’Omer in Meron, when he got stopped at the airport and his entry denied.
Rubashkin was heading to Manchester as part of speaking tour and was scheduled to give speeches on Monday and Tuesday before hundreds of British Jews. He was stopped after a few jealous individuals informed the authorities that the former CEO of Agriprocessors had a criminal background, in order to cause R’ Sholom Mordechai issues.

White House senior adviser and presidential son-in law Jared Kushner is expected to visit Israel next week ahead of the rollout of the Trump administration’s long-awaited peace proposal for the Israelis and Palestinians, reported Israeli public broadcaster Kan.
Kushner will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the plan’s release, which will begin with an economic workshop in Bahrain scheduled for June 25-26.
While Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates announced that it will send a delegation, the Palestinian Authority rejected an invitation.
(JNS)
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States will send 1,500 troops to the Middle East to serve in a “mostly protective role” in response to the Iranian threat. It was not, however, the 5,000 and 10,000 U.S. troops suggested on Thursday by the Pentagon.
The administration notified Congress earlier Friday about the plan.U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the White House has “formally informed Congress that it is invoking an obscure provision of the Arms Export Control Act to eliminate the statutorily required congressional review of the sales of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and others,” reported CNN.

Trump downplayed recent North Korean missile tests in a tweet yesterday, and also referred to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un’s criticism of Biden, who recently announced his 2020 presidential bid.
“North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me,” Trump wrote. “I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?”
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Todd referenced Trump’s tweet, and asked Sanders whether Americans should be “concerned that the president of the United States is essentially siding with a murderous authoritarian dictator over a former vice president of the United States.”

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avidgor Liberman said Friday he has been approached by members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party to join a government without the premier, a claim quickly denied by the ruling party.
With just days to go until the May 28 deadline for Netanyahu to form a government, Liberman has ruled out joining a coalition unless Likud agrees to a number of core demands, thus far making it impossible for Netanyahu to assemble a ruling majority of right-wing and religious parties.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he is calling a meeting with party leaders Sundayb night to try to find a compromise that allow a coalition to be formed and avoid a second election.
“I am now making my last effort to form a right-wing government and to prevent unnecessary elections. I gave the partners a proposal for a solution. It is based on the principles that the army has established and on the data that the army has established – there is no reason to reject this.”
Netanyahu added, “I’m going to invite all party leaders tonight, I want to talk to them and try together to prevent unnecessary elections.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Israel’s National Fire and Rescue Authority announced on Saturday night that it had succeeded in containing the massive rash of fires which ripped through the country in recent days, causing the evacuation of 3,500 people, the destruction of dozens of homes and over 500 acres of woodlands.
A whopping 1,023 fires were extinguished over the past three days, by approximately 1,000 firefighters and 300 volunteers.
Though help arrived from Egypt, Greece, Croatia, Italy and Cyprus in the form of 120 aerial missions, the town of Mevo Modi’im in the Ben Shemen Forest was almost completely destroyed, and Kibbutz Harel lost 10 buildings.