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What Matters Most On Monday, April 27, 2020

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A Jewish character speaking a Hebrew monologue in Saudi Ramadan production 'Umm Haroun' about Kuwaiti Jews, in an episode broadcast April 24, 2020, on the MBC network. (Screenshot: Twitter)

In first, Saudi TV dramas feature character urging Israel ties, Hebrew monologue

By Michael Bachner

Controversy swirls around two Ramadan productions, screened amid warming Jerusalem-Riyadh ties; 13 Palestinian groups said urging that one of the shows be taken off air

Screenshot from Egyptian TV show The End (Youtube)

Israel decries Egyptian TV show predicting its destruction, breakup of the US

By AP and ToI Staff

An online-learning Arabic language lesson uploaded on February 28, 2020, by a teacher at a PA-funded school in Hebron, which glorifies the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Palestinian teacher posts lesson hailing terrorist in 1978 attack that killed 38

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and then-finance minister Yair Lapid during a press conference on a major reform of Israel's ports, in Jerusalem on July 3, 2013. (Flash90)

Lapid says he’d vote with Netanyahu to stop Gantz becoming PM in rotation deal

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In dramatic step, Yesh Atid leader says that to prevent his ex-running mate taking over as PM, he’d join forces with Likud leader to reverse law anchoring power-sharing agreement

Yair Lapid (left) and Benny Gantz speak to supporters in Tel Aviv, on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Lapid says his former running mate Gantz is ‘unfit to be prime minister’

Op-ed

Meanwhile, in other news, Israel’s Labor Party is finished

The party of Ben-Gurion, Eshkol, Meir and Rabin led Israel for decades. Now it has fallen so low, become so discredited and irrelevant, that even its demise barely makes a headline

Illustrative; Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Southern Front Commander Yigal Allon (to his right) and Yitzhak Rabin (between them) pictured on the southern front during the 1948 War of Independence. (IDF / Wikipedia)

Labor-Gesher-Meretz party leader Amir Peretz speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 17 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor leader Peretz wins his party’s backing to join Netanyahu-led government

Names of fallen Israeli soldiers are screened on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City as Israel marks Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers and victims of terror, April 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Memorial Day in a pandemic: Virus doctors stop for siren, online tributes abound

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

President, IDF chief lament effects of social distancing on bereaved, but reassure them Israelis are embracing them from afar

8:11 pm

WHO: World should have listened when we sounded virus alarm on January 30
7:50 pm

Global coronavirus death toll hits 208,973
7:36 pm

At memorial, Bnei Brak mayor thanks IDF for virus measures in city

From the blogs

My brother’s body must not be left behind

Hamas can and should be made to realize that the kidnapping of soldiers or civilians, dead or alive, is a liability for them, not an asset

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary stories

The anemone’s smile

By Haim Watzman

Diana Barshaw Rich

Liberty versus the virus

I’m far less afraid of COVID-19 than I am of illogical regulations being followed blindly by a cowed, compliant population

Israel courts needless disaster with annexation

To assume the current calm will continue forever following such a provocation is to forget the nightmare of the Second Intifada

An Israeli soldier: Dispatches from the front

Being yanked from civilian life to the front of a breaking war within 5 hours: That — and so much more — is how we help ensure Israel is here to stay

Regime change in the shadow of the coronavirus

The political changes being perpetrated under the guise of the COVID-19 disaster chip away at Israel’s democracy while so many are too worn out to pay full attention

People on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on April 26, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Just 68 new virus cases confirmed in last day, showing sharp slowdown

Health Ministry puts tally at 15,466, with one new fatality bringing death toll to 202; the last time there were under 100 infections in 24 hours was more than a month ago

A man wearing a face mask exercises in the Saker Park in Jerusalem, on March 25, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cabinet to lift limit of 500m from home for exercise, after Independence Day

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Ambulances outside the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

11-year-old girl in serious condition with COVID-19

The Health Ministry's HaMagen application running on an iPhone. (Sam Sokol)

Reporter's notebook

I wasted 2 days holed up in my bedroom thanks to buggy Health Ministry virus app

Mistakes have tarnished HaMagen’s reputation, as I can personally testify, but health officials say they are addressing its problems and still hope for widespread adoption

A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past a clothes shop in Jerusalem on April 26, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

High Court: Shin Bet surveillance of virus carriers must be enshrined in law

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

FILE - In this Monday, April 20, 2020, file photo, emergency medical technicians transport a patient from a nursing home to an emergency room bed at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, New York (AP/John Minchillo, File)

Six new symptoms for coronavirus are added by US Centers for Disease Control

Israelis wait outside the IKEA branch in Netanya, after the company opened some of its branches in Israel, on April 26, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel media review

I will remember you, at IKEA: 6 things to know for April 27

In shadow of pandemic, Israel prepares for 1st socially distanced Memorial Day, with military cemeteries to be shut as precaution and the country placed on lockdown

Israeli police and soldiers guard at a roadblock at the entrance to a neighborhood in the city of Beit Shemesh on April 26, 2020. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

IDF troops deliver aid in locked down Netivot, Beit Shemesh

By Judah Ari Gross

Israelis walk their dogs and exercise in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on March 22, 2020, as the government issued instructions to avoid public spaces to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Isolated by pandemic, Israelis have record-high ‘sense of ‘belonging’ – poll

Israelis walk at a shopping center in the city of Netanya, on April 26, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Government okays NIS 6 billion to meet major chains’ demands as they stay closed

Hundreds of large businesses refused to reopen Sunday, citing lack of state monetary support; they are expected to resume operations over the next few days as new funds approved

Stall-owners at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market protest the ongoing closure of their businesses, amid the coronavirus crisis, April 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shop owner at closed Jerusalem market dies by suicide amid financial woes

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a closed shop of the 'Castro' fashion chain in downtown Jerusalem on April 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government watchdog probes legality of shutdown protest by Israel’s top chains

Delegates at the San Remo Conference in April 1920 (screenshot YouTube)

On centenary, San Remo Conference hailed as ‘seminal moment’ in Zionist history

By Raphael Ahren

World leaders praise April 1920 summit as first anchor of Jewish state’s legitimacy in international law; Pompeo says it marked world’s embrace of Jews’ unbreakable ties to Israel

This picture taken on February 1, 2020, shows an Arab League emergency meeting discussing the US-brokered proposal for a settlement of the Middle East conflict, at the league headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo, as delegates take their seats (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Arab League to meet over Israel’s plans to annex parts of West Bank

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump participates in an expanded bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

Netanyahu confident Trump will okay West Bank annexation in ‘couple of months’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Israel Katz attends a Likud party rally, ahead of the Israeli general elections, in the northern town of Safed, February 24, 2020. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

Coronavirus crisis fueling anti-Semitism around world, foreign minister charges

Israel Katz says Jewish communities already hurt directly by pandemic are under threat of rising Jew-hatred as well, adds Israel should help them

Spokesperson of the German right wing party AFD (Alternative for Germany) Christian Lueth attends a press conference to launch the party's election manifesto in Berlin, March 9, 2017. (Odd ANDERSEN/AFP)

German far-right party to drop ‘fascist’ spokesman proud of ‘Aryan’ grandfather

By AFP

Livingston, Montana, seen here on March 30, 2020, was still under a stay-at-home order when anti-Semitic flyers were discovered in the town. (William Campbell-Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)

Anti-Semitic fliers left at homes and on cars in Montana city

By JTA

Lila Duke participating in her bat mitzvah service with her parents. (Courtesy of the Dukes/via JTA)

What celebrating your bat mitzvah looks like in the time of the coronavirus

By Josefin Dolsten

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Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a debate on Likud MK Haim Katz's request for immunity at the Knesset House Committee, January 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG said convinced acting state attorney, justice minister trying to oust him

Fireworks over the sky of Tel Aviv as Israel marks its 71st Independence Day, on May 8, 2019. (Flash90)

Many cities cancel Independence Day fireworks displays despite cabinet approval

Jews dance with a Torah during the rededication of a synagogue in Konstanz, Germany in November 2019. (Felix Kästle/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

No parading with the Torah: Coronavirus at bay, German synagogues set to reopen

By Toby Axelrod

A house that was hit by shrapnel during an alleged Israeli strike outside Damascus on April 27, 2020. (Syrian state media SANA)

Syria says 4 pro-Iran fighters, 3 civilians dead in exchange of fire with Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

This file photo taken on March 2, 2019 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un waving before boarding his train at the Dong Dang railway station in the Vietnamese town of Lang Son. (Photo by STR / Vietnam News Agency / AFP)

Seoul says North Korea’s Kim ‘alive and well’

By AFP

Shoppers clad in protective gear, including face masks and shields and latex gloves, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, walk through the Tajrish Bazaar in Iran's capital Tehran on April 25, 2020, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran says virus cases pass 90,000; daily death toll lowest since March 10

By AFP

In this Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, Saudi Arabia's King Salman attends the official welcome ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Salman ordered an end to the death penalty for crimes committed by individuals when they were minors, according to a statement Sunday, April 26, 20202, by a top official. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for minors

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo addresses the media while holding an N95 mask during his daily press briefing on COVID-19, at the state capitol in Albany, New York, April 24, 2020. (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP)

New York announces lowest death toll this month, may partially reopen May 15

By AFP

American Jewish singer Matisyahu, performing at the Sacred Music Festival in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 4, 2015. (Eric Cortellessa/ File)

One dayMatisyahu to join Jewish Agency’s (online) Independence bash

By Jessica Steinberg

Eyal Waldman, founder and CEO of Mellanox, left, and Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of US gaming and computer graphics giant Nvidia (Nvidia)

Nvidia completes acquisition of Israel’s Mellanox for $7 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

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