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The closed gates of a school in Safed, northern Israel, March 13, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Leave our kids at home: Cities defy government, won’t open most schools Sunday

Rebuffing cabinet decision, mayors say they’ve not had time to prepare and will only open when it is safe to do so; Education Ministry says openings will be staggered until Tuesday

A closed school in the northern city of Safed, March 13, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Grades 1-3 and 11-12 to open Sunday, but kindergartens will stay shut for a week

Students arrive at the Hadar Elementary School in Kfar Yona on March 12, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israel media reviewProcrastination nation: 6 things to know for May 1

Children wear protective face masks in Tel Aviv, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli study says children carry virus, infect others, but at a lower rate

Epidemiological report released by Health Ministry says kids 20-50% less likely to get infected, depending on age; infants more vulnerable and contagious

Illustrative: Customers sit at a restaurant on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Tel Aviv said preparing to reopen restaurants and cafes with outdoor seating

Illustrative -- Self-employed and kindergarten owners participate in a rally calling for financial support from the Israeli government outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds of self-employed rally in Tel Aviv to demand government support

New York City police break up ultra-Orthodox funeral as crowds gather in Borough Park, Brooklyn, April 30, 2020 (Screen grab)

New York City police break up another ultra-Orthodox funeral as crowds gather

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio addresses questions about the Police Department’s coordination with organizers of a large funeral in Brooklyn, April 29, 2020. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Jewish groups condemn NYC mayor for ‘scapegoating’ community over funeral

Workers move bodies to a refrigerated truck from the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 29, 2020 (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

‘Unconscionable’ body overflow at New York funeral home prompts probe

Israelis at the beach in Rishon Lezion on May 1, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Government to reportedly discuss lifting additional virus restrictions

Ending closure of parks and malls, lifting 100-meter limit Israelis can go from their homes if not for approved reason said to be among restrictions that ministers could scrap

6:22 pm

France reports lowest daily virus death toll in five weeks
5:59 pm

Number of virus infections rises to 16,101, with 225 deaths
5:08 pm

TV: Only 4 cities in Israel have recorded more than 5 new infections in past few days

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, center, and then-tourism minister Yariv Levin during a meeting to discuss mapping extension of Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, held in the Ariel settlement, February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/ US Embassy Jerusalem/ File)

West Bank annexation not contingent on Palestinian state, US officials emphasize

By Raphael Ahren

Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat speaks at the J Street National Conference, in Washington, October 28, 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

InterviewTop PLO official urges world action, not words, to block West Bank annexation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points at a map of the Jordan Valley as he gives a statement, promising to extend Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea area, in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

11 European ambassadors warn Israel against West Bank annexation

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends an event at the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG who indicted Netanyahu says no legal impediment to him forming next coalition

Charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust against PM do not constitute grounds for judicial intervention, says Avichai Mandelblit ahead of High Court hearing next week

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, April 30, 2020 (screen capture via Knesset website)

Legislation cementing Netanyahu-Gantz power-sharing deal passes first vote

Illustrative: Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (C) arrives for a High Court preliminary hearing on whether a lawmaker facing criminal indictment can be tapped to form a coalition, December 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court to livestream hearings on petitions to bar Netanyahu, coalition deal

Sara Netanyahu prepares her traditional Independence Day biscuit cake. (Screen capture/Instagram)

Fake cake?

Sara Netanyahu whips up storm with Independence Day cookie cake

PM swears cake is tasty, but the online verdict is split on his wife’s pastry skills

Iddo Netanyahu. (YouTube screenshot)

PM’s brother: Stop taking visiting leaders to Yad Vashem first

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing seen outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on April 30, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

21st resident of Yavne’el nursing home dies, taking Israel’s virus toll to 223

62-year-old man with underlying health issues dies of COVID-19 at Tiberias hospital; Health Ministry says overall number of cases rises by just 134 in 24 hours

View of the empty Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem, due to the government restrictions following the spread of the coronavirus, April 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trains to gradually resume on May 16

Israeli police guard a roadblock in Jerusalem, on April 29, 2020, as Israel celebrates its 72th Independence Day under lockdown due to the coronavirus. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet approves lockdown of 3 Jerusalem neighborhoods, parts of Hura

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Twenty seconds to safety

The fate of humanity is out of my hands right now, but my toddler is here and he is mine to protect, his joy to uphold

My bar mitzvah parsha condemned my then-secret identity

At least the coronavirus epidemic is getting in the way of reading the Leviticus text that is hurtful to so many LGBTQ Jews

Chana Tannenbaum

Human sacrifice

The deaths of Aaron’s sons are shocking and disturbing; it is their comparison with Abraham’s binding of Isaac that teaches us how to worship the Divine

No matter the circumstance, no matter when, the big names make the history books, but it is often the people whose names we barely know who keep us going (Acharei Mot/Kedoshim)

Israeli children realease white balloons during a small ceremony held near their agricultural enclave, at the crossing checkpoint near Moshav Tzofar, on the Israeli-Jordanian border on April 30, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Last Israeli farmers leave enclave after Jordan deal ends

6-month extension of lease to work lands at Tzofar expires, months after Amman resumed control of the area

In this February 18, 2020, photo, a view of the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Efraim on the hills of the Jordan Valley. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Arab League: Israeli annexation of West Bank would be a ‘new war crime’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Then-chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda at the opening of the court's judicial year with a Special Session at the seat of the court in The Hague, January 23, 2020. (courtesy ICC)

Chief prosecutor insists ICC has jurisdiction to probe war crimes in ‘Palestine’

By Raphael Ahren

Hezbollah supporters take part in a procession on the tenth day of Muharram which marks the day of Ashura, on September 10, 2019 in Baalbek, Lebanon. (Stringer/AFP)

Iran: Germany will face consequences for caving to Israel, US with Hezbollah ban

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Islamic republic says Berlin made move due to pressure from the ‘propaganda machine of the Zionists and America’s confused regime’

Israel said to destroy arms cache in central Syria in rare daytime attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli helicopters said to strike Iranian-linked targets in Syrian Golan

By ToI Staff and AFP

Satellite images show Syria strikes destroyed warehouse, underground facility

By Judah Ari Gross

Minister of Diaspora Affairs Tzipi Hotovely poses for a picture at her office in Jerusalem, February 19, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash)

Interview

Minister: Israel ready to help world Jewry fight virus, but not exactly sure how

By Raphael Ahren

Diaspora Affairs Minister Tzipi Hotovely says Jerusalem exploring ways to help, in talks with community leaders, but Diaspora Jews yet to formulate concrete needs

Illustrative: Eisner Camp in Massachusetts is among 15 Reform movement overnight camps that will not open this summer. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Most US Reform camps to close for summer, affecting at least 10,000 children

People hug next to police tape across the street from the Chabad of Poway Synagogue after a shooting on April 27, 2019 in Poway, California. (SANDY HUFFAKER / AFP)

US Jewish security network plans for threats when institutions reopen

After seven years of fertility treatment and a 48-hour labor, Danit Shipe holds her baby, born on Israel's 72nd Independence Day, April 29, 2020. Midwife Katia Amarna stands next to her. (Hillel Yaffe Medical Center)

Joy in hospital as baby born on Independence Day after 7-year infertility battle

By Nathan Jeffay

The newborn, delivered in a medical center amid coronavirus pandemic, was ‘the most wonderful Independence Day gift imaginable,’ mom says

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx listens as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-La., about the coronavirus response, in the Oval Office of the White House, April 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Bated breath’ in Israeli hospitals as US official says drug can block COVID-19

By Nathan Jeffay

'Shtisel' has a certain voyeuristic appeal to some Jewish viewers. (Netflix/Dori Media/via JTA)

Locked down? Open up to… ‘Shtisel’ creator Yehonatan Indursky

By Mitch Ginsburg

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Illustrative: View of the Bank Hapoalim offices in the center of Tel Aviv, August 04, 2015 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Bank Hapoalim to pay $904 million for role in FIFA bribe scandal, US tax evasion

In this April 25, 2020 photo, people keep social distancing amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, during a 'Black Flag' protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

With chalk marks and discipline, Israel pulls off socially distanced protests

By AP and ToI Staff

Danish poet, Yahya Hassan in Copenhagen on September 11, 2013.(AP/Polfoto, Jacob Ehrbahn)

Danish poet of Palestinian descent who criticized Muslims dies at 24

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Medical staff cheer an Israeli air force aerobatic team flying over Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on Israel's 72nd Independence Day, April 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

People of the PodLISTEN: As Israel turns 72 amid coronavirus, Germany outlaws Hezbollah

Then-US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, accompanied by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, place stones and flowers on a memorial as they pay their respects at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Marking Jewish American Heritage Month, Trump vows to confront anti-Semitism

Banjo founder Damien Patton in Salt Lake City on May 31, 2019 (Screen grab/YouTube)

Utah drops tech company over founder’s 1990 Ku Klux Klan synagogue attack

A bus passenger watches people line up for a mobile food pantry at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, April 24, 2020. (AP/Frank Franklin II)

Trump says evidence ties China lab to virus; data shows mounting economic havoc

Illustrative image of a nose (RusN; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel scientists develop ‘sniff test’ that predicts consciousness recovery

By Shoshanna Solomon

President Reuven Rivlin meeting with small business owners hit by the coronavirus crisis, at his residence in Jerusalem, April 19, 2020. (Avi Kanner/GPO)

Rivlin said seeking ways to help virus rule-breakers avoid fines

A man is shot by a police officer in an apparent attempted stabbing incident in the central city of Rosh Haayin, April 30, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Mentally ill man shot dead by police during apparent stabbing attempt

The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia has seen its revenue and attendance fall over the past few years. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

National Museum of American Jewish History furloughs 2/3 of staff without pay

Lebanese army soldiers clash with protesters amid overnight confrontations in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli late on April 29, 2020. (Fathi AL-MASRI / AFP)

Protests turn to riots as crisis-hit Lebanon approves economic rescue plan

By Hashem Osseiran

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