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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 3, 2020

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Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut speaks during High Court of Justice deliberations on petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu being appointed prime minister, on May 3, 2020. (Screen capture)

‘On what basis?’ High Court sounds reluctant to bar Netanyahu from forming gov’t

‘Show us something!’ court president demands of petitioners. ‘You’re asking us to set a precedent!’; State and party lawyers urge judges not to intervene, warn of political fallout

AnalysisStability or straitjacket? The Netanyahu-Gantz coalition deal goes to court

By Haviv Rettig Gur

A protest against the unity deal struck by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on May 2, 2020 (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Over 1,000 protest Netanyahu-Gantz coalition deal, urge court to strike it down

By Ariel Schalit

Police patrol the beach in Tel Aviv, making sure people are keeping to the government's restrictions in the fight against the spread of coronavirus, April 22, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Just 23 new virus cases in last day, as confirmed tally rises to 16,208

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Death count climbs by three to 232; 76 of 94 seriously ill patients have been hooked up to ventilators; 9,749 have recovered

8:29 pm

Just 23 new virus cases in last day, as confirmed case tally climbs to 16,208
8:11 pm

Israel said to join tourism initiative for states managing to keep virus at bay
7:24 pm

Woman reportedly contracts virus month after healing from it

Medical personel in protective gear bring a patient suspected of having the coronavirus to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on April 30, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel’s new daily COVID-19 infections dive below 50; death toll rise to 230

Just 41 confirmed cases in past 24 hours; overnight fatality was 22nd resident of nursing home in Yavne’el to die; 82 on ventilators; only 6,329 currently have disease

Pride parades, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, postponed amid virus fears

Self-employed hold rallies across country to push for state support

Many more women than men said left unemployed by coronavirus crisis

Some 180,000 eligible schoolkids said to go back to class

Many elementary schools reopen as Israel gingerly steps toward ‘normalcy’

Students in first through third grades as well as some others head back to class, though many cities are keeping buildings shuttered amid chaotic roll-out

A son accompanied by his daughter stand 2 meters away from his mother's balcony as he meets with her in Jerusalem during the coronavirus pandemic, on April 30, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health Ministry said to favor allowing visits to grandparents, opening beaches

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds the weekly cabinet meeting via videoconference call from the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem due to coronavirus regulations, March 15, 2020. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)Cabinet approves removal of age restriction for those returning to work

This undated publicity photo shows a scene from 'Umm Haroun,' a Saudi-made television series aired during Ramadan that has sparked controversy by offering a positive depiction of a Jewish community in the Gulf that existed before the creation of Israel. (MBC Group via AP)

Creators defend Saudi series, saying positive depiction is of Jews, not Israelis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Controversy swirls around TV production, screened amid warming Jerusalem-Riyadh ties; head writer says he wants to send message that societies used to be much more tolerant

Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers peer out of a police vehicle to watch released detainees outside Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt, Nov.18, 2016. (AP/Amr Nabiln)

Young Egyptian filmmaker who mocked Sissi dies in jail

By AFP

A child in tiny military fatigues waves the Hezbollah flag as supporters of the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah wait for his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the US airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Mossad gave Berlin intel on Hezbollah ops on German soil ahead of ban — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Unnamed Israeli official tells TV Germans were provided info on warehouses where terror group stashed materials for explosives, as well as money laundering networks

Soldiers inspect damage at the border fence between Israel and Lebanon, April 17, 2020 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF catches 5 migrants trying to enter Israel from Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

The Sorek A desalination plant, located about 15km south of Tel Aviv (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)

US said to question China’s role in bid to construct Israeli desalination plant

Report says Trump administration officials have expressed concern over Hutchison Water International potentially winning tender to build facility

This photo taken on April 28, 2020, shows a robot capable of taking elevators and navigating hallways on its own delivering food to a guest at a quarantine hotel housing people from Hubei province in Beijing (Jing Xuan TENG / AFP)

Robots and cameras: A look at China’s dystopian quarantine watch

By Jing Xuan Teng

Corona’s hidden reverberations for our mental health

Down the line, when we see cases of self-harm, addiction, crippling depression and even suicide, the coronavirus will not be blamed, but it will be the real culprit

If court blows up unity, is there a way back for Gantz?

A scenario in which the Blue and White head forms a center-left government is no less reasonable than three election campaigns in a year

Pope Pius XII blesses faithful at the Vatican, March 4, 1949. (INTERCONTINENTALE / AFP)

In ‘confession of guilt,’ German Catholic Church admits ‘complicity’ with Nazis

After decades of ambivalence, document prepared by clergy says hundreds of priests gave spiritual guidance to Hitler’s soldiers on front, ‘lent war an additional sense of purpose’

Illustrative: A procession of Starlink satellites crossing the night sky. (YouTube screen capture)

Twinkle, twinkle UFO

Israelis wonder at mysterious, fast-moving lights in the sky

When a procession of bright orbs crossed the country’s skies Wednesday evening, Israel’s Air Force and Space Agency were called in to investigate

Nanoscent is developing a device to use nose-breath to detect coronavirus in patients (YouTube screenshot)

Puff, puff, pass: Sniff tech aims to enable mass virus testing at airports

By Shoshanna Solomon

Galilee-based Nanoscent uses plastic bag and sensor chip to analyze nasal exhalation of coronavirus patients to find scent pattern; machine learning ongoing at Sheba Medical Center

The Dan Hotel in Jerusalem that was converted to receive coronavirus patients, March 17, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Report: Suicide attempts at quarantine hotels, some officials call to shut them

People enjoy the good weather while keeping their distance from one another at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., Saturday, May 2, 2020. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Sunny skies draw masses outside, but virus keeps many on guard

By AP

Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua's new book, 'The Tunnel,' talks about a one-state solution. (Courtesy/ Rafaela Fahn Schoffman)

Interview

Peace activist author A.B. Yehoshua now pushes for a one-state solution

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson shows thumbs up before he applauds on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street in London during the weekly 'Clap for our Carers,' April 30, 2020. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

UK’s Johnson: At low point in virus bout, doctors prepared to announce my death

By DANICA KIRKA

British PM reveals ‘indicators kept going the wrong way’ as he guzzled liters of oxygen in intensive care; names newborn son in honor of physicians who saved him

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks of 10 Downing Street in central London on April 30, 2020. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)

Nicked itBoris Johnson names newborn son after doctors who saved his life

By AFP

Matthew Jason (left) and Jeremy Jason at headquarters for their Kippas to the Rescue project, at home in Houston, April 2020. (Mark Jason)

Houston family uses kippas to make masks for the homeless

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Hamas spokesman Husam Badran (Facebook image)

Hamas official says group wants ‘significant achievement’ in swap deal

Palestinian medical employees disinfect Palestinian workers who came back from working in Israel at the entrance to the West Bank village of Hussan, on March 29, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Palestinian workers allowed back into Israel as virus restrictions eased

The giant Asian hornet (Screen grab/National Geographic)

‘Murder hornet’ invasion in US sows dread over threat to bees, humans

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)

Attorney general said set to assume duties of acting state attorney after row

Daniel Pearl was a journalist for The Wall Street Journal. (The Daniel Pearl Foundation)

Parents of murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl appeal acquittals

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tara Reade in Nevada City, California, April 4, 2019. (AP/Donald Thompson)

Biden accuser Reade: I was too scared to talk of sexual assault in complaint

By Alexandra Jaffe, Don Thompson and Stephen Braun

El Al workers protest against the company's intention to withdraw funds from the workers' compensation funds, in front of Bat Yam Regional Court on April 30, 2020 (Flash90)

Court lets El Al pull money from pension fund to cover costs during pandemic

The Moovit app in use in Washington (Courtesy)

Intel Corp. reportedly in talks to buy Israeli smart transit firm Moovit

By Shoshanna Solomon

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