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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 5, 2020

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Israelis at the Mamilla Mall near Jerusalem's Old City on May 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

No more 100-meter limit; malls, libraries to reopen: All the eased regulations

Loosened virus restrictions lift distance cap on traveling from home; allow swimming for exercise at the beach; and visits to national parks, nature reserves and heritage sites

Medical workers treat a patient at the coronavirus ward at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

31 new infections recorded over past day; virus death toll rises to 237

Standing in front of a chart specifying circumstances in which Israel might have to reimpose restrictions if COVID-19 flares again, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces the easing of many lockdown restrictions, at a press conference in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020 (GPO)

Israel lifts limits on leaving home, visiting family; malls to open Thursday

A High Court of Justice hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on May 4, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Likud, Blue and White agree to revise coalition deal after High Court criticism

Parties to shorten proposed 6-month freeze on senior appointments to 100 days, won’t prevent passage of non-virus laws; say new government not dependent on expanded ‘Norwegian Law’

From left to right: Justice Hanan Melcer, Chief Justice Esther Hayut and Justice Neal Hendel at the High Court of Justice on May 4, 2020. (Screenshot)

High Court pans coalition deal, but signals no ruling until relevant laws passed

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Malki Roth (Courtesy of the Roth family)

In saga of barbarism and betrayal, finally hints of justice?

Failed by Israel, Malki Roth’s parents hope US can extradite her gloating killer

By David Horovitz

Ahlam Tamimi, who oversaw the 2001 Sbarro bombing that killed Malki and 14 others, was freed in Shalit deal and became a celebrity in Jordan. Now the US just might be on her case

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Under right-wing pressure, High Court turns on the cameras and turns the tables

Broadcasting live its hearings on politically explosive petitions against PM and coalition deal, top court decides to tell its story on its own terms; a million Israelis tuned in

Eleven justices of the High Court of Justice attend a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on May 3, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Pool)

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut arrives for a court session on petitions against the coalition agreement between the Blue and White and Likud parties at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020 (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

PM warns of possible 4th elections if High Court intervenes in coalition deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman at a joint press conference on May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman declares himself PM candidate, alleging Netanyahu seeks new election

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

A boy visits his grandmother at her home in Moshav Haniel on April 5, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israel media review

SANDFU — Situation almost normal, don’t f*** up: 6 things to know for May 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel is getting back to some sort of new ordinary, albeit with the threat of a fresh virus outbreak and even more restrictions hanging over its head

People walk and shop at the Mamilla Mall near Jerusalem's Old City on May 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

As virus lockdown eased, number returning to work surpasses newly unemployed

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, listens as he attends with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian, center, an international videoconference on vaccination at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 4, 2020. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP)

World leaders pledge $8 billion for coronavirus vaccine research

By AP and ToI Staff

Standing in front of a graph showing the decline in new cases of COVID-19 in recent weeks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces the easing or many lockdown restrictions, at a press conference in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020 (GPO)

Analysis

Netanyahu celebrates a victory over COVID-19; it marks his political triumph too

Announcing Israel’s gradual reopening, PM points to stats showing how effectively he’s led the battle against the virus. It’s a battle that has also boosted his leadership standing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing an international donors conference geared at finding a coronavirus vaccine, May 4, 2020 (screen shot)

Israel pledges $60 million to global effort to find coronavirus vaccine

By Raphael Ahren

Naftali Bennett attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party, February 12, 2020, ahead of elections, . (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Naftali Bennett makes a pitch for Health Ministry in next government

Yamina leader and current defense minister says position is ‘mission of national importance’ ahead of possible second coronavirus wave

8:41 pm

Airbnb slashes workforce as pandemic ravages travel industry
8:05 pm

Likud MK calls on AG to disqualify himself from state attorney appointment
7:39 pm

Trump denies US involvement in alleged Venezuela coup plot

Illustrative: Rodef Shalom Rabbi Aaron Bisno, center, delivers his sermon with soloist Molly May, left, during an Erev Shabbat service that is being streamed live on Facebook, Friday, March 20, 2020.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

From the blogs

Jon Spira-Savett

No large High Holiday services this year. There, we’ve said it. Now what?

At a time of year when our prayers ask ’Who will live and who will die?’ we would be demonstrating that we take responsibility for life and death

Illustration of a man receiving a vaccine. November 06, 2018. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

Defense minister claims Israel’s biological institute developed virus antibody

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Naftali Bennett hails ‘amazing achievement’; his office says shadowy defense research facility moving to patent treatment, approaching international companies to mass produce it

Ph.D student Esti Toledo and Postdoctoral fellow Guilaume Le Saux from the Department of Materials Engineering photographed in Dr. Mark Schwartzman's lab. In collaboration with Prof. Angel Porgador's lab, they are developing nanomaterial coatings against viruses and bacteria, including coronavirus (Dani Machlis)

Scientists hope their nanomaterial surface coatings will help battle COVID-19

By Shoshanna Solomon

A scientist presents an antibody test for coronavirus in a laboratory of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) at the InfectoGnostics research campus in Jena, Germany, April 3, 2020. (AP/Jens Meyer)

Israel to start mass testing for virus antibodies in next 2 weeks — report

Long-term online higher education is risky

Higher education is supposed to be a ticket to success; when we put college online, we make getting an education harder for those who need it most

Dov Chernichovsky

Israel is winning this COVID-19 war (for now) despite its healthcare

The danger is that this success will be attributed to a system in a dire need of reform

View of the Bedouin city of Hura in the Negev Desert, south of Beersheba, on August 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Cabinet forgets to renew lockdown of Israel’s worst virus hotspot – report

Bedouin town of Hura, where cases have tripled over past week, said to have slipped minds of ministers during Monday meeting

Some 20 national parks and nature reserves to open Wednesday by advance booking

Cabinet said set to end mandatory quarantine at hotels for overseas arrivals

Knesset approves extension of Shin Bet’s tracking of virus carriers

An explosion is seen coming from an army base, allegedly used by Iran-backed militias, outside the northern Syria city of Hama on April 29, 2018. (Screen capture; Facebook)

14 dead, including Iranians, in Syria strikes attributed to Israel — report

War monitor says death toll from bombardment on militia bases in Deir Ezzor region expected to rise; no word on fatalities in separate airstrikes near Aleppo

Strikes attributed to Israel hit Iran-linked defense labs, Shiite militia bases

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Hezbollah chief lashes out at Israel, US over ban by Germany

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran calls off Quds Day anti-Israel rallies due to coronavirus

An Israeli chilld during a remote learning class at her home in Moshav Haniel, on March 18, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Will COVID-19 usher in a new era of homeschooling?

By Anna Rudnitsky

Untreated sewage flowing in the Kidron Stream in the Judean Desert following several days of heavy rain, November 27, 2014. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Could wastewater carry coronavirus? Expert says research needed urgently

Dror Avisar, head of Tel Aviv University’s Water Research Center, says that nobody knows what dangers COVID-19 might pose in streams, groundwater, beaches

A suspected coronavirus patient is evacuated to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, on March 22, 2020. (Flash90)

Israel well placed to secure antiviral drug remdesivir — health official

By Nathan Jeffay

In this 1918 photo, volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital. (Edward A. "Doc" Rogers/Library of Congress via AP)

Virus-afflicted 2020 looks very much like 1918 despite science’s march

By Calvin Woodward

Medical workers in hazmat suits transport a body on a stretcher outside a funeral home in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on April 30, 2020. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

CDC report predicts 3,000 virus deaths in US per day by June

By AFP

Internal government document also forecasts surge in infections beginning in mid-May, as some US states move to reopen their economies

Intel shared among US, allies contradicts Trump’s claims virus originated in lab

Trump’s worst case scenario of 100,000 US virus deaths likely by June

By Ivan Couronne

World’s virus deaths top 250,000 as billions raised for vaccine push

By Paul Handley

More Headlines

Comic Yonatan Gruber turned an intensive workshop with his mother about how to use Zoom during the coronavirus into a viral video (Courtesy Yonatan Gruber)

Can you see me now?Israeli comic teaches mom to Zoom, scores video hit

By Jessica Steinberg

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio attends protests in support of the Jewish community called No Hate No Fear at the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020 in New York City. (Kena Betancur / AFP)

NYC mayor who blasted Hasidic funeral has close ties with community

Elayne Boosler, right, says her cousin Dorothea Buschell was wrongfully buried in a Catholic cemetery. (Boosler via Facebook, JTA)

Jewish comic Elayne Boosler says cousin mistakenly buried in Catholic cemetery

By Josefin Dolsten

A home in the central West Bank Palestinian village of Beitillu, which was targeted in a price-tag attack on December 22, 2015. (Screen capture/Walla)

Supreme Court rejects appeal against terror convictions of extremist settlers

Gene Simmons of Kiss performs at Staples Center in Los Angeles, March 4, 2020. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ABA via JTA)

Tears are fallingKiss frontman Simmons learns about Holocaust survivor mother’s ordeal

Illustrative: The Moovit app running on a phone. (Itamar Sharon)

Intel buys Israeli smart-transit startup Moovit for $900 million in bid for data

By Shoshanna Solomon

Taika Waititi at the 92nd Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Los Angeles, January 27, 2020. (Jordan Strauss/I nvision/ AP)

May the 4th be with himTaika Waititi to direct new ‘Star Wars’ film

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of yoga and wellness in general (Zhimsa Lawrence; iStock by Getty Images)

Amid coronavirus, Israel micro-fund seeks to invest in wellness startup

By Shoshanna Solomon

Adam Neumann, co-founder of WeWork, attends the opening bell ceremony at Nasdaq, in New York, January 16, 2018. (AP/Mark Lennihan, File)

WeWork co-founder Neumann sues SoftBank for aborted $3b deal

An archivist at the National Library of Israel displays a letter dated 1900 by Oxford English Dictionary editor James Murray, at the library in Jerusalem on February 27, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Letter shows first dictionary editor thought ‘anti-Semite’ wouldn’t be used

By Jonah Mandel

King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands speeches during the National Remembrance Day ceremony on May 4, 2020 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/BSR Agency/Getty Images)

Dutch king admits Jews felt abandoned by great-grandmother during Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism Elan Carr speaks to the Conference of Presidents in Jerusalem, February 21, 2019. (Matty Stern|/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)

US will push countries to love their Jews more, anti-Semitism monitor says

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