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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 7, 2020

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Medical workers take in patients outside a special coronavirus area at Maimonides Medical Center on May 6, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Coronavirus death toll in United States passes 75,000

Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker puts number of confirmed cases in America at 1,245,622; over 10,000 virus deaths in Asia

5:25 am

South Korea president says citizens shouldn't panic over rise in new virus cases
8:31 pm

COVID-19 death toll in Asia passes 10,000
8:20 pm

Israel said to oppose Pentagon chief's push for pullout of US troops from Sinai

Opponents accept unanimous ruling, condemn 'odious' deal

Court rejects petitions against Netanyahu, coalition deal, clears path to gov’t

Judges find no legal justification to prevent PM from leading new gov’t; say accord ‘raises serious difficulties’ but intervention inappropriate; coalition to be sworn in May 13

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)

Attorneys at the Supreme Court for a hearing on petitions against the proposed government, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Pool)

Israel media reviewBetter luck next time: 7 things to know for May 7

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Netanyahu set to get mandate from president

Knesset okays full legislative package anchoring new unity coalition

Bills amending Basic Laws to anchor Netanyahu-Gantz rotation deal easily pass through parliament; government to be sworn in next week after over a year of political deadlock

Founder of the Movement for the Quality of Government in Israel, Eliad Shraga (right) waits for Supreme court justices to enter the room for a court session on petitions against the coalition agreement, May 4, 2020 (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

As Knesset passes coalition bills, group swiftly resubmits High Court petition

Let’s shop! Israelis head to malls, markets and gyms after six weeks of closure

Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda resumes activity, as mayor visits to toast ‘day of celebration’ for shop owners

Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather around a bonfire during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in Bnei Brak on May 6, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

No lockdown, but ministers ban bonfires, close off Meron ahead of Lag B’Omer

Moshe Nadler (right), pictured outside the Knesset in Jerusalem before submitting a 50,000 signature petition calling on lawmakers to cut their salaries in solidarity with the nation, May 4, 2020. (Courtesy, Moshe Nadler)

Israel’s coronavirus aid package only half that of similar developed nations

Illustrative: A recovered coronavirus patient (center) donating plasma for Israel's experimental antibodies treatment, and (right) Eilat Shinar. (Magen David Adom)

Israel’s recovered virus patients now at double the number of active cases

Health Ministry figures point to a country rapidly recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, even as experts warn of a possible second wave

An Israeli Premier League match between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on February 17, 2020. (Flash90)

Israeli soccer to resume play on May 30, without fans

The empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport on April 12, 2020. (Flash90)

Amid pandemic, Israel’s airport departures and arrivals down by more than 99%

A worker at the Eshkol water filtration plant in northern Israel, operated by Israel's national water company, Mekorot. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Iran attempted cyber attack on Israeli water and sewage facilities — report

Fox News says hackers used American servers in last month’s attack; Israeli water and cyber officials say attempted breach did not disrupt water supply

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event to sign a proclamation in honor of World Nurses Day, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump vetoes ‘insulting’ measure limiting his war powers in Iran

By Deb Riechmann

A computer screen with program code warning of a detected malware script program. (solarseven via iStock)

Israeli firm says Chinese cyber-espionage tool used to spy on governments

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: EU representative to the Palestinians Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff, right, hands more than 800 food packages to the PA's social development minister to be distributed to poor Palestinian families, April 30, 2020 (Facebook)

Israel fumes after EU says Palestinian terror supporters can still get funds

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Ministry summons ambassador in response to envoy to West Bank and Gaza saying Palestinian grantees may include those affiliated with blacklisted groups

Rami Aman, founder of the Gaza Youth Committee, was arrested by Hamas security services on April 9, 2020, after organizing a video call with Israeli peace activists. (Facebook)

Amnesty slams PA, Hamas for jailing critics, one of whom held call with Israelis

Lilach Sapir, owner of Tel Aviv's Peacock Bar, speaks to reporters as she urges a reopening of restaurants as part of eased restrictions amid the COVID-19 crisis, on May 6, 2020 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Analysis

Simona Weinglass

As Israel reopens, economically battered restaurants hunger for own comeback

Backed by the mayor, and arguing that they can serve patrons safely, owners and managers say Tel Aviv is not the same without its eateries and bars

Illustrative image of a payment (wutwhanfoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Coronavirus spurs debate on whether startups should get aid too

By Shoshanna Solomon

An Israeli family sits on the steps outside their apartment building in Jerusalem, as they stay at home with their children during a nation-wide quarantine, on March 31, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Private daycares threaten to stay shuttered as ministry okays Sunday opening

Marilee Shapiro Asher at her home in Washington, DC, in 2015. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

She survived 1918 Spanish flu and COVID-19. What’s this 107-year-old’s secret?

Dating hasn’t died with corona

Now is the time to open ourselves emotionally to others and invest in the process of seeing and being seen for who we truly are on the inside

Is it ethical to send our children back to school?

The short answer is: Yes. The path to that conclusion may depend on how much you trust the leadership that decided to open the schools

Oded Eran and Shimon Stein

Thus passes the glory of Europe

Former ambassadors to Germany, EU: The EU is failing to meet the ‘epochal challenge’ posed by the coronavirus, and cementing its irrelevance in the Mideast

In Memoriam: Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch

The religious Zionist luminary who championed conversion of Israeli children of Jewish heritage believed that every Jewish soul matters

Russian police officers, wearing face masks to protect from coronavirus, speak to a woman as they check her documents to ensure a self-isolation regime due to coronavirus, in Moscow, Russia, April 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A ‘miracle’? Rabbi explains why Russia’s Jews have low COVID-19 death rate

Noam Shuster-Eliassi with corona couture. (Courtesy/ Instagram)

Analysis

LISTEN: Israeli comic with COVID-19 does sick comedy for captive hotel audience

Harvard fellowship cut short, one-woman show postponed, and stricken with virus, Noam Shuster-Eliassi finds plenty to laugh about with diverse crowd of fellow patients in Jerusalem

John Goodman plays Walter Sobchak in the 1998 Coen brothers film 'The Big Lebowski.' (screen capture: YouTube)

Locked down? Open up to… John Goodman’s Jewish anti-hero in ‘Big Lebowski’

Yesha Council chairman David Elhayani (L) and Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan. (Flash90)

Two top settler leaders accuse Trump of ‘scamming’ Israel with peace plan

Yesha Council head and colleague claim Washington trying to use its support for annexation to force Israel into agreeing to Palestinian statehood, which they oppose

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on October 18, 2019. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Pompeo said planning Israel visit next week to meet with Netanyahu, Gantz

Democratic presidential candidate former US vice president Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus, in Wilmington, Delaware, March 12, 2020. (Matt Rourke/AP)

As Israel considers annexation, Biden calls to keep the two-state solution alive

A man who claims to be able to confirm coronavirus cases on the phone is confronted by a Health Ministry representative (screen capture: Channel 12)

Officials to file complaint against doctor impostor diagnosing COVID-19 by phone

He says it’s just a ‘consultation’

Israeli experts urge caution over drug company’s claim of COVID-19 cure

By Nathan Jeffay

Positive tests for recovered virus patients unlikely to be reinfections — WHO

By AFP

Galilee struggles with coronavirus fallout; mobilizes student doctors

By Nathan Jeffay

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldiers patrol along the border wall with Israel near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on December 4, 2018. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Israel urges major changes in UN peacekeeping in Lebanon, as it faces Hezbollah

Ambassador Danny Danon insists that peacekeepers have access to all sites in southern Lebanon, questions their purpose without freedom of movement

A composite photo of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul, left, and Hadar Goldin, right.

Hamas official denies reports of progress in prisoner swap talks with Israel

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (R) and Brig. Gen. Ofer Winter, the military secretary to the defense minister (at rear), on November 12, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

For first time in months, security cabinet summoned to meet Thursday

More Headlines

Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, at his home after lighting Hanukkah candles on December 5, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Influential rabbi claims ultra-Orthodox more prone to God’s COVID-19 wrath

In this photo released on April 18, 2020, a Syrian woman walks with her sons wearing masks due to the coronavirus, in Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP)

Syria postpones election for second time over virus

An artist's impression of the orbits of the objects in the HR 6819 triple system. This system is made up of an inner binary with one star (orbit in blue) and a newly discovered black hole (orbit in red), as well as a third star in a wider orbit (also in blue). (ESO/L. Calçada)

Astronomers find closest black hole to earth, a mere 1,000 light years away

A police officer stands guard at a roadblock on a road leading to Ein Hemed, near Jerusalem, on April 28, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police said to keep huge secret database on movement of Israelis’ cars

AfD Federal Chairman Alexander Gauland delivers a speech during the official beginning of the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) state election campaign in Arnstadt, Germany, on September 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

German far-right politician slammed for calling Nazi defeat ‘an ambivalent day’

By AP

Israelis protest against government corruption and for democracy, outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu files police complaint after protester appears to threaten son

Part of a graphic made by a far-right German politician featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair and a quote from him calling for a Christian Europe (Screencapture/Twitter)

Yair Netanyahu is poster boy for a German far-right politician

Teva CEO Kare Schultz at a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 19, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Teva’s shares surge as first quarter results beat expectations

By Shoshanna Solomon

Eric Fingerhut, CEO and president of Jewish Federations of North America, announced layoffs and executive salary cuts in a message to board members and federation executives on May 6, 2020. (Courtesy of Hillel)

Pandemic leads to deep layoffs at Jewish Federations of North America

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, August 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg out of hospital

By AP

Portrait of Rabbi Nachum Rabinovich, at his home in Ma'ale Adumim on August 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Prominent religious Zionist rabbi Nachum Rabinovitch dies at 92

Mustafa al-Kadhimi was was sworn in as Iraqi prime minister by lawmakers on May 7, 2020. (pmo.iq)

Former Iraqi intelligence chief approved as new premier

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and SAMYA KULLAB

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