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What Matters Most On Friday, May 8, 2020

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Victory in Europe Day

Unsung Jewish heroes who helped UK to victory in Battle of Britain finally heard

As the battle’s 80th anniversary approaches, London’s Royal Air Force museum seeks to capture the stories of Jews who risked their lives to help repel the massive Nazi invasion

World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Indian Island, Maine, salutes the grave of fellow soldier Edward Morozewicz at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

As world marks VE Day, talk turns again to war, but this time against a virus

Pipe major Andy Reid of The Scots Guards plays his pipes on the cliffs of Dover, southern England on May 6, 2020 as two Spitfires from the battle of Britain memorial flight fly over him during a posed picture to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE day (Richard Pohle / POOL / AFP)

On VE Day under shadow of virus, world marks 75 years since end of WWII

Benjamin Netanyahu, right, elbow bumps Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on March 15, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu gets nod from Rivlin to form government, seemingly cementing rule

Move comes after large Knesset majority — including rival-turned-ally Gantz — tells president it endorses Likud incumbent as prime minister; government to be sworn in next week

President Reuven Rivlin, center, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at the memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In triumph for Netanyahu, 72 MKs endorse him as PM, paving way for new coalition

Op-Ed

Protecting itself from COVID-19, divided Israel shows rare cohesion

Its Jewish-Arab, Orthodox-secular rifts are all still there, but the country has thus far proved capable of transcending them, holding together to reduce the pandemic’s ravages

This handout photo provided by the Magen David Adom (MDA) national emergency service on March 24, 2020, in Beersheba shows two paramedics praying outside an ambulance of the American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA): a Jew from Beersheba facing Jerusalem, and an Arab from Rahat facing Mecca. (Magen David Adom)

A man walks by closed shops in the Mamilla Mall near Jerusalem's Old City on April 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Website glitch erases 30,000 Israelis’ requests for unemployment benefits

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes part in a video conference with leaders of countries who have had success battling the coronavirus, May 7, 2020. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu: Israel wants to join travel pact for countries beating back virus

Femma Fleisjman talks about her deportation to Auschwitz in a 2018 interview with the EO television channel. (Courtesy of Jewish Programming EO/ via JTA)

Analysis

Survivor says ‘hero’ recognized as Righteous Among Nations sent her to Auschwitz

Hans Calmeyer is said to have saved thousands of Jews while he did clerical work for the Nazis — but a 92-year-old woman claims in a new documentary that he sent her to be killed

Gabriel Bach, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Israel and a former deputy prosecutor during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, poses for a picture while holding a photograph showing him (below) during Eichmann's (top) trial, at the yard of his home in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

60 years on, Israeli prosecutor recalls Eichmann trial

Adolf Eichmann is seen standing in his bullet proof glass box as the charges against him are read during judical proceedings in the Beit Ha'Am building in Jerusalem, April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/Str)

History in the making: The Mossad mission to capture Adolf Eichmann

By Karinne Delorme

People wear protective face masks as they shop at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv before it officially opens up to the public, May 6, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel media review

It tried to kill us, we won, let’s fight: 6 things to know for May 8

By Joshua Davidovich

Israelis are leaving the lockdown life behind as new infection numbers dwindle, but matters are far from settled on both the health and politics fronts

Medical workers stand outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on May 5, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

5 deaths take virus toll to 245; recoveries continue to outpace new infections

Israelis wearing face masks as they shop in the Jerusalem city center, May 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Fewer than 500 coronavirus cases confirmed in Israel over past week

Protesters carry rifles near the steps of the Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, April 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

As Michigan extremists protest lockdown, state’s Jews grapple with rising hate

After far-right protesters stormed the State Capitol April 30 — wearing swastikas and carrying guns — Lansing’s Jews fear what might happen at the next hate fest

US employment sees historic collapse as virus deaths hit 75,000

By AFP

Ohio lawmakers move to limit reach of Jewish Health Department director

UN chief says virus sparked ‘tsunami of hate,’ including anti-Semitism

Jerry Seinfeld in his new Netflix special, '23 Hours to Kill.' (Screenshot)

Netflix review

Say what you want, in ’23 Hours to Kill’ Seinfeld really commits to a joke

By Yaakov Schwartz

The path to victory: Remembering V-E Day

FDR’s prescience, including over the objections of some of his top generals, included maintaining a policy of Germany first, and his foresight made all the difference

America’s fateful 100 days

I predict that Donald Trump will delay the election or contest its results — call me a false prophet, but I’d rather sound the alarm in error than wake up to a new Weimar Republic

Dishonoring World War II memory

Americans should be able to express themselves eloquently and forcefully, without resorting to wildly absurd Holocaust references

Ariel Jerozolimski

PHOTO ESSAY – Mahane Yehuda opens

After the COVID-19 quarantine, the open market is a cleaner, less crowded human mosaic, where contrasts of light, colors, and faces can still stop a photographer in his tracks

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the White House, April 17, 2020. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Fauci tells Orthodox Jews to phase in communal prayer as virus restrictions ease

Top immunologist on White House task force asks Orthodox Union to take small steps toward reopening in-person services, warns risk likely to continue into High Holidays in fall

People of the PodLISTEN: Colorado governor speaks about state’s lockdown and rising anti-Semitism

Vermont political forum with Jewish candidate hit by anti-Semitic ‘Zoombombing’

NYPD social distancing arrests: Mostly non-whites detained, at times violently

By Michael R. Sisak

Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, meeting with a group of Chinese MBA students visiting Israel (courtesy of Tzohar)

Analysis

In strange new world, Israelis inundate pandemic ethicist for guidance

Ethicist Yuval Cherlow queried amid virus crisis by doctors who want to quit work, domestic violence victims, and people troubled that COVID-19 ‘doesn’t obey ethical rules’

Kindergarten staff clean in the city of Modiin on May 7, 2020 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Row over closure of kindergartens for Lag B’Omer, just 2 days after they reopen

Shoppers at the usually packed Malha Mall in Jerusalem after it reopened May 7, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Half of Israelis say financial situation has worsened during virus lockdown

A cartoon by Rube Goldberg, 'Inventions,' circa 1938-1941. (Courtesy Contemporary Jewish Museum)

Contest launches for crazy Rube Goldberg machine to clean hands from COVID-19

By Rich Tenorio

Grandparents receive a visit from their grandchildren in Kfar Yona on April 21, 2020 (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

No hugs or kisses: Your guide to visiting grandma and grandpa

Health Ministry publishes guidelines on visiting the elderly after lifting of lockdown rules, urges family members to wear masks, maintain a distance and not touch

Shaare Zedek emergency room nurse Zippy Goodman. (Courtesy)

Times of Israel PodcastLISTEN: An Israeli ER nurse opens up about the ‘unimaginable’ COVID-19 fight

Israeli soldiers get off a bus as they arrive at the Gaza border on March 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF to again allow soldiers to take regular furloughs, use public transportation

By Judah Ari Gross

EU ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret at the president's residence in Jerusalem on October 23, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Foreign Ministry rebukes EU ambassador over ‘support for terrorism’

By Raphael Ahren

Harsh dressing down follows EU official in West Bank and Gaza saying even Palestinians affiliated with blacklisted groups remain eligible to participate in EU-funded projects

No pay to slay? Fearing Israel law, Palestinian bank blocks terrorists’ accounts

From the webPalestinian boy braves surgery alone during coronavirus closure in Israel

Gaza man charged with funneling money to Hamas in West Bank

Illustrative: Senate Foreign Relations Committee members seen from behind in the foreground: (left to right) Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, Sen. William Fullbright, D-Ark., Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., and Sen. George Aiken, R-VT, on April 11, 1969. (AP Photo)

Analysis

50 years ago, upstart rabbi used Jewish law to tell Senate to end Vietnam War

By Josh Feigelson

More Headlines

A sign at the community named after US President Donald Trump in the Golan Heights village of Kela Alon on November 7, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Height lossSign for Golan community named after Trump stripped of letters

Multinational Force & Observers troops stand in formation during a change of command ceremony in Sinai, Egypt, July 15, 2019. (US Army/Staff Sgt. Kulani J. Lakanaria)

US Defense Department said pushing to withdraw troops from Sinai; Israel opposed

An advertisement for the 'Miss Hitler 2020' competition (Courtesy/Anti-Defamation Commission)

GoDaddy drops ‘Miss Hitler’ competition site after outcry

Illustrative: Cabins at Camp Tawonga, a Jewish summer camp in North California. (Courtesy of Camp Tawonga)

Hosting whole families may solve Jewish summer camps’ coronavirus conundrum

Lioness Yasha and her two new-born cubs at the Jerusalem Biblical zoo (Gili Cohen-Magen)

Mane eventFirst lion cubs born in captivity at Jerusalem zoo

Broken glass and a stone lie on the pavement as an Israeli flag sticks out of the window of HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 8, 2020, after a man smashed the window (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch police hold suspect after window smashed at kosher restaurant

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures towards countries on a map while giving a lecture regarding Israel's foreign policy priorities as Chatham House Director Robin Niblett looks on at Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London November 3, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS)

German military spy chief apologizes for wiping Israel off map

By AP

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, shown in May 2019, said 'The absentee ballot is more of a political issue than it is anything.' (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images/ via JTA)

Missouri rabbis call mail-in voting religious imperative after governor bars it

Satellite images purporting to show the damage to a missile factory outside Aleppo, Syria caused by airstrikes attributed to Israel on May 4, which were released on May 7, 2020. (ImageSat International)

Satellite images show damage to presumed missile workshop near Aleppo

By Judah Ari Gross

Oil shale rock burns on its own once lit with a blow torch. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

Overruling Environment Ministry, planners advance contentious oil shale project

Hydroxychloroquine pills. (AP/John Locher)

Study casts new doubts on malaria drug pushed by Trump and stockpiled by Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Cars drive by a McDonald's restaurant Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Oklahoma City, where three McDonald's employees suffered gunshot wounds when a customer opened fire because she was angry that the restaurant's dining area was closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

US woman opens fire in McDonald’s over virus seating closure, wounding 3 workers

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