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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 9, 2020

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Final communications on the German Brown network, from May 1945 (GCHQ)

‘Closing down forever’: Britain reveals Nazi Germany’s final decoded message

By ToI Staff and AFP

To mark 75 years since VE Day, UK releases content of last communications issued on a secret German network on May 7, 1945, which were intercepted by Bletchley Park codebreakers

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks at military aircraft flying over the Kremlin and Red Square to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, Moscow, May 9, 2020. (Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Putin calls for ‘invincible’ unity as Russians mark Victory Day under lockdown

By Michael MAINVILLE

In this May 5, 2020 frame from video, Alfred Abayev, head of a volunteer group searching for remains of the WW II Red Army soldiers, right, looks at projectile left on a WW II battlefield near Khulkhuta in the province of Kalmykia in southern Russia. The search is part of a broad effort by myriad volunteer groups across the country to pay tributes to the fallen WW II soldiers. (AP Photo/Radik Nurmukhamedov)

75 years after World War II, Russian volunteers search for fallen soldiers

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Alyona Osipova

Illustrative: Visitors at the Banias National Park in northern Israel after easing of the first coronavirus lockdown, May 9, 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet)

With no new virus deaths recorded, 15,000 Israelis visit nature reserves, parks

Sites across the country packed on first Saturday since they reopened amid eased coronavirus restrictions; only three new cases overnight

A medical team member wearing protective gear takes a swab from a woman to test for the coronavirus at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on April 30, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

In first since March, Israel sees no new deaths in 24-hour period

People shop at the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv on May 8, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Photo essayIsraelis enjoy warm Friday at beaches, markets after virus restrictions eased

Twin brothers Fares (left) and Firas Muhammad, Muslim Arabs serving in the IDF's Golani Brigade (Channel 12 screenshot)

Low point? When we robbed a gas station with a fake gun

Arab Muslim twins go from violent delinquents to proud Golani soldiers

Fares and Firas Muhammad spent much of their youth in courts for thefts and thuggery; when they decided to turn their lives around, their path led them, extraordinarily, to the IDF

Analysis

80 years ago, lethal Nazi T4 center began euthanizing Germans with disabilities

After implementing tens of thousands ‘merciful deaths,’ Hartheim Castle’s crematoria personnel were sent to build Holocaust death camps in occupied Poland

Most of these children from the Protestant Katharinenhof institution were euthanized at Sonnenstein (public domain)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the nation about the coronavirus pandemic, April 1, 2020 (Screen grab)

If it reinfects, virus could ‘end humanity,’ Netanyahu reportedly warned MKs

TV report says Israeli PM set out nightmare scenarios to politicians from his Likud party at the height of the COVID-19 crisis

Agreement reached for state subsidies to reopen afterschool care centers

Finance Ministry to expand virus rescue package to NIS 100 billion

Treasury plans NIS 100 million loan guarantees to prop up Israir, Arkia airlines

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, on September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Israeli firm uncovers Iran-linked attempt to hack US virus drugmaker Gilead

Pharmaceutical company is pioneering treatment for coronavirus; ClearSky cybersecurity outfit says Iran-connected hackers are targeting COVID-19 researchers, including in Israel

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican members of the US Congress in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump says coronavirus will go away even without a vaccine

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump's White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller, left, and Katie Waldman, before their marriage, at the White House, Sept. 20, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky, File)

Katie Miller, Mike Pence’s press secretary, tests positive for coronavirus

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI

Josh Cartu (L) and his brother David Cartu in a screenshot from a 2017 video in which they drove a Ferrari together. (Vimeo screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Israeli-Canadian binary options brothers charged in alleged $233 million scheme

By Simona Weinglass

High-living brothers Josh, Jonathan and David Cartu accused by Ontario Securities Commission in civil case of operating illegal binary options business for four years

My coronavirus Mother’s Day present

I can’t celebrate with my mother (she’s not alive) and my children won’t celebrate me (it’s not their holiday), so I’m going to treat myself to a day off – and focus on being a mom

Sanity prevails: 11 to 0

High Court voted unanimously – itself a breath of fresh air – and the public saw for themselves that there was no diabolical plot to undermine the separation of powers

Daniel Uhlfelder protests Florida beach reopenings dressed as the Grim Reaper. (Courtesy/Daniel Uhlfelder via JTA)

Jewish lawyer dresses as the Grim Reaper to protest Florida beach reopenings

By Josefin Dolsten

The Mevo Hama vantage point is located inside the Mevo Hama forest and built around the Ein Aduk spring. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Stunning views, steeped in history: A guide to Sea of Galilee vantage points

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a briefing on April 8, 2020 in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Masks, virus tests, closed meetings: How Pompeo will visit Israel amid pandemic

By ToI Staff and AP

US secretary of state and entourage exempt from entry restrictions, will confine movements to airport and strictly controlled work settings during brief visit next week

Inside StoryUS top court’s hypothetical: Can Washington require groups to recognize Israel?

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) visits the prime minister's holiday sukkah, during talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 18, 2019. At left is US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Pompeo to visit Israel next week; talks likely to focus on West Bank annexation

By AP and ToI Staff

The author of the book, Max Brooks attends the premiere of 'World War Z' in Times Square on Monday, June 17, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Interview

‘World War Z’ author/West Point teacher: Disasters are averted in pre-production

By Rich Tenorio

Tracey Ullman portrays Betty Friedan in the FX series 'Mrs. America.' (Amazon Prime/ via JTA)

Locked down? Open up to… the Jewish mothers of gender rights in ‘Mrs. America’

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Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the annual Days of Remembrance event in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2019. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

Dermer slams NYT for saying Israel’s defense research usually focuses on killing

George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, arrives for his first appearance before congressional investigators, on Capitol Hill in Washington, United States, October 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

FBI source in Russia probe called Israelis ‘f***ing spies’ who should be killed

An Egyptian protester watches an Apache army helicopter is it flies over Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo Sunday, June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Washington approves $2.3 billion attack helicopter deal with Egypt

By AFP

A car windshield is seen riddled with bullet holes in a video reportedly taken at the scene of a double murder in northern Israel, May 7, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Police investigate suspected double murder in northern Israel

File: Palestinian pass by a cash machine of the Bank of Palestine branch in Gaza City, Dec. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

PA says banks will continue serving prisoners’ families despite Israeli threats

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on November 20, 2019 (left); Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit addresses the press in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2019. (Gali Tibon; Menahem Kahana/AFP)

AG said willing to allow Netanyahu corruption trial to be broadcast live

Orthodox Jewish men use 'social distancing' as they pray outside the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, March 20, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, before leaders of six major organizations released a joint statement urging worshipers to 'avoid, to the maximum extent feasible, any outside interactions' to help stop the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Prague Jews ship medical equipment to New York peers

By AFP

The Hapoel Jerusalem and Ironi Nahariya teams play in Tel Aviv during the final of the Israeli Basketball State Cup on February 13, 2020. (Flash90)

Israeli basketball to resume play on June 20 without fans

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative: Lay cantor Gary Levine sings at home in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Levine)

Star of stage and screenShowtime’s president of entertainment is now a Zoom cantor

By Curt Schleier

A poster promoting a benefit concert for COVID-19 victims in Israel by (left to right) Mordechai ben David, Ishay Ribo and Yaakov Shwekey (Migdal Ohr)

Fire up your speakersMusicians plan Lag B’Omer concert for Israeli COVID-19 victims

By JTA

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