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What Matters Most On Monday, May 11, 2020

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In this photo provided Monday, May 11, 2020, by the Iranian Army, the Konarak support vessel which was struck during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman, is docked in an unidentified naval base in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran says 19 sailors dead in friendly fire missile hit; others put toll higher

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Naval frigate fires anti-ship cruise missile at support boat laying targets during exercises in the Gulf of Oman, amid tensions with the US

Illustrative: Syrian army soldiers prepare to launch a mortar towards insurgents in the village of Kfar Nabuda, in the countryside of Hama province on May 11, 2019. (SANA via AP)

Dozens die in attack on Syrian troops at edge of rebel stronghold

By AP

Kuwaiti health minister Sheikh Basel al-Sabah (R) speaks to the press at Sheikh Saad Airport in Kuwait City, on February 22, 2020, as Kuwaitis returning from Iran wait before being taken to a hospital to be tested for coronavirus (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)

Three Gulf states reach out to Israel for help battling COVID-19 pandemic

By Raphael Ahren

UAE and Bahrain have been in touch with Ramat Gan’s Sheba hospital for months; now a third country — likely Kuwait — has asked for help erecting telemedicine facilities

UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, center, with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh after the opening session of the Arab Summit in Riyadh, March 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Awad Awad, Pool)

Emirati foreign minister condemns Israel’s annexation plans

By Raphael Ahren

Ultra-Orthodox men, wearing face shields as a protective measure against the coronavirus, study in an outdoor area in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two ultra-Orthodox bastions account for 37% of Israel’s virus deaths

By Nathan Jeffay

Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, focal points of the community, were disproportionately hit by COVID-19, but the extent of that impact was not known until now

People wear face masks to prevent spread of the coronavirus in Bnei Brak, April 3, 2020 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Serological testing set to begin in Bnei Brak ahead of nationwide survey

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)

34 new virus cases confirmed in 24 hours, with total of 4,690 active cases

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 29, 2018. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv/Flash90)

Government swearing-in pushed off to Thursday against backdrop of Pompeo visit

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel’s 35th government was to be installed on Wednesday, ending 16-month political crisis; Likud officials say delay due to visit of top US diplomat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with then-Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, at the Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Edelstein, who resigned as Knesset speaker, tells Netanyahu he wants job back

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court rules Netanyahu corruption trial will not be broadcast live

This photo released by the Israel Antiquities Authority on May 11, 2020, shows a coin from the Bar Kochba revolt found near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. (Koby Harati/City of David Archives)

‘Year 2 of freedom’: Ancient coin from Bar Kochba revolt found near Temple Mount

Israel Antiquities Authority reveals the coin, one of only four from the era to be discovered in the area, to mark Lag B’Omer holiday

Jerry Stiller arrives at the premiere of "The Heartbreak Kid" in Los Angeles on Sept. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

Obituary

Jerry Stiller, George’s ‘Serenity now!’ over-the-top dad on Seinfeld, dies at 92

By AP

Son Ben says he died of unspecified natural causes; actor earned Emmy nomination for ‘Seinfeld’ decades after his career took off with comedic cohort and wife Anne Meara

Ben Stiller (left) and Edward Norton as rabbi and priest in 'Keeping the Faith,' which premiered in 2000. (Getty Images/ via JTA)

Clergy look back at ‘Keeping the Faith,’ an interfaith romcom ahead of its time

By Stephen Silver

Experimental drilling for a railway station at Jerusalem's Old City, May 9, 2020. (Emek Shaveh)

Experimental drilling starts for controversial train route to Jerusalem Old City

Infrastructure panel initially rejected plan to extend fast rail, approved it under pressure from Transportation Minister Smotrich; involves excavating for 2 miles under Jerusalem

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich inaugurates the new high-speed train between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv's Savidor, at Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem on May 11, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

After virus fast-tracking, Jerusalem express train reaches Tel Aviv’s Savidor

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Israeli travelers who had been stranded in South America, arrive at Ben Gurion airport on March 23, 2020, from Sao Paulo, through New York. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel eases isolation hotel requirement for incoming travelers, reopens parks

Government also lifts Ramadan commerce restrictions in Arab-majority areas as virus numbers keep going down, but keeps children’s playgrounds and beaches shut

Education Ministry wants all students back in school next week — report

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Treasury to offer El Al $400 million loan guarantee to save it from crisis

Israeli men’s soccer teams begin full training ahead of season resumption

By ToI Staff and AP

COVID-19: What have we learned from Phase One?

5 issues I’ve been thinking about, as a psychologist and person who likes to plan for the future

Stephen Horenstein

Early morning’s minyan

The birds sing relentlessly, as I stand motionless, breathing in their beauty, calm, and unpredictability – the lone witness of a seemingly random prayer that surely is not

Ben Zion Ferziger

The experimental spirit of Hatikvah and The New Colossus

These two iconic texts offer contrasting blueprints for Jewish life, but the twists and turns of their authors’ lives prove nothing is set in stone

As the coronavirus crisis eases, Israel should restructure

The solidarity and goodwill that developed during the crisis are central to strategic redesign of the old divisive structures and norms

Medical staff at the coronavirus unit, in Ichilov hospital, Tel Aviv, May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Global survey shows link between COVID-19 patients and taste, smell loss

By Shoshanna Solomon

Findings could help distinguish coronavirus patients from those with colds or flu, researchers say

The 'Cockpit' system developed by Israel Aerospsace Industries, Microsoft and the Soroka Medical Center (Courtesy)

IAI, Microsoft, Soroka hospital develop COVID-19 monitoring ‘cockpit’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Workers arrange beach chairs and umbrellas at the Tel Aviv beach on May 5, 2020 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel media reviewFrolicking between the waves: 6 things to know for May 11

By Joshua Davidovich

From left: Israeli poets Yonatan Berg, Shimon Adaf, and Hagit Grossman. (Micol Levi Yaron, Courtesy Wesleyan University Press; Ronen Lalena; Dina Gona)

Locked down? Open up to… 3 exceptional contemporary Israeli poets

By Mitch Ginsburg

Israeli students in Jerusalem wear protective face masks as they return to school for the first time since the outbreak of the Coronavirus. May 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

‘Either open entirely or don’t open at all’: mayors pan plan to reopen schools

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Federation of Local Authorities chairman skewers Education Ministry’s plan to have some students come in 1 day a week while others arrive for 2 or 3

8:30 pm

US official tells Iran to send plane for prisoner exchange
8:11 pm

WHO chief: There are around seven or eight 'top' candidates for a vaccine
7:59 pm

West Wing visitors, staff need to wear masks

Poet Alicia Jo Rabins. (Courtesy/ Alicia J. Rose)

Under lockdown, Portland writer pivots to pandemic poetry — from her bathtub

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

Police officers arrive at the scene of a suspected terror attack in the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba on April 28, 2020. (Israel Police)

Palestinian indicted for stabbing Israeli woman on Memorial Day

20-year-old Mahmoud Risha accused of carrying out terror attack, illegal possession of knife and entering Israel illegally

Israeli convicted of smuggling supplies to Hamas for tunneling, weapons-making

IDF demolishes West Bank home of suspected killer of Rina Shnerb

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Amid pandemic, UN officials urge release of Palestinian minors jailed by Israel

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers an address on lifting the country's lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic, May 10, 2020. (Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street via AP)

Boris Johnson’s ‘go to work’ advice sparks widespread confusion, mockery

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The New York Times building in New York City, May 13, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel, File)

ADL slams NYT for saying Israeli defense research best known for work on killing

Customers line up to by flowers on Mother's Day at the Los Angeles Flower Market, Sunday, May 10, 2020, in Los Angeles. Families in the U.S. and elsewhere marked Mother's Day in a time of social distancing and isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

World leaders balance optimism against concern over threat of second virus wave

By Frank Jordans and NOMAAN MERCHANT

Child singer and social media sensation Dekel Vaknin, April 20, 2020. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Underworld hitPopular child singer unwittingly taunts top mob figure

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III delivers a statement to the press as he stands next to the Custodian of the Holy Land Fr. Francesco Patton and Armenian Bishop Siwan (L) on February 25, 2018, outside of the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Greek Church demands evacuation of ‘living museum’ in Jerusalem

Illustrative: Ukrainian police officers attend a ceremony to launch a new-style police project in Kiev. Ukraine, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. The project goal is to turn the old law enforcement system into the new one which would comply with the European standards. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukrainian police official requests list of Jews in western city of Kolomyya

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A look at the work behind Bitton’s Ulpan Bitnua online dance studio. (Courtesy of Gabi Bitton/ via JTA)

'Fostering community'COVID-19 can’t stop one of Israel’s national passions: Folk dance

By Marcus M. Gilban

US Rep. Steve King, Republican of Iowa, during a town hall meeting, August 13, 2019 (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Republican Jewish Coalition will support primary challenge to Steve King of Iowa

By JTA

Rabbi David Kaufman told Vice President Mike Pence that he does not think it is safe to resume in-person services. (C-SPAN screenshot via JTA)

Des Moines rabbi tells Pence ‘it’s too early’ to resume religious services

By JTA

The four members of Red Hot Chili Peppers set a new concert date in Israel for 2023 (Courtesy Red Hot Chili Peppers)

This time next yearVirus-hobbled concert promoter sets sights on future gigs

By Jessica Steinberg

The scene of a fatal stabbing at a hair salon in Bat Yam, May 10, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Dentist stabbed to death outside Bat Yam hair salon

Screen capture from a video-conference call between President Reuven Rivlin and Jewish community leaders from around the world, April 5, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Israeli executive at Zoom says Passover Seder was key moment in app use

By ToI Staff and AFP

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