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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 12, 2020

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on May 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ignoring ban, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox crowd Lag B’Omer fires in Jerusalem

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on May 11, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Israel media reviewSerenity now! 6 things to know for May 12

An April 29 funeral for a rabbi in Brooklyn attended by hundreds. (Reuven Blau/Twitter via JTA)

Brooklyn synagogue blasted over funeral told to shut down services

Sgt. First Class Amit Ben-Ygal, who was killed when a rock was thrown at his head during an arrest raid in the northern West Bank village of Yabed on May 12, 2020. (Social media)

IDF soldier killed by rock thrown at his head during West Bank arrest raid

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says Sgt. First Class Amit Ben-Ygal, 21, was wearing helmet when large stone struck him, as unit made its way out of village near Jenin; funeral set for 6 p.m.

‘You’re my only son, I have nothing,’ fallen soldier’s father weeps

Palestinian attempts to stab cops at checkpoint north of Jerusalem, is shot

Under new deal, Israel to loan PA up to NIS 800m to cover virus losses

Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health chief who led Israel’s response to pandemic announces resignation

Weighing Israel’s situation relative to other countries’, Health Ministry director Moshe Bar Siman-Tov says he achieved his goals in mitigating severity of coronavirus crisis

An empty classroom at an elementary school in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2020 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

All grades to return to school Sunday, but not full time

From the blogs

How I’m using a Saudi Ramadan TV series to give Jews a human face

The groundbreaking TV drama ’Umm Haroun’ is full of anti-Semitic stereotypes, but it’s still a giant leap forward — and a helpful teaching tool

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Gilad Erdan at an event for incoming police commissioner Roni Alsheikh, not pictured, in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Analysis

In NY and DC at the same time? Netanyahu gives ambassador Erdan double challenge

Why did the PM choose Gilad Erdan to fill both hugely important roles of envoy to the US and UN, and can the minister, with no diplomatic experience, rise to the task?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (left) at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu appoints Gilad Erdan to double role of ambassador to US, UN

By Alexander Fulbright

National Union MK Bezalel Smotrich, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Yamina breaks away, Smotrich fires at Netanyahu’s ‘weak, failed’ agenda

Tal Valariola at the Digital Platinum Ltd. office in a Facebook photo dated November 28, 2018 (Facebook screenshot)

US charges 2 Israelis, one a cop’s son, in $20m binary options marketing fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Tal Valariola, son of an ex-senior cop, and Itay Barak, son of a director of public firms, accused of disseminating videos that lured in tens of thousands of alleged scam victims

Illustrative. Hackers/cybersecurity (iStock by Getty Images)

Coronavirus creates ‘unprecedented opportunity’ for hackers, researchers say

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image: Holocaust survivor Sara Itzinger (L) and her grandson Nissan Hefetz after she recovered from COVID-19, May 2020. (courtesy of Sara Itzinger)

Holocaust survivor, 99, recovers from COVID-19; her husband died from it

Sara Itzinger, whose husband Zvi Herschel was virus victim, hailed by MDA paramedic grandson as a ‘strong, surviving woman’; couple met in the US after WWII

Afik Suissa, of Ashdod, who became seriously ill with COVID-19, April 2020. (Facebook)

As virus sees few new Israeli cases, a once critically ill 22-year-old recovers

Israeli girls at Jerusalem's Sacher Park on May 11, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Coronavirus death toll climbs to 258, but new infections continue to ebb

Interview

I believe in compromise, says hawkish pundit under fire for opposing annexation

With seemingly dovish NYT op-ed, Daniel Pipes angered many former allies on the right. He’s not backing down, but stresses his goal is still Israel’s victory over the Palestinians

Daniel Pipes at the American Freedom Alliance conference at USC. (CC-BY-ASA: lukeford.net/Wikimedia)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, April 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ahead of his visit, Pompeo won’t confirm Israel has US green light on annexation

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks in Aachen, Germany, Jan. 22, 2019. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images via JTA)

EU ministers expected to weigh punitive response to West Bank annexation

In this Nov. 6, 2003, file photo, Jerry Stiller, left, and his wife Anne Meara pose on the set of "The King of Queens," at Sony Studio in Culver City, Calif.(AP Photo/Stefano Paltera, File)

First person

Jerry Stiller was a mensch. He could act with the best of them, too

By Curt Schleier

Israeli troops patrol in the northern West Bank village of Yabad after a soldier was killed there during a raid, May, 12, 2020. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian said shot during raid in West Bank village where soldier was killed

Israeli troops continue searches in Yabad for suspects who threw rock that fatally struck Amit Ben-Yigal in the head

8:12 pm

Pence to 'keep distance' from Trump for a few days after aide tests positive for virus
7:52 pm

Palestinian said shot during raid in West Bank village where soldier was killed
7:36 pm

Airports authority said to draw up new travel guidelines for when flights resume

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Celebrating Lag BaOmer in my private cave

I worry about leaving the safety of home, but I know the real growth happens in the shared spaces where we clash – and learn to live together

Donniel Hartman

Annexation now?

Making this fateful political move during the Corona crisis is an act of opportunism that would subvert the moral credibility of our leadership

Please exit the water

The loudspeaker’s announcement warning swimmers out of the winter sea gives me pause: the recording is in 5 languages, yet they are seemingly out of order

When communal prayer is a dangerous violation of Jewish law

Is relaxing our standards of caution worth the risk of the loss of even one life? Judaism is very clear that it is forbidden to take a chance

A monkey being used for experimentation in a laboratory at the Hadassh Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, July 22, 2003. (Flash90)

Over 400,000 experiments carried out on animals in Israel last year

Nearly half of the 3,537 projects that took place in 2019 involved subjecting the animals involved to the highest levels of pain on scale

A memorial for victims of the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 2018. (Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)

‘No single cure’: Anti-Semitic incidents in US hit record high in 2019, ADL says

By Michael Kunzelman

2,107 anti-Semitic incidents recorded in 2019, including 61 physical assault cases, 1,127 instances of harassment and 919 acts of vandalism, Anti-Defamation League reports

Likening lockdown policies to Nazism, US protester wears face mask with swastika

By JTA

Swastikas found on two tombstones of German POWs at US military cemetery

Two arrested for ripping masks off Jews in Brooklyn assault

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Rabbi Shlomo Amar lights a bonfire during the celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer at Mount Meron in northern Israel on May 11, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Pandemic turns world’s biggest Jewish party into a small, subdued formality

By Nathan Jeffay

More Headlines

Mourners wearing protective clothing, face masks and gloves, pray over the body of a victim who died after being infected with the new coronavirus, in the outskirts of the Iranian city of Babol on April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Virus-hit Iran to reopen mosques for holy nights

By AFP

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett at his Yamina party's campaign headquarters in Ramat Gan on March 2, 2020. (Flash90)

PM said seeking Gantz’s okay for 36 ministers now, in bid to bring in Yamina

By Raoul Wootliff

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy during Super Bowl 51 at NRG Stadium on February 5, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images/AFP)

Tackling hungerPatriots owner Robert Kraft auctioning Super Bowl ring for charity

(Illustrative image of in vitro fertilization via Shutterstock)

As crisis ebbs, most women can again start IVF, though perhaps not complete it

By Judah Ari Gross

Screen capture from video of an interview with two of the first people in New York to become infected with the coronavirus, Lawrence Garbuz, right, and his wife Adina. (YouTube)

Jewish attorney, New York’s ‘patient zero,’ still doesn’t know how he got virus

By JTA and ToI Staff

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio attends a press conference after meeting with Satmar Jewish community leaders to denounce the hate crime attack in Jersey City, December 12, 2019 in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

NY mayor accused of stalling probe into city yeshivas for political reasons

Benjamin Balint. (Courtesy of the Sami Rohr Prize)

Benjamin Balint wins 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Kafka book

By JTA

Israeli sailor Amit Mendel, who was denied entry to Jamaica due to a coronavirus lockdown, undated, 2020. (Kan screenshot)

After six weeks afloat off coast, Israeli finally granted entry to Jamaica

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s attorney complains PM being prosecuted as if guilty of ‘Nazi’ crimes

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, on December 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Ombudsman turns down justice minister’s request for probe of state prosecution

Gamida Cell's lab manager Noga Goudsmid-Rosenheimer at work, July 16, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Cell therapy firm boosts odds for blood cancer patients as key trial succeeds

By Shoshanna Solomon

People walk past closed stores in the empty Mamilla Mall in Jerusalem, during a COVID-19 lockdown on March 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Large businesses threaten strike if NIS 6 billion in promised aid isn’t paid out

By Stuart Winer

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