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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 13, 2020

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Medics at the scene of a stabbing outside the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer on May 13, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Stabber shot dead near hospital, having pulled knife on doctor, in shopping mall

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Mustafa Yunes dies after stabbing guard at Sheba Medical Center; TV: He pulled knife in clinic, then in shopping center when told to wear mask, and third time when stopped at exit

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Jerusalem residence, May 13, 2020 (Kobi Gideon/PMO)

Visiting Israel, Pompeo calls for ‘progress’ on Trump peace plan, assails Iran

By Raphael Ahren

On whirlwind trip to Jerusalem, US secretary of state also takes a dig at China, says Israel ‘unlike some other countries’ doesn’t try to hide information on coronavirus pandemic

Illustrative: Annexation backers march in the West Bank south of Jerusalem on February 27, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/ Flash90)

Ahead of Pompeo trip, US official says annexation can wait until after July 1

A general view of the House of Lords chamber in session at the Houses of Parliament in London, September 5, 2016. (AFP/POOL/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK should answer Israeli annexation with harsh economic sanctions, MPs say

By Raphael Ahren

In this March 21, 2019 file photo, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman stand next to the dedication plaque at the US Embassy in Jerusalem. (Jim Young/Pool photo via AP, File)

US ambassador keeps away from Pompeo after experiencing respiratory symptoms

David Friedman has tested negative for COVID-19, US Embassy says, but has been advised not to be in proximity of US secretary of state during Israel visit in ‘abundance of caution’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lands in Israel for a one-day visit on May 13, 2020 (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

In Jerusalem, Pompeo says Iran trying to ‘foment terror’ during pandemic

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A view of the Sorek A Desalination Plant, November 22, 2018. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Israel said to tell US it’ll reassess China-linked firm’s desalination plant bid

Education Minister Rafi Peretz attends a Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, December 23, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PM said to offer Peretz Jerusalem ministry, settler oversight to split Yamina

Netanyahu, Jewish Home chief meet for last-minute coalition talks as premier tries to coax him into breaking off from New Right, National Union

8:30 pm

UN forecasts pandemic will shrink world economy by 3.2% this year
8:29 pm

Likud, UTJ parties sign off on coalition deal
8:15 pm

Haniyeh says no breakthrough on prisoner swap, threatens more kidnappings

Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police officers during the celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer on Mount Meron in northern Israel on May 12, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

317 ultra-Orthodox men freed after breaking into holy site, defying virus rules

By Michael Bachner

Hundreds clashed with police at northern Israel tomb at end of Lag B’Omer; 3 remain in custody on suspicion of assaulting officers; all suspects fined

Ultra Orthodox men clash with police officers during the celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer on Mt. Meron in northern Israel on May 12, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Fears of 2nd virus wave rise as 300 arrested in Meron; 2,000 gather in Jerusalem

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Footage from the FAA Facebook page shows Rabbi Yisrael Knopfler being arrested in Lakewood, New Jersey, May 11, 2020. (FAA/Facebook)

New Jersey rabbi arrested over Lag B’Omer gathering

Inside story

Slammed by COVID-19, ultra-Orthodox Jews try to understand what God hath wrought

Why would the heavenly power permit such evil? Posters see punishment for gossip and women’s immodesty; rabbis spy signs of messiah’s coming; others say they just don’t know

An ultra-Orthodox man, masked amid the COVID-19 crisis, gestures near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. April 19, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill area of London, January 17, 2015. (Rob Stothard/ Getty Images via JTA/ File)

Hundreds of UK Jews break virus rules with Lag B’Omer celebration

Swifts at the Western Wall (Amir Balaban/The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Migratory swifts put on ancient aerial show at a Western Wall emptied of people

Jerusalem Old City’s colony, populated each spring by birds arriving from Africa, dates back 2,000 years, is likely one of world’s oldest

Shira Koch Epstein

Bring your own shovel

We need our exhausted religious leadership to inspire transformations of our precious, but outmoded community structures that are suddenly unsustainable

A message from slain IDF soldier Amit Ben Ygal

Amit, you wrote of how you think about Israel’s fallen – now you are among them, and we will think of you, and remember a hero who died for his people and his country

Family and friends attend the funeral of IDF soldier Amit Ben-Ygal at the cemetery in the central city of Beer Yaakov, May 12, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

‘My son is a hero’: Hundreds attend funeral for soldier killed in West Bank raid

Father of Amit Ben-Ygal mourns loss of only son, saying ‘I don’t have anything else’; defense minister vows troops will ‘find the terrorist’ who perpetrated attack

Fresh clashes reported as troops raid West Bank town where soldier was killed

IDF arrests Palestinians living in building where brick thrown, killing soldier

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian teen killed in clashes with IDF amid uptick in West Bank violence

By Judah Ari Gross

Rabbi Michael Azoulay, second from right, reading the Torah with congregants at the synagogue of Neuilly-sur-Seine, a Paris suburb, Dec. 11, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Analysis

Emerging from lockdown, French Jews take stock of their ‘enormous losses’

At least 1,300 people who died of the novel coronavirus were given Jewish burials, making the community among the worst hit globally and deeply scarring the country’s 500,000 Jews

A protester carries a sign with the inscription 'We want our life back' during a demonstration in Stuttgart, Germany, against restrictions on social activity due to the coronavirus pandemic, May 9, 2020. (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

German Jews urge government to help stop anti-Semitic virus conspiracy theories

By Toby Axelrod

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein gives a press statement in the Knesset, January 12, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Knesset speaker Edelstein accepts PM’s offer to become health minister

Likud No. 2 will also join security cabinet; Netanyahu also set to meet ministers Israel Katz, Amir Ohana and Miri Regev to discuss their positions in new government

Likud’s Yariv Levin tapped as Knesset speaker in new government as Gantz resigns

After days of mudslinging, Bennett to meet PM in last-ditch coalition talks

By Raoul Wootliff

PM said to offer Education Ministry to Likud’s Steinitz, in blow to Yamina

Grounded El Al planes at Ben Gurion Airport on April 6, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90)

El Al chief entreats Netanyahu for lifeline, criticizes treasury’s loan offer

CEO Gonen Usishkin says Finance Ministry conditions for $400 million aid package, which hinge on far-reaching cost-cutting reforms, ‘will cause us to collapse’

An Israir flight seen taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, on March 24, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

‘Hotbed of bacteria’: Domestic flights to Eilat said full, flouting virus rules

Illustrative image of a man using a laptop computer. (iStock by Getty Images/ Suradech14)

Israeli startups freeze hiring, fire workers as coronavirus strikes – survey

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this file photo taken on September 7, 2017, tourists sunbathe at the beach in the resort town of Ayia Napa in southeastern Cyprus. (Florian Choblet/AFP)

Israel said aiming to resume travel with low-infection bloc in July

Plan would reportedly see flights to Greece and Cyprus initially, before expanding to other European countries that have managed to beat back virus

Israelis wear protective face masks as they enjoy the Tel Aviv port, amid increasingly eased restrictions designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, May 12, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel records just 13 new virus cases over 24-hour period, lowest since March

Illustrative: Gal Sade Knigsfild and Nofar Almakias pose for a picture with face masks before their wedding in Moshav Yashresh on April 6, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Wedding halls said set to open next week with 100-guest limit

Illustrative. Young American Jews participating in a Birthright event in Jerusalem. (Dudi Vaknin/ Flash90)

New US group seeks to ensure young Jewish donors keep giving to Jewish causes

By Eric Cortellessa

The Jewish Future Pledge calls on North American members of the faith to give 50% of charitable contributions in their estate plan to Jewish or Israel-related organizations

Signs showing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are taped to vehicles during a protest in Lansing, Michigan, April 15, 2020 (AP/Paul Sancya)

After historic surge in 2019, ADL says anti-Semitism now spreading amid pandemic

By Eric Cortellessa

The main entrance of the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver, in 2018. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Largest US Jewish coronavirus relief fund set to start giving out loans

Illustrative: A doctor checks a medical ventilator control panel while wearing protective clothing at the Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, March 16, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israeli doctors using ventilators on virus patients sparingly, but split on why

By Nathan Jeffay

Some experts maintain the machines can cause damage to a certain type of COVID-19 sufferers, while others say noninvasive measures were preferred all along

A couple wearing masks for protection against the spread of the coronavirus hold Israeli flags during a protest against the government, at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, May 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

‘It’s not over’: Top MDA medic warns Israelis won’t heed rules in 2nd virus wave

By Nathan Jeffay

Israeli 1st to 3rd graders return to school for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak in Jerusalem, May 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

15 cities reject Education Ministry part-time reopening plan for schools

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One of the graves at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery that bears a swastika. (Michael Field/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

US Veterans won’t strike swastikas from graves of German POWs

By JTA and ToI Staff

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a face mask, gestures as he speaks to supporters while arriving at a ministerial meeting at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 12, 2020. (Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images)

Brazil leader blasted for virus motto recalling Auschwitz’s ‘Arbeit macht frei’

By Marcus M. Gilban

Sorting of plastic waste. (BizTV screenshot)

Three waste-to-energy plants greenlighted for central Israel

In this March 7, 2020, file photo, a patient infected with the coronavirus is moved, at Baqiyatallah Al'Azam Hospital that is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, in Tehran, Iran. (Mohammad Hasan Zarifmanesh/Tasnim News Agency via AP, File)

Iran doctors reveal how regime sacrificed thousands to keep COVID-19 stats low

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Maria Branyas, 113, after recovering from COVID-19 at the Santa Maria del Tura care home in Olot, Spain, May 11, 2020. (Screenshot: YouTube)

No hospital neededSpain’s oldest woman, 113, overcomes COVID-19

By AFP

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Ghana jails 3 ex-government officials for spyware deal with Israel’s NSO Group

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

Illustrative: People walk in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on April 8, 2020. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Brooklyn rabbi arrested after police find 3 of his kids walking to store alone

22-year-old Ali Bashar covers his face as he arrives at a court in Wiesbaden, Germany, March 12, 2019. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP, Pool)

German court rejects Iraqi’s appeal over rape, murder of Jewish teen

By AP

Gabi Arnovitz (center) with David Suraqui (L) and Uriel Shuraki. (Courtesy)

Now in English, project teaches seniors new ways to keep in touch by smartphone

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