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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 14, 2020

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Members of the Harris County Sheriff's Honor Guard move the casket of Sgt. Raymond Scholwinski, who died after contracting COVID-19, during a funeral service, May 14, 2020, in Humble, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Live updates (closed)

Global coronavirus death toll passes 300,000

Almost 4,500,000 confirmed infections in 196 countries; United States worst hit with 85,000 deaths

8:31 pm

No breakthrough in Peretz-Netanyahu talks
7:49 pm

More than 300,000 COVID-19 fatalities worldwide
6:47 pm

Chefs meets with Health Ministry officials to chew over restaurant closures

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)

Israel set to swear in biggest government, after longest political deadlock

Knesset ceremony Thursday evening will install first fully functioning government since December 2018; will have the largest cabinet in history with 36 ministers

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)

Netanyahu officially announces he’s formed new government

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on March 26, 2020. (Knesset)

Israel media reviewBy the ministers, for the ministers, of the ministers: 6 things for May 14

By Joshua Davidovich

The scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in the southern West Bank on May 14, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier hurt in suspected car-ramming in southern West Bank; driver shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

Serviceman in moderate-to-serious condition after being struck by vehicle in Hebron Hills amid uptick in West Bank violence

Israeli troops interrogate a Palestinian man as part of a manhunt for the person who threw a brick at Sgt. First Class Amit Ben-Ygal, killing him, in the West Bank village of Yabed on May 13, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF believes it may have caught soldier’s killer, but case remains open

By Judah Ari Gross

Op-ed

2nd among equals: In new Israeli coalition, Gantz serves at Netanyahu’s pleasure

The man who said Netanyahu was destroying the country now sits alongside him, with no defining influence on the fateful issue of annexation, his future vulnerable to the PM’s whim

Then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony held in honor of Gantz's replacement, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 16, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Full text: Policy principles of Israel’s 35th government

As government set to be sworn in, Gantz doles out ministries

Gabi Ashkenazi: Former Israeli army chief turns top diplomat

By AFP and ToI Staff

Then Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Yamina’s Peretz splits party to join government, but posting still up in the air

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

As the rest of the Bennett-led alliance heads to opposition, outgoing education minister cuts deal with Netanyahu, drawing ire of his party colleagues

Gesher’s Levy-Abekasis joins coalition, to head newly created ministry

Netanyahu said to offer Miri Regev Foreign Ministry when Gantz takes premiership

Netanyahu, Bennett fail to reach agreement for Yamina to join new coalition

El Al planes at the Ben Gurion International Airport, April 12, 2020. (Flash90)

El Al issues ‘going concern’ warning as losses pile up

National carrier says 90% of its staff laid off, and if government doesn’t step in, it will no longer be able to function

Illustrative: A man walks past a closed branch of the Castro fashion chain in downtown Jerusalem on April 26, 2020. Most stores were allowed to reopen, but many major chains stayed shut, with their owners demanding government compensation for lost business amid the COVID-19 crisis (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coronavirus could shut 70,000 Israeli businesses this year, report warns

By Shoshanna Solomon

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)

Transportation and health ministries clash over train openings next week

Pompeo: New government has ‘right and obligation’ to decide if and how to annex

By Raphael Ahren

Wrapping up brief visit to Israel, US secretary of state says both Netanyahu and Gantz believe ‘thoughtful and pragmatic’ Trump peace plan is ‘basis on which we can move forward’

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

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on a video from Israel to the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

AIPAC: Don’t let annexation weaken ‘vital’ US-Israel relationship

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

Pompeo didn’t fly ‘halfway around the world to talk annexation’ – US official

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Black Jewish Lives matter too: COVID-19 and Ethiopian Jewry

14,000 Beta Israel await aliyah in a poverty-stricken country where millions are expected to contract the virus. Israel’s silence is deafening

Ilana Spitz Epstein

Zaftig: (of a woman) having a full, rounded figure; plump

After a lifetime of sneaking sweets and feeling shame, I’ve figured things out. Can we rescue our daughters from this obsession with weight?

Read your lips? It’s not possible when you wear a mask

Adaptations such as Zoom conferencing for coping with coronavirus often leave out those with disabilities. As a society, we must do better

Shmuly Yanklowitz

What will we be asked at the gates of heaven?

Whatever the questions may be, we should ask them of ourselves, not at the end of life, but at the end of each day

Israelis at the beach in Tel Aviv flouting the rules aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus. May 12, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel’s active virus cases dip below 4,000 amid fears of second wave

28 new COVID-19 infections recorded in 24 hours; no deaths reported since Wednesday

Dozens gather when police arrive to disperse a gathering in contravention of coronavirus regulations at synagogue in Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim, May 15, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)

Ultra-Orthodox clash with police outside Jerusalem synagogue, 8 arrested

Israeli children wearing face masks make their way to school in Moshav Yashresh, on May 3, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israeli schools are reopening, but fears and confusion keep many kids at home

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit holds a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, announcing his decision that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will stand trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three corruption cases, November 21, 2019. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Police question two over threats against attorney general

Lawyer for suspect says client was involved in ‘legitimate criticism’; Ya’alon places blame on ‘messengers’ of Netanyahu

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends an event at the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG who indicted Netanyahu gets death threats, files police complaint

Justice Minister Amir Ohana speaks at a ceremony at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, February 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police brass said concerned over Ohana appointment as public security minister

Author David Rakoff during an interview in Toronto, 2010 (Frank Gunn/AP Photo/The Canadian Press)

Locked down? Open up to… David Rakoff’s defensively pessimistic wit

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Brothers Alexander Feingold, left, and Joseph Feingold look at photo of themselves as boys in Joseph's apartment in New York on June 8, 2015 (Raphaela Neihausen via AP)

Virus stops final goodbye for Holocaust survivor brothers who died weeks apart

By Vanessa Gera and Randy Herschaft

Polish-born Joe Feingold, 97, died of COVID-19 complications at New York hospital where Alex, 95, succumbed to pneumonia a month earlier

‘New normals’ imagined, tested as virus restrictions relaxed across globe

By Elaine Kurtenbach

US immunologist warns of ‘darkest winter in modern history’ if virus rebounds

By Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

EU: Virus vaccine could be ready by early 2021 ‘in best-case scenario’

This photo released by ImageSat International on May 13, 2020, shows apparent construction on an underground weapons storage facility on a military base suspected of being controlled by Iran in eastern Syria's al-Bukamal region. (ImageSat International)

Satellite images appear to show Iran building new weapons storehouse in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Contradicting senior Israeli defense official’s claim of Iranian withdrawal, fresh photographs seem to indicate Tehran establishing underground facility to hold advanced munitions

In this photo released on April 22, 2020, by Sepahnews, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province. (Sepahnews via AP)

US accuses Iran of defying UN nuclear deal resolution

By Edith M. Lederer

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, November 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Nasrallah: Israeli strikes won’t push Iran out of Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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Israeli citizens arrive back at Ben Gurion Airport after travelling home from Morocco amid the coronavirus pandemic (Screen grab/Twitter)

Israelis arrive from Morocco after weeks of delay said caused by diplomatic spat

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

An Israeli F-16 of the 117th Squadron takes off at Ramat David Airbase. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

IDF to shutter F-16 fighter jet squadron, making room for new aircraft

By Judah Ari Gross

The Meet a Jew project brings Jewish volunteers into classrooms to talk about their experiences. (Courtesy of Meet a Jew)

Real live JewsCentral Council of Jews in Germany launches ‘Meet A Jew’ project

The outdoor areas of the Tower of David Museum at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City make it a easier to visit during the restrictions necessitated by the 2020 coronavirus (Courtesy Tower of David Museum)

Royal hospitalityJerusalem Day contest offers a night at the Tower of David museum

By Jessica Steinberg

Dead and dying krill washed up on a beach in Eilat for reasons that remain unclear, May 13, 2020. (Omri Yossef Omessi, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Marine mysterySwarms of dead, dying krill sweep up onto Eilat beach

From 'A Walk With Mr. Heifetz,' the 2018 Off-Broadway play written by James Inverne that is now available as an audio recording (Courtesy A Walk With Mr. Heifetz)

Sponsored contentOff-Broadway play about pre-state Palestine goes online

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, welcomes Israel's then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside Downing Street in London, September 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

From our partner38 UK Jewish leaders want their umbrella group to condemn Israel annexation plan

Award winning Chef Michael Solomonov, left, works the oven and the line at his restaurant Zahav in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 14, 2015. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via JTA)

Virtual noshSolomonov, Nathan join first Great Big Jewish Food Fest online

Two Israeli women arrive in Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 15, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

Portugal’s ruling party looks to limit Jewish law of return policy

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

With hope fading and regulations tightening, more US Jewish camps set to cancel

In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, the south side of the Pentagon burns (AP Photo/Tom Horan, File)

FBI accidentally names Saudi embassy official linked to 9/11 terrorists

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers seen at the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, on May 10, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Recently discharged ‘lone soldiers’ to receive NIS 4,000 coronavirus grant

By Judah Ari Gross

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