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What Matters Most On Friday, May 15, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, during the former's surprise visit to Amman on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Palace/File)

Jordan’s king warns of ‘massive conflict’ if Israel annexes land in West Bank

Abdullah does not rule out suspending peace deal with the Jewish state, insists two-state solution ‘the only way forward’

Punitive action: EU ministers review responses to Israel annexation in West Bank

Congressional letters urge Pompeo to protect Israel from ICC

EU parliament passes resolution condemning hate speech in Palestinian textbooks

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Head of the Defense and the then Foreign Affairs Committee MK Avi Dichter in the Knesset, March 8, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition swearing-in pushed to Sunday as spurned Likud MKs turn on Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid

Mini-rebellion as PM struggles to divvy out limited number of portfolios to senior lawmakers in his own party; Gantz finds out about ‘request’ for delay from media

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waiting for government ministers to join him before a special cabinet meeting for Jerusalem Day in Jerusalem, June 2, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Israel media reviewMinistry on the Bounty: 6 things to know for May 15

By Joshua Davidovich

AnalysisDistrust, discord, delay: Israel’s 35th Government is off to a bad (non-)start

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Keren Terner Eyal, then-director general of the Transportation Ministry, attends a hearing at the Knesset, on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Incoming transportation minister Regev fires director on maternity leave

Likud MK calls ministry chief to inform her of replacement with new government about to come in; labor lawyer calls move illegal

Then-foreign minister Israel Katz at a Likud election campaign stop in Jerusalem, September 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM appoints Katz finance minister, ‘right man’ to lead Israel out of crisis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) talks with then-coalition chairman MK David Amsalem during a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu ally Amsalem appointed minister in charge of liaising with Knesset

3D render of the coronavirus. (Naeblys via iStock)

Israeli scientists think they know why virus is severe for some, mild for others

By Nathan Jeffay

Hoping to point way to drug therapy, Weizmann team says it found cells called in to fight coronavirus in lungs may actually worsen disease, sparking ‘storm’ that can lead to death

Lital Kremer, pictured a few weeks before she gave birth on April 23, 2020 (Stav Blank)

Life goes on: How childbirth, other women’s health concerns, fare amid COVID-19

By Elisheva Stern

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)

Cabinet approves events for up to 50 people in open spaces

As new virus cases remain low, government says venues can once against host events, so long as distancing and hygiene are maintained

Doctors at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center treat a patient in the coronavirus unit, May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Active virus cases continue to drop; overnight death brings toll to 266

People walk and shop at the Mamilla Mall near Jerusalem's Old City on May 14, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel completes week with fewer than 50 daily coronavirus infections

TOI investigates

Vladimir Ivanidze, Simona Weinglass and Natalie Gryvnyak

How an Israeli intel firm allegedly harassed pro-democracy activists in Ukraine

In allegedly targeting Ukrainian reformers, Psy-Group served Russian interests, raising troubling questions about who a firm staffed by ex-Israeli intel officers was working for

AntAC founder Vitaliy Shabunin was attacked with green antisepitic dye and pelted with pies during an anti-graft protest in Ukraine on July 17, 2018 )Photo Vyacheslav Ratynskyi / UNIAN)

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

Almost all Israeli kids to return to school Sunday as education system reopens

PM okays resumption of full operations, with health precautions, for areas that weren’t virus hotspots; plan still requires cabinet approval

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

Israel’s beaches to reopen next Wednesday, interior minister announces

Magen David Adom staff performing coronavirus testing (Photo: Magen David Adom Israel)

Some Israeli clinics said to start using new, quick ultrasound coronavirus test

Ilana Goldstein Saks

Sabbatical in the fifth year

The idea of rebooting our rushed, overworked society seemed unattainable: how could we just stop, so the earth could rest and heal? Now we know we can

The Trump scandals, season finale

With the exoneration of Gen. Michael Flynn, we’ll be seeing a rehash of the Jewish and Middle East related subplots from 2017

Alabama teenagers draw a swastika on a boy's back in a social media video, May 2020. (Screenshot/YouTube, Al.com)

Video shows Alabama teens drawing swastikas on boy’s back

Birmingham school district condemns students’ social media post, launches investigation

An ad for the "camp shirt" from Gap. (Screenshot from Facebook via JTA)

Gap sells ‘camp shirt’ that resembles Auschwitz uniform

A Spanish flag shown near Estremera, in Madrid province, December 19, 2018. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images/via JTA)

Spain gives Sephardic Jews extra time for citizenship suits due to pandemic

By AP

In this January 26, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, members of a military medical team head for Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. (Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP)

China says US attacks on its investment in Israel, virus record are ‘absurd’

Embassy in Tel Aviv fires back after Pompeo accuses Asian nation of lack of trade transparency, responsibility for spread of COVID-19

US Senator Ted Cruz (Republican of Texas) during a break in the Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump, January 23, 2020 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Senate legislation would expand COVID-19 medical projects with Israel

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on May 14, 2020 shows recent portraits of China's President Xi Jinping (R) and US President Donald Trump. (Jim WATSON and PETER KLAUNZER / various sources / AFP)

Trump threatens China ties, says he’s in no mood for talks with Xi

By Jerome Cartillier

Illustrative: Swedish Rabbi Ute Steyer has been leading services for Stockholm’s Jews on Zoom during the pandemic. (Courtesy/Steyer via JTA)

Their own lockdown: Sweden’s Jews cope with country’s lax coronavirus policy

By Josefin Dolsten

Naftali Bennett (L), Ayelet Shaked (R) and Bezalel Smotrich (C) of the Yamina party hold a press conference in Jerusalem on May 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett, left out of government, accuses Netanyahu of ‘surrendering to the left’

National religious alliance head claims Netanyahu only wants ‘weak’ coalition partners; Likud claims Bennett dragging party to opposition because he wasn’t named health minister

Rafi Peretz, then-leader of the Jewish Home party, in Petah Tikva, February 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Rafi Peretz inks deal with Netanyahu to enter government as Jerusalem minister

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) seen with MK Amir Ohana at a Likud party meeting in the Knesset on January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu names loyalist Ohana to public security post, despite police concerns

An installation of the Lebanese agricultural NGO 'Green Without Borders' that the IDF says serves as an observation outpost for Hezbollah on the Israeli-Lebanese border, publicized on June 22, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Lebanese environmental group helping Hezbollah’s military wing – US think tank

By Judah Ari Gross

Washington Institute backs Israeli claim that ‘Green Without Borders’ is a front that let the Iran-backed terror organization use its sites for September 1 attack on IDF

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Illustrative: BDS supporters in New York, October 2015. (BDS Facebook page via JTA)

Missouri lawmakers pass bill against boycotting Israel

By Summer Ballentine

Philanthropist Bill Gates speaks at the closing of the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Montreal, Quebec, September 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Geoff Robins)

New US Jewish donation pledge takes a page from Gates and Buffett initiative

Baruch Ben-Ygal, the father of Sgt. Amit Ben-Ygal, and other family and friends mourn at the slain soldier's funeral in Beer Yaakov cemetery, May 12, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Australian mourns slain soldier whose dad saved his life at ’97 Maccabiah Games

By JTA

Kids play softball at Camp Ramah in California (Courtesy of Ramah in California)

Jewish Ramah summer camps anticipate budget shortfall of $27 million this year

Illustrative: Border Police carry away a member of the "hilltop youth" during an evacuation of an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank. (Credit: Zman Emet, Kan 11)

Hilltop youth accused of attacking troops with beehive during outpost demolition

There are at least eight cannabis-growing companies operating in Israel, along with several others involved in production, marketing and distribution. (Eyal Basson/ Health Ministry)

Israel gives final okay for export of medical cannabis

By JTA

Surrogate babies stranded at a Kyiv hotel owned by the BioTexCom clinic (YouTube screenshot)

Lockdown strands 100 surrogate babies in Ukraine, bound for Europe and Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Imre van Opstal, a Batsheva dancer, in a video recorded along with her siblings who are also dancers, each in a spot in nature, as part of the Batsheva Creates Online Festival (Courtesy Imre van Opstal)

Home studioBatsheva dancers bring new creations online

By Jessica Steinberg

Police and Magen David Adom vehicles at the scene of a suspected murder in Holon, April 28, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Man indicted for murdering his wife in front of children over ‘cup of coffee’

This undated family photo shows David Toren, who died on April 19, 2020 in his Manhattan home from symptoms of the coronavirus at the age of 94. (Peter Toren via AP)

Lives Lost: Holocaust survivor reclaimed Nazi-looted artwork

Silvia Romano, escorted by Carabinieri officers, arrives at her home wearing the green hijab typical of Somali Muslim women and a surgical mask to guard against COVID-19, in Milan, Italy, May 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File )

Italian lawmaker sorry for calling hostage who converted to Islam a ‘terrorist’

By Nicole Winfield

Illustrative: A Torah reading at Adas Israel Congregation, a Conservative synagogue in Washington. (Courtesy Adas Israel)

Conservative movement allows livestreaming on Shabbat, holidays during pandemic

By Josefin Dolsten

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