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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 16, 2020

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Jewish Iranian woman praying at the tomb of Mordechai and Esther. (Shutterstock)

Outcry as Tomb of Mordechai and Esther in Iran reportedly set ablaze

Defying COVID-19 restrictions, Israelis enjoyed the beach in Tel Aviv, as temperatures rose to 40 degrees in some parts of the country, May 16, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Beaches packed despite virus regulations as Israel swelters under heatwave

With mercury closing in on 40°C, thousands cool off in the sea despite official closure; revelers crowd into parks, plazas instead of bars with little interference from the police

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

Active virus cases continue to drop; death toll reaches 268

Illustrative: Israeli 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)

Teacher in Rehovot has COVID-19; 52 students sent to isolation, school shut

Illustrative -- Children and their teachers as they return to kindergarten in Tel Aviv on May 10, 2020 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

3 Israeli kids said affected by inflammatory disease thought linked to virus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

They have reportedly recovered; report comes day ahead of Israel fully reopening education system and after 9-year-old in France succumbs to condition

A health worker draws blood from a patient for a COVID-19 antibody test at the Volusia County Fairgrounds in DeLand, Florida, on May 5, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Small US firm’s shares soar as it hails breakthrough on ‘100%’ COVID-19 antibody

Illustrative: A medical worker pulls a patient from an ambulance in a hospital in Rennes, western France April 1, 2020. (AP/David Vincent)

Child dies in France from rare inflammatory disease linked to coronavirus

By AFP

Illustrative. Israeli soldiers take part in operations in the West Bank. (Israel Defense Forces)

3 Palestinians attempt attack on army post near Jerusalem, are hit by IDF fire

No injuries to Israeli soldiers in incident in Abu Dis; comes amid heightened tensions in West Bank following killing of infantryman on Tuesday

A Palestinian confronts IDF soldiers during a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank village of al-Sawiya on May 15, 2020, as Palestinians mark Nakba Day, or the 'catastrophe' of the displacement of Palestinians in the war during Israel's founding. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Officials said to warn PA’s economic woes amid pandemic could fuel violence

US State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, June 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

State Department: Annexation should be part of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

By Raphael Ahren

After Jordan’s king warns against Israel extending sovereignty in West Bank, spokesperson Morgan Ortagus cites importance of bringing ‘all parties to the table’ for negotiations

Palestinians burn a cardboard cutout of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a protest against his visit to Israel, on May 14, 2020, in the West Bank city of Nablus. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Palestinians burn Pompeo effigy to protest his visit to Israel, US peace plan

US State Department Inspector General Steve Linick leaves a meeting in a secure area at the Capitol where he met with Senate staff about the State Department and Ukraine, in Washington, Oct. 2, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump fires State Department watchdog said to have started probe into Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the coronavirus during news conference at the State Department in Washington, May 6, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

Pompeo warns ICC of ‘consequences’ for potential war crimes probe of Israel

US secretary stresses, ‘We do not believe the Palestinians qualify as a sovereign state,’ issues warning if court continues ‘illegitimate’ investigations

US President Donald Trump stands as Chief of Space Operations at US Space Force Gen. John Raymond, second from left, and Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, second from right, hold the United States Space Force flag as it is presented in the Oval Office of the White House, May 15, 2020, in Washington. Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett stands far left. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says US developing a ‘super duper missile’

By AP

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

As possibility of West Bank annexation looms, Democrats mull how to sway Israel

While party is unified in opposition to Israel extending sovereignty to settlements and Jordan Valley, it’s splintered over how harsh the response should be if Netanyahu goes ahead

Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden speaks during the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner, February 8, 2020, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants a tree during an event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yeriho, in the Jordan Valley, February 10, 2020. (Flash90)

EU to launch diplomatic push to get Israel to ditch West Bank annexation

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud MK Nir Barkat (R) at a campaign event in Tel Aviv on February 16, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

With portfolios running out, two top Likud MKs said vying for Education Ministry

Nir Barkat and Yoav Galant reportedly scrapping over job, with loser unlikely to get senior position; PM hoping to finish allocating portfolios by Saturday night

Likud MK Haim Katz during a Knesset House Committee discussion of his request for parliamentary immunity, February 4, 2020. (Adina Veldman/Knesset)

Former Likud minister Haim Katz said questioned for suspected tax offenses

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

Firefighters at the scene of a blaze near Moshav Tslafon, May 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Homes evacuated as forest fire burns near Beit Shemesh amid heatwave

Residents of nearby community of Tslafon told to leave their homes; firefighting plane deployed to help control flames

Coronavirus and the Jewish space/time continuum

I miss shul and the JCC, and Havdalah via Zoom just isn’t the same; it’s as if someone hit an enormous pause button for Jewish life with no plans of releasing it any time soon

Science has undermined 58 different metaphorical functions of the body’s main organ that are implied by various biblical verses – but it is worth it

A scene from the film 'Abe.' (Courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment)

Recipe inside

Locked down? Open up to… food uniting a Jewish-Palestinian family in ‘Abe’

By Gerri Miller

A Hasidic man prays on his balcony in a Brooklyn neighborhood on April 25, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

US Orthodox rabbis split over resuming communal prayer amid virus fears

Divisions over safety of restarting services have resulted in ‘rogue’ minyans and, in many places, a free-for-all with each synagogue deciding its own path forward

Jewish men pray while social distancing outside a closed synagogue in the coastal city of Netanya, April 23, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Update: How COVID-19 is hitting Jewish communities around the world

By Uriel Heilman

Frame drummer and flutist Marla Leigh Goldstein came to Israel from California in November 2019 to film the video for her debut album, 'Tof Miriam,' on the dunes of the Negev Desert (Courtesy Marla Leigh Goldstein)

A California frame drummer finds inspiration and her debut album in the Negev

By Jessica Steinberg

Designer Yoav Gati makes doodles out of discarded gloves. (Courtesy of Yoav Gati/ via JTA)

How Tel Aviv creatives made art out of the COVID-19 crisis

By Karen Chernick

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Illustrative: Police at the scene of a shooting incident. February 28, 2017. (Flash90)

2 police officers shot in central Israel; one of them seriously injured

llustrative: A security officer at the State House in Augusta, Maine, July 13, 2011. (AP/Pat Wellenbach)

Maine trooper claims police illegally surveilled US camp for Israeli, Arab teens

Mireille Knoll, 85, a Holocaust survivor who was found murdered in her Paris apartment (Courtesy)

Paris prosecutors say murder of Holocaust survivor was anti-Semitic

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Bartenura Moscato wine in a can (Courtesy from JTA)

Can you believe it?Kosher wine sold in a can, bubbles and all

By Shannon Sarna

The campus of George Washington University is seen as classes were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, in Washington, DC, May 7, 2020. (SAUL LOEB/AFP)

George Washington University stands by appointment of interim dean who backs BDS

Alaska lawmaker Ben Carpenter in a 2018 campaign video. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Alaska lawmaker likens virus screening stickers to Nazi-era Stars of David

By BECKY BOHRER

A new version of the iconic Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah” performed in English, Hebrew and Arabic is released as part of a benefit supporting United Hatzalah (Screen grab/YouTube)

A shot in the arm‘Hallelujah’ sung in English, Hebrew, Arabic to raise money for United Hatzalah

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

Wasserman Schultz calls for removal of Nazi tombstones in US military cemeteries

Illustrative: An explosion seen near the city of Homs in Syria attributed to Israeli airstrikes on March 5, 2020 (video screen capture)

Syrian state media reports explosion in northern city of Aleppo

A sign shows at St. James Catholic Parish during the coronavirus pandemic in Arlington Heights, Ill., Thursday, May 14, 2020. The Archdiocese of Chicago, as well as other Catholic dioceses throughout the state announced phased plans to begin reopening Catholic churches, starting in Chicago with small gatherings for baptisms, weddings, funerals and confession as early as May 23. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Poll: US believers see message of change from God in virus

By ELANA SCHOR and HANNAH FINGERHUT

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