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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 17, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks into the Knesset after presenting the 35th government of Israel to the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

Israel finally gets a gov’t; Netanyahu promises to hand over power Nov. 17, 2021

PM says new coalition will focus on fighting coronavirus, reviving economy, combating Iran, fending off ICC, and annexing parts of West Bank

8:18 pm

Falafel seller who became symbol of virus's economic toll suffers heart attack
8:10 pm

Outgoing health minister accuses director of fear-mongering on virus
7:22 pm

Incoming Defense Minister Gantz meets IDF chief

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presenting the 35th government of Israel to the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (Knesset/Kobi Gideon)

Gantz: Period of government of 'half the people' is over

Netanyahu, Gantz hail end to political crisis as they present 35th government

By Michael Bachner

PM vows to bring budget of ‘hope,’ promote annexation; defending himself from heckling by former allies, Gantz says alternative to coalition was ‘a kind of civil war’

Likud MKs Tzipi Hotovely (L) and Tzachi Hanegbi at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on July 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM announces 19 ministers from his bloc, despite coalition deal handing it 18

MKs vote one by one in the Knesset plenary to form committees on March 24, 2020. (Adina Veldman/Knesset)

The ministers of Israel’s 35th government

Op-ed

Exploiting, not serving, the people: Israel’s shamefully inflated new government

Ben-Gurion managed with 12 ministers in Israel’s first coalition. Now we are to have 35, some overseeing patently absurd, illogical portfolios, at a time of economic meltdown

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on May 17, 2020, as their new coalition was sworn in. (Knesset)

Netanyahu doles out final posts, with government set to be sworn in

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

17 months without government: How Israel finally got a coalition

Israel media reviewTill political crisis do us part: 6 things to know for May 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Chinese Ambassador to Israel Du Wei (R) meeting with Israeli Foreign Ministry Deputy Director-General for Asia and the Pacific Gilad Cohen, March 23, 2020. (MFA)

Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead at Herzliya residence

Foreign Ministry confirms death of 57-year-old Du Wei; may have died of cardiac arrest; police at scene; death comes at delicate time for Israel-China relations

From the blogs

Daniel B. Shapiro

Democrats’ stand on annexation poses a dilemma for Israel

Not only because Joe Biden may soon sit in the White House, but because his party’s opposition to a unilateral move is rooted in bipartisan support for Israel

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell addresses a video press conference at the conclusion of a video conference of EU foreign affairs ministers in Brussels, April 22, 2020. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

EU says will work to ‘discourage’ any Israeli annexation initiative

From left to right: Yamina party members Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked, Bezalel Smotrich and Rafi Peretz at an event in the Elkana settlement on August 21, 2019. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Escaping Netanyahu’s shadow, Yamina treks to opposition in search of power

A new and coherent opposition coalesces on Netanyahu’s right as he enters into a unity government with centrist Blue and White

The 36 members of this bloated government full of superfluous ministries got their jobs by swearing fidelity to Benjamin Netanyahu

Alas, poor El Al – my granddad named it

The venerable state enterprise established by the founders may not deserve a bailout, but who will extricate Israelis in the next emergency?

The Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamedan, Iran. (CC BY-SA Philippe Chavin/Wikipedia)

Iran officials confirm ‘minor damage’ by fire at Tomb of Mordechai and Esther

Regime-controlled website publishes — then deletes — report that a person was seen in CCTV footage trying, and failing, to torch Jewish holy site right after Israel’s anniversary

Israeli students and teachers wear protective face masks as they return to school, at Hashalom School in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, May 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

More students return to school as education system set to kick into full gear

Daycare, kindergarten, grades 1-3, 11-12 resume full studies in most of country; grades 4-10 to return over next 2 days; officials urge rethinking face masks, currently obligatory

A group of friends celebrate a birthday with champagne at a beach in Marseille, southern France, May 16, 2020 (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Speech droplets that linger in air up to 14 minutes may spread virus — study

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

Tourists and locals partying at Tel Aviv's Shpagat bar in Tel Aviv, one of the oldest gay bars in the city (Courtesy)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

For struggling Tel Aviv establishments, reopening is only half the battle

A chef, bar owners and Israeli fashion store founder speak to The Times of Israel about how they are coping with shutdowns and the country’s slow return from the deadly pandemic

People wear protective facemasks in Tel Aviv, on April 28, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Defying virus regulations, some eateries open doors to public

Spanish UN peacekeepers patrol along the Lebanese-Israeli border, September 2, 2019 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Man crosses border from Lebanon, is shot by Israeli troops

By Judah Ari Gross

Suspect flown to hospital after entering Israeli territory for as yet unknown reasons, military says

Illustrative. Soldiers climb a rope on the Israeli Navy's Haifa Base on June 19, 2013. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF cancels all ground exercises amid crushing heat wave

By Judah Ari Gross

Theater artists protesting in Tel Aviv, April 12, 2020, demanding the government address their needs during the coronavirus pandemic(Courtesy EVE)

When the stage shuts down, is all the world a screen?

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

People walk backdropped by a banner showing victims executed by hanging in 1945 by the pro-Nazi Croatian WWII Ustasha regime in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on May 16, 2020. (AP/Kemal Softic)

Thousands in Sarajevo protest against Mass for Nazi collaborators

By AP

Yair Avidan takes up his post as Supervisor of Banks at the Bank of Israel on May 17, 2020 (Courtesy)

Yair Avidan takes post as supervisor of banks at Bank of Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

A BDS protest against Israel in Barcelona, Spain, June 2014. (YouTube screenshot)

Spanish state hires BDS group accused of anti-Semitism to ‘teach against hate’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Teva's global headquarters in Petah Tikva, Israel. (Sivan Faraj via Teva's Corporate Communications)

Teva said to ‘walk away’ from settlement talks in US price-fixing lawsuit

Illustrative: Police and medical personnel at the scene of a suspected murder-suicide in Petah Tikva on January 17, 2020. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Ramat Gan man suspected of choking girlfriend to death, stabbing mother

A discarded mask lays on the ground in Lima, near to where people wait to register in a list to return to their home province of Abancay, Peru, April 23, 2020 (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The great coverupFrom producer to wearer — lifecycle of the humble face mask

By Julien Girault and Marie-Morgane LE MOEL

German Chancellor Angela Merkel answers the questions of deputies at Bundestag in Berlin, Germany on December 18, 2019. (Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images via JTA)

Germany relaxes immigration rules for Jews from former Soviet Union

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

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