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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 19, 2020

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The Shahid Rajaee port facility in the Iranian coastal city of Bandar Abbas. (Iran Ports and Maritime Organization)

Western official: Iran crossed a line; Israel hit back

Israel behind cyberattack that caused ‘total disarray’ at Iran port – report

Israel mum as Washington Post cites officials saying Jerusalem carried out ‘highly accurate’ hack, apparently in retaliation for Iran attempt to target Israeli water infrastructure

AnalysisCyberattack on port suggests Israeli tit-for-tat strategy, shows Iran vulnerable

By Judah Ari Gross

6 facilities said hit in Iran’s cyberattack on Israel’s water system in April

Israel media reviewInfect the port, disinfect the beach: 6 things to know for May 19

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 7, 2020. (Nasser Nasser/Pool/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas: PA no longer bound by agreements with Israel, including on security

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

In meeting on annexation, Palestinian leader says Israel must now ‘shoulder all responsibilities and obligations in front of the international community as an occupying power’

8:31 pm

Abbas says PA no longer bound by Oslo agreements, security coordination with Israel
8:22 pm

Iran's supreme leader says UAE flight to Israel 'the biggest treachery'
8:16 pm

As pandemic set in, Orthodox Union furloughed a quarter of its staff

Dr. Barak Monnickendam-Givon at the excavations under Beit Straus in Jerusalem's Old City, near the Western Wall, May 2020. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Living underground before the Romans? 2,000-year-old rooms found by Western Wall

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

New Defense Minister Benny Gantz (R) and outgoing Defense Minister Naftali Bennett bump elbows at a passing of the baton ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2020. (Oded Karni/GPO)

Taking Defense Ministry, Gantz says will promote all aspects of Trump peace plan

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

At handover ceremony, Blue and White leader does not mention annexation of West Bank areas, says he plans multi-year program for military to face current, future, challenges

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Israeli envoy said trying to get US okay for swift annexation: ‘Biden could win’

Then deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 29, 2016, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria. (AP Photo/ Jose Luis Magana)

In contrast to Obama, aide says Biden would keep disputes with Israel private

By Eric Cortellessa

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)

After EU’s warnings against annexation, Israel slams ‘megaphone diplomacy’

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Ministry takes issue with Josep Borrell, whose congratulatory message on new government expressed ‘grave concern’ at annexation but ignored security threats Israel faces

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell listens during a press conference after a meeting in Belgrade, Serbia, January 31, 2020. (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

EU says it won’t recognize unilateral Israeli annexation in West Bank

A man walks past the Dome of the Rock, in the Temple Mount compound, in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 16, 2020. (Emmanuel DUNAND/AFP)

Temple Mount to reopen next week after 2-month closure, Waqf announces

As coronavirus outbreak abates in Israel and West Bank, administrators of holy site say worshipers will return after Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray outside a closed yeshiva in Bnei Brak on March 26, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Chief rabbi demands immediate reopening of synagogues, says closure ‘baffling’

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

New fatality takes Israel’s COVID-19 death toll to 277

Moderna’s Israeli top medical officer: We’ve shown today that our vaccine works

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US biotech firm’s shares soar as it claims tests of first volunteers show its vaccine candidate produces immune response, ‘has potential to prevent COVID-19’; Phase 3 tests in July

This picture taken on May 14, 2020, shows researchers at Peking University's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics conducting tests at their laboratory in Beijing. (Wang Zhao/AFP)

Scientists in China believe new drug can stop pandemic ‘without vaccine’

By Qian Ye and Matthew Knight

In this May 8, 2020, file photo, a team of medical workers wearing respirators and protective gear ready to enter the room of a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center, in Seattle. (AP/Elaine Thompson, File)

FDA okays Israeli company’s AI to detect coronavirus in CT scans

By Nathan Jeffay

Diana Barshaw Rich

The gross underestimation of older people and their ability to determine their own fates was strong in Israel long before COVID-19

The foreign media is not anti-Israel

Most correspondents stationed here accept the country’s right to exist; what they don’t accept is Israel’s occupation of the West Bank

Raise a glass to the daring captors of May 1960

Those who brought Adolf Eichmann to justice reflected the ’can-do’ attitude the prevailed in the deprivations of pre-’67 Israel

A unilateral West Bank land grab would imperil Israel

The imposition of West Bank annexation without Palestinian consent would set a precedent that could damage Israel’s long-term interests

US President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves a meeting with restaurant industry executives about the coronavirus response, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, May 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says taking malaria drug against virus, seemingly after Jewish MD’s letter

By ToI Staff and AP

President says drug recommended to him by NY doctor, apparently Vladimir ‘Zev’ Zelenko, who claims he’s treated hundreds of COVID-19 patients. FDA has warned of fatal side effects

WHO bows to calls from countries for independent virus probe

By Jamey Keaten and Maria Cheng

Israel backs international push for independent probe of COVID-19’s origin

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Trump threatens permanent freeze on WHO funding in 30 days

By AFP

Relatives of a New York woman who died of COVID-19 arrive with her body at Ben Gurion Airport in a private jet, May 19, 2020. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

NY family flies virus victim’s body to Israel in private jet, holds mass funeral

TV report: 7 relatives flew in 70-year-old woman’s body, ignored requirement that they enter quarantine, went to funeral with 100 people, then on to synagogue; police investigating

Illusrative: An Israir flight attendant wearing full protective gear walks next to passengers during an Israir flight between Tel Aviv and Eilat, May 13, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

US biggest source by far of Israel’s COVID-19 cases, genome sequencing shows

By Nathan Jeffay

Students leave a yeshiva in Brooklyn after police shut it down for violating coronavirus social distancing regualtions on May 18 2020 (Screencapture/ WNBC-TV)

Police shut down a Brooklyn yeshiva with approximately 60 students

The Knesset Arrangements Committee meets to approve the breakaway of the Yesh Atid and Telem factions from the centrist Blue and White party, March 29, 2020. (Knesset)

Coalition readies ‘Norwegian law,’ nixes increased payouts to self-employed

Opposition members lash out at government, calling it ‘arrogant’ and saying it reneged on a deal in a ‘completely crazy’ move

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference about the coronavirus, March 25, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prosecution asks court to deny Netanyahu’s request to skip opening of his trial

New Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn speaks during a ceremony at the Justice Ministry on May 18, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

New justice minister says he’ll be judges’ ‘shield,’ as predecessor urges reform

Israeli businessman Yitzhak Tshuva speaks at an energy conference in Tel Aviv, February 27, 2018. (Flash90)

As small firms crash, tycoon Tshuva, already propped up by taxpayer, gets rescue

Forgoing immediate repayment of NIS 6 billion in loans from Yitzhak Tshuva, whose losses are cutting into Israelis’ pensions, two pension and insurance companies offer a lifeline

Illustrative: The Mamilla pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. (iStock/ YKD)

Jerusalem’s diverse population fertile ground for startups, nonprofit says

By Shoshanna Solomon

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)

Summer slows down virus spread, but doesn’t stop it, study finds

Researchers at Harvard, MIT and other institutions examine almost 4,000 places worldwide; find that heat, humidity are associated with lower infection rate

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

Due to heat wave, Israel temporarily lifts mask requirement in schools, outdoors

The street in Hadera where a man was declared dead after being found unconscious in a car amid a heat wave, May 18, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Israel in midst of what may be unprecedented heat wave; man dies, schools close

Judy Perly holds a takeout bag outside her Free Times Cafe. (Courtesy of Perly/ via JTA)

Novelty socks, latke delivery among new ways Toronto Jews keep tradition alive

By Ilana Belfer

More Headlines

Levinski Street in Tel Aviv. (Tel Aviv Municipality)

Pedestrians only: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to close off major streets to vehicles

By Michael Bachner

Newly appointed housing minister and former health minister Yaakov Litzman, at his installation ceremony at the Housing Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Olivier FitoussiFlash90)

Former health minister hints he wasn’t very involved in pandemic response

People protest against violence toward women at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on May 18, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

1,000 protest in Tel Aviv over wave of violence toward women

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Police said seeking to expel Palestinian who faces death sentence in West Bank

Illustrative. Parents with newborn sextuplets, in the neonatal unit, at St. Johns Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, Missouri, May 21, 2004. (Kyle Ericson/AP/File)

Counting her blessingsJewish woman gives birth to sextuplets in France

Campers playing on the water at Camp Modin, one of . (Courtesy of Camp Modin via JTA)

Despite COVID-19, this Jewish summer camp in Maine is actually opening

A view of the Milan Central Synagogue,, Italy, March 15, 2012 (Antonio Calanni/AP)

Italian synagogues and churches reopen, but with fewer worshipers allowed

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative image of digital banking (apichon_tee; iStock by Getty Images)

Digital bank enters accord with Isracard to issue credit cards

By Shoshanna Solomon

An American-Israeli Jewish teenager, accused of making a slew of antisemitic bomb threats in the US and elsewhere, is escorted by police as he leaves a courtroom in Rishon Lezion, on March 23, 2017. (AFP/Jack Guez)

JCC hoax bomber gets extra 45 days for phoning in more threats, from prison

The Red Hot Chili Peppers announced Monday, May 18, 2020, that their June concert in Tel Aviv was being postponed until June 23, 2021. (Courtesy Warner Music)

Dark necessitiesRed Hot Chili Peppers delay June concert in Israel to 2021

By Jessica Steinberg

The Israeli drug company TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries, in Jerusalem, on August 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s Teva gets China’s green light for Huntington’s treatment

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative. IDF soldiers check Palestinian cars at a checkpoint in the West Bank village of Yatta on February 10, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90/File)

IDF soldier indicted for car-jacking vehicles he stopped at fake check point

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