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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 21, 2020

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A poster from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's website calling for Israel's destruction that uses the term "final solution," which usually refers to the Nazi policy of genocide against Jews during the Holocaust. (via english.khamenei.ir)

Iran’s supreme leader releases anti-Israel poster evoking Nazi ‘Final Solution’

As Khamenei shares graphic featuring term, Pompeo and Netanyahu accuse him of seeking genocide of Jews; PM warns ‘regime that threatens destruction of Israel faces similar danger’

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks to a group of residents of the city of Qom, in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei explains ‘final solution’ poster: I want Israel destroyed, not all Jews

Iran's former intelligence minister Ali Fallahian, escorted by his bodyguards, is seen in Tehran in this Dec. 22, 2000 photo. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)

US sanctions former Iran intel chief behind deadly bombings of Jewish targets

A video posted on Israeli websites as part of a cyberattack, May 21, 2020 (Screen grab)

Israeli websites hacked in cyberattack: ‘Be ready for a big surprise’

By Michael Bachner

300 sites defaced with clip of Tel Aviv burning; security agencies have been bracing for Iran-linked attack for Quds Day, after port hack blamed on Israel

A cat working at the computer. (Tanased Hemathulin/iStock via Getty Images)

Israel media reviewWhat the hack: 7 things to know for May 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Op-ed

Iran has banned all use of Israeli tech. Really? That would set it back 50 years

New law bars cooperation with Zionists, including ‘hardware and software,’ as crime against God. So, no computers, internet, cellphones; healthcare ravaged; and no BMW for Khamenei

A Tehran resident, Hamed Ghassemi, looks at his cellphone, with a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, April 13, 2015. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

US sanctions top Iranian officials for human rights abuses

By AFP

Worshipers wearing protective face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus pray at the mosque of the Tehran University on May 12, 2020. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran: More than 10,000 health care workers infected with virus

The entrance to the Jerusalem District Court, January 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Explainer

Netanyahu in the dock: How the first day of the PM’s trial is set to play out

Sunday’s opening hearing will mark the first time in Israel’s history that a serving prime minister faces criminal charges in court. Here’s what’s expected to take place

Court rejects Netanyahu’s request to skip opening of his corruption trial Sunday

Judges in Netanyahu trial to get increased security — report

Netanyahu loyalist assails Mandelblit as ‘alleged criminal’ ahead of PM’s trial

Illustrative photo of a kindergarten in Tel Aviv, May 10, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Children quarantined in several cities after virus diagnoses at kindergartens

Dozens of kids in several institutions in central Israel require isolation, testing over new infections; Health Ministry says worker at Tel Aviv school mistakenly diagnosed

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)

Antibody tests, planned to begin this week, said to face significant delay

Avishalom Rosilio (Courtesy)

33-year-old former cancer patient dies of COVID-19

Palestinian farmers pack corn at the Jordan Valley, West Bank, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Live updates (closed)

Jordan threatens to review diplomatic ties if Israel annexes West Bank

Jordanian PM accuses Netanyahu of taking advantage of world’s distraction amid coronavirus crisis to implement ‘unilateral moves on the ground’

8:23 pm

Health Ministry warns bathers to avoid northern rivers over dangerous pollution
8:14 pm

Jordan says it will review ties if Israel annexes West Bank
8:09 pm

Smotrich: MKs should openly back goal of making Israel as in King David's era

Members of the Palestinian Authority security forces patrolling in the village of Beitunia in the central West Bank on April 6, 2020. (Credit: Wafa)

Palestinian official said to reassure Israel some security cooperation still on

By ToI Staff and AFP

Even if coordinated activities are stopped the Palestinians will not allow terror to run amok in their territory, will prevent attacks, senior figure tells Israeli defense entities

Pompeo hopes Israel-Palestinian security ties persist, despite Abbas declaration

By ToI Staff and AFP

Russia said pushing ‘mini-summit’ to mend ties between US, Palestinians

Military investigating attempted shooting in West Bank as terror attack

Carice Witte (courtesy)

Interview

Expert: Israel must always heed US concerns, but its China ties can still thrive

Carice Witte says China knows Israel’s first allegiance is to America, but it’s also not the 51st state; despite current crisis, that leaves room for a wide range of engagement

In this image provided by the US Air Force Academy on January 31, 2019, Cadet 2nd Class Eric Hembling uses a Ludwieg Tube to measure the pressures, temperatures, and flow field of various basic geometric and hypersonic research vehicles at Mach 6 in The United States Air Force Academy's Department of Aeronautics, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Joshua Armstrong/US Air Force Academy via AP)

Quest for ‘super-duper’ missiles at heart of US rivalry with China, Russia

By Robert Burns

In this May 17, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker collects sample for COVID-19 testing at the Tongji community in Shulan in northeastern China's Jilin Province. Authorities have tightened restrictions in parts of Jilin province in response to a local cluster. (Zhang Nan/Xinhua via AP)

Chinese expert says new virus cluster in northeast is behaving differently

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Issawiya and the myth of a united Jerusalem

The city is, in fact, deeply divided, with East Jerusalem communities suffering the often violent effects of the authorities’ deliberate no-planning policy

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

I am 22, here for the senior citizen’s tour

They say that studying history makes you lose faith in humanity, but when I focus on people’s stories, I fall in love with humanity over and over again

Heatwaves and homework: Sexism in the classroom

Across Israel, girls have been coming to school dressed appropriately for the weather, using their numbers to protest the dresscode

Tzivi Nochenson

For all that is holy, don’t tell me how to cover my hair

No, I didn’t cause the corona crisis by wearing a wig, and no, forbidding wigs is not the first thing Moshiach will do when he arrives

Chevra Kadisha workers wearing protective clothes, carry the body of Rabbi Avraham Heber who died from complications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Most people we lost to COVID were already near death — Jerusalem hospital chief

By Nathan Jeffay

Coronavirus ‘tipped over’ patients who would have died of other causes within year, says Shaare Zedek head Ofer Merin

Despite coronavirus, summer island destinations opening up to Israeli travelers

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Coronavirus infections pass 5 million worldwide

By AFP

WHO records highest daily number of COVID-19 cases

By Robin MILLARD

Settler leaders sit at their pro sovereignty tent outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 4, 2020. (Gush Etzion Regional Council)

Settler umbrella group protests Trump plan, but some mayors endorse it

Organization of West Bank mayors expresses total opposition to Palestinian state, even at cost of US backed annexation, but some members publish separate statement backing plan

File: Nickolay Mladenov, left, United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, briefs the United Nations Security Council in a video conference, Monday November 19, 2018 at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Russia, UN and Vatican condemn unilateral Israeli annexation plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this photo released by the state-run WAM news agency on May 19, 2020, an Etihad Airways flight with aid for the Palestinians to fight the coronavirus pandemic is loaded with its cargo in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, before departing to Israel. (WAM via AP)

PA refuses UAE aid sent via Israel, won’t be ‘tool for normalization’ — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Debra Schackner (Courtesy)

Inside a Maryland woman’s struggle to keep her mother alive in a nursing home

By Eric Cortellessa

UN personnel and representatives of Israel, Trans-Jordan and Egypt pore over a map of Jerusalem at the residence of the Syrian Catholic archbishop near Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, August 22, 1948. Moshe Dayan is seated, wearing an eye patch. (AP/Jim Pringle)

1st person: Jerusalem Day

Blame soft grease pencils: Violence and absurdity in Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko promoted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. (Getty Images and screenshot from Whatsapp video via JTA)

Jewish MD who promoted virus cocktail is leaving community where he tested it

Dr. Vladimir ‘Zev’ Zelenko, an Orthodox doctor credited with bringing controversial malaria drug to Trump’s attention, accused of spreading disinformation about infection rates

Religious services to resume in New York with 10 or fewer people

Massachusetts rabbis: Synagogues should not rush to reopen

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Days after yeshiva raid, Brooklyn police disperse crowd at synagogue

Advertisement for Iftarlade kosher and halal chocolate. (Courtesy Nadia Doukali)

Muslim German sets new bar for interfaith relations with kosher-halal chocolate

More Headlines

The entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, November 5, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

4-year-old critically wounded, 3-year-old hurt in 2 East Jerusalem shootings

Yossi Herzog (center) and Yakov Cohen (right) in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Unable to locate binary options defendants, US publishes ad in Times of Israel

By Simona Weinglass

Beach-goers walk at a beach in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on May 20, 2020, as beaches open for the first time after two months of confinement due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Sun, sand and surf: Israelis take a (permitted) splash as beaches reopen

By AFP

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

New Knesset subcommittee to battle the murder of women

By Stuart Winer

Tatiana Haikin who was murdered May 3, allegedly by her partner (Courtesy)

Bat Yam man indicted for murdering partner, throwing her body parts in trash

Israelis wearing Israeli flags parade around Jerusalem's Old City on May 24, 2017, to commemorate Jerusalem Day, marking the reunification of the city following the Six Day War of 1967. (AFP PHOTO / Menahem KAHANA)

Jerusalem Day march to be replaced with 700-person chain around Old City

Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hadera man indicted over threatening Facebook posts against Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at the Knesset, May 17, 2020, after the new government was sworn in. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

‘Norwegian Law’ pulled from Knesset agenda over coalition row

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

Finance minister hires director-general fired by Regev while on maternity leave

Newly appointed Minister of Social Equality Meirav Cohen attends a passing the baton ceremony at the Ministry of Social Equality in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Flash90)

Term's start, term's endDays after entering office, new social equality minister gives birth

An undated photo of Amedy Coulibaly, jihadist killer of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket and of a French policewoman, and his wife Hayat Boumedienne who is sought by police. (Photo credit: Screenshot/Itele)

Wife of Hyper Cacher terrorist escapes from jihadist prison in Syria — monitor

By AFP

Naftali Arden (L) speaks with "Friends" star Courteney Cox after his "Friends" themed virtual Bar Mitzvah (screencapture/YouTube)

There for youBritish teen who had ‘Friends’ bar mitzvah gets video visit from Courteney Cox

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