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What Matters Most On Friday, May 22, 2020

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Palestinian security forces guard at the entrance to the West Bank city of Nablus on March 23, 2020, as part of measures to contain the coronavirus. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israeli officials confirm Palestinian Authority is ending security coordination

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

After years of threats, sources say this time Abbas has truly halted cooperation, in protest of new government’s plans to annex West Bank areas

The West Bank town of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of Jerusalem. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PA removes police stationed near Jerusalem, as Gaza said to freeze ties too

Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Senior Palestinian official says PA no longer sharing intelligence with CIA

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Jordanian flag over a locked down Amman, Jordan on March 21, 2020. (AP/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan warns it will review ties with Israel over annexation

By AFP

Amman accuses Jerusalem of taking advantage of attention on coronavirus crisis to implement ‘unilateral moves on the ground’

Saudi King Salman, right, receives Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after he arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 20, 2017. (Al-Ekhbariya via AP)

Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli plans for annexation in West Bank

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to supporters at a primary election night rally, Feb. 11, 2020, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

18 Democratic senators warn annexation will damage, erode US-Israel relations

Palestinian policemen participate in a training session at their headquarters in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 30, 2019. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Cutting security ties, Abbas shows he’s serious — even if it risks everything

Ending coordination will hurt and endanger both Israel and the PA, but faced with Israeli annexation, the Palestinians are increasingly willing to employ desperate measures

File: Palestinian policemen in the West Bank town of Nablus (AP Photo /Nasser Ishtayeh)

Israel media reviewCutting the coordination cord: 7 things to know for May 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech, April 9, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

On Quds Day, Iran’s leader says Zionism ‘a virus that must be eliminated’

Ali Khamenei claims Jewish state is a ‘creation of Westerners and Jewish corporation owners,’ asserts it is growing ‘hopeless and powerless’ as regional resistance expands

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) meets with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell (R) in the capital Tehran on February 3, 2020. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

EU condemns Iran’s ‘totally unacceptable’ threats against Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks on the second day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Iran FM: ‘Disgusting’ for Israel to object to ‘final solution’ poster

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on May 17, 2020. (Knesset)

Gantz joins PM in response to Iran threats: Arrogant words are sign of weakness

Netanyahu warns Tehran: Anyone threatening Israel with destruction faces a similar threat, after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calls Israel ‘virus that must be eliminated’

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

By David Horovitz

Inside story

Haviv Rettig Gur

How an indicted Netanyahu put his attorney general on trial

As his corruption trial begins, the PM’s supporters go on the offensive and Avichai Mandelblit finds himself embroiled once more in a decade-old scandal

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announces his decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three corruption cases, on November 21, 2019. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends an event at the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prosecution ombudsman examining closure of Mandelblit case — report

Opposition leader Yair Lapid poses for a photo at his office in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

InterviewNew opposition leader Lapid says Netanyahu ’embarrassing’ Israel

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US President Donald Trump speaks at Ford's Rawsonville Components Plant that has been converted to making personal protection and medical equipment on May 21, 2020, in Ypsilanti, Michigan. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump lauds notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford’s ‘good bloodlines’

By Eric Cortellessa

Anti-Defamation League calls on US president to apologize for extolling American industrialist who printed copies of ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and inspired Hitler

US President Donald Trump speaks as he tours Ford's Rawsonville Components Plant that has been converted to making personal protection and medical equipment, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Ypsilanti, Mich. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Maskless Trump flaunts naked face on tour of Michigan Ford plant

By AP

Margot Bloch, of Takoma Park, Md., participates in a protest over President Trump's handling go the coronavirus pandemic, in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 20, 2020.(AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump orders flags lowered as US virus death toll nears 100,000

Thousands at a concert in Tel Aviv on May 21, 2020. (screen capture: Twitter/Itay Blumenthal)

In biggest gathering since virus hit, 5,000 pack Tel Aviv beachfront concert

Show put on to support starving artists, reportedly with police okay, though attendees appear to fail to maintain social distancing regulations

Ultra-Orthodox men wearing masks pray at the Western Wall on May 21, 2020. (Sam Sokol)

Lax observance: In reopened Israeli synagogues, hazy virus rules stoke anxiety

Israelis have picnics at Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square as restaurants, cafes and bars remain closed except for take out and deliveries, May 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Health Ministry backs allowing indoor gatherings of up to 50 people

Palestinian workers clear streets and homes in the West Bank city of Nablus on April 3 2020, enabling measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Analysis

Success story? Israel’s coronavirus stats are worse than all its neighbors’

While Israeli leaders hail strategy, nearby countries fare better. ‘They’re wrong to say we did a great job,’ says one former Health Ministry director, but others aren’t so sure

An anti-lockdown protester compares New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to Adolf Hitler at a demonstration in front of the governor's residence in the state capital of Albany, New York, May 1, 2020. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Analysis

Virus responses in Israel, US may permanently erode democracies, experts warn

By Rich Tenorio

Illustrative: A blind man walks in Tel Aviv on July 23, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

As virus wanes, Israel’s blind and deaf step out into a more hostile world

By Marissa Newman

On Jerusalem Day: The peace of power

Two young men, their faces covered, hurled grapefruit size rocks into the windshields of passing cars. And then they were gone

Chana Tannenbaum

Flags and the faces on God’s chariot

When the Jews undertook to mimic the angels and be God’s standard bearers in the world, they did not expect the dizzying pace of society today (Bamidbar)

Gerald M. Steinberg

Jerusalem: 1948, 1967, 2020

The bad old days of Jordanian control, when Jews were denied access to their holy sites, are proof that ’shared sovereignty’ is a delusion

20 years after Lebanon, the lesson is to adapt

From the IDF’s Chief of General Staff: 20 years after leaving Lebanon, we are fully prepared to fight enemies that have grown into a ’terrorist armies’

Make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for Shavuot 2020, taking advantage of new walking paths opened on the rooftops and ancient walls of the city (Courtesy Jerusalem municipality)

A guide to the socially distant Shavuot, with pilgrimage and cheese

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Hezbollah operatives stand in formation at a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, or Al-Quds Day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

20 years after Lebanon pullout, IDF faces a stronger Hezbollah – in Syria too

Military working to prevent Iran-backed terror group from acquiring precision-guided missiles, setting up new front along the Golan border

Security forces loyal to Hamas, the terror group that rules the Gaza Strip, check the papers of an ambulance driver at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on April 13, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Spike in new coronavirus cases puts Gaza on edge

By AFP and ToI Staff

Fire brigade staff try to put out fire caused by plane crash in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, May 22, 2020. An aviation official says a passenger plane belonging to state-run Pakistan International Airlines carrying more than 100 passengers and crew has crashed near the southern port city of Karachi. There were no immediate reports on the number of casualties. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan jet with 98 aboard crashes near Karachi airport, at least 2 survivors

Aircraft slams into houses after apparent engine failure on landing; at least 5 homes destroyed, not clear how many people on ground hurt

More Headlines

In this photo from the Jewish Agency, Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (left) and then-Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog (center) greet 119 new immigrants from Ethiopia at Ben Gurion Airport, May 21, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem)

119 immigrants from Ethiopia arrive in Israel

Head lice, illustrative (YouTube screenshot)

Itch no more?Scratch that: Lockdown was calamity for head lice, experts say

By Nathan Jeffay

Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2011. (AP /Virginia Mayo, File)

Sons of slain Saudi journalist Khashoggi ‘forgive’ killers, paving way to pardon

By AFP

US gravediggers carry the casket of someone presumed to have died from coronavirus as they are buried without any family present at Mount Richmond Cemetery in the Staten Island borough of New York, April 7, 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Researchers: 36,000 US lives could’ve been saved with earlier social distancing

By AFP

Michael Cohen arrives at his Manhattan apartment in New York after being released federal prison, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen released from US prison due to virus

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and Jim Mustian

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 and Gantz meet as tensions bubble in new coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

The Cranbourne golf club. (screen capture: Google Street View)

Swastikas painted on Melbourne golf course founded by Jews

By henry Benjamin

Emergency officials at the scene of a shooting at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on May 21, 2020. (screen capture: AP Video)

FBI investigating ‘terrorism-related’ shooting at Texas military base

By AP

In this photo taken Monday, May 18, 2020, people use a hand-washing station installed for members of the public entering a market in Dodoma, Tanzania. (AP Photo)

Tanzania says virus defeated through prayer, but fears grow

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One for a trip to New York to attend a fundraiser, Thursday, May 16, 2019, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to withdraw US from ‘Open Skies’ treaty with Russia

By AFP

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