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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 23, 2020

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press briefing at the State Department, May 20, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool Photo via AP)

Pompeo accuses Iran of ‘echoing Hitler’s calls for genocide’

‘This depravity should dispel any notion the regime belongs in the community of nations,’ says US Secretary of State after Khamenei urges ‘final solution’ for Israel

A barber wearing a mask to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus listens to a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah being broadcast on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV channel, to mark Al-Quds (Jerusalem) day while he cuts a customer's hair at his salon, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In Quds Day speech, Nasrallah says Jews must leave Israel

A view of the vessel the Clavel, an Iranian tanker bringing gasoline to Venezuela, sailing on international waters crossing the Gibraltar stretch on May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Iran warns US not to interfere with Venezuela gasoline shipment

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men belonging to Neturei Karta, a small faction of anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jews who oppose Israel's existence, hold placards during an annual demonstration in memory of the 1994 massacre at the Cave of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 22, 2019. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Extremist rabbi to Iran website: Israel is Jewish state like pork is Jewish food

Leader of anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect gives interview on Quds Day; comments come as Tehran calls for ‘final solution’ for Israel

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

A man stops to read an announcement at Congregation Divrei Yoel in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tuesday, April 7, 2020 in New York. The synagogue is closed to gatherings due to the coronavirus. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

US synagogues demur as Trump demands states let houses of worship reopen

By Josefin Dolsten and PHILISSA CRAMER

Many Jewish leaders reject president’s entreaty as evidence shows group prayer conducive to outbreaks; debate over how to resume services divides some observant communities

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House, May 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump calls on synagogues, churches and mosques to reopen this weekend

In this on May 19, 2020 file photo, a chemist holds a pack of hydroxychloroquine tablets in Mumbai, India. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

Big study casts more doubt on malaria drugs pushed by Trump as virus treatment

By AP and ToI Staff

Former US Vice President Joe Biden participates in a Democratic presidential primary debate at CNN Studios in Washington, March 15, 2020. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Facing firestorm, Biden recants black Trump voters ‘ain’t black’ remark

By Michael Mathes

Democratic presidential nominee apologizes for controversial statement, saying he was ‘cavalier,’ defends his record on African-American issues

Tara Reade in Nevada City, California, April 4, 2019. (AP/Donald Thompson)

Lawyer for Biden accuser Tara Reade drops her as a client after 2 weeks

By Alexandra Jaffe

AnalysisJewish Republicans ask: How do you solve a problem like Steve King?

Passengers seen at Ben Gurion Airport, May 14, 2020. (Flash90)

NSC chief warns against lifting traveler quarantine requirements

Fearing virus surge, national security head Meir Ben-Shabbat says vigilance must be maintained in face of high infection rates overseas

Virus case found at Beersheba nursing home which saw deadly outbreak

Israelis among first to be allowed in as Cyprus announces resumption of tourism

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

Church of the Holy Sepulchre to reopen Sunday for first time in two months

By AP

Yiddish linguist Arun Viswanath has brought the first of the Harry Potter series to speakers of the mamaloshen around the globe. (Courtesy)

For young translator of sold-out ‘Harry Potter,’ Yiddish is truly his mamaloshen

Sasha Joseph Neulinger as a young boy (Step 1 Films)

Director interview

In ‘Rewind,’ abused nephew revisits home movies to cauterize cantor’s abuse

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The rule of law over the ruler

It’s one of democracy’s substantial achievements: just like every citizen, Netanyahu will stand before 3 judges, whose task is to decide whether he is innocent or guilty

Could a scribe, somewhere in the history of time, have accidentally copied a letter of the Torah wrong, and the error was preserved by later scribes, until today? (Bamidbar)

Geddy Lee of Rush performs during the final show of the R40 Tour at The Forum on Saturday, August 1, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

Locked down? Open up to… Rush’s Jewish frontman Geddy Lee

By Jordan Hoffman

Shimon Hayut, the so-called 'Tinder Swindler,' is expelled from the city of Athens, Greece, on July 1, 2019. (Tore KRISTIANSEN/various sources/AFP)

‘Tinder swindler’ released from prison early, infuriating fraud victims

Shimon Hayut, who conned European women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with help of dating app, served 5 months of 15 month sentence

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

Israeli officials reportedly say secret coordination with PA likely to continue

Security ties expected to carry on via clandestine channels, senior staffers believe; Palestinians tell Israel they will not allow outbreak of violence, report says

File - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting in Bethlehem, January 23, 2020. (Alexander Nemenov, Pool via AP)

Russia to convene Mideast quartet for talks on West Bank annexation plans

The scene of an attempted terror attack near the Hawara Junction in the northern West Bank on May 20, 2020. (Samaria Regional Council)

TV: Suspect in attempted West Bank shooting was Palestinian police officer

Medical student Tal Lee, left, and nurse Michele Morton are working with the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to provide free coronavirus testing. (Courtesy of Lee/ via JTA)

Jewish medical student helps reduce racial disparities in US coronavirus testing

By Josefin Dolsten

Emmanuel Murat and Sarah Amouyal are the husband-wife team behind Babka Zana in the Pigalle neighborhood. (Geraldine Martens/via JTA)

From art to babka, Jewish Parisians are struggling to weather the COVID-19 storm

By Lindsey Tramuta

The gate to the Bitronot Nahal Tirtza nature reserve, guarded by a female IDF soldier. (Amir Ben-David/ Zman Yisrael)

First person

West Bank expert: Bennett’s newly declared nature sanctuaries spark reservations

By Amir Ben-David

A couple mourns a loved one at the newly constructed Valle de Chalco Municipal Cemetery, built to accommodate the rise in deaths amid the coronavirus pandemic, on the outskirts of Mexico City, May 21, 2020. (AP/Marco Ugarte)

Deaths surge as new infections swamp hospitals in Latin America

By David Biller and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

Virus outbreak accelerating across region due to recalcitrant leadership, informal economies, loose borders, inadequate health care; Brazil marks 20,000 dead, 3rd highest globally

Virus spread feared where water is scarce around the world

By FARAI MUTSAKA

Tanzania says virus defeated through prayer, but fears grow

‘Soft landfall’: Africa confirms 100,000 virus cases, fewer deaths than feared

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Israelis at the Sea of Galilee on May 23, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Sea of Galilee beaches hit maximum capacity under virus rules as heatwave breaks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A US nuclear bomb test at the Marshall Islands, 1954. (Wikicommons/US Department of Energy)

Amid Russia and China tensions, US mulls first nuclear test since 1992 — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians wearing face masks read the Quran as they attend the last Friday noon Prayer of the holy month of Ramadan, in a mosque in Gaza City, May. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Friday prayers resume in Gaza despite new virus fears

Gadi Eisenkot and Benny Gantz are seen at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, February 16, 2015, as the former prepared to take over from the latter as IDF chief of staff. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Eisenkot hints he may enter politics; denies he met with Lapid

Dominic Cummings political advisor to Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at the back entrance to Downing Street in London, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Top aide to UK’s Johnson accused of flouting lockdown rules

Boating is among the many activities at the 111-year-old Glamsta Jewish summer camp in Sweden. (Courtesy of Glämsta via JTA)

Sweden’s only Jewish camp reverses decision to close this summer

By Josefin Dolsten

Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, delivers letters with birthday greetings from the Israeli and Polish presidents, to Anna Kozminska, a 101-year-old Polish woman who is believed to the be oldest living person recognized by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust, in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 22, 2020. (Grazyna Pawlak via AP)

Presidents of Israel, Poland honor oldest surviving ‘Righteous Among Nations’

By AP

Police at the scene of a suspected murder in Amityville, New York. (Screenshot/CBS New York/YouTube)

Amityville horror: New Yorker fatally stabs dad during Zoom chat, as 20 watch

By Maggy DONALDSON

An ultra-Orthodox Jew walks past Belgian soldiers as they patrol during religious services in Antwerp, Belgium January 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Belgium plans to end army protection for Antwerp synagogues

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Whitney Museum in New York, Nov. 18, 2019. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Ex-Nazi hunter goes after Whitney Museum over protests against tear gas supplier

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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