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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 24, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of his trial on corruption charges, May 24, 2020. Visible behind him are two of the three judges in the case, Rivka Friedman-Feldman and Oded Shaham (Screen capture/Government Press office)

Defendants' presence may not be needed in future hearings

Taking defendant’s bench, Netanyahu becomes first Israeli PM to stand trial

By Jacob Magid and Michael Bachner

Premier sits mostly silent through opening hearing, face hidden behind face mask; confirms he has read graft charges against him, as hundreds rally outside Jerusalem District Court

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), surrounded by Likud lawmakers, gives a televised statement before the start of his corruption trial at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As his trial begins, Netanyahu rails against ‘attempted political coup’

Right wing activists hold flags and signs in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a demonstration outside the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Hundreds attend pro- and anti-Netanyahu rallies as PM’s trial opens in Jerusalem

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

A poster of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen, as "yellow vest" protests reach Israel with hundreds marching against the rising cost of living in central Tel Aviv on December 14, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media reviewTrial by ire: 7 things to know for May 24

By Joshua Davidovich

Children at a kindergarten in Jerusalem after a two month coronavirus lockdown, May 10, 2020. (Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Jerusalem kindergarten teacher said to get virus, sending 60 kids to quarantine

Woman apparently visited five separate schools; children to remain in home isolation until Sunday

8:29 pm

Ditching mask, Brazil's president rallies with backers as virus surges
7:51 pm

Global virus death toll rises to 343,211
7:47 pm

Virus hospitalizations in France rise slightly

Jerusalem District Court Judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman. (Israeli Judicial Authority)

For judge presiding over Netanyahu case, a history of putting politicians away

In 2015, Rivka Friedman-Feldman convicted Ehud Olmert, and said it should not have taken a retrial to do so; 14 years earlier, she found an ex-minister guilty of sexual assault

Former Israel Police chief Roni Alsheich speaks to investors at an event in Tel Aviv on April 3, 2019 (Dor Nevo)

Ex-police chief on start of Netanyahu trial: ‘A stain on all those around him’

Illustrative: Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a rally held under the banner 'Protesting the coup' in Tel Aviv, on November 26, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

‘The right is on trial’: PM’s backers, critics to protest outside court Sunday

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, surrounded by Likud lawmakers, gives a televised statement before the start of his corruption trial at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Masked Likud MKs speechless at his side, Netanyahu asserts entire right on trial

PM’s pre-hearing claim that the charges against him are a coup bid was familiar. What was new was the array of silent ministers around him, and a striking omission from his remarks

Tourism Minister Yariv Levin at the Kfar Maccabia Hotel in Ramat Gan, on October 27, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Rallying around Netanyahu before trial, Likud lawmakers lash legal system

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, is flanked by Likud lawmakers at the party's post-election event in Tel Aviv, on March 2, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Israelis deeply divided over Netanyahu trial. It could not have been otherwise

PM’s allies claim the right-wing and the marginalized are in the dock with him; opponents say the rule of law is at stake; come the day, how will half the country handle defeat?

File: Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with then-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on June 13, 2011. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO/FLASH90)

Analysis

As a serving PM in the dock, Netanyahu takes Israel into Berlusconi territory

From Sunday, the only audience that matters for a brilliantly persuasive premier is 3 District Court judges… unless he musters the power, as ex-Italian PM did, to change the law

Beware COVID-19 privacy invasion creep

People will tell themselves these are life-saving measures – but once privacy is taken away, it often cannot be fully restored

There’s no substitute for Jewish summer camp

It’s not an exaggeration to say that two summers at Herzl Camp in Wisconsin made me want to live a Jewish life

Family group text, COVID style – a found poem in six stanzas

The ephemera of lockdown include shared messages about meals, laundry and, above all, remembering to count the days of the omer

Sheldon Kirshner

Appalling Nazi headstones should be removed

Swastikas adorn the graves of 2 German soldiers who died in the US during WWII and were buried in American military cemeteries

Inside story

How settler leaders may have scuttled a US plan for immediate annexation

Israeli mayors flew to DC for Trump plan rollout, believing US would back sovereignty within days, but 1 of them says colleague’s press release blasting proposal changed everything

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (4th from right) tours the Efrat settlement with settler leaders on February 20, 2020. (Courtesy)

Czech Republic's Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the Europa building in Brussels, January, 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Czech FM, a staunch Israel ally, pans annexation, sparking internal row

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Russia says willing to organize meeting between Netanyahu, Abbas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) attend a cabinet meeting of the new government at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Government approves new security cabinet, ministerial committee for coronavirus

Security cabinet to include a record 16 members, will also have 4 nonvoting observers

A cabinet meeting of the new government at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Cabinet holds first regular meeting; creation of Gantz’s new office said delayed

Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

The other new normal: PM to whip from cabinet summit to criminal trial

Israeli startup MobileODT has created the Eva System, which uses an Automated Visual Evaluation (AVE) algorithm that it says can detect cervical cancer by simply examining an image of the cervix (Courtesy)

Medical tech dispute illuminates power struggle between entrepreneurs, investors

By Shoshanna Solomon

Early shareholders of MobileODT, including the startup’s ousted CEO, take aim at OrbiMed, the global healthcare VC fund that injected millions into it; threats of litigation ensue

Palestinians gather to protest lockdown measures in Hebron, early Sunday, May 24, 2020 (video screenshot)

PA’s Eid lockdown provokes Palestinian protests, tensions across West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Hundreds of residents of Hebron violate coronavirus curfew, demand to pray in mosques to observe the holiday

An ambulance drives past a member of the Hamas security forces wearing protective gear as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 13, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Gaza woman, 77, dies of virus in Strip’s first confirmed COVID-19 fatality

Three Catholic nuns wearing face masks stand in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City as they await its reopening opening in Jerusalem, May 24, 2020. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre reopens after 2-month virus closure

By AP

To maintain social distancing, church limits entry to 50 visitors at a time, requests worshipers not touch or kiss religious items

Imams observe social distance rules as they attend the Eid al-Fitr prayers, at the Grand Mosque in Pristina on May 24, 2020 (Armend NIMANI / AFP)

Virus lockdowns stifle Eid celebrations as global infections rise

Palestinian women prepare traditional cookies ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festivities, celebrating the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 29, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Israeli leaders send holiday greetings to Muslims on eve of Eid al-Fitr

Supporters of Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah chant slogans ahead of his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, January 5, 2020. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

20 years on, Israel’s Lebanon withdrawal inspires new Hezbollah recruits

By Hashem Osseiran

Young supporters of the Shiite terror group say they wish they’d fought against Israeli troops before pullout of military forces in 2000

More Headlines

Volunteers look for survivors of a plane that crashed in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan, May 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

‘I saw fire everywhere’: 2 Pakistanis survive deadly plane crash that killed 97

This picture from May 23, 2020, shows a woman looking at a computer screen with a tweet by the New York Times account showing the early edition front page of the newspaper for May 24, 2020 (Agustin Paullier/AFP)

As US nears 100,000 deaths, NY Times fills front page with names of victims

By AFP

Peter O’Neill, former prime minister of Papua New Guinea, in 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Former Papua New Guinea PM arrested over purchases from Israel

Shadi Ibrahim, an Armored Corps soldier who lost his leg in a West Bank car-ramming attack, is seen in a video from his hospital bed at Soroka Medical Center in Beersehba on May 22, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 13 news)

Soldier who lost leg in West Bank ramming attack moved out of ICU

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)

First Iranian tanker reaches Venezuela, no sign of US threat

By AP

Screen capture from a video of natural gas being burned off from the Leviathan natural gas processing platform, May 23, 2020. (Screen capture: Walla)

Emergency shutdown leads to controlled ignition of fireball at Leviathan rig

Hodaya Monsonego, 24, who was later jailed in Lima, Peru, for her alleged involvement in a suspected drug smuggling operation. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Israeli jailed in Peru over suspected drug smuggling released to house arrest

Mohsen el-Sukkary at his trial session at the Cairo's southern court in Cairo, Egypt Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Egypt’s Sissi pardons ex-cop convicted of slaying pop star

By AFP

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro removes his mask to speak to journalists after a press conference on the new coronavirus, at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil on March 18, 2019. (AP/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro rocked by release of expletive-laced video

By Valeria PACHECO

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during his online video link press conference during the National People's Congress (NPC) at the media center in Beijing on May 24, 2020. (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)

China’s foreign minister says US is pushing relations to ‘brink of new Cold War’

By AFP

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