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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 28, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, center, and then-tourism minister Yariv Levin during a meeting to discuss mapping extension of Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, held in the Ariel settlement, February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/ US Embassy Jerusalem/ File)

PM says he's 'convinced' Jordan won't alter peace treaty

Netanyahu: Palestinians in Israeli-annexed Jordan Valley won’t get citizenship

In interviews, PM also rebuffs settler complaints, saying his annexation plan won’t mention Palestinian state, any settlement freeze will also apply to Palestinians in Area C

Illustrative: Cars travel on a road in the southern West Bank (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Amid annexation plans, US warns its citizens against West Bank travel

Najwa Gadaheldam. (Screen capture/Channel 13)

Israeli MDs fly to enemy Sudan in failed bid to save diplomat behind secret ties

TV: Medical team hoped to transfer Najwa Gadaheldam, sick with COVID-19, to Israel for treatment, but her condition was critical and she died; formally, the 2 countries are at war

In this photo from December 28, 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) is welcomed by Brazil's then president-elect Jair Bolsonaro at the Copacabana fort in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Leo Correa/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu offers Brazil’s Bolsonaro ‘cooperation’ on tackling coronavirus

By ToI Staff and AP

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at a Haaretz conference on May 27, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

US envoy to Israel knocks Jews who say Judaism is only about ‘helping others’

Daniel Douek, a principal investigator at the National Institutes of Health (courtesy of Daniel Douek)

Fauci protégé sending gallons of Israeli blood to US to probe virus mysteries

By Nathan Jeffay

Finding himself on sabbatical in Israel for the pandemic, Daniel Douek has ended up carving out an important role for the Jewish state in America’s battle against COVID-19

An entrance to a Moderna building, May 18, 2020, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP/Bill Sikes)

Amid virus vaccine hopes, Moderna top execs said to have sold millions in stocks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Democratic presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden with his wife Jill Biden, pay their respects to fallen service members on Memorial Day at Delaware Memorial Bridge Veteran's Memorial Park in Wilmington, Delaware, May 25, 2020. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Biden says nation grieves for 100,000 US coronavirus victims

By Will Weissert

The Eshkol water filtration plant in northern Israel, April 17, 2007. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

‘Cyber winter is coming,’ warns Israel cyber chief after attack on water systems

By AP and ToI Staff

Yigal Unna says attempted hacking into civilian systems, widely ascribed to Iran, marked a historic first, and could have resulted in disaster had it not been detected in time

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

US clamps down on waivers tied to Iran’s nuclear cooperation as deal unravels

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah during a rare public appearance, in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon in November 2013. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Nasrallah taunts Gantz as ‘experienced in disappointments’ in Lebanon

A waitress serves food at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. After more than two months of closure due to the coronavirus, restaurants in Israel were allowed to re-open Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Tel Aviv restaurants, bars packed on first night open since virus shutdown

More than 120,000 Israelis made reservations to ensure they got a spot on opening night; Tel Aviv venues say they were at 95% capacity

A waitress serves food at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. After more than two months of closure due to the coronavirus, restaurants in Israel were allowed to re-open Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel media reviewWait watchers: 8 things to know for May 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Aerial view of the southern Israeli city of Eilat, October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

As Eilat reopens, businesses hope tourists will come… after Shavuot too

Supreme Court Justice Meni Mazuz at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court justice: Government run by indicted prime minister a ‘moral failure’

In full ruling on petitions that sought to prevent Netanyahu from forming government, judges express discomfort but say no legal justification to intervene

Netanyahu calls for probe of anonymous police officer over critical comments

Gantz walks out of meeting with Netanyahu after Regev calls him ‘half-baked’

AnalysisA stunning tirade highlights Israeli divide over Netanyahu

Analysis

Death of a dogma? After annexation, world likely to abandon two-state paradigm

Process may take years, but officials and analysts accusing Israel of killing option for future Palestinian state have started calling for a unitary state with equal rights for all

Illustrative: Palestinian officials along with Israeli and International peace activists plant trees near Beit Al Baraka compound as part of a protest against the land being taken over by Israeli settlers on April 9, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Is Ruth really a role model?

When a biblical heroine comports herself differently from our modern expectations of whom we should emulate, is she still a heroine? 3 approaches

Cheesecake and Jerusalem: Let’s share a slice of both

We Jews must stop allowing bitterness and division to creep into Jewish life, and turn our attention to the many common values that connect us

The opportune moment

In a flash of courage, Israel accepted the Torah, which led to a lasting covenant with God, and the rest, as they say, is (Jewish) history

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Stop and smell the fruits

The cracked acorn is a seed of transformation, the first step in a journey-to-be, just as each day I counted of the omer was a growth experience; I am no longer the person I was

Rabbi Joshua Berman. (Courtesy)

Shavuot

Orthodoxy can withstand an unflinching, academic look at the Bible, says scholar

The Hebrew Gymnasium high school in Jerusalem, August 3, 2007. (CC BY-SA Neta/Wikipedia)

3 teachers in shuttered Jerusalem school have virus; pupils, staff to be tested

As downward trend in nationwide infections continues, cases mount in reopened education system; Bat Yam sisters’ diagnosis also sends dozens into quarantine

Customers sit at a Coffee Shop in Jerusalem after it was reopened on May 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Number of active virus patients drops below 2,000 as restaurants reopen

A Christian worshiper lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity following its reopening as Palestinian authorities eased coronavirus restrictions in the West Bank, on May 26, 2020. (Musa Al SHAER / AFP)

Palestinians report 5 new coronavirus cases in West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustration by Avi Katz

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David Kishik-Cohen at his olive grove outside the Kochav Hashahar settlement. (via WhatsApp)

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Ex-chief West Bank land inspector planted groves on Palestinian ground

Former head of Defense Ministry body that supervises land use grew olive trees on the plots while serving in the post 30 years ago, continues to work them

IDF chief of staff Aviv Kohavi (L) visiting the parents of soldier Amit Ben Ygal who was killed by a rock thrown by a Palestinian during a West Bank operation, May 28, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Visiting parents of slain soldier, IDF chief vows to catch son’s killer

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, right, and Col. David Songo present an award to Staff Sgt. Shadi Ibrahim, center, who lost a leg after being hit by a car in a ramming attack in the West Bank, in Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center on May 27, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief gives award to soldier who lost leg in West Bank ramming

By Judah Ari Gross

Emilio DiPalma speaks of the Nuremberg trials (YouTube screenshot)

WWII veteran who guarded Nazis during Nuremberg trials dies of coronavirus

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

As a 19-year-old, Mass.-born Emilio DiPalma fought on the front lines in the war before finding himself watching over Hitler’s top officers as they were brought to justice

Henry Wermuth (screen capture: YouTube/USC Shoah Foundation)

Henry Wermuth, the man who tried to derail Hitler’s train, dies at 97

Robert Salerno, center, funeral director with McLaughlin & Sons funeral home in Brooklyn, holds roses and wears a mask as cemetery workers, also wearing masks because of coronavirus restrictions, carry a casket from a hearse to a burial site on May 13, 2020, at Holy Cross Cemetery in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

100,000 dead: US coronavirus toll passes grim milestone

By ToI Staff and Agencies

(Image via Hamilton playbill; design by Arielle Kaplan)

Rap sheet

13 Jewish facts about ‘Hamilton’ that will make you smile

By Arielle Kaplan

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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks with reporters at the White House on May 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kellyanne Conway unleashes Trumpers on Twitter integrity czar

A man poses for a photo in the parking lot of an AutoZone store in flames, while protesters hold a rally for George Floyd in Minneapolis on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP)

Murder suspected on 2nd night of violent protests over Minneapolis man’s death

By AP

Chinese President Xi Jinping, bottom, arrives for the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China okays plan for controversial security law endangering Hong Kong’s autonomy

By AFP

Playwright Larry Kramer attends Acria's 19th Annual Holiday Dinner Benefit at Skylight Modern on December 10, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Donald Traill/Invision/AP)

Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84

By Mark Kennedy

Illustrative image of online video call and Rawpixel (iStock by Getty Images)

In virtual international hackathon, teams to tackle coronavirus challenges

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prof. Chezy Levy (Health Ministry)

New Health Ministry director-general appointed

Mayor of Levallois-Perret Patrick Balkany (C,R) and his wife first deputy mayor Isabelle Balkany prosecuted with alleged aggravated tax fraud arrive on September 13, 2019 for the rendering of the verdict at the Paris courthouse. (Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

French Jewish power couple lose money-laundering appeal

By AFP

Shir Tikvah Congregation in Minneapolis (Google Street View via JTA)

Bench near Minneapolis synagogue vandalized with swastikas

By JTA

Rachel Brosnahan and Zachary Levi in a scene filmed at Scott's Family Resort. (Screenshot from Amazon via JTA)

Borscht Belt businessMrs. Maisel’s summer retreat can be yours, for just $6m

The National Holocaust Museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam via JTA)

80% of Dutch cities involved in theft of Jewish property have no record of it

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Teenager Romina Ashrafi was murdered by her father after she eloped with an older man, causing widespread anger in Iran. (Courtesy)

Iranians outraged by father who decapitated teen daughter

By AFP

Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf in Tehran, Iran in 2017 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Hard-line former Tehran mayor named Iran parliament speaker

By AP

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