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What Matters Most On Friday, May 29, 2020

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Some people wear protective face masks, while some don't, as they shop at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv, on May 26, 2020 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

After 79 new patients diagnosed within 24 hours

Health officials to brief media as virus spikes, may seek to shutter grades 7-12

Press conference called for 6 p.m. amid concern over slump in public adherence to rules; migrant children in Tel Aviv, hospital staff in Hadera enter quarantine after new diagnoses

A Magen David Adom worker is seen at a drive-through coronavirus testing facility in Jerusalem on March 24, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

With steep rise of 79 new virus cases, Health Ministry warns against complacency

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

18 students, staff members at shuttered Jerusalem school diagnosed with virus

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)

As Twitter checks Trump, Khamenei account left alone, despite plea from Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian leader’s tweets calling Israel ‘cancerous growth’ to be ‘uprooted and destroyed’ left unchecked as social media firm clashes with US president over labeling his posts

US President Donald Trump after a meeting with restaurant industry executives about the coronavirus response, in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ramping up dispute, Twitter conceals fresh Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’

By Sebastian Smith

US President Donald Trump holds up a copy of the New York Post before signing an executive order aimed at curbing protections for social media giants, the White House, May 28, 2020. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs order targeting social media after tweets flagged for misinformation

By Sebastian Smith

Illustrative: Burial of individual analyzed in the Canaanite study, from about 1600 BC. (Dr. Claude Doumet-Serhal/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

Archaeology

How the Canaanites, Biblical frenemies of the Israelites, kept genetic integrity

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks during a press conference in the capital Amman on July 25, 2017. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

Jordan warns Washington, London of ‘unprecedented threat’ of annexation

Speaking to Pompeo and Raab, Ayman Safadi urges safeguarding of peace, underlines Amman’s strong opposition to Israeli plans in West Bank

Palestinian security forces man a road block at the entrance to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, March 19, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Despite cut in ties, PA officials said to meet with IDF for security talks

Students at the Tel Aviv University on the first day of the new academic year, October 14, 2018 (Flash90)

Higher education institutions, youth groups to restart Sunday with restrictions

Universities, colleges said unhappy announcement made on eve of Shavuot holiday, leaving little time to prepare; schools, kindergartens to reopen in previously virus-stricken areas

A cafe-restaurant worker stands outside as people drink coffee in Monastiraki district of Athens, May 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece to allow entry to tourists from Israel, 28 other countries from June 15

By AP

Iron Dome inventor Dr. Danny Gold (Flash90)

Israel’s Iron Dome deviser prepares to tackle COVID-19, with 100,000 daily tests

By Nathan Jeffay

Danny Gold, who oversaw Israel’s best-known missile defense system, has four teams working on 60-second kits for detecting coronavirus

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

Cyprus cuts use of chloroquine, which it bought in joint consignment with Israel

By AP

Head of Pfizer pharmaceuticals says vaccine could be ready by October

With over 100 labs scrambling to develop COVID-19 vaccination, pharma executives hopeful for roll out before 2021, but cite ‘daunting’ challenges in producing billions of doses

A lab technician holds a vial containing results for COVID-19 vaccine testing at the National Primate Research Center in Saraburi Province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, May 23, 2020. (AP/Sakchai Lalit)

Demonstrators gather near a burning barricade during a protest demanding food aid in Santiago, Chile, May 26, 2020. (AP/Esteban Felix)

UN chief warns world leaders virus risks historic famine, new ‘Great Depression’

By Edith M. Lederer

Medical workers move a coronavirus patient at an intensive care unit of the Filatov City Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Russia, May 15, 2020. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Cancer patients twice as likely to die from COVID-19, study finds

By AFP

In this photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, technicians work at the Arak heavy water reactor's secondary circuit, as officials and media visit the site, near Arak, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019 (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran says it will continue nuclear work despite US sanctions

Nuclear officials say latest punitive measures against nuclear scientist only increase country’s determination to push forward with research

File: Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia slams ‘dangerous’ US foreign policy moves on Iran, treaties

By AFP

In Iranian warship sails while approaching to the Iran's southeastern port city of Chahbahar, in the Gulf of Oman, during exercises in December, 2019. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warn US at ceremony for new navy vessels

By AFP

Stan Lee, creator of comic-book franchises such as 'Spider-Man,' 'The Incredible Hulk' and 'X-Men,' smiles during a photo session in his office in Santa Monica, California, April 16, 2002. (Reed Saxon/AP)

Author interview

Silver Surfer as Rabbi Eliezer? Stan Lee book unmasks superheroes’ Jewish roots

By Jordan Hoffman

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump says violent protesters in Minneapolis ‘thugs,’ mayor a ‘weak leftist’

By AP and ToI Staff

President warns that ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts,’ leading Twitter to once again flag his tweet

A protester carries a US flag upside down, a sign of distress, next to a burning building Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Minneapolis police station torched as protests spread across US

By Tim Sullivan and Amy Forliti

Police hold a line on the fourth day of protests on May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The National Guard has been activated as protests continue after the death of George Floyd which has caused widespread destruction and fires across Minneapolis and St. Paul. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

CNN crew covering racial unrest arrested in Minneapolis during live broadcast

By AFP

Sarah C. Rudolph

Humanity needs balance to keep from being foolish

Setting oneself apart from the community to be literally ’holier than thou’ carries a number of risks, not just to the individual, but to the community itself

Joshua Hammerman

600,000 and 100,000: From Sinai to Sinai

From Sinai to Sinai: At the mountain, thunder, lightning, and a still, small voice; at the hospital, beeps of machines — and the soft, tearful voices of family by phone

Illustrative: A man walks by the offices of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam, September 25, 2008. (Marijke Volkers/via JTA)

As Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter reopens June 1, there is concern crowds won’t come

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Boats moored at Tel Aviv Marina, Tel Aviv, April 2020. (Photo by Lord K2)

Photo essay

View stunning ‘Tel Aviv From Above’ in aerial photo series shot during lockdown

Lior Raz stars as Doron Kavillio in 'Fauda.' (Screen shot from YouTube/via JTA)

TV series review

Locked down? Open up to… premier Israeli TV series ‘Fauda’

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In this file photo taken on January 15, 2017, the Mayor of the 16th arrondissement Claude Goasguen greets protestors as they demonstrate during a rally in Paris against the Paris Middle East peace conference taking place in the French capital. (Photo by Pierre Constant/ AFP)

ObituaryFrench lawmaker Claude Goasguen, staunch Israel supporter, dies of virus aged 75

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem to address the coronavirus crisis, March 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Musical notablePM’s virus speech about staying away from elderly is set to music

President Donald Trump speaks as he receives a briefing on the 2020 hurricane season in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs ‘Never Again’ Holocaust education bill into law

By Eric Cortellessa

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister and alternate prime minister Benny Gantz are seen at the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (ALEX KOLOMOISKY/POOL)

Gantz’s alternate prime minister office said set to be approved Sunday

An anti-government protester argues with riot police during a protest against a general amnesty law being proposed in parliament in Beirut, Lebanon, May 28, 2020. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon removes banking secrecy rules to fight corruption

By Bassam Mroue

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz after the presentation of the 35th government of Israel at the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Blue and White removes Gantz anti-Netanyahu clips, Yesh Atid said to repost them

A girl with a red flag poses for a photo in downtown Moscow as she marks the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, May 9, 2020. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Putin set to invite world leaders to Moscow’s WWII commemoration in June

By AFP

Ayman Safiah (Courtesy)

Thousands attend funeral of ballet dancer who was washed out to sea

Brazilian Education Minister Abraham Weintraub speaks at his swearing-in ceremony in Brasilia, Brazil, April 9, 2019. (AP/Eraldo Peres)

Brazilian politician with Jewish roots compares police raids to Kristallnacht

By Marcus M. Gilban

In this May 6, 2019 file photo, Gal Gadot attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the 'Camp: Notes on Fashion' exhibition in New York (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

A Hedy taleTV series starring Gal Gadot as Hedy Lamarr to be broadcast by Apple

Illustrative: From left, Maria-Karnilova, Tanya Everett, Zero Mostel, Julia-Migenes and Joanna Merlin backstage at opening night of 'Fiddler on the Roof' at the Imperial Theater in New York City, September 22, 1964. (AP/Courtesy of Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films/via JTA)

New ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ movie coming to big screen, with ‘Hamilton’ power

US appeals court rejects far-right activist’s lawsuit against tech giants

By Michael Kunzelman

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