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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 30, 2020

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Iyad Halak. (Courtesy)

Police shoot dead East J’lem man with special needs, thought he was holding gun

Iyad Halak reportedly didn’t understand police order to stop, was shot at least 7 times; 2 officers questioned; police says ‘rare incident’ referred for internal investigation

Israeli soldiers inspect a car at the scene of an apparent attempted car-ramming attack near the West Bank settlement of Halamish on May 29, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

IDF: Suspect tries to ram troops in West Bank, is shot and ‘neutralized’

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former grand mufti of Jerusalem, who is under investigation for incitement. (AP/Joao Silva)

Al-Aqsa preacher reported detained and barred, as holy site set to reopen

ILLUSTRATIVE -- Children arrive at Paula Ben Gurion elementary school in Jerusalem on September 1, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

With Netanyahu set to speak on reimposing closures, 2nd J’lem school shuts down

PM to address nation after meeting ministers, officials over sharp rise in cases; school shuts due to large number of kids with siblings at high school at center of outbreak

Magen David Adom medical workers at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing in Jerusalem on May 30, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel sees further steep jump of 121 virus cases; drive-through testing reopens

An Israeli Premier League soccer match between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, February 17, 2020. (Flash90)

Israel men’s soccer set to resume Saturday in empty, sanitized stadiums

Analysis

A Jewish and a Palestinian scientist team up for MIT at-home coronavirus test

Jonathan Gootenberg and Omar Abudayyeh are now the only researchers allowed inside the McGovern Institute, working relentlessly on an efficient, inexpensive test kit for COVID-19

Jonathan Gootenberg, left, and Omar Abudayyeh, right, at their lab on October 31, 2019. The pair met during their undergraduate studies at MIT and have been working together closely for the last five years. (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT/ Photo by Caitlin Cunningham Photography)

A medical worker takes a swab from a foreign reporter who was selected to cover the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) for the coronavirus test, at a hotel in Beijing, May 27, 2020. (Andy Wong/AP)

Scientist posits ‘wild’ hypothesis that cross immunity could slow pandemic

Hydroxychloroquine pills. (AP/John Locher)

Scientists have ‘serious doubts’ over study used to discredit malaria drugs

By Kelly MacNamara

In this May 19, 2020, photo, Israeli courier, Mishel Zrian carries a bone marrow transplant donation at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. Over the past two months, as air travel has ground to a halt, Zrian has criss-crossed the Atlantic and the United States dozens of times, sleeping in empty airports and unable to return home to see his family in Israel, all in a race against time to deliver life-saving transplants. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

70 days in airports: The Israeli courier keeping global organ transplants alive

By Tia Goldenberg

A photo of the two altars found at the entrance to a shrine at Tel Arad in southern Israel, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. (Israel Museum/Laura Lachman)

Analysis

1st high: Ancient Israelites at Biblical shrine used cannabis to spark ‘ecstasy’

Researchers find resin on altar at Tel Arad is marijuana mixed with animal dung, used 2,700 years ago ‘as deliberate psychoactive’ – first evidence of ritual cannabis use in region

People watch a fire May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests continued following the death of George Floyd who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

National Guard called into US cities as protests rage over George Floyd’s death

Soldiers mobilized in Minneapolis and surrounding cities as well as Atlanta, on standby in Washington; 1 killed in Detroit when shots fired into a crowd of protesters

A protester carries a US flag upside down, a sign of distress, next to a burning building in Minneapolis, Minnesota following the death of George Floyd, May 28, 2020. (AP/Julio Cortez)

Protests, some violent, erupt across US in wake of George Floyd death

In this screen capture of video from May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneels on the neck of George Floyd, who was handcuffed and pleading that he could not breathe, in Minneapolis. (Darnella Frazier via AP)

Minneapolis cop who knelt on handcuffed black man’s neck charged with murder

By Tim Sullivan and Amy Forliti

Marcella White Campbell

When you treat us as just a statistic, you fail Jews of color like me

Jews have lived on every continent for millennia. Diversity has always been — and will always be — fundamentally Jewish.

Alison Spatz Levine and Heather Maiman

Opening a Jewish camp this summer? Bad idea, say this camp doctor and nurse

The ‘bubble camp’ plan is full of holes that pose risk for kids, staff and nearby communities. It’s also ethically flawed

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Illustrative: Israeli troops take part in a drill in northern Israel, May 13, 2020. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

IDF apprehends 3 suspects caught crossing border from Lebanon

Incident does not appear to be attempted attack, army says; earlier, troops fired warning shots at shepherd who neared fence

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, center, stands next to the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Major-General Stefano Del Col, left, as he reviews the honor guard of the United Nations peacekeepers in Naqoura, Lebanon, May 27, 2020. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanon extends mandate of UN force along Israel border

By AP

A picture taken from the southern Lebanese border town of Kfar Kila shows an Israeli military vehicle in Metullah on the Israeli side on January 3, 2020. (Ali Dia/AFP)

IDF troops fire warning shots after suspect in Lebanon nears border

Doron and Danielle, a couple who survived the coronavirus together, will take a ride in a rowboat on the Yarkon River as part of 'Exit Strategies,' a post-coronavirus exhibit taking place May 28-30, 2020 (Courtesy Shai Dror)

As Tel Aviv awakens, artists moved by lockdown leave mark on the city

By Jessica Steinberg

Children bury their father, who died from COVID-19 complications, at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, May 28, 2020. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)

Trump cuts ties with WHO mid-pandemic as Europe speeds reopening

Death tolls, new infections spike in Russia and Brazil; Greece opens to tourists from 29 countries; economic carnage continues, with total 41 million in US filing for unemployment

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and US President Donald Trump speak during a bilateral meeting on the third day of the annual G7 Summit in Biarritz, south-west France, August 26, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Merkel rejects Trump’s invite for in-person G7 summit amid pandemic

By AFP

Wives and children of German business people working in China walk through a terminal at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, May 29, 2020. (AP/Michael Probst)

First post-lockdown flight carrying Europeans to China departs from Germany

By AFP

Israeli musician DOV. (Lissy Elle Laricchia/ via JTA)

Interview

Israeli musician DOV is telling queer stories through gentle electronica

By Emily Burack

Israeli designer Rinat Brodach working on a design while on Amazon Prime Video's 'Making the Cut,' which aired March 20, 2020 (Courtesy screen grab)

Israeli designer Rinat Brodach raves about the realities of ‘Making the Cut’

By Jessica Steinberg

The New York-based reality show participant proudly proclaimed her Israeli background, lighting Shabbat candles and mentioning her army service

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In this February 18, 2020, photo, a view of the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Efraim on the hills of the Jordan Valley. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Austria warns Israel against annexation, despite preventing EU statement on plan

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)

Cyprus court upholds Hezbollah suspect’s extradition to US on money charges

By AFP

Director Woody Allen poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Cafe Society, at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 11, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)

From the webInterview: ‘Do I really care?’ Woody Allen comes out fighting

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan court as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial, on February 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

4 more women accuse Weinstein of assault; one says he raped her when she was 17

By Michael R. Sisak

Muslim worshippers read the Koran at the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 25, 2020, after the reopening of major Shiite shrines across the country following their closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Stringer/AFP)

Iran announces group prayer to resume at mosques nationwide

By AFP

ILLUSTRATIVE - In this April 11, 2020, file photo, a person films Easter Vigil Mass at St. Patrick Church in North Hollywood, California (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

US Supreme Court rejects challenge to lockdown rules on religious services

By Mark Sherman

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