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Thursday, April 30, 2020

FBI hints at Israeli effort to help Trump in 2016 * Op-Ed: Stunning COVID-19 stats * Inside story of THAT funeral * Top UK donor: Israeli politics violate Diaspora values

 
Redacted FBI document hints at Israeli efforts to help Trump in 2016 campaign
BY TOI STAFF AND AP
Affidavit quotes Trump confidant Roger Stone being told by a Jerusalem contact: ‘He is going to be defeated unless we intervene. We have critical intell. The key is in your hands!’






 
4 deaths raise virus toll to 219, but new infections continue downward slide
BY TOI STAFF
Health Ministry data shows 88 confirmed cases in last 24 hours; over half of the 15,870 people diagnosed with COVID-19 have regained their health

 
Government lifts 500-meter restriction on exercising outdoors
BY TOI STAFF
 
ToI investigates / Virus lockdowns may be hiding an outbreak of violence against women, children
BY SUE SURKES
 
OP-ED
It’s not over, and uncertainty abounds, but Israel’s COVID-19 stats are stunning
Are we radically younger, more hygienic, less kissy? No. We have wonderful doctors and nurses, but so do other countries. So how has Israel kept a lid on the pandemic?
 
With 26,097 fatalities, UK has world’s third-highest virus death toll
BY PAN PYLAS
 
Iran coronavirus toll tops 6,000
BY AFP
 
 
INSIDE STORY
Businesses, economists decry ‘lack of leadership’ as pandemic batters economy
Ad hoc addenda, poor implementation and too little, too late — a chorus of criticism for the government’s aid measures comes from firms big and small, along with the self-employed
 
Knesset committee extends Shin Bet tracking of virus carriers till Tuesday
BY TOI STAFF
 
Independence Day curfew ends as Israel moves toward easing more restrictions
BY TOI STAFF
 
ANALYSIS
Inside story of the funeral of a NY rabbi, a COVID-19 victim, that went so wrong
The police wanted to help and ‘barricaded the streets.’ The synagogue aimed for a respectful, socially distant funeral. It didn’t work out that way. And then came the mayor…
 
Slammed for lashing out at NY Jews, mayor has no regrets for calling out danger
BY TOI STAFF AND AP
 
Interview / Shulem Lemmer on being the 1st artist raised Hasidic to sign a major record deal
BY CURT SCHLEIER
 
LIVE UPDATES
Arab League calls West Bank annexation plans a ‘war crime,’ vows to back PA
BY MICHAEL BACHNER
Foreign ministers at emergency meeting draft resolution urging US to drop support for Israeli moves, set to go ahead in coming months as part of coalition deal
 
 
TOP OPS
 
MICK DAVIS
Sir Mick Davis: Israeli politics violate Diaspora values
Writing in the Jewish News, a major UK donor to Israel says the breakdown of its democratic values is an existential challenge to ties with the diaspora
 
ADAM S. FERZIGER
American Jews are suffering. Can Israel help without patronizing? 
With the pandemic’s devastating and disproportionate toll on centers of US Jewish life, a historical dynamic of aid-giving is reversed
 
JOSHUA BERMAN
When Satmar met Wellhausen
5 Hasidim read my book on biblical criticism and wanted more; when we met on Zoom, I found like-minded thinkers in an unexpected quarter
 
A HASIDIC WOMAN IN ISRAEL
The cold crown of corona
Our pride in belonging to the Haredi community is on the wane – and our desire for the internet is rising
 
Biden says he’ll keep US embassy in Jerusalem if elected
BY AGENCIES AND TOI STAFF
Democratic candidate says he opposed Trump’s ‘short-sighted and frivolous’ decision to move mission, but ‘now that it’s done, I would not move the embassy back to Tel Aviv’
 
Biden under pressure to address sexual assault allegation
BY ELODIE CUZIN
 
As Biden sex assault claim builds, some Jewish women reconsider their support
BY RON KAMPEAS
 
 
ANALYSIS
Lots of bark, some actual bite? How the world will react to West Bank annexation
In this time of pandemic, ‘there will be little patience with Israel,’ ex-Mossad chief warns
 
Access for Israeli farmers to Jordan border enclave comes to an end Thursday
BY TOI STAFF
 
 
High Court rules hospitals can’t stop visitors bringing in bread during Passover
BY TOI STAFF
Ruling says guards can’t search belongings of visitors or make remarks about bringing in food that isn’t kosher for Passover; draws immediate rebuke from ultra-Orthodox lawmakers
 
Court freezes extension of acting state attorney’s tenure, which expires Monday
BY TOI STAFF
 
Germany outlaws all Hezbollah activities, including by political wing
BY RAPHAEL AHREN
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