Judges sound reluctant to bar Netanyahu as PM * Only 45 new virus cases, as schoolkids return * Saudis defend pro-Jewish TV show * German Catholics admit WWII complicity

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Sunday, May 3, 2020 [‘On what basis?’ High Court sounds reluctant to bar Netanyahu from forming gov’t]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Show us something!’ court president demands of petitioners. ‘You’re asking us to set a precedent!’; State and party lawyers urge judges not to intervene, warn of political fallout]( [Analysis / Stability or straitjacket? The Netanyahu-Gantz coalition deal goes to court]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Over 1,000 protest Netanyahu-Gantz coalition deal, urge court to strike it down]( By [Aariel Schalit]( Live updates [Justices challenge petitioners calling to block Netanyahu from premiership]( By [Jacob Magid and TOI staff]( [High Court hears arguments against indicted PM being able to form next government; Likud lawyer: Don’t block the will of the people]( [Israel’s new daily COVID-19 infections dive below 50; death toll rise to 230]( By [TOI staff]( [Just 41 confirmed cases in past 24 hours; overnight fatality was 22nd resident of nursing home in Yavne’el to die; 82 on ventilators; only 6,329 currently have disease]( [Pride parades, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, postponed amid virus fears]( By [TOI staff]( [Self-employed hold rallies across country to push for state support]( By [TOI staff]( [Many more women than men said left unemployed by coronavirus crisis]( By [TOI staff]( [Many elementary schools reopen as Israel gingerly steps toward ‘normalcy’]( By [TOI staff]( [Students in first through third grades as well as some others head back to class, though many cities are keeping buildings shuttered amid chaotic roll-out]( [Health Ministry said to favor allowing visits to grandparents, opening beaches]( By [TOI staff]( [Live updates (closed) / Cabinet approves removal of age restriction for those returning to work]( By [Jacob Magid]( [CRM]( [Creators defend Saudi series, saying positive depiction is of Jews, not Israelis]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Controversy swirls around TV production, screened amid warming Jerusalem-Riyadh ties; head writer says he wants to send message that societies used to be much more tolerant]( [Young Egyptian filmmaker who mocked Sissi dies in jail]( By [AFP]( [Mossad gave Berlin intel on Hezbollah ops on German soil ahead of ban — report]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Unnamed Israeli official tells TV Germans were provided info on warehouses where terror group stashed materials for explosives, as well as money laundering networks]( [IDF catches 5 migrants trying to enter Israel from Lebanon]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [US said to question China’s role in bid to construct Israeli desalination plant]( By [TOI staff]( [Report says Trump administration officials have expressed concern over Hutchison Water International potentially winning tender to build facility]( [Robots and cameras: A look at China’s dystopian quarantine watch]( By [Jing Xuan Teng]( Top Ops [Miriam Schler]( [Corona’s hidden reverberations for our mental health]( [Down the line, when we see cases of self-harm, addiction, crippling depression and even suicide, the coronavirus will not be blamed, but it will be the real culprit]( [Dan Perry]( [If court blows up unity, is there a way back for Gantz?]( [A scenario in which the Blue and White head forms a center-left government is no less reasonable than three election campaigns in a year]( [In ‘confession of guilt,’ German Catholic Church admits ‘complicity’ with Nazis]( By [TOI staff]( [After decades of ambivalence, document prepared by clergy says hundreds of priests gave spiritual guidance to Hitler’s soldiers on front, ‘lent war an additional sense of purpose’]( Twinkle, twinkle UFO [Israelis wonder at mysterious, fast-moving lights in the sky]( By [TOI staff]( [When a procession of bright orbs crossed the country’s skies Wednesday evening, Israel’s Air Force and Space Agency were called in to investigate]( [Puff, puff, pass: Sniff tech aims to enable mass virus testing at airports]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Galilee-based Nanoscent uses plastic bag and sensor chip to analyze nasal exhalation of coronavirus patients to find scent pattern; machine learning ongoing at Sheba Medical Center]( [Report: Suicide attempts at quarantine hotels, some officials call to shut them]( By [TOI staff]( [Sunny skies draw masses outside, but virus keeps many on guard]( By [AP]( Interview [Peace activist author A.B. 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