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What Matters Most On Monday, June 1, 2020

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Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a protective face mask, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu facing fresh stint in quarantine after worker comes down with virus

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime minister, other top officials were in room with technical worker at Saturday press conference to warn about virus, unclear how close contact was

6:31 pm

George Floyd's brother pleads with protesters to stop rioting
6:10 pm

Minneapolis police union head defends cops, blames protests on 'terrorists'
5:47 pm

Nearly 100 new virus cases recorded in last day

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an inauguration ceremony marking the opening of a new police station in the northern Arab Israeli town of Jisr az-Zarqa, November 21, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu says contentious virus bill won’t let cops enter homes without warrant

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

With opposition slamming legislation as assault on democracy, PM decries ‘fake news,’ says balance will be kept between enforcement of COVID-19 regulations and individual liberties

Magen David Adom medical workers test Israelis at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewTests, schools and lessons about democracy: 6 things to know for June 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a cabinet meeting of the new government at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/ Pool/ AFP)

Gantz defends bill to let cops into homes without warrant, other emergency steps

By Raoul Wootliff

The entrance to the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Thousands of students sent into isolation as more virus cases found in schools

Staff, children at schools around the country are quarantined as cases continue to rise in the education system; officials said to decide to close any school with 3 or more cases

Newly appointed Education Minister Yoav Gallant (left) with his predecessor Rafi Peretz at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Politicians unmaskedIsraeli leaders fail to follow own hygiene rules

Magen David Adom medical workers test Israelis, collecting samples for coronavirus testing in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel rolls out antibody tests, takes samples from foreign workers

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

Iran cyberattack on Israel’s water supply could have sickened hundreds – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Western official says April hack aimed to raise chlorine to dangerous levels; Israeli official says attack began tit-for-tat on civilian targets

Check Point CEO Gil Shwed speaks at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition, in Tel Aviv, on January 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ is coming in wake of coronavirus, expert warns

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: People stand near a car that was damaged due to flying debris from a Syrian military base housing a weapons warehouse, in the country's central province of Homs, Syria, May 1, 2020. (SANA, the Syrian official news agency, via AP)

Monitor: 5 pro-Iran fighters killed in Syria strike blamed on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Men carry the body of Iyad Halak to burial after Israeli police shot him dead in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, May 31, 2020, believing he was carrying a gun. Israel's defense minister has apologized for the shooting of the unarmed Palestinian, who was autistic. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Hundreds call for revenge at funeral of East Jerusalem man killed by police

Demonstrators chant Palestinian nationalistic slogans as they carry body of Iyad Halak, an unarmed autistic man shot by officers, who say they thought he was armed

A Palestinian woman argues with a member of Israeli security forces, as she takes part in a protest at the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, on May 31, 2020, to condemn the shooting a day earlier of Iyad Hallak, a disabled Palestinian man who was shot dead by Israeli police who said they mistakenly thought he was carrying a gun. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Caregiver says she told cops East Jerusalem man was disabled before he was shot

The funeral of Ben-Yosef Livnat, killed by Palestinian security officers near Nablus in April 2011. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

IDF charges PA security officer over 2011 slaying of Israeli man

By Judah Ari Gross

Interview

French envoy: We’re not making threats, but annexation will have consequences

Eric Danon also explains why Paris won’t outlaw Hezbollah, what’s next for French aliyah and how he defied diplomatic tradition to become France’s first Jewish ambassador to Israel

French Ambassador to Israel Eric Danon (courtesy French Embassy Tel Aviv)

Anwar Gargash, the Emirati minister of state for foreign affairs, at the UAE Security Forum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Israeli annexation talk ‘must stop,’ senior UAE official says

By Raphael Ahren

A man walks past the Dome of the Rock, in the Temple Mount compound, in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 16, 2020. (Emmanuel DUNAND/AFP)

Israel, Saudis hold talks for Riyadh to join Temple Mount Waqf – report

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House, May 20, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

Op-ed

The Trump tweet Israel needs: A blur of thumbs to quash unilateral annexation

The US president unveiled a shrewd Mideast peace plan. Netanyahu is set to subvert it, turning it into a smokescreen for one-sided action, rendering it a scam. Will Trump step in?

Farhud Day: Remembering the screams

79 years after Muslims rampaged against Jews in Baghdad, killing, maiming, raping and looting, the horrors have yet to be adequately memorialized

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Squeaky the Mouse is living in our house as the world burns down

With COVID-19 cases rising, Los Angeles on fire, and so much senseless death, it’s no surprise that I want peace at home — and that critter far away from us!

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

America is bleeding, I must not turn away

To do nothing in the wake of George Floyd’s death and all that has followed it is to deaden some part of ourselves, as surely as if we drank a poison for the soul

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Velvel Pasternak: A recording session to remember

My father thought he was helping preserve Hasidic music for posterity; the singers, however, were busy worshiping God

Top left, clockwise, April Baskin, Anthony Russell, Yitz Jordan and Tema Smith. (Baskin: Jill Peltzman; Russell: Courtesy of Russell; Jordan: Courtesy of Jordan; Smith: Courtesy of Smith -- all via JTA)

‘Believe us’: Black Jews respond to George Floyd protests, in their own words

By Josefin Dolsten

Black Jews in US call for more solidarity, understanding and support from their coreligionists and to use shared history of oppression for empathy, not denying pain of others

Dr. Vivian Fischer offered medical care in Minneapolis during protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody there, May 30, 2020. (Courtesy Fischer/ via JTA)

Minneapolis Jews tend wounds, distribute supplies, caring for a city in turmoil

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

A US demonstrator wears a face mask during a protest over the death of George Floyd, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘We stand in solidarity’: What Jewish orgs are saying about George Floyd’s death

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Police form a line on H Street as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

As protests closed in on White House, Trump was rushed to underground bunker

By Jonathan Lemire and Zeke Miller

Demonstrations Friday sparked one of the highest alerts on complex since 9/11; tens of thousands protest again Sunday, with violence overshadowing peaceful efforts

A journalist is seen bleeding after police started firing tear gas and rubber bullets near the 5th police precinct following a demonstration to call for justice for George Floyd, a black man who died while in custody of the Minneapolis police, on May 30, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Journalists blinded, wounded, shot, arrested as they cover George Floyd protests

By Lindsey Bahr

Graffiti was spray-painted on the walls of Congregation Beth Israel in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles, May 30, 2020. (Lisa Daftari/Twitter via JTA)

Synagogues in Los Angeles and Richmond vandalized during protests

By JTA

Archaeology

1,800 years ago, sages prohibited drinking from this ‘idolatrous’ waterspout

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

(From left to right) Avner, Sara, Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu tour the Golan Heights, on April 23, 2019. (PMO)

Netanyahu files police complaint over decapitation threat to him and family

Prime minister posts screenshot of message calling to hang him, his wife and his two sons

Police investigating after employee says she lied to protect Sara Netanyahu

By ToI Staff and AP

High Court says attorney general can also serve as state attorney

Netanyahu denies plans for alternate prime minister’s residence

Rabbi Jennifer Weinstein inside Gutterman's Funeral Home, May 15, 2020, Woodbury, New York. (Photo by Jonathan Alpeyrie/Polaris Images)

Photo essay

Inside a NY Jewish funeral home where COVID-19 means a regrettable business boom

By Jonathan Alpeyrie

An aerial view of solar panels near the southern resort city of Eilat. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

With $22 billion plan, Israel ups 2030 renewable energy target from 17% to 30%

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz claims measure will reduce air pollution by 93%, greenhouse gases by 50% per capita

Clive Lipchin in front of a pilot off-grid sewage treatment unit in the Bedouin village of Umm Batin, near Beersheba in the Negev. (Courtesy, Arava Institute)

First off-grid wastewater treatment unit in Bedouin village piloted

Corals broken by the extreme storms that battered Eilat in March. (Dr Assaf Zvuloni, Eilat district marine ecologist, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Extreme March storms wreaked vast damage on Eilat’s coral reefs, study finds

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Rabbi Norman Lamm, inset, helped rebuild Yeshiva University into the flagship of Modern Orthodoxy during his nearly three decades as its chancellor. (Lamm photo: Yeshiva University; library photo: Wikimedia Commons)

ObituaryRabbi Norman Lamm, longtime head of Yeshiva University, dies at 92

By Uriel Heilman

Prayer shawls and tefillin were stuffed into toilets at the Kol Yehouda Sephardic congregation in Montreal. (Courtesy of B'nai Brith Canada)

Torah scrolls cut up, tefillin put in toilets in vandalism at Montreal synagogue

By David Lazarus

Illustrative photo of a prostitute in Tel Aviv (Flash90)

Police bust sex trafficking ring that brought women to Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from Israel via video link at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, on March 26, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP/File)

With 9 months to go, AIPAC scrubs 2021 conference over pandemic

By Eric Cortellessa

Members of the Druze community protest for the government financial support they were promised by the government, outside the weekly government office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, May 31, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Druze and Circassian protesters push for funding, decry ‘discrimination’

By Aaron Boxerman

Grounded El Al planes at Ben Gurion Airport on April 6, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90)

Israel’s airports chief said pushing Health Ministry to reopen skies immediately

The offices of Ogen, in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Social lender raises $30 million for small business loans amid pandemic

By Shoshanna Solomon

(From L-R) Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman during a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry on May 31, 2020. (Haim Zach/PMO)

Cabinet slashes budgets to pay for 6 new ministries, including ‘alternate PM’

A Palestinian vendor with a mask displays his fresh fruit juice in the street as the markets remain partly closed, part of a lockdown and quarantine measures to protect residents from the coronavirus, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 19, 2020. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

UN paper warns of Palestinian economic collapse due to COVID-19

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Peter Eckstein-Kovacs served in Romania's government for nearly two decades. (Courtesy of Eckstein-Kovacs/ via JTA)

Orban’s influence challenges ethnic Hungarian pol defending Romanian minorities

By Charles Dunst

In this Dec. 5, 1931 photo, Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, is saluted as he leaves the party's Munich headquarters (AP Photo, File)

Australian channel sorry for Hitler pic in TV report on rugby game’s ‘fake fans’

An Israeli soldier appears to slash the tires of a Palestinian limousine in Kafr Qaddum during a violent demonstration in the northern West Bank village on May 30, 2020. (Screen capture: B'Tselem)

IDF probing B’Tselem video showing soldier slashing Palestinian car tires

By Judah Ari Gross

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