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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 2, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) meets with settler leaders in his office on February 25, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/File)

Settler leaders leave sit-down unenthusiastic

Netanyahu urges doubtful settler chiefs to get behind ‘historic’ West Bank plan

In meeting with settlement mayors who oppose Trump plan’s Palestinian state, PM says he’s committed to talks with PA based on proposal, hails ‘opportunity’ to carry out annexation

US President Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside US Vice President Mike Pence (C), US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (2nd R) and White House adviser Jared Kushner (R) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 27, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Netanyahu talks annexation with Kushner; US said to want to ‘slow the process’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, right, meet with the IDF General Staff in the military's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv on May 18, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Gantz tells army to step up preparations, as West Bank annexation looms

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Israeli school children wearing protective facemasks, preparing to go back to school, May 16, 2020.(Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Schools to remain open as prime minister pushes decision to Wednesday

By Joshua Davidovich

Health Ministry had called to shutter high schools and middle schools but education minister had protested; plans to reopen trains chug along despite warning of delay

6:33 pm

Minister said to nix condolence call after father of slain man protests
6:28 pm

Jerusalem chief rabbi pays condolences to family of autistic man slain by cops
6:21 pm

Israelis demonstrate for George Floyd outside Tel Aviv mission

Illustrative: Students and teacher at Hashalom School in Mevaseret Zion, near Jerusalem, May 17, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Almost 10,000 students, teachers quarantined as 217 infected in Israeli schools

Health Ministry announces country’s first 2 deaths in days, again confirms more than 100 new cases in last 24 hours, as renewed outbreak persists

Israeli medical personnel take samples at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing facility in Ramat Hasharon near Tel Aviv, on June 1, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

New restrictions likely if virus outbreak expands, top health official warns

A health worker draws blood from a patient for a COVID-19 antibody test at the Volusia County Fairgrounds in DeLand, Florida, on May 5, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Initial antibody tests indicate 200,000 Israelis have had COVID-19 – report

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Then-US president Donald Trump, right, looks over to then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020, at which Trump unveiled his 'Peace to Prosperity' vision for an Israeli-Palestinian accord. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Israel media review

Tell me what you want, what you really, really want: 6 things to know for June 2

With under a month until Israel’s annexation target date, US officials phone Jerusalem to get a grip on what it’s planning, but the Americans are not the only ones out of the loop

(From L-R) Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan, Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked, Jordan Valley Regional Council chairman and Yesha Council chairman David Elhayani and Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett, during a Yamina faction meeting in the Knesset on June 1, 2020. (Courtesy)

‘No, thank you’: Yamina, settler leaders defy Trump plan’s Palestinian state

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

Netanyahu faces potential 3rd stint in quarantine as worker diagnosed with virus

Anthony Johnson

Jews are people of color – here’s how they can support black people right now

Use your political and economic power to help us dismantle institutionalized racism, wear your Jewishness loudly and proudly, and treat us like true equals

Baruch Frydman-Kohl

Where is God in the pandemic? Wrong question

Rather than seeing God as decreeing disease, we’re better off recognizing how human beings affect the cosmos and, in turn, the divine

Protests in a pandemic: What it says about hope

Suddenly there was chaos and screaming — gas in the air and water in my eyes. By the end of the night, I no longer recognized Boston

I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; not to kill Iyad Hallaq

I am an Arab. I have a special need to be alive. I have a special need not to be afraid.

US President Donald Trump walks in Lafayette Park to visit outside St. John's Church across from the White House, in Washington, June 1, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Amid protests, Trump talks of war — and reelection

By Jonathan Lemire and Alan Suderman

Commenting on rioting following death of George Floyd, US president vows to deploy military to US cities, declares himself a leader of ‘law and order’

Tear gas, threats disperse protesters near White House for Trump church visit

By Jill Colvin and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

‘Hate just hides’: Biden vows to take on systematic racism

By Alexandra Jaffe, Steve Peoples and Will Weissert

New York City imposes 11 p.m. curfew amid Floyd protests

By Jennifer Peltz and Karen Matthews

Protestors gather in Sydney to support the cause of US protests over the death of George Floyd and urged their own government to address racism and police violence, June 2, 2020. (Rick Rycroft/AP)

World outrage grows at Floyd’s death; European Union ‘shocked, appalled’

By LORNE COOK and RICK RYCROFT

EU foreign policy chief says fatal incident was an abuse of power; demonstrators in Australia join protests, call for change in their own society

Death toll up to 9 in US protests, includes restaurant owner, ex-football star

By LISA MARIE PANE

With rare candor, employees protest Facebook’s Trump policy

By Barbara Ortutay

Floyd’s brother pleads for peace; Trump takes combative tone

By Aaron Morrison and Matt Sedensky

George Floyd. (Christopher Harris via AP)

Contradicting official findings, family autopsy says Floyd died of asphyxiation

Official autopsy of US black man killed by white cop concluded there was nothing ‘to support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation’

Former US President Barack Obama speaking at the Gathering of Rising Leaders in the Asia Pacific, organized by the Obama Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2019. (Vincent Thian/AP)

Obama condemns protest violence, outlines strategy for spurring reforms

By ToI Staff and AP

Demonstrators rally in San Francisco on May 31, 2020, protesting the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Iran, other US adversaries highlight unrest to undercut criticism by Washington

By Jon Gambrell

Outgoing Minister of Environmental Protection Zeev Elkin speaks at a ceremony at the Ministry of Environmental Protection in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New minister of water and higher education says he needs 2 directors

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Ze’ev Elkin explains he heads 2 different ministries, each requiring a dedicated professional to lead them; opposition leader Lapid snipes he needs one for hot water, one for cold

Ministers meet in the Knesset on May 28, 2020. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Bill to let parties replace ministers with more MKs passes first Knesset reading

Newly appointed minister of Transportation Miri Regev speaks at the ministry building in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State prosecution tells police to continue probe into Miri Regev’s father

By Simona Weinglass

New Rochelle resident Lawrence Garbuz, lower right, was the first patient diagnosed with coronavirus in New York. He's still recovering, but now he's home with his family. (Stan Weiss via JTA)

First person

In New Rochelle, where NY outbreak began, my parents’ community longs for normal

As virus forces synagogue and schools closed, Jewish residents of New York suburb cope with virtual services, charity initiatives, drive-by parades and volunteer doctors

In this July 29, 2008, file photo, a rhesus macaque monkey grooms another on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island, off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. Since 1938, the 37-acre island has served as a research colony where the monkeys, originally from India, are studied. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Monkeys, ferrets offer needed clues in COVID-19 vaccine race

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

View of a fire that broke out at an oil refinery complex in Haifa, northern Israel, December 25, 2016. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Court slaps NIS 1.2 million fine on oil refinery for 2016 toxic blaze

Additional fines of NIS 30,000 to 50,000 handed to three managers for failing to implement company rules, violating environmental permits

File: Silhouette of the Ashkelon power station at sunset, October 17, 2007 (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Environment minister unveils ‘green deal’ to kickstart economy sustainably

Sorting of plastic waste. (BizTV screenshot)

New environment minister takes fresh look at contentious waste incinerator plan

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the Kohelet Forum Conference at the Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US envoy Friedman ‘saddened’ by police killing of disabled East Jerusalem man

Ambassador commends Israel for ordering ‘swift investigation’ into death of Iyad Halak, an autistic man shot by officers who said they mistakenly believed he was armed

Iyad Halak. (Courtesy)

Family of East Jerusalem man killed by cops: We don’t believe he’ll get justice

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington on May 20, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool/AFP)

US vows to prevent ‘corrupt’ ICC from probing Americans, Israelis for war crimes

By Raphael Ahren

Israelis protest against violence towards women, in Tel Aviv on June 1, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against violence toward women

Protesters demand government release budgeted NIS 250 million for preventative programs; demonstration comes as Welfare Ministry reports spike in complaints of domestic violence

Tourists and their guide at the Cardo in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City in July 2019, months before the coronavirus would shutter Israeli tourism. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Analysis

Jessica Steinberg

With no tourists on the horizon, tour guides scramble to adapt to a new reality

The economy may be reopening, but with planes still grounded, and with much of the US and Europe stuck at home, an entire profession is being left behind

Hotels on Tel Aviv's coastline are seen from Jaffa on March 26, 2020 (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Government approves $85 million stimulus package for tourism sector

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The entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, November 5, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

4-year-old girl from East Jerusalem who was hit by stray bullet dies

Illustrative: An Israeli patrol along the Lebanon/Israel border fence near Rosh Hanikra, on November 10, 2016. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Man shot after crossing into Israel, apparently to spy, returned to Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

Shuly Rubin Schwartz in New York. (Ellen Dubin Photography via AP)

Prominent US Jewish seminary names 1st woman leader in its 134-year history

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Man arrested for threatening Netanyahu in social media post

Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich applauds his players after they defeated Arsenal 6-0, in an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on March 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

His home is his castleBillionaire Abramovich said to buy Herzliya mansion in $65m deal

By Michael Bachner

German soldiers pictured in the German state of Saxony, May 26, 2020. (Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

Rabbis can be military chaplains in Germany for first time since 1930s

Two undated photos of POW headstones inscribed with swastikas at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas. (Courtesy of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation via JTA)

US Veterans Affairs department to replace tombstones that have swastikas

A photo tweeted by a city councilman in the Hague that references the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust, to protest an application for monitoring coronavirus carriers. (Arnoud van Doorn/Twitter via JTA)

Munich bans display of yellow stars at coronavirus lockdown protests

By Toby Axelrod

Jeff Koons' artworks set up in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, now reopened on June 2, after the coronavirus closure. (courtesy, Elad Sarig)

Culture callsSeveral Israeli museums reopen with new exhibits

By Jessica Steinberg

OurCrowd's Jon Medved speaks at the OurCrowd Global Summit, February 16, 2017 in Jerusalem, (Yosef Adest)

Israel’s OurCrowd to set up $100 million fund to invest in pandemic-busting tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 1, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool via JTA)

Premiering soonNetanyahu’s life story to be made into series ‘Bibi’

Dan Glotter, the founder and CEO of analytics software firm OptimalPlus Ltd. (Osnat Yadin)

US National Instruments to buy Israel’s OptimalPlus for $365 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

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