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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 4, 2020

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Current and former Meretz lawmakers at a lookout point above Jericho in the West Bank on June 4, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

'This is an apartheid map. It reminds me of South Africa'

Meretz chairman warns against Trump ‘apartheid’ plan in West Bank protest tour

Left-wing party head says PM will annex territory if public doesn’t speak out, blasts refusal to grant citizenship to Palestinians in adjacent areas

Illustrative: Israeli border police officers seen during the demolishing of six illegally built structures at the outpost of "Komi Ori", outside the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, in the West Bank, April 22, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Israel media reviewThe right to fight: 5 things to know for June 4

Palestinian rioters clash with Israeli forces at a demonstration along the Gaza border near Gaza City, September 6, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Half of Israelis support annexation, most predict violence if it goes ahead

By AFP and ToI Staff

David Elhayani, head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council and the Yesha Council of West Bank mayors, at a Yesha protest tent near the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 4, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Settler leader says annexation plan like being forced to eat cake at gunpoint

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Day after coming under fire for criticizing Trump, David Elhayani says he has a duty to speak out against what he sees as an ‘existential threat’ posed by the US peace proposal

Netanyahu lambastes settler leader for saying Trump is no friend of Israel

Top settler leader: Trump peace plan shows he’s ‘not a friend of Israel’

Settler mayor: If Netanyahu won’t reveal annexation plan, we’ll ‘blow it up’

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, right, listens to US President Donald Trump speak during a cabinet meeting at the White House on January 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ex-defense chief Mattis rebukes Trump over protests, implies comparison to Nazis

Former Pentagon head denounces US president, accusing him of trying to divide country, slams decision to use force to clear demonstrators for DC church photo op

Trump declares himself champion of black people comparable to Lincoln

By Sam Sokol and Agencies

Pentagon-Trump clash breaks open over military and protests

By Zeke Miller and Robert Burns

Ousted US State Department watchdog confirms investigations into Pompeo

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Eric Tucker

Joint List MK diagnosed with virus, shutting down Knesset

Sami Abou Shahadeh says he was in contact with thousands, photographed in close contact with others while not wearing a mask; Deri backtracks on entry for foreign yeshiva students

Joint List MK Sami Abu Shehadeh (Screen capture: YouTube)

Illustrative: A health worker takes a blood sample for a COVID-19 antibody test in Los Angeles, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Health Ministry announces widespread serological testing to begin next week

A party at the Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv on June 2, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Police probing modeling agency’s Tel Aviv rooftop bash for violating virus rules

Jerusalemites walk and shop at the Mamilla Mall near Jerusalem's Old City on June 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

118 new COVID-19 cases recorded in 24 hours, with nearly 13,000 tested

300 students and teachers said among ill in fresh virus outbreak, 87 schools shuttered; number of active cases rises to 2,191

6:13 pm

Norway to withhold PA funding over textbooks that promote violence
5:53 pm

Breakdown of new virus cases by city
5:45 pm

Health Ministry: 118 new coronavirus cases recorded in 24 hours

Archaeologist Joe Uziel cleans the newly uncovered Western Wall courses, located under Wilson's Arch in the Jerusalem Old City, October 2017. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Scientists ‘set the clock’ for ancient Jerusalem, prove who built Temple bridge

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Without trust, there can be no compliance

The Israeli public deserves leadership that isn’t weighed down by a track record of incoherent instructions, selective enforcement, and politicians’ own failure to comply

Robert L. Wolkoff

It is terrifying that the man who sits in the office of the president of the United States has such profound disregard for the very principles on which the country was founded

America’s Bible problem

Trump’s Bible thumping is designed to divide people, evoking awe from some, and alienating the rest — whereas the Bible itself shows God’s investment in every single human being

Stop the ‘pay for slay’ payments and put the welfare of Israeli citizens first

For the PA, the martyrs’ payments are central to the long war against Israel; for Israel, stopping them is essential to preventing terror and breaking the cycle of conflict

A classroom is empty at an elementary school in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2020. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

More schools across Israel, many in Tel Aviv, closed due to COVID-19 infections

At least a dozen schools and preschools from Sderot to Petah Tikva shuttered, bringing national total to about 65, as additional students and teachers diagnosed

Students and teachers wear protective face masks as they return to school, at Hashalom School in Mevaseret Zion, near Jerusalem, May 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Any school where virus cases found will be shuttered, Netanyahu says

Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans celebrate team's victory along with players, June 3, 2020 (Screen grab/Walla)

Maccabi Tel Aviv fined after soccer players, fans break virus rules to celebrate

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 7, 2020. (Nasser Nasser/Pool/AFP)

In move seen as ‘nearly suicidal,’ Abbas’s PA refuses tax transfers from Israel

By Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid

Palestinian Authority, which has formally cut security ties to Israel over annexation plans, heavily relies on these funds amid drop in donor aid, economic crisis caused by virus

Israeli soldiers secure Jewish pilgrims at Joseph's Tomb near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 29, 2019 (IDF)

Israeli pilgrims visit Nablus shrine despite end of PA security cooperation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman at a joint press conference on May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From the webLiberman, a would-be Netanyahu nemesis, snipes at PM’s annexation talk

A volunteer delivers food packages to those in need during the coronavirus crisis. (Courtesy Joint Distribution Committee)

To fight viral blues, elderly in former Soviet bloc prescribed tablet computers

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Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein testifies during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Washington, on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Top-ranking US Jewish officer calls George Floyd death a ‘national tragedy’

By JTA

In memo distributed to commanders, Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein also announces review of force’s military justice system for racial bias

Police officers form a line to block protesters in central London on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 after a demonstration over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. Protests have taken place across America and internationally, after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck while the handcuffed black man called out that he couldn’t breathe. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

Thousands in Europe decry racial injustice, police violence

By Pan Pylas and Jill Lawless

George Soros at the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/ Ronald Zak)

Negative tweets about George Soros up to 500,000 a day, ADL says

Illustrative: John Eaves, seen on a visit to Israel's Western Wall, says being black and Jewish has made him more attuned to bigotry. (Courtesy of Eaves/via JTA)

Black and Jewish, aspiring congressman John Eaves claims double-dose of empathy

By Josefin Dolsten

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset on May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu said seeking to shift NIS 600,000 tax bill to state

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends the first cabinet meeting of the new government at the Chagall Hall in the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Gantz’s new security detail said to cost NIS 23 million a year

Trash in nature, from a presentation by former MK Miki Haimovich during a Knesset Interior Affairs and Environment Committee meeting on waste, June 2, 2020.

As garbage grows, Knesset committee debates failed efforts to squash litterbugs

Holocaust survivors walk below the gate with its inscription 'Work sets you free' after a wreath laying at the death wall at the memorial site of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz during ceremonies to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2020. (Janek Skarzynski/ AFP/ File)

Auschwitz museum struggling for funds under lockdown

By AFP

A justice symbol monument is seen in front of a mosque in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, May 3, 2012. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

US says Alaska man laundered nearly $1 billion for Iran through UAE

By Jon Gambrell

A young woman visits her grandmother in Kibbutz Barkai, Israel, April 26, 2020. (Guy Prives/Getty Images/ via JTA)

Farmers’ markets, to-go cocktails and online art: Tel Aviv’s pandemic response

By Shira Rubin

An illustrative photo of a man smoking a joint. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Police minister backs eased enforcement against cannabis users

In this photo taken on May 6, 2019 Austria's Vice-Chancellor and chairman of the Freedom Party FPOe Heinz-Christian Strache gives a press conference at the prime minister's office in Budapest (ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Former Austrian vice chancellor accused of writing anti-Semitic book dedication

By Toby Axelrod

The Sukkat Shalom Synagogue in Belgrade, Serbia. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Krumb77, Wikipedia)

Serbia adopts anti-Semitism definition including anti-Israel hate

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Barriers called bollards in front of Chabad of Sherman Oaks installed last year are meant to prevent ramming attacks; they have been emptied of stones after rumors that they were intended to aid antifa riots. (Screenshot/ Facebook)

Never mind the bollardsWhite House tweets rumor that an LA Chabad house is fueling antifa

By PHILISSA CRAMER and Ben Sales

Bruce Jay Friedman is interviewed by 'Theater Talk' on Feb 9, 2014 (Screen grab)

ObituaryBruce Jay Friedman, writer of ‘Splash’ and ‘Stern,’ dies at 90

By Hillel Italie

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers training (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Senior IDF officer shot, seriously hurt in apparent training accident

By Judah Ari Gross

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