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What Matters Most On Friday, June 5, 2020

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Benjamin Pogrund, center, next to Nelson Mandela (courtesy Benjamin Pogrund)

Interview'This is the desecration of Zionism'

Annexation will mean apartheid, warns Mandela ally who always fought comparison

By Raphael Ahren

Cape Town-born Benjamin Pogrund, an early confidant of Mandela, wrote a book arguing ‘A’ word doesn’t apply to Israel. Now he fears state will become ‘mirror of what apartheid was’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Pelosi says Israeli annexation in West Bank would hurt US interests

By Eric Cortellessa

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaks during a meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow on August 21, 2017. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)

Egyptian, Russian FMs warn of annexation’s ‘perils,’ call for two-state solution

By Aaron Boxerman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi at a press conference after a security cabinet meeting following an outbreak of violence with terror groups in the Gaza Strip, at the Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 12, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Excluded from Netanyahu’s annexation plans, military must somehow prepare anyway

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset on May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu ally says Israel hasn’t adopted Trump plan, only parts of it

President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem during the Knesset elections on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Decrying ‘verbal violence,’ Rivlin urges softer tone in debate over annexation

Analysis

Iraq’s Jewish sites almost all ruined beyond repair, new heritage report finds

More than half sites in Syria also in terrible condition or worse; neglect and redevelopment blamed, after repression and emigration decimated Jewish life in the 2 countries

A man checks the temperature of a customer at the entrance to the market in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, on June 3, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

133 new infections reported over past day; 5 more schools closed

Increase marks biggest jump in new cases in a single day since start of May; government offers testing for ministers after MK contracts virus

Magen David Adom medical workers take samples to test for the novel coronavirus in South Tel Aviv on June 2, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As virus cases mount, HMOs warn they can’t handle ‘flood’ of new tests — report

Chezy Levy, CEO and medical director of Barzilai Hospital, Ashkelon. (YouTube screenshot)

Civil Service Commission clears nomination of new Health Ministry director

An illustrative image of DNA editing (CIPhotos; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel aiming to enable unprecedented human DNA edits, to help cure illnesses

By Nathan Jeffay

Genome editing is promising but imprecise, so Israel is setting up a consortium to make technology more exact; hopes to pave the way for pinpointed tweaks to human DNA

The new quantum microscope at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. (Nitzan Zohar, Technion spokesperson's office)

Groundbreaking Israeli microscope can change the face of tech — scientists

By Nathan Jeffay

Two pieces of brown soap. (vovashevchuk/iStock by Getty Images)

Israel media review

The first rule of annexation club… : 5 things to know for June 5

By Joshua Davidovich

… is you do not talk about an annexation club. At least that’s Netanyahu’s strategy, which appears to only be adding to the sense of impending doom

Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi delivers his speech during a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, conference, in Rome, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Jordanian FM says annexation will lead to ‘confrontation and anarchy’

A critically endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey living in the El Toro forest of the Peruvian Amazon is now protected, thanks to a purchase of land by TIME. (Courtesy TIME)

World Environment Day

Israeli’s crowdfunding effort seeks to save forests by buying a piece of them

Back in the USSR: I was an American college kid turned manuscript smuggler

That time I went to Moscow and all I got was some illicit microfiche to bring to the West

Karen Alkalay-Gut

Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch: Why I had to write Bible poems from women’s point of view

My mother blessed me to be like the biblical matriarchs, but they weren’t great role models, so I needed to understand them before I could learn from them

Shayna Goldberg

Words that hurt, words that heal

Speaking up shows strength of character, but sometimes keeping quiet is best, especially when our words are recorded in the Torah (or on the internet) forever

Ben & Jerry’s tops its official anti-racism statement with an actual 4-step plan

The ice cream brand calls for concrete action, not empty statements, to stop police brutality and systemic racism

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Illustrative: Israeli travelers who had been stranded in South America, arrive at Ben Gurion airport on March 23, 2020, from Sao Paulo via New York. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Only 2,300 foreigners visited Israel in May amid virus entry restrictions

Central Bureau of Statistics also says 8,300 Israelis traveled abroad last month, up from 2,700 departures in April

In fresh sign of warming ties, Israeli airliner enters Sudan’s airspace

By Raphael Ahren and Michael Bachner

Airports union briefly halts flights due to dispute over resuming travel

Three airlines resume flights to Israel

Model Bar Refaeli poses for photographers upon arrival at the Dior ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2019-2020 collection in Paris, February 26, 2019. (Thibault Camus/AP)

Bar Refaeli said to ink community service deal for tax evasion; mom to be jailed

Report on plea bargain says Tzipi Refaeli will have to spend 16 months behind bars, but supermodel will avoid prison time; will also have to pay fine, NIS 8 million in back taxes

In this image provided by the US State Department, Michael White holds an American flag as he poses for a photo on June 4, 2020, with US special envoy for Iran Brian Hook at the Zurich, Switzerland, airport after White’s release from Iran. (US State Department via AP)

Trump hopeful for Iran relations after American freed

By Shaun Tandon

As Tehran releases Michael White and US frees two Iranians, American president says ‘it shows a deal is possible’

Google: State-backed hackers from Iran, China target Trump and Biden campaigns

Russia defends Iran satellite launch against US opposition

By Edith M. Lederer

Iran news agency head convicted for interviewee’s criticism of Iranian spying

By Jon Gambrell

Fires caused by a reported Israeli attack on a site in Masyaf in northern Syria on June 4, 2020. (Screen capture)

Israeli aircraft said to bomb weapons facility in Syria, killing 9

By Judah Ari Gross

War monitor says four of those killed were Syrian, five of unknown nationality; area that was targeted has reportedly been hit by IDF in the past

Israeli soldiers are seen at the Quneitra border crossing in the Golan Heights, on March 23, 2019, ahead of demonstrations over US President Donald Trump's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the area. (Jack Guez/AFP)

IDF denies report troops entered Syria unauthorized, sparked deadly firefight

By Judah Ari Gross

"Seventh Plague of Egypt," by artist John Martin, 1823. (Public domain)

Explainer

Samira Mehta and Samuel L. Boyd

A justification for unrest? Look to the Bible and the Founding Fathers

The conviction that peace cannot exist without justice can be traced to the authors of Biblical texts and early Jewish and Christian communities

Rabbi Ari Hart, wearing a prayer shawl and face shield, stands with another protester at the interfaith demonstration in memory of George Floyd and protesting systemic racism in Chicago on June 2, 2020. (Courtesy of Hart/ via JTA)

Allies weigh in: 5 rabbis, a black pastor speak after Chicago anti-racism rally

In this image from video provided by WBFO, a Buffalo police officer appears to shove a man who walked up to police on June 4, 2020, in Buffalo, New York. (Mike Desmond/WBFO via AP)

NYC calmer as Buffalo police draw ire for elderly protester’s injury

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In this photo taken Thursday, June 4, 2020, a pedestrian wearing a mask walks past reader board advertising a job opening for a remodeling company, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

As states loosen virus restrictions, US unemployment drops unexpectedly

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

The brother of George Floyd, Terrence Floyd speaks to a crowd during a rally at Cadman Plaza Park, on Thursday, June 4, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Proud of the protests, not the destruction: George Floyd’s brother at NY service

Illustrative: An image of a girl smiling as 'heretics' are burned in a Palestinian textbook. (IMPACT-SE)

Norway to withhold funding to Palestinians over textbooks that promote violence

Video aired by the Kan public broadcaster on June 4, 2020, shows police arresting a suspect in connection to the assault on former Likud MK Yehudah Glick in East Jerusalem's Wadi al-Joz neighborhood. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Suspect arrested over assault on former Likud MK in East Jerusalem

Stephan Balliet, the suspect in the Halle shooting, gets out of a helicopter at the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, October 10, 2019. (Uli Deck/dpa/AFP)

German accused of Halle synagogue shooting attempts prison escape

Yair Bernstein has been posting jokes for his Chicago neighbors throughout the pandemic quarantine. (Courtesy of Bernstein/ via JTA)

Patri-yuksIsraeli’s daily ‘dad jokes’ make Chicagoans laugh during dark times

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Rafal Ziemkiewicz at the Warsaw Book Fair, May 21, 2017. (Maciej Gillert/Gallo Images Poland/Getty Images via JTA)

Right-wing Polish journalist calls Jews ‘ruthless’, Holocaust ‘a myth’ in book

By Katarzyna Markusz

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri arrives at the Knesset for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, March 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interior Ministry announces new funding for poor municipalities

By Aaron Boxerman

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the so-called Corona Law in Tel Aviv, June 4, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hundreds protest against Netanyahu, contentious emergency virus bill in Tel Aviv

Likud MK Fateen Mulla at the Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Likud MK: Arab lawmaker’s coronavirus infection a ‘terror attack’ on Knesset

A volunteer policeman attacking a rabbi in Petah Tikva, May 30, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Clip shows volunteer cop violently attack elderly rabbi outside synagogue

Bernie Madoff exits federal court in Manhattan on March 10, 2009. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

Bernie Madoff’s bid for early prison release rejected

By Larry Neumeister

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