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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 6, 2020

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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas following a meeting with his Italian counterpart at the Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, June 5, 2020. (Michael Kappeler/Pool via AP)

TV: German FM to make urgent visit to Israel to warn against annexation

Netanyahu said determined to move ahead with annexing parts of West Bank and is working on high-resolution maps, despite threat of EU sanctions, ambivalence from US

US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft delivers a statement to the press after a Security Council meeting on October 16, 2019 in New York City (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

US still working to bring Palestinians to the table on peace plan, diplomat says

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov at a press conference at the UNSCO offices in Gaza City, September 25, 2017. (Adel Hana/AP)

UN seeks meeting of Mideast mediators on Israel-Palestinians as annexation looms

By Edith M. Lederer

In this Saturday, April 25, 2020 photo, people keep social distancing amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, during "Black Flag" protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Tel Aviv rally against annexation plan to go ahead after police backtrack on ban

Law enforcement want participants at Saturday evening protest limited to 2,000 although unclear how this would be enforced; Joint List chief won’t attend due to virus quarantine

FILE: Palestinian supporters of the Fatah movement demonstrate in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 5, 2020. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Palestinians in West Bank protest Israel’s annexation plans

By AFP

PA President Mahmoud Abbas heads a leadership meeting at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 19, 2020. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool via AP)

Palestinians tell ICC that annexation will void Oslo Accords

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Ira Rappaport at his blueberry field, near Shiloh, on June 4, 2020 (Photo: courtesy)

Interview

A radical settler wages war against annexation — but he is far from alone

By Shalom Yerushalmi

For Ira Rappaport, who was a member of the Jewish Underground terror group in the 1980s, the Trump plan is a disaster; his misgivings are emblematic of growing alarm among settlers

Then Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Jerusalem minister: ‘We will not accept’ Palestinian state in Trump peace plan

Then-independent MP Luciana Berger leaves Milbank Studios near Parliament in London on February 21, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Prominent British Jews urge Israel not to annex West Bank lands

By JTA

Matt Marshall of the right-wing group Washington State Three Percent (3%), and clad in the Boogaloo uniform of a Hawaiian shirt, speaks at a 'Hazardous Liberty! Defend the Constitution!' rally to protest the stay-at-home order, at the Capitol building in Olympia, Washington on April 19, 2020. (Karen Ducey/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Meet the violent US right-wing extremists who (mostly) appear not to hate Jews

The Boogaloo Bois, a nascent group pursuing an uprising against the American government, wants to start a new civil war — and all ethnicities are apparently welcome

Facebook removes US hate group accounts pushing armed members to go to protests

By AP

US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, May 30, 2020. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Twitter, Facebook disable Trump campaign’s Floyd video tribute over copyright

By AP and ToI Staff

Magen David Adom medical workers test Israelis at a drive-through site in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

9 virus cases found at nursing home as part of test program to catch outbreaks

3 staff and 6 residents found to carry pathogen at Or Yehuda assisted living facility as part of random testing scheme; one person hospitalized, remainder are asymptomatic

Magen David Adom medical workers test residents of south Tel Aviv for the coronavirus on June 2, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

144 new virus cases found in Israel over past day, with record 16,000 tested

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

Government to soften contentious emergency virus bill after vast criticism

Coronavirus's global spread (ChakisAtelier; iStock by Getty Images)

Explainer

Elizabeth McGraw

What makes a superspreader? And how central are they to COVID-19’s growth?

A patient’s biology, environment and behavior can greatly affect their potential to infect; studies show a small percentage of the sick may be responsible for majority of cases

In this March 17, 2020, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker looks at CT scans at the Huoshenshan field hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. (Wang Yuguo/Xinhua via AP)

Study shows virus patients with high blood pressure twice as likely to die

By AFP

A security guard asks people to put on face masks at the Mamilla Mall near Jerusalem's Old City, on May 14, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

In reversal of position, WHO tells public to wear masks if unable to distance

By Robin MILLARD

This photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on November 5, 2019, shows centrifuge machines at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

UN atomic watchdog says Iran now violating all restrictions of nuclear deal

By KIYOKO METZLER and David Rising

Confidential report says Tehran continues to increase its stockpiles of enriched uranium and enriching beyond levels allowed under nuclear deal

Illustrative: The UN Security Council holds a meeting, at United Nations headquarters, November 20, 2019. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

US circles proposal to extend Iran arms embargo among Security Council members

By AP

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at a high level political forum on sustainable development on July 17, 2019, at UN Headquarters in New York. (Kena Betancur/AFP)

Iran FM throws ball back in Trump’s court on nuclear deal

By AFP

We have work to do

Are our black neighbors comfortable? Do we stop ourselves from making racist jokes and refuse to tolerate them at all? Examining our own conduct is our first step forward

A stranger among us

Did a lack of awareness of how good the Israelites had it make them blind to the fact that they were excluding Moses’ trusted adviser and father-in-law, Jethro? (Behaalotcha)

Jews who attended protests across the country. (Top left, clockwise, courtesy of Rebecca Pierce, Ruth Friedman, Beejhy Barhany and Rachel Sumekh)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

‘We have to be there’: US Jews on taking part in the George Floyd protests

As race protests rage, many Jewish Americans are involved both individually and as community representatives, including in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Washington

Protesters march during a solidarity rally for George Floyd, June 4, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Dozens of rabbis call for mourning Floyd, autistic Palestinian killed by police

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Howard Kohr, the CEO of AIPAC, opens the group's policy conference in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2018. (Courtesy of AIPAC via JTA)

AIPAC tells African-American members it’s ‘horrified’ by George Floyd slaying

By JTA

Democratic US presidential candidate, former vice president Joe Biden, takes off his mask before speaking during an event in Dover, Delaware, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination

By Stephen Ohlemacher and Will Weissert

Former VP pulls together delegates needed after 7 states and District of Columbia hold primaries; has effectively been party leader since Sanders dropped out of race in April

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, June 5, 2020, in Washington. White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow, left, and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, top right listen. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: Good jobs numbers are a ‘great day’ for murdered George Floyd

By AFP

People walk down 16th street after volunteers, with permission from the city, painted 'Black Lives Matter' on a street near the White House, June 5, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)

Washington mayor christens ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’ outside White House

People hold up candles and cell phone lights during a rally June 5, 2020, in Las Vegas, against police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (AP Photo/John Locher)

US gears up for weekend protests amid anger at new police abuses

By Peter HUTCHISON

Massive street demonstrations are set for Saturday, with tens of thousands expected in Washington, as controversy builds over use of force against largely peaceful demonstrators

As US protests calm, demonstrators vow to sustain momentum until change happens

By Ben Fox, Corey Williams and Jeff Amy

Dozens of NY police quit team to protest suspension of officers after man shoved

By AP

Black cops feel pain of Floyd’s death, duty to their uniform

By Cliff brunt and garry fields

A screenshot from 'Human Signs,' the artistic collaboration created by Jerusalem-born musician Yuval Avital during the 2020 coronavirus (Courtesy Yuval Avital)

Israeli composer gurgles, hums and howls at coronavirus; then his friends join

By Jessica Steinberg

Police at the scene of a suspected drive-by shooting at the Lod Interchange in central Israel on June 6, 2020. (Flash90)

3 men killed in suspected drive-by shooting near central city of Lod

Shooting victims named as Nahad al-Shamali, Riad Akashi and Jibril Akashi; police said probing if incident related to dispute between crime families in Ramle

Rabbi Levi Banon and his daughters read a book inside their home in Casablanca, Morocco, May 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

‘Hoping for better days’: Tiny Moroccan Jewish community grapples with virus

More Headlines

From Nir Bergman's newest film, 'Here We Are,' selected for the canceled Cannes 2020 film festival (Courtesy Spiro Films)

Making the cut2 Israeli movies make line-up for canceled 2020 Cannes film fest

By Jessica Steinberg

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo marches in New York City's Celebrate Israel Parade, June 2, 2019. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images via JTA)

NYC’s Celebrate Israel parade — virtual this year — delayed over Floyd protests

By JTA

Rescue forces searching for 14-year-old Yehuda Bilog who went missing at the sea in Ashdod, June 4, 2020. (Flash90)

Police find body of 14-year-old boy missing off Ashdod beach

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with then-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Following in Trump’s footsteps, Brazil’s Bolsonaro threatens to quit WHO

By Joshua Howat BERGER

Gilad Paz (Independent Jewish Voices Canada via JTA)

Israeli BDS activist seeking asylum in Canada will be deported back to Israel

By JTA

Two men in vintage US WWII uniforms walk toward the Les Braves monument at sunrise prior to a D-Day 76th anniversary ceremony in Saint Laurent sur Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2020 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

The loneliest of D-Day remembrances is marked amid pandemic

Pedestrians wear masks as they walk near Charing Cross Station in London, Friday, June 5, 2020. It will become compulsory to wear face coverings while using public transport in England from Monday June 15. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK’s official virus-related death toll surpasses 40,000

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