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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 7, 2020

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Palestinian, Communist, Israeli flags; pics of Iyad Halak

‘It’s a war crime’: Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu annexation bid

Meretz MK, Joint List leader says move would create ‘apartheid’; Sanders sends video message; police forcefully detain photojournalist covering event, arrest 4 demonstrators

Israel media reviewRun it up the flagpole: 5 things to know for June 7

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinians advancing UN resolution against annexation, Israel says

By Raphael Ahren

Jordan to mull canceling peace deal if Israel annexes – report

Demonstrators protest on June 6, 2020, near the White House in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

In Washington, a peaceful anti-racism protest after a week of unrest

By Eric Cortellessa

‘Time for a change’: Anti-racism protesters march across US

By Camille CAMDESSUS

Protesters pour into DC for city’s largest demonstration yet

By STEVEN SLOAN, David Crary and Tom Foreman Jr.

Fact check: As US protests expand, Trump creates alternate reality on Twitter

By Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen and ARIJETA LAJKA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

A week later, Netanyahu says police killing of autistic man was a ‘tragedy’

PM says Iyad Halak was ‘unjustly suspected’ when he was shot dead, and he expects incident to be ‘fully checked’

Rana, mother of Iyad Halak, 32, holds his photo at their home in East Jerusalem's Wadi Joz, May 30, 2020 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Police seemingly working to block release of video from shooting of autistic man

Protesters march past the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio, against the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day, May 25. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)

Ohio woman, 22, dies after tear gassing at George Floyd protest

Columbus City police says it will look into circumstances of Sarah Grossman’s death to see if there is a link to its policing

Protesters react to tear gas fired by French riot police in Marseille, southern France, June 6, 2020, during a protest against the recent death of George Floyd (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Detentions, injuries at anti-racism protests across Europe in solidarity with US

By Frank Jordans and Pan Pylas

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (left) leaves a demonstration calling for the Minneapolis Police Department to be defunded on June 6, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP)

From the webMinneapolis mayor booed after refusing to commit to defunding, abolishing police

Ori Ansbacher, who was murdered in Jerusalem on February 7, 2019 (Courtesy)

Palestinian pleads guilty to murder, rape of Israeli teen Ori Ansbacher

Arafat Irfaiya to be sentenced at a later date for February 2019 attack in a Jerusalem forest, which Israel says was terrorism

Ramadan Shalah, Head of Islamic Jihad, at a press conference in Damascus on Saturday December 16, 2006 (AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).

Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah dies at 62

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative -- Israeli troops patrol the streets of the West Bank city of Jenin, January 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

PA said to thwart attack on IDF despite official end of security cooperation

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on May 17, 2020. (Knesset)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu to sit down with Gantz, Ashkenazi for 1st discussion of annexation

By Michael Bachner

As reports indicate growing tensions over move being coordinated with Trump administration, PM and Blue and White leaders to try and reach agreement

6:37 pm

Netanyahu tells researchers 'no more important' task than finding COVID-19 vaccine
6:06 pm

Smotrich's faction launches campaign slamming Netanyahu's annexation plan
5:32 pm

130 schools, kindergartens are closed due to COVID-19 infections -- ministry

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

At Knesset, virus restrictions keep public worryingly out of sight, out of mind

While pools, beaches and bars reopen, parliament remains steadfastly closed to advocacy groups and media, even as it prepares to pass the most important budget bill in decades

Self-employed Israelis take part in a protest outside the Knesset on March 30, 2020, amid the coronavirus outbreak. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister and alternate prime minister Benny Gantz are seen at the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (ALEX KOLOMOISKY/POOL)

Netanyahu, Gantz said to form mini security cabinets to discuss annexation, Iran

A health professional takes care of a patient at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward where patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, are being treated at the Doctor Ernesto Che Guevara Public Hospital in Marica city, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 5, 2020. (Mauro Pimentel / AFP)

Global virus death toll passes 400,000, with around 7 million infected

By ToI Staff and AFP

I am the ‘fifth mother’

A generation of IDF soldiers in Lebanon protected Israel’s border villages for 18 years. More than 600 died; thousands have still not been recognized for the lives they saved

The turning point that was the Six Day War

Before 1967, the IDF prepped well for war and it showed. Then attrition changed the terms, and the territories may hold the future in the balance

Aaron Weininger

I am a rabbi who attended George Floyd’s memorial service

As we stood in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, I asked myself ’How will I pray?’ But then a cry pierced the silence: ’I can’t breathe.’

Why history still matters: The 1967 Six Day War

Politicians, diplomats, and journalists continue to grapple with the consequences of that war, but to make real sense of it, they need to pay attention to context

View of the empty Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem, due to the restrictions following the spread of the coronavirus, on May 11, 2020.
(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Resumption of train services delayed amid uptick in virus cases

Transportation Ministry says rail travel will resume at a later date, subject to government approval and case data; Education Ministry says 127 schools and daycares now shut

Outgoing health chief warns fresh virus outbreak of unknown scope underway — TV

3 more virus deaths bring Israel’s toll to 295; over 100 schools shuttered

Netanyahu says public carelessness driving coronavirus infections up

By Raoul Wootliff

Wild boars gather in a residential area in the northern city of Haifa on December 5, 2019 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Pigheaded

Sorry teacher, a wild boar ate my homework

Haifa student gets best-ever excuse for not handing in schoolwork as hog infestation wreaks havoc in coastal city

Israeli singer and songwriter Riff Cohen. (CC-SA-3.0/ Yanai Yechiel)

Locked down? Open up to… eclectic singer-songwriter Riff Cohen

An explosion is seen coming from an army base, allegedly used by Iran-backed militias, outside the northern Syria city of Hama on April 29, 2018. (Screen capture; Facebook)

12 said killed in airstrikes, attributed to Israel, on Iranian sites in Syria

Bases were reportedly restocked and refortified three days ago; dead said to have been Iraqi and Afghan nationals; area targeted has been hit by Israel in the past

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Netanyahu calls for sanctions on Iran, vows to curb its ‘aggression’

By AFP

A Lebanese protester throws back a tear gas canister amid clashes with riot police following a demonstration in central Beirut, on June 6, 2020. (PATRICK BAZ / AFP)

Dozens wounded as supporters and opponents of Hezbollah clash at Beirut rally

By AFP

More Headlines

An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner taxis to a welcome ceremony after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, September 19, 2019. (Flash90)

State agrees on backing for NIS 250 million loan to save ailing carrier El Al

View of the rabbinical court in Tel Aviv on August 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Man charged with setting off bombs in 6 religious courts

Hikers pour soap into the Lifta spring (screen capture: Channel 12)

Hikers turn natural spring outside Jerusalem into a bubble bath

Police and rescue workers extract three men who got stuck in a cave near the Galilee town of Iksal while searching for treasure, June 6, 2020. (Israel Police)

Treasure hunting, three men get trapped in a Galilee cave

Cherry tomatoes being grown in the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council. (Courtesy)

Israeli, US researchers to get $7.3 million for joint agriculture projects

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen grab taken from video issued by Britain's Oxford University, showing a person being injected as part of the first human trials in the UK to test a potential coronavirus vaccine, undertaken by Oxford University in England, on April 23, 2020. (Oxford University Pool via AP)

UK’s AstraZeneca ‘on track’ to roll out virus vaccine in September

By AFP

A woman runs to exercise past posters promoting community spirit, erected during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, in Manchester, northern England on June 2, 2020. (Paul ELLIS / AFP)

US researchers eye tech wearables as virus early warning system

Cemetery workers in protective clothing maneuver the coffin of 57-year-old Paulo Jose da Silva, who died from the new coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 5, 2020. According to Monique dos Santos, her stepfather mocked the existence of the virus, didn't use a mask, didn't take care of himself, and wanted to shake hands with everybody (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

As Brazil yanks death tally, critics say extent of pandemic is being covered up

By DIANE JEANTET

The Strawberry Moon, the full moon of the month of June, rises over the ocean on Narrawallee Beach, near Mollymook on the South Coast of New South Wales on June 6, 2020. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Red alertRare ‘strawberry moon’ lights up sky in Israel and around world

A view of the settlement of Modiin Illit, February 2019. (Flash90)

Police suspect man tried to murder his wife, then jumped from apartment window

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