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What Matters Most On Monday, June 8, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (5th from L) and Settlements Minister Tzipi Hotovely (6th from L) meet with settler leaders in the Prime Minister's Office on June 7, 2020. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu vows all settlements will be annexed July 1, but other lands may wait

Meeting with West Bank mayors who have refrained from trashing Trump plan, PM also quoted saying that the territory conditionally offered to Palestinians doesn’t constitute a state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands during a joint press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on October 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Germany won’t sanction Israel over annexation – Jerusalem official

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Protesters carry a placard which reads in Hebrew 'no to annexation' as they gather in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on June 6, 2020, to denounce Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

More Israelis oppose West Bank annexation than support it — survey

A couple celebrates their wedding at a public park in Efrat, March 15, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Ministers ‘pull emergency brake’ on further easing restrictions as cases rise

Coronavirus cabinet decides to postpone resumption of passenger rail travel, cultural events; but it does raise number of participants allowed at events to 250

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks at a press conference about the coronavirus at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, May 31, 2020. (Flash90)

Health minister urges more enforcement in discussion of contentious virus law

Magen David Adom medical workers test residents of South Tel Aviv at a temporary built site to collect samples for coronavirus, on June 2, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Over 100 new infections confirmed as virus death toll nears 300

Illustrative: Students seen at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 27, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90)

Analysis

Foreign university students trickle back into Israel, as yeshiva students banned

Postdocs, medical students and others for whom distance learning is not possible arrive at special quarantine dorms at universities

Grounded El Al planes at Ben Gurion Airport on April 6, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90)

El Al announces extension of flight suspensions until June 30

Jerusalemites wearing face masks in Jerusalem City center on June 8, 2020.
(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Police investigating motive after two cops hurt in apparent hit and run

By Joshua Davidovich

Initial suspicions revolve around terror fears; both officers lightly injured in incident in Pisgat Zeev in north of capital

11:29 am

Palestinian PM: We will declare state - for real this time - if Israel annexes
6:37 pm

Medics: Two people hurt in suspected Jerusalem hit-and-run
6:30 pm

Israel reportedly tells German FM to avoid Ramallah or face 2-week quarantine

Israelis wearing face masks for fear of coronavirus walk in Jerusalem's city center after the government eased some lockdown measures that it had imposed in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, on June 02, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

Rules are meant to be contagious: 5 things to know for June 8

As Netanyahu chides Israelis for complacency on rising virus infections, a top pundit says health officials need to chill, bow out of the limelight, and keep schools open

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

Israel cancels some sales taxes, extends unemployment benefits to rescue economy

Illustrative image of a doctor with digital icons (chaiyapruek2520, iStock by Getty Images)

Hospital offers up data for Shark Tank-style contest to find next virus advance

By Nathan Jeffay

UK’s Johnson slams protest ‘thuggery’ after cops hurt, Churchill statue defaced

By ToI Staff and Agencies

British PM condemns sporadic violence at Black Lives Matter demonstrations; government lawmakers express anger at toppling of slaver statue

The statue of former British prime minister Winston Churchill is seen defaced, with the words (Churchill) 'was a racist' written on its base in Parliament Square, London, on June 7, 2020 (ISABEL INFANTES / AFP)

UK protesters topple statue of slave trader as Floyd rallies sweep Europe

By Pan Pylas, Frank Jordans and Frances D'Emilio

Minneapolis council majority backs disbanding police force

By AP

As demonstrations subside, NY officials urge protesters to get virus tests

By Brian Mahoney and KIMBERLEE KRUESI

A screenshot from Joshua Wander's appearance on the National Geographic series 'Doomsday Preppers.' (Screenshot)

Pandemics, riots & no kosher food: The doomsday scenarios of an Orthodox prepper

By Miriam Groner

My father is black, but I blend into the scenery where my family cannot, and they must worry about their safety in situations where I’d never pause

Tzipora Lifchitz

PHOTO ESSAY: Jerusalem protest

The experience of racism isn’t mine to tell, but it is my time to listen in on others’ stories, time to grow outspoken, time to raise the standards of respect

Israel needs to understand the significance of racism in America

Israelis have a moral imperative to oppose racism — it is the Jewish Bible, after all, that proclaims a common human ancestry and that all humans are created in the Divine image

Building the future: A primer

A basic checklist of what every citizen who is committed to a just and fair Israel for all can do personally to promote this vision

(From L-R) "It's all ours" campaign organziers Elisha Yered, Yedidya Shapira and Yonatan Levi on June 3, 2020. (It's all ours campaign)

Fighting Trump plan, hilltop youth may go where no settler has before: Area A

Far-right activists launch ‘It’s all ours’ campaign, plotting outposts in PA-controlled parts of West Bank that other settlers have shied from

Illustrative: Members of the Orthodox Jewish community watch as protesters walk through the Brooklyn borough on June 3, 2020, during a 'Breonna Taylor and Black Lives Matter' protest in New York City, after the recent death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)

For some Orthodox Jews in NY, George Floyd protests stir complicated feelings

Opposing police misconduct while supporting law enforcement more generally is emblematic of the fine line Orthodox Jews walk today in a roiling New York

‘Throw him out,’ thousands chant in peaceful protest outside NYC Trump hotel

NY Times editorial page editor resigns amid fury over op-ed

By David Bauder

Trump orders National Guard to leave Washington as protests calm

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Sgt. First Class Amit Ben-Ygal, who was killed when a rock was thrown at his head during an arrest raid in the northern West Bank village of Yabed on May 12, 2020. (Social media)

IDF says it nabbed Palestinian suspect who killed soldier with brick

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Nazmi Abu Bakr, 49, accused of fatally striking Amit Ben-Ygal on May 12; was arrested weeks ago, but only confessed to killing now, authorities say

Illustrative: Israeli troops search for the person who threw a brick at Sgt. First Class Amit Ben-Ygal, killing him, in the West Bank village of Yabed on May 13, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Suspected troop’s killer confessed last month, but IDF waited to be sure: report

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Iyad Halak. (Courtesy)

Witness said to confirm police fatally shot autistic man as he lay on floor

Testimony supports that of Iyad Halak’s carer, who said she told cops he was disabled, in Hebrew and Arabic, before they killed him

Muhammad Nasasrah, 21 (Screencapture/Arab48)

Police accused of failing to investigate beach attack on Arab Israeli man

By Aaron Boxerman

In Ramle, hundreds demonstrate against violence in Arab Israeli communities on October 15, 2019, (Joint List)

Deadly drive-by shooting in Ramle comes amid rising tide of violence

Two foxes peer out of the vegetation in the Jerusalem area, May 27, 2020. (Dudu Ben Or, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Israel slips to 29th worldwide in biennial environmental performance index

Nation still ranks fairly well in Yale University report, but scores particularly badly on biodiversity and habitat

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Penn State University student and friends sport swastikas drawn in marker on their shoulders. leading to condemnation from the university and fellow students. (Change.org via JTA)

Penn State condemns student for posting photo of girls with swastikas

Newly-appointed Israeli Consul General in New York Dani Dayan seen at the opening of a conference discussing issues and ways to fight the boycott Israel movement, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel’s NY consul rebukes ministers for shying away from Reform congregations

(From left to right) Avner, Sara, Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu tour the Golan Heights, on April 23, 2019. (PMO)

PM’s office seeks security for Netanyahu, Gantz families for 2 years post-term

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his wife Sara address supporters at the Likud party campaign headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv early on March 3, 2020, after polls officially closed. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Netanyahu files complaint against another social media user over death threats

Members of the media wearing protective mask film outside the Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue, New York on March 10, 2020, at the center of a Westchester County outbreak (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Synagogues okayed to reopen in New York, but not New York City

Manuscript of Nur al-Din Jami's 'Tuhfat al-Ahrar,' produced in 1484 (Courtesy The National Library of Israel)

National Library to digitize 2,500 rare Islamic manuscripts and books

Ahlam Ziadat, whose husband was convicted of her 2016 murder while she was pregnant, June 8, 2020 (Courtesy)

Man convicted of murdering pregnant wife, whose body was never found

File: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) speaks with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar (left), during a ceremony unveiling the memorial to members of the Jewish resistance in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, on June 4, 2019. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/AFP)

Russian chief rabbi Berel Lazar diagnosed with COVID-19

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amira Oron (Screenshot via Channel 10)

After long delay, Amira Oron approved as new ambassador to Cairo

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

A wall spay-painted with the Hebrew phrase "the Jewish nation lives" in an apparent price tag hate crime attack in the Palestinian village of As-Sawiya in the northern West Bank on June 8, 2020. (As-Sawiya municipality)

Cars vandalized, house tagged in apparent hate crime against Palestinians

Mourners pray over the coffin of Ramadan Shalah, former leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, during his funeral in the Syrian capital Damascus on June 7, 2020. (AFP)

Islamic Jihad terror group buries ex-leader in Damascus

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This porcupine wandered into the Knesset's bathroom on June 7, 2020. (Haim Bar)

Quill of the peopleKnesset hosts unusually prickly visitor

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