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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 9, 2020

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Yiannis Karoussos (C), Cyprus' minister of Transport, Communications, and Works, greets with an 'elbow shake' the first passenger arriving from Israel at Cyprus's Larnaca International Airport on June 9, 2020 (Iakovos HATZISTAVROU / AFP)

22 passengers on board Israir Airlines plane

Cyprus welcomes back tourists, with first flight arriving from Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Transportation minister greets Israeli travelers at the airport, as island markets itself as relatively safe holiday destination in the face of the coronavirus pandemic

A man sits wearing a face shield in the arrivals area on the first day of new rules mandating arrivals to Britain to quarantine themselves for 14 days to help stop the spread of coronavirus, at Heathrow Airpot in London, June 8, 2020. (AP/Matt Dunham)

3 months after Israel, UK orders 2-week quarantine for international arrivals

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel Aerospace Industries' Predicted Model for Medical Condition Progression of COVID-19 (courtesy of Israel Aerospace Industries)

Israeli missile maker claims AI tech can predict virus patients’ deterioration

By Nathan Jeffay

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh removes his protective mask during a press conference at the Foreign Press Association in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 9, 2020. (Abbas Momani/Pool Photo via AP)

PA submits ‘counter-proposal’ to US plan, providing for demilitarized Palestine

By Aaron Boxerman and Agencies

‘Palestine will be a state along the 1967 borders and its capital will be East Jerusalem,’ PM Shtayyeh says, calling Netanyahu’s annexation project an ‘existential threat’

Mohammad Shtayyeh is interviewed on Palestine TV, June 8, 2020 (Screenshot of Palestine TV)

Staring down annexation, Palestinian Authority weighs ending civil services

By Aaron Boxerman

Elan Carr, the US State Department's special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, at a State Department briefing on April 11. 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

US anti-Semitism czar says only an Israeli decision would delay annexation

Model and host of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, Bar Refaeli, poses on the Orange Carpet, during the opening event, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on May 12, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bar Refaeli gets community service for tax evasion, mom jailed for 16 months

Supermodel avoids prison time under plea bargain; she and her mother to pay a total of NIS 8 million in back taxes, NIS 5 million in fines

An Israel child wearing a face mask before going to school in Moshav Yashresh, on May 3, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israelis ditch masks, even as massive study says they cut infection risk by 85%

By Nathan Jeffay

Israeli experts back conclusions of meta-analysis that prompted WHO to change its position, say face coverings ‘do actually save lives’ and are a good long-term public strategy

People wearing face masks walk in Jerusalem on June 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

In alarming spike, 179 new virus cases recorded in 24 hours

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

Report: Health Ministry draws ire by warning of 5,000 on ventilators in 2nd wave

Israeli settlers protest the planned eviction of the outpost of Amona, in front of the Israeli parliament, January 30, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Likud vows to pass new West Bank land law as right wing fumes at court

By Joshua Davidovich

Coalition crisis may be brewing as Blue and White says it will respect court decision on ‘problematic’ legislation

6:33 pm

Biden calls for racial justice in message to Floyd funeral
6:20 pm

Etihad plane lands in Israel with virus aid
6:08 pm

UN chief slams police brutality, urges global fight against racism

Pete Davidson is the star of Judd Apatow's latest directorial film, 'The King of Staten Island.' (Courtesy Universal Pictures)

Film review

‘The King of Staten Island’: A touchingly funny film about the loser you love

By Jordan Hoffman

Senior Revolutionary Guard commander General Qassem Soleimani attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (not seen) and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran to execute man accused of providing intel on Soleimani to US, Israel

Tehran claims Mahmoud Mousavi Majd gave CIA and Mossad info on ‘whereabouts and movements’ of Iranian general, who was killed in US drone strike in January

A fake aircraft carrier is seen off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran, June 7, 2020. (Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Faux foeAmid tensions, Iran builds fake US aircraft carrier to attack

By Jon Gambrell

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony at the Military Colleges campus north of Tel Aviv on June 8, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief warns against false sense of security amid war for defense budget

By Judah Ari Gross

Peta Jones Pellach

This is the guy to chair the Knesset panel on gender equality

After all, MK Oded Forer has a mother. And a wife. Oh, and he has met some powerful women. What more could we ask for?

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Finding my Kaddish voice

As if saying Kaddish as an Orthodox woman wasn’t challenging enough, COVID-19 upended the entire process

Lessons from my mother

She endured the horrors of the Holocaust with her faith intact, raised a family, and died of COVID-19 in a Long Island nursing home

Joshua Washington

The Palestinian appropriation of black pain

We as black Americans need to stop letting people with no real interest in our well-being tell us how to behave toward our Jewish cousins

Owners of foodstands at the Mahane Yehuda market protest the closure of their businesses, which were closed down for several weeks in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus. April 25, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Inside Story

Shoshanna Solomon

As banks refuse to lend, small firms’ crunch highlights lack of credit options

Nonprofit Ogen social bank seeks to fill gap with philanthropy-backed loans, but much more is needed to battle financial squeeze caused by pandemic

Three new immigrants after arriving in Israel on June 9, 2020. (Yonit Schiller/Courtesy of Nefesh B'Nefesh)

Amid pandemic, 51 immigrants arrive from US

In this photo from the Jewish Agency, Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (left) and then-Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog (center) greet 119 new immigrants from Ethiopia at Ben Gurion Airport, May 21, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem)

Immigrants who came within past year to get NIS 500 stipend

An Etihad Airways flight with aid for the Palestinians to fight the coronavirus pandemic is unloaded at Ben Gurion Airport on May 19, 2020. (Nickolay Mladenov/Twitter)

2nd UAE plane to fly to Israel with aid for Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

UN official says medical aid shipment will eventually be dispatched from Ashdod, apparently to Gaza; unlike first flight, this one said to display Etihad Airways logo

People at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv, on May 8, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

After 3 months, contentious Shin Bet tracking of coronavirus patients ends

By Judah Ari Gross

A man receives a swine flu vaccine at a medical center in Jerusalem, December 20, 2009 (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Prospective flu vaccine shortage vexes Israel amid global race for supplies

Medical personnel walk among patients with mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Fangcai Hospital set up in a sports stadium in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, February 18, 2020. (Stringer/AFP)

Satellite images of Chinese hospital parking suggests outbreak began in August

Upending current coronavirus outbreak assumptions, Harvard Medical School study shows significant spike in car traffic at Wuhan medical centers as early as last summer

People ride the subway in Brooklyn, New York, June 8, 2020. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

New York starts reopening as WHO says virus ‘worsening’ worldwide

By Peter HUTCHISON

A woman walks into a closing Gordmans store, May 28, 2020, in St. Charles, Missouri. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Pandemic driving broadest economic collapse in 150 years, World Bank says

By Heather Scott

An excavator of the Northern Line of the Great Wall of China. (courtesy Hebrew University)

Archaeology

China’s fabled ‘Genghis Khan Wall’ was not actually built to keep him out

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with Alternate PM and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, both wearing protective mask due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

US wants Gantz and Ashkenazi on board with any unilateral annexation move — TV

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Knowing how divisive PM’s plan will be in the region, and preoccupied with anti-racist protests and COVID-19 at home, Trump team said requiring at least Israel’s leaders be united

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a cabinet meeting of the new government at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/ Pool/ AFP)

Gantz may visit Jordan amid tensions over Israel’s annexation plan — report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Minister: Gantz backs Jordan Valley annexation if supported by US, Arab states

Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset chooses male MK to head committee for women and gender equality

By JTA

Feminist groups outraged as MK Oded Forer of Yisrael Beytenu appointed as head of Committee for the Advancement of Women & Gender Equality, despite being only male on the panel

Elad Musaev Kazaz, right, with his partner and son. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Ramat Gan daycare rescinds spot for child with gay parents, father tells TV

Illustrative. Soldiers belonging to the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda unit. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Gantz asks High Court for delay on passing ultra-Orthodox military draft law

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and then-Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman, at the first meeting of the 35th Government, in the Knesset on May 17, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu soars in new poll, could form coalition without Gantz if new vote held

By Alexander Fulbright

TV survey gives PM’s Likud party 40 seats if elections held today; Blue and White would get 12, fewer than Gantz’s former allies in Yesh Atid-Telem

MKs vote one by one in the Knesset plenary to form committees on March 24, 2020. (Adina Veldman/Knesset)

Bill that lets parties replace ministers with more MKs approved for final votes

By Raoul Wootliff

Aaron Klein (courtesy)

Netanyahu hires Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein as new adviser

By Raphael Ahren

More Headlines

Vicly Tzur, left holds her writ of divorce with Tamar Oderberg of Yad La’isha, after a 14-year battle to obtain a get from her husband, undated. (Courtesy of Ohr Torah Stone via JTA)

Woman granted religious divorce after husband refused for 14 years

By JTA and ToI Staff

Ice Cube speaks onstage at Magic Box on October 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for REVOLT via JTA)

Rapper Ice Cube tweets image of anti-Semitic mural

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California at a news conference unveiling police reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2020. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Democrats propose sweeping police overhaul, ban on choke holds; Trump slams them

By LISA MASCARO

A scene from 'Shiva Baby' (Maria Rusche/ via JTA)

The coronavirus didn’t just upend Broadway — it put indie projects in limbo

By Curt Schleier

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives to a court hearing at the regional labor court in Jerusalem, in the case of Shira Raban, a former employee at the Prime Minister's Residence, December 23, 2019. (Yonatan SIndel/FLASH90)

Worker says she was forced to write letter lauding Sara Netanyahu

Children approach the Rosj Pina Jewish school building in Amsterdam, May 25, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

Dutch Jewish schools reopen, but worry anti-virus policy may compromise security

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein, right, and his attorney (now MK), Itamar Ben Gvir, left, arrive at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, June 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90, File)

Trial opens for Jewish extremist charged with incitement for anti-Arab rhetoric

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

The Cullberg Ballet of Sweden performed at the 2019 Israel Festival (Courtesy Cullberg Ballet)

Better late than neverDelayed Israel Festival chooses new dates in September

By Jessica Steinberg

Screen capture from a video of natural gas being burned off from the Leviathan natural gas processing platform, May 23, 2020. (Screen capture: Walla)

New ‘fireball’ incident hits Leviathan gas rig as experts prepare to investigate

Lemonade's Shai Wininger at the Tel Aviv offices of the insurance firm, December 20, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Online insurer Lemonade files for New York initial public share offering

By Shoshanna Solomon

Palestinian Karam Qawasmi, who was shot in the back by Israeli forces in an incident caught on video last year, in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Officer convicted for shooting Palestinian in back with sponge-tipped bullet

Argentinian security forces hold a large-scale drill at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aries on February 3, 2019. (screen capture: Clarin)

Argentina adopts IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

By JTA

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