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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 10, 2020

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Mariam Hammad, of nearby Silwad, points to a piece of land in the West Bank she says belongs to her but was taken by Israelis to build the outpost of Amona, November 2016 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Right-wingers fume; AG had refused to defend law

High Court nixes law aimed at legalizing settler homes built on Palestinian land

In 8-1 ruling that affects some 4,000 homes, judges says 2017 Regulation Law violates property rights of Palestinians, provides preferential treatment to settlers at their expense

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

Right fumes as court overturns outpost law, but some pin hopes on annexation

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz after the presentation of the 35th government of Israel at the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

High Court says it will hear petition against Gantz’s post of alternate PM

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas gives a statement to the media following his meeting with his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

In Israel, German FM calls annexation illegal, but doesn’t threaten sanctions

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Meeting Netanyahu, Gantz and Ashkenazi, Heiko Maas expresses ‘serious worries’ about move; FM says Trump plan to be ‘pursued responsibly,’ PM says Israel must control Jordan Valley

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (middle) poses with settler leaders at the IDF's Judea and Samaria Division Headquarters in the Beit El settlement on June 9, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Settler leaders say Gantz warned them not to get too greedy on annexation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, tours the Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank on November 19, 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu to initially annex 3 settlement blocs, not Jordan Valley — officials

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

For Netanyahu, despite mounting opposition, annexation is already paying off

Theories abound to explain the PM’s move to claim parts of West Bank: a campaign tactic, a legacy bid, an opportunity granted by Trump. All are true, but that’s not the full story

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu observes the Jordan Valley with IDF officers during a tour in 2011. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

AnalysisAhead of possible annexation, German FM comes to Israel with a delicate mission

By Raphael Ahren

Members of the Palestinian Authority security forces patrolling in the village of Beitunia in the central West Bank on April 6, 2020. (Credit: Wafa)

Palestinian forces said ordered to hide files ahead of possible violence

Israelis in Tel Aviv, June 9, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Police step up enforcement as 175 new virus cases diagnosed

Health Ministry figures show 2,869 active cases; among them are over 400 students and teachers; 24,000 quarantined in outbreak linked to schools

6:39 pm

Personal info of US police officers leaked online
6:20 pm

Christopher Columbus statue beheaded in Boston
6:06 pm

TV: Crowding at West Bank checkpoint raising risk of outbreak

New immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, June 9, 2020 (Courtesy Nefesh B'Nefesh/Yonit Schiller)

New immigrant from US diagnosed with coronavirus after flight to Israel

Nefesh B’Nefesh says woman had previously tested positive for antibodies, took taxi home from airport; passenger says travelers weren’t wearing masks or keeping their distance

Trucks in a rolling protest on Route 1 by cultural and event organizers demanding support from the government during the coronavirus outbreak, June 10, 2020. (YouTube)

Protest convoy by event producers clogs highway into capital

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Doctors at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center treat a patient in the coronavirus unit, May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

A unique pattern of damage: Israeli team shows how coronavirus harms the heart

By Nathan Jeffay

A cleaning worker disinfects a classroom at the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem, June 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nearly 24,000 students and staff quarantined with 139 schools, daycares shut

248 children and educational workers now diagnosed with coronavirus as nationwide spike in cases continues

Israel to step up mask enforcement as virus cases spike overnight

Edelstein says social distancing to be enforced as strictly as traffic laws

Freshman minister enters quarantine after staffer is diagnosed with virus

Amiram Ben Uliel (left), convicted of carrying out the Duma terror attack, arrives for a hearing at the Lod District Court on June 9, 2020. (Tomer Appelbaum/Haaretz/Pool)

State seeks 3 life terms for Israeli murderer of Palestinian couple and child

At sentencing hearing, Hussein Dawabsha says he didn’t bring surviving grandson for fear he would get nightmares from seeing Amiram Ben-Uliel, who killed his parents and brother

IDF soldiers detain a Palestinian caught trying to infiltrate Itamar settlement with a knife on June 9, 2020. (Roy Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)

Palestinian with knife arrested outside West Bank settlement

Police arrest a woman during a protest against the killing of Iyad Halak in Jerusalem, June 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Six held in Jerusalem protest against killing of autistic Palestinian man

By ToI Staff and AP

Sherry Zimmerman

Homebound and stir-crazy

I thought I’d at least be doing my own food-shopping by now, but with so many people opting out of masks with impunity, and infections on the rise, I’m aging in place instead

Lessons from the cemetery, 2020

Our memories of our loved ones will outlast the raw paucity of funeral ritual that COVID-19 has rendered necessary

Imbuing my mornings with mourning

I’ve known for decades that I would say Kaddish eventually — and then the coronavirus delayed that experience for the first 3 months after my father’s death

Francine Klagsbrun

A Zoom bar mitzvah, with echoes of the past

Doesn’t it make sense to use the latest technology to allow congregants to pray and celebrate together virtually, at least until they can do so in reality?

Illustrative: Residents of the Cidade de Deus Community receive food donations amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on May 23, 2020, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images/via JTA)

Brazilian Jews rush to help favelas as virus highlights country’s poverty issues

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Zionist Organization of America President Mort Klein testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing discussing hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism on Capitol Hill on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images via JTA)

At time of racial strife, US Jewish groups call to expel ZOA from umbrella org

Tweet by Mort Klein vilifying Black Lives Matter seen as galvanizing liberal support to remove Zionist Organization of America from Conference of Presidents

Screen capture from video of city workers cleaning anti-Semitic graffiti from the road outside the Gates of Prayer Cemetery, New Orleans, June 8, 2020. (WWL-TV)

Swastikas drawn on street in front of New Orleans Jewish cemetery

By JTA and ToI Staff

LaTonya Floyd speaks during the funeral service for her brother George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool)

Preachers turn on Trump’s ‘wickedness’ at George Floyd funeral

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Burial caps six days of mourning for Floyd, whose killing by a police officer sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice

In this image from video provided by WBFO, a Buffalo police officer appears to shove a man who walked up to police Thursday, June 4, 2020, in Buffalo, N.Y. Video from WBFO shows the man appearing to hit his head on the pavement, with blood leaking out as officers walk past to clear Niagara Square. (Mike Desmond/WBFO via AP)

Trump pushes conspiracy theory that wounded elderly protester was antifa agent

By Jill Colvin and CAROLYN THOMPSON

People gather at the Robert E. Lee Monument, now covered by protest graffiti, in Richmond, Virginia, June 7, 2020, following a week of unrest in the US against police brutality and racism in policing (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Statues come down across the US, Europe as Floyd’s death sparks change

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rabbi Sergio Bergman at a Buenos Aires rally. (courtesy)

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Activist, politician, rabbi: Sergio Bergman takes the helm of Progressive Jewry

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Evan Rosenberg with his grandmother (courtesy)

Coronavirus crisis

Start-up nonprofit feeds over 1,500 Holocaust survivors locked down in NY

Evan Rosenberg’s ‘333.charity’ deploys celebrities and branded ‘merch’ to raise funds for UJA-Federation of New York to distribute to elderly living under the poverty line

Illustrative: Rabbi Menachem Lazar, right, officiates at the wedding of Marco Del Monte and Elinor Hanoka at the Great Synagogue of Rome, June 7, 2020. (Courtesy of Chabad Piazza Bologna via JTA)

That's amoreRome Jews celebrate first Jewish wedding after lockdown

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An Etihad airlines cargo plane at Ben-Gurion airport on June 9, 2020. (Moni Shiffer/Israel Airports Authority)

Second UAE plane carrying virus aid for Palestinians lands in Israel

Unlike first flight, aircraft bears airline logo and UAE flag; UN official says shipment will be sent to Ashdod, in hint Gaza will be final destination

Illustrative -- In this file photo taken on September 25, 2019 a man takes a picture of an illustration depicting an astronaut with the Emirati national flag outside Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in Dubai (KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

In sign of warming ties, Israel hails UAE Mars shot

By AFP and ToI Staff

Head of the IDF Northern Command Amir Baram (right) and the former deputy commander of the IDF's Lebanon Liaison Unit Shaul Kamisa Raz take part in a ceremony marking the cooperation between the IDF and South Lebanon Army during Israel's 18-year occupation of Lebanon, on June 9, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF honors South Lebanon Army with ceremony marking 20 years since withdrawal

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

Swedish flags on the National Day (TT; iStock by Getty Images)

In first, Sweden and Israel to join forces in research and development

By Shoshanna Solomon

Swedish prime minister Olof, December 12, 1983. (Anders Holmstrom/TT via AP)

Sweden identifies dead man as main suspect in 1986 murder of PM, closes probe

By david keyton and JAN M. OLSEN

A man walks next to an advertisement poster for Golan Telecom in Jerusalem, November 5, 2015 (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Israel antitrust regulator okays merger of phone rivals Cellcom and Golan

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen capture of the Merriam-Webster dictionary entry for the term 'racism,' June 10, 2020. (Merriam-Webster)

Merriam-Webster dictionary to change its definition of racism

By AFP

Mark Jones (L) and Alice Cutter (West Midlands Police)

‘Miss Hitler’ entrant among 4 neo-Nazis jailed in UK

By AFP

Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, before a scheduled House Rules Committee hearing on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Sanders endorses Eliot Engel opponent, deepening misery for New York congressman

By Gabe Friedman

Fermented dill pickles from 'The Joys of Jewish Preserving,' by Emily Paster. (Courtesy)

United by passion for pickles, Israeli-Chinese team claims dental discovery

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox IDF soldiers at the Peles Military Base in the Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

IDF thinks it recruited 1,788 ultra-Orthodox men in 2018, but isn’t sure

By Judah Ari Gross

Screen capture from video of a clash between IDF soldiers and suspected gun thieves near the Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj, May 31, 2020. (YouTube)

Police crack down on Bedouin town at center of military base theft altercation

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Modigliani's Nose-horned Lizard. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Small-scale appearance130 years on, lizard species found by Jewish explorer resurfaces

A worker walking on the Leviathan natural gas platform, offshore of Israel. (Albatross)

Methane from natural gas boosts annual global warming gases by 8% – study

Illustrative image of someone smoking. (Tunatura; iStock by Getty Images)

Government announces plan to advance cannabis legalization reforms

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