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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 11, 2020

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People hold a rally in memory of George Floyd and against racism, at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, on June 7, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

TOI investigatesRapper Teddy Neguse: Let's not import American racism

As world roils, Ethiopian-born minister leads ‘wake up’ call on racism in Israel

Many black Israelis say they see a reflection of their own struggle in Floyd protests. Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata says Israel must, and can, become a beacon of progress

Rivlin tells US Jews of need to stand together against ‘all forms of racism’

800 US rabbis, cantors support peaceful protest against racism

US protesters topple, behead and drown Christopher Columbus statues

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center left) and Yesha Council chairman David Elhayani seen during a tree planting event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho, in the Jordan Valley on February 10, 2020. (Flash90)

Inside storyUS-Israel mapping team members seen out in field only once

Mapping Netanyahu’s annexation plan: Experts explain a charged, complex process

Ex-officials tasked with similar challenges in past lay out the complexities of drawing up borders; US-Israeli map committee mum on progress, kept off the ground by pandemic

Then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 policy conference in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

AIPAC tells US lawmakers it won’t push back if they criticize annexation

Protesters 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)

Some nations said gearing up to recognize Palestine if annexation goes ahead

ToI investigates

Simona Weinglass

Who is Gal Hirsch, championed for top police job by Likud minister, activists?

Outgoing police minister urged AG to close case against Hirsch, alleging he’s being hounded. But questions remain about sources of his wealth and his ties to authoritarian regimes

Former IDF brigadier general Gal Hirsch is seen at a press conference in Tel Aviv to announce his entry to politics on December 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a briefing to the media at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 11, 2020 (video screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu warns Israelis: Virus only respects those who respect the rules

Amid ballooning infections, PM entreats populace to go back to maintaining stringent hygienic precautions, otherwise there may be no choice but to reimpose tough restrictions

6:32 pm

Report: Cyprus downgrades Israel, will demand tourists present virus test
6:26 pm

Biotech firm Regeneron starts trials for coronavirus antibody treatment
6:15 pm

World Council of Churches wants EU sanctions if Israel annexes West Bank land

Tzipi Hotovely at her office in Jerusalem, February 19, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Settlements minister confirms she’ll be Israel’s new ambassador to the UK

By Raphael Ahren

Likud’s Tzipi Hotovely, opponent of two-state solution and advocate of unilateral West Bank annexation, to replace Netanyahu’s ex-spokesperson Mark Regev in London this summer

Illustrative: BDS movement in France. (CC BY-SA, Odemirense, Wikimedia commons)

European rights court faults France for convicting Israel boycott activists

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering a campaign address next to a map of proposed areas of the West Bank for annexation on September 10, 2019. (screen capture: Facebook)

Over 100 international law experts sign letter against West Bank annexation

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Peace Now activists hang a sign protesting annexation on a bridge over the Ayalon Highway, June 3, 2020 (Courtesy Peace Now)

Israel media review

You pay for what you get: 7 things to know for June 11

By Joshua Davidovich

The press looks at annexation’s cost-benefit analysis for everyone involved; a top health official is on the outs for helping the rich; a journalist is attacked for doing his job

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)

Gantz tells EU foreign policy chief he’s committed to peace, dialogue

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (L) is received by his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi in the Jordanian capital Amman, on June 10, 2020. (Ahmad SHOURA / AFP)

In Jordan, German foreign minister agrees preventing annexation a ‘priority’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants an olive tree at the Netiv Ha'avot neighborhood in the Elazar settlement in the West Bank, on January 28, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Op-Ed

Annexation Now: What is Netanyahu up to?

Why is this most calculating of politicians so ostensibly determined to unilaterally expand Israeli sovereignty into the territories, when the dire potential downside is so clear?

Yamina party leader MK Naftali Bennett, at a press conference in Jerusalem on May 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett says he’s ‘convinced’ Netanyahu will not go forward with annexation

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks 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)

In effort to pressure Israel, PA said threatening not to pay civil servants

Beersheba-based musician and artist Aleksander Fisz, center, reenacting Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus.' (Courtesy)

Locked down art lovers go viral by recreating masterpieces at home

Steven E. Zipperstein

How to cancel annexation? Make a win-win deal that’s better

The Palestinians, regional states and the West could make these moves in a quid pro quo that improves the position of everyone involved

Michelle Waldman Sarna

What my family gains from living in the heart of NYC

We all have the best chance of promoting equality and justice in the world when we pay attention to the wide range of people affected by our actions or inaction

Shaina Be Hirsch

Who knew that mentioning the temples on the Temple Mount could get you arrested?

How we can talk about a shared future with partners who deny even the archaeological evidence of our history?

Do not cover George’s blood: Breathe out for justice and peace

For the vast majority, the slogan ’Black Lives Matter’ stands apart from any affiliation or organization, which is why I support our Black brothers and sisters in their pain

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on May 25, 2020. (Flash90)

Netanyahu, ministers convene to weigh new restrictions amid virus outbreak

As cases of infection mount, and after government holds back on easing some measures, officials will discuss resumption of trains, limiting public gatherings

Medical workers at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv treat a patient in the coronavirus unit on May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel’s coronavirus death toll hits 300, as new infections spike overnight

Birthright Excel participants at the opening of their 2019 program, which is taking place virtually in 2020 due to the coronavirus (Courtesy Birthright)

Birthright trips to Israel temporarily halted over COVID-19 crisis

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli airline El Al planes parked at Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel, on March 16, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Proposed rescue deal could lead to nationalization of ailing airline El Al

Strategic considerations, not numbers, seen behind the move to save the carrier, which has played a role at key junctures of Israeli history and is currently grounded by pandemic

Itamar Grotto at a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020. (Flash90)

Top doctor gave quarantine waivers to others, in addition to billionaire — TV

Health Ministry sources say deputy chief Grotto granted permission for some to skip isolation; businessman at heart of controversy reportedly recovered from virus, has antibodies

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus evacuate a patient with suspected coronavirus outside a coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on April 3, 2020. ( Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Globally crowdsourcing COVID stats, Israeli team aims to boost home care safety

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: Red blood cells in an artery (donfiore/iStock by Getty Images)

Blood type may determine one’s susceptibility to COVID-19, study indicates

Illustrative: A Marine scout sniper battalion posing with US and Nazi flags, September 2010 (AP Photo/ knightarmco.com)

Synagogue slams Walla Walla police department for officer’s Nazi-style tattoo

Nathan Small’s ink resembles the double lightning bolts of the SS, but he says it is a relic from the sniper scout unit with which he served in Afghanistan

A cargo plane operated by Etihad Airways, carrying medical aid for Palestinians related to the coronavirus COVID-19 disease, prepares to land at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on June 9, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Palestinians again refuse planeload of virus aid from UAE

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority official says they will not accept medical equipment because flight was coordinated directly between Israel and Emirates

Palestinians stranded abroad by coronavirus seek way home

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF readies to raze home of Palestinian suspected of killing soldier with brick

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Palestinian car torched in week’s second apparent hate crime

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Tuvia Yanai Weissman with his wife Yael and four-month-old daughter. Weissman was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists at a West Bank supermarket on February 18, 2016. (Facebook)

Terrorist who at 14 helped kill Israeli is given life in prison

Philip Manshaus is seated in court before being handed his sentence for terrorism and homicide in the Asker and Baerum district court west of Oslo on June 11, 2020. (Photo by Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB Scanpix / AFP)

Neo-Nazi mosque shooter in Norway jailed for minimum 21 years

By AFP

Palestinian workers on their way to work in Israel, at Bethlehem's Checkpoint 300 in the West Bank, June 2020. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

Footage of crowding at West Bank checkpoint raises fears of virus outbreak

Police arrest demonstrators who threw rocks, burned trash cans in protest of decision to demolish cemetery in Jaffa on June 10, 2020 (Israel Police)

Fresh clashes in Jaffa over plan to build homeless shelter on Muslim burial site

In this June 20, 2017, file photo, Jon Ossoff speaks in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Jon Ossoff wins Georgia Senate primary; will face Perdue

Demonstrators against violence to women hold up a photo of Maya Vishniak, who was choked to death in a domestic violence incident, as they participate in a rally at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on May 18, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ramat Gan man charged with choking girlfriend to death, stabbing his mother

By Michael Bachner

The unrecognized villages around Ramat Hovav in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chemical evaporation ponds, December 28, 2017 (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)

In first, Environment Ministry to examine imposing carbon tax on polluters

Author JK Rowling accepts an award onstage during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Hosts 2019 Ripple Of Hope Gala and Auction In NYC, in New York City, on December 12, 2019. (Bennett Raglin / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Defending gender remarks, JK Rowling says she’s a survivor of sexual assault

Canadian diva Celine Dion canceled her 2023 concert in Tel Aviv to due to health problems (Courtesy Shuki Weiss)

A new day has comeCeline Dion reschedules Tel Aviv concerts for June 2021

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli pop star Noa Kirel in a music video posted online June 9, 2020. (YouTube screenshot)

On the offensiveIsraeli teen pop star signs major record deal with US label

The incoming director general of the Environmental Protection Ministry, David Yahalomi (Courtesy the Environmental Protection Ministry)

Environment Ministry gets new chief with green chops

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli held in US for ties to massive hacking-for-hire operation

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