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What Matters Most On Friday, June 12, 2020

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Emirati Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba at an event with then-US House speaker Paul Ryan, at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 25, 2018. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

In first-ever op-ed for Israeli paper, UAE diplomat warns against annexation

By Raphael Ahren

Yousef al-Otaiba says much of Arab world wants to believe Israel ‘is an opportunity, not an enemy,’ but the ‘great potential of warmer ties’ is threatened by Netanyahu’s plans

US President Donald Trump (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan at the White House, January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

As Netanyahu moves closer to annexation, pressure builds in DC to stop him

By Eric Cortellessa

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks at an event in Geneva, Switzerland, June 15, 2018. (Albin Hillert/WCC via JTA)

World Council of Churches wants EU sanctions on Israel if annexation goes ahead

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Analysis

Already neglected, Jordan Valley Palestinians fear Trump plan will confine them

Villagers slated to be engulfed by annexed territory oppose US proposal and say they’d reject Israeli citizenship even if offered

Children pose for a photo in the Jordan Valley Palestinian village of Fasa'il on June 10, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

A Palestinian shepherd herds his sheep in the Jordan Valley, in the West Bank on January 7, 2020. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Israel said readying for census of Palestinians in annexation areas

MK Bezalel Smotrich in Jerusalem, on November 11, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Far-right MK: Bedouin birthrate like a ‘bomb’ that must be defused

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks at a conference of business organizations, in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019 (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Olmert to Saudi outlet: ‘Nonsense’ to claim we need Jordan Valley for security

By Judah Ari Gross

In rare interview with Arab press, ex-PM warns annexation will bring ‘catastrophe,’ says Amman was willing to have NATO peacekeepers on its border

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the 17th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 24, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett: Netanyahu betrayed religious Zionists, and will pay for it

By Raoul Wootliff

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right, meets with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, center, and Northern Command chief Amir Baram in northern Israel on June 2, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz speaks to US defense chief Esper on Iranian threat, ‘regional concerns’

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Netanyahu walks back statement urging jail for journalist who reported on him

Despite his own endorsement of the comments earlier in the day, PM says Likud call to throw reporter in prison was nothing but ‘an unfortunate formulation by spokespeople’

Hananel Even Hen and Shiran Habush celebrate during their wedding at a public park in the settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, March 15, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israel allows weddings of up to 250 guests, despite infection spike

Events that aren’t marriages or religious life cycle events still capped at 50 participants and have to take place outside

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

Top Health Ministry doctor apologizes for letting billionaire skip quarantine

A police officer gives fines to young women for not properly wearing their face masks in the city center of Jerusalem on June 11, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel records over 200 new virus cases in a day for first time since April

Interview

Renee Ghert-Zand

Back from space odyssey, astronaut Jessica Meir adapts to Covid-plagued Earth

With 7 months on International Space Station and historic all-female space walks behind her, trailblazing child of Iraqi-born Israeli sets sights on Artemis moon landing project

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir outside the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft after she lands with NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Friday, April 17, 2020.(NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Folksinger Sandy Cash, whose popular science song about astronomer Vera Rubin, is making stellar connections (Courtesy Sandy Cash)

Stellar songLocal folk singer pens ode to female astronomer

By Jessica Steinberg

A map showing the temperate zone, highlighted in red, where the virus had climate conditions to thrive, according to a study published June 11, 2020. (CC-BY Sajadi MM et al. JAMA Network Open)

Study claims COVID-19 virus thrives in temperate climate band across globe

Analysis finds that hard-hit cities around the globe were within a band between 30 and 50 degrees North

A participant in a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine trial receives an injection in Kansas City, Missouri, April 8, 2020. (Center for Pharmaceutical Research via AP)

Mutation-proof: Israeli scientist nears vaccine that’ll cope with COVID changes

By Nathan Jeffay

A lab assistant holds a blood sample to be tested for COVID-19 antibodies, April 28, 2020, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Biotech firm Regeneron starts trials for coronavirus antibody treatment

Researchers with the University of Haifa dig up Natufian remains in the Mount Carmel area of northern Israel. (Courtesy/Reuven Yeshurun, University of Haifa)

Archaeology

Israeli researchers find first evidence ancient humans ate snakes, lizards

University of Haifa archaeologists say residents of Mount Carmel snacked on reptiles some 15,000 years ago, possibly as part of transition to sedentary lifestyle

Iftach Yacoby, head of the Tel Aviv University's renewable energy laboratory, examines micro algae samples during research to demonstrate the evolutionary capacities of plants with the sun to produce energy on June 11, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Green energyIsraeli scientists produce energy from plants

By AFP

A still from 'Aviva' by director Boaz Yakin. (Courtesy)

Director interview

Why Hollywood director Boaz Yakin’s newest project is a gender-fluid art film

By Jordan Hoffman

History is never black and white

Destroying the monuments of history does not redeem the past; rather, what brings us forward is facing the past with moral responsibility, humility, and openness (Shelach)

Life inside the mask

My disabled husband is exempt from the coronavirus regulation that requires masks, but I’ve come to realize that he’s cloaked behind one all the time anyway

Okay Corona, we will just bring graduation home

I couldn’t let my son depart elementary school with no more than a ’Leave Meeting’ click — so I helped produce a send-off for 86 8th graders that none of us will ever forget

What is going on?

The stories we tell affect what we do, especially under pressure. Consider that Moses sent out 12 to tour the land, and 10 of them became spies (Shelach)

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John Cleese as Basil Fawlty in a scene from 'The Germans' episode of the TV comedy series 'Fawlty Towers' (screen capture, YouTube: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

BBC streaming service removes Fawlty Towers ‘Don’t mention the war’ episode

UKTV says 1970’s classic British comedy ‘contains racial slurs so we are taking the episode down while we review it’

People look at the statue of the founder of the Scout movement Robert Baden-Powell on Poole Quay in Dorset, England ahead of its expected removal to "safe storage" following pressure to remove it over concerns about his alleged actions while in the military and "Nazi sympathies" Thursday June 11, 2020. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

Statues of Scouts founder latest target as Britain re-examines colonialist past

A protester looks up at a sign that reads "Black Lives Matter" in Marseille, southern France, during a protest against the recent death of George Floyd, June 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

AnalysisBlack Lives Matter goes mainstream after Floyd’s death

By David Crary and Aaron Morrison

Ronna Glickman (aka Jessica Chaffin), left, and Bryan Saffi. (Courtesy)

Interview

What podcast rhymes with corona and gets under your skin? ‘Ronna’ stars tell all

By Jordan Hoffman

Illustrative: Members of Jewish Community Action attend a rally protesting the killing of George Floyd on May 31, 2020 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. (Courtesy of Carin Mrotz via JTA)

ToI Community webinar

WATCH: Call to action from Minnesota rabbis who attended George Floyd funeral

Rabbis Jill Crimmings and Aaron Weininger on supporting Black Lives Matter while facing challenges like heightening security as US anti-Semitism surges

US President Donald Trump participates in an expanded bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

Netanyahu hails Trump for announcing sanctions against ‘corrupt’ ICC

White House accuses international court of pursuing politically motivated probes of US and allies; Israeli lawmakers say move against proves US president a ‘great’ friend of Israel

Demonstrators carry banners outside the International Criminal Court, urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

ICC must up its game to survive after US onslaught, activists say

By Jan Hennop and Charlotte Van Ouwerkerk

Illustrative: Police escort a group of supporters of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo outside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. (AP/Peter Dejong)

ICC shuns ‘unprecedented’ US sanctions against tribunal employees

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Ian Yosef Hertzmark at his farm in Randallstown, Maryland, in February. His sales of flour have more than doubled during the pandemic. (Mike Tintner/ via JTA)

Pandemic brings bumper crop of customers for some small US kosher food purveyors

Mohammed al-Issa, the secretary-general of the Muslim World League, speaking on April 25, 2018 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. (Screenshot: American Sephardi Federation)

Saudi cleric says fighting anti-Semitism ‘a religious and moral obligation’

By AFP

Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, September 18, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas outraged after discovering Iran spied on its deputy leader – report

A 10-day-old Syrian baby is flown from Cyprus to Israel for emergency surgery on June 11, 2020. (Sammy Revel/Twitter)

10-day-old Syrian baby flown to Israel for emergency heart surgery

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Ice Cube tweets more anti-Semitic imagery, defends practice

By Gabe Friedman

View of the former cooling towers at the Bazan Group oil refinery complex on June 12, 2020, hours after one of them collapsed. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Iconic Haifa oil refinery tower collapses

Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis listens to Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, January 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Syria’s Assad fires PM amid worsening economic crisis

Robert Kraft, center, along with members of his family, celebrates the grand opening of the Kraft Family Building at the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, April 27, 2018. (Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston)

Boston federation lays off 25 employees amid economic crisis

UJA-Federation of New York CEO Eric Goldstein, seen in December 2019 (Bennett Raglin/Getty Images)

UJA-Federation of New York announces 54 layoffs as CEO forgoes pay

An anti-government protester chants slogans as others burn wood and barriers to block a road during a protest against the political leadership they blame for the economic and financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese take to the streets as currency hits a new low

By Sarah El Deeb

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during an event in Dover, Delaware, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden says his main worry is Trump will try to ‘steal this election’

By Alexandra Jaffe and Will Weissert

Republican Sen. Steve Huffman speaks during a rally at Darke County GOP headquarters in Greenville, Ohio, on October 13, 2014. (AP/Al Behrman)

Ohio lawmaker asks if ‘colored’ not washing hands, drawing fury

By Farnoush Amiri

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