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What Matters Most On Monday, June 15, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, left, at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, on January 16, 2014. (AP/ Yousef Allan, Jordanian Royal Palace/ File)

Jordan king said to snub Netanyahu, refuse his calls over annexation push

Abdullah also refuses to schedule meeting with Defense Minister Gantz to discuss Israeli plans, according to Palestinian report; PM said to tell reservists he’ll annex in stages

A large billboard depicting US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of a new campaign by the Yesha Council with the text "no to a Palestinian state" and "sovereignty, do it right" in Jerusalem on June 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewWhen you have to annex, annex — don’t talk: 5 things to know for June 15

Prime Minister Benjamin and Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on June 14, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Gantz, Ashkenazi said withholding support for PM’s annexation; more talks Monday

Bedouin diplomat Ishmael Khaldi at the Israeli consulate in Miami. (Courtesy, Israeli Consulate)

‘I could not breathe’: Bedouin diplomat accuses Jerusalem guards of choking him

Ishmael Khaldi, Foreign Ministry’s first Bedouin emissary, says security grabbed him when he took a selfie at entrance to bus station; guard says he refused to show ID

Protesters gather in Leeds, England, June 14, 2020, during a protest by Black Voices Matter. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

Johnson sets anti-racism panel; will defend Churchill statue ‘with every breath’

By AP and ToI Staff

A Star of David crushing the neck of a dove saying "I can't breathe" as part of an art exhibit in Tehran, Iran about the George Floyd protests in the US, June 14, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Tehran hosts ‘I Can’t Breathe’ exhibition featuring criticism of US, Israel

Illustrative: Lightning is seen above the coastal city of Netanya on January 4, 2018, as the worst storm of the winter hits Israel. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Taking cue from lightning, Tel Aviv University team creates power from humidity

Researchers find that voltage develops between 2 metal surfaces when humidity rises above 60%; could lead to batteries chargeable by water vapor

A mountain gazelle looks down at a highway in Israel. (Amir Balaban, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.)

Israel’s mountain gazelles under serious threat, urgent action needed — study

Oshri Asulin (Facebook)

Youngest Israeli victim: 26-year-old man dies from rare complication of COVID-19

Oshri Asulin, from Kfar Saba, said to have developed heart condition usually found only in children

Israelis, some wearing protective face masks and some not, in Tel Aviv on June 9, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Coronavirus death toll up to 302 as Tel Aviv flagged as new epicenter

By Joshua Davidovich

Technicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab at Clalit Health Services branch in Tel Aviv, on June 9, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Health worker contracts COVID-19 after office party held to honor virus efforts

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

The smoke trail of a rocket, fired by Palestinian terrorists, flying over the Gaza Strip, on February 23, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Rocket fired from Gaza hits open field in southern Israel

No injuries or damage reported in attack; sirens sound in open areas, but not towns or cities

6:20 pm

Health Ministry confirms outbreak at Tel Aviv nursing home
6:17 pm

Rocket fired from Gaza, hits open field in Israel
6:07 pm

Hamas official: 'Mass actions' planned to fight Israeli annexation

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)

Senior Likud source says Netanyahu seeking to dissolve government – report

By Michael Bachner

Irate at Blue and White over combative remarks, PM said to be demanding retroactive change to unity deal; tension flares as Likud tries to block law important to Gantz’s party

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with his lawyers at the Jerusalem District Court for the start of his trial on corruption charges, May 24, 2020. (Amit Shabi/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu hits up rich friends to fund corruption trial defense

By Tia Goldenberg

Arabs citizens pray prior to a protest against the decision by the Tel Aviv Municipality to demolish an old Muslim burial ground which was discovered after plans had been made to build a new homeless shelter and commercial space at the site. June 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)
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Abandoned for a century, Jaffa Muslim cemetery brings up old ghosts and new fury

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians receive financial aid from Qatar at a post office in Gaza City, November 27, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Israel said to let $50 million in Qatari aid into Gaza; balloon attacks to halt

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Minister Gantz, who railed against paying ‘protection’ to Hamas during election campaign, mum on report of such a deal under his watch

A Palestinian protester walks by burning tires amid clashes with Israeli forces at the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Ramallah on February 14, 2020. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

IDF girds for West Bank annexation fallout, including possible new terror ‘war’

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, visits the town of Fira in Satorini, June 13, 2020. (Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister's Office via AP)

Greek PM to visit Israel Tuesday for talks on energy, annexation

By AFP

Analysis

UAE diplomat’s historic op-ed shows normalization can thrive in the status quo

Annexation will undermine all progress in Arab-Israeli ties, Yousef Al-Otaiba warned in Yedioth. But if Netanyahu calls it off? Then the sky is the limit, Palestinians be damned

Concept art showcasing the Israeli pavilion at the upcoming Expo 2020 in Dubai. (Screenshot)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech before the newly-unveiled sign for the new settlement of 'Ramat Trump,' or 'Trump Heights' in English, named after the US President during an official ceremony in the Golan Heights on June 16, 2019. (Jalaa MAREY/AFP)

On US president’s birthday, Israel okays building plans for ‘Trump Heights’

Shaina Hirsch in front of the Dome of the Rock on June 10, 2020. (Courtesy)

Police summon Temple Mount Waqf guard who detained a woman citing Jewish history

Illustrative: An employe of a genetic institute works with a DNA sample. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Study highlights dangers of DNA tests used to back up preexisting ideas of race

By Cathryn J. Prince

The big, small, sea-less world

How easily the coronavirus made all of my stomping grounds, from my village to my city and the country and the world, fade from my awareness

7 ways to stand with the oppressed, not the oppressor

We are living in a historic moment, when we can do what it takes to finally make national change that sticks

Jessica Montell

The High Court will not end the occupation, and yet…

Boycotting the Court because it props up Israeli policy (and yes, it does) will deny every individual Palestinian a chance for justice

Nicholas Jagdeo

Statues and heroes

The anger of the masses being mistreated burns hot, but it also burns quickly, and pulling down statues does little, when there are more important things at hand

Security forces raze 12 buildings in 2 central West Bank illegal Jewish outposts

13 hilltop youths detained at scene for clashing with troops; locals accuse border cops of excessive force; demolitions appear to be 1st in Gantz’s tenure as defense minister

A Palestinian man is attacked by a group of Israelis in the West Bank city of Hebron on June 13, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

2 more Israeli suspects arrested over Hebron beating of Palestinian man

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

An IDF soldier (center) helps a Palestinian man (left) flee from a group of Israelis attacking him in the West Bank city of Hebron on June 13, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

IDF chief praises soldier for rescuing Palestinian man from settlers in Hebron

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Justice Uzi Vogelman at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 4, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Second Supreme Court judge gets threats, apparently from right-wing activists

A day after Anat Baron received 2 letters, Uzi Vogelman files police complaint about messages on his mailbox; both judges recently ruled against demolition of terrorist’s home

Supreme Court Justice Anat Baron arrives to the courtroom for a court hearing on November 3, 2019. Photo by (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Second death threat letter leveled at Supreme Court justice

An employee at the entrance of an IGA grocery store in Cote Saint-Luc wears a mask near a station equipped with safety instructions, gloves, and hand sanitizer. (Courtesy)

Coronavirus crisis

Modeling Israel, Montreal suburb becomes first Canadian town to require masks

Majority Jewish Cote Saint-Luc makes face coverings mandatory in public as of June 15; mayor proposed new regulations after conversations with Israeli relatives

Brandon Korff and Yael Shelbia (Screenshot)

Israel deports US billionaire’s son for violating quarantine for tryst

By AP

In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a pharmacist gives Jennifer Haller, left, the first shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The vaccine by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna Inc., generated antibodies similar to those seen in people who have recovered from COVID-19 in a study volunteers who were given either a low or medium dose. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Israel said near to deal with Moderna to supply experimental coronavirus vaccine

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This image released by A24 shows Kevin Garnett, Lakeith Stanfield and Adam Sandler in a scene from 'Uncut Gems.' (A24 via AP)

Locked down? Open up to Adam Sandler’s ‘Uncut Gems,’ a lesson in race relations

By Ben Sales and Gabe Friedman

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The board of governors meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, March 9, 2020. (AP/Ronald Zak)

Nuke watchdog to meet as row brews over Iran blocking inspections

By AFP and ToI Staff

Eliran Malul, charged with stabbing his wife Michal Sela to death at their home in Ramat Motza, seen via a video link during a hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on May 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man accused of murdering wife says she stabbed him first

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

Police apprehend 26 corruption suspects, including 3 mayors

People gather at Place de la Republique for a march against police brutality and racism in Paris, France, June 13, 2020. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Protesters shout ‘dirty Jews’ at Paris rally against police racism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo talks to reporters in Albany at his daily news conference about the coronavirus crisis, March 29, 2020. (Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo/via JTA)

3 Orthodox Jews, 2 Catholic priests sue over NY limitations on houses of worship

The Museum of Mankind (Musee de l'Homme), next to the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France, October 14, 2015. (AP/Francois Mori)

With racism again on minds, Paris museum marks poetic resistance to Nazis

By AFP

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Israel, January 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ombudsman says he’ll probe controversial Shin Bet tracking of virus patients

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Dr. Alain Serraf, head of the International Congenital Heart Center at Sheba's children's hospital, after conducting surgery on a 10-day-old Syrian baby on June 14, 2020. (Sheba Medical Center)

Doctors optimistic as Syrian baby completes 1st of 3 heart surgeries in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

File: Women take part in a rally against domestic violence in Tel Aviv on December 12, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Ministers back bill for electronic bracelet tracking of domestic abusers

Polish policemen talk to a driver at the closed border crossing near Hradek nad Nisou, Czech Republic, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Moving the Pole postsPoland invades Czech Republic in ‘misunderstanding’

Illustrative: A Maccabi Tel Aviv player, in white, dribbles the ball between opposing players during a match against Beitar Jerusalem in Jerusalem on June 8, 2020. (Flash90)

Maccabi Tel Aviv players grilled over underage sex allegations

In this May 14, 2018, photo, Spike Lee appears after the premiere of his film "BlacKkKlansman" at the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)

Do the right thingSpike Lee issues apology after defending Woody Allen

By AP

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