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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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Ahlam Tamimi reacts when told that eight children were killed in the 2001 Sbarro bombing she orchestrated (Screenshot)

Arnold Roth: Long for day Tamimi 'faces justice in US court'

US mulls withholding aid to Jordan to force extradition of Palestinian terrorist

By AP and David Horovitz

Family of Malki Roth, Israeli-US girl killed in 2001 Sbarro bombing, hails ‘encouraging’ news as Trump administration vows to ‘explore all options’ to bring Ahlam Tamimi to justice

Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, March 13, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Israel media reviewAnnexation minus: 6 things to know for June 16

Illustrative: Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, on November 13, 2019. (Anas Baba/AFP)

Gaza rocket strikes field in Israel as Hamas urges ‘resistance’ to annexation

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis give joint statements in Jerusalem, June 16, 2020. (Debbie Hill, UPI Pool via AP)

Netanyahu, Greek PM announce travel between countries will resume August 1

Israel to open up to Greeks and Cypriots, premier says alongside counterpart Mitsotakis; leaders say they discussed cooperation, including on EastMed gas pipe deal

Inside storyAs global travel and tourism take off again, Israel’s skies remain mostly closed

By Nathan Jeffay

Israel’s Pangea offers digital health ‘passport’ to ease travel amid pandemic

By Shoshanna Solomon

Cancellation of heritage trips to cost Israeli economy $200 million, report says

Illustrative: Cars travel on a road in the southern West Bank (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

UN rights experts say West Bank annexation will create ’21st-century apartheid’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Independent rapporteurs pan US for backing move, argue it would intensify rights violations; Israeli official: Statement reflects ‘one-sided point of view, anti-Israeli tendency’

EU urges US to join new Israeli-Palestinian peace push, rejects Trump plan

PM says US wants Gantz on board for annexation, vows not to back down — report

In address to American Jews, Pompeo urges Israel to stand with US against China

By JTA

Illustrative photo: Dominican Luisa Liranzo (L) celebrates as a doctor tells her she is released from the Santo Socorro Hospital, where she was hospitalized for COVID-19, in Santo Domingo, on June 12, 2020. (Erika SANTELICES / AFP)

Landmark UK trial: Steroid treatment saves 1/3 of most severe COVID-19 cases

British health secretary says country will immediately begin administering dexamethasone to virus patients with serious symptoms after promising find

A patient is wheeled out of Elmhurst Hospital Center to a waiting ambulance, in the Queens borough of New York, April 7, 2020. (AP/Kathy Willens)

FDA cleared: Israeli tech to warn doctors before COVID-19 patients deteriorate

By Nathan Jeffay

Technicians from Israeli firm Kando extract sewage samples from a manhole near the beach, in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, on June 11, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

Hoping to flush out coronavirus, Israeli firm takes to the sewers

By Jonah Mandel

Rabbi Baruch Gazahay in a recorded lecture posted to YouTube. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Incoming Shas lawmaker who taught kids racism, misogyny quits Knesset post

By Joshua Davidovich

New videos show Rabbi Baruch Gazahay calling Arab ugly, dissing the queen of England, adding to already ridiculous roster of outrageous statements and slurs

6:27 pm

Shas MK under fire for racism, misogyny quits Knesset
6:16 pm

Iran to send France black boxes from downed Ukrainian airliner 'soon'
6:07 pm

Some 70,000 businesses expected to close this year -- report

Analysis

Rivlin uses it, many pro-Israel advocates hate it: Is ‘annexation’ a dirty word?

Does it make any difference if Netanyahu declares he’s annexing parts of the West Bank, or extending sovereignty or Israeli law to them? Will the language affect world reaction?

Military vehicles seen during a parade to mark Israel 's 72nd Independence Day in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, April 29, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

US Democrats push letter to unify party behind anti-annexation message to Israel

Eight Democratic Senate hopefuls speak out against annexation

By Eric Cortellessa

Construction begins on ‘American Road’ linking Jerusalem-area settlements

By keeping women from combat roles, Israel is crippling its leadership

A male-centric military pipeline to leadership has dire consequences, and Exhibit A is the absurd makeup of the Corona crisis task force

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

It’s umbrella season again, somehow

Anyone who knew David knows that especially now in this time of uncertainty, he would be a reassuring voice inside the maw of our own abject terror

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz lead a weekly cabinet meeting, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Knesset passes ‘Norwegian Law,’ letting parties replace ministers with more MKs

By Raoul Wootliff

Sought by Gantz, law passes after he reportedly agrees to amend coalition deal to protect Netanyahu from a future High Court ruling barring indicted MK from serving as alternate PM

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

To pass key bill, Gantz said to agree to Likud demand to amend coalition deal

MK Yair Lapid (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid says Netanyahu incitement to blame for threats on Supreme Court justices

Shas MK Rabbi Baruch Gazahay in a 2016 lesson. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Incoming Shas MK has said immodest women get breast cancer, reincarnate as cows

By Michael Bachner

Rabbi Baruch Gazahay has posted many videos disparaging women; has said only monkeys accept the theory of evolution; now claims comments ‘taken out of context’

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

Virus outbreak found at Tel Aviv hospital – report

Officials at Ichilov Hospital said to believe infection spread among staff during mealtimes; 217 new cases found in Israel in 24 hours after several days below 200

The silent young spreaders: Lots of asymptomatic kids among COVID-19 cases

By Nathan Jeffay

Israeli dies of COVID-19 in Peru prison where he was held for drug trafficking

By ToI Staff and AFP

Senior health official: We don’t know where, how virus is spreading

Yossi Klein Halevi (Ilir Bajaktari / The Tower)

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Dr. Monte Westerfield and Prof. Jen Phillips of University of Oregon

Facebook founder funds research into genetic disease targeting Ashkenazi Jews

By Cathryn J. Prince

Israeli self-employed and small business owners participate in a rally calling for financial support outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Government grants that aim to increase employment may backfire, critics say

By Shoshanna Solomon

Program disproportionately benefits bigger companies, excludes those that didn’t lay off workers during lockdown and sends wrong signal should a second wave of the pandemic hit

Illustrative: The entrance to the Paula Rehavia school in Jerusalem, after it was closed due to coronavirus infections, May 31, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Treasury threatens to dock teachers’ pay if they refuse to extend school year

People walk past closed stores in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, May 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset passes stimulus bill to pay businesses thousands to bring back workers

Amos Nachoum searches for polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. (Screenshot/"Picture of his Life" via JTA)

Swimming with polar bear: Film shows Israeli photographer’s unprecedented quest

By Curt Schleier

Documentary traces veteran wildlife lensman Amos Nachoum’s effort to photograph predator while swimming alongside it

Illustrative: Solid waste is sorted and separated at a facility next to the Hiriya Landfilll near Tel Aviv on November 11, 2008. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

ToI investigates

With no time to waste, new environment minister signals support for recycling

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The scene in Jaffa where a man was shot dead and a 12-year-old critically injured, June 16, 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet)

Man killed, 12-year-old in critical condition after Jaffa shooting

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the IAEA at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 15, 2020. (Joe Klamar/ AFP)

UN nuclear watchdog urges Iran to grant access to flagged sites

By AFP and ToI Staff

South Tel Aviv anti-migrant activist Sheffi Paz speaks during a demonstration outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, on November 9, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Anti-migrant activist admits being behind alleged threat to Supreme Court judge

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, February 28, 2019. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Steven Spielberg mistook Oskar Schindler’s wife for a Jew she saved

Youngcho Chi, chief innovation officer Strategy and Technology at Hyundai Motors Group, speaking at The Fuel Choices and Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv. Oct. 31, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

New multinational hub seeks to foster smart-car, logistics Israeli startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis waves to the gallery as he makes his state of the state speech on the first day of legislative session, March 5, 2019, in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

Florida, Israel choose four winners for joint aerospace R&D funding

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Roman road known as the Pilgrim's Path being excavated at the City of David archaeological site in Jerusalem, September 24, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Archaeologists briefly pause Jerusalem dig in fear of damage to ancient road

Illustrative: Belgian police in Brussels on March 7, 2019. (John Thys/AFP)

Israeli brothers suspected of murdering compatriot in Belgium over drugs

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Workers from the culture and art industry clash with police during a protest outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on June 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2 arrested as artists, performers demonstrate for support amid virus crisis

Izzy Stream Israel, a new content platform featuring Israeli TV shows, films, and documentaries that launched May 21, 2020. (Courtesy, Izzy Stream Israel)

Must-see TVNew streaming platform aims to be local version of Netflix

By Jessica Steinberg

Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton gives daily briefings on the state's fight against the coronavirus with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. (Office of Gov. Mike DeWine via JTA)

Jewish Ohio health official resigns after anti-Semitic backlash to virus orders

The dramatic and tragic scene as the Lancastria sank on August 3, 1940. (AP Photo)

80 years on, Nazis’ sinking of ship off France remains shrouded in mystery

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