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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 17, 2020

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A cyclist rides the path around Lake Harriet on Memorial Day in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. (Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP)

Q&A: Coronavirus latest

‘Under-50s have little to fear, but even vaccine won’t save millions of elderly’

By David Horovitz

Leading epidemiologist Prof. Yehuda Carmeli says newest data leaves him more optimistic, but not when it comes to the over-70s; predicts some 8,000 Israeli deaths

Israelis at a cafe in Tel Aviv on June 16, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel records almost 300 new virus cases in single day as infections swell

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

Amid surge in cases, Knesset extends emergency coronavirus regulations

Home Front Command chief Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai in 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Top generals quarantined after coming into contact with coronavirus carriers

By Judah Ari Gross

Heads of IDF Central Command, Southern Command forced to self-isolates, along with several other senior officers and troops

Israel to accept COVID-19 drug remdesivir from US company

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Charter buses block Tel Aviv highway in protest over virus woes

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Bracing for 2nd virus wave, Israel aims to end imports by making its own masks

By Michael Blum

UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash speaks to journalists in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

Despite annexation plan, top UAE official urges greater cooperation with Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Addressing US-Jewish group, Minister Anwar Gargash says Abu Dhabi disagrees with Jerusalem on Palestinian issue, but is ‘decoupling the political from the non-political’

Boris Johnson: Israel’s planned annexation breaches international law

By AP and ToI Staff

Jordanian king tells senators annexation plans threaten regional stability

By ToI Staff and AP

Settler leader: Trump plan’s building freeze in enclaves a ‘slow Disengagement’

Inside Story

As Netanyahu fights for annexation, settlers with most to gain remain apathetic

While West Bank mayors remain divided over Trump plan, they’re all in agreement that interest among their residents is low. Some cite a lack of understanding of move’s implications

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses with children during a tree planting event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho on February 10, 2020. (Flash90)

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Netanyahu fears gaps with Gantz will erode US support for annexation — report

By Michael Bachner

A sign that reads "there is no half sovereignty," displayed in the northern West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron on June 4, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Poll shows slim majority of settlers back Trump plan, despite hostility at top

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a baby named after him during a tree planting event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho on February 10, 2020. (Flash90)

Israel media review

Spinners gonna spin: 5 things to know for June 17

Pro-PM paper floats trial balloon of latest annexation strategy being ‘considered,’ while competitor reveals map settlers prepared altering Trump plan that’s already been rejected

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with MK Miki Zohar during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on December 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Senior Likud MK says Netanyahu vowed he’ll never recognize a Palestinian state

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis at an event in Jerusalem, June 16, 2020. (Debbie Hill/Pool/AFP)

In Israel, Greek PM brands Turkey a ‘threat to regional peace’

By AFP

Shelly Levy-Tzedek, head of the Cognition, Aging and Rehabilitation laboratory at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, with a PARO robot. (Dani Machlis/Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

Robot cuddles could fill void as pandemic makes touching taboo, research finds

By Nathan Jeffay

An Israeli study says an interactive stuffed animal could hold the key to pain relief, opening a window to compassionate care even under social distancing rules

Illustrative: A couple arguing (fizkes; iStock by Getty Images)

‘Love hormone’ oxytocin also causes aggressive behavior, Israeli scientists find

By Nathan Jeffay

Train station staff and workers are seen receiving training instructions at Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem, before a possible reopening order from the government on May 14, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Finance minister demands trains resume, culture be given green light — report

Analysis

How a faked typhus outbreak spared 8,000 Poles from the Nazis

Eugene Lazowski is called a ‘Polish Schindler’ for rescuing 12 villages through medical subterfuge, but his ‘quarantine zone’ was declared too late for most of the region’s Jews

Polish physician Eugene Lazowski and Nazi poster about Jews as typhus carriers (public domain)

Presidential hopeful would give in to Jews on Shoah restitution, Polish TV warns

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Germany pledges 120 million euros to Auschwitz preservation fund

By AFP

Dutch-Jewish WWII hero who saved hundreds of children dies at 96

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Good marketing can save lives. Get on it, Ministry of Health

Israel can still stop this second COVID wave, but those masks need better PR

Stefanie Rhodes and Ruth Messinger

After the protests and statements of solidarity, what’s next?

As a mother and grandmother of Jews of Color, we, like all whites, still need to confront our implicit biases and the benefits of white privilege

Security forces gather ahead of protests in Jaffa, June 12, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Court freezes construction on top of Jaffa Muslim cemetery after angry protests

As Jaffa Islamic Council claims municipality lacks valid permit to build homeless shelter, judge says work to be stopped until July 22 hearing; riots continue anyway

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, May 2, 2017 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

6 groups, including ADL, urge companies to pause Facebook ads to combat hate

By ToI Staff and AP

ADL chief says social media giant has ‘repeatedly failed’ to act against bigotry on its platform; NAACP head: Zuckerberg profits from ‘suppression’ of black voters

Matthew Rose, left, and Michael Carr, of Santa Cruz County hold posters of slain Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, as they join others outside the Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner's Office to pay their respects in Santa Cruz, Calif., Sunday, June 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Martha Mendoza)

Extreme-right ‘boogaloo’ follower charged with killing cop at US racism protest

By AFP

This photo from January 3, 2013, shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google boots far-right site from ad platform, warns another

By AFP

People shop for food at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on June 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Finance minister: Even if virus soars, we won’t again impose nationwide lockdown

Ministers ease pandemic restrictions further, despite a steady rise in virus cases; three hotspots — Rahat, Arara, parts of Jaffa — face new limitations

6:21 pm

WHO says more evidence needed on steroid treatment for virus
6:11 pm

Finance minister: Even if virus soars, we won't impose nationwide lockdown
5:57 pm

Facebook removes another 900 accounts linked to white supremacists

View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Report on polluting Haifa refinery finally emerges, but outlook still hazy

Heavily redacted paper written for PM’s office recommends shutting down Bazan facilities rather than relocation, but shies from any decisive conclusions

People at the Red Sea in the southern city of Eilat on May 13, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

5.4-magnitude earthquake hits Red Sea, rattling Eilat

Illustrative: High school students debate environmental issues online, June 15, 2020. (screenshot)

Debating contest teaches Israeli highschoolers rules of dignified argument

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

Shas candidate under fire for misogyny, racism won’t take Knesset seat after all

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Rabbi Baruch Gazahay, who has posted many videos disparaging women and Arabs, drops candidacy amid outcry

More Headlines

Suleiman al-Abeid, who was convicted of murdering and raping Hanit Kikos in 1993, leaves Maasiyahu Prison after serving his sentence on June 17, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man freed after 27 years for murder that victim’s family says he didn’t commit

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative image of a person shopping with credit card and laptop (Poike; iStock by Getty Images)

Investment in Israeli fintech industry surged to record $1.8 billion in 2019

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: New York State Senator Simcha Felder (right), Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein (center), and New York City Councilman Kalman Yeger open up Kolbert Playground in the Midwood neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. (Benjamin Kanter via JTA)

Defying NYC mayor, Orthodox lawmakers cut chains off shut Brooklyn playground

Palestinian security forces guard at the entrance to the West Bank city of Nablus on March 23, 2020, as part of measures to contain the coronavirus. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

PA security confirms shredding documents, fearing Israeli raids amid volatility

By AFP and ToI Staff

Syria's first lady Asma Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, during an interview aired on state TV in Damascus, Syria. The photo was released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, August 4, 2019. (Syrian Presidency via Facebook)

Vowing new Syria campaign, US sanctions dozens including Assad’s UK-born wife

By Shaun Tandon

The scene in Baqa al-Gharbiya where a man was fatally stabbed on June 17, 2020. (Screenshot: Ynet)

Man stabbed to death near Haifa, in 3rd slaying in a day in Arab community

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

Bedouin diplomat says abuse by guards a typical experience for Arab Israelis

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: The JCC of San Francisco (Google Maps)

San Francisco JCC lays off 150 employees, slashes budget by more than 40%

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk in Antwerp, Belgium, March 16, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Antwerp’s Orthodox Jews defy own prediction, weather pandemic surprisingly well

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Niv Sultan appears in the trailer for "Tehran." (Screenshot/ YouTube)

Under cover‘Fauda’ writer’s new show ‘Tehran’ gets picked up by Apple TV

By Lior Zaltzman

From 'On the Spectrum,' the YES TV show picked up by Amazon Studios (Courtesy Yes)

Spectrum shiftAmazon Studios picks up Israeli autism dramedy ‘On the Spectrum’

By Jessica Steinberg

Lebanese soldiers and UNIFIL peacekeepers watch from the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh, as IDF Merkava tanks take part in routine maneuvers near the border demarcation line, near Kibbutz Misgav Am, on June 2, 2020. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

IDF detains Sudanese migrant who crossed into Israel from Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

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