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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 21, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with US National Security Adviser John Bolton, in Jerusalem on January 6, 2019. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

'You tell Bibi that if he uses force, I will back him'

Bolton: Trump told Netanyahu he’d back Israeli military action against Iran

Former US national security adviser, in forthcoming tell-all memoir, also says Jared Kushner blocked PM’s calls to US president when he sought to urge him not to meet Iran’s Zarif

An image from a video produced by Hezbollah threatening precision guided missiles on Tel Aviv. (Screen Capture: Twitter)

Hezbollah video threatens precision guided missiles on Tel Aviv

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the State Department in Washington, June 11, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Pool via AP)

Pompeo calls UN rights body ‘a haven for dictators’

By AP

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Envoy to US: Annexation will help Ramallah abandon ‘illusions,’ accept 2 states

Ron Dermer, in op-ed for Washington Post, says world has helped foster false Palestinian hopes of ending Israeli state, asserts Jerusalem’s plan will help them accept reality

US President Donald Trump (center) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from left) alongside Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer (left), US Vice President Mike Pence, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (2nd right) and White House adviser Jared Kushner (right) in the Oval Office of the White House on January 27, 2020 (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

TV: Trump, top aides to decide this week whether to back Netanyahu’s annexation

A partial solar eclipse seen from Yeruham, southern Israel, on June 21, 2020. (Moshe Glantz)

Rare ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse dims skies across Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Most dramatic annular eclipse in years seen from parts of Africa, Asia; only partial eclipse visible in Israel, where it peaked at 8:24 a.m. with 40% of the sun covered by the moon

Police officers secure a police cordon near Forbury Gardens park in Reading, west of London, on June 20, 2020 following a stabbing incident the previous day. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP)

UK police declare park stabbings that killed 3 a terror attack

By AP and ToI Staff

UK authorities say counterterrorism investigators taking over probe into attack in Reading; 25-year-old man, reportedly a Libyan national, in custody

Inspectors talk to people who are not wearing face mask in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, June 15, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Netanyahu threatens renewed lockdown after ‘grave’ forecasts of virus toll

Amid rise in COVID-19 cases, Gantz says response should not be ‘hysterical’; task force report said to recommend that gatherings be limited to outdoors

In this February 16, 2020, photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. (Gali Tibbon/Pool via AP)

PM said seeking to renew Shin Bet tracking, as 294 virus cases found in past day

Medical staff working at the new COVID-19 unit at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, March 31, 2020. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Hospitals told to prepare to reopen specialized COVID-19 wards as cases mount

A man checks the temperature of a customer at the entrance to the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on June 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Eat and drink, for tomorrow we get infected: 5 things to know for June 21

By Joshua Davidovich and Jacob Magid

As coronavirus cases rise, a seemingly official report warns of more danger, but intra-agency squabbles lay bare the government’s shambolic approach to the crisis

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony in the military's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv on June 18, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

IDF chief: Iran now ‘the most dangerous country’ in the region

Aviv Kohavi says Tehran’s nuclear program ‘is no longer the only threat,’ warns against its conventional military capabilities, support for terror groups near Israel’s borders

6:23 pm

Chief rabbi of Iran says Israeli government 'doesn't care about Judaism,' hails Soleimani
6:04 pm

IDF chief: Iran's conventional military capabilities also a threat
5:36 pm

Health minister joins calls to revive Shin Bet tracking of virus carriers

Illustrative: A researcher with a vial in a lab, March 12, 2020, in Meriden, Connecticut, amidst researching a vaccine for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

In possible breakthrough, Israeli lab claims successful vaccine trial on rodents

Defense Ministry-run Institute for Biological Research says it has been able to protect hamsters from COVID-19, hopes to have finished product for humans within a year

A nurse prepares the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, on April 5, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

US researchers believe MMR vaccine could mitigate worst effects of COVID-19

An illustrative image of an embryo (Zffoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Startup hopes to use its IVF-predictive software against coronavirus

By Shoshanna Solomon

Technicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab in Tel Aviv, on June 9, 2020 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Top doctor pans dire virus report; IDF, health ministry said to wash hands of it

A leading epidemiologist blasts ‘unprofessional’ document warning of hundreds of deaths amid rising infections, but another says its predictions are ‘very accurate’

Mask-clad Palestinian security forces stand at a checkpoint in the village of Tafouh, west of Hebron in the West Bank, on June 19, 2020, while enforcing a lockdown due to a surge of new cases of coronavirus (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

PA orders lockdowns of Hebron, Nablus amid record high infection numbers

The loss of a child never disappears, yet it is also not always there

Eliana died 20 years ago, at the age of 2; naturally, I wonder who she would be today, and how she’d fit into the family that has grown up around her absence

’The captain has turned on the Face Mask sign’

Wearing corona protection on flights should not be optional. It’s time for governments to pass laws making it compulsory

Zero Mostel and Maria Karnilova in a scene from a stage play 'Fiddler On The Roof', 1964. (Photo from a Stage Production/Getty Images)

Pandemic means intermission for 50-year tradition of near-daily ‘Fiddler’ shows

By Stephen Silver

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

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Seeking to split 2-year budget, Netanyahu must first convince Gantz it’s no trap

Amid economic chaos and no reliable forecasts, treasury insists planning 2 years ahead futile; but ensuing political instability could keep Blue and White head from PM’s office

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) is interviewed by Rina Matsliah on Channel 12, September 14, 2019. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Anchor suspended for saying Likud voters would back PM even if he was a rapist

Interior Affairs Minister Aryeh Deri, left, speaks with Health Minister Yaakov Litzman during a meeting in Jerusalem, March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Haredi leaders tell PM they won’t back election before budget passed

US President Donald Trump arrives on stage to speak at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump holds comeback rally, but fails to fill arena after infections among staff

By Laurent Banguet

Slamming ‘unhinged left-wing mob’ for ‘trying to vandalize our history,’ US president goes on the offensive as he blames media for low turnout at event that defied health warnings

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

At Tulsa rally, Trump says he urged team to ‘slow’ COVID-19 testing

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Silent majorityUS teens say they punked Trump by ordering rally tickets en masse

Left, former Confederate official Judah Benjamin (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images/ via JTA); right, The window in Peninsula Temple Sholom's religious school bearing Judah Benjamin's name. The name has been taped over. (Courtesy of Peninsula Temple Sholom/ via JTA)

California synagogue to remove reference to top Confederate Jewish official

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Prof. Zeev Sternhell on January 12, 2010. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Prof. Zeev Sternhell, political scientist and left-wing intellectual, dies at 85

Illustrative: Young Israelis protest for the legalization of marijuana outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 20, 2014. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Cannabis legalization bill clears first hurdle

IDF soldier Adiel Fishler, who was reported missing from Shizafon army base in southern Israel on June 18, 2020. (Courtesy/Israel Police)

Missing soldier found dead outside base in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

File: A man counts banknotes and traveler checks in Tehran, Iran, August 21, 2019 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s currency hits record low amid sanctions, virus, international pressure

By AP and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on June 19, 2020 (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Poland says Putin falsifies World War II history to weaken Western allies

By Vanessa Gera

The vandalism at Middle Park Kindergarten in Albert Park. (via Australian Jewish News)

From our partnerMelbourne kindergarten defaced with ‘fourth reich,’ Star of David graffiti

By EVAN ZLATKIS

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