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What Matters Most On Monday, June 22, 2020

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Illustrative: A doctor checks a medical ventilator control panel while wearing protective clothing at the Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, March 16, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Ministers hike fine for lack of face mask, warn of 2,000 patients on ventilators

Amid spike in infections, coronavirus cabinet votes to boost enforcement operations, looks at locking down outbreak areas

Passengers ride on Jerusalem's light rail on June 21, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Government weighs stricter virus rules as new infections pile up

Faithful sit on their two-wheelers and pray as they attend a drive-in mass in an open area of Bethel AG Church as part of maintaining social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Bengaluru, India, Sunday, June 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

UN health agency reports largest global single-day increase in coronavirus cases

By Joseph Wilson and Jamey Keaten

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Fossils show 1st intrepid humans left Africa 200,000 years ago for an icy Israel

Discovery of fossils of cold-climate rodents alongside remains of region’s 1st modern humans shows they arrived from hot cradle of Africa during Ice Age, but were able to adapt

IAA archaeologist Dr. Lior Weisbrod with tiny fossils of rodents from the excavation. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants a tree during an event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yeriho, in the Jordan Valley, February 10, 2020. (Flash90)

Netanyahu memo: Evacuating settlements would pose ‘immediate existential threat’

By Raphael Ahren

In talking points sent to Likud MKs, PM’s office says annexation will bring ‘normalcy and stability’ to West Bank settlers, stays mum on Palestinians’ status

Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub at a press conference in Ramallah on June 21, 2020 (Screenshot/Palestine TV)

PA official urges peaceful resistance, adds ‘our fingers are on the triggers’

By Aaron Boxerman

Screen capture from video of Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters during an interview with Hamas-affiliated Shehab News Agency, June 20, 2020. (Twitter)

Roger Waters: Sheldon Adelson is ‘puppet master’ pulling Trump, Pompeo’s strings

By Stuart Winer

US President Donald Trump (L) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on January 27, 2020, in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s annexation bid is bad for Israel. Our ally the US should just say no

Unilaterally extending Israeli rule into the West Bank not only damages the way we are perceived around the world, it remakes the way we present and see ourselves

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, September 19, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Pompeo adviser ‘confident’ Israel will weigh risk to UAE ties before annexation

By Michael Bachner

Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY, speaks during a news conference, with other House members, where they called for a second prosecutor to investigate the Department of Justice and FBI, on May 22, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Two Jewish Dems seek to oust one of Congress’s only Jewish Republicans

By Eric Cortellessa

Nancy Goroff and Perry Gershon want to boot Trump ally Lee Zeldin out of his New York House seat. But first they have to face off against each other

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving final remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before Trump departure, on May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Republican Jewish Coalition launches $50,000 pro-Trump ad campaign

US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, early Sunday, June 21, 2020, after stepping off Marine One as he returns from a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump campaign seeks to reset after flubbed rally

By Frankie TAGGART

Palestinians attend a protest against Israeli annexation plans in Jericho on June 22, 2020. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Live updates (closed)

UN envoy at Palestinian rally against annexation: Don’t give up statehood dream

Nikolay Mladenov tells thousands at Jericho demonstration, which IDF sought to block Palestinians from attending, ‘you’re not renting a house here, this is your home’

6:26 pm

UK eases lockdown further as deaths, cases slow
6:16 pm

TV: IDF chief asks Gantz to close Army Radio
6:07 pm

Haifa movie theater to reopen in accordance with virus guidelines allowing 250 people

Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman outside his home on February 11, 2016. (Flash90)

Israel media review

You bug me, I bug you: 5 things to know for June 22

Netanyahu seethes as comments by top spy opposing virus surveillance are leaked to media; a public channel forces journalists to take polygraph tests over leak of MK’s outburst

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Fuming Netanyahu urges probe after leak from coronavirus cabinet meeting

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman and National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat hold consultations on February 24, 2020. (Government Press Office)

Shin Bet chief implores ministers not to renew coronavirus surveillance

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)

IDF chief warns Iran now the ‘most dangerous country’ in Middle East

Along with its nuclear program, Aviv Kohavi says Tehran’s conventional weapons also a threat to Israel, and it is behind a variety of terror attempts against Israel

Iranian head rabbi Yehuda Gerami, in an interview with Iranian TV broadcast on Quds Day, May 22, 2020. (Screenshot/ Twitter)

Iran’s top rabbi says Israel ‘doesn’t care about Judaism’; hails Soleimani

Iranian riot policemen standing guard outside the Bahraini Embassy in Tehran as Iranian hardliners hold a demonstration against the Bahraini government's suppression of protests led by the mainly-Shiite opposition in the kingdom, April 15, 2011. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri, File)

Iran arrests founder of student charity, 2 aides

By AP

Solar panels in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israelis looking to harness local bromine to produce revolutionary new battery

Technion researchers, US company working to create affordable, rechargeable batteries to store solar and wind power that could ‘bring Israel to forefront of renewables revolution’

An illustration of the steak prototype produced in an Aleph Farms Ltd. lab out of cow cells (Courtesy)

6 Israeli firms named among 100 ‘tech pioneers’ by World Economic Forum

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this June 18, 2020, photo, Steve Picazio loads groceries into his car at Shaw's grocery store in Berlin, Vt. Vermont's ban on single-use plastic bags takes effect July 1, while some other states have postponed theirs amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Experts bemoan rise of plastics in fight against coronavirus

Paula Weiman-Kelman

Rachel Cowan’s wisdom on dying – and living – could help us now

The late rabbi, an influential mindfulness teacher whose final months I documented in a film, showed how despair is a luxury we cannot afford

Has your recent stint teaching your children at home made you reconsider the value of their school system? You have options

Ariel Finkelstein

Turning back the clock on religious services

The Israeli religious courts are being handed back to the religious parties — what are the odds that they’ll rise to the challenge of professionalism this time?

Israel too must wrestle with memory, monuments and history

What does BLM activists’ toppling of Confederate statues in the US have to do with Israelis and Palestinians? Everything

Arya Marvazy marching at the 2019 Los Angeles Pride Parade. (Anna Falzetta/ via JTA)

Pride month

Persian Jews in US come out of the closet, breaking long-held community taboos

By Josefin Dolsten

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)

Train service returns after 3 months despite mounting coronavirus cases

With each trip limited to half capacity, passengers must reserve their place in advance; Israel Railways says overcrowding will cause progress to be reversed

Chezy Levy, the director-general of the Health Ministry, at a press conference at the Health Ministry on June 21, 2020. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Despite rising infections, top health official says lockdown unnecessary

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

Health Ministry deputy won’t be fired over quarantine waiver for billionaire

Visitors walk past a display of missiles by Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. on the second day of the Aero India 2013 at Yelahanka air base in Bangalore, India, February 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Israeli arms sales drop to $7.2 billion in 2019, face potential virus squeeze

By Alexander Fulbright

Defense Ministry officials says Israel still among the top 10 weapons exporters, acknowledges ‘new reality’ for arms manufacturers due to pandemic

Amnesty claims Israeli NSO spyware used to target Moroccan journalist

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem)

In unity deal, Netanyahu seeks personal tax benefits worth hundreds of thousands

Gantz notifies Knesset Finance Committee that he is relinquishing his right to an Alternate Prime Minister’s Residence, along with all the expenses it would entail

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (R) and State Comptroller of Israel Matanyahu Englman at annual justice conference on September 3, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

State comptroller rejects Likud MK’s bid to probe attorney general

Ken Gloss outside the Brattle Book Shop, which is steps from Boston Common. (Courtesy of the Brattle Book Shop/ via JTA)

This Jewish Boston bookseller wants to help you spruce up your Zoom background

By Penny Schwartz

More Headlines

Israel's Svetlana Gnezdilov throws during the heptathlon javelin competition at the European Athletics Championships in Goteborg, Sweden, August 8, 2006. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Former champion athlete charged with running sex trafficking ring

Syrian dictator Basher Assad and his daughter Zein (Twitter)

Syrian soldier said arrested for proposing online to Assad’s teen daughter

Police stand guard at the Abbey gateway of Forbury Gardens park in Reading town center following Saturday's stabbing attack in the gardens, June 21, 2020. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

US ambassador confirms American among UK terror victims

Evan Bernstein, speaking to students at Harvard in June 2018 (Courtesy of Harvard/ via JTA)

NY-based Community Security Service head wants to start training Jews in college

A lesbian couple hold hands during the annual Gay Pride rally, on June 8, 2007 Tel Aviv. (David Silverman/Getty Images via JTA)

Challenging rabbinate, Tel Aviv allows same-sex couples to register as married

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, at the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, June 21, 2019. (Ronald Zak/AP)

George Soros conspiracy theories surge as protests sweep US

By David Klepper and Lori Hinnant

People wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus pray while maintaining social distancing during a service at the Chogyesa temple in South Korea, June 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Virus cases surge in US, India, but slow in China, Korea

By Emily Schmall and Elaine Kurtenbach

Bicyclists and a pedestrian pass through a quiet Manhattan street, March 26, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Trepidation, excitement as New York City readies for big reopening

By Jennifer Peltz

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier stands at the entrance to the Allenby border crossing, the main border crossing for Palestinians from the West Bank traveling to neighboring Jordan and beyond, March 10, 2014. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Detained Lebanese woman accused of dealing with Israel

By AP

Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Museum, during a press conference at the Keren Hayesod headquarters in Jerusalem, on December 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial chairman resigns after 27 years

Screen capture from video of Arab Israeli taxi driver Ismail Basis who claims he was assaulted by two men from Bnei Brak because of his race. (Ynet)

Two Bnei Brak residents indicted for racist assault on Arab Israeli taxi driver

Riots reported in Jaffa by fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv team. (YouTube screenshot)

Hundreds of soccer fans riot in Jaffa, shout ‘Death to the Arabs’

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