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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 23, 2020

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A worker removes a swastika spray painted on a sign at the entrance to a closed road and car park near Whitley Bay lighthouse, in Northumberland, England, Thursday, April 30, 2020. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)

COVID-19 fueling worldwide wave of anti-Semitism, researchers find

By Stuart Winer

Tel Aviv University think tank says libels blaming Jews and Israel for pandemic are spreading, as crisis sparks new iterations of old hatred

The icon for TikTok phone app, taken in New York, February 25, 2020. (AP Photo)

Study: TikTok app used to aim anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial at youngsters

Actress Winona Ryder attends the Premiere of Netflix's 'Stranger Things,' at Mack Sennett Studios on July 11, 2016, in Los Angeles, California (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images/File)

Winona Ryder: Mel Gibson asked me if I was an oven dodger

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset on May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

MKs okay retroactive tax benefits for Netanyahu worth hundreds of thousands

Controversial vote passes in absence of lawmakers from Blue and White; critics blast ‘delusional’ decision at time of economic hardship due to pandemic

Blindsided by PM’s tax benefits clause, Gantz mulls whether to fight it – report

New lawmakers sworn in under controversial law

Israel reaches record number of openly gay lawmakers

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi observes a military exercise in northern Israel on June 23, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

IDF chief warns of possible outbreak of West Bank violence over annexation

Aviv Kohavi says fighting could also spread to the Gaza Strip as a result of the ‘upcoming events’

6:30 pm

179 new COVID-19 cases diagnosed in West Bank
6:15 pm

International donors pledge $130 million to UNRWA
6:03 pm

US embassy removes Pride sign in spat with Jerusalem municipality

US President Donald Trump (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan at the White House, January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

US mulling phased annexation, starting with areas close to Jerusalem – report

Senior Trump administration official says meeting this week in Washington will look at how extending sovereignty may advance peace in face of concerns of rupturing regional ties

Republicans sign letter backing Israel’s right to set its own borders

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

By Aaron Boxerman

Clashes reported as 2,500 Israelis pray at Nablus holy site ahead of annexation

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

Israel media review

The year of magical rethinking: 6 things to know for June 23

By Joshua Davidovich

The US may be backing off full support for annexation and a more pragmatic Netanyahu could be okay with that, but some still think he can get away with what he wants

First personDonetsk and South Ossetia renamed capitals Stalino, Stalinir

Far from toppling statues, former Soviet Union puts up new monuments to Stalin

By Ksenia Svetlova

After Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces almost unveiled a mural of late dictator on June 22, Moscow-born former MK Ksenia Svetlova explores a troubling new trend of Stalin worship

People wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they walk past protest signs affixed to fencing surrounding a statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington, June 20, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Protesters try to pull down Andrew Jackson statue in DC

By AP

Russian theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov wearing a face mask with a portrait of Russian rock singer Viktor Tsoi, takes photos of the media prior to his hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, June 22, 2020 (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian prosecutors seek prison term for theater director

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police officers patrol on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on June 23, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM says virus hotspots to be locked down, may fast-track phone tracing law

Parts of Tiberias, Elad and Bat Yam reportedly being considered for new restrictions; Netanyahu says cabinet will discuss ‘digital means’ if infection rates continue upward trend

‘It’s rather scary for all of us’: Israel halfway to previous COVID record

By Nathan Jeffay

Passengers largely stay away as intercity trains resume services

IDF announces new limitations on troops amid rising coronavirus cases

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

Criticizing Israel with anguish and love

An unprecedented letter from US Reps Ted Deutch and Brad Schneider opposing unilateral annexation is a model of healthy Jewish discourse

Annexation will not end Israel’s peace with Jordan

King Abdullah knows canceling the treaty might be popular now, but the long-term impact will be more poverty and, potentially, destabilization

Eunice G. Pollack

Yo, celebs: To Farrakhan, the enemy is the Jew, not the Blue

In an old Donahue interview that garnered likes from pop stars, the Nation of Islam leader shames Blacks and blames the Jews

Jewish worshipers pray at the burial site of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Mount Meron, in northern Israel, on June 21, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

To find meaning in a pandemic, top religious leaders offer ‘Coronaspection’

By Marissa Newman

Fish swim in a tanks of drinking water to monitor quality at the Eshkol water purification site in Beersheba (Screencapture/Channel 12)

Alongside high-tech systems, fish guard against hacking of water supply by Iran

After reports that Tehran tried to dangerously increase chlorine levels in Israel’s civilian water system, overall control of defenses now being taken over by Cyber Directorate

A dead ibex found on July 15, 2017, following the collapse of an evaporation pond wall that released toxic waste water into the Ashalim stream in southern Israel. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Popular stream in south to reopen 3 years after deadly chemical spill

The Nesher cement plant near Ramle in central Israel. (Screenshot)

Cement giant seeks permission to use more toxic waste, relax pollution rules

Illustrative image of pomegranate fruit and seeds (Stephen J Perrot; iStock by Getty Images)

Nano-engineered pomegranate oil holds hope for brain disease, study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

30 multiple sclerosis patients in Jerusalem who took antioxidant-rich food supplement for 3 months saw ‘significant cognitive improvement’

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh removes his protective mask during a press conference at the Foreign Press Association in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 9, 2020. (Abbas Momani/Pool Photo via AP)

PA reports highest-ever single day increase of 168 coronavirus infections

By Aaron Boxerman

West Bank surge concentrated around Hebron and Nablus

Saudi Arabia to hold ‘very limited’ hajj due to virus

Surging US virus cases raise fear that progress is slipping

By Tamara Lush, NATHAN ELLGREN and TAMMY WEBBER

Virus numbers surge globally as many nations ease lockdowns

Anton Drobovych, appointed to head the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory in December 2019. (Courtesy Institute of National Memory)

Ukraine’s new memory czar tones down glorification of war criminals

Brandeis U. student emigrated from Venezuela as a 6-year-old

Jewish ‘Dreamer’ breathes a sigh of relief after US Supreme Court preserves DACA

By Penny Schwartz

Elias Rosenfeld is among the over 700,000 immigrants who arrived as children, whose future plans now look brighter after court blocked Trump from deporting DACA kids

Elias Rosenfeld with US Sen. Tim Kaine in front of the Supreme Court, November 12, 2019, the day oral arguments were presented in the case on DACA arrivals. (Courtesy of Rosenfeld/ via JTA)

In this Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, a flag is waved outside the White House, in Washington. The Trump administration is extending a ban on green cards issued outside the United States until the end of 202 and adding many temporary work visas to the freeze, including those used heavily by technology companies and multinational corporations. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump administration extends visa ban to non-immigrants

By Deb Riechmann and Elliot Spagat

South Korean boy band BTS perform on ABC's 'Good Morning America' at Rumsey Playfield/SummerStage in Central Park on May 15, 2019, in New York. (Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Online disruption of Trump rally highlights K-pop’s political hustle

By Maggy DONALDSON

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of a fire at the home of a firefighter in Migdal Haemek, June 22, 2002. (Channel 13)

Firefighter saves own family as arson attack sends his home up in flames

By Stuart Winer

Nicol Raidman at a launch party for her book 'No Masks' in Tel Aviv, on February 2, 2018 (Miriam Alstre/FLASH90)

For poorer or richerTV: Oligarch, socialite heading for Israel’s most expensive divorce

Rachel Brosnahan stars as Miriam “Midge” Maisel, the titular character in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” (Amazon Studios via JTA)

The right note‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ team releases homemade music video

By Gabe Friedman

Minister of Labor, Social Welfare and Social Services Itzik Shmuli during a ceremony at the ministry in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Welfare minister: Half a million Israelis about to lose unemployment benefits

By Stuart Winer

From 'Birth of the Phoenix', the Vertigo dance that will be performed outside of the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater on June 30 and July 1, 2020 (Courtesy Yoel Levy)

Under the starsThe show must go on: Theaters to take performances outside

By Jessica Steinberg

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem speaks during a press conference, Damascus, Syria, March 12, 2016. (AFP/Louai Behsara)

Syria refuses to ‘bow’ to US sanctions and accept ‘normalization with Israel’

By AFP

View of the border fence between Israel and Lebanon in northern Israel, February 16, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Sudanese jobless in Lebanon risk lives to try to cross border into Israel

By Bachir El Khoury and Rosie SCAMMELL

In this photo from February 23, 2017, US Army soldiers stand outside their armored vehicle on a joint base with Iraqi army south of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

US Army soldier charged in neo-Nazi plot to ambush his own unit in Turkey

By AP

Screen capture from video of Oxford University professor of theology Jan Joosten during a lecture in November 2019. (YouTube)

Top Oxford University Hebrew scholar sentenced to jail over child pornography

A signage of Microsoft is seen on March 13, 2020, in New York City. (Jeenah Moon/ Getty Images/AFP)

Microsoft buys Israeli firm CyberX to boost internet of things offering

By Shoshanna Solomon

Austrian Jews line up outside the Polish consulate seeking documents in order to escape Nazified Austria, March 22, 1938. (AP Photo)

Austria breaks ground on Holocaust memorial in Vienna

By AP

In this Jan. 29, 2010 file photo, director Joel Schumacher attends the premiere of "Twelve" during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)

ObituaryJoel Schumacher, director of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,’ dies at 80

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