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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh addressing a press conference in Ramallah on March 29, 2020. (Wafa)

In counter to US peace plan, Palestinians say ready for direct talks with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ramallah also tells peacemaking Quartet it agrees to ‘minor border changes,’ international peace-keeping force, but will withdraw offer if Israeli West Bank annexation proceeds

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C-L) and his coalition partner Defense Minister Benny Gantz (C-R), attend a graduation ceremony for new pilots in Hatzerim air force base near Beersheba, on June 25, 2020. (Ariel Schalit / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu indicates delay in annexation date after meeting with US envoys

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting of the new government at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 24, 2020. (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu said to hint annexation won’t begin July 1, as he’d previously pledged

An Iranian cleric looks at domestically built surface-to-surface missiles at a military show marking the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution that toppled the US-backed shah, at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque, in Tehran, Iran, on February 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Live updates (closed)

Iran tells UN it will scotch nuclear deal if arms ban not lifted

By Joshua Davidovich

Zarif says resolution ending embargo is part and parcel with accord, as US seeks to convince skeptical Security Council that it should keep ban in place given JCPOA non-compliance

6:46 pm

Israeli map shows bid to widen West Bank annexation in isolated areas -- report
6:28 pm

Palestinians report almost 300 new virus cases, one death
6:18 pm

Biden says he won't hold rallies during pandemic

Seal made out of a piece of clay from the Persian Period discovered in the City of David Givati Parking Lot excavations. (Shai Halevy, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

2,500-year-old seals may show Jews rebuilding Jerusalem after 1st Temple exile

Rare discoveries in City of David confirm that after Babylonian destruction of 586 BCE, city was slowly resettled in Persian era, with a revived bureaucracy, as told in the Bible

People walk with face masks on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on June 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

714 new virus cases recorded in day as ministers rein in weddings, public events

As infections rise, cabinet decision places cap of 250 participants at outdoor gatherings, houses of worship limited to 50

A paramedic from the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health disinfects Palestinian laborers to help contain the coronavirus, as they exit a checkpoint after returning from work in Israel, near the West Bank village of Nilin, west of Ramallah, on April 7, 2020. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

PA: Virus cases surge in West Bank, East Jerusalem; hundreds diagnosed

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: Medics from Beijing Fengsheng Special Hospital of Traditional Medical Traumatology and Orthopaedics prepare for their shift at the Jinrong Street testing site, inside a room where a Communist Party flag and a piece of red tissue with words that reads "Beijing Fengsheng Special Hospital of Traditional Medical Traumatology and Orthopaedics" (back on wall) in Beijing on June 24, 2020. (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)

New swine flu strain found in China has pandemic potential

By AFP

Redefine Meat has unveiled what it says is 'the world's first' plant-based steak created using industrial 3D printing (Courtesy)

What shall we print for dinner? Startup unveils 3D-printed juicy vegan steaks

By Shoshanna Solomon

Redefine Meat says it created the first plant-based 3D-printed kosher and pareve steak with the texture, taste and look of the real thing

Healthy.io combines the smartphone camera with image recognition and artificial intelligence technologies to transform the smartphones into clinical grade scanners, to analyze urine test strips (Courtesy)

‘Urine-selfie’ startup Healthy.io buys US competitor for $9 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 27, 2018. (Avi Ohayon / PMO/ File)

Analysis

Why Egypt is staying quiet on Israel’s West Bank annexation plan

Facing numerous crises at home and abroad, Cairo cannot afford to alienate Israel and the United States

Illustrative: Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., flanked by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

As annexation looms, most leading Republican lawmakers remain silent

By Eric Cortellessa

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., left, testifies before the House Oversight Committee hearing on family separation and detention centers, Friday, July 12, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib among 4 Dems calling to cut aid if annexation goes ahead

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook in Jerusalem on June 30, 2020. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

As US seeks Iran arms embargo, Netanyahu urges broader ‘snapback’ sanctions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In Jerusalem meeting with Brian Hook, the US pointman on Iran, PM warns Tehran is continuing its nuclear weapons work

This undated photo released by the Shin Bet security service on June 30, 2020, shows Arab Israeli citizen Beirut Hamoud (R) and her husband Bilal Bizari. The Shin Bet accused the two of working to recruit two residents of Majd al-Krum, Hamoud's hometown, for the Hezbollah terror group. (Shin Bet)

Israeli journalist in Lebanon accused of recruiting for Hezbollah

By Alexander Fulbright

US President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, in the East Room of the White House, June 26, 2020, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Interpol rejects Iran’s request for arrest warrant on Trump

By AP and ToI Staff

Prisoners in Rimonim maximum security prison wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the prison population. (Courtesy Israel Prison Service)

Analysis

Locked down in lockdown: Harsh restrictions keep COVID-19 out of Israel prisons

Despite success in preventing outbreak, activists criticize prison service for severity of lockdown and alleged initial missteps in providing soap and protective masks

An Israeli laboratory worker conducts serological tests for coronavirus at the Leumit Health Care Services laboratory in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Widespread serological testing of public for coronavirus antibodies kicks off

Finance Minister Israel Katz on June 17, 2020 (Kan news screenshot)

Ailing business owners to get new NIS 2 billion coronavirus aid package

In this January 26, 2020, photo, Jewish settlers stand at a viewpoint overlooking the West Bank city of Jericho from the Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Yeriho (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel media review

Apocalypse some other time: 5 things to know for June 30

By Joshua Davidovich

Day before July 1, the only thing that seems clear is that annexation hopes and fears may need to take a vacation, as veiled insults and vague proposals keep a lid on expectations

US Ambassador Dan Shapiro hosts an Iftar dinner at his residence in Herzliya on June 14, 2016 (photo credit: CC BY 2.0 US Embassy/Flickr)

Moving to Jerusalem: US ambassador’s home up for sale for record $87 million

By ToI Staff and JTA

Dahlia Bendavid

The threshold of change

Our habits and routines have been upended, and in that disruption, we have the opportunity to take courage, be bold, and quite literally make the world a better place

Day trips in Israeli culture: The death of a lake

The tale of 70 years of drainage, land reclamation, rethinking, and reflooding is available at the Hula reserve — or, if you can’t get there, in Peter Merom’s classic account

Why the Jordan Valley and why now?

With the ’deal of the century,’ the Palestinians just might negotiate a realistic end of the conflict, especially as they strengthen Israel’s position if they do not

Eunice G. Pollack

St. Louis’s statue of Pius XII: A double-standard

When we take a principled stand against a connection to racism, we should take just as principled a stand against a representation of anti-Semitism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

AG tells comptroller to block NIS 10m. ‘gift’ for Netanyahu’s legal defense

PM’s associates lash Avichai Mandelblit over legal opinion; opposition leader Lapid says premier’s ‘wild incitement’ against top legal official will ‘end in blood’

Former Israeli Air Force general and leading critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Brig. Gen. Amir Haskel poses for a photo in Tel Aviv, on June 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A quiet Israeli ex-general emerges as new hero for anti-Netanyahu camp

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touring the INS Tanin submarine, built by the German firm Thyssenkrupp, as it arrived in Israel on September 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Knesset committee nixes call for state comptroller to probe submarine purchases

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: A cook prepares a dish on a stove. (iStock by Getty Images)

Kosher overseer said to revoke Jerusalem restaurant’s certificate over Arab cook

Calls on social media to support ‘Kalo’; owner says rabbinate supervisor demanded non-Jewish employee be barred from using induction stove

The original 1916 Nathan's Famous location on Coney Island, September 4, 2009. (Flickr/ CC-BY-2.0/ Tony Fischer)

Frankly surprising

Hot dogs are the greatest American Jewish food. Here’s why

A memorial at the site of the Lietukis Garage massacre of Jewish Men in Kaunas, Lithuania. (Flickr/Adam Jones)

Lithuania may dedicate 2021 to alleged perpetrator of Holocaust pogrom

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Lawmakers seek to honor Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, accused of participating in the 1941 Lietukis Garage massacre in which locals tortured and beat dozens of Jews to death

The Apotheosis of St. Louis, which stands in front of the St. Louis Art Museum in the city's largest park, memorializes the city's namesake, who persecuted Jews. (Wikimedia Commons)

St. Louis archdiocese defends statue of King Louis IX, who persecuted Jews

Residents cheer and wave as a column of armed vehicles carrying former Soviet troops leaves Vilnius, March 3, 1992. (Mendaugus Kublis/AP)

Lithuanian Jews slam Putin for ‘falsifying’ history of WWII annexation

By AFP

More Headlines

Daniel Pearl was a journalist for The Wall Street Journal. (The Daniel Pearl Foundation)

Pakistan could soon free convicted kidnapper of US reporter Daniel Pearl

By KATHY GANNON

US President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, in the East Room of the White House, June 26, 2020, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)

AnalysisDistancing from Trump? Some Republicans step up critiques

By Steve Peoples, Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin

Screen capture from video showing the arrest of Yedidya Epstein during a clash in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 25, 2020. (Twitter)

Jerusalem 14-year-old’s arrest probed amid conflicting accounts

By Stuart Winer

Israel's border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Rocket alarms activated in south, apparently by errant fire from Sinai

Armed homeowners standing in front their house along Portland Place confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house, June 28, 2020, in the Central West End of St. Louis. The protesters called for Krewson's resignation for releasing the names and addresses of residents who suggested defunding the police department. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Trump retweets coverage of couple who drew guns at crowd in St. Louis

By AP

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

Polluting Haifa oil refineries must close by 2025, PM’s economic adviser demands

Another structure protected the Alexander family's century-old mural in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Courtesy of Gelsenzentrum e.V. via JTA)

During renovation, German town finds 110-year-old mural for a Jewish business

By Toby Axelrod

People stage a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank Brussels, Belgium on June 28, 2020. ( Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images via JTA)

Dozens chant about ancient massacre of Jews at pro-Palestinian rally in Brussels

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Screen capture from video of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's Global Gala 2020. (YouTube)

Cyberattack disrupts Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s online gala

Althea Bernstein, who says she received burns to her face after being set alight by an attacker as she sat in her car in the US state of Wisconsin, on June 24, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Biracial US Jewish woman says she was set on fire in attack probed as hate crime

By Josefin Dolsten

In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo, SodaStream products are seen at the SodaStream factory near the Bedouin city of Rahat, Southern Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

SodaStream becomes first Israeli company to join Facebook ad boycott

By ToI Staff and JTA

Screen capture from video showing Will Ferrell, left, and Rachel McAdams in the Netflix film 'Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.' (YouTube)

Roll out the red carpetEurovision parody movie used Tel Aviv stage for authentic feel

By Stuart Winer

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