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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 1, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-Science Minister Ofir Akunis (L) at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on December 22, 2019, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu ally confirms delays in West Bank annexation plan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ofir Akunis says Israeli officials still working out final details with their American counterparts, but he expects controversial move to take place later this month

2 settler leaders assail Netanyahu as annexation date arrives sans announcement

Questions mount as Netanyahu’s self-imposed annexation date arrives

By ToI Staff and AFP

US seeking Israeli gesture toward Palestinians to offset annexation — TV report

Sheba Medical Center staff at the coronavirus isolation ward in Ramat Gan, June 30, 2020 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ministry official: More virus patients need hospitalization

859 new cases confirmed, in Israel highest 24-hour tally since COVID-19 struck

10 more people in serious condition over past day; Health Ministry said to trace clusters to weddings and other celebrations, particularly in cities considered for lockdown

An airport staff cleaner in the empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport on June 12, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

As virus cases mount, EU leaves Israel off list of countries allowed to visit

The Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Zvi Hauser (center) votes on a bill that would allow the Shin Bet to use tracking technology to identify those exposed to the coronavirus, on June 30, 2020. (Adena Welman/Knesset)

Knesset committee greenlights Shin Bet phone tracking, per PM request

Britain's then-Foreign Minister Boris Johnson attends the funeral of former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

In Hebrew op-ed, UK’s Johnson implores Israel to drop annexation bid

As ‘passionate’ Israel defender, British PM says he has followed Netanyahu’s plan with ‘sadness,’ warns it will threaten budding relations with Arab states

Sanders signs AOC letter calling for aid cuts if Israel annexes in West Bank

By Eric Cortellessa

Top Democrat announces $500m. in anti-missile funding for Israel

Dutch MPs urge list of possible sanctions in response to Israeli annexation

By Raphael Ahren

Keren Pedersen (courtesy of Keren Pedersen)

Interview

Infect me: Keren, 29, volunteers to catch coronavirus to help end pandemic

US-born ex-soldier, engineering student one of 61 in Israel to sign up for ‘challenge trial’ to advance vaccine research, despite risk of ‘death and very unpleasant complications’

Q&ATheir best shots: Israeli efforts to invent a coronavirus vaccine, explained

By Nathan Jeffay

People wait in line at a free COVID-19 testing site provided by United Memorial Medical Center, at the Mexican Consulate in Houston, Texas, June 28, 2020. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

New US infections hit single-day record; Biden swears off campaign rallies

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, in a composite photo. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In unprecedented harangue, Netanyahu accuses Mandelblit of scheming to oust him

By Michael Bachner

Watchdog to file incitement complaint against PM over Twitter diatribe against AG, who earlier told comptroller to block NIS 10 million ‘gift’ for PM’s legal defense

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at the 16th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 24, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ombudsman: Judiciary acted ‘improperly’ in failing to clear Mandelblit’s name

Firefighters wearing protective clothes disinfect Assuta hospital in Ashdod, on March 22, 2020 (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Neighborhoods in virus hotspots Ashdod, Lod to be placed on lockdown

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Ministers approve measure as daily infection rate nears 1,000; coronavirus cabinet to meet Thursday to discuss further restrictions

8:26 pm

Neighborhoods in virus hotspots Ashdod, Lod to be placed on lockdown
7:48 pm

WHO says Mideast at 'critical threshold' in virus numbers
6:48 pm

Knesset passes law allowing Shin Bet phone tracking

Dr. Barak Monnickendam-Givon at the excavations under Beit Straus in Jerusalem's Old City, near the Western Wall, May 2020. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Times of Israel Podcast

LISTEN: ToI takes you to a unique excavation deep under Jerusalem’s Old City

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Join IAA archaeologist Barak Monnickendam-Givon on a jaw-dropping guided audio tour spanning two millennia some 7 meters under the Western Wall plaza

Analysis

Annexation is a mistake: These 4 people should prevent it

Instead of this costly blunder, Israel should seek to advance US President Trump’s peace plan by calling for a return to the negotiating table

It’s not ‘annexation’ – it’s reunification

Israelis living in Judea and Samaria have spent far too many years living apart from the rest of the Jewish State

Nancy K. Kaufman

Annexation would put US Jews in an impossible situation

It would require us to square our Jewish values of freedom and democracy with the denial of equality to millions of Palestinians

Holes that never heal

Do you want to know why so many Israelis oppose a Palestinian state? Just look at our memories of the wave of terror and its terrible toll

Jason Fredric Gilbert

AI Star is Born

It’s the future you’ve been waiting for your whole life: A retro, machine-generated song that sounds almost as stupid as a real human

This Monday, June 29, 2020 photo shows an area near Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the West Bank. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel media review

I don’t think you’re ready for this July: 5 things to know for July 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Annexation day arrives, with plenty of apathy and no expectations that anything will actually happen, though the next month may still prove critical in the race for 30 percent

Ayman Odeh (C), leader of the Hadash party that is part of the Joint List alliance, gives an address with other alliance leaders at their electoral headquarters in Israel's northern city of Shefa Amr on March 2, 2020 Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Joint List to EU: Suspend ties with Israel if it doesn’t renounce annexation

US special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, attends a press briefing with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, June 30, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool via AP)

US envoy: Military action against Iranian nuclear program ‘always on the table’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Brian Hook, US pointman on Iran, says Trump willing to use force to prevent Tehran acquiring nukes; downplays fears annexation could harm Israel’s ties with Arab states

Iran police question 4 after deadly Tehran blast

By AFP

Pompeo to UN: Ending Iran embargo would risk Mideast stability

By AFP and ToI Staff

Off the HookNetanyahu shakes hands with US official, violating virus rules

In this file photo taken on September 18, 2018 Markus Braun, CEO of the technology and financial services company Wirecard, poses at the company's headquarters in Aschheim near Munich, southern Germany. Braun has been arrested on suspicion of market manipulation, German prosecutors said June 23, 2020,, after the payments provider admitted that 1.9 billion euros missing from its accounts likely "do not exist". (Christof STACHE / AFP)

Wirecard waves: The Israel connection of Germany’s multi-billion corporate fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Collapsed fintech firm allegedly processed payments for binary options scammers, while one if its executives pleaded guilty to abetting fraud in Israeli money-laundering scandal

Lionel Groulx speaking before a large crowd, May 24, 1919. (Public domain)

Muslim Montrealer leads charge to rename metro station that honors anti-Semite

Obituary

Carl Reiner, comedy’s rare untortured genius

Writer, director and comedic legend, born to Jewish immigrants in New York, created ‘Dick Van Dyke Show,’ pioneered sitcom and sketch TV programs

Carl Reiner shows holds two Emmy statuettes presented to him as best comedy writer for the "Dick Van Dyke Show," during the annual Emmy Awards presentation in Los Angeles, on May 26, 1963. (AP, File)

ObituaryComedic legend Carl Reiner, beloved creator of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show,’ dies at 98

By Mark Stewart

More Headlines

Illustrative: Residents of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar clash with security forces during a demolition of an illegal structure on June 25, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Court convicts Israeli for saying it’s okay to kill cop during settlement razing

Grounded El Al planes at Ben Gurion Airport on April 6, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90)

El Al grounds all flights amid labor dispute, financial crisis

Illustrative: Volunteers from the Hatzola ambulance service, wearing gloves and masks to protect against the coronavirus, wheel a patient into Royal London Hospital in London on March 29, 2020. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

British Jewish deaths more than double same period last year, amid pandemic

Soldiers from the Golani Brigade take part in a military exercise in the northern city of Safed on February 12, 2020.(David Cohen/Flash90)

IDF cuts mandatory military service for men to 2.5 years

By Alexander Fulbright

Spraying an Israeli street with weedkiller. (YouTube screenshot)

Weedkiller to stay on Israeli shelves despite $10.9 billion cancer claim deal

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbinate threatens strike if forced to train women in rabbinic laws

By Stuart Winer

ExplainerGas company reports high prices, huge debt; public still waiting for wealth fund

US President Donald Trump speaking on the phone in the Oval Office on June 27, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

‘Delusional’ Trump bullied Merkel and May; pandered to Putin, Erdogan — report

Ibex Medical Analytics is an Israeli maker of AI-based cancer diagnostics software. (Courtesy)

Israeli AI-based tech to help UK pathologists better detect prostate cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Little Caesars pizza with a pepperoni swastika delivered to a couple in Ohio, June 28, 2020. (Misty Laska/Twitter via JTA)

2 Ohio Little Caesars employees fired for making pepperoni-swastika pizza

By Gabe Friedman

Congregation Beth Israel in Bangor, Maine. (Wikimedia Commons)

Swastika spray-painted outside synagogue in Maine

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a suspected murder scene in Haifa, June 10, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Man, said to be anti-violence activist, held on suspicion of stabbing daughter

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