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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 2, 2020

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Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, attends by video conference a meeting with deputy Hamas chief Saleh Arouri (on screen from Beirut) vowing joint resistance to Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, on July 2, 2020. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Abbas’s Fatah party, terror group Hamas unite to ‘topple’ Trump deal, annexation

By Aaron Boxerman and AFP

‘We want to speak in a single voice,’ says Fatah’s Jibril Rajoub at joint event with Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri, who has $5m US bounty on his head. Arouri vows ‘all forms of struggle’

Right-wing parties seethe as top Arab MK Odeh attends Fatah-Hamas conference

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinians demonstrate against annexation in Gaza, West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Hamas says it tested rockets in Gaza to warn Israel over annexation plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Blowing bubbles, Israeli physicists accidentally make breakthrough on light

By Nathan Jeffay

Technion researchers demonstrate branched flow, a ‘beautiful’ process that scientists have written about for years, but never seen

A building Iran claims was damaged by a fire at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of Tehran, on July 2, 2020. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Fire damages building at Iran nuclear enrichment site; reactor said untouched

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Authorities initially downplay ‘incident’; spokesman later claims ‘damage’ at ‘industrial shed’ in Natanz, days after explosion rocked missile production facility near Tehran

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a video conference a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Iran and Turkey on the topic of Syria, in Moscow on July 1, 2020. (Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP)

Russia, Iran, Turkey say Israeli strikes in Syria are ‘destabilizing’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wears a face mask against COVID-19, bearing the US and Israeli flags, during a press conference with US special representative for Iran (not seen) at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 30, 2020. (Abir Sultan/POOL/AFP)

As annexation start date comes and goes, Netanyahu presses on with US talks

Prime minister calls meeting with top security officials, plans more discussions in coming days on extension of sovereignty to parts of West Bank

Vatican summons Israeli, US ambassadors to protest annexation plans

German parliament warns against annexation, but doesn’t threaten sanctions

By Raphael Ahren

Annexation? Residents of Ariel settlement prefer that old time status quo

By Alexandra Vardi and Michel Blum

Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Ehud Olmert at a ceremony marking the transfer of prime ministerial power, at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on April 1, 2009. (Daniel Bar On/Pool/Flash90)

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s prescient warning about when a PM shouldn’t make ‘fateful decisions’

He urged Olmert to quit because the burden of battling graft allegations might cloud a PM’s judgment. Now he’s insistently pushing annexation despite the fears of experts, allies

Comptroller committee rejects PM’s request to accept legal funds for trial

State prosecution said probing deletion of folder with Netanyahu case files

Netanyahu backs ally Miki Zohar for chair of Likud’s global branch

Ultra Orthodox Jewish men eschew masks while praying at a synagogue in Jerusalem on May 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

As virus spikes, Shas leader intervenes to allow more people in synagogues

Aryeh Deri says if clubs can host 50 people than synagogues should be able to as well, reportedly urges shutting down beaches to counter limits on indoor wedding attendance

7:54 pm

New Orleans study finds three in four virus carriers show no symptoms
7:43 pm

Bolton to Israeli TV: Trump may embrace Iran if re-elected
7:26 pm

Natanz fire caused by explosive placed inside building -- intel official

Police officers guard at the entrance to a neighborhood in the southern city of Ashdod, July 2, 2020, during a closure on some neighborhoods in the city following the spread of the coronavirus. (Flash90)

As Israel records 905 cases in past day, ministers to mull new restrictions

2 more deaths bring toll to 324; health officials said seeking to reduce number of people in restaurants and bars to 50, cap prayer gatherings at 20

View of a plenum session of the Knesset, July 2, 2018. (Flash90)

Knesset approves law allowing Shin Bet virus tracking to resume for 3 weeks

People wear protective face masks on the beach in Tel Aviv, on July 01, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Closures in Lod, Ashdod as cases pass 1,000 a day; new restrictions considered

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray at a playground next to their homes in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, July 2, 2020. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Israel media review

Locks on wry, hold the annexation: 5 things to know for July 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Spiking coronavirus cases lead to slapdash lockdowns in a few neighborhoods, as the government appears to tackle the pandemic with the same chaotic zest it has used with annexation

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)

Opposition MKs blast government for inadequate virus response as cases soar

Defense Minister Benny Gantz meets with senior defense officials on July 2, 2020 to discuss mobilization of reservists in the wake of a surge of COVID-19 cases. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

Gantz approves call-up of 500 reservists to help battle resurgent coronavirus

A drill at Rambam Medical Center to transform its underground parking and wartime hospital ward facilities into an emergency hospital for large numbers of coronavirus patients, July 2020. (Courtesy of Rambam Health Care Campus)

Immune no longer: Israel’s virus-proof city, Haifa, awakens to COVID-19 reality

By Nathan Jeffay

Mysteriously, the coronavirus had largely left northern city unscathed. But now, as cases rise, local doctors fear their luck is running out

Medical team members at the Barzilai hospital, in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, wear protective gear as they handle a coronavirus test sample on March 29, 2020. Flash90)

Israeli researchers say they’ve developed more efficient, accurate antibody test

Palestinian Authority government spokesman Ibrahim Milhim speaks at a press conference in Ramallah on April 1, 2020. (Wafa)

PA to reinstate West Bank lockdown on Friday as virus cases surge

By Aaron Boxerman

The world has never supported a Jewish State in all of Palestine

While sympathizing with a homeland for the Jews, the international community has consistently favored sharing the territory

Michael Melchior

‘Zion shall be redeemed with Justice’: Why I oppose annexation

The fact that another nation lives with us here in the Land of Israel is not a mistake of Providence. We are destined to live here together in peace

Ireland finally has a government! (And Israel should be envious)

A tale of two unity governments: Israel’s coalition agreement is all about forcing the parties to live up to the deal. Ireland’s is all about policy.

Anti-Semitism and hate speech are rampant on Twitter. Policing Trump doesn’t solve the problem.

The social media behemoth’s obsession with one person while letting rivers of hate run unimpeded could get this president re-elected

InterviewHalberstam has one goal: To build bridges between people

Mom of teen killed in 1994 NY terror attack votes ‘no’ to defunding NYPD

By Cathryn J. Prince

Devorah Halberstam changed laws to have son Ari’s murder classified as a terrorist attack. Today she advises NYPD and FBI, while fighting stereotypes at Jewish Children’s Museum

Devorah Halberstam in front of the many commendations and awards she’s received from local, state and federal law enforcement. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)

Brian McEnroe, the father of fallen US Green Beret Kevin McEnroe, displays a memorial dog tag depicting his fallen son, in Amman, Jordan, June 17, 2017. (Sam McNeil/AP)

Joining Israeli terror victims, families of slain US troops seek Jordan aid cuts

Mondaire Jones says that "Having been born and raised in Rockland County, I feel like I’m part of the Jewish family." (Courtesy of Mondaire for Congress via JTA)

Interview

Mondaire Jones, Nita Lowey’s presumed successor, says he’ll be friend to Israel

The 33-year-old progressive, Black, gay candidate is determined to defy stereotypes and ‘be an independent voice,’ forging strong connections to large, diverse Jewish communities

Ice Cube speaks onstage at Magic Box on October 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for REVOLT via JTA)

Ice Cube raps Jake Tapper for tweet calling Farrakhan ‘vile’ anti-Semite

By JTA

In this June 19, 2020, file photo, George Floyd's name is written on the windshield as John Coy wears a shirt that reads Black Lives Matter and stands through his sunroof with his fist in the air at 16th Street Northwest renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Movement for Black lives plans virtual national convention

By Aaron Morrison

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

How the ADL went from working with Facebook to leading a boycott against it

Facebook ‘has allowed some of the worst elements of society into our homes and our lives,’ says Jonathan Greenblatt as social network continues to tolerate Holocaust denial on site

The Finnish Air Force's former swastika emblem (via Finnish defense ministry)

A century on, Finland air force drops swastika symbol

Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, left, and Alain Soral arrive at the Paris courthouse for Soral's trial for inciting hatred against Jews, March 12, 2015. (Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images/ JTA)

YouTube removes 25,000 pages for hate speech

By JTA

More Headlines

Social workers block the Azrieli Junction in Tel Aviv in protest of their work conditions, July 2, 2020. (Union of Social Workers)

Social workers demonstrate across the country, threaten strike next week

By Stuart Winer

Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a protest against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for same-sex couples, in Tel Aviv on November 1, 2018, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset says no to surrogacy for gay men, but minister vows it will happen

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

In this Nov. 3, 1999 file photo, Robert Trump, left, joins real estate developer and presidential hopeful Donald Trump at an event in New York. (AP Photo/Diane Bonadreff, File)

Judge lifts ban on book by Trump’s niece on ‘the world’s most dangerous man’

By AFP

In this September 27, 2017 photo, Larry David attends the premiere of HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' at the SVA Theatre in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Pretty, pretty goodHe’s sorry, but Curb Your Enthusiasm’ coming back for 11th season

By JTA

'La Cueillette des pois' ('Picking Peas') by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1887. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

France confirms restitution of Pissarro looted from Jewish collector in WWII

By AFP

Then-foreign minister Israel Katz at a Likud election campaign stop in Jerusalem, September 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With deficit rising, Finance Ministry considers major cuts to public sector

Lemonade's Shai Wininger at the Tel Aviv offices of the insurance firm, December 20, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Israel-founded online insurer Lemonade raises $319 million in New York IPO

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Giant Nesher cement plant gets OK to burn waste for fuel, despite protests

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