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What Matters Most On Friday, July 3, 2020

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Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Report: Israeli cyberattack caused Iran nuclear site fire, F35s hit missile base

By Judah Ari Gross

Kuwaiti newspaper cites unnamed senior source as saying Jerusalem behind recent incidents in Iran, following an alleged attempt by Tehran to hack Israel’s water infrastructure

Iran warns Israel, US after fire at nuclear site, amid reports bomb caused blaze

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Bolton warns Israel that Trump could cozy up to Iran if he wins 2nd term

Analysts: Fire at Iran nuclear site hit new centrifuges; dissidents claim strike

By Jon Gambrell

Police officers guard the entrance to a neighborhood in the city of Lod, July 2, 2020, during a closure (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Most indoor gatherings capped at 20 people as Israel sees record 1,090 new cases

New restrictions come into force as highest-yet daily number of new infections registered; police to launch enforcement campaign

Ultra-Orthodox, Arab neighborhoods again centers of Jerusalem virus surge

Netanyahu said to threaten elections as ministers bicker at COVID-19 session

By Michael Bachner

As virus soars, Netanyahu declares renewed limits on gatherings, prayers, events

Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, attends by video conference a meeting with deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri (unseen) discussing Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, on July 2, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Analysis

With renewed Fatah, Hamas partnership, will Israel now face a return to terror?

Thursday’s joint Ramallah-Beirut press conference may prove to be merely the latest failed bid for Palestinian unity. Or it could mark a dangerous turning point

Illustrative: Palestinian members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas terrorist movement, during a patrol in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 27, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas claims to bust Israeli-run spy ring planning ‘sabotage’

Friends of late Israeli soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin wear masks as they protest for the return of their remains, outside the Knesset on July 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At Protective Edge memorial, Netanyahu says he is working to return captives

Illustrative: Technicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab at a Meuhedet Health Services branch in Lod, July 2, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israeli and Emirati firms sign ‘historic agreement’ to jointly combat COVID-19

Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael ink deal with UAE’s Group 42 in commercial breakthrough between countries that do not share diplomatic ties

Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Hopelessly vague or calm and collected? Deciphering Gantz’s views on annexation

Blue and White leader’s positions on unilateral action appear nebulous and contradictory, but his associates insist they can be squared and that he supports the move…just not now

Illustrative. Soldiers from the Military Intelligence Unit 9900, which specializes in visual intelligence, use a map of a military base in southern Israel in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

Military intel makes West Bank a priority ahead of possible annexation

By Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

How UK’s ‘Kitchener Camp’ rescue saved 4,000 Jewish men after Kristallnacht

Online exhibition reveals the sometimes tragic, sometimes jubilant stories of German Jews resettled by Britain in the early days of WWII, many of whom would fight with the Allies

Residents standing outside the first aid building at the Kitchener Camp, in 1939 or 1940. (Wiener Holocaust Library Collections)

The US Supreme Court on June 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US Supreme Court will hear cases of Jews suing Germany, Hungary over Nazi art

By AP

A car belonging to the Dutch security forces guards the Maimonides and Rosj Pina Jewish schools in Amsterdam, November 25, 2019. (Canaan Lidor)

Dutch parliament backs fighting anti-Semitism, but not funding Jewish security

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Red blood cells alongside antibodies in an artery. (urfinguss; iStock by Getty Images)

Boding well for immunity hope, scientists say all COVID patients make antibodies

By Nathan Jeffay

The case for immunity from reinfection for coronavirus patients is looking good, say researchers at Tel Aviv University

A rhesus macaque. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

Chinese study shows 6 monkeys infected with coronavirus had short-term immunity

By AFP

Emily Tamkin addresses not only Soros conspiracy theories but the theories at the heart of his philanthropy and what drives Soros to give so much money. (Courtesy of Tamkin/ via JTA)

Author interview

Emily Tamkin wrote the book on Soros. Here’s her take on the conspiracy theories

By Emily Burack

The American alef-bet for the prayer we need now

The US is reeling — from the pandemic, financial catastrophe, civic unrest, and the upcoming presidential election. This Independence Day, we need to remember what binds us

I don’t like it when Boris Johnson speaks Hebrew

Broadcasting your disagreement on social media is not the action of one buddy to another, especially not one who’s going through a tough time at home

All the king’s men (and a donkey)

How a biblical prophet learned that God is in charge from a talking donkey – without cracking a smile (Balak)

Are any historical heroes left?

Removing the statues of our accomplished leaders – who were also sometimes terribly wrong – hides the fact even our most righteous do err

FILE — Israeli pilots of the El Al national airline, at the airport, on April 20, 2010. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

With flights grounded, El Al furloughs 500 more employees including 100 pilots

National carrier, which is seeking a government bailout to stay afloat, is no longer flying at all after talks between pilots and management broke down earlier in the week

ILLUSTRATIVE — Cooks wrapping airline food in foil in a commercial kitchen. (iStock/Kondor83)

Mass layoffs in offing at El Al firm that made 40,000 kosher airline meals a day

Tables at an event hall set out for a wedding. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Venue owners vow to fight renewed restrictions, warn of industry’s collapse

A woman wears a face mask as she talks to a friend at a shopping center in Miami Beach, Florida, June 29, 2020. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)

US under siege as pandemic accelerates; Britain eases quarantine

United States hits daily record 53,000 new cases as virus rampages across south and west; WHO says scourge gaining steam as 516,000 confirmed dead worldwide

US virus tally continues to shatter records with 50,000 new cases a day

By Jake Coyle, TERRY SPENCER and David Rising

As virus cases rocket in US, Trump to head to Rushmore for fireworks

By Jerome Cartillier

Texas governor changes course and issues mask order to fight coronavirus

Part of artist David Gerstein's new series being exhibited July 9-August 1 at Artists' House Tel Aviv (Courtesy David Gerstein)

Tel Aviv balconies in focus as sculptor David Gerstein goes back to drawing

By Jessica Steinberg

A woman straddles a man in the back of a United Nations vehicle in a video clip that was shared widely online on June 26, 2020. The video is believed to be from Tel Aviv and the image has been pixelated by the Times of Israel. (Screenshot/Twitter)

UN suspends 2 for suspected involvement in video showing sex act in Tel Aviv

United Nations says staffers from Jerusalem-based peacekeeping unit ‘engaged in misconduct, including conduct of a sexual nature’

Ghislaine Maxwell at the WIE Symposium in New York City, on September 20, 2013. (Laura Cavanaugh/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP)

Ghislaine Maxwell charged with sex trafficking minors in Epstein abuse case

British socialite, accused in NY court of grooming girls as young as 14 for late financier, faces effective life sentence if found guilty

Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

In prank, gold statue of convicted sex offender Epstein appears in Albuquerque

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Ahmed Erekat. (Courtesy)

Ahmad Erekat’s family petitions High Court for body of alleged checkpoint rammer

By Aaron Boxerman

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)

Family of biracial US Jewish woman set on fire thanks public for support

Ethiopian immigrants shortly after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, March 24, 2020. (Michael Dimenstein/ GPO)

Government weighs formation of committee to probe Ethiopian immigration delays

Rescue workers recover the body of a teen who drowned in a cistern near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim on July 2, 2020. (Liran Atias/Fire and Rescue Service)

Body of teen recovered from West Bank water cistern after swimming tragedy

Protesters at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2020. (Screenshot from Nic Rowan/Twitter)

DC protesters link race rallies to Palestinians, chant Israel ‘murders children’

By JTA

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to take part in voting at a polling station in Moscow, Russia on July 1, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin triumphant as critics slam vote extending his rule

By Jonathan Brown

ILLUSTRATIVE — A Magen David Adom ambulance arrives at the scene of a murder in Bat Yam on May 3, 2020. (MDA)

40-year old Taibe woman stabbed to death by husband

Debris is seen from the crashed Ukrainian as authorities work at the scene in Shahedshahr, southwest of Tehran, Iran, on January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran agrees to compensate downed plane victims’ families, Sweden says

By AFP

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

Belgium funds groups that promise to weaken ‘influence of pro-Israel voices’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Dan Gertler (Screen capture: YouTube)

Congo-linked Israeli billionaire said evading US sanctions by money-laundering

By AFP and ToI Staff

This Jan. 11, 2013 file photo of a staff member as he turns on the light in a lab at the Cybercrime Center at Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Hundreds arrested after European police hack crime chat network

By Danny Kemp, Jan Hennop and Renaud Lavergne

Journalist and activist Omar Radi speaks to the media after his hearing at the Casablanca Courthouse, In Casablanca, Morocco, March 5, 2020 (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Morocco asks Amnesty for proof it used Israeli spyware on critic

By AFP

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