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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 4, 2020

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Image from a video said to show a fire caused by an explosion at a power plant in Ahvaz, Iran, on July 4, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Explosion reportedly damages power plant in Iran, the latest in series of blasts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Incident in city of Ahvaz in southwest follows mysterious explosions at nuclear facility and site near Tehran, which prompted regime to issue warning to Israel and US

A satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies shows a damaged building after a fire and explosion at Iran's Natanz nuclear site, on July 3, 2020. (Planet Labs Inc., James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies via AP)

Israel said bracing for retaliation as Tehran points fingers over nuke site fire

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysts say blast destroyed lab where Iran develops next generation centrifuges to speed up uranium enrichment; one source says Iran nuclear program set back two months

This photo released July 2, 2020, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows a building after it was damaged by a fire, at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran warns it will respond if fire at nuclear site proves to be a cyberattack

By Jon Gambrell

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during talks in Moscow, Russia, June 16, 2020. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

EU says Iran has triggered nuclear deal dispute mechanism

By AP and ToI Staff

Op-Ed

The day Abbas moved from rebuffing Trump to joining forces with terrorists

Broadcasting the Fatah-Hamas ‘unity’ event on official TV, the PA president made plain his strategic choice: Israel, and any prospect of reconciliation, out; Hamas, in

Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, right, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, at a video conference with deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri, who is in Beirut, July 2, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens as Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a joint press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, June 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Russia welcomes Fatah and Hamas unity pledge

By AFP

Pro-Palestinian protesters in a 'Day or Rage' protests in Brooklyn, New York, July 1, 2020 (video screenshot)

At Brooklyn pro-Palestine rally, calls to eliminate both Israel and US

Nabil Shaath speaks to reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 1, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas adviser warns of third intifada if Israel goes ahead with annexation

Nabil Shaath says he expects the potential uprising to be funded by the Arab world, adds that the West Bank and Gaza would ‘combine forces’

This file photo taken on September 7, 2016 shows UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon at ASEAN-UN Summit in Vientiane. (AFP / YE AUNG THU)

Group of former world leaders warn against Israel’s annexation plan

By AP and ToI Staff

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh speaks to reporters outside his home in Haifa, on March 3, 2020. (Flash90)

MK urges Joint List head’s ejection from Knesset for attending Fatah-Hamas event

A group of people wearing face masks tour Jerusalem on July 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PM declares ‘major outbreak’ as active virus cases soar past 10,000 for 1st time

Health Ministry says 1,130 cases confirmed and 24,732 tests performed Thursday, both single-day records; Netanyahu: ‘You can’t hug your grandfather and grandmother now’

Border police head diagnosed with virus after attending event with Gantz, Rivlin

Cyprus says it won’t waive quarantine requirement for Israeli tourists

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Despite lockdown, Israel sees rise in cases of sexually transmitted infections

The empty arrival hall at the Ben Gurion airport on June 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Airport chief warns Israeli aviation is ‘days away from point of no return’

Ben Gurion CEO Shmuel Zakay calls to renew flights, says months-long stagnation under pandemic endangers tens of thousands of jobs, could cause ‘huge strategic damage’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu said to threaten Gantz with new elections in tiff over budget

Likud MK Tzachi Hanegbi on September 17, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Likud minister says assertion some Israelis have nothing to eat is ‘bullshit’

From the blogs

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

US President Donald Trump arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

At Rushmore, Trump tells crowd that race protests seek to ‘wipe out our history’

By STEPHEN GROVES and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Addressing thousands for July 4 as virus cases spiral, US president says left wants to ‘defame our heroes, indoctrinate our children’; Native Americans protest nearby

Washington Redskins to have ‘thorough review’ of name amid race debate

By STEPHEN WHYNO

US heads into Independence Day besieged by virus, with record 57k daily cases

By Sarah TITTERTON

Trump Jr.’s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle contracts coronavirus

The infamy of Blackbeard

What happens when a man coasts on his reputation for just a little too long? And what if that man is prophet? Or a pirate? (Balak)

WATCH: In search of America

Five years ago, I traveled the US to film what people had to say about society, the environment, the economy, and more. Seen now, what I captured with my camera is chilling

The Shabtai family a few days before New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown. (Courtesy)

Analysis

Ira Tolchin Immergluck

‘Stuck’ Israeli family gives New Zealand lockdown five stars

Though a dream trip turned into a plague-cation with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Shabtai family says government response was better than anything they’d get at home

Spain locks down 200,000, Australia shuts off housing blocks as virus surges

By AP

Despite surge in cases, Brazil’s Bolsonaro waters down law requiring face masks

By MARCELO DE SOUSA and David Biller

First orders: Fears of chaos as English pubs reopen at 6 a.m. as lockdown eases

By Phil HAZLEWOOD

Samantha Zerin hopes that showing her transition can help other transgender people struggling to come out. (Courtesy of Zerin/ via JTA)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

What it’s like to come out as a trans woman when your wife is the rabbi

Samantha Zerin, who is married to a female pulpit rabbi in Providence, Rhode Island, has navigated between public and private when coming out to family — and the Jewish community

A rainbow flag is hung outside the US Embassy in Moscow, Russia, June 2020 (video screenshot)

Putin mocks US embassy rainbow flag, says it ‘shows something’ about staff there

By AFP

Left, cover of 'Bitesize Resilience,' by author Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, right, October 2015; (Courtesy)

Author interview

UK Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner’s book on resilience could hardly be more timely

In this file photo taken on January 19, 2020, Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York, arrives to attend a church service at St Mary the Virgin Church in Hillington, Norfolk, eastern England (Lindsey Parnaby / AFP)

UK’s Prince Andrew under fresh scrutiny after Maxwell arrest in Epstein case

By AFP

The once popular royal has seen his reputation shredded by his friendship with the late billionaire and convicted sex offender, amid claims he had sex with plaintiffs

Members of the immediate family of the late Robert Maxwell, including Ghislaine (4L), stand behind the body laying on a stretcher during the funeral service in Jerusalem's main convention hall on Nov. 10, 1991 (AP Photo/Natik Harnik)

The Maxwells: Scandal, conspiracy and more than a few days in court

By Florence Biedermann

Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, Thursday, July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Arrest of Epstein cohort Maxwell becomes new test for plea deal

By Tom Hays and Michael R. Sisak

Two customers from diverse backgrounds ready to place their orders at Cheskies. (Ezra Soiferman/ www.EzraSoiferman.com)

Crumbs of comfort: Montreal kosher bakery builds bridges, one babka at a time

Daniel Craig as a Jew with a gun in 'Defiance.' (Screenshot from YouTube/ via JTA)

Locked down? Open up to… Jewish partisans resisting Nazis in ‘Defiance’

By Stephen Silver

More Headlines

Michael Ben Zikri, who drowned while rescuing a family from drowning in a lake on July 3, 2020 (Courtesy)

‘Heroic’ Israeli drowns after rescuing woman and her 3 kids from lake in south

Illustrative. IDF reserve soldiers training at Adam military facility. (Photo by Roy Sharon/Flash90)

IDF mulls scrapping reserve soldiers’ training amid virus surge – report

People wear masks as they walk in London over the River Thames on Millennium Bridge near St Paul's Cathedral, seen in the background, March 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK woman handed life sentence for plot to blow up St. Paul’s Cathedral

By AP

A homeless woman is seen sleeping on the street of Skid Row during the COVID-19, coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, California on May 16, 2020. (Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)

Jewish groups turn parking lots into safe lodging for thousands of LA homeless

By Josefin Dolsten

A vial of remdesivir is pictured during a press conference about the start of a study with the anti-viral drug at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg, Germany, April 8, 2020. (Ulrich Perrey / POOL / AFP)

EU authorizes use of remdesivir to treat coronavirus

By AFP

One felonious assault charge each has been filed against Eric and Jillian Wuestenberg, both of Independence Township, after a confrontation that resulted in pointing hand guns at Takelia Hill and her children after exiting a restaurant in Orion Township, a day earlier. (Screencapture/YouTube)

White Michigan couple charged after gun pulled on Black family

By Corey Williams and Sara Burnett

David Starkey (Screen capture: YouTube)

Leading UK historian quits Cambridge post after slavery remarks

By AP

Danish police officers take pictures of the base of the Little Mermaid statue (Den lille Havfrue) after it was vandalized on July 3, 2020. (Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) / Denmark OUT

Scale it backCopenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue vandalized with ‘racist fish’

By AP

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