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What Matters Most On Monday, July 6, 2020

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A Jerusalem man is fined by a police officer for failing to wear a face mask outside on July 03, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Lapid: Coronavirus strategy a 'humiliating national failure'

Government orders closure of event halls, culture venues, gyms, bars, nightclubs

Netanyahu says country ‘a step away’ from full lockdown as cabinet announces dramatic new virus restrictions; synagogues capped at 19 worshipers, all gatherings capped at 20 people

Magen David Adom medical workers perform COVID-19 tests at a mobile testing station for COVID-19, in Jerusalem, July 5, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘We’ve lost control’ of pandemic, top Israeli adviser says as active cases spike

Health care workers take test samples of Israelis to check if they have been infected with the coronavirus, at a Clalilt health center in Lod, on July 05, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Where we went wrong: Expert says these 3 blunders caused new Israeli COVID chaos

By Nathan Jeffay

Israel has a ‘corona government that is really not about corona,’ says former Health Ministry chief Prof. Gabi Barbash, and the intensity of the second wave reflects its failures

Jerusalem residents play backgammon in the city center on June 30, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health Ministry ranks virus risk for activities as daily cases hold below 800

A restaurant owner outside shuttered shops in the Old City of Jerusalem, on March 30 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Government pushes bill to let it enact virus restrictions before Knesset okay

An Iranian protester holds an anti-Israeli placard during an annual anti-Israeli Al-Quds Day rally in Tehran, Iran, June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi/File)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Mossad foiled Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies in Europe, elsewhere

By Joshua Davidovich

Unsourced report comes as tensions between Israel and Iran on rise following claims that Jerusalem behind devastating bombing of Natanz nuclear facility

6:47 pm

Knesset gives initial okay to virus bill allowing cabinet to bypass Knesset
6:39 pm

Hamas and Hezbollah joins hands in anti-annexation drive
6:28 pm

Mossad said to foil Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies

Health care workers take test samples of Israelis to check if they have been infected with the coronavirus, at a Clalit health center in Lod, on July 5, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Israel media review

Death of a thousand cases: 5 things to know for July 6

By Joshua Davidovich

Ministers mull new restrictions amid prophecies of virus doom and gloom, and handwringing over how badly country screwed up its return to normal and is still messing up tracking

People walk wearing face masks walk near the Jaffa Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City on July 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Phone tracking sends thousands to isolation, but many say system makes mistakes

Finance Committee Chairman Moshe Gafni (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top ultra-Orthodox MK threatens party will exit coalition if yeshivas shuttered

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)

Israel was behind blast at Iran nuclear site, Mideast intel official tells NYT

By ToI Staff and AP

Officials says powerful bomb was used to damage building involved in centrifuge production at Natanz, denies Israeli connection to other recent fires in the Islamic Republic

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)

Iran admits fire at Natanz nuclear site set back its centrifuge program

By ToI Staff and AP

Islamic Revolution Guards Corps commander Alireza Tangsiri. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Iran claims to have built underground ‘missile cities’ on Gulf coast

Israel's Ofek-16 reconnaissance satellite takes off from central Israel on July 6, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

'Our satellites let us watch the entire Middle East'

With Iran in its sights, Israel launches new spy satellite into orbit

By Judah Ari Gross

Ofek-16, an ‘optoelectronic reconnaissance satellite with advanced capabilities,’ undergoing tests after entering orbit. Netanyahu: Boosts ability to tackle enemies ‘near and far’

(L) Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting in Tel Aviv on June 7, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at a Cyber conference at Tel Aviv University on June 24, 2019. (Flash90)

Liberman appears to accuse Mossad head of leaking Israeli role in Iran attack

Mossad chief Yossi Cohen attends US Independence Day celebrations at the residence of US ambassador David Friedman in Herzliya, July 3, 2017. (Heidi Levine, Pool via AP/File)

Mossad chief’s term extended, amid speculation of covert war with Iran

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Israel’s social workers are on strike; my sister is one of them

So often, social workers remain at their posts, with compassion and care for their clients, in spite of their abysmal working conditions and offensive salaries. No longer

Why bother listening when you can just issue a decree?

The government announcement of a blanket ban on in-person university exams is a textbook example of how not to lead during a pandemic

From top left, clockwise: Blue and White MK Hila Shay Vazan (Reuven Kopitchniski), Blue and White MK Einav Kabla (Courtesy), Blue and White MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh (Avishai Finkelstein), Blue and White MK Tehila Friedman (Courtesy)

Analysis

Ready for action and hopeful for change: Meet Blue and White’s 4 new female MKs

3 attorneys and a journalist thought their dreams of entering the Knesset were over when they missed the threshold. But last month they got in, after a new law reshuffled the cards

Rafi Peretz, then-leader of the Jewish Home party, in Petah Tikva, February 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Flubbed split means Jewish Home’s Peretz may not be legally serving as minister

Amir Nathan, left, and Jordan Anderson have adapted their menu for the era of COVID-19. (Briana Balduci/ via JTA)

Israeli-owned NYC Mediterranean takeout brand may be restaurant of the future

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: A ball of fire is seen following an Israeli airstrike at Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, after Palestinian terrorists fired two rockets toward Israel, June 27, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF strikes Hamas targets in response to Gaza rocket fire

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israeli military bombs observation post, apparent underground rocket launchers, after 3 projectiles fired into Israel from the Strip

Illustrative: Rockets are launched by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip toward Israel, February 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Three rockets fired at Israel from Gaza as border region heats up

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Bedouin diplomat Ishmael Khaldi at the Israeli consulate in Miami. (Courtesy, Israeli Consulate)

Israel taps first-ever Bedouin ambassador to head Eritrea mission

Decision comes weeks after Ishmael Khaldi, who was also first-ever Bedouin diplomat, made headlines by accusing security guards in Jerusalem of kneeling on his neck

Channel 13 diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid on June 30, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Prominent diplomatic correspondent, a Netanyahu critic, loses his TV job

By AP

People wearing face masks as they shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on July 3, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Health largely OK, but job prospects for the young on life support amid pandemic

Previous crises have shown economists that if young unemployed men and women don’t get back to work quickly, they could get stuck on the margins of the labor force for good

Israeli social workers protest their working conditions outside the Knesset on June 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesting working conditions, social workers launch open-ended strike

More Headlines

Shaban Titi is brought to the courtroom for his sentence at the Ofer military court near the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 6, 2020. (Flash90)

Driver in fatal 2015 West Bank terror ramming sentenced to life

Maccabi Tel Aviv's Dor Micha controls the ball during a Europa League soccer match against Villarreal at the Ceramica stadium in Villarreal, Spain, December 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Soccer players suspected of statutory rape named as Omer Atzili, Dor Micha

A political cartoon published July 3, 2020, by the Anderson County Review against Kansas Governor Laura Kelly's order requiring state residents to wear masks. (The Anderson County Review Facebook page via JTA)

Kansas newspaper removes cartoon likening mask mandate to the Holocaust

Diaspora youth participate in a Birthright Israel event in Jerusalem (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Government okays plan to bolster Diaspora Jewry, but sparse on details

By Raphael Ahren

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meets Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on May 17, 2019. (Thomas Peter/pool/AFP)

Iran negotiating 25-year ‘strategic accord’ with China

By AFP

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

Epstein associate Maxwell took pic with Kevin Spacey on Queen Elizabeth’s throne

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel's Ashdod Port. (Avi Rokeach)

Drones, pollution sensors aim to make work at Ashdod port smarter

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli security forces at the scene of clashes between settlers and Palestinians near the outpost of El Matan in the West Bank on July 5, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

6 injured as settlers and Palestinians clash in northern West Bank

By Jacob Magid and Aaron Boxerman

In this November 4, 2016, photo, Beyonce performs at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Conspiracy theorist Congress candidate demonizes Soros, claims Beyoncé not Black

A health worker wearing protective gear prepares to take swab samples from people lining up in their cars to test for the coronavirus at a drive-through COVID-19 screening center at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt on June 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus outbreak

By AP

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