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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 7, 2020

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Prof. Siegal Sadetzki, Health Ministry director of public health, speaks during a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020. (Flash90)

Top Health Ministry official quits, says Israel on dangerous path in virus fight

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Siegal Sadetzki warns government campaign to halt the spread of COVID-19 has ‘lost direction,’ her professional opinion no longer heeded

4 more die of COVID-19, daily cases top 1,000, as new restrictions rolled out

Minister knowingly breaks virus guidelines to attend ribbon-cutting

Israel media reviewA closed-minded approach: 5 things to know for July 7

By Joshua Davidovich

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)

Mossad said to foil Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies in Europe, elsewhere

Screen capture from video at the scene of a factory explosion south of Tehran, Iran, July 7, 2020. (Mehr news agency)

Yet another blast reportedly damages Iran factory, latest in series of incidents

Senior Revolutionary Guard commander General Qassem Soleimani attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (not seen) and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

US killing of Iranian commander Soleimani ‘unlawful’ — UN investigator

Palestinians receive their salary in a bank in Ramallah, West Bank, on May 17, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

Fearing Israeli sanctions, banks refuse to pay out Palestinian terror stipends

Military decree set to take effect, applying anti-terror law to West Bank and holding banks liable for PA payments to attackers and their families

Hamas political bureau member Husam Badran and Fatah Central Committee member Ahmad Hilles discuss "common action" amid what they said was an attempt to put aside tensions between the two rival Palestinian factions (Screenshot)

Hamas and Fatah double down on reconciliation, brush off ‘enormous skepticism’

French lawyer Eric Dupond-Moretti attends a press conference organized by French watchdog Reporters without Borders in Paris, February 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

New French justice minister, a lawyer, defended Toulouse terrorist accomplices

By Sylvie Corbet and Angela Charlton

Police stop a young ultra-Orthodox girl in Jerusalem for failing to wear a face mask properly, July 6, 2020 (Screen grab/Twitter)

Video of police stopping young, weeping girl over mask offense sparks outrage

She says she was wearing a mask, just pushed it aside to drink a slushy; police minister tells cops top use discretion, asks public to understand difficult situation officers face

Police officers patrol in the ultra orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, July 6, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset approves law hiking fine for not wearing a face mask to NIS 500

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

Health minister warns of lockdown next week as nearly 1,000 virus cases found

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

El Al accepts $400m bailout, with airline likely to be nationalized

Carrier battered by pandemic to receive $250 million government-backed loan and $150 million share offering, with state buying unsold shares

Illustrative. Working on a coronavirus vaccine. (iStock)

No guarantee COVID-19 vaccines will prove widely effective — government adviser

By Nathan Jeffay

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on July 5, 2020. (Amit Shabi)

As coronavirus outbreak balloons, Netanyahu’s approval rating slides

By Stuart Winer

A man sits next to beds at a newly built hospital to treat Covid-19 coronavirus patients at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, in Mumbai on July 7, 2020. (Punit PARANJPE / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

WHO warns global deaths likely to surge soon, says virus may be airborne

By Joshua Davidovich

Emergencies chief at UN body denies that spike in cases due to more testing, noting that fatalities often lag by several weeks

6:46 pm

Prime Minister's Residence cleaners to get own security detail -- report
6:26 pm

Man drowns off of Tel Aviv
6:22 pm

Trump's niece offers devastating picture of president unhinged by virus

Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. (Israel Democracy Institute)

ToI Podcast Interview

LISTEN: Big Brother is always watching, says expert. Pandemic has made it worse

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler says Israeli surveillance is much closer to China in terms of invasion of citizens’ privacy than to European governments or liberal Asian countries

Border police officers check adherence to emergency regulations in Jerusalem, July 6, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MKs pass law allowing ministers to enact virus measures without Knesset okay

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer

First they lock us up, then they refuse ventilators. What’s next?

Policymakers see the elderly as disposable and miss the obvious: Old people die more than young people, especially when isolated

Micha Odenheimer

What ‘defund the police’ tells us about this moment in democracy

Those men and women in blue are symbols and agents of regimes that increasingly hamper our ability to control our own fate

Taika Waititi, center, playing Hitler, wrote and directed 'Jojo Rabbit.' Roman Griffin Davis, jumping to his right, co-stars. (Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. via JTA)

Author interview

Holocaust humor upends mainstream history. Scholars say it’s no laughing matter

By Matt Lebovic

Gal Hirsch, a former IDF brigadier-general who had been tapped to be the next head of the Israel Police, arrives to testify before the Turkel Committee vetting his appointment at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

State prosecutor announces likely indictment of Gal Hirsch, would-be police head

By Simona Weinglass

Charges would be pending a hearing; ex-general and his 3 Defensive Shield partners accused of evading taxes on more than $11m of income from defense deals in Georgia

Protesters march in a Black Lives Matter demonstration organized by the Dallas Black Firefighters Association on Juneteenth 2020 in Dallas, June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Movement for Black Lives is having a 2020 confab. Will Israel be on the agenda?

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: Ringo Starr performs in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, June 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Interview

Ahead of pandemic-friendly 80th birthday bash, Ringo Starr says show must go on

Speaking with TOI sister site Zman Yisrael before July 7 YouTube concert with Paul McCartney, Beatles drummer says he’s working harder than ever, promises more post-COVID tours

Amy Klein, New York, March 8, 2020 (Mira Zaki)

Author interview

New expert guide lays out what to expect when you’re trying hard to be expecting

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

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

Beersheba man charged for social media post threatening Netanyahu

The scene of a fatal shooting incident in the local council of Zemer on July 7, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Father, son shot to death in central Israel; relative arrested

AnalysisBank of Israel sees its corporate bonds plan as sharing in virus-related risk

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen capture of the Knesset building in Jerusalem as seen on Google Earth. (Google Earth)

Israeli official sounds alarm over sharper satellite imaging of country

In this September 2, 2000, file photo, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, driven by Britain's Prince Andrew leaves the wedding of a former girlfriend of the prince, Aurelia Cecil, at the Parish Church of St Michael in Compton Chamberlayne near Salisbury, England (Chris Ison/PA via AP, File)

Ex-friend claims Ghislaine Maxwell may have Epstein’s alleged stash of sex tapes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, and his wife Gilat make their way to the ballot box to cast a vote in the Israeli general elections on January 22, 2012 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Bennett’s wife: PM prefers ‘economic holocaust’ over ceding management of crisis

Likud MK Ofir Akunis speaks at the Knesset, on May 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Likud’s Akunis becomes regional cooperation minister

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right0 gives a joint statement with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry prior to their meeting at his Jerusalem office on July 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON)

Egypt, Jordan, France and Germany warn annexation may hurt ties with Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinians receive financial aid payments from Qatar at a post office in Gaza City, on June 27, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Palestinian rights group records ‘surge’ in Gaza suicide attempts

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF vehicles drive over the Awali bridge as they leave Lebanon on the first day of a planned retreat on February 16, 1985. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

IDF creates committee to weigh medal for troops who fought in southern Lebanon

Seth Rogen plays an early 20th-century immigrant in the US, right, and a modern day person, left, in "An American Pickle." (Screen capture: YouTube via JTA)

Sweet and sourTrailer drops for Seth Rogen film on 1920s Jewish pickle-maker

By Gabe Friedman

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

President to honor man who died saving woman and her 3 kids from drowning

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