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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 9, 2020

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Israeli musician Hemi Rudner performs in Tel Aviv, May 22, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

'Tyrannical government toys with us as if we’re invisible'

Musician starts tax boycott as artists, gyms, cafes rebel against gov’t on virus

Hemi Rudner declares he’s stopped paying taxes, calls on others to follow until more support given to self-employed; fitness chain rebrands to stay open, restaurants defy rules

President Reuven Rivlin during a meeting with hoteliers, business people and residents in Eilat on June 6, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin criticizes government for lack of ‘clear coronavirus doctrine’

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-transportation minister Israel Katz attend the inauguration ceremony for a new train station in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, September 17, 2018. (Flash90)

Government delays aid package for workers hit by virus restrictions

Police put up roadblocks in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, on July 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Daily cases over 1,200 as Israel inches toward new local lockdowns

2 fatalities recorded, with 118 patients in serious condition; shutdown expires in parts of Lod, Ashdod; Health Ministry said to recommend 5 neighborhoods of capital be closed

Then Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Minister Rafi Peretz in isolation after adviser tests positive for virus

A man uses a mask as a blindfold at the burial site of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai in Mount Meron on July 7, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel media reviewDiscombobulate the curve: 6 things to know for July 9

By Joshua Davidovich

Op-ed

Bloated and sidetracked, Netanyahu-Gantz gov’t is failing Israel in COVID fight

‘Emergency’ coalition had a single imperative: Tackle the virus. With far too many ministers, and preoccupied with partisan rivalries, it is proving unwilling and unable to do so

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C-L) and his coalition partner Defense Minister Benny Gantz (C-R) arrive for a graduation ceremony for new pilots at the Hatzerim air force base in southern Israel on June 25, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/Pool/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Shas party chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deri said to angrily hang up on Netanyahu for backing panel to probe judges

David Biton, who was beaten by police officers arresting him for not wearing a mask, testifies before the Knesset State Control Committee on July 8, 2020. (Youtube screenshot)

Man says he was beaten by police and jailed for four days for not wearing mask

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference about the coronavirus at his office in Jerusalem, on July 9, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Looking back, we reopened economy too quickly

As virus cases soar, PM says government working to avoid another lockdown, announces economic plan to assist wage workers, self-employed and small businesses

6:25 pm

WATCH: Ex-football player catches child from 3rd floor apartment fire in Phoenix
6:19 pm

Meretz head: PM was focused on annexation, personal tax benefits instead of economy
6:14 pm

Police enforcing quarantine over 67,000 Israelis -- report

Analysis

What became of tearful Ashdod falafel vendor, symbol of COVID’s economic toll

Yuval Carmi was hospitalized with heart issues after backlash from TV interview; says his store has reopened for now, financial help received from government was ‘a joke’

Falafel vendor Yuval Carmi in front of his store, June 9, 2020. (Anat Peled/Times of Israel)

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks during a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health minister said to attend party after announcing new limits on gatherings

MK Yoav Kisch, then-chairman of the Interior Affairs Committee at the Knesset, on July 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy health minister reportedly wanted private shower for his new office

A patient participates in a trial of a breath test to identify the coronavirus at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, July 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 13)

Aiming for 10-second result, breathalyzer detector for COVID begins early tests

By ToI Staff and Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli startup Scentech Medical starts to check its breath analysis tech at Meir Medical Center, seeking to identify genetic fingerprint of virus to develop near-instant diagnosis

A doctor in a protective suit takes a nasal swab for a coronavirus test (iStock)

30-minute COVID-19 test developed in Israel; inventor predicts it will go global

By Nathan Jeffay

Professor Hadas Mamane holds a tube containing ethanol made from waste at her laboratory in Tel Aviv University on July 8, 2020. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

To battle virus, Israeli scientists use waste to make hand sanitizer

By Alexandra Vardi

Israel's ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, left, with United Nation's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, and IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, in a helicopter as they review the security situation along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, August 30, 2017. (Israel UN/Shlomi Amsalem)

IDF chief’s chopper experienced motor failure, dropped to 100 feet from ground

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says crew managed to fly helicopter to nearby base; Kohavi and other officers’ lives were not in danger, but TV report says mid-air malfunction nearly ended in ‘disaster’

IDF chief enters quarantine after exposure to coronavirus carrier

Shin Bet urges reappraisal of its own controversial cellphone tracking program

IDF cancels large drill planned for September, citing financial woes

By Judah Ari Gross

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Wearing the damn mask

My mask makes me sweat. It muffles my voice, and blocks my smile from my grandson. But there’s no fooling the coronavirus, so I wear it. What’s your excuse?

Lt. Col. Vindman, again I say: Come to Israel!

The officer who challenged US Pres. Trump would be a much-needed boost to the honor and moral strength of our own armed forces

We simply do not need another ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

Sure, nostalgia sells, but enough already! There are works of Jewish genius that have been ignored for too long. Here are some of them

Yossi Kuperwasser

The US should take Sudan off its state sponsors of terrorism list

US lawmakers must not let the crimes of Sudan’s former regime obscure the progress and moderation of its new leadership

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Knesset rejects bid to probe judges’ conflict of interest, despite Likud support

By Michael Bachner

Failed proposal by opposition’s Yamina set off coalition fight, with Blue and White saying move would have been ‘declaration of war against Israeli democracy’

Channel 12 news anchor Dana Weiss during a conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After legal threat, Yair Netanyahu sorry he implied anchor slept her way to job

Likud MK Haim Katz during a Knesset plenary session debate on his request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution, February 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG asks High Court to remove Likud minister Katz’s immunity from prosecution

Retired Israeli army general Benny Gantz, one of the leaders of the Blue and White political alliance, speaks next to a large screen depicting his face next to a caption in Arabic reading "equality is a red line," as he addresses members of the Druze community of Israel in the city of Daliyat al-Karmel in northern Israel on March 7, 2019. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Blue and White reneges on promise to appoint Arab minister for minority affairs

By Tanyah Murkes and ToI Staff

Israel’s huge cabinet has ministers for just about everything… except minorities, possibly jeopardizing the largest-ever investment program in non-Jewish communities

Simon Morzé as Franz, and Bruno Ganz as Sigmund Freud in 'The Tobacconist' (Petro Domenigg/ Epo Film/Glory Film)

Director interview

Nazi-era film features Swiss actor Bruno Ganz in final role, as Sigmund Freud

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Williamsburg residents look on as protesters pass through their Brooklyn neighborhood, June 12, 2020. (Avi Kaye via JTA)

NY ultra-Orthodox are acting like they have herd immunity. Could they be right?

Brooklyn Jewish community returns to near-normalcy after severe coronavirus outbreak, but infectious disease expert says antibody data collected by area doctors likely unreliable

Medical personnel struggle, in vain, to save the life of a patient in the coronavirus unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

US infections surpass three million as Trump pushes school reopenings

By AFP

AnalysisUS Jewish groups received over $500m in bailout funds. It hasn’t averted crisis

The Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC), composed of Judge Péter Kovács, Presiding Judge, Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut and Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou (courtesy ICC)

These three judges could send Israel to the dock in The Hague

By Raphael Ahren

Jurists from France, Hungary and Benin will soon rule if the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes allegedly committed in Palestine

House Appropriations Committee chair Nita Lowey, a Democrat of New York, is questioned by reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 13, 2020. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

US House subcommittee advances $250m for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue programs

Foodbenders store owned by Kimberly Hawkins, with a pro-Palestinian banner in the window. (Foodbenders/Instagram via JTA)

Toronto restaurant loses business deals after saying ‘Zionists’ not welcome

Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog, center, with some of the organization's top leadership in its 'situation room' for a briefing on Diaspora Jewry in the COVID-19 crisis, July 8, 2020. (Courtesy Jewish Agency)

Jewish Agency says Israel helping Diaspora weather pandemic, in role reversal

By Yaakov Schwartz

With communities across the globe virtually frozen and on verge of financial collapse, Isaac Herzog announces disbursement of $10 million in interest-free loans as stopgap measure

Illustrative: New immigrants from North America arrive on a flight arranged by the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization at Ben Gurion Airport, on August 14, 2019. (Flash90/ File)

Immigration to Israel could spike due to pandemic, groups say

British cyclist Chris Froome rides during Team Sky presentation in Jerusalem, May 3, 2018 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome to lead Israeli cycling team

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel Start-Up Nation team says British rider will sign contract to take him through to the end of his professional career

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Estonian national Roman Trofimov, in the Manila, Philippines, airport. (Courtesy)

Estonian man finally heads home after living in Philippines airport for 110 days

By Ira Tolchin Immergluck

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on the second day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 15, 2020. (Jens Meyer/AP)

Civil rights groups meet Zuckerberg, then slam him over Facebook hate content

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey looks on during a demonstration calling for the Minneapolis police department to be defunded, June 6, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images via JTA)

‘As a Jew,’ Minneapolis mayor supports reparations for African-Americans

By Penina Beede

Mohamed Hadid, left, and Bella Hadid pose for photographers upon arrival at the opening ceremony and the screening of the film Ismael's Ghosts at the 70th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

In a stateInstagram, Bella Hadid spar over dad’s passport marked ‘Palestine’

Israeli soldiers pack artillery and weapons during the withdrawal from Lebanon on June 22, 2000 (Flash90)

Gantz indicates support for recognition of IDF’s 18-year presence in Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

Slava Bronfman, Cybellum CEO, left to right, with Etienne Barbier, director at the Alliance Innovation Lab Tel Aviv and
Eldad Raziel, cybersecurity leader at the Alliance Innovation Lab Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Startup Cybellum teams up with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi on car cybersecurity

By Shoshanna Solomon

Then Israel Police commissioner Roni Alsheich (L) poses for a picture with former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz (R) at a ceremony marking Alsheich's retirement, in Beit Shemesh on November 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police probe into Gantz’s former firm handed to Israel Competition Authority

A bus in Luban a-Sharqiya spray-painted with the Hebrew phrase 'we must take our fate into our own hands,' in an apparent price tag hate crime attack on July 9, 2020. (Luban a-Sharqiya municipality)

Cars in Palestinian town vandalized, tagged in apparent hate crime

Workers disinfect the ground around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on March 7, 2020. (Amr Nabil/ AP)

New at the pandemic-pinched hajj: Bottled holy water, sterilized pebbles

Members of Hamas's Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel reportedly sends Hamas new proposal for prisoner swap

View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Government set to weaken pollution regulations to help business

In this June 10, 2020, photo, an official wearing a mask due to the coronavirus pandemic operates a temperature screening point at Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Virus projects renew questions about United Arab Emirates’ mass surveillance

By Jon Gambrell

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