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What Matters Most On Friday, July 10, 2020

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Israel Police officers enforce the emergency regulations on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on July 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lockdowns go into effect in neighborhoods of 5 cities, as virus hits new high

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

Parts of Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Lod, Ramle, Kiryat Malachi become ‘restricted zones’ for 7 days; capital’s mayor: Closures will cause ‘mass infections’; 1,684 cases in 24 hours

Health minister said to warn of nationwide lockdown if daily cases surpass 2,000

With 5 deaths, West Bank Palestinians see deadliest day since start of pandemic

By Aaron Boxerman

At least 3 more MKs enter quarantine after exposure to COVID-19 patients

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

Unveiling aid package, Netanyahu acknowledges reopening of economy was premature

By Michael Bachner

Amid mounting anger at government over failure to help battered businesses weather pandemic, PM says self-employed to get immediate stipends, businesses to get up to NIS 500,000

Opposition chief warns protests over virus economic fallout could turn violent

Lod mayor, longtime Netanyahu supporter, lashes government over virus response

Blue and White official raps PM’s economic plan, says Netanyahu wants elections

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Marie L'Hoest, wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of coronavirus, breastfeeds her newborn daughter Anouk at the MontLegia CHC hospital in Liege, Belgium, Friday, June 26, 2020.(AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

‘Strong evidence’ mothers can transmit coronavirus to newborns

By Patrick Galey

Researchers in Italy studied 31 pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19, and found virus in an at-term placenta, umbilical cord, the vagina of one woman and in breast milk

Medical personnel assist patients at a community coronavirus testing site operated in Burlington, North Carolina, July 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

US hits 1-day virus record with 65,000 new cases; Australia locks down millions

By AFP

Staff at Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer wave national flags as the Israeli Air Force aerobatic team fly over the hospital during Israel's Independence day celebrations in a salute to medical teams fighting the coronavirus outbreak, April 29, 2020. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

Don’t panic! Israelis shouldn’t be ‘too worried’ by virus surge – hospital chief

By Nathan Jeffay

Leon and Marianna Lubkiewicz owned a bakery and gave food to Jews in hiding. They were executed by the Germans. (Courtesy Pilecki Institute)

Analysis

A Polish govt institute honors Poles who saved Jews. Scholars say it’s whitewash

Critics claim Pilecki Institute’s brief is to publicize heroes and overlook Poles who collaborated with Nazis, but its founder denies ‘any kind of political agenda’

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks during the inauguration of a memorial in Tirana, on July 9, 2020. (Xhulio Hajdari/Tirana City Hall via AP)

Albania, only country with more Jews after the Holocaust, inaugurates memorial

By LLAZAR SEMINI

Zealous for peace

What’s the difference between Elijah the prophet, retired for his zealotry, and Pinchas, whose desperate act to halt a harsh divine plague succeeded?

Why the Philadelphia Eagles need to visit Auschwitz

Desean Jackson and his teammates need to see for themselves why Adolf Hitler – and even Louis Farrakhan – are not role models

Shayna Goldberg

The new normal… is not normal at all

Just because we’ve gotten used to ’shigrona’ (that’s the Hebrew for ’routine’ plus corona) doesn’t make it easy

Furloughed by the Jewish Burial Society

I tied a special knot on a special garment, and I was initiated into the near-secret society that cares for the dead

160,000-year-old clam shell fossils from Misliya Cave in Israel's Carmel Mountains (Oz Rittner)

Archaeology

World’s 1st necklace? Prehistoric painted shells, once on twine, found in Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman stands on the sidelines of an NFL football game in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Gary Landers)

Jewish NFL star Edelman invites DeSean Jackson to talk anti-Semitism

After Philadelphia player posts anti-Jewish quotes online, Patriots receiver calls on him to have ‘uncomfortable conversations’ about racism

Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner (72) plays against the Tennessee Titans in Nashville, Tennessee, August 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

NFL’s Zach Banner calls to embrace Jewish community after anti-Semitism uproar

Former NBA player Stephen Jackson arrives at a memorial service for George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Former NBA player, activist Stephen Jackson defends anti-Semitic online posts

By Gabe Friedman

An explosion is seen in the night sky near Tehran in a video posted online by the country's Fars news agency, June 26, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Explosion reported in Tehran, latest in series of blasts in Iran

Incident near capital said to cause power outages in surrounding areas; local officials raise doubts about reports; analyst says chemical weapons, military facilities are nearby

US Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, with Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Wisconsin Democrat, right, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, June 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Progressive pro-Israel groups back Senate amendment to ban US aid on annexation

By Eric Cortellessa

Eight liberal Zionist organizations, including J Street and Americans for Peace Now, say US taxpayer dollars shouldn’t support Netanyahu’s West Bank plan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 24, 2018. (GPO)

In phone call, France’s Macron asks Netanyahu to drop West Bank annexation bid

By AFP and ToI Staff

Democratic US presidential candidate, former vice president Joe Biden, takes off his mask before speaking during an event in Dover, Delaware, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Palestinian-Americans said unable to get Biden to sharpen tone against Israel

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

How vulnerable is Netanyahu? A right-wing backbencher gives PM cause for worry

How a marginal opposition MK managed to push a seemingly invincible leader into a corner, with a transparently disingenuous proposal in the midst of a crisis

Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, July 10, 2020. (Courtesy)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on November 20, 2019 (left); Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit addresses the press in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2019. (Gali Tibon; Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Netanyahu barred from making police, judicial appointments amid corruption trial

Ehud Barak during a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Wexner Foundation: We paid Barak $2.3 million for 2 reports; 1 wasn’t finished

By Michael Bachner

Far-right activists clash with Border Police at the Kumi Ori outpost near Yitzhar in the West Bank on July 10, 2020. (Border Police)

Far-right extremists injure 2 Border Police cops in flashpoint West Bank outpost

Rioter arrested after hilltop youth tried to rebuild his home in Kumi Ori near Yitzhar, sought to violently prevent troops from reaching area; settlers allege police violence

Illustrative: IDF soldiers conduct raids in the West Bank on September 28, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

PA says Palestinian man killed by Israeli troops in West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman and Alexander Fulbright

Taher Halef, a Jordanian, is convicted in an Israeli court for attempted murder and terrorism over an assault in Eilat in 2018, July 9, 2020. (Screenshot/Ynet news)

Jordanian convicted for attempted murder, terrorism over Eilat hammer assault

Freshly harvested cannabis (iStock)

Medical marijuana best taken in ‘micro-doses’ with no high, Israeli firm says

By Nathan Jeffay

Glamping Israel's pop-up glamping experience at the Nana vineyard in Mizpe Ramon in Israel's Negev region, during the coronavirus (Courtesy Glamping Israel)

Pining for summer vacation but hobbled by the virus? Camping could be the answer

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Roy Moore, left, appearing on Sacha Baron Cohen's show "Who is America?" (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Roy Moore’s $95 million lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen approved

Illustrative: A prostitute on a street in south Tel Aviv on January 1, 2013. (Flash90)

Seeking prostitution services is now illegal in Israel

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Supreme Court nixes request from Leifer defense to halt proceedings amid appeal

An Israeli soldier secures the village of Avivim on the Israel-Lebanon border, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

IDF arrests 3 suspects attempting to cross border from Lebanon

Illustrative: Al Arz Tahini is a great choice for Ilana Muhlstein’s sweet Purim sauce. (Courtesy)

Tahini maker faces Arab Israeli boycott calls after donating to LGBT group

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 said to dismiss Israel’s latest prisoner swap offer as ‘manipulation’

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

'Unorthodox' author Deborah Feldman (Screen capture: YouTube)

Unorthodox couple‘Unorthodox’ author: My Hasidic ex-husband followed me to secular life

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Shira Sapir receives her certification as "morat hora'ah" and spiritual leader from Ohr Torah Stone during a ceremony in Jerusalem, July 5, 2020. (Gershon Ellinson via JTA)

Israeli Orthodox organization certifies woman as authority on Jewish law

Jewish Agency staff members in Jerusalem during a briefing about the effects of the coronavirus crisis on Diaspora Jewish communities, July 8, 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Agency)

Jewish Agency releases partial COVID-19 death toll for Jews worldwide

By JTA

South Tel Aviv resident and activist Sheffi Paz speaks during a visit of Ayelet Shaked in south Tel Aviv on April 2, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Anti-migrant activist briefly arrested over vandalism near chief justice’s home

Actor Ben Platt is seen walking midtown on March 5, 2020 in New York City. (Raymond Hall/GC Images via JTA)

From Tel Aviv, with loveBroadway star shares how he came out as gay during Israel trip

By Curt Schleier

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