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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 11, 2020

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Police stand guard at a protest by self-employed Israelis protesting the lack of financial support from the government, on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, July 7, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tens of thousands expected at Sat. night Rabin Sq. protest

Hundreds of cops deploy for ‘apolitical’ Tel Aviv rally against economic policy

Organizers call to observe social distancing rules, wear masks; Police: ‘We are aware of the protesters’ desire to make their cries and their pain heard’

Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) and Finance Minister Israel Katz (right) meet with representatives of self-employed Israelis and small business owners at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 10, 2020. (PMO)

After meeting PM, self-employed Israelis push ahead with major Saturday protest

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)

A new US-Israel strategy?

Israel’s alleged Natanz strike ‘as complex as Stuxnet,’ a major blow to Iran

This June 30,1996 photo, show a general view of the destroyed Khobar Towers and crater where a truck bomb exploded at a US military complex killing 19 Americans and injuring hundreds in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Saleh Rifai)

US court orders Iran to pay further $879m for 1996 Saudi truck bomb attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People wearing protective face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus stand inside a train in Tehran, Iran, July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

With 188 dead in 24-hour spike, Iran says it cannot afford to shut down economy

By AFP

A woman swabs her nose at a free COVID-19 testing site in Chelsea, Massachusetts, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

WHO urges aggressive virus measures as flare-ups spark new closures

By AFP

With global death toll over 556,000, World Health Organization calls for international solidarity; Trump feuds with Fauci; restrictions imposed in Hong Kong, Australia, Uzbekistan

Explainer5 COVID-19 myths politicians have repeated that just aren’t true

By Geoffrey Joyce

‘Strong evidence’ mothers can transmit coronavirus to newborns

By Patrick Galey

Tuberculosis vaccine BCG may reduce COVID-19 death rate, US study finds

A Palestinian medical team transports the body of person who died of the COVID-19 disease from the military hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus, on July 9, 2020. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

As West Bank virus deaths rise by 4, Gaza markets open for 1st time in 2 months

By Aaron Boxerman

Fatalities take reported deaths from the virus among West Bank Palestinians to 30; Hamas says markets officially allowed back in business with social distancing regulations

A woman prays in front of the closed Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 25, 2020. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Jerusalem’s Church of Holy Sepulchre shuttered again amid coronavirus resurgence

The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on September 9, 2019. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Jerusalem police say ‘gunfire reports’ just celebratory fireworks in city’s east

Interview

‘The most terrible camp’: After 80 years, cruelty of SS site on UK soil revealed

Archaeologists publish in-depth survey highlighting the historical importance of the oft-overlooked Lager Sylt, as well as the physical and psychological torture of its inmates

A photo of the Sylt concentration camp on the island of Alderney after the Nazi surrender, May 1945. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum/ via Antiquity Publications)

A mural painting paying tribute to late Spanish diplomat Angel Sanz Briz who in Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 13, 2016. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

‘Spanish Schindler,’ who saved over 5,000 Jews during WWII, given online tribute

By JTA

The swastika necklace for sale on the Shein website, July 10, 2020 (Screen grab via JTA)

Online retailer Shein stops selling swastika necklace after backlash

Magen David Adom medical workers test Israelis for the coronavirus at a drive-through site in Lod, on July 10, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

As Israel imposes lockdowns, 1,504 new cases reported in past 24 hours

Lockdowns come into effect in neighborhoods in five towns and cities; death toll at 351, with 130 patients in serious condition, including 42 on ventilators

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man wears a face mask with a yellow star on and raises his hands at a roadblock in the Hephzibah neighborhood in Beit Shemesh that is currently under a lock down in an attempt to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, on July 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi MK wants ultra-Orthodox parties to quit coalition over targeted lockdowns

A medical worker holds a sample at a mobile testing station for COVID-19 in the city of Rehovot on June 25, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Health Ministry shortens contact tracing period; will reduce quarantine numbers

Illustrative: In this November 13, 2017 photo, Devante Kincade, quarterback for the Grambling's NCAA college football game college football team, listens during a criminal justice class at the university in Grambling, Louisiana (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Student leaders at historically Black US colleges join Israel advocacy effort

By Cathryn J. Prince

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson prior to an NFL game against the Chicago Bears in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

After anti-Semitic posts, NFL star DeSean Jackson speaks with Holocaust survivor

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Receiver says he is ‘bridging the gap between different cultures, communities and religions’; Philadelphia Eagles announces player has been punished for offensive quotes

Jewish NFL star Edelman speaks with DeSean Jackson following anti-Semitic posts

Stephen Jackson tells rabbi he ‘understands hurt’ over Rothschild comment

By JTA

Owner of DeSean Jackson’s NFL team produces a documentary about Hitler

By JTA

The Royall House in Medford, Massachusetts, June 25, 2020 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Analysis

Preserved former slave house in Boston keeps Harvard and Tufts’ racist past real

New England’s elite universities are facing a fresh wave of scrutiny for their colonial ties to slavery and promotion of ‘scientific racism’

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein. (Joseph Savetsky/courtesy of ZOA)

ZOA files complaint against Jewish groups for calling leader’s remarks ‘racist’

Barashi street in Jerusalem, named for Yitzhak Barashi, a Kurdistani-born rabbi who fought in Israel's War of Independence. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

How Kurdish Jews made their way to Jerusalem, shocked Herzl, began to thrive

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Haviva Ner-David

Making mikveh history!

A 2,000 year-old-mikveh was discovered near my home, but it will be replaced by a traffic intersection without the right funding to stop that ’progress’

The age of water

Scientists used to think that the water in space could not have withstood the fiery birth of the solar system, but now they see that it probably did (Pinchas)

Bethany Mandel at her home in a suburb of Washington, DC, May 25, 2020. (Ron Kampeas/ JTA)

Conservative influencer Bethany Mandel says you can call her a ‘Grandma Killer’

Sara Gideon speaks to the media in her office at the Maine State House, July 3, 2017. (Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Analysis

More Jews are backing a Democrat’s Maine Senate bid against pro-Israel incumbent

Sara Gideon’s bipartisanship, centrism and record of Israel support boost her popularity in battle with Susan Collins, as Dems set sights on swing state to get Senate majority

Peter Beinart, pictured here in Israel in 2012, now advocates for one state with equal rights encompassing Israelis and Palestinians. (Flash90)

InterviewOnce an outspoken advocate of 2 states, Peter Beinart now abandoning concept

Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch in 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.' (Screen shot from YouTube/ via JTA)

Locked down? Open up to… perfect pandemic-era insight in ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’

By Penina Beede

More Headlines

Illustrative -- people enjoy the beaches at the Sea of Galilee, June 19, 2020 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Police probe suspected sex attack on girl as she slept in tent at Sea of Galilee

Roger Stone arrives at Federal Court for the second day of jury selection for his federal trial, in Washington, November 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Trump commutes prison sentence of ally Roger Stone

By daniel woolls

Foreign diplomats tour Israel's northern border with Lebanon amid calls from Israel to beef up the mandate of the UN peace keeping force UNIFIL, July 10, 2020 (IDF Spokesperson)

Foreign diplomats tour northern border as Israel urges greater powers for UNIFIL

A Hezbollah supporter shouts slogans in front of riot police during a protest against the US near its embassy in Aukar, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese protesters rally outside US Embassy in Beirut against ‘interference’

By AP

Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks to supporters at a presidential election campaign rally in Lomza, Poland, on July 7, 2020 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ahead of election, Polish president rejects Holocaust restitution claims

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Contender in Poland's key presidential election runoff Sunday, liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski greets supporters during a campaign rally, in Raciaz, Poland, on July 9, 2020 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Rafal Trzaskowski, the Europhile with sights on Polish presidency

By Bernard OSSER

Phone apps for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among other social networks on a smartphone in Chennai, India, on March 22, 2018. (Arun Sankar/AFP/File)

Facebook tool that tracks users crashes popular iPhone apps

By Barbara Ortutay

The Marlene Meyerson JCC in New York City closed in March and laid off or furloughed 72 staff members in July. (Facebook via JTA)

New York City’s flagship JCC cuts 35% of jobs as pandemic layoffs continue

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

Ghislaine Maxwell seeks $5 million bond in Epstein abuse case

By AP

Thousands of jellyfish at the Ashkelon power station, July 10, 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 13 news)

PowerfulThousands of jellyfish swarm Ashkelon power station

Protesters at a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, July 10, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Over 1,000 anti-corruption protesters rally outside PM’s residence

Attorney Yossi Segev arrives at the Tel Aviv District court to represent crime boss Rico Shirazi, on June 19, 2017 (Flash90)

Ahead of 2nd hearing, attorney with tax conviction joins Netanyahu defense team

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