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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 14, 2020

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Border Police officers at a roadblock as ultra-Orthodox Jews gather for a protest against a lockdown in their neighborhood due to a coronavirus outbreak, in Jerusalem, on July 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Virus cases reach daily high of 1,688 as Israel appears to slide toward lockdown

Government information center data shows lower death toll than an earlier Health Ministry tally; updated figures count 368 dead since start of pandemic, over 21,000 active cases

People in downtown Tel Aviv on July 13, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel’s virus cases pass 40,000 as official says full lockdown ‘a step away’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wears a face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting, at the foreign ministry, in Jerusalem, July 5, 2020. (Gali Tibbon/AP)

Public trust in Netanyahu to beat virus has ‘declined dramatically,’ poll finds

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of youth jumping into a pool. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Just keep swimming: 5 things to know for July 14

By Joshua Davidovich

The Knesset goes rogue in reopening pools and gyms, drawing harsh rebuke from the government and health officials, as the press drowns under mounting predictions of a lockdown

Health Ministry director warns of surge in serious cases, laments gyms opening

Most schools should stay closed in fall unless virus halted — ex-gov’t expert

By Nathan Jeffay

Health Ministry raises flag over suspected virus spread in prisons

By Stuart Winer

Israelis in Tel Aviv, on July 14, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Over 12,000 mistakenly quarantined by phone tracking, Health Ministry admits

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee hears that more than 20,000 people tried to appeal after being told to isolate by Shin Bet contact tracing program

Doctors try to save a patient from pneumonia of the virus COVID-19 (iStock)

In 3½ weeks, COVID-19 death risk to rise as hospital care worsens — stats team

By Nathan Jeffay

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)

Amid rising unrest, cabinet approves virus financial relief package

Plan, which requires Knesset approval to change relevant laws, will extend unemployment benefits, provide grants for businesses and self-employed

Avi Haimov, owner of a Tel Aviv eatery, complains to inspectors over a fine amid COVID-19 economic woes, July 13, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

WATCH: Cops fine a pleading Tel Aviv business owner for 2nd time in days

Likud MK Osnat Mark during a Knesset committee meeting on May 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK says economic demonstrators all belong to violent ‘radical left’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, center, and then-tourism minister Yariv Levin during a meeting to discuss mapping extension of Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, held in the Ariel settlement, February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/ US Embassy Jerusalem/ File)

Netanyahu aide said to admit US in no mood for annexation, so PM won’t go ahead

Settler leaders protest after report of comments by Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, a member of the mapping committee. ‘No need to wait for anyone,’ says Yesha Council

Members of the Palestinian Authority security forces patrolling in the village of Beitunia in the central West Bank on April 6, 2020. (Credit: Wafa)

Palestinians said arrested after backing annexation in Israeli TV report

By Alexandra Vardi and Michael Blum

Hannah Lebovits

In our Orthodox community, teaching my children anti-racism is an uphill battle

I don’t want to have to choose between being a part of a community that fights racism and one that allows me to observe Orthodox Judaism

The Corona crisis is an opportunity for the National Civil Service

The pandemic highlights the value of volunteers who come from all sectors of society, including those ineligible for army service

David Breakstone

Peter Beinart to attend the Zionist Congress? I hope so.

His arguments for dismantling Israel are faulty, naïve and unviable, but they do highlight serious issues that are far too often ignored.

Reforms in early intervention for kids with special needs may mean disaster

Plans to shift services from private and municipal options to Israeli HMOs will likely cause critical delays in providing crucial support

Illustrative: A visitor looks at an exhibit in the Jewish Museum of Venice. (Credit: Porcel)

Renovation brings Venice Jewish Museum into future, visitors into 16th century

By Giovanni Vigna

Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, announces charges against Ghislaine Maxwell during a July 2, 2020, press conference in New York City. (Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Epstein associate pleads not guilty in sex crimes case

In court papers, Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers claim media is ‘wrongly trying to substitute her’ for the financier, who killed himself in jail while awaiting sex trafficking charges

6:11 pm

Anti-Netanyahu protesters, police scuffle during protest outside PM's Residence
5:40 pm

Epstein associate pleads not guilty in sex crimes case
5:26 pm

Netanyahu said working to block Shaked's selection to panel for appointing judges

Left: A photo of William 'Wolf' Fisher from the British Jewry Roll of Honour taken at the start of World War I when he was a private in the Middlesex Regiment (courtesy); a newspaper clipping from the Daily Express covering the exposed spy ring (National Archive).

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UK-Jewish spy’s pivotal role in French espionage ring revealed after 95 years

By Marc Goldberg

A Palestinian medical staffer at the Dura hospital in the West Bank city of Dura near Hebron, on July 9, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

12-day-old Palestinian baby with heart problems dies of coronavirus in West Bank

Palestinian Authority Health Ministry says baby had initially tested negative for virus

A mask-clad child sells watermelons in the Askar refugee camp, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis, on July 13, 2020. ( JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

After outcry from business owners, PA loosens West Bank lockdown restrictions

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli soldiers wearing protective face masks walk on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on June 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

IDF sees massive jump in COVID-19 cases, nearly tripling in 9 days

By Judah Ari Gross

Border Police officers scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jews during a protest against the closure on the Romema and Kiryat Belz neighborhoods of Jerusalem, July 13, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox hold 3rd straight night of protests in Jerusalem against lockdown

Police arrest 16, as trash cans burned amid mounting anger at government ‘discrimination’; many in community said to use unapproved COVID-19 test to evade quarantine

Batya Getter, center, along with her family as they meet with senior Jerusalem police officers, July 13, 2020. (Israel Police)

Police minister meets ultra-Orthodox girl left in tears by cop run-in

Analysis

Jewish NFL players: Educate, don’t cancel DeSean Jackson for anti-Semitic posts

Former and current football players say much of the anti-Semitism in NFL comes from ignorance from players who are unfamiliar with Jews and Jewish culture and religion

Jewish football players participate in an online conversation July 12, 2013. Clockwise from upper left: Anthony Firkser, conversation organizer Michael Neuman, Geoff Schwartz and Greg Joseph. (Screenshot from virtual event)

Native American leaders protest against the Redskins team name outside US Bank Stadium before an NFL football game, October 24, 2019. (Bruce Kluckhohn/AP)

NFL’s Redskins to change name after years of pressure, including from ADL

George Soros at the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/ Ronald Zak)

Soros foundation to give $220 million to Black groups advocating racial justice

Rabbi Sandra Lawson (courtesy)

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By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Rabbi Sandra Lawson defines terms and speaks frankly about the challenge of not conforming to stereotypes in her role as a Hillel campus educator at Elon University

The parents of Iyad Halak, an autistic Palestinian man who was fatally shot by Israeli police, Khiri, right, and mother Rana, talk during an interview in Jerusalem, June 3, 2020. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Family calls for probe after told no footage of shooting of autistic Palestinian

By ToI Staff and AP

Iyad Halak’s relatives cite concern cops hiding evidence; Police Internal Investigations Department says cameras covering fatal incident were not connected at the time

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Israeli court rejects Amnesty petition to curb spyware firm NSO

Ranin Lala in a report broadcast on July 13, 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 13)

Ranin, no; Rona, yes: Report shows Arab educators face racism in search for work

Woman finds she is offered more opportunities when applying for daycare jobs under assumed Jewish-sounding name; another is told: ‘We don’t need Arab teachers’

Ayman (L) and Muhammad al-Jahalin who were in a video made by children's entertainer 'Roy Boy,' July 13, 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 13 news)

Bedouin family files police complaint over TV star’s racist video of kids

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Illustrative: Iranian police officers close the door of the court compound in Tehran, Iran, July 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says ex-defense worker executed for selling info to CIA

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The icon for TikTok phone app, taken in New York, February 25, 2020. (AP Photo)

More than 6 million view Nazi death camp song on TikTok

Mireille Knoll, center, with her son Daniel and granddaughter Jessica. (Daniel Knoll via AP)

French court orders trial over brutal, alleged anti-Semitic murder of woman, 85

By AFP

The COVID-19 memorial installed at Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts, July 12, 2020 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Boston Jews inaugurate COVID-19 memorial to help cope with ‘insurmountable loss’

By Matt Lebovic

Amit Almog, charged with the murder of his partner Maya Vishniyak in Ramat Gan, seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on July 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Man accused of murdering girlfriend, stabbing own mother found fit for trial

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva on June 25, 2020. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

WHO on COVID-19: No return to normality for ‘foreseeable future’

By AFP

Illustrativeechnicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on March 17, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

25 research projects to whip coronavirus get NIS 9 million in funding

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former Jerusalem District commander Niso Shaham at the Tel Aviv District Court to appeal his sentencing on July 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Court rejects ex-top cop’s appeal over 10-month sentence for sex offenses, fraud

The wooden main gate leading into the former Nazi concentration camp of Stutthof, photographed in Sztutowo, Poland, July 18, 2017. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Former Nazi camp guard, 95, charged in Germany

By AFP

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits the site of a proposed Military Intelligence base that will be constructed in southern Israel. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Three classified defense projects win top security prize

By Judah Ari Gross

Bayern Munich's German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer during the German Cup soccer final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on July 4, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein / POOL / AFP)

Germany’s soccer captain Neuer filmed singing song by pro-Nazi Croatian singer

By AFP

Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, announces charges against Ghislaine Maxwell during a July 2, 2020, press conference in New York City. (Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Prosecutors: Epstein victim will ask judge to deny bail for Ghislaine Maxwell

By Larry Neumeister

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