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What Matters Most On Friday, July 17, 2020

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A waitress handles chairs in a restaurant in downtown Jerusalem on July 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reversal comes hour before open-ended ban was to take effect

After uproar, Netanyahu backtracks and delays restaurant ban until Tuesday

Following overnight order to shut eateries, owners had threatened to remain open in act of civil disobedience, saying decision would cause massive financial losses and food waste

Illustrative: Israelis sit at a cafe in Tel Aviv on July 8, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hit by ban imposed with no warning, many restaurants vow to defy it, stay open

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth wear protective face masks following government measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, as they walk in Jerusalem's Old City, July 16, 2020. (AP/Oded Balilty)

In fresh virus lockdown, restaurants, gyms to close from Friday, gatherings cut

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on July 16, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

Shray it forward: 5 things to know for July 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Authorities appear to fumble another lockdown rollout, as unhappiness with the (mis)handling of the pandemic reaches the point that Israelis are willing to give away free money

Opposition chiefs slam new lockdown measures; 1,832 new infections over past day

‘Reckless, irrational, damaging’: Latest lockdown plans met with public outrage

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Planned weekend lockdown could cause more infections, leading doctor says

By Nathan Jeffay

'Roma-Bowie' (Robert Speker/Sydmar Lodge)

UK Jewish seniors go viral as they rock iconic album covers during lockdown

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Medical personal at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan are seen in the hospital's coronavirus ward on June 30, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israeli doctor diagnosed with COVID-19 three months after apparently recovering

TV report says medical worker at Sheba Medical Center first contracted coronavirus in April, had tested negative in May and June

Illustrative: Soldiers from the Golani Brigade wearing face masks, on May 12, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

IDF looks to clamp down as COVID-19 cases spread through its ranks

By Judah Ari Gross

A ready to take away Go Noodles box is placed in a glass-paned locker in Tel Aviv, on July 16, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Distant diningNo servers, no tables: An Israeli restaurant goes pandemic-friendly

By ISAAC SCHARF

Hundreds of Israelis have donated millions of Shekels to this crowdfunding campaign to redistribute their government coronavirus stipends to the most needy. (Screenshot)

Israelis donate millions to the poor after PM’s pledge of virus stipends for all

TV host Guy Lerer sets up crowdfunding campaign to redirect promised grants from ‘those who need less to those who really are in need’

Self-employed Israelis protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, calling for financial support from the Israeli government on July 11, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Self-employed, anti-corruption protesters to join for Saturday rally in Tel Aviv

Shaul Meridor, head of the Finance Ministry's budget department, speaks at the Maariv newspaper conference in Herzliya on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu lashes out at Treasury official who opposes cash for all stimulus plan

Reporter's Notebook

Veteran anti-Netanyahu protesters hail ‘an awakening among the young people’

Rally at PM’s home features meditation, a fire performance and, says a woman sleeping out in pink pajamas with a giant teddy bear, the ‘beautiful rage’ of a younger demographic

Likud MK Michal Shir at an orientation day at the Knesset, April 29, 2019. (Noam Moscowitz/Knesset)

Likud MK slams Netanyahu for dismissing criticism of virus response as political

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 16, 2020. Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hundreds demonstrate against Netanyahu near his official residence, again

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner (72) blocks during the first half of an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams in Pittsburgh, November 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Don Wright)

Interview

NFL Steeler Zach Banner wants your help to fight hate, and marry your daughter

By Toby Tabachnick

Bari Weiss and losing our voice at The New York Times

Weiss ensured that we Jews who love Israel in our bones and also deeply believe in representative democracy have a place in the NYT’s storied pages

No small victory

If you are coping with an educational system where anything but mainstream is considered a pariah, don’t give up on your child; what feels insurmountable is possible

Chana Tannenbaum

Why 42 is the ultimate answer to life and everything

The Israelites made 42 stops in the wilderness on their way to conquer the Land of Israel; the puzzle is why the Torah lists all of them (Masai)

Cases spike, stomachs rumble: A second wave of need

There are more people in need, and fewer sources of food to nourish them. Worse, it’s going to get worse before it gets better

This image, provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), shows the Sun on May 30, 2020. (Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL/ via AP)

Scientists marvel as closest pics ever taken of sun show it is covered in flares

So-called ‘campfires’ are ‘literally everywhere we look,’ say awed experts, suggesting they could be mini-explosions but admitting they don’t know exactly what to make of them

Romain Lopez won the mayoral race in Moissac with 62% of the vote, easily breaking a string of left-wing mayors in the French town dating back to World War II. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)

French town that saved Jews elects mayor from party founded by Holocaust denier

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An Iranian cleric looks at domestically built surface-to-surface missiles at a military show marking the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution that toppled the US-backed shah, at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque, in Tehran, Iran, on February 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US intelligence reportedly says Iran has put its air defenses on high alert

American official tells CNN that Iranian forces responding to recent events, fears of threats to regime; follows string of mysterious fires and explosions in Iran

Cyber attacks again hit Israel’s water system, shutting agricultural pumps

Internet disrupted in Iranian province as anti-regime demonstration held

Iran must overturn death sentences against protesters, UN experts say

By AFP

Local religious leaders pray alongside US President Donald Trump at the King Jesus International Ministry during a "Evangelicals for Trump" rally in Miami, Flaorida, January 3, 2020. (Scott McIntyre/For The Washington Post via Getty Images, JTA)

Evangelical support for annexation uncertain as Trump looks to election

One prominent US evangelical leader says nixing West Bank annexation could cost US president his office, but others disagree, saying community fears regional turmoil

David Schenker, US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 9, 2019. (Hussein Malla/AP)

US official urges Netanyahu to keep alive chance of Palestinian state

By AFP

Aaron Keyak, left, stands with then vice president Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden at a Jewish Leaders reception at the Naval Observatory Residence in Washington, DC, Sept. 9, 2015. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann via JTA)

ProfileMeet the Orthodox political wunderkind helping Biden turn out the Jewish vote

Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez, right, met with the head of the AMIA Jewish group and the father of an AMIA bombing victim in Buenos Aires, July 14, 2020. (Courtesy of AMIA/ via JTA)

Argentine president tells Jewish leaders he wants results in AMIA bombing trial

By JTA

A drawn-out legal case after the 1994 terror attack has been riddled by corruption charges, including against the now-vice president, and the alleged murder of a Jewish prosecutor

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Ice Cube, also known as O'Shea Jackson, performs at the KY Expo Center in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 28, 2019. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Rapper Ice Cube slams Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for calling out anti-Semitic posts

Mary Trump, US President Donald Trump's niece, in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Jul 16, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Trump’s niece: I heard him use anti-Semitic and racist slurs

By ToI Staff and AP

Flags of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan, and other political parties are waved with other protest signs denouncing the US-led Middle East economic conference in Bahrain, on June 21, 2019. (Khalil Mazraawi/ AFP)

Jordan’s top court dissolves country’s Muslim Brotherhood

Renu, the eldest sister of Shamima Begum, holds a picture of her sister while being interviewed by the media in London, on February 22, 2015. (Laura Lean/Pool/AFP)

‘Islamic State bride’ allowed to return to Britain to fight for citizenship

By AFP

Illustrative: Neo-Nazis march in Berlin, Germany, on October 11, 2009. (AP/File)

2 Germans arrested over website that called to kill Jews

By AP

Hussein Dawabsha (L) sits with his grandson Ahmad, the survivor of the arson attack that killed his parents and 18-month-old brother, in the West Bank village of Duma on May 18, 2020. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Sentencing delayed in Duma case amid alleged contradictions in victim’s account

The cast of 'When Heroes Fly,' which is being remade for Apple TV (Courtesy Keshet)

Flying highKeshet drama ‘When Heroes Fly’ to be remade for Apple TV

By Jessica Steinberg

Eleven justices of the High Court of Justice attend a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on May 3, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Pool)

High Court to hear petition against snubbing of opposition on judicial panel

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on May 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief: Plan for panel to review judges aims to intimidate justices

Screen capture from video of a person vandalizing the Temple Sinai synagogue in Sarasota, Florida, on July 15, 2020. (YouTube)

Two synagogues vandalized on same day in Sarasota, Florida

Illustrative: Journalists for al-Arabiya on the border of the Gaza Strip (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hamas bars 2 Saudi-owned networks from Gaza for reports on alleged spies

By AFP and ToI Staff

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London on July 1, 2020. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

UK says ‘Russian actors’ likely tried to disrupt 2019 election

By AFP

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