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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 18, 2020

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Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on July 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fresh round of protests against Netanyahu and COVID policies set for Sat. night

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv demonstrations to take place against backdrop of new restrictions, government plans for weekend lockdowns; police warn they will not allow lawlessness

People wearing protective face masks pass a billboard in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, July 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Despite criticism, Netanyahu cash-for-all plan said set for Sunday cabinet vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, chairs an emergency meeting of senior ministers to decide on measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, July 16, 2020. (Chaim Tzach/GPO)

As anger builds over decisions, Netanyahu said set to pare coronavirus cabinet

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Tens of thousands at beaches, parks ahead of expected lockdowns on weekends

Some areas closed by authorities due to over-crowding; new restrictions likely as of next Friday

A worker disinfects a car outside the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on July 13, 2020 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Friday night sees 1,929 virus cases diagnosed in 24 hours, with 5 deaths

Police officers enforce emergency regulations on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on July 17, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Weekend leisure ban, tempered public restrictions take effect Friday afternoon

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani adjusts his face mask in a meeting of the national headquarters of the fight against the COVID-19, in Tehran, Iran, July 18, 2020 (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

In huge leap from previous figures, Rouhani says 25 million in Iran caught virus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A health care worker air dries her gloves after sanitizing her equipment while working at a walk-up COVID-19 testing site in Miami Beach, Florida, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Trump says he won’t issue mask mandate, as US infections surge to record highs

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Teachers check students before a summer camp at Wylie High School in Wylie, Texas, July 14, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Millions of kids in US warned a full return to school in fall is unlikely

By FREIDA FRISARO and David Crary

Illustrative: A group of tourists with residents of Jerusalem, circa 1860-1880. (Library of Congress)

Montefiores risked cholera, quarantine for 19th-century Holy Land Jews

Shalva Zalfreund in an undated photo (Courtesy)

After begging families not to break rules, kindergarten worker dies of COVID-19

1st reported fatality in education system, Shalva Zalfreund said some parents weren’t obeying isolation regulations and that she was told she had been infected at work

Four new virus cases found in Beersheba nursing home that saw 14 deaths

Full textFull text of government statement on new COVID-19 rules, and later amendment

Chinese firm boasts it gave experimental COVID-19 vaccine to employees

By Sam McNeil and LAURAN NEERGAARD

The view of the Sea of Galilee from a former Syrian Officers' Club visited by Eli Cohen in northern Israel. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

In the footsteps of a spy: Exploring the Golan’s Eli Cohen Trail

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

I read the words of the Hebrew poets, and I dreamed their dreams

How critical a tool poetry is to understanding the diverse voices of Israeli society; how wonderful the unexpected personal connection of online classes

Parshat Matot – The dictator

The biblical generals appreciated their support from the home front, and rewarded all participants accordingly; the Roman generals should have taken a page from their book (Matot)

Hannah Alper with the 10th grade class at an all-girls secondary school in Kenya during a service trip with the organization Me to We, June 2016. (Courtesy)

Interview

Meet Canada’s 17-year-old Jewish ‘Greta Thunberg’ who says activism is a mitzvah

By Robert Sarner

In this May 10, 2007 file photo, US Rep. John Lewis in his office on Capitol Hill, in Washington (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

John Lewis, US civil rights and Congress icon who built Jewish ties, dies at 80

Lawmaker and activist was beaten by state troopers at Selma, spoke to crowd at 1963 March on Washington; is eulogized by Bill Clinton as ‘conscience of the nation’

State troopers swing billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Alabama March 7, 1965. John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (in the foreground) is being beaten by a state trooper. (AP Photo)

ObituaryJohn Lewis, rights icon, ‘American hero’ and the ‘conscience of Congress’

By Calvin Woodward

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Members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, including in the front row April Baskin, on the far right and Leo Ferguson, third from right, march as part of a Jews4BlackLives protest in New York in 2016. (Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/ via JTA)

LISTEN

US Jewish recognition of Jews of color took decades of sweat, blood and tears

By Josefin Dolsten

TIlustrative: People carry an American flag and a Confederate flag as they walk on a pathway at the Gettysburg National Military Park, Saturday, July 4, 2020, in Gettysburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way that avoids Trump’s wrath

By Lolita C. Baldor

Carefully worded policy doesn’t mention the word ‘ban’ or that specific banner; flags, monuments and military base names have become flashpoint in weeks since death of George Floyd

Outrage over reports of unmarked US federal agents arresting Portland protesters

Trump names former White House staffer Sebastian Gorka to defense education body

After Trump campaign swap, questions — and Kushner — remain

By Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

Illustrative: Jewish men pray at a synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, Gush Etzion, May 20, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Want to pray with a quorum? Some US synagogues require a legal waiver first

A painting depicting the transfiguration of Jesus, a story in the New Testament when Jesus becomes radiant upon a mountain (Raphael /Collections Hallwyl Museum, CC BY-SA)

Explainer

Anna Swartwood House

The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European

Historical Jesus likely had the brown eyes and skin of other first-century Galilee Jews. Not so the common portrayal, under scrutiny at time of introspection over legacy of racism

Firefighters work to put out a fire at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes, western France, on July 18, 2020 (Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP)

French firefighters control blaze at 15th century cathedral in Nantes

By AFP

Authors present their books virtually during the Jewish Book Council's annual conference. (Courtesy/Jewish Book Council via JTA)

Virtual annual Jewish Book Council event gives readers peek into authors’ lives

By Josefin Dolsten

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A detail from the cover of Aron Flam's book that uses the image from a World War II Swedish propaganda poster (Aronflam.com)

Sweden seizes book by Jewish comedian criticizing war-time collaboration

By AFP

Jamaal Bowman speaks to attendees during his primary-night party, June 23, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Jamaal Bowman topples Eliot Engel in NY Democratic primary

By AP

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg attends a panel with former US president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, October 30, 2019, at Georgetown Law's second annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won’t retire

By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko

Justice Minister Amir Ohana speaks at the Knesset on September 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ohana blasts ‘arrogant’ Mandelblit for failing to probe incitement against PM

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., listens to debate as the House Oversight and Reform Committee considers whether to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Rep. Amash is the only Republican in the House to call for President Donald Trump's impeachment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Palestinian-American Justin Amash officially won’t seek reelection to Congress

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Guests at the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center went on a socially distanced tour in July. (Courtesy of Hazon via JTA)

Jewish environmental group Hazon lays off 40% of staff as retreats canceled

Bitcoin. (AFP Photo/Karen Bleier)

Despite reports, Netanyahu not among world leaders targeted in Twitter hack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jennifer Grey, left, and Kenny Ortega dance during a ceremony honoring Kenny Ortega with a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 24, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

The time of my life againA new ‘Dirty Dancing’ film could be in the works

By JTA

Captain Sir Thomas Moore receives his knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth, during a ceremony at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Friday, July 17, 2020 (Chris Jackson/Pool Photo via AP)

Walk in the parkUK’s Cpt. Tom a knight at 100, no kneeling required

By DANICA KIRKA

Redskins owner Daniel Snyder on the sideline before a Monday Night Football game against the Chicago Bears at FedEx Field. (Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

Washington NFL team owner Dan Snyder accused of tolerating ‘hostile’ workplace

St. Salvator's Quad at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. (Remi Mathis/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Scottish university’s Jewish fraternity faces sexual assault allegations

Casings identical to those used for the 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy' atomic bombs are displayed, July 15, 2020, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Anniversary of world’s 1st atomic test fuels nuclear debate

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN

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