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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 19, 2020

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Police use water cannons on demonstrators against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, on July 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

In Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, thousands rail against Netanyahu, COVID-19 policies

Protesters block roads during hours of rallies in 2 cities; some clash with police in capital; 13 Tel Aviv demonstrators arrested after officer pepper-sprayed, torch thrown at cops

House Committee Chairman MK Miki Zohar leads a discussion on canceling the 2013 law limiting the number of ministers, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu ally calls for protests to be outlawed amid pandemic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a protective face mask, in the courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24, 2020, at the start of his corruption trial. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

Witnesses to start testifying in Netanyahu trial in January, 3 times a week

Doctors at the coronavirus isolation ward of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 30, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Number of serious patients surges past 250 as Israel hits 50,000 case mark

By Joshua Davidovich

Three more deaths recorded, bringing toll to 409, but number of new cases in last 24 hours slips to 831, possibly result of testing slowdown

6:25 pm

Police clash with protesters in Jaffa
6:19 pm

IDF confirms Lebanese drone may have crossed into Israel
6:06 pm

Likud MK pans Netanyahu handling of crisis: 'Get a hold of yourself'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at start of the weekly cabinet meeting, July 19, 2020 (GPO)

Ministers clash over allocation of Netanyahu’s NIS 6 billion virus handouts

Nurses protest against their work conditions outside the Health Ministry in Jerusalem July 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nurses to strike Monday over staff shortages after treasury talks break down

Keren Terner Eyal, then-director general of the Transportation Ministry, attends a hearing at the Knesset, on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Treasury chief laments ‘violent discourse’ as Netanyahu, allies step up attacks

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

How Netanyahu lost focus, and his coalition lost control, in fight against COVID

PM has always sought to sideline competing ministers and make all the decisions himself; that strategy served him well in the first wave of the virus, but then he got distracted

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

Likud Knesset Member Yifat Shasha-Biton speaks to Channel 12 news on July 18, 2020. (screenshot)

PM again said seeking to ax COVID panel head after she questions latest measures

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

Ministers to vote on cash-for-all virus grants as coalition tensions flare

Prof. Gabi Barbash. (Weizmann Institute screenshot)

Health Ministry denies Gabi Barbash chosen to head drive against virus

Officials say report that former top health official, a professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine, selected as COVID czar is ‘gossip,’ say minister is vetting candidates

Israelis protest against the government's latest coronavirus restrictions in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Finance Ministry sets out ever-bleaker outlook for Israeli economy

By Shoshanna Solomon

Relatives and friends of Honduran journalist David Romero, the head of Globo radio and TV station who was sentenced in 2019 to nearly 11 years in prison for defamation, cry after he died of complications from COVID-19 during the novel coronavirus pandemic, in Tegucigalpa, on July 18, 2020. (Orlando SIERRA / AFP)

Global coronavirus death toll tops 600,000

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on July 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

Who said there’s no march madness this year: 5 things to know for July 19

By Joshua Davidovich

Anger over the government’s response to the virus and Netanyahu’s alleged corruption has brought Israelis to the streets, with trust and love the only salve for the wave of dissent

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

Virus death toll rises to 406 as number of seriously ill jumps to nearly 250

Yitz Jordan has co-launched a news site for Jews of Color. (Courtesy)

Rapper and entrepreneur Y-Love launches news site for Jews of Color

If wishes were fishes

How could I convince my listeners in two minutes flat that my new book isn’t just another Holocaust survivor’s story?

What Eliot Engel’s downfall means for America

The outcome of this New York primary is one more indication that an increasingly totalitarian left is on the rise in the US

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

Coronavirus hike, with Ninja Turtle

By Haim Watzman

A group of new friends and fellow corona sufferers staying at the Nahariya Carlton, a government-funded convalescence home during the 2020 coronavirus (Courtesy Bar Sheffer)

For some battered by COVID, road to recovery includes a stop at the Hotel Corona

By Jessica Steinberg

A picture taken on July 7, 2020, shows the site of an explosion at an oxygen factory in town of Baqershahr, south of the capital Tehran (Mehdi KHANLARI / FARS NEWS / AFP)

In yet another blast in Iran, explosion hits power plant in Isfahan

Power station located in same province as Natanz nuclear facility, which was damaged in July 2 blast blamed on Israel

Footage from a reported blast in an oil pipeline in southern Iran, on July 18, 2020 (video screenshot)

In latest in series of blasts, explosion reported at Iranian oil pipeline

Illustrative: Iranian protesters gather around a burning car during a demonstration against an increase of gasoline prices, in the capital Tehran, November 16, 2019. (AFP)

Iran halts execution of 3 convicted over November protests

By AFP

'Bei Mir Bistu Shein' helped kick off the swing era. (Image by Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer/ Getty Images/ via JTA)

The 1937 Yiddish song that kicked off the Swing Era is due for a comeback

By Arielle Kaplan

The scene where a man was shot dead and four were injured in the northern village of Ibtin, July 18, 2020 (Israel Police)

Three men shot dead in north and central Israel in separate incidents

One killed and four injured in northern Bedouin village of Ibtin; man from Kfar Qasim shot dead at Petah Tikva building site; man murdered in central city of Tira

Riad Roshrosh, seen on a screen via a video link during a hearing on his appeal against a manslaughter conviction for the killing of his girlfriend, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on July 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court rejects appeal to reduce sentence of man who killed girlfriend

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Microsoft's Yaron Galitzky, right to left, with 12-year old Lina, Dr. Maurit Beeri, Director General of ALYN Hospital, and Arie Yekel-Melamed, who manages the hospital’s innovation initiatives (Courtesy)

Microsoft, Israel’s Alyn adapt Xbox to help kids with disabilities get treatment

By Shoshanna Solomon

Heinrich Himmler, center, reviews troops of the Galician SS-Volunteer Infantry Division, June 3, 1944. (AP/US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Atlantic Foto Verlag Berlin)

Vandalism of Ontario memorial to Nazi soldiers investigated as hate crime

Illustrative: Israeli border police near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, in the West Bank on September 23, 2019. (Flash90)

IDF arrests 3 Palestinians said planning to attack West Bank settlement

Kuwait's ruling emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, attends the opening of the 30th Arab Summit in Tunis, Tunisia, on March 31, 2019. (Fethi Belaid/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Kuwait’s ruler, 91, undergoes a ‘successful’ previously unannounced surgery

By Jon Gambrell

A Syrian policeman walks past ballot boxes, ahead of handing them over to the police to deliver them to polling stations on the eve of the parliamentary elections, in the Syrian city of Aleppo on July 18, 2020 (AFP)

Syrians vote for new parliament amid war, economic turmoil

By Maher Al-Mounes

This June 1, 2020, file rendering provided by Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre shows the Hope/Amal mars probe by the United Arab Emirates. (Alexander McNabb/MBRSC via AP, File)

Rocket carrying UAE Mars probe ready for Monday launch from Japan

By Mari Yamaguchi

Rabbi Abraham Cooper (left) and Nick Cannon during a conversation on July 16, 2020, in Burbank, California. (Rabbi Abraham Cooper via AP)

Rabbi: Nick Cannon ‘genuinely concerned’ after apology for anti-Semitic remarks

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO

Twitter says hackers ‘manipulated’ employees to access accounts

By AFP

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