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What Matters Most On Monday, July 20, 2020

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The empty arrival hall at Ben Gurion Airport on June 12, 2020.
(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel to remain closed to foreign visitors until at least September

Airports Authority says current restrictions, under which entry granted only to nationals or those obtaining special permit from Immigration Authority, to stay in force

A Magen David Adom paramedic wearing protective clothing evacuates a patient with COVID-19, outside the coronavirus unit at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, July 19, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Infections down, 6 new deaths confirmed as Knesset panel mulls restrictions

Nurses from Hadassah Medical Center protest against their work conditions at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem on July 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewSick and tired of being sick and tired: 5 things to know for July 20

Cleaning workers disinfect a classroom at the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem on June 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Education minister: ‘Schools will open on September 1. Period’

Yoav Gallant says some students will learn remotely, doesn’t elaborate on framework

6:01 pm

Netanyahu meets Hungarian FM, thanks him for support in EU
5:55 pm

Egypt parliament green-lights possible intervention in Libya
5:42 pm

NY lawyer found dead, may be connected to killing of New Jersey judge’s son

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

Big earners won’t get handouts as Netanyahu’s NIS 6b plan tweaked amid criticism

Private citizens making over NIS 640,000 a year and public sector workers making NIS 30,000 a month no longer eligible for stipend

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers of the Home Front Command give out food packages to elderly people obliged to stay home due coronavirus ahead of the Passover holiday, in Jerusalem. April 7, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Government pilots welfare program in coronavirus-hit Jerusalem neighborhood

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-Mossad head Yossi Cohen during a toast for the Jewish new year on October 2, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO/File)

Netanyahu said to consider Mossad chief to head up national virus response

Nurses from Hadassah Medical Center protest in Jerusalem on July 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Nurses launch general strike in protest of staff shortages, after talks fail

Hospitals and health clinics nationwide to offer reduced services, with exceptions in urgent cases and responses to coronavirus

Then-transportation minister Israel Katz, left, and MK Miki Zohar at a Knesset committee meeting, March 23, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Netanyahu steps in after 2 top Likud MKs get personal in Knesset committee clash

A syringe injects an illustrated representation of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in Paris, on May 18, 2020. (JOEL SAGET/AFP)

Report: Israel could end up with coronavirus vaccine — but not enough syringes

Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, an Iranian man executed for allegedly spying for Mossad and the CIA. (Iranian media)

Iran executes man convicted of spying for CIA, Mossad

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mahmoud Mousavi Majd’s killing comes a week after Tehran announced execution of another man for selling information about its missile program

Iran arrests ‘perpetrators’ of last week’s demonstrations

By AFP

IDF troops ‘take action’ against Lebanese drone that apparently crossed border

By Judah Ari Gross

Fire engulfs factory in Iran’s 2nd industrial incident within hours

Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, attends by video conference a meeting with deputy Hamas chief Saleh Arouri (on screen from Beirut) discussing Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, on July 2, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Fatah and Hamas to hold ‘historic’ joint rally in Gaza against annexation

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas terror group chief Ismail Haniyeh to speak at the event, according to senior officials in the two rival Palestinian factions

Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó and PM Benjamin Netanyahu open the Hungary's trade mission in central Jerusalem, March 19, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Hungary FM, one of Israel’s staunchest allies in Europe, due in Jerusalem Monday

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Police officers gather near the scene of a shooting, December 10, 2019, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Gunman kills son, wounds husband of US District Judge Esther Salas

By AP and ToI Staff

Attacker poses as delivery driver to enter New Jersey family home; judge handles several high profile cases and was recently assigned Deutsche Bank-Jeffrey Epstein case

How Netanyahu et al violate the Law of the Farm

Genuine leadership through a crisis demands long-term, reality-informed planning. Instead, we’ve got a popularity contest

Reaching the boiling point

A truly inclusive emergency government might just navigate a fix for Israel’s many current challenges

American Jewish Committee’s US Director for Combating Antisemitism, Holly Huffnagle. (Courtesy)

Interview

New AJC anti-Semitism director: Look at my track record, not my skin or religion

By Cathryn J. Prince

Malka Leifer (C) refuses to raise her head while appearing over Skype during an extradition hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on July 20, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Defense at extradition hearing: Leifer’s students effectively consented to abuse

Prosecution lambastes claims, arguing former principal wanted by Australia had total control over alleged victims; defense says media has turned client ‘into a monster’

Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After 6 years and 68 court dates, Malka Leifer extradition proceedings begin

MK Yair Lapid (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid calls on Netanyahu to resign after having ‘lost control’ of COVID crisis

Bennett slaps down idea of alternative coalition, tells Yesh Atid leader: stop ‘encouraging anarchy’; Liberman says gov’t dodging responsibility, wants Gantz to helm virus response

Illustrative: Mask-clad Israeli restaurant owners and others protest against lockdown measures in Tel Aviv on July 17, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Restaurateurs again threaten to defy government, ahead of Tuesday closure order

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton at a Knesset coronavirus committee meeting on July 19, 2020. (screen capture: Knesset livestream)

Keep restaurants and beaches open! Knesset urges rethink of latest closure plans

Cleaning workers disinfect a classroom at the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem on June 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

School that was shuttered over major virus outbreak holds large graduation event

Dozens of students photographed celebrating at Jerusalem’s Gymnasia Rehavia high school, where over 200 students contracted COVID-19 in May

A police officer at the site of an outdoor rave held in violation of social distancing rules at a forest near Modiin, July 18, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter/Israel Police)

Police bust outdoor rave held in violation of social distancing rules

Israelis have picnics at Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square as restaurants, cafes and bars remain closed except for take out and deliveries, May 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Government said to weigh weeknight lockdowns as cases pass 50,000

Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Court acquits men who lynched Eritrean migrant they mistook for terrorist

Judge lets two men off the hook for beating Haftom Zarhum, who was already critically injured in aftermath of 2015 terror attack

Deputy State Attorney Liat Ben-Ari arrives at the District Court in Jerusalem, ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial on May 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Public security minister calls on Netanyahu prosecutor to resign

Deputy State Attorney Liat Ben-Ari comes under fire after Israel Hayom report claims she subdivided a house into two apartments without proper permits

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

Police release all 28 arrested at anti-government rallies in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at the 17th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 24, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Man indicted for making threats to attorney general

Analysis

All but eradicated in Holocaust, Frankfurt’s Jews today have a potent voice

Reduced from 30,000 to a mere 100 after WWII, the German community thrives today after an influx of outsiders have shaped the postwar city into a progressive haven

France’s veterans’ minister Geneviève Darrieussecq (right) and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (2nd right) take part in a ceremony commemorating the Vel d’Hiv roundup of Jews during World War II, in Paris, July 19, 2020 (video screenshot)

French officials mark anniversary of mass arrest of Jews during Holocaust

By AP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Israel's offshore Leviathan gas platform. (Albatross)

Chevron’s $5b Noble Energy buy brings a new owner to Israel natural gas fields

By Shoshanna Solomon

An H-IIA rocket with United Arab Emirates' Mars orbiter Hope lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, southern Japan Monday, July 20, 2020. (Hiroki Yamauchi/Kyodo News via AP)

Human colony by 2117?First Arab space mission to Mars launches from Japan

By Mari Yamaguchi and Victoria Milko

COVID-19 patients receive treatment at the Salgado Filho Municipal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 24, 2020. (AP/Leo Correa)

‘Breakthrough’ treatment slashes virus death risk, preliminary UK study finds

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, July 20, 2020. (Yariv Katz/POOL)

Top model Bar Refaeli convicted of tax evasion

Police prepare to confront protesters in Jaffa on July 19, 2020. (Israel Police)

4 arrested in clashes with police in Jaffa over construction on Muslim cemetery

US President Donald Trump during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, July 14, 2020, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump won’t commit to accepting election result, calls Biden ‘not competent’

By Brian Knowlton

File - Kanye West makes his first presidential campaign appearance in North Charleston, South Carolina, July 19, 2020. (Lauren Petracca Ipetracca/The Post And Courier via AP)

In rambling 1st campaign speech, Kanye West suggests $1 million for new mothers

In this Dec. 10, 2018 photo, Nick Cannon poses for a portrait in New York to promote promoting his new show, "The Masked Singer." (Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)

Nick Cannon’s talk show delayed, but not canceled, over anti-Semitic comments

By JTA

Charles Barkley poses for photographs with a sculpture honoring him at the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball training facility in Camden, N.J., Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Retired NBA great Charles Barkley calls out Black celebrities for anti-Semitism

Saudi King Salman chairs the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman admitted to hospital for tests

Federal officers prepare to disperse a crowd of protesters outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 17, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. (Mason Trinca/Getty Images/AFP)

Portland-area rabbis call on US Homeland Security to withdraw federal agents

By JTA

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, and other officials visit the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, July 19, 2020, days after he formally reconverted Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had made the religious landmark a museum.(Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkey’s Erdogan visits Hagia Sophia after reconversion to mosque

By AFP

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