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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 21, 2020

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Medical staff treat a coronavirus patient at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, July 2020. (Tal Cheres)

InterviewMinisters need to recognize lockdown is a 'medieval tool'

6 steps Israel must take to avert COVID chaos — government’s former top adviser

By Nathan Jeffay

Prof Eli Waxman says advising Israel’s leaders on virus felt like ‘bashing my head against a brick wall,’ outlines what needs to be done urgently to prevent health service meltdown

Medical staff in the coronavirus isolation ward of Sheba Medical Center, in Ramat Gan, July 20, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

‘Cause for optimism,’ says COVID-19 stats team, a week after its bleak warning

By Nathan Jeffay

A woman uses a cellphone as people wear face masks for fear of coronavirus in downtown Jerusalem, June 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset passes law authorizing Shin Bet tracking of virus carriers until January

Yifat Shasha-Biton at a Housing Ministry ceremony in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ProfileHer committee is dragging us to a lockdown - health minister

Unlikely rebel? Meet Yifat Shasha-Biton, the Likud MK defying Netanyahu’s orders

Is Coronavirus Committee chair a people’s champion keeping beaches and restaurants open in defiance of hasty ministerial rulings, or an opposition stooge endangering public health?

A man checks his body temperature as he enters a coffee shop in Jerusalem on July 21, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As infections rise, Knesset panel again overrules ministers, reopens restaurants

People enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset panel votes to keep pools, beaches open; decision on restaurants pending

A medical team at the coronavirus unit at Ichilov hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Health Ministry said to predict 1,000 serious COVID-19 patients in 3 weeks

By Michael Bachner

Grim briefing reportedly leads ministers to conclude government is preparing to impose nationwide lockdown soon

6:32 pm

Government mulling lowering minimum wage to boost employment -- report
6:28 pm

Chief rabbi urges government to consider size of synagogues in virus restrictions
6:17 pm

Shas MK Moshe Arbel to quarantine after exposure to COVID-19 patient

People walk next to empty chairs and tables at restaurants on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on July 7, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Reservations, anyone? 5 things to know for July 21

As Likud lawmakers accuse one another of pushing economic policies to benefit their relatives, the rules flip back and forth, with Knesset and cabinet unable to agree on compromise

Nurses end strike after deal with Finance Ministry to solve manpower shortages

Education minister vows school year will open on time

Swapping the stage for a deli: To pay bills, Israelis compete for menial jobs

By ISAAC SCHARF and Tia Goldenberg

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German Minister of Defense, delivers her speech at the Ploetzense Lake Memorial in memory of those murdered in the resistance against the Nazis in Berlin, Germany, Monday, July 20, 2020. The day commemorates the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

German defense minister calls anti-Hitler plotters a model for today’s military

By AP

76 years after Claus von Stauffenberg’s failed assassination attempt, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer says right-wing soldiers who admire Nazi-era Wehrmacht have no place in German army

Stephan Balliet (Screengrab)

Yom Kippur synagogue killer goes on trial in Germany

By Kirsten Grieshaber and VOLKMAR KIENOEL

Bruno Dey, a former SS-watchman at the Stutthof concentration camp, hides his face behind a folder as he arrives on a wheelchair for a hearing in his trial on July 20, 2020 in Hamburg, northern Germany (Axel Heimken / POOL / AFP)

Ahead of verdict, former Nazi SS guard says he ‘apologizes’ to Holocaust victims

By Sebastian Bronst

Louis Farrakhan, center, surrounded by, clockwise from top left, DeSean Jackson, Stephen Jackson, Nick Cannon and Ice Cube. (Getty Images)

Analysis

Why celebrities keep quoting Louis Farrakhan — despite his anti-Semitism

Several have echoed Farrakhan’s anti-Jewish rhetoric, conspiracy theories; most have apologized. He’s also known for empowering Black activism, organizing social service programs

Madonna poses for photographers upon arrival at the world premiere of the film 'The Beatles, Eight Days a Week,' in London, September 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Madonna Instagram post of Louis Farrakhan video racks up 700,000 views

Amar'e Stoudemire, tallest, is leading an initiative to connect Jewish and African-American students at Florida International University. (Courtesy of FIU Hillel via JTA)

Amar’e Stoudemire offers to bridge the gap between Blacks and Jews

By JTA

Illustrative: Smoke billows following an alleged Israeli airstrike south of Damascus, Syria, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

5 Iran-backed fighters said killed in alleged Israeli strikes on Syria sites

By AFP and ToI Staff

Monitor says Israeli missiles hit weapons depots, military positions belonging to Syrian forces, pro-Tehran fighters near Damascus; 11 said injured, including 7 Syrian troops

US National Security Adviser John Bolton unveils the Trump administration's Africa Strategy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, December 13, 2018. (Cliff Owen/AP)

Bolton: Israel should act now in own security interests ahead of US election

An Israel Air Force F-16, December 31, 2015 (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Iran-linked sites around Damascus said hit in Israeli strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ari Fuld (Facebook)

Teen terrorist who killed US-Israeli Ari Fuld in West Bank jailed for life

Khalil Jabarin also ordered to pay NIS 1,250,000 in compensation to family of victim; widow Miriam Fuld says life sentence suitable for attacker’s ‘abominable’ act

Illustrative: Palestinians wait in line at an ATM in the West Bank city of Nablus on July 2, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Gantz further delays sanctions on West Bank banks for paying PA terror stipends

Yazen Abu Salah, left, and Muhammad Abu Salah, right, who the Shin Bet says were part of a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror cell planning to carry out attacks on Israeli targets in the West Bank and Israel, in undated photographs. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet: PFLP terror cells with ties to Iran, Hezbollah busted in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

To sell fellow Jews on a 2nd Trump term, Jewish Republicans focus on Israel

Republican Jewish Coalition online town hall mulls how to convince educated female voters that the president’s record on the Jewish state overrides his ‘personality’

Clockwise, Matt Brooks, Nikki Haley, Norm Coleman and Mark Levin join in a Republican Jewish Coalition online town hall on July 19, 2020. (Screenshot/ via JTA)

US President Donald Trump pats Las Vegas Sands Corporation Chief Executive and Republican mega donor Sheldon Adelson on the arm before speaking at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Florida, December 7, 2019. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

As Trump slips in polls, Adelson pumps $25m into GOP Senate races

By Eric Cortellessa

Police officers stand guard during a protest outside the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem on July 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

What 1,000 top US cops have learned in Israel, and why it’s controversial

New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. (Jason Smith via JTA)

ToI Community Exclusive

Join Bret Stephens in discussion with David Horovitz on today’s global disorder

Access Thursday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member today

The self-destructive struggle within US journalism

Having lost faith that their broken world will fix itself, young people have declared war on objectivity – just when it is needed most

4 lessons we can learn from civil rights hero John Lewis

Homage to the US Democratic congressman who died Friday: He practiced preaching on chickens and had no patience for patience

Emily Kirschenbaum

I never wanted to homeschool

I thought OK, she’ll get her assignments and sit in my office next to me and it will be blissful and fun. It was neither blissful nor fun.

The burning Talmud

The case of accused child sex offender Malka Leifer has tarnished the image of Torah and the image of Israel in the world

John Lewis, D-Ga., and Norbert Bikales, who was part of the Kindertransport from Berlin to France in July 1939 following the deportation of his parents and brother to Poland, light one of six candles representing the more than six million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust, in a ceremony in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 9, 2002. (Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images via JTA)

John Lewis and the Jews: 6 moments that showcase an enduring alliance

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’

Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz speaks at the Jordan Growth and Opportunity Conference in London, February 28, 2019. (Toby Melville/PA via AP)

Jordan could support Israeli-Palestinian binational state, its PM says

But such a country would have to ensure equal democratic rights for all its citizens, stresses PM Omar Razzaz

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, center, his Hungarian counterpart Peter Peter Szijjártó, left and Israeli Minister of Science and Technology Izhar Shay, right, give elbow bump greetings during their meeting, in Jerusalem, July 20, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

FM Ashkenazi to Hungarian counterpart: US peace plan a ‘significant opportunity’

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Adnan Ghaith during a court appearance following his arrest in Jerusalem, November, 2018. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Palestinian Jerusalem governor said probed by Israel over ‘terrorism’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/POOL/AFP)

UK report on Russian interference: Israel unwilling to openly challenge Kremlin

British parliamentary report says Putin used UK-based oligarchs to expand influence, notes Jewish state has also welcomed Russian oligarchs

Moshe Strugano, in 2013. (Facebook screenshot)

Israeli binary options lawyer said probed by UK for money laundering and fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (L) and then-justice minister Amir Ohana attend an annual Justice Ministry conference in Airport City outside Tel Aviv on September 3, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

AG pans police minister’s ‘unfounded and false claims’ against law enforcement

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Israeli soldiers stand guard next to an Iron Dome defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, deployed along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Kibbutz sues state over land grab, claims Iron Dome radiation hidden from them

The SenseGuard product developed by Israeli startup NanoVation (Courtesy)

Startup gets 2.5 million euro EU grant for nanotech-based respiratory device

By Shoshanna Solomon

A tour group listens to a guide at the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem against the backdrop of the Old City in 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem eyeLarge Ferris wheel proposed for scenic Jerusalem promenade

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meir Turgeman at an event in Jerusalem on September 1, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Jerusalem deputy mayor to face bribery charges, pending hearing

A 5th century CE stone baptismal font that was taken by antiquities thieves from Tel Teqoa and then recovered by Israeli authorities in the West Bank twenty years later, July 20, 2002. (COGAT Spokesperson's Office)

Israel says ancient baptismal font, stolen 20 years ago, retrieved in West Bank

Screen capture from video of the scene where a boy, 4, was left for several hours during the day in a vehicle, July 20, 2020. (Walla news)

Boy, 4, dies after being left for hours in car

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron, left, during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, July 20, 2020 (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP)

After 4-day talks, EU nations clinch a $2.1 trillion budget and a virus aid deal

By Raf Casert and Samuel Petrequin

Illustrative: A team of surgeons operating in the hospital (iStock)

In clinical trial, sensor implanted to detect dangerous gastrointestinal leaks

By Shoshanna Solomon

Armed homeowners standing in front their house along Portland Place confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house, June 28, 2020, in the Central West End of St. Louis. The protesters called for Krewson's resignation for releasing the names and addresses of residents who suggested defunding the police department. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

St. Louis couple charged for pulling guns at protest

French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, gives a speech during a campaign event in Marseille, southern France, May 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

French far-left leader accuses Jews of responsibility for Jesus’s death

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz attends the Saint Laurent show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2020/2021 on February 25, 2020 in Paris, France. ( Dominique Charriau/WireImage/ Getty Images via JTA)

Wed it like BeckhamDavid Beckham’s son, Transformers star to have big Jewish wedding

By Gabe Friedman

Eli Bar Zakai, the driver accused of causing the death of Ayalon Shalev-Amsalem arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court on July 21, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Driver who downed bottle of vodka before killing teen gets 12 years in prison

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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