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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 22, 2020

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A topless protester sits on a menorah statue near the Knesset during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on July 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

34 held at anti-PM protest; anger over topless woman atop menorah near Knesset

Knesset speaker calls to arrest social work student who posed on statue, saying she ‘desecrated the symbols of state’

Netanyahu’s plan to give virus handouts to most Israelis said to hit new snags

Gabi Barbash to head national campaign against COVID-19 – reports

Health Ministry reduces quarantine time for recovered coronavirus patients

By Stuart Winer

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Huge Kingdom of Judah government complex found near US Embassy in Jerusalem

Among the 2,700-year-old finds: 120 inscribed seal impressions on jars at storage facility holding food collected as taxes for kings Hezekiah, Menashe in First Temple times

An Israel Antiquities Authority excavation on the slopes of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Arnona uncovered an administrative complex from 2,700 years ago. (Yaniv Berman, Israel Antiquities Authority)

IAA archaeologist Yardenna Alexandre in an underground system of rooms under ancient Nazareth. (Screenshot)

ToI Podcast InterviewLISTEN: What do we know about Nazareth in Jesus’ time? An archaeologist explains

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Anti-government protesters attempt to block the entrance to the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset to vote on sweeping coronavirus law limiting parliamentary oversight

By Michael Bachner

Protesters try to block entrance to parliament as compromise sees legislation give Knesset 24 hours to approve or reject virus measures before they take effect automatically

As active cases hit 30,000, officials warned of 1,000 serious patients in weeks

Social workers ink deal with Finance Ministry, ending strike after 17 days

Israel to grant entry to foreign participants in educational programs

By Stuart Winer

Empty streets in Jerusalem's Arab market during the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, July 19, 2020 (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)

‘Worse than the intifada’: Arab merchants at Old City shuk hit ‘rock bottom’

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: Religious Jewish activists protest same-sex parenting and LGBTQ families, across from LGBTQ advocates in Tel Aviv, December 16, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bill banning gay conversion therapy passes initial vote, enraging ultra-Orthodox

By Michael Bachner

Coalition parties Blue and White and Labor support legislation despite objections by Netanyahu’s religious allies; Haredi MKs warn Benny Gantz: ‘You will not be prime minister’

Israelis protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square against the government's economic policies during the coronavirus pandemic, July 11, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Government said mulling lowering minimum wage to boost employment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with incoming IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 15, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu calls for NIS 3.3 billion increase to the defense budget

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Netanyahu has decided to go to new elections in November

Sources close to PM cited by newspaper say he won’t allow budget to pass by August deadline, leading to new national vote; reportedly fears courts will ban him from post over trial

6:29 pm

MKs convene to vote on new coronavirus law in its final readings
6:25 pm

Senior coalition officials tell TV: 'Real danger' of new elections this year
6:00 pm

Report: Gabi Barbash threatening to walk away from virus czar post amid disputes

Then Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in Islington, north London, December 16, 2019. (Isabel Infantes/PA via AP)

UK Labour apologizes, agrees to pay damages to whistleblowers over anti-Semitism

By AP and ToI Staff

Opposition party admits it defamed and issued false allegations about 7 ex-employees who were trying to tackle anti-Semitism in Labour ranks, and who appeared in a BBC documentary

Analysis

Renee Ghert-Zand

You can help Nazi victims’ families learn their fates in online archive project

Thousands answer crowdsourcing call to assist Germany’s Arolsen Archives in making 26 million newly digitized historical documents searchable by anyone online

One of the documents found in the shoes belonging to victims of Auschwitz camp, July 2020. (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum via JTA)

Identifying inscriptions are discovered in shoes of children sent to Auschwitz

By Katarzyna Markusz

Marek Dunin-Wasowicz - Nazi death camp surviver and witness in the trial of former SS guard Bruno Dey is seen during AFP interviev in his appartment in Warsaw, Poland on July 16, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI/AFP)

‘The crematorium couldn’t keep up’: Witness in SS guard’s trial speaks out

By Dario Thuburn

Or the way the smallest of creatures can derail us from whatever we had planned

We need more teachers and nurses – NOW

Boost the status of teachers and nurses with a prestigious National Service track of hands-on learning, mentoring, and an actual degree, with a commitment to give back

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The fox in the fields and the wall of cactus around my village

I can love this place and I can also mourn that my triumph and return caused another people’s suffering and exile

This Trumpian ‘religious freedom’ agenda is against my religion

A US State Department commission is contorting religious principle to limit women’s reproductive freedom and denigrate LGBTQI+ folks

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

View of the Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Interview

Chevron’s Noble buy reflects Israel’s ‘warming’ ties with Gulf states — expert

By Shoshanna Solomon

International energy adviser says deal indicates Israel is ‘no longer a taboo’ in industry over fear of Arab boycott; still, the energy giant may end up selling the Israeli assets

Ali Kamel Mohsen Jawad, a member of the Hezbollah terror group, whom the organization says was killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 20, 2020. (Hezbollah media)

Hezbollah says one of its fighters killed in Israeli strike in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross and AFP

Lebanese terror group has consistently retaliated for confirmed deaths of its members at Israel’s hands with attacks along the border

Netherlands' Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Sigrid Kaag delivers a speech during the Netherlands Economic Mission to Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Netherlands suspends aid to group that employed suspected Palestinian terrorists

By JTA and ToI Staff

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, speaks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi as they wear protective face masks to help prevent spread of the coronavirus, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, July 21, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader threatens ‘reciprocal blow’ to US over Soleimani killing

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

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Moscow, Russia, on December 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia says there’s still a chance to save Iran nuclear deal

By AFP

In this image made from video, a fire truck is seen outside the Chinese consulate in Houston, July 21, 2020. (KTRK via AP)

US closes Chinese consulate in Houston, drawing protest from Beijing

By KEN MORITSUGU

More Headlines

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

Top row: Former Mossad chiefs from L to R: Danny Yatom, Tamir Pardo, Zvi Zamir, Shabtai Shavit, Nahum Admoni and Efraim Halevy. Bottom row: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin host a candle lighting ceremony for of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at the President's residence in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. (Haim Zach / GPO)

41 former Israeli security officials thank Dems for opposing annexation

By Eric Cortellessa

NBC News footage from November 1992 showing Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a party in Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. (YouTube screen capture)

Trump says of Ghislaine Maxwell, ‘I wish her well’

By AAMER MADHANI

Incoming chair of the World Zionist Organization Yaakov Hagoel. (Photo: ZOA)

Police break up party in honor of Likud bigwig held in violation of virus rules

Illustrative: Students seen at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 27, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90)

Government restores free college tuition for IDF veterans after budget woes

By Judah Ari Gross

Jerusalem City Hall on August 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Quarantined Jerusalem councilman attends municipal meeting, causes ruckus

Passengers seen at the check-in counters at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on May 14, 2020. (Flash90)

Israeli said to break quarantine to fly abroad, then diagnosed with virus

Afghan teenager Qamar Gul, who killed two Taliban fighters after they broke into her home and killed her parents. (Twitter)

Afghan teen gets revenge, kills Taliban fighters who murdered her parents

By AFP

Stephan Balliet, who is accused of shooting dead two people after an attempt to storm a synagogue in Halle, arrives at the district court in Magdeburg, eastern Germany on July 21, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann/various sources/AFP)

Germany synagogue killer begins trial with rant against ‘Semitism’

By David Courbet

Illustrative image of a doctor with digital icons (chaiyapruek2520, iStock by Getty Images)

Israel health fund aMoon II raises added $90 million amid pandemic

By Shoshanna Solomon

MK Miki Zohar during an arrangements committee meeting at the Knesset on January 13, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Finance Minister Katz’s wife threatens to sue MK Miki Zohar for defamation

The monkey that was recovered by police several days after being stolen from a zoo in Kiryat Motzkin, in July 2020. (Israel Police)

Monkey businessThree men arrested for stealing monkey from zoo in northern Israel

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