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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 23, 2020

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93-year-old former SS guard Bruno Dey pictured at the regional court in Hamburg, Germany, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Over a dozen other Nazi-era cases still under investigation

Ex-Nazi guard, 93, found guilty of complicity in 5,230 concentration camp deaths

Bruno Dey given 2-year suspended sentence for his actions at Stutthof camp over 75 years ago; Israeli ambassador says punishment insufficient

Neo-Nazi group member pleads guilty to vandalizing Wisconsin synagogue

Synagogue attack ‘not a mistake,’ insists neo-Nazi at German trial

By AFP

Spain adopts Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism

Shas party chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (center), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, at the Knesset on November 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Don’t believe the hype about a new election (unless it happens)

With his approval ratings dropping and the economic crisis deepening, Netanyahu would be foolish to risk a national vote

President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem during the Knesset elections on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Rivlin scolds lawmakers for early elections talk: Israel is not your rag doll

A supporter of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protests outside the Jerusalem District Court during a hearing in his trial on July 19, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to be set on dissolving coalition, with new elections in November

Again overruling cabinet, virus panel reopens gyms, weekend attractions

Hours after passage of law that will soon neuter Knesset Coronavirus Committee, it overturns more ministerial decisions despite sharp rise in serious cases

A man exercises at a Modiin gym on July 14, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Border Police officers enforce coronavirus restrictions on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on July 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset passes coronavirus law, weakening its oversight of government decisions

Chef Tal Cohen squirts lemon on the 'Sasha-Biton Fish,' at the Silo restaurant in Holon. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Fish out of waterChef names dish after Likud MK who vetoed restaurant closures

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s government has lost the public’s trust. Here’s how to win it back

Ministers must ensure their COVID policies are justified, feasible and fair, and then explain them coherently, or Israelis won’t comply. Neutering Knesset oversight is no solution

Police use a water cannon against demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 18, 2020 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Muslim women wearing face masks walk past a poster hung by supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the District Court in Jerusalem, July 19, 2020 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media reviewMore than one way to skin a coalition: What the press is saying on July 23

By Joshua Davidovich

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)

Topless protester, a social work student, pushes back against tide of criticism

Public Security Minister Amir Ohana speaks during a press conference at the Public Security Ministry on July 15, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Police said to reject minister’s request to move rallies away from PM residence

Legal adviser tells Amir Ohana that High Court order prevents barring protests against Netanyahu, despite neighbors complaining the gatherings have made their lives hell

An Israeli police officer puts his knee on a demonstrator to make an arrest during a protest against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside his residence in Jerusalem, early Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Cop digs knee into protester’s neck: ‘A little more pressure, I would’ve choked’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, June 30, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Safed man indicted for threatening to assassinate Netanyahu

Boxes of medical equipment in the Foreign Ministry storage room, waiting to be sent to India, July 2020 (courtesy MFA)

In India, Israel to test tech that can detect virus ‘in minutes’

By Raphael Ahren

Plane carrying some 20 Israeli officials and scientists, plus ventilators and novel devices that are not yet produced on a mass scale, to depart for Delhi in coming weeks

Illustrative: A health worker takes a blood sample for a COVID-19 antibody test in Los Angeles, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Antibody test results said to differ between HMOs; Israel far from herd immunity

The former Sackler Health and Sciences complex at Tel Aviv University. (screen capture: Google Street View)

Foreign students allowed to enter Israel in spite of virus restrictions

By Shoshanna Solomon

An Israeli soldier stands near a Namer Infantry Fighting Vehicle near the town of Avivim in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon, on July 23, 2020. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

IDF sends reinforcements to north amid threat of Hezbollah attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Move comes after terror group accused Israel of killing one of its fighters in an airstrike outside Damascus earlier in the week

Smoke rises from a fire sparked by Israel near the contested Mount Dov area, along the Israel-Lebanon border on July 22, 2020. (Hezbollah media)

IDF soldier killed, officer injured in car wreck along Lebanese border

By Judah Ari Gross

Prof. Ronni Gamzu, the government's new coronavirus czar, during a press conference at the Health Ministry on July 23, 2020. (YouTube screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Coronavirus czar Gamzu’s chief mission will be to cut infection chain

Number of serious COVID-19 cases passes 300 as 1,758 infections reported over the past day; 7 more deaths recorded

8:16 pm

Topless women protest against police near PM's residence
6:26 pm

Blue and White on PM's claim it's at fault for budget impasse: He should honor the deal he signed
6:19 pm

Virus czar: Mission is to contain outbreak with 'as little harm to society and the economy'

Hannah Rosenthal

Trump’s anti-Semitism envoy has found the enemy. Guess who it is.

While Jews are threatened worldwide, special anti-Semitism envoy Elan Carr is targeting the president’s American Jewish critics

Some inconvenient facts for one-state advocates

There are so many Jewish settlers the populations can’t be separated — wrong. The one-state solution is a viable option — wrong again.

Ilana Spitz Epstein

For the love of babka

I was 6: while the adults spoke in foreign tongues of the old days, I clutched my cake, and took small bites of goodness that it took me years to learn to recreate myself

The choice is not between Shin Bet surveillance or a lockdown

The government’s approach to coronavirus relies on utterly faulty and deeply intrusive solutions that strip away democratic protections

Canadian Conservative Party leadership candidate Peter MacKay during a campaign event, January 2020 (courtesy)

Interview

Canadian would-be PM seeks greater role in peace process, is wary of annexation

Peter MacKay, front-runner in Conservative Party’s upcoming leadership race, vows to immediately move embassy to Jerusalem, calls for ‘enormous sustained pressure’ on Iran

Then-presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, July 14, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

New DNC platform opposes ‘unilateral actions,’ supports Palestinian rights

By Eric Cortellessa

A building damaged by a fire, at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, in a photo released on July 2, 2020. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iranian MP: Blast at nuclear site was ’caused by a security breach’

Javad Karimi Qoddousi rules out a strike ‘by an external object’ as the cause of a fire that damaged an advanced centrifuge plant at Natanz

This photo released July 2, 2020, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows a building after it was damaged by a fire, at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran: Thousands of cyberattacks thwarted every day but recent fires unrelated

A subject receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine by Moderna for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, March 16, 2020. (AP/Ted S. Warren, File)

Iran claims to successfully test virus vaccine on animals, move to humans

Hannaton kibbutz members Haviva Ner-David (left), Anat Harrel, and Steve Gray with archaeologists at the Roman-era mikveh discovered in the Jezreel Valley in July 2020. (courtesy, Jessica Steinberg)

The Brighter Side

Discovery of ancient ritual bath spurs nearby kibbutz to try to save it

By Jessica Steinberg

A volunteer visitor who recovered from COVID-19 holds the hand of a patient on a coronavirus ward at Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem, as a hospital employee looks on. (Eli Atias)

Potentially virus-proof Israelis deployed to COVID wards to relieve loneliness

By Nathan Jeffay

Armed with antibodies, recovered patients are venturing back into hospitals to help those in need of company

A medic collects a swab sample from a man at a coronavirus testing facility in Or Yehuda, on July 22, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

Over 2,000 virus cases on Wednesday, with sharp rise in seriously ill

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

Health Ministry said to seek cap on school class sizes, but not for daycares

Then director-General of the Health Ministry Prof. Ronni Gamzu attends a Finance committee meeting in the Knesset, in Jerusalem. April 23, 2014. (Flash90)

New virus czar spoke out against shutdown as second wave began to hit

In post earlier this month, Ronni Gamzu called widespread closures a ‘doomsday weapon,’ said he prefers less-severe restrictions

Prof. Gabi Barbash. (Weizmann Institute screenshot)

Gabi Barbash walks away from virus czar post; Ronni Gamzu takes job instead

Self-employed Israelis block a road in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for financial support from the government, July 11, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Government adds NIS 480 million for groups in need to virus handout plan

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum speaks at a news conference in New York City to announce a multi-state lawsuit to block the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, April 3, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/ via JTA)

Oregon’s Jewish attorney general is taking on Trump’s federal forces in Portland

More Headlines

Actor Moshe Ivgy arrives at the Haifa Magistrate's Court for the opening of his trial, June 18, 2018 (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Actor Moshe Ivgy sentenced to 6 months of community service for indecent assault

Solar panels in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Energy, environment ministries clash over need for new gas power plants

A group takes a tour of the Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants to New York, in 2008. (Kiko Niwa via JTA)

New York’s Tenement Museum lays off 76 employees amid indefinite closure

Illustrative: Police officers on patrol after Friday prayers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud on July 28, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Police arrest, then release Palestinian cultural leaders in East Jerusalem

By AFP

In an October 26, 2018, file photo, Rashida Tlaib, left, then-Democratic candidate for the Michigan's 13th Congressional District, and Brenda Jones speak during a rally in Detroit. (AP/Paul Sancya, File)

‘Squad’ member Tlaib may be vulnerable in tough primary

By Sara Burnett

Protesters demand government action at a demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square against economic policy in the wake of the crisis triggered by the pandemic, on July 11, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Number of startups that have fired workers rises to 29%, July survey shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Towson Town Center shopping mall in Baltimore, Maryland (Google Maps)

Man held over Baltimore attack on teens who say they were called ‘dirty Jews’

Ultra-Orthodox protesters clash with police in Jerusalem over the arrest of a yeshiva student, July 22, 2020. (Screenshot/YouTube)

13 held as hundreds of Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox protest attack suspect’s arrest

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine, March, 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine president defends movie post to end hostage crisis

By AFP

This undated photo provided by Ciprian Ardelean in July 2020 shows a stone tool found below the Last Glacial Maximum layer from a cave in Zacatecas, central Mexico. Artifacts from the cave suggest people were living in North America much earlier than most scientists think. (Ciprian Ardelean via AP)

Stone tools suggest human presence in North America over 25,000 years ago

By Malcolm Ritter

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