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What Matters Most On Friday, July 24, 2020

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Israeli Police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on July 23, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Reporters' Notebook'Police wouldn't let us stay and wouldn't let us go, either'

At Jerusalem protest, water cannons everywhere, but not a place to go

By Aaron Boxerman and Anat Peled

Protesters who try to obey orders and leave an anti-Netanyahu rally are still blasted by high-pressure water, or forced back by mounted police, no matter which way they turn

A woman is detained during a demonstration against the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

55 arrested as police clear large anti-Netanyahu rally in Jerusalem

By Aaron Boxerman, Anat Peled and ToI Staff

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on July 23, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Thousands mass outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence in latest protest

Illustrative: IDF troops near the Israel-Syria border, in the Golan Heights on January 3, 2020. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Blasts reported on Syria border; shrapnel hits car on Israeli side, none injured

By Judah Ari Gross

Explosions come amid soaring tensions between Israel and Hezbollah after death of terror group fighter in an airstrike attributed to IDF

Video shared by Iran's IRIB news agency claims to show a fighter jet menacing a Mahan Air flight over Syria, July 23, 2020. (Screen capture: IRIB)

Iran claims passenger plane over Syria harassed by fighter jet

By AP and ToI Staff

A video broadcast by an Iraqi TV station on July 20, 2020, shows US coffins in a helicopter. (Screenshot/MEMRI)

Iraqi TV airs animated clip that shows US coffins, supports Iran-backed militia

First person

In a German court, with the man who tried to kill me as I prayed on Yom Kippur

Facing the Halle synagogue shooter, I found an assailant who still harbors a deadly anti-Semitic ideology, and a new appreciation for the opportunities we have to fight hate

Stephan Balliet (C), who is accused of shooting dead two people after an attempt to storm a synagogue in Halle an der Saale, eastern Germany, is reflected in a transparent barrier in a courtroom at the second day of his trial on July 22, 2020 in Magdeburg, eastern Germany. (Ronny HARTMANN / various sources / AFP)

Ershad Karimi, a contractor named by Iranian media as responsible for a July 2, 2020, blast at the Natanz nuclear site. (Twitter)

Iran names alleged perpetrator of blast at Natanz nuclear site — report

Local news site says IRGC has concluded that Ershad Karimi, a contractor at the facility, is behind explosion; blast has been attributed to Israel

Soldiers from the IDF's Ghost Unit take part in a weeks-long training exercise in July 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

In 1st drill, IDF’s Ghost Unit tests out new tactics with jets, tanks and robots

By Judah Ari Gross

Police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his residence in Jerusalem, early Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media review

Say it, don’t spray it: What the press is talking about on July 24

By Joshua Davidovich

More demonstrations lead to more reports of questionable police tactics, as a headless force contends with topless protesters and angry youth by getting wet and wild in Jerusalem

Newly appointed Public Security Minister Amir Ohana attends a passing the baton ceremony at the Public Security Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ohana said to accuse police of being too soft on anti-Netanyahu protesters

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announces his decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three corruption cases, on November 21, 2019. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

AG dismisses Netanyahu’s demand he not deal with PM’s conflicts of interest

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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

Weekend restrictions come into effect as 59 virus deaths recorded in a week

By Michael Bachner

Health Ministry data shows 13 fatalities in 24 hours, 1,811 new cases; malls, stores, markets, gyms and hair and beauty salons close from 5 p.m. until Sunday morning

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

Coronavirus czar will get ‘all authority’ to cut virus infection chain, PM says

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)

Israel said expected to ink deal with US firm developing COVID-19 vaccine

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Interview

Meet the new head of UK Jewry’s first-of-its-kind racial equality commission

As US-inspired racial justice protests sweep the world, the British Board of Deputies assigns Stephen Bush to listen to British Jews of color and implement policy change

Stephen Bush, the new chairman for the British Board of Deputies' Commission on Racial Inclusivity, standing in front of the House of Commons in Westminster, July 15, 2020. (Jenni Frazer/ Times of Israel)

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in Islington, north London, December 13, 2019, after defeat by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Britain’s election. (Isabel Infantes/PA via AP)

BBC journalist, UK Labour whistleblowers to sue Corbyn for defamation

Reception area of Southampton's Solent University (Wikimedia Commons vi JTA)

UK lecturer fired for racial claims, including Jews are ‘cleverest in the world’

Illustrative: Bari Weiss at her desk in The New York Times office in Midtown Manhattan, in 2018. (Josefin Dolsten)

Former NYT writer Bari Weiss: ‘Jewish values are bigger than any fancy title’

Investigators working to solve Jack Teich's kidnapping case. (Courtesy of the Nassau County Police Department)

InterviewAfter 45 years, the truth about 'Operation Jacknap'

Victim of 1974 NY anti-Semitic abduction, record-high ransom finally tells all

By Elissa Einhorn

Jack Teich’s kidnapping at gunpoint, huge payoff, and trial made national headlines, but even his family didn’t know the gruesome details… until, aged 80, he wrote his memoir

Avidan Freedman

If the two protests represent two Israels, I know where I stand

The many varied takes in the media were confusing me, so I went to see for myself; what I found defied those media accounts

Molly Livingstone

You can’t quarantine a 3-year-old in her room alone

Does our isolation really matter, when the government changes the rules every few minutes and the police write mask tickets with their own masks hanging off their ears?

Haredi politicians must accept that gay conversion therapy does harm

When a serious study shows statistically significant higher rates of suicide attempts and depression for those who underwent reparative therapy, what more do you need to know?

We’ve stopped caring that people are dying

The new wave is not less harmful than the first: 59 (and counting) Israelis died of COVID-19 this past week alone

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Leeav Sofer, center-right, with fellow choir members at a practice of the Urban Voices Project. (Courtesy UVP)

During COVID-19, unhoused in LA’s Skid Row find a home at Urban Voices Project

By Jessica Donath

Marmite-flavored hummus. (Screenshot/Tesco.com)

Mite try it

Love it or hate it: Marmite hummus hits UK shelves

Supermarket chain Tesco offers eyebrow-raising pairing, months after company first hinted at release in Twitter post

Illustrative: Al Arz Tahini is a great choice for Ilana Muhlstein’s sweet Purim sauce. (Courtesy)

Spread the loveIsraeli diplomats buy tahini boycotted over LGBT support

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on May 17, 2020, as their new coalition was sworn in. (Knesset)

Netanyahu says claims he wants elections are ‘absurd’; polls show Likud slipping

PM and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White trade blame over state budget impasse; surveys see Yamina’s Bennett rising, and widespread dissatisfaction over coalition’s handling of pandemic

Blue and White Knesset members Yoaz Hendel (L) and Zvi Hauser seen on April 29, 2019, ahead of the opening Knesset session after elections. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

To prevent elections, two MKs said set to propose delay in budget deadline

Protesters raise their fists and kneel in front of French riot police during a march against police brutality and racism in Marseille, France, June 13, 2020. (AP/Daniel Cole)

For anti-Semites in France, police are seen as ‘dirty Jews’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An illustrative image of a Star of David. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)

#Sorry

Twitter mistakenly closes accounts that posted Star of David

Social media giant acknowledges error; blocked users were told Jewish symbol violates policy on ‘hateful imagery’

More Headlines

People wearing face masks due to the coronavirus outbreak enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With intense heat wave next week, Israelis urged to stay cool and hydrated

By Stuart Winer

Ethiopian Israelis greet President Reuven Rivlin at a Sigd Celebration in Jerusalem on November 7, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

New immigrants arrive from Ethiopia amid pandemic

US Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks to witnesses during a House Committee on the Judiciary‚ Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship and Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations joint hearing on the administration's 'Muslim ban' on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Ilhan Omar under fire after naming Jewish donors to her challenger

Prof. Alon Tal (left) with Blue and White lawmaker Miiki Haimovich at the Tel Aviv port on election night, September 17, 2020. (Courtesy Alon Tal)

Prominent environmental activist, academic hopes to be elected KKL-JNF chair

Hassan Yousef speaks to the media after his release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 19, 2014. (Majdi Mohammad/AP)

Hamas West Bank leader said freed from detention after 16 months

By AFP

A KLM Royal Dutch airplane (Wikimedia commons/ Arpingstone/ Public Domain)

Dutch watchdog: KLM discriminated against woman in seat change for Orthodox man

By AFP

A man waves a Turkish flag outside the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Omer Kuscu)

Thousands attend prayers as Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia reopens as a mosque

By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser

Michael Cohen arrives at his Manhattan apartment in New York after being furloughed from prison because of concerns over the coronavirus, on May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen to be freed again over ‘retaliation’ for planned memoir

By AFP

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