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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 25, 2020

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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)

'Disproportionate, unjustified' use endangers demonstrators

Protest organizers say will go to High Court unless police stop water cannon use

With thousands expected at Saturday night rally against Netanyahu, activists say police must signal lack of intention to use high-powered water jets or matter will go before judges

The moment a demonstrator is hit in the face with a stream of liquid from a water cannon at a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 12)

Video shows demonstrator hit in face by police water cannon at Jerusalem protest

Israeli protesters hold placards during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2020. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Former Netanyahu bodyguard calls on him to resign: ‘It’s time for you to go’

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

The moment a demonstrator is hit in the face with a stream of liquid from a water cannon at a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 12)

Op-Ed

As Israeli protests intensify, pols, cops, organizers must steer back from brink

Clip in which protester’s head is snapped back by water cannon fire is just one illustration of potential for confrontation to turn, in an instant, into something devastating

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his Jerusalem residence, July 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

6 anti-Netanyahu protesters said attacked by right-wing activists after rally

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his residence in Jerusalem on July 24, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hundreds rally at Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence; barriers at his Caesarea home

People wearing face masks market in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel ranks 6 in world for daily cases per capita; 2,022 more in last 24 hours

Only US, South Africa, Panama and two Gulf states doing worse in NY Times rating; death toll rises by 2 to 448, serious cases at 308

Illustrative: People wearing face masks walk and shop at the Mamilla mall near Jerusalem's Old City on July 6, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Report: Health Ministry pushing for all-or-nothing approach to weekend closures

Illustrative. In vitro fertilization (IVF) of an egg cell. (iStock by Getty Images/ man_at_mouse)

Israeli sperm banks said to see spike in donations amid COVID-19 economic crisis

Illustrative: An Israeli Apache helicopter flies during an aerial show at a graduation ceremony for soldiers who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 29, 2016.(Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF strikes Syrian army targets near border after munitions fired at Israel

Syrian state media says 2 lightly injured; Israeli army says it hit observation posts, intel-gathering tools; strikes come after blasts at border sent shrapnel into Israeli town

Israel Defense Forces soldiers stationed along the border with Lebanon on July 23, 2020. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF warns Lebanon, steps up defenses amid threat of imminent Hezbollah attack

By Judah Ari Gross

'You can't say dreams don't come true. Sometimes it happens'

Rising to the occasion, quiet Ben Gurion Airport sees 1st hot air balloon launch

As airspace is cleared for historic flights, one operator sees silver lining, says it’s an example of something special resulting from the coronavirus pandemic

Russian grandmothers in costume at the Your Highness Grandmother Pageant (Gosha Shif/Be Proud Foundation)

Brooklyn’s babushkas keep spirits up despite beauty pageant’s COVID cancellation

By Renee Ghert-Zand

French Prime Minister Jean Castex (C), flanked by Director General of Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris (AP-HP) Martin Hirsch (L) and French Health and Solidarity Minister Olivier Veran (2L) visits a COVID-19 testing unit set up to screen arriving passengers at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport on July 24, 2020 (Christophe PETIT TESSON / POOL / AFP)

France to test its nationals arriving from 16 countries, including Israel

By AFP

French citizens and residents arriving from Israel, US and 14 other countries will be quarantined if positive for COVID-19; non-residents from these countries are already barred

Funeral home workers carry the coffin of a woman who died from COVID-19 near Johannesburg, South Africa, July 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

WHO reports over 284,000 new global infections in 24 hours, a new record

By ToI Staff and AFP

Margaret Choinacki, center, 87, who has no other family members left because her husband and daughter have died, waves goodbye after a drive-by visit by her friend Frances Reaves, as resident care coordinator Anggy Volmar, right, wheels her back inside, Friday, July 17, 2020, at Miami Jewish Health in Miami (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Rising virus cases begin to overwhelm Florida nursing homes

By Adriana Gomez Licon and KELLI KENNEDY

People wearing protective face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus walk through the Nasr Shopping Center in Tehran, Iran, July 15, 2020 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Iran regime grapples with its worst crisis, hamstrung by internal power struggle

Challenges of COVID-19 and economic meltdown are exacerbated by frequent explosions — most of which may have less to with Israel than a battle between reformists and conservatives

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley (right) meets with Defense Minister Benny Gantz at Nevatim Air Base, July 24, 2020 (IDF)

US military chief visits Israel to talk regional threats, amid tensions in north

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addressees a gathering at the All India Association of Industries (AIAI) in Mumbai on January 17, 2020. (Punit PARANJPE / AFP)

Zarif blasts US ‘outlaws’ for harassing its passenger jet over Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Melissa Henriquez

The pandemic is hard enough for parents without school-shaming

It’s the newest front in Mommy Wars: Plan to send your kids to school? You must hate teachers. Want to keep them home? You’re a sheep.

Binyamin Glickman

Where are Avidan Friedman’s ‘peaceful’ protests?

My home overlooks the demonstration plaza, and what I experienced was shouting, whistling, dancing, and then water cannons – after midnight, when demonstrations are illegal

Jaivet Ealom is now a political science student at the University of Toronto. (Cole Burston/ via JTA)

Interview

Holocaust survivor’s book spurs Rohingyan refugee to escape Australian detention

By Amanda Levinson

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

Illustrative: Israeli Jews and Palestinians talk to each other during a coexistence meeting in the West Bank, on July 22, 2015 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

US House approves $250m for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, business development

By JTA and ToI Staff

Initiative championed by Nita Lowey gives $50 million a year over five years, which breaks down over time to $110 million for coexistence programs and $140 million for investments

An Israeli missile launched from the Iron Dome defense missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, on November 12, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

AIPAC praises $3.8b in Israel defense assistance after it sails through Congress

By JTA and ToI Staff

Alex Morse is challenging longtime incumbent Rich Neal in Massachusetts' 1st District. (Courtesy of Alex Morse for Congress/ via JTA)

Interview

Elected mayor at 22, gay-Jewish-progressive Alex Morse is running for Congress

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: Richard Lynch drops his mail-in ballot into a drop box in Hackensack, N.J., Tuesday, July 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Analysis

‘Life or death’: Jewish groups sound alarm on protecting right to vote by mail

Many Jewish groups — political and religious — have aligned on the issue this year and are lobbying for widespread mail-in voting, saying it is crucial in a time of pandemic

Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, center, visits the Jersey Jewish Congregation in 2017. (Courtesy/Jersey Jewish Congregation via JTA)

Pandemic pushes to the brink Jewish community of 49 on British island of Jersey

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Wiley poses for photographers upon arrival at the NME 2017 music awards in London, February 15, 2017. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

UK rapper Wiley goes on hours-long anti-Semitic Twitter rant

Illustrative: A man enters Islamic Relief Worldwide's headquarters in Birmingham, UK. (video screenshot)

Trustee at UK’s top Muslim charity resigns; called Jews ‘grandchildren of pigs’

Communications Minister David Amsalem, speaks during a ceremony at the Communications Ministry in Jerusalem, July 10, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Citing ‘breach of trust’ by Gantz, Likud to block legislation at panel next week

Then-MKs Gideon Sa'ar, right, and Naftali Bennett in the Knesset plenum on February 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud rebels, opposition MKs said teaming up for panel to challenge virus policy

Nazi soldiers line up at attention during the opening ceremonies of the eleventh Summer Olympic Games at the Lustgarten in Berlin, Germany on August 1, 1936. The lighted Olympic torch is in the foreground. (AP Photo)

IOC apologizes, deletes ‘throwback Thursday’ tweet about 1936 Berlin Olympics

By Graham Dunbar

Rappers Farid Bang, left, and Kollegah, right, speak on stage during the Echo Award show at Messe Berlin on April 12, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

German city enlists rapper who joked about Holocaust for social distancing PSA

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rainer Hoess, grandson of Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz, poses at Northern Secondary School after speaking to students about his grandfather's infamous legacy, (Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via Getty Images via JTA)

Auschwitz commander’s grandson, an anti-Nazi activist, said to carry out fraud

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Three suspects run in Brooklyn in security camera footage that police said documents an anti-Semitic attack. (NYPD via JTA)

Orthodox man assaulted in Brooklyn in suspected hate crime

By JTA

Irina Shur (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, via JTA)

Holocaust survivor, 90, stabbed to death in her Moscow apartment

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Muhammad Ali Suaed, 3, who died after he was left in a car, July 24, 2020 (Courtesy)

In 2nd death in a week, 3-year-old boy dies after he was left for hours in car

An ambulance carrying an Israeli man who returned from Italy and tested positive for coronavirus arrives at Tel Hashomer Hospital, February 27, 2020 (Flash 90)

4 killed in deadly 24 hours on Israel’s roads

Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former lawyer, returns to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 6, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen released from prison again

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

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