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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 26, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wears a face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Foreign Ministry, in Jerusalem, July 5, 2020. (Gali Tibbon/Pool via AP)

Coronavirus cabinet reduced from 16 members to 10, all of them men

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

‘Why no women?’ asks Meirav Cohen. ‘Why are traffic lights red?’ retorts PM. Also excluded: education minister Gallant and ex-health minister Litzman, who storms out of meeting

People wearing face masks due to the coronavirus outbreak shop for groceries at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on July 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cabinet approves tweaked plan giving virus stimulus handouts to most citizens

Israeli exercise at the Holmes Place gym and country club in Modiin on July 14, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Gyms reopen as Knesset move to overrule government restriction comes into effect

Jerusalemites, wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus, shop at the Malha Mall in Jerusalem in Jerusalem on July 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus death toll climbs by 9 to 464; another 892 cases diagnosed

Health Ministry figures show 33,965 active patients, of whom 329 are seriously ill, with 100 on ventilators

Protesters crouch down as police use water cannons against them in Jerusalem on July 25, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

After criticism, police wait until 1 a.m. before dispersing Jerusalem protesters

By Aaron Boxerman and Anat Peled

Thousands of demonstrators remained in square after 11 p.m. on Saturday; two hours later, police used force, and deployed water cannons, to disperse final hundreds

Protesters crouch down as police use water cannons against them in Jerusalem on July 25, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Thousands protest nationwide against Netanyahu as demonstrations ratchet up

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of a driver allegedly spraying pepper spray from the window of a car at protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Aluf Sadeh Junction, July 25, 2020. (Twitter)

Three arrested around country for violent attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters

Police remove protesters during a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem on July 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-Netanyahu protests will ‘end in bloodshed,’ warns public security minister

Amir Ohana says demonstrators blocking roads is ‘violence,’ rallies are a coronavirus risk

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near his home in the northern coastal town of Caesarea, July 25, 2020. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Israel media reviewBlack and blue flag: What the press is talking about on July 26

By Joshua Davidovich

Public Security Minister Amir Ohana holds a press conference in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2020. (Flash90)

Ohana: Police should treat all protesters ‘in equal manner’

Illustrative: Jews are seen lining up in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. (Courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives via JTA)

In hellish Warsaw Ghetto, social distancing and hygiene defeated deadly pandemic

Research led by Tel Aviv University bio-mathematician discovers astonishingly simple means used by starved, persecuted Jews to stop typhus in its tracks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) talks with attorneys Micha Fettman (L) and Amit Hadad (R) inside the courtroom as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020 (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu due in court for last preliminary hearing on December 6

Prosecutors push back against attorneys’ claims investigation transcripts were edited, but acknowledge gap in transcripts

Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz: ‘If I emerge from partnership with Netanyahu a sucker, so be it’

TOI investigates

Simona Weinglass

‘Protect the public,’ Tel Aviv judge in forex fraud case urges state, is ignored

Aghast at allegations in suit brought by US-Israeli couple, judge asks authorities to dig deeper; underlining Israel’s failure to tackle multi-billion internet fraud, he’s rebuffed

Screenshot from a promotional video for the now defunct forex website Trade-24.com (Facebook)

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

Live updates (closed)

Shin Bet secretly tracked most Israelis’ phones for at least 2.5 years — TV

Channel 13 says security agency received dispensation from Justice Ministry officials for controversial surveillance, but few in the government were informed

6:03 pm

Hezbollah deputy dismisses Israeli warnings and 'chest-beating'
5:39 pm

Senior Hamas official contracts COVID-19
5:38 pm

Large explosions reported at base south of Baghdad

Jabotinsky in the mirror of reality

The father of Revisionist Zionism knew what we keep relearning: Applying sovereignty to Jews in all parts of the Land of Israel is inevitable

Eulogy for a newspaper: Thoughts of a Jewish Week reader

Shifting to digital should serve the paper well, but I mourn the end of this era of the Jewish paper of my youth and its grand old Jewishly engaged readership

Israeli military forces seen stationed along the border with Lebanon following a state of alert in the north, July 23, 2020. (Basel Awidat/FLASH90)

Israel said to warn Hezbollah amid rising tensions in north

Days after airstrike in Syria attributed to Israel kills Lebanese terror group member, Jerusalem sends message via UN cautioning against retaliation, according to Al Mayadeen

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz, left, interviews New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens in the inaugural installment of the "Behind the Headlines" online video series, July 23, 2020. (Screenshot)

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NYT columnist Bret Stephens: US ineptitude in health crisis will embolden China

In new ‘Behind the Headlines’ online video series, the Pulitzer Prize-winner talks to TOI editor David Horovitz about COVID-19 as a geopolitical crisis and historical turning point

The weekly meetings of Tzomet Lev, created by the Mekudeshet Festival for the 2020 summer season, as a way to bring together Jewish and Arab residents of southern Jerusalem (Courtesy Mekudeshet)

Top Five

Drive-in performances, digital meetups among creative ways to celebrate summer

By Jessica Steinberg

Intel Corp.'s 9th Gen Core, sired by its Haifa team, was launched by the US tech giant on April 23, 2019 (Courtesy)

Intel Corp.’s outsourcing plans cast shadow over fate of Israeli operations

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mooly Eden, former president of Intel Israel, says because the tech giant’s Kiryat Gat manufacturing site is new, it is likely to survive

Brett Lockspeiser, a co-founder of Sefaria, hopes to apply the database's approach highlighting the interconnections between texts to other bodies of knowledge. (Screenshots from Sefaria/ via JTA)

After digitizing the Talmud, Sefaria seeks to do the same to democracy

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Democratic presidential candidate and former US vice president Joe Biden in New Castle, Del., on July 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Dovish former MKs urge US Democrats to ‘reject occupation’ in platform

By Eric Cortellessa

Amazon, Google and Wish take down neo-Nazi, KKK merchandise

Wooden crosses mark freshly dug graves at the Flores cemetery where people who died from the coronavirus are being buried, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25, 2020. (Gustavo Garello/AP)

Number of global virus cases tops 16 million

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance seen outside the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

85-year-old in critical condition after apparent heatstroke

Peter Green, founding member of Fleetwood Mac, at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York, on April 7, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FILE)

Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac’s pioneering, troubled, blues guitarist, dies at 73

By Robert Barr and DANICA KIRKA

Masked members of Hamas ride a vehicle next to a rocket launcher during a rally in the Rafah refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Aug. 21, 2016 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel arrests two senior Hamas officials in Hebron

By Aaron Boxerman and Agencies

Healthcare worker Rahaana Smith instructs passengers how to provide their coronavirus test sample, on Friday, July 24, 2020, at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site in Miami. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Over a third of coronavirus patients feel symptoms for weeks, says CDC

By ToI Staff and AP

Police man a checkpoint in the northern Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm after a teacher is kidnapped from a local high school by armed assailants, December 12, 2018. (Hadashot screen capture)

Man killed, another hurt in Umm al-Fahm shooting

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