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What Matters Most On Monday, July 27, 2020

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File: A picture taken from the Israeli side of the Blue Line that separates Israel and Lebanon shows smoke billowing above Mount Dov on the Israeli-Lebanese border, after reports of clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah in the area, on July 27, 2020. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Civilians told to return to routines shortly after incident

IDF says it foiled Hezbollah attack along Lebanese border; no Israeli injuries

By Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah cell crossed into Israeli-controlled Mount Dov, military says, as the terror group seeks revenge over killing of its fighter in alleged Israeli strike last week

As tensions soar in north, Netanyahu warns Syria and Lebanon against attacks

Anticipating Hezbollah attack, Gantz warns terror group: Don’t test us

By Judah Ari Gross

Iran moves mock US aircraft carrier to sea as tensions ratchet up

By Jon Gambrell

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press briefing following an incident on the Israel-Lebanon border in which Israel said it thwarted a Hezbollah attack, July 27, 2020 (screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Hezbollah is playing with fire, any attack to be met with great force

PM, defense minister conclude security consultations following northern clash, warn Lebanon and terror group will bear full responsibility for violence

6:12 pm

Knesset passes handouts bill in its first reading
5:47 pm

Gantz: Israel more determined than ever to defend its sovereignty
5:34 pm

Netanyahu: Hezbollah is playing with fire, any attack will be met with force

Thousands join 48-hour Twitter ‘walkout’ to protest anti-Semitism on platform

By ToI Staff and JTA

Politicians, celebrities and others lead mass sign-off, sparked by what they say is social media giant’s inadequate response — a 7-day ban — to UK rapper’s anti-Jewish rant

Rapper Jay Electronica calls rabbi who spoke with Nick Cannon a liar and ‘devil’

Philadelphia NAACP head posts anti-Semitic meme on Facebook

By JTA

Video shows couple wearing swastika face masks in Minnesota Walmart

A woman enjoys sunshine, a source of vitamin D. (iStock)

Vitamin D helps the body fight coronavirus, major Israeli study claims

By Nathan Jeffay

‘Sunshine’ vitamin is like a steroid, researcher says, urging public to head outdoors; another scientist urges caution, saying other factors may be at play

Dr. Izaak Cohen, a researcher at Bar-Ilan University, walking through the sanitation and disinfection tunnel developed by RD Pack which uses his technology; Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, June 2, 2020 (Yoni Reif)

Disinfectant tunnels and 3 other Israeli ideas that may help tackle COVID-19

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)

US vaccine firm: Human trials could be held in Israel as infection rates rise

Illustrative: A woman talks on her mobile phone at a bus stop, in Tel Aviv, on August 24, 2012. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90/File)

Shin Bet said to have secretly tracked most Israelis’ phones for over 2.5 years

TV report says security agency got OK from Justice Ministry officials for controversial program, but few in the government were informed; Knesset, phone companies didn’t know

In recording, Ohana heard urging police to quash rallies, ‘challenge’ High Court

By Michael Bachner

‘We can’t continue with this anarchy,’ public security minister heard saying about anti-PM rallies; Jerusalem police head says cops issuing more mask fines at protests than usual

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)

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

Activists to picket police minister’s home after he tells cops to quash rallies

By Michael Bachner

Demonstrators chant slogans against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of the Knesset on July 21, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Coronavirus, corruption bring some Israelis to the street for the first time

Is it safe to send them back to school?

Here are 3 key points for the Ministry of Education to keep in mind as they make decisions, and a little strategy to help keep our kids safe

For these I weep

After 32 years of living in Israel, this is the first time I wish I didn’t live here. And yet I’m heartened by the protestors and by a bare breasted woman

From Israel to India with friendship in the face of pandemic

Bilateral relations, once antagonistic, are now deepening, with mutual trade and medical assistance and Israeli agricultural know-how

Shattered symbols

Can we live up to the indestructible chain of Jewish history that the Israeli menorah represents, in the face of our heritage of severe infighting?

Street performers take part in a protest calling for financial support from the government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on May 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset committee head vows to reopen theaters, allow outdoor performances

Yifat Shasha-Biton, who has reversed several cabinet-imposed restrictions, warns that without a plan to permit shows, Israel ‘will not be able to resuscitate’ the culture industry

Coronavirus wards at four of Israel’s largest hospitals are full

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Virus testing appears to plummet after nearing 30,000 samples a day

Transportation Ministry presents plan to reopen Israeli skies

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and then-Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman, at the first meeting of the 35th Government, in the Knesset on May 17, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu said eyeing loophole to ditch Gantz, form right-wing coalition

Reported maneuver could see Deri or Levin serve temporarily as PM to avoid violating coalition deal; Gantz said urged by some party members to give in to premier’s budget demands

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with then-tourism minister Yariv Levin during a vote at the assembly hall of the Knesset on February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Knesset Speaker slams AG for ‘lack of response to incitement against Netanyahu’

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks at the funeral of Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, January 6, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Hamas head: We refused $15 billion in aid conditioned on disarming

By Aaron Boxerman

In interview with Qatari newspaper, Gaza-ruling terror group leader Ismail Haniyeh says offer came from ‘parties paid off by major powers’ as part of controversial US peace plan

An Israel Police sapper detonates a suspected rocket-propelled grenade warhead, apparently flown into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip with a balloon, that was found in the Eshkol region on July 27, 2020. (Screen capture: Israel Police)

Suspected explosive found in south, apparently launched from Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

A delivery employee carries a tray of steaming cups of coffee in front of Shaaban Hamuda's small stand near Rafah market, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 13, 2020. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Peddle pusherGazans get first taste of coffee delivery by bike

By AFP

A young woman helps an elderly lady with her grocery bags at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, February 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Most Israelis worry they can’t pay their bills, government survey finds

Central Bureau of Statistics also finds 26% of people over age 21 report deterioration of mental health during coronavirus crisis, 21% have reduced food intake to save money

Cabinet approves tweaked plan giving virus stimulus handouts to most citizens

Ministry says pollution is boosting COVID-19 death rate, calls for cleaner air

US virus vaccine put to final test in thousands of volunteers

By AP and ToI Staff

Charred sinks in an el-Bireh mosque that was torched overnight July 27, 2020, in an apparent hate attack by extremist Jews (Iyad Hadad/B'Tselem)

Mosque torched near Ramallah in apparent extremist hate crime

Photos from scene in el-Bireh show charred walls and graffiti on an outer wall of the mosque reading, ‘Siege for Arabs, not for Jews’

Graffiti at a mosque in the town of Agen in southwestern France. (screenshot: YouTube)

Swastika daubed on mosque in southwest France

By AFP

Israeli chef Erez Komarovsky is one of the culinary ambassadors starring in 'YesChef,' a new food platform created by entrepreneur Steve Avery (Courtesy YesChef)

An Israeli-created culinary streaming platform hopes to become Netflix for cooks

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Freshly harvested cannabis (iStock)

Israeli startup Nextage to join forces with Tempo for cannabis-based drinks

By Shoshanna Solomon

An artist's rendering of a station on the route of the future cable car that will stretch from Jerusalem's First Station to the Western Wall in the Old City. (Courtesy Jerusalem Development Authority)

High Court demands proof controversial Old City cable car will boost tourism

File photo of security personnel checking passengers' luggage at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, September 7, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Fresh charges brought against alleged members of El Al cocaine smuggling ring

StopAntisemitism.org was one of dozens of accounts to call attention to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's labeling of tefillin in its collection, July 25, 2020. (Twitter via JTA)

Met museum ‘mislabeling’ leads to Twitter tempest in a tefillin box

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives to a court hearing at the regional labor court in Jerusalem, in the case of Shira Raban, a former employee at the Prime Minister's Residence, December 23, 2019. (Yonatan SIndel/FLASH90)

Mandelblit questions legality of funding for Sara Netanyahu’s attorney fees

MK Walid Taha in the Knesset, November 19, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Homosexuality ‘almost nonexistent in Arab society,’ Joint List MK says

Ilustrative: Two dolphins at the Dolphin Reef in Eilat. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Flippin' cutePod of dolphins spotted off Mediterranean coast

The triptych of paintings 'Mediterranean Sea View 2017' seen in The Walled Off Hotel, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, December 22, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Banksy to sell paintings estimated at £1.2m to raise cash for Bethlehem hospital

Palestinian farmers harvest onions in Jordan Valley in the West Bank, on February 10, 2020. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Annexation will threaten region’s water and food security, report says

An illustrative image of a mammogram (Courtesy)

Israel’s Zebra gets FDA nod for AI-based software that helps spot breast cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, takes part in Friday prayers in Hagia Sophia, at the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, July 24, 2020. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Photo essayAs Erdogan joins Hagia Sophia Muslim prayers, ‘2nd conquest of Istanbul’ hailed

By Burcin Gercek and Gokan Gunes

US-based Zoroastrian priest Arash Kasravi, who was reported dead by Iranian authorities on July 26, 2020. (California Zoroastrian Center)

US-based Zoroastrian priest killed in Iran, in apparent murder

By AFP

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