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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 28, 2020

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Israeli army forces seen stationed near the border between Israel and Lebanon in the Golan Heights on July 27, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel sends reinforcements to north, bracing for imminent attack

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF deploys surface-to-surface missiles, intel-gathering units and special forces a day after alleged attempted Hezbollah assault

IDF spots suspects on Lebanon border, but says no breach occurred

By Judah Ari Gross

Touring border, Netanyahu warns Hezbollah and Iran against ‘testing Israel’

IDF stays on high alert as Lebanese PM accuses Israel of ‘dangerous escalation’

By Judah Ari Gross

British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis speaks at a National Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, on January 26, 2017, in London, England. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

UK chief rabbi accuses Facebook and Twitter of ‘complicity’ in anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and JTA

At start of 2-day social media boycott, Ephraim Mirvis lambastes social media platforms for failing to remove posts inciting hatred and violence against Jews

Jon Ossoff speaks in Atlanta, June 20, 2017. (David Goldman/AP)

Georgia Republican senator removes ad that made Jewish opponent’s nose bigger

By AP and ToI Staff

A protester carrying an Israeli flag near the home of Public Security Minister Amir Ohana on July 28, 2020 in Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Hundreds gather to protest police conduct, security minister in Tel Aviv

By Joshua Davidovich

Demonstrators chant ‘who will protect us from police; attorney general tells police commissioner not to let ‘foreign considerations’ muddy decision-making

6:24 pm

Suspicious people spotted near northern border -- IDF
6:14 pm

Protesters leave Ohana, move toward Ayalon highway
6:13 pm

Attorney general tells police chief not to cave to political pressure

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

A most peculiar attack: Will Hezbollah deem border fracas adequate vengeance?

Though the Shiite terror group has previously accepted failed operations as sufficient, it is indicating this time that its retaliation for a fallen fighter has yet to come

A picture taken from the Israeli side of the Blue Line that separates Israel and Lebanon shows smoke billowing above the Shebaa Farms sector after clashes in the border area, on July 27, 2020. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

AnalysisWith Lebanon in virus lockdown, Hezbollah can’t afford an Israel flare-up — yet

By Avi Issacharoff

Hezbollah denies border attack, says response to fighter’s death yet to come

By ToI Staff, Aaron Boxerman and Judah Ari Gross

Lebanese Christian party leader blames Hezbollah, allies for crises

A medical worker in a protective suit accompanies a man who tested positive for COVID-19 at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on July 26, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel overtakes US in new coronavirus cases per capita

Jewish state now has the fifth highest number of new infections per 1 million in the world, according to UK scientific publication

Knesset virus panel chair told she’s fired, after butting heads with Netanyahu

New virus czar: No more ‘illogical’ rules, army to take over contact tracing

InterviewIsraeli MD offers ammo against anti-vaxxers, fearing harm to global COVID fight

By Nathan Jeffay

Ultra-Orthodox men pray at a synagogue in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, on May 20, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

End COVID ‘haggling,’ impose a blanket ban on 10+ people indoors — gov’t adviser

‘The virus doesn’t differentiate,’ and adjusting policy to accommodate interest groups wrecks public trust, warns epidemiologist Ran Balicer

Ministers: Ahead of Tisha B’Av fast, more worshipers to be allowed in synagogues

New public health head appointed as 6 more deaths bring coronavirus toll to 480

Health Ministry launches revamped COVID-19 tracking app

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Seeds from 1,500-year-old Negev trash pits show a world on the brink of collapse

Study of 10,000 seeds from Negev viticulture settlements illustrates how plague, climate change and socioeconomic depression in booming empire’s periphery point to its decline

Aerial view of 1,300-year-old church in the village of Kfar Kama, near Mount Tabor. (Alex Wiegmann, Israel Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyLarge 6th century church compound uncovered near site of Jesus’ transfiguration

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

By the rivers of Babylon, painting by Gebhard Fugel, c. 1920 (Wikimedia/ creative commons)

Explainer: Psalm 137By the rivers of Babylon: Why a 2,500-year-old Hebrew poem still matters

By David W. Stowe

Making family memories despite the obstacles

What will children living in close corona lockdown quarters take from this time? What will become their magical childhood moments?

The Temple, the messiah and Jesus

Depicting the Temple’s destruction as punishment for the death of Christ has no grounding in Hebrew scriptures’ ideas on messiah

A Jewish boycott of Twitter could backfire

The 2-day strike to protest Twitter’s handling of anti-Semitism has a whiff of anti-Black racism, and, in any case, silence is not the answer

It’s a grand new housing plan, except for the fine print

Subsidizing cheap old apartments in poor towns won’t solve the housing shortage for the ultra-Orthodox, but it will destroy those towns’ social fabric

Archaeologist Joe Uziel cleans the newly uncovered Western Wall courses, located under Wilson's Arch in the Jerusalem Old City, October 2017. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Behind the headlines

For Tisha B’Av, learn about the archaeological proof of Jerusalem’s destructions

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member today

KamaTech's busload of Haredi women visit high-tech offices in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (Courtesy Natalie Schor)

Women lead way as Haredim make inroads into Israeli tech industry, report shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Number of ultra-Orthodox tech employees jumped by 52% in 2014-2018; 71% of them are women, according to study presented to President Rivlin

Lawyer Steven Donziger, right, speaks to Huaorani women during the first day of the trial against Chevron-Texaco, in Lago Agrio, on October 21, 2003. A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the US petroleum giant went on trial in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Keep ‘unreliable, immoral’ Chevron Corp. out of Israel, activists urge MKs

Fiverr expands global reach, sets up Dutch, Italian freelance services sites

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate at CNN Studios in Washington, DC, March 15, 2020. (AP/Evan Vucci)

US Democratic platform nixes conditioning aid to Israel over annexation

By Eric Cortellessa

By a vote of 117-44, Democratic National Committee also rebuffs progressive push to ‘mention occupation’ in party’s 2020 policy document

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies CEO Martin Meeson, right, speaks as President Donald Trump wears a face mask as he participates in a tour of Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, Monday, July 27, 2020, in Morrisville, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

With vaccine push, Trump seeks political shot in the arm

By Zeke Miller, KEVIN FREKING and Jonathan Lemire

Screen capture from video of a security guard outside a synagogue in Ukraine struggling with an ax-wielding attacker, July 28, 2020. (Twitter)

Guard at Ukrainian synagogue fends off ax-wielding attacker

Security footage shows assailant struggling with guard, then running off and returning to hurl feces at building; rabbi and worshipers reportedly inside at the time

Israeli actress Shira Haas nominated for Emmy for ‘Unorthodox’ role

Four-part series based on Deborah Feldman’s memoir on leaving Hasidic life also gets nod for best limited series

Israeli director Amos Gitai attends a photocall for the film "A Letter to a Friend in Gaza," presented out of competition on September 3, 2018, during the 75th Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)

A COVID-modified festAmos Gitai’s ‘Laila in Haifa’ among picks for Venice Film Festival

By Lindsey Bahr

Owners of event venues in Israel protest outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem with a black marriage canopy on July 26, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Event hall owners threaten to reopen next week in defiance of government

In letter to Netanyahu hours before vote on aid package, association denounces plan as inadequate, says it would cause industry ‘extinction’

Stimulus cash likely to benefit big families after ultra-Orthodox, Arab pressure

Daily planners show Israel’s health chiefs waited weeks before discussing virus

Flu cases plummet in southern hemisphere, attributed to coronavirus measures

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Kahari Boyd rides the Staten Island Ferry, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Ferry clever?

New transport minister looking at ferries to beat Israel’s traffic jams

Miri Regev reportedly greenlights a series of sea shuttles to ply along Mediterranean coast after asking for out-of-the-box traffic solutions

2018 midterm elections at the CNN Bureau, Washington, DC. Harry Enten is now a senior writer and analyst for CNN. (Courtesy of CNN)

Interview

CNN election forecaster Harry Enten on the Jewish vote, why he says Shalom on TV

By Stephen Silver

More Headlines

Police use water cannons on demonstrators against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, on July 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset panel debates cops’ use of water cannons at anti-Netanyahu protests

Carpenter Thomas Thiele, front, removes the bullet hole-ridden door of a synagogue in Halle, Germany, July 28, 2020. (Hendrik Schmidtpa/dpa via AP)

Damaged door of German synagogue attacked on Yom Kippur replaced

By AP

Roger Torrent, president of Catalonian Parliament, speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, January 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

WhatsApp confirms Catalan separatist’s phone targeted with Israeli firm spyware

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the inauguration of the foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea on January 31, 2019. (Photo by Marc Israel SELLEM / POOL / AFP)

Knesset hears sovereign wealth fund will fall short of PM’s predicted bonanza

The city gate to Sataniv, Ukraine (via Google street view)

Remains of 286 Jewish Holocaust victims uncovered in 2 basements in Ukraine

Umm Kulthum at one of her last public concerts in 1968 (photo credit: CC BY public domain/Wikipedia)

Bids by Israeli cities to honor Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum stir anger

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of a TikTok clip by Egyptian social media celebrity Haneen Hossam. (YouTube)

Egyptian women get 2 years in prison for TikTok dance videos

By AP

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

Tahini maker hit with Arab Israeli boycott over support for gays sees sales rise

Illustrative: Smuggled cellphones discovered in an Israeli prison, October 2017 (Israel Police)

Attempt thwarted to smuggle cellphones to security prisoners via hospital visits

Anti-Netanyahu protesters attack Channel 13 journalist Avishay Ben Haim as he covers a protest calling for the premier's ouster outside of his Jerusalem residence on July 14, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

2 anti-Netanyahu protesters arrested, suspected of attacking cop, reporter

Yair Netanyahu in court in Tel Aviv, December 10, 2018, where he testified in a NIS 140,000 libel suit he filed the previous year against Abie Binyamin, a social activist. (FLASH90)

Netanyahu’s son apologizes after tweet offends Hindus

Palestinian women wearing protective masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, shop at a clothing store as Muslims prepare for the Eid al-Adha feast, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on July 27, 2020. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

EU emergency grant lets PA pay partial salaries despite fiscal crisis

By Aaron Boxerman

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