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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 29, 2020

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A woman sits in a Tel Aviv street after an attack by suspected far-right activists on protesters demonstrating against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Public Security Minister Amir Ohana, July 29, 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet)

Suspected far-right activists attack protesters near police minister’s home

10 said hospitalized, including 2 with stab wounds; 4 arrested; hundreds picket minister’s home after he tells cops to quash anti-PM rallies, protesters also block Tel Aviv highway

Screen grab from video appearing to show attacks on protesters by suspected right-wing activists in Tel Aviv, July 28, 2020 (Screen grab/Facebook)

Lapid says Netanyahu has ‘blood on his hands’ over attacks on anti-PM protesters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2020. (Tal Shahar/Pool/AFP)

Breaking silence on right-wing attack, PM pans violence, ‘including against me’

Protesters against Public Security Minister Amir Ohana in Tel Aviv on July 28, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rivlin condemns attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters, warns of political murder

President urges coalition and opposition lawmakers to unite and calm tensions

An installation depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a mock 'Last Supper' by Israeli artist Itay Zalait, is placed at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, July 29, 2020. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Food for thoughtArtist takes aim at Netanyahu with life-size Last Supper installation

By Oded Balilty

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at the swearing in ceremony of the 23rd government in the Knesset on May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Man arrested for threats to Netanyahu and wife found to be carrying razor blades

Analysis

In post-Corbyn UK, Jews unite against Twitter’s lax response to anti-Semitism

Having learned from deep partisan rift over incidents of Jew-hatred in the Labour Party, British Jewry across the political, religious spectrum protests online hate speech together

Grime music artist Wiley during an event in London, October 18, 2017. (Ian West/PA via AP)

Facebook, Instagram suspend UK rapper Wiley as he continues anti-Semitic rants

By ToI Staff and JTA

In this March 7, 2019, photo, Eva Schloss, the stepsister of Anne Frank and a Holocaust survivor, attends a news conference in Newport Beach, California. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove denial posts

By David Rising

Finance Minister Israel Katz holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on July 1, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Likud vows to push ahead with short-term budget over Blue and White opposition

Leading Israeli economists said to warn budget that only covers the coming months ‘will increase economic uncertainty’

6:27 pm

Police said bracing for attacks on anti-PM protesters in Jerusalem by far-right soccer hooligans
6:07 pm

Greece said weighing allowing Israeli tourists in despite high infection rates
5:58 pm

Hundreds demonstrate outside Netanyahu's residence, read Tisha B'Av texts

Seth Rogen at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, February 29, 2020. (Roy Rochlin/ Getty Images via JTA)

Israel ‘doesn’t make sense,’ can’t safeguard Jewish people, says Seth Rogen

By Gabe Friedman

Actor-comedian opens up about identity in podcast interview with Marc Maron; says if country exists ‘for religious reasons, I don’t agree with it because I think religion is silly’

Ice Cube speaks onstage at Magic Box on October 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for REVOLT via JTA)

Call me Cube: ZOA chief Mort Klein talks with Ice Cube after Farrakhan tweets

Rapper has drawn widespread condemnation after repeatedly tweeting anti-Semitic images, while Klein has been accused of being Islamophobic and racist

Minister Rodney Muhammad speaks to the crowd during a rally, outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, July 20, 2013. (Joseph Kaczmarek/AP)

Resignation calls grow in wake of Philadelphia NAACP head’s anti-Semitic post

Screenshot from footage of what Iran says was the unprecedented launch of a ballistic missile from underground, July 29, 2020 (Twitter)

Iran fires ballistic missiles from underground for 1st time, during major drill

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell

‘Great Prophet 14’ maneuvers, held as US pushes to renew UN weapons sanctions on Tehran, include fast attack boat and drone attacks on a mock American carrier

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, right, takes the Oath of Office alongside Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, left, at the Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, May 25, 2019. (AP Photo)

Exclusive

Under fire for pro-Israel comments, South African chief justice cites the Bible

By Raphael Ahren

In affidavit replying to formal complaint, Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng says religious obligation to pray for peace of Jerusalem and not hate Israel must not be seen as a political stance

In this February 27, 2018, photo, Malka Leifer, center, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Inside story

Australian Jews’ Israel ties sorely tested by saga of alleged sex abuser Leifer

From the blogs

Amir Bar Shalom

Hezbollah plays by tit-for-tat – and it wants blood

Seeking to avoid escalation, Israel has accepted the terror organization’s framework, which applies in Syria as well as Lebanon

A tale of two protests in two cities (and Jerusalem wins)

Tel Aviv ’s laid back, spread out goody-goodies are no match for the packed, resolute throngs facing down police water cannons in the capital

Irene Rabinowitz

Anarchy is not activism

Israel is a messy democracy, it’s true, but it surely is not a fascist state or even this platform with its various ideas would be shut down

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

The psych ward, my baby, and Tisha B’Av

Is it just me, or does everybody focus on their own painful memories instead of sorrowing for the loss of something we never experienced firsthand?

Why can’t I find mint chocolate chip ice cream in Israel?

At first, I just did without, but then COVID-19 shut down the world, and obtaining my favorite flavor became my pandemic obsession

The empty arrival hall at the Ben Gurion airport on June 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel may allow quarantine-free travel from ‘green’ countries as of mid-August

Health Ministry tells Knesset it plans to end requirement for travelers from virus-free states; flights must resume, says Ben Gurion Airport chief, or Israelis should learn to swim

Schoolchildren wear face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Tel Aviv, July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Education, finance ministries agree on plan to open school year in September

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A medic collects a swab sample from a man at a coronavirus testing facility in Or Yehuda, on July 22, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

Health Ministry announces over 2,000 cases of virus diagnosed in past day

Bertha Pappenheim, a descendant of Glickl Hamel, poses as Glikl for this portrait painted by the artist Leopold Pilichowski. (Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute/ via JTA)

Analysis

350-year-old memoir tells how Europe’s Jews coped with a 17th-century plague

Glikl of Hamel bore 14 children while turning a small second-hand gemstone business in Hamburg into an international success. Her incisive memoir is newly translated into English

A railway bridge on the Hejaz Railway. (Construction on the Hejaz Railway. Photo - Karl Lorenz Auler, from the National Library of Israel archives)

Epidemic-avoiding Ottoman pilgrim railroad seen in rare National Library photos

Ronni Gamzu. CEO of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, cheers an Israeli Air Force acrobatic team flying over Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on Israel's 72nd Independence Day. April 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘It was amazing’: Doctors see hope in COVID czar’s trust-building maiden speech

By Nathan Jeffay

Ronni Gamzu, government’s new coronavirus point-man, has rung in the changes, even impressing some vocal critics of state policy. Some of his plans are being questioned, however

Israel's newly appointed coronavirus czar, Ronni Gamzu, unveils his plan to fight the pandemic, at a press conference on July 28, 2020 (screenshot)

Israel media reviewAll hail the (virus) czar: What the press is talking about on July 29

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel’s chief rabbi: Coronavirus patients should not fast on Tisha B’Av

Working mom with baby in a lap (StockRocket; iStock by Getty Images)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Home is where the job is: How COVID-19 is changing the workplace

While office presence used to be largely mandatory, the coronavirus has proved that working remotely from home is very feasible. Is the trend good or bad, and is it here to stay?

Check Point researchers find vulnerabilities in OkCupid dating app (YouTube screenshot)

Not a great match: Israel researchers find hacking flaws in OkCupid dating app

By Shoshanna Solomon

StoreDot has developed fast charging batteries for commercial drones (Courtesy)

Israeli startup StoreDot unveils ultra-fast charging batteries for drones

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Then-Blue and White MK Gadeer Mreeh (left) in the Knesset on May 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Knesset votes down opposition call to add ‘equality’ to nation-state law

Among the 2020 Emmy Awards nominations were, from left, 'Schitt's Creek,' 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' and 'Black Mitzvah.' (Image design by Emily Burack/Stills via Pop TV/Amazon Prime/Netflix/ via JTA)

People of the screenFrom ‘Unorthodox’ to ‘Maisel,’ here are the notable 2020 Jewish Emmy nominations

By Emily Burack

Screen capture from video of IDF lookouts monitoring security systems. (Channel 12 news)

IDF lookout describes how she spotted infiltrators in attack denied by Hezbollah

A photo tweeted by a city councilman in the Hague that references the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust, to protest an application for monitoring coronavirus carriers. (Arnoud van Doorn/Twitter via JTA)

Minnesota Republican group posts meme comparing masks to yellow Star of David

Israel's outgoing ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the central Israeli city of Ra'anana, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

InterviewReturning UN envoy: Israel won’t suffer for tight Trump ties

An Israir flight seen taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, on March 24, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

100 graduate students from India get special flight back to Israel due to virus

Screen shot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art website with a revised description replaceing the word 'amulet' with 'phylactery' for an antique set of tefillin. (Screenshot via JTA)

After Twitter storm, Met museum changes tefillin label from amulet to phylactery

By JTA

Illustrative: An Israeli police car (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Ramat Gan man arrested on suspicion of killing his 72-year-old mother

Tzurit Or founded Tatte Bakery in 2007, just a few years after immigrating to the United States from Israel. (Tatte via JTA)

Israeli CEO of Boston’s Tatte bakery chain steps down amid discrimination claims

By Penny Schwartz

A picture taken on December 20, 2019, shows British artist Banksy's Walled-Off Hotel facing the security barrier in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Art for healthBanksy triptych raises $3 million for Palestinian hospital

By AFP

Pilgrims circumambulating around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the centre of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, at the start of the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage, July 29, 2020. (STR / AFP)

Muslims begin downsized hajj pilgrimage amid pandemic

By AFP

Kenneth Marcus, at the time nominated to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 5, 2017. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Kenneth Marcus steps down from US Education Department

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