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What Matters Most On Friday, July 31, 2020

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A patient on a cancer ward (iStock)

Tech will be ‘life-saving,’ says inventor

Israeli scientists find new way to predict cancer’s deadly spread through body

By Nathan Jeffay

Secondary growths cause 90% of cancer deaths. Haifa team says that, quite accidentally, it has found a way to use cells from primary tumor to instantly predict if metastasis likely

Illustrative: Police arrest La Familia soccer hooligans at the First Station in Jerusalem on July 30, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Far-right activists held after alleged attacks on journalists, Arabs in capital

Members of La Familia group prevented by police from reaching main anti-Netanyahu protest; chant ‘Death to leftists’ and ‘I hate Arabs’ at nearby rally

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on July 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Some 2,000 rally against Netanyahu in Jerusalem; rival protests dispersed

Deputy State Attorney Liat Ben-Ari arrives at the District Court in Jerusalem, ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial on May 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man indicted for threatening child of Netanyahu prosecutor

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

(From L-R) T'heeya Gozlan, Ora Hodaya and Shalhevet Goldstein in the Maoz Esther outpost on July 12, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

They live on West Bank’s only all-girl hilltop, but don’t call them feminists

Insistent that they aren’t living together in Maoz Esther to promote gender equality, 6 long-skirted teens say settlement is simply a task in which all must take part

A picture taken on July 4, 2016, shows a mobile cabin in the Jewish neighborhood of Givat Hamatos, in East Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

European states denounce ‘illegal’ Israeli building plans in Jerusalem area

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

The face of Yahweh? A clay head dated to the 10th century BC, found at Khirbet Qeiyafa, some 20 miles from Jerusalem (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Face of God? Archaeologist claims to find 10th cent. BCE graven images of Yahweh

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In this photo from the Health Ministry, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein (C) visits patients inside the coronavirus ward at Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center in Tzrifin on July 23, 2020. (Health Ministry)

Israeli virus deaths rise to 500, as ministers weigh removing weekend closures

Ban unlikely to be lifted this week, but some stores said planning to open anyway; IDF to set up contact tracing center with staff of 1,000; new 15-minute tests to enter into use

A woman shops at the Malha Mall in Jerusalem in Jerusalem on July 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Fuming at another weekend shutdown, defiant retailers threaten to stay open

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: In a video released by the Israel Defense Forces on July 29, 2020, soldiers man the phones at the IDF Home Front Command's headquarters during a visit by coronavirus czar Prof. Ronni Gamzu. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

Top health official hopes IDF can take over contact tracing by next week

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem, on July 25, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi)

At anti-Netanyahu protests, no clear leaders — and that’s how activists like it

By Anat Peled and Aaron Boxerman

Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse (Larry Fink)

The teen promoter, the janitor, and a stunning rediscovered Thelonious Monk gig

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Chana Tannenbaum

What if our image of the Ten Commandments is wrong?

So much of what we understand about what God revealed at Sinai is due to artists’ renditions of the Tablets, when biblical scholars have other ideas (Vaetchanan)

Butterfly wings

To what extent did Woodrow Wilson’s bad case of the flu bring Hitler to power? (Vaetchanan)

50 years ago: Israel won an air battle, and lost the War of Attrition

The Israel Air Force drew the Soviet expeditionary force in Egypt into a perfect, successful ambush, but pride was the country’s downfall, in the long run

Susannah Schild

7 family hikes for summertime

International travel is out for now, but Israelis can take a break without leaving the country with these vacation itineraries

Sara Netanyahu appears in a video released on July 30, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

In video, Sara Netanyahu dispels health rumors, decries online ‘shaming’

After absence from public eye for several weeks, premier’s wife says she’s fine, condemns threats against her family and implores public to ‘remember I’m a person’

Topaz Luk, social media adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives with the premier at the Knesset, September 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Activist says Netanyahu’s social media adviser is inciting against him

The new ViriMASK, invented by Noam Gavriely (courtesy of ViriMASK)

New Israeli-made mask claims to offer best protection yet against coronavirus

By Nathan Jeffay

Former IDF gas mask innovator says his invention stops 99.25% of airborne particles — better than N95 — while insisting this outweighs its clunky look

Technicians from Israeli firm Kando extract sewage samples from a manhole near the beach, in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, on June 11, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

Israeli tech firm successfully tracks down COVID-19 in Ashkelon’s sewers

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: People drive a boat in the sea at 'Konnos' beach, in the coastal resort of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, July 20 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus nabs 2 Israelis for not quarantining after traveling by boat

Holocaust TV. (Header image via CSA Images/Getty Images and Key & Peele/via JTA)

Wicked laughs

Five TV shows that got Holocaust humor just right

By Annette Covrigaru

Vigil for Black Lives Matter movement held during Tisha B’Av by Jewish groups in Brookline, Massachusetts, July 30, 2020 (Emily Glick/Boston)

Analysis

With shofars and fasting, Boston Jews use Tisha B’av to commemorate Black grief

Jewish groups gather to mourn with Black Lives Matter movement activists, uniting around ‘radical opportunity’ for change

Amid ADL-led ad boycott, Facebook reports soaring revenues and user numbers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum attends a news conference near the White House, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018 in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

InterviewAs Portland seethes, Oregon’s Jewish AG takes a stand against federal agents

Tali Farhadian Weinstein, who immigrated from Iran as a child after the Iranian Revolution, describes herself as a progressive prosecutor. (Courtesy of Farhadian Weinstein/via JTA)

Interview

Iranian-Jewish ‘progressive prosecutor’ in the running to be Manhattan’s DA

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The Hannah Senesh school in Brooklyn expects enrollment to hold steady or increase slightly in the fall of 2020. (Hannah Senesh Community Day School/ via JTA)

Are families fleeing US Jewish day schools? Far from it, but it’s complicated

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech marking the Eid al-Adha holiday, in Tehran, Iran, July 31, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader rules out negotiations with US

By AP

First responders lift a vehicle out of a yard in Ar'ara, northern Israel, July 30, 2020 (Kan screenshot)

Car drops into yard in northern village, crushing and killing 2 siblings

In this March 22, 1993 file photo, American author Philip Roth is seen during an interview promoting his book 'Operation Shylock: A Confession,' in New York (AP Photo, File)

‘Don’t rehabilitate me, make me interesting’: Philip Roth bio to drop in spring

By Hillel Italie

An Iranian cleric looks at domestically built surface-to-surface missiles at a military show marking the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution that toppled the US-backed shah, at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque, in Tehran, Iran, on February 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Pompeo: US will take ‘necessary action’ if Iran arms embargo ends

By AFP

Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, and his wife Gilat make their way to the ballot box to cast a vote in the Israeli general elections on January 22, 2012 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Bennett’s wife retracts claim far-rightist Ben-Gvir was a Shin Bet agent

A tomb from the early 20th Century stands partially demolished amid construction of a new highway through the Northern Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Highway to hell? Road-building in Cairo’s City of the Dead raises alarm

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington on November 30, 2018. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Health of Ruth Bader Ginsburg fuels anxiety, preparations

By Charlotte Plantive

Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, announces charges against Ghislaine Maxwell during a July 2, 2020, press conference in New York City. (Johannes EISELE / AFP)

In unsealed documents, Epstein tells Maxwell: ‘You have done nothing wrong’

By Larry Neumeister

An IDF helicopter called out to assist in the recovery of a woman who fell to her death in Wadi Qelt, near Jerusalem, March 28. (MDA)

Woman in her 20s dies of heatstroke on West Bank hike

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