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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 2, 2020

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Demonstrators chant slogans and hold signs during a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his residence in Jerusalem, Saturday, Aug 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

PM says media's 'distortion' reached 'North Korean levels'

Netanyahu: Protesters are trampling on democracy; Gantz: They must be protected

PM again attacks media over coverage, claims without evidence that protests are leading to virus outbreaks; defense minister says protests are ‘lifeblood of democracy’

Court orders Yair Netanyahu to remove tweet doxing protest leaders

Israel media review10,000 maniacs: What the press is talking about on August 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli expats hold anti-Netanyahu rally in San Francisco

In largest protest yet, over 10,000 rally against Netanyahu in Jerusalem

Demonstrators flood Paris Square and much of city center as thousands of others gather at various junctions throughout country, calling on premier to resign

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on August 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police break up large Jerusalem anti-government rally after 1 a.m., 12 detained

By Aaron Boxerman and Anat Peled

5 taken into custody for accosting anti-Netanyahu protesters

There's the rubAnti-Netanyahu protests now feature massage tables

By ToI Staff and Anat Peled

An x-ray image of a bullet lodged in the brain of 9-year-old boy at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem on July 31, 2020 (courtesy of Hadassah University Hospital)

Shocked doctors find bullet lodged in brain of ‘sleepy’ 9-year-old, remove it

By Nathan Jeffay

After East Jerusalem parents say they don’t know what’s hurting son, Hadassah doctors stunned to find he’d been shot; neurosurgeon, paged on way to Shabbat dinner, pulls bullet out

Jerusalem residents, wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus, on Jaffa Street in the city center of Jerusalem, August 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Just 421 new virus cases recorded in 24 hours as testing takes dive

TV report says ministers will introduce new restrictions in hotspots; 5 more die of COVID-19 since morning

6:13 pm

Rocket fired at Israel from Gaza, is intercepted by Iron Dome
6:02 pm

Rocket sirens sound in Gaza border communities
5:45 pm

Likud MK denies she was invited to meet Netanyahu to prevent her ouster

Prof. Roni Gamzu attends a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset while serving as Health Ministry director general, January 7, 2014. ( Flash90)

Coronavirus czar says COVID health woes are outweighed by socioeconomic crisis

Ronni Gamzu says he has no plans for closures over Jewish New Year; hopes for return of flights in two weeks, but says US yeshiva students should not be on them

Testing slumps over weekend, but number of serious cases continues to rise

Virus czar: Foreign students could be deported if they break quarantine

3 ministers enter quarantine after minister Rafi Peretz tests positive for virus

A High Court of Justice hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on May 4, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Court override bill dead in the water as Haredim, Liberman rule out support

Shas, United Torah Judaism and Yisrael Beytenu come out against controversial legislation that would let lawmakers override judicial rulings that strike down Knesset laws

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton at a Knesset coronavirus committee meeting on July 19, 2020. (screen capture: Knesset livestream)

Compromise sought to avoid ouster of renegade Likud MK who upended virus rules

Right-wing activists protest in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud whip says he’ll push for court override bill, sparking new coalition fight

We are not White

As I child I tried to pray my brown away, until I got to the US and heard ’where did you get your tan?’ With time I had to decolonize my brain

The ethical protest: Preserving our rights without devastating our morality

The public has the right to demand change, and that right must be protected. But that doesn’t make vandalism a legitimate tool of protest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-defense minister Naftali Bennett (2nd L) visit an army base on the Golan Heights overlooking Syrian territory, on November 24, 2019. (Atef Safadi/Pool/AFP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Naftali Bennett wants to be the right’s anti-Netanyahu — and it’s working

Yamina is flourishing in the opposition as its leader works to position himself as the right-wing successor to the prime minister

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-transportation minister Israel Katz attend the inauguration ceremony for a new train station in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, September 17, 2018. (Flash90)

Over a million Israelis start receiving government coronavirus handouts

Payments for parents arrive first in controversial NIS 6.5b stimulus plan, to be followed by transfers to the elderly and, eventually, the rest of the population

Israelis shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on June 03, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Finance Ministry says it could take five years for economy to recover

Street performers entertain children on the summer vacation on Ben Yehuda street in central Jerusalem, on August 13, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After outcry, education minister says popular culture program for kids won’t end

Thousands of demonstrators march down the Friedrichstrasse street as they take part in a demonstration against the current measures to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, in Berlin, on August 1, 2020. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Neo-Nazis, others hold massive Berlin protest against virus restrictions

By AFP

Some 20,000 people rally outside Brandenburg gate, calling pandemic ‘the biggest conspiracy theory’; politician dubs protesters, who shun masks and social distancing, ‘Covidiots’

‘It’s a tsunami’: As virus spread, frantic doctors traded tips across oceans

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and Nicole Winfield

Expect a ‘lengthy’ coronavirus pandemic, WHO warns

By Robin MILLARD

As cases spike, Iran reports highest single-day infection rate since early July

By AFP

In this June 20, 2020, file photo US President Donald Trump arrives on stage to speak at a campaign rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

GOP bars media from convention renominating Trump, citing COVID-19

By KEVIN FREKING

Charlotte, North Carolina, gathering would be the first such event closed to press in modern history; some delegations cite logistical issues with traveling

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at the William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 28, 2020 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden eyes major shifts in US foreign policy, including restored Palestinian aid

By Matthew Lee and Will Weissert

The notes of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reference California Senator Kamala Harris, among other things as he speaks at a campaign event at the William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Is Biden leaning toward Kamala Harris for VP pick?

By Bill Barrow and ANDREW HARNIK

Tzipi Hotovely at her office in Jerusalem, February 19, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cabinet confirms Likud’s Tzipi Hotovely as new ambassador to London

By Raphael Ahren

Tzachi Hanegbi to replace her as settlements minister; outgoing envoy to UK Mark Regev, formerly Netanyahu’s spokesperson for foreign press, expected to return to his old position

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Former defense brass demand commission of inquiry into submarine affair

As part of lawsuit filed by anti-corruption group, affidavits urge Netanyahu be investigated in scandal over bribery in the procurement of German naval vessels

left to right: Dorit Sokolov, Yael Gruenbaum-Cohen, Ronit Harpaz and Irit Yaniv, the founders of We@Heathtech (Courtesy)

Breaking the glass thermometer: Women seek to give women a leg up in health-tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

We@Heathtech program hopes to propel junior women managers to executive positions; ‘We can either complain or bring about change from within,’ says co-founder

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in a scene from the 1987 film 'Dirty Dancing.' (Vestron/Getty Images/ via JTA)

Locked down? Open up to… iconic film about US Jewish life, ‘Dirty Dancing’

By Stephen Silver

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Alexa Rae Ibarra immersed in the lake at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires to complete her conversion to Judaism. (Courtesy of Ibarra via JTA)

With many US ritual baths closed, converts go to Jewish summer camp for a dunk

By Josefin Dolsten

In a video circulated online, two unidentified men can be seen driving around Eilat with a loaded M-16 belonging to an IDF serviceman. (Screenshot)

Police probe video of men driving around Eilat with loaded assault rifle

A convoy rides through the southern town of Segev Shalom with its passengers firing automatic weapons into the air, in footage released by Channel 13 on August 1, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Passengers fire into air as convoy zooms through Bedouin town in broad daylight

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronauts Doug Hurley, left, and Bob Behnken prepare for undocking from the International Space Station, aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. (NASA via AP)

SpaceX astronauts launch back toward Earth for final leg of historic journey

By AP

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