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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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Illustrtive: Brazilian immigrants to Israel in May 2020. (Olim do Brasil NGO via JTA)

Knesset panel mulls opening of skies, as thousands of students get okay to enter

With relatives of Israelis refused entry, committee chair says there should be ‘one rule for all’; Health Ministry opposes mass pilgrimage to Hasidic rabbi’s grave in Ukraine

Illustrative: Masa Israel fellows deliver flowers to Holocaust survivors, (Courtesy via JTA)

Deri defends entry of 17,000 foreign students: We can’t keep Jews out of Israel

A technician carries out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, on August 3, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

In policy reversal, Health Ministry said to increase testing of asymptomatics

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits an IDF Home Front Command base in Ramle on August 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Netanyahu warns Hezbollah amid high tensions along northern border

Following thwarted attempt to plant explosives on Golan border, PM says Israel’s foes should know ‘we will do what is necessary in order to defend ourselves’

Cows and Israeli military tanks during an exercise in Golan Heights near the border with Syria on August 4, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media reviewInvasion of the blame-snatchers: What the press is talking about on August 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Syrian air defenses respond to alleged Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

IDF strikes Syrian military targets in response to attempted border attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says it holds Damascus responsible for Sunday incident in the Golan, in which 4 militants planted bombs inside Israeli territory before they were killed by IDF troops

A bag with explosive devices inside it is seen near the scene where four Syrian suspects were killed Sunday night, after crossing the border and planting bombs, August 3, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF finds gun, more explosives left behind by would-be attackers on Syria border

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Iraqi security forces prepare to open the crossing between the Iraqi town of Qaim and Syria's Boukamal, in Qaim, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

15 said killed in mystery airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Syria

100,000-year-old tools uncovered at a flint-knapping site outside Dimona in Israel's Negev Desert. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Paleolithic flint tools are 1st ‘breadcrumbs’ of modern man’s trail to Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Wounded people walk near the site of an explosion at the port in the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, 2020 (STR / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel not behind Beirut blast, sources on both sides say; at least 10 killed

Hundreds said injured, hospitals overwhelmed amid massive damage to Lebanon’s capital; explosion said caused by highly explosive materials seized from ship, stored at port

6:25 pm

Netanyahu said seeking NIS 400m for Haredim to get them on board for elections
6:04 pm

Report: Gantz looking at pushing bill to ban Netanyahu from running in election
5:49 pm

Police: Person behind fake Facebook profile that called to kill PM lives abroad

White House still mulling annexation, which could happen this month – source

By Raphael Ahren

After Netanyahu says application of sovereignty depends on US, ToI told ‘more discussions are required’ about a ‘package’ to sweeten pill for Palestinians

Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz, Special Assistant to the President Alexa Henning, Senior Adviser to President Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, and White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley walk out of the White House, May 8, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, via JTA)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a tree planting event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho, in the Jordan Valley, February 10, 2020. (Flash90)

Netanyahu: West Bank annexation ‘not off the table’; issue ‘is in Washington’

Jamaal Bowman speaks to attendees during his primary-night party, June 23, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Obama gave a House candidate his blessing — after reading his letter to a rabbi

By Eric Cortellessa

HBO's McMillions (Courtesy)

Producer interview

HBO doc on Hamburglar who stole millions in McDonald’s prizes gets 5 Emmy nods

By Jordan Hoffman

COVID-19 reveals long-standing hospital underfunding

Since the crisis began in February, hospitals have added a total of 19 beds, even though Israel already suffered from key medical shortages

Cindy Greenberg

Guided by Jewish values, we’re caring for our neighbors. Here’s how.

Serve the Moment, part of a coalition of volunteer organization, is letting Jewish young adults give to the vulnerable and repair communities

Micha Odenheimer

Fish gotta swim, Bibi’s gotta…resign

Netanyahu is likely to do what he himself predicted anyone in his position would do: make decisions aimed at keeping himself out of jail

Pearl and the Golem-maker: A love story

The Maharal of Prague, famous in Jewish folklore for creating a living being from clay, had a romance worthy of the Tu B’Av holiday of love

FILE - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and son Yair in Tel Aviv, January 23, 2020. (Aleksey Nikolskyi/Sputnik Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Defending son’s ‘alien’ remark, Netanyahu says rallies against him ‘bizarre’

After Yair Netanyahu interview attracts much criticism, PM chooses not to distance himself from comment; protest group raps back: ‘Bizarre is when a criminal defendant is PM’

A view of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on June 23, 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Plan for Israeli-style White House going nowhere, wasting millions – comptroller

By Stuart Winer

An Israeli submarine sails during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, April 19, 2018. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Blogger arrested after confronting state’s witness in submarines affair

Seth Rogen in 'An American Pickle.' (Courtesy HBO)

Film review

‘An American Pickle’ is half-sour, still charming bite of Jewish magical realism

By Jordan Hoffman

A coronavirus patient receiving breathing support. (iStock)

Israeli-modified erectile dysfunction drug shows some promise treating COVID-19

By Nathan Jeffay

Innovator says very early findings suggest adapted form of aviptadil can cause improvement in lungs and blood oxygen, but hard evidence still needed

3D rendering of a man having a heart attack (iStock)

Scared of COVID, heart attack patients waste ‘golden hour’ before hospitalizing

By Nathan Jeffay

In this photo released by the Health Ministry on August 4, 2020, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks during a visit to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. (Shlomi Yosef)

Health minister: Weekend closure of retailers to be scrapped

Yuli Edelstein says no evidence to show measure has helped curb spread of COVID-19: ‘Besides bothering the public it doesn’t do anything’

Brig. Gen. Nissan Davidi picked to lead IDF’s ‘Coronavirus Command’

By Judah Ari Gross

Top health official warns ‘complete lockdown’ still a possibility

Ministers mull nightly curfews, local lockdowns to stem COVID-19 spread

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (right) and then-health minister Yaakov Litzman (left) attend a conference in Lod on November 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Ultra-Orthodox parties said threatening not to back Netanyahu if election called

After urging Likud and Blue and White to compromise in standoff over budget, UTJ lawmaker says party will oppose any move that would trigger 4th Knesset vote in under 2 years

Shas party chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (center), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, at the Knesset on November 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Deri warns Netanyahu and Gantz: Public won’t forgive us if we go to elections

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-Science Minister Ofir Akunis (L) at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on December 22, 2019, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Likud minister: If Gantz fails to back budget, we’ll form alternative government

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on August 3, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump downplays virus deaths, says US doing well ‘in numerous categories’

By ToI Staff and AFP

US president also suggests Jeffrey Epstein may have been murdered in jail, dismisses John Lewis’s life accomplishments during Axios interview

Vindman decries Trump efforts to undermine ‘foundations of our democracy’

By JTA

‘Seinfeld’ actor Jason Alexander to host Biden’s fundraiser on anti-Semitism

Trump to attend private fundraiser for close friend who died of COVID-19

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Seth Rogen arrives at the LA Premiere of 'Game Over, Man!' on March 21, 2018, in Los Angeles (Willy Sanjuan/ Invision/ AP)

Seth Rogen says he didn’t apologize for Israel comments

Elbit Systems' ATMOS 2000 self-propelled howitzer, which will serve as the basis for the IDF's next artillery cannon, as seen on May 19, 2008. (Rowielip/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Report accuses IDF, Defense Ministry of flouting rules in picking new cannon

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Finance minister opposes reported plan for High Holiday handouts

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, listens to then-Foreign Minister Israel Katz during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 27, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)

800,000 Israeli adults begin to receive government coronavirus handouts

A screen capture from video of a suspected homophobic assault at the Jaffa Port on August 1, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Teen arrested in suspected homophobic attack in Jaffa

TikTok lambasted for failing to show up at Knesset anti-Semitism hearing

By Raphael Ahren

A torched car in the Palestinian village of Fara'ata in the northern West Bank in a suspected hate crime, August 4, 2020. (Fara'ata local council)

Cars torched, graffiti scrawled in West Bank village in apparent hate crime

This undated photograph provided by the family of Jamshid Sharmahd shows the 65-year-old man from Glendora, California. (Sharmahd family via AP)

Iran abducted California man in Dubai, family says

By Jon Gambrell

OrCam Technologies devices help the blind and visually impaired read texts via audio feedback (YouTube screenshot)

OrCam’s new feature helps visually impaired tell reading device what to focus on

By Shoshanna Solomon

A still from the police bodycam video showing an officer pointing his gun at George Floyd (Screencapture/Daily Mail)

British paper publishes police bodycam video of George Floyd arrest

By AP and ToI Staff

A military truck evacuates Israeli citizens through a flooded road in the northern city of Nahariya on a stormy winter day, January 8, 2020. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

After deadly winter, NIS 146 million to go to flood prevention

The Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane carrying US military Oshkosh trucks lands at the Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, August 3, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Heavy liftingThe Antonov, world’s largest plane, lands at Ben Gurion Airport

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