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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 20, 2021

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Ice cream moves along the production line at Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, in Waterbury, Vermont. on March 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot/File)

PM Bennett condemns company's 'moral mistake'

Ben & Jerry’s says it will end sales in ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’

Ice cream giant whips up controversy with change in policy on settlements, says products will remain available in Israel; FM Lapid slams ‘shameful capitulation to antisemitism’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a cabinet meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 19, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

In Unilever call, PM vows ‘vigorous’ response to Ben & Jerry’s settlement ban

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

In this file photo taken on May 19, 2021 Ben and Jerry's ice cream is stored in a cooler at an event where founders Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen gave away ice cream to bring attention to police reform at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Ben & Jerry’s board in dispute with owners Unilever over remaining in Israel

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 20 – Can Israel lick Ben & Jerry’s BDS freeze in West Bank?

Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren dips into an ice cream boycott and health reporter Nathan Jeffay catches us up on COVID research in Israel

(Linda Gradstein/JTA)

Big chill: Jewish world reacts to Ben & Jerry’s exit from Israeli settlements

By JTA

In this file photo taken on April 7, 2016, Journalist Masih Alinejad speaks onstage at the 7th Annual Women In The World Summit at the Lincoln Center in New York City. (Jemal Countess / Getty Images North America / AFP)

InterviewUnlike regime, Iranians 'don't view Israel as the enemy'

Journalist targeted in alleged Iran kidnap plot: ‘I would love to visit Israel’

Masih Alinejad says ‘someone should speak up’ against regime’s anti-Israel hate; she urges US to halt nuke talks since Tehran can’t be trusted to abide by deal

SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. (NIAID-RML via AP)

3 existing drugs fight coronavirus with ‘almost 100%’ success in Jerusalem lab

By Nathan Jeffay

If medicines pass clinical test for COVID, they’re also likely to prove effective for new variants, scientists say, as they target proteins that barely change between mutations

Iranians walk past a shuttered cinema hall in downtown Tehran on July 20, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran registers new record daily COVID cases, as daily deaths hit 250

By AFP

NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio speaks with the Calcalist paper, April 20, 2020. (YouTube screenshot/File)

NSO head claims company ended services in human rights-violating countries

By Emanuel Fabian

Shalev Hulio says spy firm also rejected some 90 countries over the years, and a reported list of targets is unrelated to its controversial software

Illustrative. An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, on August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Israel: If NSO Group violated export permits, ‘appropriate action’ will be taken

By Judah Ari Gross

Carine Kanimba speaks at a TEDx confrence in Portland, September 19, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

‘Hotel Rwanda’ activist’s daughter said targeted by Israeli spyware

By Ivan Rush Mugisha and Tanya Willmer

Carine Kanimba’s cell number reportedly on the list of targets tied to NSO Group; Rwanda claims it does not possess the technical capability to use such software

French prosecutors open probe into alleged media spying using Israeli software

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Journalist and activist Omar Radi speaks after a hearing at the Casablanca Courthouse, in Casablanca, Morocco, March 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)

Moroccan journalist reportedly targeted by NSO convicted of spying, sex assault

By AP

From the blogs

Trauma and pink slushies after the Shaloh Jewish school stabbing

There were transcendent moments during a visit by our multi-ethnic mental health team to a Chabad school where, as one child put it, he had seen ‘so much blood’

Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale at a shop in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli envoy asks 35 US states to use anti-BDS laws against Ben & Jerry’s

Jerusalem vows to push legal action against ice cream company over its announcement it’ll end sales in ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’

6:21 pm

Russia: Syria shot down 7 of 8 Israeli missiles in Monday strike
5:53 pm

Israel's envoy to US asks 35 states to use anti-BDS laws against Ben & Jerry's
5:49 pm

Vaccinated White House official tests positive for COVID

People are seen wearing face masks in Jerusalem, July 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Daily virus cases top 1,300 in 4-month high, as Israel set for new restrictions

Active COVID-19 infections surge to nearly 8,000, but serious cases remain at around 60; health minister says ‘Green Pass’ and quarantine for all returnees being discussed

Israeli youth receive COVID-19 vaccine injections at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, July 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

If Israel offers 3rd vaccine shot, Pfizer to immediately provide supply — TV

Travelers seen in the departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel expected to require all travelers entering the country to self-isolate

My arteries and the territories: The Ben & Jerry’s boycott

The decision is just clueless virtue-signaling that won’t make Israelis more likely to take risks and make concessions. Instead, it reinforces the hardliners

Bishara A. Bahbah

A call to the nations: Help save the Palestinians from their leaders

The PA and Hamas hold power through brutality and squelch opposition by denying basic civil rights. Abbas must no longer be Israel’s and America’s ‘man in Ramallah’

Love and betrayal in France

In the country that showed love for Jews and also spawned Vichy and jailed Dreyfus, living in fear may be foolish, but denial is unwise

Tisha b’Av is over, and it’s time to rebuild

In organizing the Washington rally against antisemitism, critics attacked from left and right. The event wasn’t perfect, but it was necessary

Illustrative: An Iron Dome missile defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, is deployed in northern Israel on May 7, 2018. (Jalaa Mary/AFP)

IDF shells Lebanon after two rockets fired at northern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

One rocket shot down, second hits open area, no damage or injuries reported; Palestinian group believed behind attack, which comes after reported Israeli strike in north Syria

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a graduation ceremony at the National Security College in Glilot, central Israel, July 14, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After rocket attack, Israel says it won’t accept ‘spillover’ from Lebanon crisis

By Emanuel Fabian and Judah Ari Gross

Explosions seen near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on July 19, 2021 following a reported Israeli airstrike (Screencapture/Twitter)

Syria says Israeli airstrikes target northern Aleppo region

President Joe Biden, right, meets with Jordan's King Abdullah II, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh/File)

Biden praises Jordan king in White House meet expected to broach Abraham Accords

By AAMER MADHANI

US president to reportedly tell Abdullah that Trump-brokered agreements not an ‘end run’ on finding way to peace deal that includes Palestinian state

AnalysisAs leaders meet, Jordan finds itself vital to US plans in the region

By Lazar Berman

An Israeli police officer stands guard as a Jewish group walks near the Dome of the Rock Mosque atop the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av (the ninth of Av), a day of fasting commemorating the destruction of the ancient Temples, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, July 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

Lapid pressed, Bennett folded: The political drama around Temple Mount worship

The PM wanted to make history, but regional and political realities intervened, and the alternate PM stepped in to defuse the crisis

Thousands of Palestinians attend prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem, marking the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, July 20, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

100,000 Muslims pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Eid al-Adha

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 18, 2020. (Flash90)

Gantz speaks with PA leader, in 1st call from senior Israeli minister in 4 years

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett, left, speaks with Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg in the Knesset, on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PM vows action on climate change as minister urges declaring ‘strategic threat’

Bennett offers Europe help amid flooding disaster, says issue is a ‘true global problem’; environment minister warns temperatures, sea level set to rise in coming decades

Construction of new residential buildings in a new neighborhood of Beer Yaakov, on March 26, 2020.
(Flash90)

Green bodies slam decision to extend mandate of fast-track planning committee

Israelis at a Red Sea beach close to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in Eilat, southern Israel, February 10, 2021. (Menaham Kahana/AFP)

State company defends UAE pipeline deal, says oil spill risks ‘negligible’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a cabinet meeting at the Knesset, on July 19, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

As failure follows failure, coalition in uphill battle against inexperience

An untested prime minister, a huge cabinet and 20 neophyte MKs brought in under the Norwegian Law have caused the government a string of painful losses

Minister of Defense Benny Gantz speaks with Likud parliament member Miki Zohar during a vote at the Knesset, on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL vis Flash 90)

Likud seeks to convince Gantz to bolt government, replace Bennett as PM

By Raoul Wootliff

IntSights staffers celebrate the company's successful exit. (Courtesy)

Israeli cybersecurity firm IntSights to be acquired for $335 million

Boston-based Rapid7 says it will purchase startup to even odds for clients in ‘lopsided battle’ against expanding online threats

File: Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman, chief of Military Intelligence, at the Annual International Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, in Tel Aviv, January 28, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

IDF intel chief says Israel under nonstop cyber-threats, is retaliating

By Emanuel Fabian

Disposable plastic forks (Ewloskalw, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia)

Israel’s Technion to ban most disposable plastic from October 1

Review finds that during 2019, Haifa institute bought over 2.3 million disposable cups, nearly a million single-use teaspoons and hundreds of thousands of other single-use items.

Plastic waste discarded on a beach in Israel. (Screenshot)

Disposable plasticware prices to double in 2022 under new tax proposal

More Headlines

Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid confirms he’ll visit Morocco, in first for an Israeli FM

By Lazar Berman

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at an America First Rally on May 27, 2021 in Dalton, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images via AFP)

Twitter suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for 12 hours over COVID tweets

By AP

Then-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a Tel Aviv University cyber conference, on June 24, 2019. (Flash90/File)

Ex-Mossad chief accused of sharing classified intel with flight attendant — TV

Estelle Hedaya, left, and Linda March, April 13, 2021. (Leah Sutton via AP)

For families of last missing victims of Florida condo collapse, wait is agony

By KELLI KENNEDY

Illustrative. The Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, on March 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM reviewing deal to relocate Khan al-Ahmar residents to Israel – report

Illustrative image of sliced pineapple (Anusorn Sutapan; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s MediWound says key trial shows pineapple gel effective for kids’ burns

By Shoshanna Solomon

An illustration of the Lunar Extractor technology developed by Helios, which the startup hopes will be able to make oxygen on the Moon. (Courtesy)

Israel’s Helios hitches ride on Japan lunar lander in bid to make oxygen on Moon

By Shoshanna Solomon

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner presides over a Senate session in Buenos Aires, December 29, 2020. (Mariano Gabriel Sanchez/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)

On anniversary of 1994 AMIA bombing, Argentina’s VP decries trial against her

By JTA

Artem Dolgopyat of Israel performs in the floor exercise during the men's artistic gymnastics finals at the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, August 12, 2018. (AP Photo/ Darko Bandic/File)

AP predicts Israel to win 7 medals in Tokyo, including gold in men’s gymnastics

By AP and ToI Staff

Shoshana Greenberg, 74, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, poses for a picture holding a portrait of her parents Regina and Israel, at her home in Israeli city of Tel Aviv on July 18, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Ghosts of Poland’s past haunt Holocaust restitution spat

By Dario Thuburn

The operatic cast of a new opera based on Hanoch Levin's work, set for the Israeli Opera in July-August 2022 (Courtesy New Israeli Opera)

Make a note of thisIsraeli Opera announces its 2021-2022 season

By Jessica Steinberg

Participants in the Discover by Israel Innovation Experience demo day held on July 15, 2021 (Eitan Abaud)

Latin American young adults visit Israel for hit of local ‘alta tecnología’

By Jake Epstein

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