Annexation: Meretz warns of apartheid plan; settler head protests ’cake at gunpoint’ * Mattis raps Trump, invokes Nazis * MK has virus; Knesset shut * Temple bridge dated

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Thursday, June 4, 2020 [Meretz chairman warns against Trump ‘apartheid’ plan in West Bank protest tour]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Left-wing party head says PM will annex territory if public doesn’t speak out, blasts refusal to grant citizenship to Palestinians in adjacent areas]( [Israel media review / The right to fight: 5 things to know for June 4]( By [TOI staff]( [Half of Israelis support annexation, most predict violence if it goes ahead]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Settler leader says annexation plan like being forced to eat cake at gunpoint]( By [TOI staff]( [Day after coming under fire for criticizing Trump, David Elhayani says he has a duty to speak out against what he sees as an ‘existential threat’ posed by the US peace proposal]( [Netanyahu lambastes settler leader for saying Trump is no friend of Israel]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Top settler leader: Trump peace plan shows he’s ‘not a friend of Israel’]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Settler mayor: If Netanyahu won’t reveal annexation plan, we’ll ‘blow it up’]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Ex-defense chief Mattis rebukes Trump over protests, implies comparison to Nazis]( By [Agencies]( [Former Pentagon head denounces US president, accusing him of trying to divide country, slams decision to use force to clear demonstrators for DC church photo op]( [Trump declares himself champion of black people comparable to Lincoln]( By [Sam Sokol and Agencies]( [Pentagon-Trump clash breaks open over military and protests]( By [Zeke Miller and Robert Burns]( [Ousted US State Department watchdog confirms investigations into Pompeo]( By [MARY CLARE JALONICK and Eric Tucker]( [Joint List MK diagnosed with virus, shutting down Knesset]( By [TOI staff]( [Sami Abou Shahadeh says he was in contact with thousands, photographed in close contact with others while not wearing a mask; Deri backtracks on entry for foreign yeshiva students]( [Health Ministry announces widespread serological testing to begin next week]( By [TOI staff]( [Police probing modeling agency’s Tel Aviv rooftop bash for violating virus rules]( By [TOI staff]( Live updates [Rivlin: Argue about annexation all you want, but cut the ‘verbal violence’]( By [TOI staff]( [President’s comments come as settler leader, in protest of US peace plan, says proposal like a ‘gun to the head’]( Archaeology [Scientists ‘set the clock’ for ancient Jerusalem, prove who built Temple bridge]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( Top Ops [Dana Blander]( [Without trust, there can be no compliance]( [The Israeli public deserves leadership that isn’t weighed down by a track record of incoherent instructions, selective enforcement, and politicians’ own failure to comply]( [Robert L. Wolkoff]( [Sacred ground]( [It is terrifying that the man who sits in the office of the president of the United States has such profound disregard for the very principles on which the country was founded]( [Aaron Koller]( [America’s Bible problem]( [Trump’s Bible thumping is designed to divide people, evoking awe from some, and alienating the rest — whereas the Bible itself shows God’s investment in every single human being]( [Elazar Stern]( [Stop the ‘pay for slay’ payments and put the welfare of Israeli citizens first]( [For the PA, the martyrs’ payments are central to the long war against Israel; for Israel, stopping them is essential to preventing terror and breaking the cycle of conflict]( [More schools across Israel, many in Tel Aviv, closed due to COVID-19 infections]( By [TOI staff]( [At least a dozen schools and preschools from Sderot to Petah Tikva shuttered, bringing national total to about 65]( [Any school where virus cases found will be shuttered, Netanyahu says]( By [TOI staff]( [Maccabi Tel Aviv fined after soccer players, fans break virus rules to celebrate]( By [TOI staff]( [In move seen as ‘nearly suicidal,’ Abbas’s PA refuses tax transfers from Israel]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid]( [Palestinian Authority, which has formally cut security ties to Israel over annexation plans, heavily relies on these funds amid drop in donor aid, economic crisis caused by virus]( [Israeli pilgrims visit Nablus shrine despite end of PA security cooperation]( By [TOI staff]( [From the web / Liberman, a would-be Netanyahu nemesis, snipes at PM’s annexation talk]( [To fight viral blues, elderly in former Soviet bloc prescribed tablet computers]( By [Julie Masis]( [CRM]( [Top-ranking US Jewish officer calls George Floyd death a ‘national tragedy’]( By [JTA]( [In memo distributed to commanders, Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein also announces review of force’s military justice system for racial bias]( [Thousands in Europe decry racial injustice, police violence]( By [Pan Pylas and Jill Lawless]( [Negative tweets about George Soros up to 500,000 a day, ADL says]( By [Ben Sales]( [Black and Jewish, aspiring congressman John Eaves claims double-dose of empathy]( By [Josefin Dolsten]( More Headlines [Netanyahu said seeking to shift NIS 600,000 tax bill to state]( By [TOI staff]( [Gantz’s new security detail said to cost NIS 23 million a year]( By [TOI staff]( [As garbage grows, Knesset committee debates failed efforts to squash litterbugs]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Auschwitz museum struggling for funds under lockdown]( By [AFP]( [US says Alaska man laundered nearly $1 billion for Iran through UAE]( By [Jon Gambrell]( [Farmers’ markets, to-go cocktails and online art: Tel Aviv’s pandemic response]( By [Shira Rubin]( [Police minister backs eased enforcement against cannabis users]( By [TOI staff]( [Former Austrian vice chancellor accused of writing anti-Semitic book dedication]( By [Toby Axelrod]( [Serbia adopts anti-Semitism definition including anti-Israel hate]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Never mind the bollards / White House tweets rumor that an LA Chabad house is fueling antifa]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER and Ben Sales]( [Obituary / Bruce Jay Friedman, writer of ‘Splash’ and ‘Stern,’ dies at 90]( By [Hillel Italie]( [Senior IDF officer shot, seriously hurt in apparent training accident]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved