Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Tuesday that if Israel annexes parts of Judea and Samaria, the Palestinians would declare a state based on the pre-1967 lines and launch an international recognition campaign.
The campaign, he said, would include recognition of eastern Jerusalem as the state’s capital, reported Ynet.
Shtayyeh called annexation an “existential threat” for the Palestinians.

Dear Editor,
As we all know, during these months of ‘lockdown’ when the Chadorim and schools have been closed there have been major changes in all our lives. At first, Mothers worried how on earth they would manage, how would they cope with their household tasks and responsibilities with a houseful of children around 24 hours a day?

By Moshe Phillips
Yet another scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Museum has denounced Israel as racist, colonialist, and murderous. Is this an appropriate use of our tax dollars?
The latest attack on the Jewish state comes from the pen of an Israeli historian, Amos Goldberg, who last year served as a Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, DC.
Goldberg’s denunciation of Israel, which appeared in early June on “+972 Magazine” website (and was co-authored by Alon Confino), was titled “To Understand Zionism, We Must Listen to the Voices of its Victims.” The article was published just after several synagogues were graffitied with anti-Israel hate messages during the George Floyd riots.

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Question: Someone has been selling masks in his development for the last several weeks. He now discovers that his neighbor is beginning to sell masks as well, and he feels that this will impact negatively on his sales. Does he have the halachic right to prevent his neighbor from selling them due to the prohibition of hasagas gevul (unfair business competition)?

Seven people were wounded in three shootings just 10 minutes apart Monday night in different Brooklyn neighborhoods, the NY Post reports.

People who have the coronavirus but don’t display symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the pandemic, World Health Organization officials said Monday.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing in Geneva, CNBC reported.
Health officials warned early on that asymptomatic carriers could be fueling the spread by stealth –but Van Kerkhove said that while asymptomatic spread can occur, it is not the main way the virus was being transmitted.

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has announced that the government is “hitting the emergency brake” on the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions.
Following a meeting of the “coronavirus cabinet,” convened to discuss the spike in new infections recorded since the country began a gradual return to operations in May, the premier said in a video message that the easing of closures scheduled for the coming days—including the resumption of inter-city train transportation and the reopening of theaters—will not take place. One exception Netanyahu cited was banquet halls, which he said would be allowed to operate in accordance with Health Ministry guidelines.

The U.S. economy officially entered into a recession in February, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, ending the record 128-month expansion that began in June 2009.
The Business Cycle Dating Committee, which tracks and dates business cycles within the NBER, said the economy peaked in February before the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout the country and prompted an unprecedented shutdown in economic activity. Recessions often refer to two consecutive quarters of contraction, but the NBER’s formal calculation includes other factors, including domestic production and employment.
“The time that it takes for the economy to return to its previous peak level of activity or its previous trend path may be quite extended,” the committee’s report said.

Global deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 400,000 on Sunday, as case numbers surged in Brazil and India, according to a Reuters tally.
The United States is responsible for about one-quarter of all fatalities, but deaths in South America are rapidly rising.
The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in just five months is now equal to the number of people who die annually from malaria, one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases.
Global cases are approaching 7 million, with about 2 million, or 30%, of those cases in the United States. Latin America has the second-largest outbreak with over 15% of cases, according to Reuters tally.