Following a public outcry this week, proposed legislation seeking to increase the Israeli government’s powers to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is going to be softened.
In its current form, the “Coronavirus Law”—a memorandum of which was released on May 28—includes a clause that gives police the authority to enter the homes of individuals suspected of violating quarantine orders, without a warrant. Anonymous sources involved in the legislation told the Hebrew news site Walla! that the above clause will be removed from the memorandum before it is brought to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation for debate.
The revised bill is expected to provide police with the authority to enter homes only with a warrant.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Republican Party would seek to pull its August nominating convention out of North Carolina after Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper refused to heed a GOP demand that he pre-authorize a gathering of at least 19,000 people.
“Governor Cooper is still in Shelter-In-Place Mode, and not allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised,” Trump tweeted shortly after 9 p.m. “We are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.”
Republican Party Chair Ronna McDaniel had said earlier in the day that the party would begin exploring options outside of North Carolina.

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu met on Tuesday with the heads of the settler movement to discuss the sovereignty bid he plans to promote over the next few weeks.
Israel’s plan to apply its law in large parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley has met with near-unanimous support on the right, but the Yesha Council, the umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, has been at odds over the plan, with several prominent members on the council actively trying to foil it.

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Las Vegas police said they were responding to a demonstration outside the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino late Monday when the shot ran out. An officer was struggling with a protester when someone walked up and shot the officer in the back of the head, a spokesman said.
That same night, police confronted an armed man near a federal building that they were guarding amid the unrest, and an officer opened fire when he reached for a gun, according to Joseph Lombardo, the Las Vegas sheriff. The man was killed, while the officer wounded outside the hotel was on life support Tuesday.

A massive cyber-attack has exposed the personal information and credit card numbers of hundreds of Israeli citizens, a cyber-security company stated on Tuesday.
According to Israeli news site N12, Israeli company IntSight reported the hack, which was claimed by an anonymous group calling itself Anonymous Islamic/JEArmy.
“Anonymous” is the name of a loosely-connected international group of hackers that often commits cyber-attacks for political reasons.
The latest hack revealed credit card numbers and details, identification cards, phone numbers and security codes. The information was uploaded to a site run by the hackers and is publicly available.

To supplement the presence of local and federal police and the District of Columbia National Guard, Defense Secretary Mark Esper asked state National Guards to send in some of their troops as well, and hundreds were on their way or already here by Tuesday.
Defense officials said that National Guard members from Utah and New Jersey were on the ground Monday, and that additional troops from Indiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee were expected to arrive on Tuesday.

The College Board is halting plans to offer the SAT admissions test at home in the coming months and is urging schools not to punish students who don’t submit scores, further demonstrating how the coronavirus crisis has upended college admissions.
In backing away from at-home exams, the testing organization cited concerns that many students would not have access at home to three hours of reliable Internet service that would be required to complete the multiple-choice exam.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts on Tuesday apologized for calling black leaders “you people” as fallout from the killing of a black protester by a white bar owner in Omaha earlier this week continued to fuel protesters’ anger over racial injustices.
On Monday, armed vehicles flanked the Douglas County courthouse in Omaha as County Attorney Don Kleine announced that he would not be filing charges against a white bar owner, Jake Gardner, who allegedly shot and killed 22-year-old protester James Scurlock on Saturday night during a confrontation in the city’s popular Old Market area. The pair had scuffled, Kleine said, and Gardner had acted in self-defense in what he called a “senseless, but justified” killing.