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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 9, 2020

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Lebanese protesters, enraged by a deadly explosion blamed on officials' negligence, clash with security forces for the second evening near an access street to the parliament in central Beirut on August 9, 2020. (Joseph Eid/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Fresh clashes in Beirut between Lebanese protesters, security forces

Police fire tear gas at rock-throwing demonstrators near Lebanon’s parliament amid anger over deadly blast at port

6:25 pm

Likud's Gideon Sa'ar says many party members oppose new elections
6:01 pm

Blue and White, Labor said discussing joint run if new elections held
5:38 pm

Lukashenko wins Belarus presidential vote with 79.7% -- exit poll

Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud, Blue and White brawl publicly as coalition teeters on the brink

Unity government ‘was a mistake,’ official in Gantz’s party said to say as weekly cabinet meeting canceled over budget crisis; Likud asserts Gantz is holding up aid to public

Haredi party signals it may bolt Netanyahu’s bloc if new election called

Likud, Blue and White scotch cabinet meeting, trade barbs as impasse deepens

Opposition to file bill to disqualify Netanyahu from forming government

Election campaign billboards for Likud and its leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (foreground), and the Blue and White party led by Benny Gantz (background), in Bnei Brak, February 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel media review

Breaking up is easy to do: What the press is saying on August 9

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel’s governing coalition appears to be in its death throes, though a miracle or some defections could keep elections away and Netanyahu in power. Until then, let the mud fly

Closed store at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on June 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

150 business leaders urge government to pass 2-year budget

Likud MK Miki Zohar reacts during a meeting at the Knesset, January 13, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Coalition whip scraps disciplinary moves against Likud MKs, cites need for unity

From the blogs

How Rabbi Steinsaltz’s whiskey shenanigans changed Judaism for me

The late scholar will be remembered for his Talmud translation and commentary, but also for his call to avoid idealizing anyone, including him

Thousands protest against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of his official residence in Jerusalem, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Joining anti-Netanyahu protests, right-wingers vent frustrations at premier

By Aaron Boxerman and Anat Peled

Thousands protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on August 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

‘Let my people go’: Thousands gather in new round of anti-Netanyahu protests

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Protesters try to stop municipal officials from confiscating equipment from anti-Netanyahu encampment in Independence Park, Jerusalem, August 9, 2020. (screen grab/Kan)

Clashes as police clear protest encampment near Netanyahu residence for 5th time

Matnat Chaim founder Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Haber in Jerusalem, September 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

COVID-19 death of Israeli kidney nonprofit founder spurs record number of donors

By Benjy Singer

A Jewish man originally from Yemen embraces a family member from whom he had been separated for 15 years, Abu Dhabi, UAE, August 2020. (Twitter)

UAE helps reunite Yemenite Jewish family that was separated for 15 years

By Raphael Ahren

‘My soul felt reborn,’ one relative says at Abu Dhabi airport ceremony; tweeting about reunion, Emirati FM Abdullah bin Zayed hails his country as ‘homeland of coexistence’

Givati Parking Lot excavations in the City of David Park in Jerusalem, a site where remnants of the 586 BCE destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians were discovered. (Shai Halevi/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Burnt remains from 586 BCE Jerusalem may hold key to protecting planet

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Disbanding the Knesset for lack of an approved budget makes no sense

The rule, unique to Israel, was meant as an incentive to avoid budgetary deadlock. Today, it simply offers Netanyahu an easy exit strategy

‘Charity begins at home’ and other false dichotomies

Humanitarian aid to suffering people is just not the same as helping Iran or Hezbollah – and besides, we help ourselves most when we reach out to help others

Lebanese protesters destroy the interior of the headquarters of the Lebanese association of banks in downtown Beirut on August 8, 2020, following a demonstration against a political leadership they blame for a monster explosion that killed more than 150 people and disfigured the capital Beirut. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Poster shows politicians' pictures and phrase 'Execute them'

‘We’re at war with our government’: Protesters briefly storm Beirut ministries

By Layal Abou Rahal and Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Troops use rubber bullets, tear gas to force group led by ex-army officers out of several ministries and a bank HQ, as anger over port explosion surges

Anti-government protesters chant slogans outside the Lebanese foreign ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, August 8, 2020. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

How furious protesters briefly conquered Lebanon’s foreign ministry

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel and Rouba El Husseini

Lebanon's information minister Manal Abdel Samad gives a press conference, March 27, 2020. (Screen grab/YouTube)

Lebanon information minister quits, in 1st cabinet resignation over Beirut blast

By AFP

A cardboard cutout of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is hung in a noose during a demonstration in Beirut on August 8, 2020, following the deadly blast in the Lebanese capital. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Cutout of Hezbollah’s Nasrallah hung in noose during protest over Beirut blast

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police officer killed, 142 hurt as security forces clash with demonstrators in Lebanese capital during protest against country’s political leaders

An aerial view taken on August 7, 2020, shows a partial view of the port of Beirut and the crater caused by the colossal explosion three days earlier of a huge pile of ammonium nitrate that had languished for years in a port warehouse, left scores of people dead or injured and caused devastation in the Lebanese capital. (AFP)

Beirut port blast crater is 43 meters deep, Lebanese security official says

By AFP

Molotov cocktails are hurled at Lebanese soldiers by anti-government protesters during a protest against the political elites and the government after this week's deadly explosion at Beirut port which devastated large parts of the capital in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Over 230 hurt, security officer killed, during hours of Beirut clashes

By Sarah El Deeb and Bassam Mroue

Maj. Eliraz Peretz, left, and Staff Sgt. Ilan Sviatkovsky, who were killed in a firefight with terrorists on the Gaza border in March 2010, in undated photographs. (Foreign Ministry)

10 years on, Israel arrests suspect in Gaza attack that killed 2 soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Abdallah Daghmeh recently applied to enter Israel to donate bone marrow to his brother, was detained at border; victim Eliraz Peretz’s mother Miriam has received Israel Prize

Heavy machinery works on a massive underground barrier that is expected to stretch along the entire 60-kilometer (40-mile) border when it is complete, on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, September 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Shots fired at workers building Gaza barrier, IDF troops; no injuries reported

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

US President Donald Trump, right, pats Las Vegas Sands Corporation Chief Executive and Republican mega donor Sheldon Adelson on the arm, before speaking at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Florida, December 7, 2019. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Trump said to berate Adelson for not giving enough to his reelection campaign

By ToI Staff and AP

Source tells Politico that US president was apparently not aware how much Republican mega-donor has already given to his cause

Antone Melton-Meaux is challenging incumbent Ilhan Omar in the 5th District Democratic primaries on August 11. (Photo of Antone Melton-Meaux: AP/ Jim Mone; Photo of Ilhan Omar: (AP/ Marcio Jose Sanchez)

AnalysisCeleb politician Ilhan Omar’s congressional seat may be in jeopardy. Here’s why

By Lonny Goldsmith

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Yona Avrushmi, center, who killed protester Emil Grunzweig with a grenade thrown at a peace rally in 1983, on the day of his release from prison after serving a life sentence on January 26, 2011. (Flash90)

Likud minister: Arrest peace activist’s killer for his latest incitement

Shy Dahan (Courtesy)

Israeli said murdered in Ecuador jail; tied to ex-leader’s alleged COVID-19 scam

An Indian COVID-19 patient provides samples to a medic helping Israel's coronavirus mission to India. (Defense Ministry Spokesperson’s Office)

Member of Israeli virus research team in India confirmed infected on flight home

A nurse taking a blood test, with the OLO device developed by Sight Diagnostics in the background. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel’s finger-prick blood test startup Sight nabs $71 million to expand scope

By Shoshanna Solomon

Archive photo: Stabbing victim in the city of Lod is evacuated by a Magen David Adom ambulance, January 24, 2019. (MDA)

23-year-old stabbed to death in Rishon Lezion; 8 arrested

Israeli Olympic racewalker Shaul Ladany holds his 1972's Olympic race shoes for a portrait in Omer, Israel, July 12, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Still going strong, Israeli athlete, 84, recalls surviving 1972 Olympic massacre

Illustrative: An Israeli police car (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Man shot dead in Hadera, two others injured in suspected botched gangland hit

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Jewish people at a synagogue. ((Robert Nicholas/Getty Images via JTA)

17% of US Jews attended virtual prayers last month, versus half of Christians

The Ashkenazi Synagogue of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (Courtesy of L'Chaim via JTA)

Construction firm pulls lawsuit to evict synagogue in Uzbekistan

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Self-employed Israelis block a road in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for financial support from the government, July 11, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Finance Ministry gives social lender nod for government-backed loans

By Shoshanna Solomon

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