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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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French emergency workers, part of a special unit working with chemicals, walk next to damaged containers near the site of last week's explosion, in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. The unit is identifying potential leaks and securing an area where containers with flammable liquids have been damaged by the blast. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

At least 20 more containers of dangerous chemicals still in Beirut port – expert

By NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE

Some of them are punctured, and one is leaking, says a French expert working amid the remains of the explosion-shattered port

From the webLebanon’s leaders were warned in July about explosives at port — report

By Laila Bassam and Samia Nakhoul

Hassan Diab, Lebanon’s fallen ‘technocrat’ premier

By Layal Abou Rahal

Entire Lebanese cabinet resigns amid rising fury over Beirut blast

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein holds a press conference during a visit at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health minister: Israel will talk to Russia on claims of working virus vaccine

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Yuli Edelstein says if Moscow’s announcement of a functioning inoculation to protect against coronavirus is verified, countries will enter into negotiations

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, June 26, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin claims Russia has developed ‘first’ coronavirus vaccine

Medics work with COVID-19 patients at the isolation ward of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on July 29, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

As infections stay high, officials warn of PPE shortage in Israel from September

Palestinians prepare an indenciary to be flown toward Israel by balloon, near the Israel-Gaza border, in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, August 10, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel threatens ‘forceful’ response as over 60 fires sparked by arson balloons

Gantz says Israel could follow up closure of crossing with harsher measures; PM blames Iran, says Israel will exact ‘heavy price’ if attacks persist

Fire caused by a suspected incendiary device launched from the Gaza Strip, August 11, 2020 (Screen grab/Twitter)

Suspected arson balloons spark fires in south after Israel shuts Gaza crossings

Palestinians prepare a flammable object to be flown toward Israel, near the Israel-Gaza border, in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, August 10, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel closes Gaza border crossing after spike in arson balloon attacks

By Aaron Boxerman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Seeking to preserve gov’t, Blue and White to sit out vote to bar Netanyahu as PM

Party says it generally supports bill to prevent any MK on trial from forming coalition, but at this time opposition’s bid aims to ‘undermine stability of entire political system’

Amid crisis, Gantz allies said split on bill to bar Netanyahu from premiership

Israel media reviewThose who can’t, campaign: What the press is saying on August 11

Netanyahu appears to dismiss Gantz’s 24-hour deadline to pass budget delay bill

New York Jewish Week editor Andrew Silow-Carroll. (Courtesy)

In New York area, a Jewish media landscape devastated by COVID-19

By Eric Cortellessa

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C-L) and his coalition partner Defense Minister Benny Gantz (C-R) arrive for a graduation ceremony for new pilots at the Hatzerim air force base in southern Israel on June 25, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/Pool/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said demanding to alter deal with Gantz to keep coalition intact

Amid political crisis that could lead to new elections, TV report says standoff over budget is secondary to PM’s conditions for continuing the Likud-Blue and White partnership

6:10 pm

Mossad chief said to ask Qataris to keep sending money to Gaza
6:08 pm

Blue and White's Michael Biton to fill in as defense minister when Gantz has surgery
5:47 pm

NY Holocaust museum plans to reopen in September

Lebanese blogger and journalist Dima Sadek. (video screenshot)

Lebanese blogger goes viral slamming Nasrallah as ‘worse than Israel’

‘What has Israel done against us that’s worse than you?’ demands Dima Sadek in Twitter video viewed over 715,000 times, as she blames Hezbollah for Beirut blast

IDF tanks, troops carry out searches near Lebanon border after troop cutback

Iran jails man accused of spying on nukes, missiles, for Israel and Germany

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran wary of waning Hezbollah influence after blast shakes up Lebanon

By Ahmad Parhizi

From the blogs

Stumbling stones for my murdered great-grandparents

As the wife of Israel’s ambassador to Germany, the ceremony should feel triumphant. But it comes at a troubled time of resurgent Jew-hatred

Indian health volunteers register people participating in the India-Israel Non-Invasive Raid COVID-19 test study camp, at a government hospital in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 31, 2020. (AP/Manish Swarup)

Testing, testing: Indian samples boost Israeli bid for voice-based COVID check

By Nathan Jeffay

With 20,000 recordings collected in Delhi, engineers crank up efforts for an algorithm based on the idea that infection may be detected through tiny changes in how people speak

Parked airplanes at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 8, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Israel’s plan to ‘open skies’ for air travel seen as not ready for takeoff

People wearing face masks due to coronavirus outbreak walk in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 10, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Coronavirus death toll rises to 619, recoveries pass 60,000 mark

My first day as a Soviet refugee: 100 years of marketing in one minute

On our first morning in Austria we ventured out to a grocery store. 30 years later, I still recall the sensation of seeing all those colors

For the High Holidays, to Zoom or not to Zoom is not the question

Now is the time to focus on the value of personal prayer and how to utilize this time for a deeper personal connection with God

Nick Cannon speaks during a Zoom conversation organized by the American Jewish Committee on August 10, 2020. (Screen capture/Zoom)

Atoning for anti-Semitic remarks, Cannon says he’s okay being ‘sacrificial lamb’

In online conversation with Jewish group, entertainer says apology has been just one part of process in making amends; reveals great-grandfather was a Sephardic rabbi

Ex-player Cody Decker says anti-Semitism ‘rampant’ in Major League baseball

By Gabe Friedman

Georgia Republican who has pushed anti-Semitic theory running for Congress

Congress’s Omar faces high-stakes primary as Minnesotans head to poll

By Steve Karnowski and MOHAMED IBRAHIM

US President Donald Trump being removed by a member of the secret service from the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 10, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Trump abruptly pulled from press briefing after shooting outside White House

Secret Service agents interrupt coronavirus briefing and rush president out of room; Trump returns, saying law enforcement shot apparently armed suspect, everything ‘under control’

US President Donald Trump speaks after touring the Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Plant in Clyde, Ohio, on August 6, 2020. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Trump vows ‘deal with Iran’ within four weeks of reelection

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jerusalem municipality workers and police officers seen evacuating demonstrators who built a protest tent camp, against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Independence Park, Jerusalem, August 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesters claim Jerusalem municipality using heavy hand to clear campsites

Independence Park site emptied multiple times, with activists saying municipal workers use force and confiscate personal belongings illegally; city says they are a public nuisance

Prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari (2nd-L) and Shaul Elovtich (2nd-R) at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in the criminal cases against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, July 19, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Prosecutors ordered to turn over docs on police tactics in Netanyahu graft case

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a news conference in Cincinnati. April 16, 2018. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Bipartisan US bill aims to advance normalized ties between Israel, Arab states

By Eric Cortellessa

New legislation from senators Portman and Booker would require State Department to publish annual report on countries’ anti-normalization practices

Josh Kulp (upper right) and some of his advanced Talmud students on Zoom, during the throes of the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy Josh Kulp)

The Brighter Side

For these Talmud students, COVID-19 offers bliss of extra time to learn

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Nava Revivo, center, mother of late IDF soldier Amit Ben-Ygal, cries at his funeral at the cemetery in Be'er Ya'akov, May 12, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Soldier’s mom says he’s ‘been killed again’ as court bars razing suspect’s home

Helped by coronavirus crisis, Wix becomes Israel’s second-highest valued company

By JTA and ToI Staff

Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)

WHO expert on lessons of COVID-19: ‘Live animal trade has to stop’

A cleaning worker disinfects a classroom in Jerusalem on June 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbi-dad starts online US Jewish day school to help families through pandemic

By Josefin Dolsten

Prime Minister Netanyahu participated, via videoconference, at a event marking the ratification of a free-trade agreement between Israel and Colombia, August 10, 2020 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Colombia will open trade office in Jerusalem, President Duque says

By Raphael Ahren

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, candidate for the presidential elections, reacts during a meeting with her supporters in Minsk, Belarus, July 19, 2020 (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Defeated challenger in disputed Belarus election flees to Lithuania

By Tatiana Kalinovskaya

The hand-held ultrasound developed by PulseNmore, allows women to monitor the wellbeing of the fetus at home (YouTube screenshot)

Clalit to offer pregnant members startup PulseNmore’s at-home ultrasound kit

By Shoshanna Solomon

El Al planes on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport on August 3, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

El Al seeks clarifications on bid by son of US businessman to buy stake in firm

View of the Leonardo hotel on the beachside of Haifa (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

High Court comes out against Tshuva’s plan for four hotel towers on Haifa beach

Hadarim Prison in the Sharon area, central Israel, on July 23, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Convicted murderer accused of smuggling cyanide into prison — report

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