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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 13, 2020

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(L-R, rear) US senior presidential advisor Jared Kushner, US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien clap for US President Donald Trump after he announced an agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to normalize diplomatic ties, at the White House, August 13, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

UAE and Israel announce they’re establishing ties; Israel suspending annexation

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu hails start of a new era, hails Trump for brokering deal; settlers fume; Kushner predicts other states will follow; Abbas recalls PA’s envoy from Abu Dhabi

8:17 pm

Iranian official: 'UAE will be engulfed in Zionism fire,' its deal 'serves Zionists' crimes'
8:13 pm

US envoy: UAE-Israel deal 'huge win' for Trump
8:06 pm

Jordan says ending 'violation of Palestinian rights' must follow UAE-Israel deal

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and her husband Douglas Emhoff look to each other at the end of a campaign event at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

His kids call her ‘Momala’: Meet the Jewish husband of Biden’s pick for VP

A successful Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket would make Doug Emhoff the first ever second gentleman and first Jewish spouse of a US president or VP

Senator Kamala Harris, a California Democrat, speaks after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden introduced her as his running mate during a campaign event at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Delaware, August 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

All on the line: Biden introduces historic running mate Harris, both lash Trump

By Bill Barrow, Alexandra Jaffe and Will Weissert

Then-US Vice President Joe Biden gestures during a speech in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2010. (David Furst/AFP)

AnalysisCould Biden’s deep Israel ties ease Obama-era tensions?

Two buildings, located near Saudi Arabia's Solar Village research institute, that some analysts believe could be nuclear facilities (Google Earth screen grab)

Analysis

If the enemy of my enemy gets the bomb: Saudi nuclear plan gives Israel headache

By Raphael Ahren

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addresses the parliament, in Damascus, Syria, August 12, 2020. (SANA via AP)

Syrian president slams US sanctions in speech to parliament

By AFP

Illustrative. An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

Contradicting Israel, cybersecurity firm says N. Korea breached defense industry

ClearSky says Lazarus hackers stole sensitive data from ‘several dozen’ companies, NY Times reports; Israel said concerned it could fall into Iranian hands

Illustrative. An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel says it fended off North Korean hack attempt against defense industry

Protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem on July 25, 2020. Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Exclusive

Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s credit rating under no ‘immediate’ threat for downgrade: S&P

Even as nation struggles to contain virus, works without state budget and may face 4th election, top analyst who sets rating says macro fundamentals strong, institutions credible

Illustrative image of a man using a laptop computer. (iStock by Getty Images/ Suradech14)

Innovation Authority earmarks NIS 20 million in grants to boost tech skills

By Shoshanna Solomon

People walk in Jerusalem on August 12, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health chief predicts decline in COVID-19 cases in two weeks

Op-ed

Protests to the left, Bennett to the right, Netanyahu troubled only if they meet

The demos are growing, as is support for the PM’s longtime rival. But these are disparate challenges that spell danger to his rule only if they find a way to complement each other

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as then-defense minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri confer, during a meeting of right-wing party leaders at the Knesset following election day, on March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem District Court Judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman. (Israeli Judicial Authority)

Likud MK demands recusal of judge in PM’s trial for alleged conflict of interest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara celebrating election night in Tel Aviv on March 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

What a Netanyahu wants: What the press is saying on August 13

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at the swearing in ceremony of the 23rd government in the Knesset on May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Report: Sara Netanyahu barred Ethiopian Israelis from residence living quarters

Manager at official home laid down the rule on behalf of premier’s wife, newspaper reports, as she allegedly claims they have ‘germs’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara at a welcoming ceremony for the Brazilian president at Ben Gurion Airport on March 31, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Women’s rights groups, activists bash Sara Netanyahu for claim she is ‘battered’

From the blogs

Yosef I. Abramowitz

Shabbat dinner with Kamala and Doug

At dessert, the now-US VP contender told us her goal was to hold the center together on Israel in the Democratic Party

My grandfather wrote the ‘Mein Kampf’ of Lithuania: Here’s what it says

I expected WWII hero Jonas Noreika’s booklet to be a rallying cry to patriotism. I was not prepared for what I found instead

The dangerous message to women in ‘Unorthodox’

The media’s encouragement of one-night stands in place of committed long-term relationships is a repetitive, hurtful narrative to women

Doctors treat an infected patient. (iStock)

Small trial for COVID antibody drug, a world 1st, gets flying start in Jerusalem

By Nathan Jeffay

Hadassah hospital gave three people a new drug made from antibodies from people who had had coronavirus; they are all now home after ‘astonishing’ recovery

Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 5, 2020. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Gantz’s surgery nurse tests positive for virus; he won’t need to isolate

Sarah Nadav, shortly after being attacked on a Tel Aviv bus (via Sarah Nadav)

Tel Aviv woman says she was attacked after asking bus passenger to wear mask

By Nathan Jeffay

An Arrow 2 interceptor missile is fired at an incoming target in a live-fire test on August 12, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Israel, US test upgraded Arrow 2 missile, capable of intercepting incoming nukes

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Weapon to defend against long-range projectiles shoots down target off Israeli coast in ‘perfect’ simulation, Defense Ministry says

Soldiers from the mixed-gender Lions of the Jordan Valley Battalion take part in an exercise in the Tzeelim army base on February 5, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

IDF weighs full gender integration of combat units as women sue to enlist

By Judah Ari Gross

People gather in Limanakia Vouliagenis beach in southern Athens, August 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

After foreign ministers meet, Greece to let 600 Israeli tourists visit per week

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israelis reportedly to be limited to 4 destinations, stay in quarantine for up to 48 hours until test results; meeting Dendias, Netanyahu backs Greece in spat with Turkey

Illustrative: Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing move a patient outside the coronavirus unit at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on July 27, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

In deadliest day since start of pandemic, 17 succumb to virus in 24 hours

A worker wearing protective clothing disinfects andIsrair plane after its arrival from Moscow at the Ben Gurion International Airport, May 5, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel reportedly in talks with EU countries for quarantine-free travel

Smoke and flames rise after Israeli aircraft carry out airstrikes near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on August 12, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza amid spate of balloon-borne arson attacks

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

IDF says warplanes, tanks, helicopters hit terror sites after airborne devices spark over 80 fires in recent days; Gantz orders halt to fuel imports into Strip

An Israeli worker from the Nature and Parks Authority attempts to extinguish a fire caused by a incendiary balloon launched by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, on the Israeli side of the border between Israel and Gaza, near Or HaNer Kibbutz, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel halves Gaza fishing zone after dozens of fires sparked in south

By Judah Ari Gross

Arab women enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on August 4, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel said barring Palestinians again after turning blind eye for beach weekend

Detail of the north-east quarter of the cremation pit during excavation. A fragment of collapsed wall inside the pit is visible (star). (Bocquentin et al, 2020/PLOS ONE, CC BY)

Archaeology

Neolithic cremains in Israel are Mideast’s oldest funerary pyre, claims scholar

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Levant’s first deliberate cremation occurred between 7013-6700 BCE, according to new analysis of remains of young adult discovered in northern Israel’s Beisamoun site in 2013

Gyðingakökur, which means 'Jewish cookie' in Icelandic. (Getty images via JTA)

Recipe inside

Icelandic Jewish cookies: A dessert with a fascinating story to tell

By Rachel Ringler

Illustrative: A Hezbollah supporter chants slogans as he holds his group's flag during a protest against US involvement in Lebanon's affairs, near the US embassy in Aukar, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Nine days after deadly Beirut blast, Lithuania outlaws Hezbollah

Citing Israeli intelligence, Vilnius says Iranian-backed group ‘uses terrorist means that pose threat to the security of a significant number of countries’

University students who volunteered to help clean damaged homes and give other assistance, pass in front of a building that was damaged by last week's explosion, in Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 11, 2020 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Abandoned by state after explosion, Lebanese help each other

In this December 13, 2018 photo, UN peacekeepers hold their flag while standing next to Hezbollah and Lebanese flags, at the site where Israeli excavators are working, near the southern border village of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon. (AP/Hussein Malla)

US threatening to veto UN peacekeeper mandate in southern Lebanon — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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Former Ecuadorean President Abdala Bucaram leaves the Foreign Ministery in Panama City, Panama in this April 27, 2005. (Arnulfo Franco/AP)

Ecuador’s ex-president detained in murder probe of jailed Israeli man

By GONZALO SOLANO

Illustrative. Israeli Border Police in East Jerusalem, on May 18, 2018. (AP/Mahmoud Illean/File)

Five Border Police charged with assaulting, robbing Palestinians

By Aaron Boxerman

Emotion emoticons used by a psychologist during a therapy session with a child with autism. (iStock)

Fixing fat levels may be linked to lowered autism risk, Israeli-US team suggests

By Nathan Jeffay

A volunteer wearing protective gear to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus checks temperature at a mosque in Tehran, July 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran claims it is testing ‘three to four’ COVID-19 vaccines on humans

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Danny Burstein at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in New York City, March 12, 2018. (Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)

‘Fiddler’ star on life after COVID-19: I’m not really sure how I’m doing

By Curt Schleier

Herman Wouk in 1975. (Alex Gotfryd/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)

Serious, not satire‘Family Guy’ creator adapting Herman Wouk novels for miniseries

By Curt Schleier

Alina Krus, 26, holds a poster at the place where a protester died amid the clashes in Minsk, Belarus, Aug. 12, 2020 saying "It's my birthday today. I made a wish that no one gets killed. We are peaceful people. Enough with the violence, please." (AP Photo)

2nd Belarus protester dies, 6,000 arrested after disputed election

By Tatiana Kalinovskaya

In this April 20, 2013, file photo, media mogul Sumner Redstone arrives at the 2013 MOCA Gala celebrating the opening of the Urs Fischer exhibition at MOCA, in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Sumner Redstone, media mogul who said he’d never die, dies at 97

By AP and ToI Staff

Graffiti in a quarry between two Palestinian villages close to the settlement of Yitzhar, reading "demolition will lead to destruction," on Thursday, August 13, 2020 (Credit: Urif Local Council)

2 Palestinian villages in the West Bank vandalized in apparent hate crimes

By Aaron Boxerman

Supporters stand with construction executive Marjorie Taylor Greene, right, August 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Trump fetes QAnon backer accused of anti-Semitism on primary win

By AP

New York State Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright donated blood with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, in May 2020. (Courtesy of Seawright)

Non-Jewish New York assemblywoman targeted in anti-Semitic attack

An image from a doctored video claiming to show a missile hitting Beirut's port and causing a massive explosion on August 4, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Beirut blast conspiracy tales abound, with faked clips pointing blame at Israel

By AFP

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