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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 15, 2020

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White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, following the announcement of Israel's normalization agreement with the UAE, August 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Bahrain king reportedly calls deal a 'historic achievement'

Kushner says Israel-Saudi Arabia normalization is an ‘inevitability’

Following landmark deal with UAE, US president’s son-in-law and adviser says Jerusalem and Riyadh will ‘do great things together,’ despite silence from Saudis on accord

UAE Jewish community leader Solly Wolf speaks in an interview with Israel's Channel 12, August 14, 2020. (Channel 12/Screenshot)

UAE Jewish community leader beckons Israelis to visit: ‘Cheaper than Eilat’

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump misspoke in saying Israel is suspending ‘settlements,’ meant annexation

By Eric Cortellessa

UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash speaks to journalists in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

UAE minister: We bought lot of time on annexation; Palestinians should negotiate

Tel Aviv City Hall is lit up with the flags of the United Arab Emirates and Israel as the countries announced they would be establishing full diplomatic ties, on August 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

UAE defends Israel deal as ‘shake-up’ of tired Mideast diplomacy

By Mohamad Ali Harissi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 27, 2018. (Avi Ohayon / PMO/ File)

Netanyahu thanks Egypt, Oman, Bahrain for their ‘support’ of UAE deal

By AFP

From the blogs

Stunning Israel-UAE deal upends the ‘rules’ about peace-making in Middle East

Setting aside a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the main impediment to peace, to work on the region’s other priorities, marks a fundamental shift that just might work

Illustrative: In this photo released July 28, 2020, by Sepahnews, a Revolutionary Guard's speedboat fires a missile during a military exercise (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran claims victory after UN soundly rejects US bid to extend arms embargo

By AFP

Rouhani says US failed to kill off ‘half alive’ deal; Iranian Foreign Ministry: America is isolated; Washington expected to deliver snap back letter next week to restore sanctions

Missiles are fired in an Iranian military exercise by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, on July 28, 2020. (Sepahnews via AP)

UN Security Council votes to let Iran arms embargo expire, rejecting US demands

By Edith M. Lederer

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds a joint news conference with Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg in Vienna, Austria, August 14, 2020. (Lisi Niesner/Pool via AP)

As UN votes, Pompeo says it’s ‘nuts’ to let Iran arms embargo expire

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a ceremony celebrating the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi, Freedom, Square in Tehran, Iran on February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran: UAE made ‘huge mistake’ with Israel deal, and now faces ‘dangerous future’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rouhani says Jerusalem shouldn’t be allowed ‘foothold’ in region, calls defeat of US-proposed UN resolution to extend Iran weapons ban a ‘humiliation’ for Washington

Erekat: I never expected this poison dagger to come from an Arab country

By Josef Federman

Nasrallah: UAE betrayed Arabism, did Trump a ‘personal favor,’ with Israel deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Erdogan says Turkey could suspend relations with UAE over Israel deal

By AFP

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)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Hezbollah, Lebanon’s enemy within, remains untouchable despite port catastrophe

The terror group is in a sensitive position given its role in weakening the country — but while protestors fume, they cannot and dare not muster truly meaningful opposition

FBI team to arrive in Beirut this weekend to join port explosion probe

By Bassam Mroue

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah demands unity government after Beirut blast

Families of Beirut blast victims plead for international investigation

By Zeina Karam and Lori Hinnant

The site of the Fosse Adreatine massacre of 1944 has become a memorial to the 335 victims buried in the disused quarries. (Italian Defense Ministry)

Holocaust

After 76 years, victims of Nazi massacre in Italy identified through DNA testing

By Giovanni Vigna

Masks and hand sanitizer are now the norm at luxury hotel Mamilla in Jerusalem (Courtesy Mamilla Hotel)

Deep cleaning, co-living, kids’ games: Israeli hotels pivot to survive pandemic

By Jessica Steinberg

Stanford University student Zohar Levy is the outreach coordinator for Jewish on Campus. (J. The Jewish News of Northern California/ via JTA)

Anti-Semitism on campus

Instagram account shares anonymous stories of Jew-hatred on US college campuses

By Gabriel Greschler

When COVID comes knocking

I want to tell you what happens. Your whole world shrinks. You’re caught up in the prospect of two weeks in isolation, while you wait for the other shoe to drop. Will I catch it?

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jenny and Tzippy and that aching middle place

Of mothers and daughters, and cats and kittens, and that time of maturity when surely we will all get along

A Boro Park Jewish Community Council volunteer helps an Orthodox woman learn about the census. (Avi Greenstein/via JTA)

Shortened census period means Brooklyn’s Orthodox may be undercounted

Rep. Rashida Tlaib waves as she endorses then-Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally in Detroit, October 27, 2019. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Analysis

Quiet on Israel for now, US progressives still at odds with pro-Israel community

It may not top agendas for America’s growing far-left during campaign season, but when pressed if the DNS supports the Jewish state’s right to exist, leadership refuses to answer

Meg Keene and David Mishook said their son, left, was rejected from Oakland Hebrew Day School for being gender-fluid. (Kenzie Kate/ via JTA)

California Orthodox Jewish school didn’t take gender-fluid child, parents claim

By Josefin Dolsten

Blake Flayton and Lea Toubian, student fellows with the Jewish Democratic Council of America, pretend to phone one another to demonstrate a "get out the vote" tactic in a JDCA Zoom event on August 13, 2020. (Screenshot)

Analysis

Jewish Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: Keep an eye on Florida

Conventions hosted by both political communities differ on all topics, except the belief that Jews in the Sunshine State could sway the presidential election

Rabbi Chaim Danzinger, left, introduces Dr. Yeshaya Shafit, second from left, to Jews awaiting circumcision at the synagogue of Rostov-on-Don in Russia, July 27, 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Rostov/ via JTA)

Russia has a full-time surgeon whose only job is circumcising Jewish men

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Israeli legal scholar Ruth Gavison at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, February 22, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Leading Israeli legal scholar Ruth Gavison dies at 75

A youth moves debris on a rooftop following an Israeli air strike east of al-Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on August 15, 2020. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Hamas: Israel will ‘bear consequences’ after 2 kids said lightly hurt in strikes

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on August 7, 2020. (Flash90)

UAE deal won’t distract us, say protesters, gathering outside Netanyahu’s homes

Illustrative: Members of the Democratic Socialists of America gather outside of a Trump-owned building on May Day on May 01, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

NY Democratic Socialists asks City Council candidates to pledge no Israel visits

Haredi Jews from the Hasidic sect of Shomrei Emunim attend the funeral of Rabbi Refael Aharon Roth, 72, who died from the coronavirus, in Bnei Brak, Israel, August 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

1,525 virus cases recorded in last 24 hours as ministers pass new restrictions

The cover of Michael Cohen's new book, "Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump," which will be released on September 8, 2020, by Skyhorse Publishing. (Courtesy/Skyhorse Publishing via AP)

Michael Cohen’s book foreword: Trump ‘wouldn’t mind if I was dead’

By Hillel Italie

Michael Aloni at the 70th Anniversary of Israel celebration in Los Angeles, June 10, 2018. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Israeli Consulate, Los Angeles, via JTA)

Small screen queenEpic TV series ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ to feature ‘Shtisel’ star Aloni

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: In this undated photo, prisoners at the electric fence of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany cheer on the arriving Americans. (photo credit: AP/File)

Israeli, German jets to make 1st joint flyover at Dachau, Munich Olympics site

By Toby Axelrod

US President Donald Trump holds a statue presented to him as he speaks during an event Trump National Golf Club, Aug. 14, 2020, in Bedminster, N.J., with members of the City of New York Police Department Benevolent Association. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump dodges question on QAnon right-wing conspiracy theory

Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world’s first digital photograph (Jamie Francis/The Oregonian via AP, File)

ObituaryPixel inventor, computer scientist Russell Kirsch dies at 91

By AP

Joshua Kimmich, left, and Leon Goretzka of FC Bayern Munich celebrate after winning the DFB Cup at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, July 4, 2020. (Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images via JTA)

Fund set up by Bayern Munich stars donates $80,000 to Auschwitz museum

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The scene of a car accident that lead to the death of a 1-year old girl. Her siblings, aged 5 and 3, and their mother were seriously injured in the crash, near Sha'ab, northern Israel, August 14, 2020 (Israel Police)

1-year-old killed in car crash; mother, siblings aged 3 and 5 seriously hurt

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