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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 16, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces the establishment of full ties with the United Arab Emirates, during a news conference in Jerusalem, August 13, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Polls show Netanyahu slightly gaining support after landmark UAE deal

By Michael Bachner

Surveys show PM’s bloc getting 63-65 seats if elections held today, more than most recent polls; 63% view normalization pact as achievement for premier

6:31 pm

Education minister says schools won't shut down if coronavirus carrier discovered
6:11 pm

Incendiary balloon found in private backyard in Beersheba
5:46 pm

Netanyahu-Gantz political wrangling seems to delay departure of delegation to UAE

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on a phone call with UAE leader Mohammed Bin Zayed on August 13, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/PMO)

Op-Ed

Taking normalization over annexation, Netanyahu poised to enter exalted company

This divisive PM, who has been so battering our democracy, acted admirably in making peace with UAE, and thus at least pencils his name on a very short list alongside Begin, Rabin

A general view of Dubai is shown from the Burj Khalifa tower, the world's tallest building, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell/File)

Dubai, and by and by: What the press is saying on August 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Blair House in Washington, DC on January 27, 2020. (Samaria Regional Council)

Settler chiefs say PM betrayed them, is ‘adopting rhetoric of extreme left’

United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan checks his phone during the 10th International Institute for the Strategic Studies in Manama, Bahrain, December 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali/File)

UAE foreign minister calls his Israeli counterpart to launch direct phone lines

By AP and ToI Staff

Abu Dhabi authorities remove block on calls between countries, allow access to Israeli websites — including Times of Israel

Palestinians carry a picture of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, as others carry his coffin, left, during his funeral procession at Yarmouk, near Damascus, Syria, January 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi/File)

Ex-US envoy: Israel gave tech to UAE to mend ties after Mossad assassination

The Deputy Chairman of the Dubai Police and General Security, Lt. General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim during an interview with Israel's Channel 12 on August 15, 2020. (Screenshot)

Ex-Dubai police chief who blamed Mossad for killing Hamas man praises new ties

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

Born of internal Arab despair, UAE deal gives Israel genuine chance of peace

5 thoughts on the deal: The Arab world’s crisis; a Palestinian state?; the tragedy of Netanyahu; the right’s betrayal; and what makes Israelis tick

Moroccan King Mohammed VI (center) chats with Jared Kushner, senior adviser to US President Donald Trump (left) as crown Prince Moulay Hassan (right) looks on before an Iftar meal, the evening meal when Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset, at the King Royal residence in Sale, Morocco, May 28, 2019. (Moroccan Royal Palace, via AP)

From our archivesMorocco said likely to be one of the next states to normalize ties with Israel

Lebanese President Michel Aoun speaks with French television network BFM TV on August 15, 2020. (Screenshot)

Lebanese president hints at possibility of peace talks with Israel

Then-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a Tel Aviv University cyber conference, on June 24, 2019. (Flash90/File)

Mossad head talks to Bahrain’s PM amid signs it could ink deal with Israel — TV

Report says phone call between Yossi Cohen, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa took place in recent days, notes the latter is now reported to have left Bahrain for a ‘private visit’

Illustrative: A picture of Kuwait's ruling emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, is displayed with surrounding Kuwaiti flags in Kuwait City, on February 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell/File)

Kuwait says it’ll be ‘last to normalize’ with Israel, will stand by Palestinians

Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, June 25, 2012 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Luxembourg FM: UAE ‘let down’ the Palestinians with Israel deal

By Raphael Ahren

The departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on August 16, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Skies open for Israelis to travel quarantine-free to and from some countries

Greece, Croatia and Bulgaria to allow Israelis in without compulsory isolation, but some restrictions; citizens allowed back in from 17 other countries without quarantine

The departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport on August 16, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Arrivals to Israel from 20 countries no longer need to quarantine

Prof. Ronni Gamzu speaks about infection rates, August 16, 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet)

Outrage as virus czar likens Arab Israeli infection rates to a ‘terror attack’

Cleaning workers disinfect an ATM at a bank in Ramat Gan, June 3, 2020.(Flash90)

Israel’s virus-battered economy sees sharpest contraction in 45 years

People walk next to empty shops in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Poll: 1 in 5 self-employed out of work, 65% suffered income loss due to virus

By Stuart Winer

Finance Minister Israel Katz holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on July 1, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud treasury chief: ‘Danger of elections has passed’

From the blogs

How about a modest deal with Israel? The UAE official smiled at us…and said no

After 25 years of quiet visits to the Gulf, we came to expect incremental progress, but, in fact, this audacious peace move makes perfect sense

Illustrative: Medical workers test local residents at a temporary site to collect samples for coronavirus, in south Tel Aviv on July 16, 2020.(Flash90)

Israeli and Emirati companies ink deal to jointly research COVID-19 technology

‘My mother made me do it’

If Seth Rogen is so good at listening to his mom, how did he miss out on the Jewish (and Zionist) identity he was supposed to get at home?

Employers, let your staff stay home

The government is not currently requiring everyone to stay out of the office, but it’s still your responsibility to help flatten the curve

View of damage to a house in the southern Israeli town of Sderot that was caused by fragments of an Iron Dome interceptor missile, which was fired to shoot down incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, on August 16, 2020. (Flash90)

Amid ongoing cross-border fire, Gantz pledges no quiet in Gaza until south quiet

Defense Minister says Hamas ‘undermining the interests of the residents of Gaza,’ vows to ‘respond forcefully to any violation of sovereignty’

After rocket fire, Israel renews Gaza airstrikes, closes enclave’s fishing zone

Iron Dome fragment hits Sderot home as 2 rockets downed after IDF strikes Strip

Gaza fire balloons spark 19 blazes in south on Saturday

Then-economy minister Eli Cohen at a meeting in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2019. (Flash90)

Interview

Citing Europe’s dark past, minister calls for concerted sanctions on Tehran

Amid discussions over expiring arms embargo, Eli Cohen says Iran should be kicked out of the United Nations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on August 13, 2020 about the new Israel-UAE peace deal. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘A disgrace’: Israel condemns UN for rejecting extension of Iran arms embargo

By Raphael Ahren

US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 15, 2020. (JIM WATSON / AFP)

Trump seeks ‘snapback’ to force return of UN Iran sanctions

Archaeology

Earliest soap factory in Israel, discovered in Negev, shows seeds of early Islam

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In accord with Muslim roots, 1,200-year-old industrial soap factory uses olive oil as its base, as opposed to lard found in soaps of Europe of the same era

Ido Shpitalnik, conductor of the Jerusalem Street Orchestra, performing at the one concert he's been allowed to hold since the start of the coronavirus. (courtesy, Jerusalem Street Orchestra)

Musicians relegated to backyard concerts during summer of shuttered venues

By Jessica Steinberg

Photograph of an internee in a camp uniform, taken by internee Marcell Seidler, Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec, circa 1940-1942. Seidler secretly documented camp life using a handmade pinhole camera. (photo credit: Marcell Seidler/Courtesy Eric Koch/Library and Archives Canada)

In WWII, an anti-Semitic Canada kept Jewish ‘enemy aliens’ in barbed wire camps

More Headlines

A protester holds up a sign at an anti-Netanyahu protest in Jerusalem. August 15, 2020 (Anat Peled/Times of Israel)

Turnout lower as thousands rally against Netanyahu two days after UAE deal

By ToI Staff, Anat Peled and Aaron Boxerman

Police remove protesters from a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)10 arrested as police clear Jerusalem protest against Netanyahu

Labor-Gesher party leader Amir Peretz and Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz meet in Jerusalem on October 28, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor chief says he’ll run with Blue and White if new elections called

A group of Ezras Nashim volunteers (Courtesy of Ezras Nashim via JTA)

Brooklyn Orthodox women’s EMT service gets right to operate an ambulance

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this Nov. 3, 1999 file photo, Robert Trump, left, joins real estate developer and presidential hopeful Donald Trump at an event in New York (AP Photo/Diane Bonadreff, File)

Robert Trump, the US president’s younger brother, dies at 71

Daycare worker at the Tuli kindergarten in Ramle throws an object at a child lying on a mattress, apparently asleep. (Screen grab/Kan)

4 daycare assistants indicted for abusing children at Ramle daycare

Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, arrives for a court hearing in Haifa on February 10, 2020. (Flash90)

Islamist firebrand preacher Raed Salah begins prison term for inciting terror

Illustrative. A cancer patient receives chemotherapy treatment. (via Shutterstock)

KAHR Medical gets FDA nod to start human trials for cancer drug

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A man dressed as a devil performs in front of a giant fire during the Walpurgis night in Erfurt, central Germany, Sunday, April 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

ExplainerBelief that demons have sex with humans runs deep in Christianity, Judaism

By Cavan W. Concannon

Vultures fly over a Jewish man in Antwerp, Belgium in a caricature from August 7, 2020 that critics say is anti-Semitic. (Pierre Kroll/Le Soir via JTA)

Belgian daily runs cartoon seeming to label Jewish area ‘coronavirus village’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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