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What Matters Most On Monday, August 17, 2020

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Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and UAE's deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces, at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 24, 2016. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool photo via AP/File)

Rivlin invites UAE crown prince to Jerusalem for official visit

In letter to Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president expresses hope diplomatic ties will ‘march region forward’; Netanyahu says direct flights over Saudi Arabia coming

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)

Israel media reviewA peace to start all fights (and flights): What the press is saying on August 17

By Joshua Davidovich

UAE tycoon Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor speaks with Israel's Channel 13 TV, August 16, 2020 (Screencapture)

Top UAE tycoon says he’s talking with Israir on direct flights, hails peace deal

The scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on August 17, 2020. (United Hatzalah of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Police officer moderately injured in stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City

Alleged attacker has been shot, incident under investigation, police say

6:20 pm

TV: Israel believes next peace deals will be with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia
6:14 pm

Medics confirm Border Police officer, 19, moderately hurt in stabbing
6:07 pm

Border cop said injured in Jerusalem stabbing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau delivering a statement about Israel's peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates, August 16, 2020. (video screenshot)

Netanyahu: UAE deal based on strength, will yield ‘true peace’ with Palestinians

PM predicts more Arab states to follow, paving way for accord with Palestinians too; insists W. Bank annexation will happen: ‘It’s not that someone told me to pick’ between the two

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discusses the Israel-UAE normalization deal at the PM's office in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

AnalysisFull text. Netanyahu on why UAE deal is different: Palestinians lost their veto

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)

Poll: Nearly 80% of Israelis prefer UAE deal over West Bank annexation

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, March 18, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP)

UAE blasts ‘unacceptable and inciting’ threats by Iran over Israel accord

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Abu Dhabi summons Tehran’s charge d’affaires for dressing down; earlier, Iranian military chief said Tehran would hold UAE responsible if ‘something happens’ in Persian Gulf

Gulf states condemn Iran’s threats to UAE over its normalization with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Abbas trashes UAE deal in call with Macron, says no one speaks for Palestinians

Erekat: Israel-UAE deal is a ‘killer’ to 2-state solution, Kushner is arrogant

By AFP

The Abu Dhabi Global Market financial center is seen in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Israel said to estimate UAE deal worth hundreds of millions in trade a year

Economy Ministry assesses exports to Emirates could amount to $500 million annually, and Gulf state’s investment in the country could reach $350 million, TV news reports

Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at a cyber conference at Tel Aviv University on June 24, 2019. (Flash90)

Mossad chief said heading to UAE for talks on Monday

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on September 18, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

Saudi Arabia silent over UAE-Israel deal, but covert ties under focus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Defense Minister Benny Gantz during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via AP)

Netanyahu says he kept Gantz and Askenazi in the dark to avoid leak of UAE deal

‘They could talk about it incautiously with associates and the information could get out,’ PM says of the ministers, both former IDF chiefs, in interview with right-wing daily

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

Polls show slight gains for Netanyahu from UAE deal, as coalition crisis lingers

Derech Eretz MK Zvi Hauser, left, speaking during a Knesset Finance Committee meeting, August 17, 2020. (Knesset Channel screenshot)

Bill to push off budget deadline and avert elections approved for first reading

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

The tombstone of David, son of Moses, in Ras al-Khaimah's National Museum, on the backdrop of Abu Shabi's skyline (Department of Antiquities and Museums, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE; Nousha Salimi/AP Images)

Analysis

Ancient relics and a futuristic interfaith hub: 4 Jewish things to do in the UAE

Even in the heart of the Gulf, Jews do have some Emirati history — as well as a growing contemporary presence

Illustrative: A woman gargles while using mouthwash from a glass (Tharakorn; iStock by Getty Images)

In trial, Israeli gargle test gives COVID results in 1 second, at 95% accuracy

By Nathan Jeffay

Championing it as instant, cheap and reliable, innovators at Israel’s largest hospital say their invention could become the world’s standard COVID screening method

Top Arab Israeli virus official says criticism of community not unwarranted

New rules to ease tourist visits coming by month’s end, health official says

6 more virus deaths bring toll to 685; testing slumps over weekend

Palestinian protesters from a group calling themselves the 'Night Confusion Units' gather near the Gaza-Israel border east of al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on August 16, 2020 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF shells Hamas posts after arson balloon attacks, Gaza border riots

Tanks hit terror group observation posts, after incendiary devices launched from Gaza Strip spark at least 28 bush fires in southern Israel

Checkpoint guards shoot, injure deaf man who entered restricted area

By Judah Ari Gross

As Israeli restrictions tighten, Gaza’s sole power plant to shut down on Tuesday

By Aaron Boxerman

Turkey said to grant citizenship to Hamas brass planning attacks from Istanbul

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

What’s so great about the UAE?

When a country makes tolerance its calling card, its vision of regional peace goes beyond politics to religion – and that perspective is exactly what we need

Esther Toporek Finder

My father hid from the Nazis in a coffee pot. True story.

The tale of how my dad survived by climbing into a pot wearing wooden clogs made much more sense when I finally saw the pot and the shoes

Israel and the UAE: A reality check

Before you read too much into this act of diplomacy, keep in mind that even conversations about a just and lasting peace are a long way off

Douglas MacKinnon

Jared Kushner is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize

His work on the UAE-Israel deal should put him in the running for the Prize. But with Trump as his father-in-law, the chances are zero

Parents of Graham Stokes (seated, left and center) with their children, children-in-law, and grandchildren at their Adirondack estate in 1907. Graham is standing, hands crossed on counter; Rose Pastor Stokes is on floor, second from right. (Stokes Records, vol. 3, by Anson Phelps Stokes)

Author interview

Tale of a ‘rebel Cinderella’: How a firebrand Jewish immigrant shocked the world

By Rich Tenorio

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet en route to an exercise in Germany in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel Air Force prepares to train with Luftwaffe over Germany for first time

By Judah Ari Gross

Monday exercise will be air force’s only international drill in 2020; Israeli aircraft to fly over Munich to mark 1972 Olympics massacre, and over Dachau to commemorate Holocaust

Israeli Air Force Blackhawk helicopters land on top of Mount Olympus during a 16-day exercise in Greece in September 2016. (Israeli Air Force)

Air force grounds fleet of Black Hawk helicopters after multiple malfunctions

By Judah Ari Gross

A tanker truck passes the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California, on March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

‘Not necessary’ to probe spills linked to Chevron, energy minister says

Despite activists’ calls for urgent public debate about oil giant’s pollution record, Yuval Steinitz ‘confident’ that $5 billion deal to buy Noble Energy will be approved

Illustrative: In this July 9, 2019 file photo, a Turkish Navy warship patrols near Turkey's drilling ship 'Fatih' that was making its way towards the eastern Mediterranean near Cyprus to begin drilling operations. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool)

EU urges Turkey to halt gas hunt in disputed east Mediterranean areas

By AFP

Illustrative: People lie on a beach as others cool off in the water in Netanya on May 18, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel’s summer temperatures could increase 5 degrees by end of century — study

William Jackson Harper as Chidi and Kristen Bell as Eleanor on 'The Good Place.' (Screen shot from YouTube/ via JTA)

Locked down? Open up to… a pretty Jewish view of afterlife in ‘The Good Place’

By Penina Beede

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

Exiled Belarus opposition head says ready to be ‘national leader’

By AFP

Illustrative: A Bedouin shepherd watches his sheep in the Judean desert on October 26, 2019 (Sara Klatt/Flash90)

Knesset demands answers after some Negev Bedouin have citizenship revoked

Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem (Courtesy)

IDF shoots, wounds Palestinian throwing fire bomb at Rachel’s Tomb

By Aaron Boxerman

Facebook algorithm found to push Holocaust denial to users

Israel ice hockey captain Eliezer Sherbatov. (via Facebook)

Israeli ice hockey captain defends joining Auschwitz hometown team

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Illustrative: Business and technology (metamorworks; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel Aerospace Industries seeks startups to tap into ‘next big thing’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Poet Agi Mishol will appear at the Poetry Festival in Metulla, being screened online, September 3-5, 2020. (courtesy, Rami Naim)

Write onAnnual Poetry Festival in Metulla to take place online

By Jessica Steinberg

The James D. Westcott Building and Fountain at Florida State University (Ernie Stephens/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

After anti-Semitism outcry, Florida State U makes changes for Jewish students

By JTA

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