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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 19, 2020

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

Live updates (closed)

Israel said to express concerns to US over Saudi nuclear program

Report says Prime Minister’s Office is treating matter with high sensitivity due to concerns about harming Jerusalem’s unofficial ties with Riyadh

6:25 pm

Hundreds of Palestinians protest in West Bank against Israel-UAE deal
6:11 pm

Likud, Blue and White continue to trade blame for coalition crisis
5:58 pm

Virus deaths jump to 781 after Health Ministry includes fatalities that weren't counted

Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, head of the military council, waves to his supporters upon arriving to attend a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Netanyahu says whole region would benefit from deal

Sudan and Israel say talks underway for deal to normalize ties

By Aaron Boxerman and Marissa Newman

‘No reason for enmity to continue,’ says Khartoum official, predicting pact could be clinched by end of year; Netanyahu says Israel will do everything to make agreement happen

Sudanese foreign minister denies knowledge of peace talks with Israel

By Aaron Boxerman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Sudan fires spokesman who confirmed peace talks with Israel

Minister says Sudan deal to include sending back asylum seekers

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Reported deal to sell UAE F-35 jets edges in on US promise of Israeli dominance

Netanyahu denies he okayed the sale as part of normalization with Abu Dhabi, but it is the US which must decide if it undercuts the Israeli military edge it vowed to uphold

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of an F-35 fighter jet at the Israeli Air Force's Nevatim base in southern Israel, undated (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Israel media reviewMake arms deals, not war: What the press is saying on August 19

AnalysisPutting the UAE-Israel agreement in its proper perspective

By Robert Satloff

UAE official reportedly rebuffs Netanyahu denial he okayed F-35 sale

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a joint meeting of the Palestinian leadership on August 18, 2020, following Israel's normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates (Courtesy: Wafa)

After UAE agreement, Abbas warns other countries not to normalize

By Aaron Boxerman

In rare show of symbolic reconciliation, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad attend meeting of Palestinian leadership in Ramallah

Oman names new foreign minister, day after rare call with Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Mossad chief meets with UAE security head in Abu Dhabi

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Taking long-quiet Israel ties public, UAE may seek stronger voice in Washington

Illustrative: Belarusian opposition supporters rally in the center of Minsk, Belarus, on August 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

In Belarus, ‘Europe’s last dictatorship,’ Jews fear police but not anti-Semitism

Keren R. McGinity

These days, serious Jews marry who they fall in love with

The claim that a Jew either cares about their heritage or marries a non-Jew is an outdated notion by those who have not studied intermarriage

Diana Barshaw Rich

Beauty, thankfulness, comfort and study: The power of prayer

I have found prayer in my silent accounting of everything I have to be thankful for, but I’m convinced that if I could believe in God, I’d pray better

Joshua D. Zimmerman

What the Battle of Warsaw of 1920 meant for Jews

It only lasted 25 days, but the confinement of Polish Jewish soldiers at Jablonna left a lasting imprint on the collective memory of Polish Jewry

FINE ARTS: The quest of Elul

Using art to reflect on the past year, amid the balance of good and evil, without the luxury of making excuses for myself, is sobering, and yet truly energizing

An elderly couple walk in a public park in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, April 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry says it undercounted virus deaths, pledges to streamline system

National COVID-19 death toll jumps to 772 with addition of 52 previously unreported fatalities at geriatric facilities

Israel reports 21 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, highest daily toll yet

‘We won’t be first’: Israeli vaccine research prioritizing quality over speed

Geriatric ward in Netanya stricken by large COVID-19 outbreak

By Nathan Jeffay

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

Election threat grows as vote on delaying budget pushed off amid disagreements

Crisis to drag on until last minute, since days ahead of Monday deadline, Blue and White objects to Likud conditioning 100-day postponement on approving funds for yeshivas

A medical team at the coronavirus unit of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, July 28, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Poll: 45% of Israeli pessimistic about country’s ability to handle pandemic

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Close-up of a 12,000-year-old human burial embedded in the white material found in the Ein Gev cave. (courtesy)

Archaeology

1st complete strontium isotope map of Israel tracks ancient human migration

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Merav Ben-David poses for a photo in Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)

Israel-born ecology professor wins Wyoming Democratic Senate primary

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Climate activist Merav Ben-David, who became a US citizen in 2009, wants to move state away from oil and gas; faces Republican former US Rep. Cynthia Lummis in November

Democrats make it official, nominate Biden to take on Trump

By Steve Peoples

Jewish anti-Muslim provocateur Laura Loomer wins GOP primary in Florida

Accusations that Trump stokes racism, anti-Semitism take center stage at DNC

View of a fire near Kibbutz Be'eri, caused by kite-borne arson devices launched from Gaza, near the border with the Gaza Strip, August 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Gaza attacks persist, Netanyahu says Israel preparing for wider fight

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

PM says he’s treating cross-border arson like rocket fire, hopes broader confrontation with Hamas can be avoided

Gaza’s only power plant shuts down as fuel runs out amid border tensions

By Aaron Boxerman

Rocket fired from Gaza at southern Israel, amid high tensions

By Judah Ari Gross

After rocket fire, Israeli airstrikes target Hamas special forces base in Gaza

Dr. Susan Weiss, head of the Center for Women's Justice. (Courtesy)

ToI Podcast Interview

LISTEN: Lawyer fights back after 3 generations of immigrants declared not Jewish

Who you gonna call when after 30 years in Israel, you’re suddenly not considered a Jew? Dr. Susan Weiss and the Center for Women’s Justice

The Heichal David u-Mordechai Synagoue in Milan in 2015. (Nicole Becker/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Jewish ‘Communities’ in Western Europe operate like expensive members-only clubs

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Meiss al-Jabal on December 16, 2018, shows a United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldier monitoring the border between Lebanon and Israel. On his right is a flag of the Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

IDF chief says Hezbollah blocking UN peacekeeper inspections

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Kohavi speaks out as Israel seeks to beef up UNIFIL’s role when its mandate comes up for renewal at end of month

Israel urges action against Hezbollah after tribunal ruling on Hariri hit

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UN tribunal convicts 1 Hezbollah member, clears 3 in killing of ex-Lebanon PM

Lebanon’s Hariri accepts tribunal’s verdict on murder of ex-PM father

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FILE - In this August 20, 2013, file photo, Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Climate change a national security threat, but government ‘in denial,’ MKs hear

Police officers and forensic experts secure evidences at the site where a motorcycle crashed with a car, probably the car used by an alleged offender to cause several accidents on the A 100 highway in Berlin on August 19, 2020. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Islamic extremist crashes into cars on Berlin highway, Germany says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Archaeological remains spanning four centuries uncovered in the northern city of Safed. (Safed Municipality)

‘Time tunnel’ through four centuries uncovered in northern city of Safed

A Jewish manuscript smuggled into Israel from Damascus in a Mossad spy operation in the early 1990s, in Jerusalem, October 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Jerusalem court rules National Library to keep Medieval Damascus Bibles

By Ilan Ben Zion

Men wearing masks pray in Jerusalem's Hurva Synagogue on May 21, 2020. (Sam Sokol)

How US Orthodox communities are preparing for a pandemic High Holiday season

Nurses tend to COVID-19 patients at the Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus

By Nasser Karimi

Leon Trotsky (Century Co, NY, 1921 / Wikipedia)

Mexicans mark 80 years since Trotsky was assassinated by Stalin agent

By Natalia Cano and Moises AVILA

Sacha Baron Cohen speaks at the Anti-Defamation League's Never Is Now conference in New York, November 21, 2019. (Jennifer Liseo/ADL)

Liberal Jewish groups defend ADL after renewed attack from progressive coalition

Copaxone, the only non-interferon multiple sclerosis treatment, was developed by Teva Pharmaceuticals in the mid-1990s. (Weizmann Institute of Science/JTA)

From the webUS sues Teva over $300 million in false claims for multiple sclerosis drug

By Jonathan Stempel and Nate Raymond

Harel Barak (R) and his husband Yakir Kanneli (L) pose for a picture with an empty stroller at a park in Tel Aviv, on August 14, 2020. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israeli same-sex couples seek end to surrogacy discrimination

By Alexandra Vardi

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