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What Matters Most On Friday, August 21, 2020

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Shlomo Malka in his Sderot home damaged after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip, August 21, 2020 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

‘It’s a miracle we’re ok,’ says Sderot man after rocket ‘cut the house in two’

Shlomo Malka of Sderot says he and his wife were asleep, didn’t hear siren, when Gaza missile smashed into their home

AnalysisHamas issues fresh demands, Israel likely to accept; but will they fight anyway?

By Judah Ari Gross

Homeowner Osnat Malka inspects damage from a rocket fired overnight from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, Israel, Aug. 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

After night of rockets and Gaza strikes, Hamas says Israel will ‘pay price’

From the blogs

How I became Chief Rabbi of the UAE and why that matters to global Jewry

At times, I can hardly believe the things that have happened to me. But these stories are not just about me and not just about the Jews in the Emirates

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with leaders of the United Arab Emirates’ Jewish community, August 20, 2020 (PMO)

Netanyahu tells UAE Jews he hopes to visit them this year

Likud MK Miki Zohar at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 13, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Coalition chair: If nothing dramatic changes in next 48 hours, it’s elections

Likud’s Miki Zohar asserts Blue and White is ‘obstructing PM in extracting Israel from the coronavirus crisis,’ says inter-party dysfunction, not budget, at heart of crisis

Rivlin implores Netanyahu, Gantz not to let budget standoff lead to elections

By Michael Bachner

300 rally to support PM after police forcibly clear anti-Netanyahu protest camp

By Anat Peled and ToI Staff

Gantz raps Netanyahu for sidelining him on F-35 policy as UAE deal brewed

Eilat's Red Sea Hotel, where an alleged gang rape took place in mid-August 2020. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Police increase security around home of teen victim of alleged Eilat gang rape

Decision made due to ‘violent discourse’ online about case; teen said to be worried photos of assault will leak online; police working to clarify exact role played by each suspect

Israelis take part in a demonstration in support of the alleged 16-year-old victim of a gang rape in Eilat, in Jerusalem on August 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Thousands protest nationwide over alleged gang rape of teen by 30 men in Eilat

Illustrative: Border Police in Eilat, February, 14 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police form special team to probe alleged gang rape of girl in Eilat; 2 arrested

Emirati Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba at an event with then-US House speaker Paul Ryan, at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 25, 2018. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

UAE envoy: With Israel deal done, we’ll directly advocate for Palestinian state

In new op-ed for Israeli paper, ambassador to US says agreement will provide Abu Dhabi with ‘stronger’ tools to ‘forcefully’ promote rights of the Palestinian people

Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Haidar Badawi Sadiq was fired on August 19, 2020, a day after expressing support for peace with Israel. (YouTube screenshot)

Axed Sudanese spokesman defends opening up on talks with Israel

Israeli and American F-35 fighter jets take part in a joint exercise over southern Israel on March 29, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Emirates FM: F-35 not linked to Israel deal, but it should ease the sale

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas flashes the V-sign as Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan looks on after their meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah, December 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer/File)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

‘Betrayal,’ with a personal touch: Why the PA is so angry at the Israel-UAE deal

Abbas is boiling at the bypassing of the Palestinian cause. But all his would-be successors are also seething over the return to center-stage of UAE-based pretender Mohammad Dahlan

It’s time for man and God to meet

When I go to battle for what’s most important, am I avoiding all collateral damage? Lives can be so fleeting, but man is a tree in the field, where God is right now (Shofetim)

Given 40 seconds for a Jewish prayer at the DNC, what could I say?

Strength to the Democratic National Convention, for in this time of national crisis, every person has the potential to serve as an agent of change

Stopping fuel supplies into Gaza harms Israel

Most dramatically, sewage-pumping stations can’t operate, so thousands of liters of raw sewage are polluting the cross-border stream and groundwater

The stranger among us

How to fight cruelty to vulnerable people: First, pay attention. Then, go get their money back from the loan sharks and pawnbrokers

Analysis

Leaked EU review giving high marks to PA textbooks allegedly studied wrong books

Israeli education watchdog IMPACT-se claims German report examining Palestinian schoolbooks for the UK is riddled with errors, overlooks anti-Semitism and incitement to violence

Sgt. First Class Amit Ben-Ygal, who was killed when a rock was thrown at his head during an arrest raid in the northern West Bank village of Yabed on May 12, 2020. (Social media)

AG orders review of ruling barring home demolition of accused soldier killer

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Biden accepts Democratic nomination, vows to end Trump’s ‘season of darkness’

Former vice president urges unity, competency during pandemic; says president’s comments referring to neo-Nazis as ‘very fine people’ spurred him to enter race

Congressman Gregory Meeks, D-NY, speaks before the arrival of Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg to participate in Queens Democratic party's first in a series of "presidential fireside chat," a town hall forum for 2020 presidential candidates, Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at LaGuardia Community College in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

US lawmaker seeking foreign affairs job flips stance on conditioning Israel aid

By Eric Cortellessa

AnalysisDespite progressive gains, US Democrat leaders stick to pro-Israel playbook

Medical personnel in the coronavirus ward of the Shamir Medical Center, in Be'er Ya'akov, near Tel Aviv, August 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers push off vote on virus czar’s proposal for fighting pandemic

Ultra-Orthodox MKs reportedly lead opposition to plan, fearing it will bar prayers; Gamzu calls for halt to Ukraine pilgrimage flights

Family of Israel’s 1st COVID fatality sues state, nursing home for negligence

Coronavirus crisisNew COVID-19 cases among US Orthodox may preclude opening school year, say MDs

‘Temporary’ homeless shelters are dividing Jews on NY’s Upper West Side

By Hannah Dreyfus

Journalist Mathew Kalman, left, interviews Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff for the 'Behind the Headlines' online video series, August 19, 2020. (Screenshot)

Behind the Headlines

WATCH: Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff on pursuing Holocaust justice in Lithuania

In an online ToI interview, Zuroff talks about joining an acclaimed Lithuanian author to unearth and share a part of history many locals would prefer remain buried

A pilot from Israel, left, and a pilot from Germany, right, pose in front of a Eurofighter at an airbase in Noervenich, Germany, August 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Luftwaffe, Israeli Air Force conduct first joint exercise in Germany

A fire in Napa County as seen from Middletown in Lake County, Calif., Aug. 19, 2020. (Jade May via JTA)

Torahs packed, synagogues on alert as wildfires bear down on Northern California

By Maya Mirsky and Gabriel Greschler

With huge blazes threatening thousands of residents and evoking ‘Biblical’ connotations, some shuls are preparing to evacuate, while pandemic prevents others from providing shelter

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks on the second day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Iran says US has no right to demand restoration of sanctions

By AP

FM says UN Security Council should stop Washington’s unilateral ‘misuses’ of council resolutions and ‘force’ American accountability for damage it has caused to Iran

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wears a facemask as he departs after speaking to reporters following a meeting with members of the UN Security Council about Iran's alleged non-compliance with a nuclear deal and calling for the restoration of sanctions against Iran at United Nations headquarters in New York, August 20, 2020. (MIKE SEGAR / POOL / AFP)

Pompeo aims fury at Europe as Iran sanctions snapback bid rebuffed

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian protesters burn Israeli and US flags on June 8, 2018. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Israel applauds US for longshot bid to reimpose Iran sanctions

More Headlines

A JetBlue Airways flight flies in to Salt Lake City International Airport, Oct. 18, 2019, (Rick Bowmer/AP)

Brooklyn mother of 6 ordered off JetBlue flight as 2-year-old won’t keep mask on

The 'Lahav Or' (Blade of light) laser system shoots down arson balloons from Gaza in a video released by Border Police. (Screenshot/Border Police)

Border Police release video of laser shooting down Gaza arson balloons

A video published by the al-Ittihad Emirati newspaper welcoming the Israel-UAE normalization deal. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Hava nargilaWith Hava Nagila, Emirati paper encourages Israelis to visit

In this file photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

German doctors gain access in Siberia to Russian opposition leader in coma

By DARIA LITVINOVA

Jerusalem Jazz Festival director and trumpeter Avishai Cohen (left) at the 2015 festival (Courtesy Jerusalem Jazz Festival)

Blue noteJerusalem Jazz Fest moved up to September

By Jessica Steinberg

A young turtle tangled up in a green plastic 'jute' bag, photographed at the Israel Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. (YouTube/Israel Nature and Parks Authority screenshot)

Nature Authority asks public to look out for turtles tangled in plastic

US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters after pleading not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall, August 20, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Ex-Trump aide Bannon pleads not guilty in border wall scheme

By Larry Neumeister, Colleen Long and Jill Colvin

Mussallina Muhaymin, left, and Zarinah Tavares, sisters of Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Jr., a homeless man who died while in Phoenix police custody, pose in Phoenix, June 5, 2020. (AP/Matt York, File)

Video shows Black Muslim man’s faith mocked during fatal arrest

Illustrative: Police and medical personnel at the scene of a suspected murder-suicide in Petah Tikva on January 17, 2020. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Woman killed in Galilee town, husband arrested

Guy Niv in action (Noa Arnon, via JTA)

Sabra pedal powerIn a first, an Israeli will race in the Tour de France

Screen grab of advert for virtual synagogue for High Holidays (Sixth and I/Instagram via JTA)

Facing frontYour face can join cutouts of RBG and others at DC synagogue

Aaron Coleman, the great-grandson of a Holocaust survivor, said he was inspired by the 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders. (Facebook/Aaron Coleman for Kansas, via JTA)

Kansas student, 19, wins state House primary; admits to harassing girls online

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