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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 22, 2020

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Israelis take part in a demonstration in support of the 16 year old victim of an alleged gang rape in Eilat, in Tel Aviv. August 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

‘Destroying us as a society’: Rivlin writes to youth about alleged Eilat rape

In open letter, president says sexual assaults are ‘stains that cannot be erased,’ pleads for younger generation to adhere to boundaries, take action against misconduct

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

Police arrest 3rd suspect, 17, in connection with alleged gang rape of teen

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

Witness testimony said to boost case against main suspect in alleged Eilat rape

Exclusive

The last blues of Peter Green

On December 25, 1980, the Fleetwood Mac founder, who passed away last month, walked into a studio in Tel Aviv and left behind a rare recording of bewitching sadness

Peter Green in 1987, with famous his talons (Photo: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy)

Israelis take cover as an alarm siren sounds, warning of incoming rockets in Tel Aviv, on the fifth day of Operation Protective Edge, Saturday, July 12, 2014 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gaza terror groups: Tel Aviv will burn if targeted killings are renewed

Israel reportedly warned via intermediaries it would be ‘act of war’ to try to kill terror chieftains, after Gantz, PM hint at return to policy; balloon-borne devices spark 7 fires

IDF chief of staff Aviv Kohavi (R) meets with senior officers in the Southern Command after an escalation of violence from Gaza (IDF spokesperson)

After escalation, Gantz warns Gaza terror groups IDF will deliver a ‘harsh blow’

Illustrative: An explosion caused by Iron Dome air defense system missiles intercepting rockets fired from Gaza, February 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra/ File)

Iron Dome intercepts rocket fired from Gaza; IDF tanks hit Hamas positions

Author interview

Cathryn J. Prince

Women’s more complicated genes help them survive COVID more than men, claims MD

In new book ‘The Better Half’ Dr. Sharon Moalem says genes, not behavior, responsible for women’s increased longevity and immune response, but also heighten effects of ‘Long Covid’

Dr. Sharon Moalem's new book 'The Better Half' argues that women's genetic superiority gives them an edge when it comes to fighting off diseases such as COVID-19. (iStock photos/ SIphotography)

Public officials disinfect pews as a precaution against the coronavirus at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

WHO says coronavirus pandemic could be over in under 2 years

By Nina Larson and Alice Hackman

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men light the Havdalah candle marking the end of the Jewish Shabbat, at a synagogue in the town of Uman, Ukraine, September 7, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Virus czar pleads with Ukraine president to prevent Hasidic pilgrimage to Uman

A prototype of Prof. Hossam Haick's COVID-19 breath test (courtesy of Hossam Haick)

Just breathe: Israeli-made Nano COVID breath test spots every carrier in trial

By Nathan Jeffay

Technion’s Hossam Haick says his breath test eliminates lab processing, and also the need for anyone to touch patients or samples; clinical trial results have been peer-reviewed

Israelis, wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus, shop for grocery at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on August 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel passes 100,000 coronavirus cases, death toll crosses 800

A paramedic from Magen David Adom collects a swab sample from a man at a COVID-19 mobile testing station in east Jerusalem on August 19, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

From the webFor quick coronavirus testing, Israel turns to a clever algorithm

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I talked to my 10-year-old son about consent today

I’m doing my part to make sure that my kid grows up to never rape a 16-year-old in Eilat (or any age, anywhere). What more can we do?

Breaking barriers

Safe and secure boundaries prevent struggles and enmity between neighbors, and allow for long lasting peace, which can be extended far and wide (Shofetim)

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

UAE said to broker meeting between Mossad chief and top Sudanese official

Yossi Cohen reportedly meets with deputy head of Sudan’s military council, days after country’s foreign ministry spokesman axed for confirming normalization talks with Israel

Blue and White MK Omer Yankelevich attends a Knesset committee meeting on August 5, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli minister joins UAE Jewish community for pre-Shabbat Zoom ceremony

Holyland Market in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan on August 11, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

With Bamba and authentic hummus, an Israeli ‘makolet’ grows in NYC

Supporters watch the program outside the venue where Democratic presidential candidate former vice president Joe Biden is speaking, during the final day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden closes convention the way he launched campaign: Repudiating anti-Semitism

‘It was a wake-up call for us as a country’: Democratic nominee cites neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville and Trump’s ‘very fine people’ speech as the moment he knew he had to run

Behind the scenesRabbis, family and anxiety: All the Jewish scenes from the Democratic convention

Senator from California and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention, being held virtually amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware on August 19, 2020. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Harris to speak with Jewish community in virtual campaign event

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

IAEA chief to make 1st Iran trip, seeking more access to nuclear sites

By David Rising

Focus will be on sites thought to be from early 2000s, before Iran signed the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which Tehran says IAEA inspectors have no legal basis to inspect

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the UN Security Council, with US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft, left, and US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook, right, at the United Nations, August 20, 2020. (Mike Segar/Pool via AP)

US claims countdown to restoring Iran sanctions underway, dismissing opposition

By Edith M. Lederer and Matthew Lee

(From L-R) UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, US UN Ambassador Kelly Craft, US Special Envoy for Iran Brian Hook and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meet in New York on August 21, 2020. (Ronny Przysucha/Israeli UN Mission)

Erdan meets with Pompeo, thanks him for push to reimpose Iran sanctions

Author interview

The Fuhrer’s latest biographer: Hitler was ‘blithely underestimated’

Those who compare him to Donald Trump ‘dangerously downplay just how horrific Hitler was,’ says German historian Volker Ullrich

This file photo taken on August 30, 2013, shows the entrance of the martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane, central France, where 642 citizens including 500 women and children were killed locked up in a church intentionally set on fire by a SS division on June 10, 1944. (Thierry ZOCCOLAN / AFP)

Memorial wall at site of Nazi massacre in French village defaced with word ‘lie’

Illustrative: The aftermath of vandalism at the Oudtshoorn Jewish cemetery in South Africa. (Cape SAJB via JTA)

More than 30 headstones damaged at South African Jewish cemetery

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The gravestone of Johann Ludwig Schneller, a German-born missionary who established an orphanage for Syrians in Jerusalem, in the Mount Zion Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Preachers, soldiers, a long-lost skull: Unearthing Mt. Zion Protestant cemetery

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

We’ll always have Paris Square

When you’re demonstrating against Bibi, you can’t hurry love, you just have to wait, according to Haim Watzman’s new Necessary Story

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on August 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Thousands take part in weekly anti-Netanyahu protest

New Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn speaks during a ceremony at the Justice Ministry on May 18, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Justice Ministry denies Likud claim AG closed criminal case against Nissenkorn

Architect Stephen B. Jacobs (INSIDER IMAGES/Gary He/via jTA

Holocaust survivor architect designs memorial for Albanians who rescued Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

A man visits St. Savior Church, known as Kariye in Turkish, in Istanbul, August 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

After Hagia Sophia, Turkey turns another museum and former church into mosque

By AP

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center on stretcher, is transported to a German special medical plane at an airport in Omsk, Russia, Aug. 22, 2020 (AP Photo/Elena Latypova)

Plane carrying comatose Putin critic Alexei Navalny departs Russia for Germany

By daniel kozin and DARIA LITVINOVA

A man walks past the defaced facade of the synagogue of Graz, Austria on August 19, 2020. (Christian Jauschowetz via JTA)

‘Free Palestine’ graffiti sprayed on Austrian synagogue

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (Stringer/AFP)

From the webIran informant comes clean about how IRGC tried to coerce him to spy on friends

Turkey's drilling ship, Fatih, sails through the Bosphorus toward the Black Sea in Istanbul, May 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Erdogan claims Turkey’s ‘greatest’ gas discovery; analysts doubt its magnitude

By Suzan Fraser

The scene of a deadly traffic accident in Rishon Lezion on August 21, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

15-month-old toddler struck and killed by car in Rishon Lezion parking lot

Police carry out searches in the al-Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem after tear gas was fired into the building on August 21, 2020 (Screencapture/Twitter)

Cops accused of firing tear gas into E. Jerusalem hospital while dispersing riot

By Aaron Boxerman

Contestants wearing protective face masks exercise backstage during the National Amateur Body Builders Association competition in Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug. 19, 2020 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Muscling inMasks, COVID-19 no match for Israeli bodybuilders

By Oded Balilty

A French soldier looks at his comrades removing the debris of a school playground roof that was destroyed by Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s Beirut blast shatters taboos around Hezbollah

By AFP

Screenshot of Etsy site hosting sale of 'Make Israel Palestine Again' shirt, August 22, 2020

Australian watchdog slams online sellers for ‘Make Israel Palestine Again’ shirt

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