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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 23, 2020

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Jerusalem Chief Superintendent Niso Guetta is seen in video as he shoves and hits protesters, August 22, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)

Senior officer who was filmed shoving anti-Netanyahu protesters interrogated

Meretz MK says at least one demonstrator was hit by Jerusalem chief superintendent Niso Guetta without provocation; police say a person has admitted to assaulting high-ranking cop

Police officers remove demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the Prime Minister's Residence, in Jerusalem, on August 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Allegations of excessive police violence at rally spark calls for probe

By Aaron Boxerman, Anat Peled and ToI Staff

Police officers arrest demonstrators during a protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on August 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

Paris Square is burning: What the press is saying on August 23

By Joshua Davidovich

A protest outside the prime minister’s office turns violent, with videos and pictures showing cops beating demonstrators, and papers get pumped about a possible budget compromise

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near the Chords bridge, at the entrance to Jerusalem, August 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Over 10,000 protest against Netanyahu in Jerusalem; 7 arrested

Police officers scuffle with demonstrators at a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on August 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Fighting breaks out as police forcibly clear protesters in Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (right) and then-health minister Yaakov Litzman (left) attend a conference in Lod on November 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Ultra-Orthodox parties claim Netanyahu, Gantz back compromise to avert elections

Likud minister says ‘there will be no elections in 2020’; but vote on budget delay bill pushed off amid ongoing disagreements

AnalysisNetanyahu wants elections — and fears them

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz hold a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2020. (Tal Shahar/Pool/Flash90)

Sunday cabinet meeting canceled as government collapse looms

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

Police arrest 7 more suspects, hotel manager over alleged gang rape in Eilat

7 detainees are all minors, hotelier suspected of failing to prevent a crime; thousands strike in protest of violence against women, renew demonstrations

Tel Aviv Municipality workers remove a mural of boys peeping into the women's changing room at Metzitzim beach in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2020. (Ron Huldai/ Twitter)

Tel Aviv removes peeping Tom mural seen as encouraging sexual harassment

By Michael Bachner

Israeli children wear face masks on their way to school in Moshav Yashresh, on May 3, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

To see the terrible cost of a new election, look to the schools

Israel’s politicians seem willing to drag the country to yet another vote, ignoring economic pain of working class families

Preparations for the new school year at Orot Etzion school in Efrat, on August 17, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Coronavirus czar appears to back full school opening as death toll hits 819

A patient is wheeled into Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on August 3, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

More than 500 Israelis have died from COVID-19 in July-August

A 3,200-year-old citadel unearthed near Guvrin Stream and Kibbutz Gal On, August 2020. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

3,200-year-old fort, site of epic battles in biblical era, found in south Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a press statement on August 23, 2020. (screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu accepts compromise deal that postpones budget deadline, elections

Failure to postpone a Monday midnight deadline for passing a state budget would have sent Israel to fourth election since last April

6:38 pm

Blue and White said not entirely convinced election crisis is over
6:32 pm

Netanyahu blames Blue and White for crisis, says now is 'a time for unity'
6:05 pm

Netanyahu accepts compromise that postpones budget deadline, staves off elections

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo departs a meeting with members of the UN Security Council about Iran's alleged non-compliance with a nuclear deal at the United Nations in New York, August 20, 2020. (Mike Segar/Pool/AFP)

Pompeo, Kushner to visit Israel and Arab states as US pushes more peace deals

By AP and ToI Staff

US secretary of state to visit Jerusalem Monday, then UAE, after landmark agreement; Israeli and American officials say other countries in region may also seek normalization

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (right) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on December 4, 2013. (AP/WAM/File)

UAE normalization deal puts Israel’s economic reach on Iran’s doorstep

By Mohamad Ali Harissi

Are you a COVID-19 survivor? Donate your plasma and save a life

Even if only 20 percent of those with antibodies donate, it would be enough to treat all new patients over 50 years of age.

Yohanan Plesner

Netanyahu to appoint the AG he will face in court? That crosses a red line

The prime minister’s attempt to revamp Israel’s system for appointing top law enforcement officials is way out of bounds

The icon for TikTok. (AP Photo/File)

Teens on TikTok masquerade as Holocaust victims, drawing ire of Jewish users

Video creators on social network don make-up, costumes, act out fictionalized stories in trend; critic calls series ‘ill informed and woefully ignorant’

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Report: Israel pushed NSO spyware to Gulf states to help track dissidents

Government reported to mediate deals worth hundreds of millions with Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE; tech company denies claims: ‘We fully meet our human rights policy’

Travelers on an an Israir flight between Tel Aviv and Eilat on August 17, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Can Diaspora Jews visit Israel amid COVID-19 crisis? The rules keep changing

After non-Israelis were barred entry for months, restrictions are easing, but travelers hoping to visit family must still contend with labyrinthine bureaucracy, other hurdles

A health worker stands by a wall before taking nasal swab samples to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. (AP/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Worldwide coronavirus death toll passes 800,000, doubling in 2 months

By AFP

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men seen praying in the streets of Uman, Ukraine during the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 4, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Health official: 2,000 pilgrims already in Uman, ahead of cabinet talks on issue

Raw sewage flows near the main Gaza Strip power plant serving the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, south of Gaza City, on June 24, 2019. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Israel cries foul, warns of disaster as sewage flows in from across Gaza border

Officials call overflow of effluent into south a deliberate act; Hamas threatened ‘consequences’ after Israel cut its fuel imports due to arson attacks, shutting down power plant

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (4th L) takes part in a rally as Palestinians call for a "Day of Rage" to protest Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, in Gaza City on July 1, 2020. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Fearing targeted killings by Israel, Hamas leaders said to go into hiding

Illustrative: A man enters Islamic Relief Worldwide's headquarters in Birmingham, UK. (video screenshot)

Entire board at UK’s top Muslim charity resigns over official’s praise for Hamas

Illustrative: This Saturday, March 31, 2018 photo released by Hezbollah Central Military Media, shows the wreckage of an Israeli military drone that crashed not far from the Israeli border, in the area of Khalet Mariam near the southern village of Baraashit, in south Lebanon. (Hezbollah Military Media, via AP)

Hezbollah claims to down Israeli drone in southern Lebanon

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF confirms UAV crashed along border, says no fears of information breach

Rescue workers and security officers work at the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Owner of ship tied to Beirut blast had links to Hezbollah’s bank — report

Rescue teams work amidst debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. (AFP)

19 seconds after Iran missile hit, cockpit chatter on Ukraine plane went silent

By Nasser Karimi

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Avi Ben Shahar, in undated video footage, after he was attacked by his cellmate. (Screen grab/Channel 12 news)

Man, 70, dies year after brutal attack by cellmate in Jerusalem prison

Prof. Noa Shenkar of Tel Aviv University's Zoology School sampling ascidians. (Tom Shlesinger)

Don’t dump drugs in trash, toilet; it may come back in your food — study

Teva CEO Kare Schultz at a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 19, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Drug maker Teva to fire 350 workers in efficiency bid for southern Israeli plant

By Shoshanna Solomon

Abdel Rahman al-Najjar, a Palestinian, tends to plants in a flower nursery inside a greenhouse in the former Israeli settlement of Gadid, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 10, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Some Gazans still speak Hebrew, 15 years after Israeli withdrawal

Rafael Grossi, (left) Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), opens a virtual meeting of the Board of Governors of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, on June 15, 2020 (JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

Iran: UN nuclear chief’s visit to Tehran unrelated to US sanctions push

By Nasser Karimi

The Neve Ilan, Israel-based firm Nanox, founded in 2018, is developing nano-technology based new kind of X-ray source (Courtesy).

Medical imaging startup Nanox raises $165 million on Nasdaq

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

A visitor looks at graffiti tags seen on the lettering at the entrance to the Centre of Oradour sur Glane Memory, the village where German Waffen-SS troops massacred 642 of its inhabitants in June 1944, in Oradour-sur-Glane, west-central France, on August 22, 2020. (PASCAL LACHENAUD / AFP)

France expresses outrage after Nazi massacre memorial vandalized

By AFP

Abdel Rahman al-Shantti raps outside his school in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. (Screen capture: Instagram)

From the webGaza kid with viral rap hit draws criticism for pro-peace comments

US President Donald Trump stands on stage during the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting, Aug. 21, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

With this week’s Republican convention, Trump looks for campaign reboot

In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, older sister of Donald Trump, sits in the balcony during Trump's election night rally in New York (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

In secret recordings, Trump’s sister says he’s ‘cruel’ and ‘has no principles’

By Jonathan Lemire

Flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fires burn in unincorporated Napa County, California, on Aug. 18, 2020 (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Tens of thousands flee their homes as 1 million acres burn in California fires

By DAISY NGUYEN and ADAM BEAM

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