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What Matters Most On Monday, August 24, 2020

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

US diplomat 'hopeful' other Arab nations will normalize ties

Pompeo: We’ll honor Israel’s military edge, but are reviewing arms sales to UAE

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Visiting Jerusalem, secretary says ‘deeply committed’ to maintaining security of United Arab Emirates; Netanyahu: Normalization agreement doesn’t include ‘acceptance’ of arms deal

Kushner: Normalization deal raises chance we will sell F-35s to UAE

Moroccan prime minister says Rabat ‘refuses’ normalization with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Stirring controversy, Pompeo to address Republican convention from Jerusalem

By Eric Cortellessa

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

Netanyahu says he accepts compromise deal to delay new elections

PM says he’ll back proposal to push off Monday’s budget deadline, likely averting 4th round of elections for now; Blue and White says the proof will be in premier’s actions

Israel Police Chief Superintendent Niso Guetta at an anti-Netanyahu protest in Jerusalem, on August 22, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Senior cop denies assaulting anti-Netanyahu protesters, says he was attacked

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)

New clip shows cops striking female protester, amid outrage over rally violence

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Op-Ed

When our leader, in his wisdom, graciously lifted the threat of a 4th election

The current non-crisis, apparently averted by the PM at the eleventh hour, shows Israel is a nation held politically hostage to Netanyahu’s personal calculations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset on May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press statement on August 13, 2020. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewVie another day: What the press is saying on August 24

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Key Knesset committee advances amendment to delay new elections

A hoard of gold coins dating to the Abbasid Caliphate is pictured during a press presentation of the discovery at an archeological site near Tel Aviv in central Israel (Heidi Levine / POOL / AFP)

Archaeology

Pure gold: Teens find 425 Islamic coins from 1,100 years ago at Israel dig

From the blogs

Neshama Carlebach

Carlebach is my name too

Can we hold the gray space of human failure and creativity? It’s not only a question about the music of my father Shlomo Carlebach

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on August 24, 2020. (Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Live updates

Ending election threat, for now, Knesset passes law extending budget deadline

Netanyahu and Gantz cast votes alongside one other in Knesset plenum after their parties agree to support 120 day postponement preventing government from dissolving at midnight

7:45 pm

Hauser: 'We prevented elections!'
7:32 pm

Blasts reported in northern Gaza Strip; cause not immediately clear
7:27 pm

J Street blasts Pompeo for making RNC address from Jerusalem

Israelis demonstrate against sexual assault in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Hundreds protest sexual violence in Tel Aviv in response to alleged Eilat rape

1,500 gather in Rabin Square, demanding policy reforms to combat assaults against women; ‘We need to change everything,’ city’s deputy mayor says

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)

Police warn owners of Eilat hotel where alleged gang rape took place

‘The Jews are coming’ and that’s good for Israel

This show is not the work of ’anti-religious secularists’! Only people steeped in Bible and Jewish history could produce the love and sophistication of these sketches

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Going to pray in Uman during a pandemic is not a right

As a frequent pilgrim to the site, I say the religious question is not whether you will get sick. It is whether you will make others sick. And you will.

Head of the IDF Southern Command Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi oversees an operation to assassinate Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata on November 12, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF Southern Command chief in Qatar to discuss Gaza ceasefire – report

By Judah Ari Gross

London-based Asharq al-Awsat cites Israeli intelligence sources as saying Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi laid out terms for a truce that will be presented to Hamas officials in Doha

An Israeli soldier battles a blaze close to the southern kibbutz of Nir Am that was apparently caused by a balloon-borne incendiary device launched from the Gaza Strip, August 23, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israel strikes targets in Gaza after incendiary balloons spark 28 fires

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip prepare to release balloon-borne explosive and incendiary devices towards Israel on August 21, 2020. (Fadi Fahd/Flash90)

2 suspected explosive devices found in south as Gaza balloons spark 28 fires

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

A medical team works at the coronavirus ward of Shamir Medical Center, in Be'er Ya'akov, August 20, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

With 839 dead, virus cabinet meeting postponed amid bickering over High Holidays

411 in serious condition, 200 in moderate condition; ministerial meeting said to again be delayed as disagreements continue over synagogue regulations, Uman pilgrimage

Workers disinfect a classroom at the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem on June 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Schools to open September 1, but only 4th grade and below to return full time

Blue and White MK Asaf Zamir, before becoming tourism minister, at a party faction meeting in Tel Aviv on January 8, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

More Blue and White members enter quarantine after minister catches coronavirus

This photo released July 2, 2020, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows a building after it was damaged by a fire, at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran’s nuclear agency says blast at Natanz facility was result of sabotage

Spokesperson tells state TV that security officials will ‘reveal in due time’ the cause of the explosion at the nuclear site

An explosion at a gas pipeline in Syria that led to a nationwide blackout on Monday August 24 (SANA)

Suspected pipeline attack leads to blackout across Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Iran sets June 2021 date for presidential election to choose Rouhani successor

By AP

The Amal, or Asi Stream flowing through Kibbutz Nir David in northern Israel, August 9, 2020. (Menachem Lederman/Flash90)

Inside story

Ethnic ghosts rise again in fight over access to kibbutz stream

Fearing violence, lawmakers, mayors call for calm in fight seen by many as part of bid to correct historical injustices over division of resources and land

Teapacks singer Kobi Oz composed the music for the new prayer written in 2020 for soldiers being drafted into the IDF (Courtesy Tzohar)

The Brighter Side

A father sent his son to the army — and came up with a new ritual

By Jessica Steinberg

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at Downing Street in central London to chair the government's Covid-19 daily briefing on April 7, 2020. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

British FM heads to Israel to push dialogue with Palestinians

Reiterating London’s opposition to West Bank annexation, Dominic Raab set to meet Netanyahu, Gantz, Abbas on first official visit

ِA member of the Abu Sbeih family of East Jerusalem honors a Ramadan tradition by holding up a lantern in their living room, prior to the family home's demolition (Iyad Abu Sbeih)

Despite pandemic, East Jerusalem on track for record number of home demolitions

By Aaron Boxerman

Artist Merav Hyman's 'Salon', part of the 'Crisis Spaces' exhibit opening September 5, 2020 at the Haifa Museum of Art (Courtesy Merav Hyman)

The show does go on; Israeli artists go live in capsule shows and exhibits

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

'Monologues from the Makom' is a collection of essays exploring female sexuality in the Orthodox world. (Illustration by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)

Jewish ‘Vagina Monologues’ bares Orthodox taboos on women’s sexuality and gender

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: An elderly patient is treated for coronavirus (iStock)

Israel’s RedHill hopes dual-action drug can be ‘game changer’ in COVID-19 battle

By Shoshanna Solomon

The official promo poster for 'Wonder Woman 1984' starring Gal Gadot. (Photo via the Wonder Woman Film official Twitter account)

Wonderful2 new trailers drop for Gal Gadot movies

By JTA and ToI Staff

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

Man arrested in Austria over string of anti-Semitic attacks

Police officer fires multiple shots at a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 23, 2020 (Screen grab/Twitter)

Protests after Wisconsin police shoot Black man in the back as he gets into car

By AP

(Facebook/Aaron Coleman for Kansas via JTA)

Kansas House candidate who admitted to revenge porn drops out

Smoke rises from the scene of the explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2020. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)

‘End of the world’: The countdown to Beirut’s devastating blast

By Sarah El Deeb, Zeina Karam and Bassam Mroue

People watch a movie from small boats at 'sail-in' floating cinema at HaYarkon Park's boating lake in Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug. 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Front row seatsTel Aviv opens socially distanced sail-in movie theater

Twenty-nine-year-old Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant stands in the dock at the Christchurch High Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of terrorism in Christchurch, New Zealand, August 24, 2020 (John Kirk-Anderson/Pool Photo via AP)

At sentencing, court hears Christchurch shooter wanted to burn down mosques

A sign reading 'The Jews want a race war' is seen on a highway overpass in Los Angeles. (Siamak Kordestani/Twitter via JTA)

‘Jews Want A Race War’ sign hung on overpass of busy LA highway

By JTA

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