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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok hosts Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on August 25, 2020 (Twitter)

US secretary of state expresses support for 'deepening' ties

Sudanese prime minister rejects ties with Israel, for now

By AFP and ToI Staff

After meeting Mike Pompeo, Abdalla Hamdok says transition government he heads has no mandate to normalize relations with Jerusalem

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo departs Israel on first ever official direct flight from Israel to Sudan, August 25, 2020 (US Embassy Twitter screenshot)

Pompeo takes off on first official direct Tel Aviv-Khartoum flight

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

US organizing regional peace summit with multiple Arab countries — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Psy-Group marketing material

ToI investigates

Israel ducks blame for firm with ex-intel officers that bid to ‘shape’ US vote

By Simona Weinglass

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen during a vote to stave off a budget deadline and thus avert elections, at the Knesset on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Knesset passes bill extending budget deadline, pushing off election threat

Netanyahu and Gantz back law at last minute; Gantz told media he was done being silent in face of Likud attacks, warned: ‘If we go to elections, blood could spill in the streets’

Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid speaks in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Opposition head Lapid: Deal averting election means another 120 days of failure

Israelis take part in an annual Zombie Walk ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/ Flash90)

Israel media reviewDead government walking: What the press is saying on August 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Tzachi Hanegbi attends a Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Kedem, in the West Bank, on September 5, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Likud minister: We oppose sale of ‘even one screw’ of the F-35 to UAE

By Judah Ari Gross

Hanegbi says he thinks US will bolster Israel’s military edge if Abu Dhabi gets jets; Mossad said pushing for UAE to get advanced Israeli weapons despite Defense Ministry objection

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and UAE's deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces, at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 24, 2016. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool photo via AP/File)

UAE said to scrap meet with Israel, US envoys after Netanyahu panned F-35 deal

An Emirati wearing a face mask, due to the coronavirus pandemic, walks past a camel statue decorated with a face mask, at the Rove City Centre Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 6, 2020. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

Health ministers of Israel, UAE talk cooperation on coronavirus research

From the blogs

Donniel Hartman

Netanyahu’s identity crisis

Israel needs the great leader who takes risks for peace and forgoes military excess, not the petty politician who puts his own interests first

A plane approaches to land at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. (AP/Adam Schreck)

Live updates (closed)

First commercial Israel-UAE flight to take off next week, US says

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli and American delegation, including Jared Kushner and other top US officials, to travel to Abu Dhabi with El Al in symbolic trip; may overfly Saudi Arabia

6:30 pm

Pompeo arrives in Manama, phones MBZ to chat about Israel ties
6:28 pm

El Al likely to shuttle delegations from Israel to Abu Dhabi
6:14 pm

First commercial Israel-UAE flight to take off next week -- US

Lisa Davidson Oren

A letter to my 13-year-old daughter

I would like to tell you that in a group of men, there will be always be someone who knows it’s wrong. The truth is different.

No, California’s governor did not sign an anti-Israel bill

The law mandates teaching ethnic studies in high school and college. The disturbing flaws in the first draft curriculum have largely been remedied

Then-US President Donald Trump speaks onstage during the first day of the Republican National Committee convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, August 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

Israel, the Trumps and the extremism question: What we’re watching at the RNC

Israel and anti-Semitism are key issues as Trump looks to firm up support among evangelicals and targets Jewish vote in battleground states like Florida

Trump gets Republican nomination, and claims Democrats want to ‘steal’ election

By Brendan Smialowski and Sebastian Smith

At convention, Republicans laud Trump, paint dark picture of future if he loses

By Steve Peoples, Michelle L. Price and Zeke Miller

Progressive Jewish groups join new initiative to defeat Trump and the far-right

By JTA

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a joint statement to the press with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after their meeting, in Jerusalem, August 24, 2020. (Debbie Hill/Pool via AP)

Pompeo to defy his own order to deliver RNC speech from Jerusalem

US secretary of state sent cable to all US missions last month warning American diplomats that under federal law they should not take sides in the presidential campaign

Is Pompeo’s Middle East trip diplomacy or a show for US voters?

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI

At RNC, father of Parkland victim blames ‘far-left Democrats’ for shooting

Biden campaign pledges to work with Arab Americans after Sarsour disavowal

Author interview

Nazi’s son plays devil’s advocate to defend murderer father to Jewish lawyer

In ‘The Ratline,’ Philippe Sands befriends son of Otto von Wachter, SS officer involved in killing his ancestors. Despite wealth of evidence, son says father was ‘a great man’

Horst Wachter, with Charlotte, Otto von Wachter, and daughter Traute and the Zell-am-See station in 1944. (Courtesy Horst Wächter)

Anti-Semitic posters blaming Jews for the COVID-19 pandemic in the southern Argentine city of Neuquen.(JMNeuquen/ Twitter)

‘Jews are the virus’ posters show up in Argentina

By JTA

Lara Kollab (Facebook, via Canary Mission)

Ohio doctor who boasted she would give Jews the wrong medications loses license

By JTA

Palestinian Hamas police officers wear protective suits as they take part in a simulation of possible coronavirus infections in Gaza City, Saturday, July 18, 2020. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza sees first COVID-19 cases outside of quarantine facilities

By Aaron Boxerman

Health authorities in Hamas-run Strip announce strict 48-hour lockdown as 4 cases identified in refugee camp, raising specter of community spread after virus kept at bay for months

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

Ministers extend virus restrictions till start of school year, as cases rise

Illustrative. A Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, in Jerusalem, December 13, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Shin Bet: Stabbing last week in Rosh Ha’ayin was likely a terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Authorities partially remove gag order on case in which Israeli man was seriously wounded, allegedly by a Palestinian assailant

Four Palestinian Islamic Jihad members killed in apparent bomb-making accident

Suspected Gaza bomb lands in air force base as Israel threatens to up reprisals

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF strikes Hamas targets in southern Gaza after continued arson balloon attacks

A photograph of the Roman amphitheater in Palmyra, Syria, taken by Israel's Ofek 16 spy satellite, which was released by the Defense Ministry on August 24, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Israel releases newest spy satellite’s first photos, of Syria’s Palmyra ruins

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister hails Ofek 16 and country’s other technologies as critical to security

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on February 27, 2019. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu and Putin discuss UAE deal, Israeli air strikes in Syria

More Headlines

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (left) meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Jerusalem on August 25, 2020. (Courtesy/Miri Shimonovich)

Ashkenazi tells UK counterpart Israel ‘disappointed’ in Iran arms embargo vote

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi attends a meeting with head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, in Tehran, Iran on August 25, 2020. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran hails ‘constructive’ talks with visiting IAEA chief

Travelers head to the departure area at Ben Gurion Airport on August 17, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Entry ban for non-Israelis extended to October 1

Garbage and dump trucks set ablaze by rioters near the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisoncin, August 23, 2020. (Sean Krajacic/Kenosha News via AP)

US National Guard summoned in Wisconsin after police shoot Black man

By TAMMY WEBBER and MORRY GASH

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

2 more arrested in suspected Eilat gang rape, bringing number of detainees to 13

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

Senior cop who was filmed attacking protesters returning to beat — police chief

Illustrative: Police squad cars in Zion Square, downtown Jerusalem, September 20, 2017. (Stuart Winer/ Times of Israel)

Yeshiva student arrested over suspected murder at Mea Shearim seminary

The Nasdaq building in Times Square in New York. (littleny, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli software firm JFrog files prospectus to raise $100 million in Nasdaq IPO

By Shoshanna Solomon

Goyim Defense League founder Jon Minadeo II in a video on the Goyim TV website. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Goyim Defense League chief responsible for anti-Semitic LA highway banner

By Gabe Stutman

A man blows a shofar beachside in Tel Aviv on Rosh Hashanah, September 21, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Tel Aviv synagogues get go-ahead to hold High Holiday services in public spaces

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative. Surgeons operating. (Ridofranz, iStock by Getty Images)

UK’s Barts Health to use Israeli tech to flag patients at risk for colon cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking in a court room in Moscow, Russia, August 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Kremlin: Navalny poisoning accusations ’empty noise’

By DARIA LITVINOVA and David Rising

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