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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 26, 2020

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Rabbi Shai Ohayon, who was stabbed to death in a terror attack at Segula Junction, on August 26, 2020. (Courtesy)

Rabbi Shai Ohayon stabbed to death by Palestinian in suspected terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Cops nab suspect at the scene outside Petah Tikva; victim identified as 39-year-old rabbi; assailant said to be 46, father of 6, who had a permit to work in Israel

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting to discuss the United Arab Emirates' deal with Israel to normalize relations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 18, 2020. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool Photo via AP, File)

‘We are not defeated’: PA leaders say they won’t bend in face of mounting crises

By Agencies and ToI Staff

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (right) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, the West Bank, August 25, 2020 (WAFA)

Abbas slams ‘illusion of peace for peace’ in meeting with UK FM

By Aaron Boxerman

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in the United Arab Emirates on August 26, 2020 (Twitter)

Backing Arab Peace Initiative, Bahrain appears to reject US push for Israel ties

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tweeting from Manama after sit-down with Bahraini king, Pompeo says he discussed alliance for ‘countering Iran’s malign influence in the region’

Morocco's Prime Minister Saad-Eddine El Othmani delivers a speech in Marrakech, Morocco, January 30, 2018. (AP/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

In apparent backtrack, Moroccan PM seems to indicate Israel ties possible

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas terrorist movement chief Ismail Haniyeh, prior to their meeting in Istanbul, February 1, 2020. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool/ File)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli diplomat confirms Turkey giving citizenship to Hamas members

Roey Gilad says a dozen members of terror group have received, or are in process of receiving, Turkish passports

6:19 pm

Egypt seeking 9 suspects in hotel gang rape
6:13 pm

Hurricane Laura now 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 storm
5:48 pm

Nasrallah says border clash with Israel 'important and sensitive'

In this image from video, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks from Jerusalem during the second night of the Republican National Convention on August 25, 2020. (Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via AP)

Pompeo dives into GOP confab from Jerusalem, defying precedent and possibly law

In possible nod to concerns over violations, secretary avoids attacking or even mentioning Democrats in RNC speech from Israel, apparently aimed at evangelicals, conservative Jews

In this image from video, Abby Johnson speaks from Washington, during the second night of the Republican National Convention on August 25, 2020. (Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via AP)

Trump’s RNC showcases conspiracists, backer of husbands controlling wives’ votes

US President Donald Trump listens as Mary Ann Mendoza, who lost her son Brandon when he was killed by a drunk driver that was an undocumented immigrant, speaks before he signs the first veto of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republican convention speaker pulled after pushing anti-Semitic tirade

Illustrative: The Israeli military fires flares into the sky over the Lebanese border on August 25, 2020. (Courtesy)

Israeli aircraft strike Hezbollah posts after shots fired at troops

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF announcement of rare strikes on Lebanese terror group positions comes hours after it reported ‘security incident’ along border; security restrictions on northern towns lifted

IDF: Security incident on Lebanese border; residents told to stay home for hours

By Judah Ari Gross

After Lebanon border fire, Israel threatens ‘forceful response’ to any attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Lebanon rejects reform of blue helmet force on Israel border

By AFP

File: Pilgrims to Uman celebrating at the grave of Rebbe Nachman, September 7, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Ukraine bans foreigners through September, foiling Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage

Ukrainian PM also signals Kyiv will ban mass gatherings in Uman during Jewish new year, after Israeli officials warned festivities could result in a COVID-19 outbreak

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)

Israel media reviewN, Na, Nay to Uman: What the press is saying on August 26

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

Netanyahu ally rebukes virus czar for opposing Ukraine trips, allowing protests

By Alexander Fulbright

Dotan Borenstein, CEO of SaliCrop, stands next to a tractor distributing carrot seeds for a field trial near the Gaza border, August 23, 2020. (Courtesy)

Israeli firm develops groundbreaking method to grow seeds in saline soil

With a fifth of world’s agricultural land now too salty for cultivation, SaliCrop trials in India, Israel, see treated seeds yield up to 32% more crops than regular ones

10 years ‘chained’: Oshrat’s freedom might depend on a pedophile

When the witness to your wedding breaks Jewish law, he’s not a valid witness, and your wedding didn’t count. It shouldn’t take the Supreme Court to confirm that, but it just might

The advantages of free-trade agreements with Asia

Just think of the strategic and financial boon for Israel if its UAE deal eases trade routes with as many as 11 bustling Asian economies

First Israel-UAE commercial flight to take off Monday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Kushner, O’Brien, Berkowitz to take part in historic flight alongside Israeli delegation headed by National Security Adviser Ben-Shabbat, according to PM’s office and US officials

El Al planes on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport on August 3, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks to local leaders from southern Israel, August 19, 2020. (Oded Karni/GPO)

Gantz, UAE counterpart discuss defense cooperation in first conversation

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the UN Security Council, August 20, 2020, at the United Nations. (Mike Segar/Pool via AP)

UN Security Council rejects US demand to ‘snap back’ Iran sanctions

By Edith M. Lederer

All 15 council members, except Dominican Republic, had informed body’s president that Trump administration’s action was illegal because US withdrew from JCPOA in 2018

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas terrorist movement chief Ismail Haniyeh, prior to their meeting in Istanbul, February 1, 2020. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool/ File)

US State Department slams Turkey for hosting Hamas heads

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from R) and his staff meet with British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab and his team at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on August 25, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu scolds visiting British FM for rejecting Iran sanctions

Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu at an inauguration ceremony of a Health Ministry command center near Ben Gurion Airport, August 26, 2020. (GPO)

Virus czar rejects criticism by Netanyahu ally as serious cases hit new high

Ronni Gamzu dismisses remarks by Miki Zohar, says he has picked a ‘complicated’ approach to fighting COVID-19 that isn’t always popular

Coronavirus czar Roni Gamzu during a meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at the Jerusalem city hall on August 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus czar says infection rate in Arab areas a ‘catastrophe,’ opposes lockdown

The departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport on August 16, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Greece agrees to double number of Israeli tourists to 1,200 per week

Rabbi Yehuda Yudi Dukes, the longtime director of JNet, a worldwide Chabad educational program, has been among the longest hospitalized COVID-19 patients. (Itzik Roitman /Merkos302/ Courtesy of JNet via JTA)

Analysis

After 4 months on ventilator, 4 collapsed lungs, NY rabbi recovering from COVID

38-year-old Rabbi Yehuda ‘Yudi’ Dukes believed to among longest hospitalized coronavirus patients in the US, suffering several setbacks including a stroke

A ambulance corps and a Brooklyn synagogue have warned of new cases of COVID-19 in local Orthodox communities. (Screenshots from WhatsApp via JTA)

Brooklyn synagogue, Orthodox medics warn of rising COVID cases, second wave

A Palestinian Hamas policeman wears a face mask as he guards in a street in Gaza City during a 48 hour lockdown imposed following the discovery of the first coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip on August 25, 2020. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

‘Panic and fear’ in Gaza as new virus cases lead to lockdown, first death

By Aaron Boxerman

Nine new infections confirmed Wednesday in areas around Strip; Hamas officials say cases not connected, leading to fears of community spread

Qatar envoy arrives in Gaza with $30 million in cash seeking to placate Hamas

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Arson balloons from Gaza spark 29 fires in Israel Tuesday

left to right: Nicola Mansour, Gal Dvir and Sally Awad Asfour, co-founders of BlockIT (Courtesy)

Arab-Jewish ‘partnership of equals’ startup BlockIT aims to bring fun to school

By Jake Epstein

Anne Frank, whose diary chronicles her two-year stay at a secret annex in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam with her family and several other Jews during Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. (Wikimedia Commons)

Frankfurt’s new Jewish museum reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots in the city

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Grime music artist Wiley during an event in London, October 18, 2017. (Ian West/PA via AP)

British rapper Wiley repeats Jewish power and money tropes in new interview

A Dutch judge, Hendrik Steenhuis (L), presides over a hearing at the Schiphol Judicial Court complex in Badhoevedorp, March 9, 2020. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images/via JTA)

Dutch judges can sanction Jewish men who refuse to give wives religious divorce

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

Protester summoned by police after giving TV interview on assault by senior cop

Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during the first day of the Republican convention at the Mellon auditorium in Washington, DC on August 24, 2020. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP)

Nikki Haley cites Trump’s Israel policies in Republican convention speech

White supremacist Richard Spencer, center, and supporters clash with police after the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was declared unlawful, August 12, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/via JTA)

Biden campaign strongly rejects endorsement of white nationalist Richard Spencer

Yair Netanyahu in court in Tel Aviv, December 10, 2018, where he testified in a NIS 140,000 libel suit he filed the previous year against Abie Binyamin, a social activist. (FLASH90)

Woman sues Yair Netanyahu for insinuating she had an affair with Benny Gantz

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Intelligent designUS artist wants to get Biden-Harris elected, with God’s help

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: An easyJet airliner on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 3, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Woman sues EasyJet for twice asking her to give up seat for ultra-Orthodox men

By JTA and ToI Staff

Members of the Israel Cycling Academy team train near Kibbutz Beit Guvrin on May 1, 2018, a few days before the start of the Giro d'Italia cycling race. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Waiting for Froome, Israel cycling team will use Tour de France to fly flag

By AFP

Some of the suspects in an armed robbery in Rehovot seen in security camera footage published by the Israel Police, July 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

City councilman suspected of sending thugs to rob business rival

Illustrative: Billboards advertising property for rent and for sale are seen on London's Finchley Road, Wednesday, April 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Max Nash)

UK renters’ union rejects Jewish applicant: ‘Sorry, no time for Zionists’

A man walks out of Teva Pharmaceutical facility building in Neot Hovav, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

US accuses Israel’s Teva of fixing drug prices

By AFP

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