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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 27, 2020

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Family and friends attend the funeral of Rabbi Shai Ohayon, who was killed in a terror stabbing, at the Segula cemetery in Petah Tikva, August 27, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Stabbing victim Rabbi Shai Ohayon laid to rest: ‘He was humble, kind and quiet’

Father of 4, killed in apparent terror attack, buried in Petah Tikva at funeral kept small by coronavirus restrictions; IDF troops raid suspected killer’s West Bank home

Israeli troops in the northern West Bank village of Rujeeb measure the home of a suspected Palestinian terrorist who allegedly stabbed to death an Israeli man the day before, on August 27, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF raids home of Palestinian terror suspect after deadly stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross

Family and friends attend the funeral of Rabbi Shai Ohayon who was killed in a terror stabbing earlier in the day, at the Segula cemetery in Petah Tikva, August 26, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel media reviewWednesday the rabbi was murdered: What the press is saying on August 27

Rabbi Shai Ohayon, who was stabbed to death in an apparent terror attack at Segula Junction on August 26, 2020, at the circumcision of his son with Rabbi Ovadya Yosef (right). (Courtesy)

‘He was a holy man’: Friends, family mourn stabbing victim Rabbi Shai Ohayon

Study partner says 39-year-old father of four’s religious lessons were known to give people goosebumps; he worked to support his family when studying for ordination

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on August 25, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Netanyahu vows to raze Palestinian suspect’s home after fatal attack

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, center left, speaks with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, before a meeting in Tehran, Iran, August 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran to let IAEA into 2 suspected nuke sites, one of them flagged by Netanyahu

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Amid tensions with US, Tehran ‘voluntarily providing the IAEA with access’ to locations in central Iran and close to capital, UN watchdog says

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, left, and his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi bump elbows as they meet at the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, August 27, 2020. (Michele Tantussi/Pool Photo via AP)

German FM tells Ashkenazi efforts underway to keep Iran arms ban

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) is welcomed by a Sudanese official in Khartoum on August 25, 2020. (AFP)

Pompeo heads home after appearing to hit wall in push for Israel ties

US secretary of state wraps up Middle East tour with visit to Oman, where he discusses ‘building regional peace, stability, and prosperity’ with the country’s new sultan

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and National Security Adviser Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on August 26, 2020 (Twitter)

US official: ‘Incredibly positive conversations’ held over selling F-35s to UAE

A cabinet meeting of the new government at Chagall State Hall in the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 24, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Cabinet meeting scrapped for 2nd week in a row, this time due to Kushner visit

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Using state budget as a cudgel, Netanyahu puts his political future in the red

PM charged head-first into a wall of public resentment over the budget deadlock; it’s doing him more damage than all the years of corruption probes and intemperate politicking

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a school in Jerusalem ahead of the opening of the school year, August 25, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Coalition flubs Knesset vote on pandemic funding for schools

Likud claims prosecution encouraging ‘violent anarchy’ with stance on protests

Netanyahu tells High Court he won’t meddle in judicial, police appointments

View of the Jewish outpost of Mitzpe Kramim, June 5, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

High Court orders razing of outpost built on private Palestinian land

Right-wing outrage over Mitzpe Kramim decision that overturns previous court ruling, with one former MK saying judges have become ‘enemies of the people and the state’

6:16 pm

Saudi Arabia said to approve El Al flight over its territory to UAE
6:09 pm

6 new deaths take national coronavirus toll to 883
5:52 pm

Israel embassy said to intervene to help detained Hasidim enter Ukraine

Thousands of Polish nationalists march to the US Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, on May 11, 2019, to protest US pressure on Poland to compensate Jews whose families lost property during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Author interview

Rise of European populists today echoes dark Dreyfus era, Jewish historian warns

By Robert Philpot

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

Inside story

Grounded by virus, ailing long before, El Al’s future could be sealed next week

By Shoshanna Solomon

I am a ‘Tikkun Olam’ Jew…and proud of it

My Orthodox religious observance was inspired by discovering Judaism’s specific and ancient mandate to fix the brokenness of our world

How I became a memorial candle for my grandfather Jonas Noreika

The Lithuanian expatriates in my Chicago childhood included some dressed in Nazi uniforms, and a grandmother who dreamed of a fatherland restored

Social media platforms: Call Holocaust denial by its name

As with ‘Birther’ conspiracy, Holocaust denial is far worse than just spreading misinformation about well-established historical events

Messing with the Law of Return again

MK Smotrich’s bill seeks to limit the horizons of Judaism and close the gates of conversion to the largest Jewish denominations of the Diaspora

Nasrallah calls Tuesday night border clash with Israel ‘important and sensitive’

Hezbollah leader won’t comment further on exchange of fire, cryptically saying he will do so at a more appropriate time

Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah gives a speech in the aftermath of the deadly explosion in Beirut, on August 7, 2020 (al-Manar screenshot)

UN peacekeepers investigating flareup on Israel-Lebanon border

By Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah carried out border shooting under peacekeepers’ noses, Israel tells UN

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Hezbollah operative’s family slams UN court’s Hariri ruling as an ‘injustice’

By AP

Palestinian Hamas policemen wear face masks as they guard in a street in Gaza City, during a 48 hour lockdown, August 25, 2020. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas extends Gaza’s coronavirus lockdown amid growing fears of outbreak

By Aaron Boxerman

Health official warns of ‘more and more cases’ in coming days, after number of infections climbs to 60, and 3 people die of COVID-19

A fireman seeks to put out a blaze caused by an arson balloon lofted from Gaza toward Israeli border communities on August 26, 2020. (Eshkol Regional Council)

Gaza arson balloons spark 33 fires in south while Qatar envoy still in Strip

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, left, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara, Turkey, January 3, 2012. (AP Photo, file)

Israeli diplomat confirms Turkey giving citizenship to Hamas members

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., talks to reporters about the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Harris to Jewish donors: Biden won’t leverage Israel aid, will revive Iran deal

By Eric Cortellessa

Would-be VP says Democratic presidential candidate will not ‘tie security assistance to any political decisions Israel makes’; also vows to ‘work with allies’ to bolster Iran JCPOA

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)

Biden campaign slams Pompeo for ‘politicizing’ Israel with Jerusalem speech

By Eric Cortellessa

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, August 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Republican convention defends police, stokes fears amid fresh US unrest

By Jill Colvin, KEVIN FREKING and Zeke Miller

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from L) with then-Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman-Tov (L), Professor Ronni Gamzu (C-R) and Osnat Luksemburg (R), at a press conference at the PMO in Jerusalem on December 29, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After days of silence, Netanyahu backs beleaguered coronavirus czar

Premier calls on public officials to cooperate with Ronni Gamzu, who’s come under fire from right-wing lawmakers over his push to ban holiday Uman pilgrimage

Israelis wear protective face masks in Tel Aviv, on August 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Virus death toll rises to 875, with 1,809 new cases confirmed in 24 hours

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Steven Spielberg, left, and his father Arnold Spielberg at the USC Shoah Foundation's Inaugural Inspiration Award & Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, April 26, 2012. (FilmMagic/Getty Images/via JTA)

Arnold Spielberg, who helped son Steven make his first movie, dies at 103

By JTA and AP

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

Police say they have cracked Eilat gang rape case, found 17 suspects

Illustrative picture of a #MeToo supporter of the online campaign against sexual abuse and harassment (nito100/Getty Images/iStock)

Woman files complaint claiming ‘well-known’ rabbi groped her — report

One of the officers who was involved in the killing of Iyad Halak is seen with investigators during a reconstruction of the incident in Jerusalem, August 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Officer reportedly says he told cop not to shoot autistic Palestinian

People gather at Republique square to protest against anti-Semitism, in Paris, France, February 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Police arrest 2 suspects in beating of Jewish man in Paris elevator

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Amar'e Stoudemire in a yeshiva, wearing the black and white clothing associated with certain Orthodox Jews. (Amar'e Stoudemire/Instagram via JTA)

MVP YahoshafatAmar’e Stoudemire completes his conversion to Judaism

Screen shot of a broadcast by NBC local affiliate NBC 10 Philadelphia showing an aerial view of fire damage at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. The fire took place on August 26, 2020, and was ruled arson by authorities the following day. (screen capture)

Officials rule Delaware Chabad center fire an arson

By ToI Staff and JTA

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo talks to reporters in Albany at a daily news conference about the coronavirus crisis, March 29, 2020. (Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo via JTA)

New York governor vows to take action on Brooklyn weddings if mayor won’t

An elderly lady receives a meal delivery courtesy of Leket, the National Food Bank. (Courtesy, Leket)

National food bank faces rising demand for meals, plummeting food sources

Rabbi Aryeh Spero addresses the virtual Republican convention on August 26, 2020. (Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Images via JTA)

Orthodox rabbi blesses Trump at Republican convention: ‘May God protect him’

Screen capture from video of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican candidate for Congress. (YouTube)

GOP candidate shared anti-Semitic ‘Great Replacement’ video — watchdog

Melbourne, Australia (Wikimedia Commons/Donaldytong/File)

Australian Uber passenger leaves car after learning driver is Jewish

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