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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 29, 2020

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Women wearing face masks against the coronavirus walk past United Arab Emirates and Israeli flags at the Peace Bridge in Netanya, Israel, August 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

After almost half-a-century

UAE formally abolishes Israel boycott law ahead of delegation’s arrival

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trade with Israelis and of Israeli goods now permitted; teams due in Abu Dhabi on Monday for talks on aviation, tourism, trade, finance, health, energy and defense

File: Suha Arafat at her home in Sliema, Malta, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi)

Suha Arafat says she’s being attacked by PA for defending UAE on its Israel deal

Illustrative: A doctor holds a swab and a test tube (Malkovstock; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli researchers: Spit test could allow 10-minute detection of heart attacks

Study examines alternative to current blood-testing methods, with doctors saying results in minutes, instead of an hour, can be life-saving when time is critical

Tour de France kicks off, with Israeli team and cyclist competing for 1st time

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel Start-Up Nation includes Guy Niv, first Israeli to ride tour; teams to be expelled if any 2 members of entourage test positive for COVID-19

A Palestinian woman carries a plate of food as she walks alongside her child, both clad in masks, in Gaza City on August 28, 2020, during a lockdown in the Palestinian enclave due to increasing cases of COVID-19 infections. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

As Gaza fears virus outbreak, Israel said to offer aid — if all attacks halted

Gaza has 146 COVID cases; incendiary balloons launched from Hamas-run territory cause 24 fires in southern Israel Friday

This picture taken in Gaza City on August 10, 2020 shows smoke trails from test rockets fired by the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which currently controls the Gaza Strip, as part of military drills. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gaza terror groups readying for joint long-term campaign against Israel – report

An ad taken out in the New York Times by over 600 Jewish organizations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. (Courtesy)

‘Black Lives Matter,’ declare groups representing majority of US Jews in NYT ad

Over 600 Jewish organizations sign letter, published on anniversary of March on Washington, backing ‘current day Civil Rights Movement’

The Lincoln Memorial is reflected in the water as people gather to attend the March on Washington, Friday Aug. 28, 2020, in Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Thousands gather for March on Washington civil rights commemorations

By Aaron Morrison and Kat Stafford

Protesters march against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 26, 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Police remove handcuffs that shackled paralyzed Jacob Blake to hospital bed

By AFP

Andrew Esensten

For this photographer, African Hebrew Israelites are kings and queens

An upcoming exhibition in Holon will showcase the regal beauty of this Dimona-based community

Bathroom etiquette

From the biblical instructions to keep the camp clean to the creation of a flushing toilet to worries about toilet demons, here’s how to go (Ki Teitzei)

Pope Pius XII in an undated photograph. (AP)

Vatican under Pope Pius XII hid Holocaust orphans from family, historian says

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Church officials helped kidnap, baptize Jewish twins after World War II; warned pontiff to not protest deportation of Rome’s Jews to Auschwitz

Charles Holt wipe tears from his eyes during a Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation task force compensation hearing in Raleigh, North Carolina, June 22, 2011 (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

ExplainerNazi sterilization was modeled on laws in force in Indiana and California

By alexandra minna stern

UNIFIL peacekeepers hold their flag, as they observe Israeli excavators attempt to destroy cross-border tunnels dug by Hezbollah, near the southern Lebanese-Israeli border village of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon, December 13, 2019. (Hussein Malla/AP)

UN resolution trims UNIFIL numbers, demands access to Lebanon border tunnels

By Edith M. Lederer

Security Council motion extends peacekeepers’ mandate for another year, pushes Beirut to give force ‘full access’ to sites linked to Hezbollah

French President Emmanuel Macron (C), flanked on his right by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, visits the devastated site of the explosion at the Beirut port on August 6, 2020. (Thibault Camus/Pool/AFP)

Macron warns Lebanon risks new civil war if not helped

By AFP

Senator from California and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff (L) walk off stage at the end of the last day of the Democratic National Convention on August 20, 2020. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Analysis

Douglas Emhoff, Kamala Harris’ husband, is the Democrats’ newest Jewish star

In Florida Jewish voter outreach webinar, VP candidate’s spouse recalls 3-piece brown velour bar mitzvah suit, pro-bono work he does for Jewish group providing services for poor

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, August 28, 2020, in Londonderry, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

At New Hampshire rally, Trump dismisses idea of losing to ‘low-IQ, sleepy’ Biden

By Saul Loeb and Sebastian Smith

Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump and White House adviser, addresses attendees as Trump prepares to deliver his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House on August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Ivanka may be angling to position herself as the Trump heir apparent

By Michael Mathes

'The Capitulation of Granada' (Muhammad XII surrenders to Ferdinand and Isabella), painted by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, 1882 (Public domain via Wikicommons)

Author interview

Bestselling author’s new YA novel stars teenage Sephardic Jew under Inquisition

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Police intervene as local residents try and stop Hassidic pilgrims entering into the town of Uman, Ukraine (Screencapture/Kan)

Locals clash with Hassidic Jews trying to reach pilgrimage site in Uman, Ukraine

Conflict comes ahead of ban on allowing foreign nationals into country from Friday midnight, amid fears mass gatherings at rabbi’s gravesite for New Year could spread COVID-19

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett during a visit in downtown Jerusalem on August 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett blasts Netanyahu for enmity, virus response: ‘It’s unforgivable’

A ran of sunlight shines on a submerged section of an iceberg in Greenland, August 1, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Blue planet: Study proposes new origin theory for Earth’s abundant water

Researchers in France say space rocks that formed near the Sun brought liquid to our nascent planet; suggest it has been wet since it formed

Morgan Halleb packs Pink Peacock food for delivery. (Pink Peacock/ via JTA)

Queer-friendly, Yiddish-speaking anarchist cafe aims to revolutionize Glasgow

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In this Nov. 24, 2019 file photo, Chadwick Boseman poses in the press room at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Obituary‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer at 43

By Ryan Pearson

A protestor holds a flag of the German Reich with a picture of US President Donald Trump in front of the Brandenburg Gate before a demonstration against the coronavirus measures by the German Government in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 29, 2020. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

Berlin braces for protest against COVID-19 restrictions after court gives okay

By Isabelle Le Page

People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official Jerusalem residence on August 28, 2020 (video screenshot)

1,500 take part in Friday protest outside Netanyahu’s residence

Illustrative: An Iranian officer lashes a man, convicted of rape, at the northeastern city of Sabzevar, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Hossein Esmaeli)

Iran VP hails women coming forward after arrest of alleged rapist

By AFP

A Muslim woman (R) is seen trying to stop a man (C) from shouting anti-Semitic abuse at Jewish family with small children on the London Underground on November 22, 2109 (Screencapture/Twitter)

Man pleads not guilty to anti-Semitic abuse against family on London Underground

Illustrative: A sign bearing the slogan, 'Honk if you know the Jews want a race war' placed on an overpass on route I-405 in Los Angeles by Jon Minadeo Jr. of the Goyim Defense League. (Siamak Kordestani/Twitter via JTA)

Anti-Semitic site behind LA Jewish ‘race war’ banner removed, but soon replaced

By Gabe Stutman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (r) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on May 2, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu laments Japanese leader Abe’s resignation, hails relations

By ToI Staff and AP

14-year-old Romina Ashrafi, who was beheaded by her father in Iran in an 'honor killing' (Courtesy)

Iranian man jailed for 9 years for beheading daughter, 14, in ‘honor killing’

By AFP

Demonstrators burn tyres during clashes with police in the Rosengard neighbourhood of Malmo, Sweden, on August 28, 2020 ( TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Far-right activists burn Quran in Sweden, sparking riots

By AP

The Aug. 25, 2020 fire at the Chabad Center at the University of Delaware has been ruled an arson. (Dave Wilson/ Aetna Hose, Hook & Ladder Company via JTA)

Joe Biden calls Delaware Chabad torching ‘deeply disturbing’

By JTA

First responders at the scene of a drowning incident in Tel Aviv, August 28, 2020. (Courtesy/Magen David Adom)

2 Palestinian brothers drown while swimming at Tel Aviv beach

ILLUSTRATIVE -- People sit on the arches of Caesarea Beach on June 15, 2017 (Anat Hermony/FLASH90)

In fourth drowning within 24 hours, 70-year-old man dies at Caesarea beach

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