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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 30, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and White House adviser Jared Kushner make joint statements to the press about the Israeli-United Arab Emirates peace accords, in Jerusalem, Sunday, August 30, 2020. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

Kushner: I've given it my all...I've never been more hopeful

On eve of 1st UAE flight, PM claims Palestinians can’t ‘veto’ Israel-Arab peace

Visiting Jerusalem before heading to Emirates with US and Israeli delegations, Jared Kushner says Trump is ‘writing a script for a new Middle East’

PM: Delegation to UAE to deal with civilian issues; security talks to come later

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A woman looks at a caricature by Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj depicting the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, holding a dove with Israel's flag on it, spitting in his face, with Arabic writing referring to Israel's opposition to the sale of US F-35 aircraft to the UAE, on August 27, 2020. (AFP)

Amman frees cartoonist who mocked Israel-UAE deal, downgrades charges

By AFP

Shaul Meridor, head of the Finance Ministry's budget department, speaks at the Maariv newspaper conference in Herzliya on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Treasury budget chief quits in protest of government’s economic policies

Shaul Meridor sends resignation letter to finance minister decrying decision-making process influenced by ‘narrow interests,’ which he warns Israelis will a ‘pay heavy price’ for

6:44 pm

Abbas to chair meeting of Palestinian faction leaders, including heads of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
6:41 pm

Dozens of NY Jews protest outside UN against China's persecution of Uighurs
6:37 pm

After budget chief quits, Bank of Israel chief calls for swift passage of budget for 2021

Police officers remove demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on August 30, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

At biggest anti-Netanyahu rally yet, police are restrained and Hasidim join in

Officers use persuasion rather than force to convince demonstrators to peacefully end major protest; members of Bratslav community air grievances over Uman travel ban

20,000 at anti-Netanyahu protest, including 200 Hasidim; events in world cities

As Hasidim join protests, Netanyahu sets up team to seek Uman solution

2 arrested after man waves gun, apparently a toy, at anti-Netanyahu protesters

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gives a televised speech on August 30, 2020. (Screen capture: Al-Manar)

Nasrallah: We’re looking to kill an Israeli soldier — and aren’t in a hurry

By Aaron Boxerman

Threatening revenge, Nasrallah says targeting Israeli serviceman will re-establish ‘equation of deterrence’ with Israel

A dummy soldier on the border between Israel and Lebanon, on Saturday, August 28, 2020. (Screen grab via Al-Mayadeen on Twitter)

Video shows dummy of IDF soldier meant to fool Hezbollah, broadcaster says

Yehud Comprehensive High School students take their mathematics English matriculation examination in Yehud, July 8, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel media review

Getting testy from schools to shuls: What the press is saying on August 30

By Joshua Davidovich

Aspects of the coming opening of the school year remain a pop quiz wrapped in an enigma; while lab workers and Bratslavers test the government’s policies, dangers be damned

With 3 more deaths, Israel’s virus toll hits 909

Public lab workers begin open-ended strike amid pay dispute with treasury

Teachers and parents threaten strike ahead of start of school year

The weekly Stammtisch meetings, hosted in this photo by Gaby Glueckselig in 2015, draw young and old alike. (Courtesy Shani Bar On/ from 'Almost a Ritual' by Emil Rennert)

Life under the pandemic

After 80 years of meetings, will NY’s German salon also survive COVID-19?

By Hannah Harnest

Gedalyah Reback

The elephant in the room isn’t wearing a mask

COVID-19 is hitting every group, every demographic, every stratum of Israeli society; of course, my wife expected other clinic patients to be as careful as she was

Many Orthodox Jews support President Trump. I’m one of them.

For my community, what’s the bigger present threat? A far-right extremist in a distant rural town, or a looter in a Jewish neighborhood?

Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped on June 12, 2014 and whose bodies were found on June 30, 2014. (IDF/AP)

Families of 3 teens murdered in 2014 sue Hamas for over NIS 500 million

Relatives of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach say they are bringing the action to block the transfer of cash from the Palestinian Authority to the terror group

A still from a video shows a Palestinian youth hurling rocks at IDF soldiers in Hebron at close range, August 29, 2020 (video screenshot)

Hebron youth lionized online for hurling rocks at IDF troops, who hold back

Illustrative: An Israeli army tank patrols along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2018. (Jack GUEZ/AFP)

Israeli tanks strike Hamas posts in Gaza in response to arson balloons

Saturday saw at least 23 fires sparked by airborne incendiary devices; no immediate reports of casualties in the Strip

View of a fire near kibbutz Be'eri, caused by incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip, on August 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arson balloons from Gaza spark 23 fires in southern Israel

Former Israel Police commissioner Roni Alsheich speaks during a Channel 12 TV conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Flash90)

Former top cop says Netanyahu’s inner circle branded him a ‘traitor’ for probes

Roni Alsheich says the premier’s bluster against the justice system at the opening of his trial ‘made me fear for my children and grandchildren’

Illustrative: CanBreed CEO and co-founder Ido Margalit at the startup's cannabis R&D site in Givat Chen (Courtesy)

Israeli startup to use gene-editing tools to enhance cannabis seeds

By Shoshanna Solomon

CanBreed aims to sell stable, better-performing seeds to growers globally, using licensed CRISPR-Cas9 tech to create uniform and disease-resistant plants

More Headlines

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

At least 6 to be charged over alleged Eilat gang rape of 16-year-old

A man being treated after being shot in Portland, Oregon, August 29, 2020. (Paula Bronstein/AP)

Man killed as Trump supporters, protesters clash in Portland

By Gillian Flaccus

Police officers look to protestors standing on the steps in front of the Reichstag building during a demonstration against the Corona measures in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. (Lukas Dubro/dpa via AP)

Far-right extremists try to storm German parliament after protest

By Frank Jordans

The waiting room in the ordination of the psychologist Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Austria on August 26, 2020 (ALEX HALADA / AFP)

No couch in sightFreud’s Vienna private rooms open, bereft of furniture

By AFP

Israelis at the Sea of Galilee, August 28, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Intense heat wave settles in across Israel

Illustrative -- Firefighters at the scene of ammonia leak, near a shopping mall in Acre, June 27, 2019 (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

100 workers evacuated after suspected ammonia leak at northern factory

Illustrative: Two Palestinian cars near the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank on November 24, 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Likud said ready to back bill requiring referendum on any West Bank withdrawal

Relatives of the Shalalda family watch as an excavator hired by them demolishes their family home in Al-Tur in east Jerusalem on July 2, 2020 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Denied legal building permits, some East Jerusalem families raze their own homes

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