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What Matters Most On Monday, August 31, 2020

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From left, US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, Trump Administration Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash and Israel's National Security Advisder Meir Ben Shabbat meeting in Abu Dhabi on August 31, 2020. (Israeli Prime Minister's Office)

Israel-UAE peaceIsraeli delegation head, speaking Arabic, hails new reality

‘Join us’ in peace, Kushner urges region, as El Al flight brings Israelis to UAE

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Joint US-Israeli delegation arrives in Abu Dhabi on unprecedented direct journey, overflying Saudi Arabia; talks underway to put breakthrough Israel-UAE normalization into effect

An El Al plane seen on a flight tracking website as it makes the first commercial flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, by crossing Saudi Arabian airspace, on August 31, 2020. (screen capture: FlightRadar24)

El Al flight lands in UAE after becoming 1st Israeli plane to cross Saudi Arabia

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

US Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner (C), US National Security Adviser Robert OBrien (R) and Head of Israel's National Security Council Meir Ben-Shabbat (L) board the El Al's flight LY971, which will carry an Israeli-American delegation from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on August 31, 2020. (NIR ELIAS / POOL / AFP)

Israel-UAE peaceMaking history, 1st commercial Israel-UAE flight departs for normalization talks

By Raphael Ahren

A municipal worker disinfects a truck at a checkpoint in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on August 31, 2020. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas says ceasefire deal reached after weeks of Gaza balloon attacks

By Joshua Davidovich

Terror group thanks Qatari envoy for brokering deal, which will bring in projects to help Strip deal with coronavirus as pandemic spreads

6:33 pm

Israeli sources reportedly confirm understandings with Hamas
6:25 pm

No word from Israel on Gaza ceasefire
6:19 pm

Hamas says ceasefire deal reached to end Gaza violence

A member of an El Al flight crew ahead of the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE, at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, August 31, 2020. (NIR ELIAS / POOL / AFP)

Israel media review

Welcome to the jungle: What the press is saying on August 31

By Joshua Davidovich

Israelis leave their ‘villa’ for a ‘historic’ jaunt over Saudi Arabia to visit their new besties in Abu Dhabi and (almost) everyone is super stoked. Did I mention it’s historic?

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh during a press conference at the Foreign Press Association in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 9, 2020. (Abbas Momani/Pool Photo via AP)

Palestinians ‘pained’ by momentous Israeli-UAE flight

From the blogs

Bishara A. Bahbah

Palestinian leaders! Wake up and smell the statehood!

Two bold moves — a phone call to Donald Trump and an Arab mini-summit — could give your people a real future. What have you got to lose?

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)

Treasury budget chief quits, lashes government for ‘shattering red lines’

Shaul Meridor decries decision-making process influenced by ‘narrow interests,’ disregarding decades of budgetary rules; Finance Minister Katz accuses him of ‘political interests’

Striking virus lab workers say no progress in talks with Treasury

Teachers put off strike for 2 days, enabling school year to open on time

Innovation Authority CEO Aharon Aharon to step down for ‘next challenges’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Eitan Charnoff. (courtesy)

ToI investigates

Israeli pitched covert pro-Trump plan while leading ‘nonpartisan’ iVote Israel

By Simona Weinglass

Eitan Charnoff, national director of iVote Israel in 2016, denies it had ties to intel firm Psy-Group, where he worked at same time on Senate-cited bid to help Trump win presidency

Leonard Cohen performs during the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., Friday, April 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The baffled kingRepublicans twice defy Leonard Cohen estate to play ‘Hallelujah’ at convention

By JTA

A resident walking her dog gestures as the motorcade of US President Donald Trump drives by towards the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, August 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Democrats accuse Trump of inflaming racial tensions, stoking violence

Two men look over debris beneath shattered windows of Acre Prison, north of Haifa, British-Mandate Palestine, May 6, 1947, which was blasted open two days earlier by members of an underground Jewish militia. (AP Photo)

An inside job: How a UK engineer helped the Irgun break into Acre prison in 1947

Newly reported details reveal that Peres Etkes, who designed the British Mandate penitentiary, passed building plans to Zionist militia and helped stage legendary jailbreak

People on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on April 26, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Explainer

Michael Bachner

What’s the ‘traffic light’ plan? All you need to know about the new virus rules

Restrictions based on local morbidity rates take effect September 6 and can be confusing. Here’s how it will work

First grade students and their parents ahead of the opening of the school year at a school in Efrat on August 30, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Ministers okay virus czar’s pandemic plan, but block it from applying to schools

People sit outside the closed Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv, May 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel okays limited indoor shows in cities with low virus infection rates

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Elchanan Poupko

Wrestling with Shlomo Carlebach

His music is so captivating, and my personal connection runs so deep, that when I stopped listening to Shlomo, it was like a punch to the gut

‘Balfour’: Israel’s history, reality and destiny

Today, the Jerusalem location of the Prime Minister’s residence is a symbol for many Israelis of Netanyahu’s abuse of power

Cornell student Aliza Saunders shows off the supplies she got to celebrate Shabbat on her own. (Courtesy of Cornell Hillel/ via JTA)

Coronavirus crisis

‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: US Jewish campus life goes virtual

By Josefin Dolsten

The pool and beach at the Atlantis Hotel with the skyline of the Dubai Marina visible in the distance in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Israel adds 9 countries that don’t require quarantine on return, including UAE

Decision comes hours before first Israeli commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi; also on list: Australia, Uruguay, Ireland, Taiwan, Norway, Singapore, Portugal and Thailand

Israelis wear protective face masks in Tel Aviv on August 25, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel nearing herd immunity threshold, expert says, but some question his claim

By Nathan Jeffay

Parliament member John Mann speaks at a protest against anti-Semitism in his Labour Party in London's Parliament Square, March 26, 2018. (Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images/ via JTA)

UK politics

John Mann, a non-Jewish Brexiteer, is England’s loudest critic of anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Hadera coast line with the largely coal-fired Orot Rabin power plant, April 16, 2013. (Flash90)

Big companies cost Israeli taxpayers NIS 13b in damage to health, environment

In eighth annual report on pollution and global warming gas emissions, Environmental Protection Ministry adopts OECD criteria for calculating industries’ indirect costs

An aerial view of the Tamar gas-processing rig off the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, June 23, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

After 7 years of operation, Tamar gas rig finally gets emissions license

Haifa Bay's industrial area, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Amid shutdown threat, campaign tries to paint polluting Haifa industries green

Sasha Lurje, left, leads the Yiddish rock band Forshpil. (Marlene Karpischek via JTA)

Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil brings electric guitar to the shtetl

More Headlines

Illustrative: A toilet bowl in a bathroom (belchonock; iStock via Getty Images)

Waste watchersEat your own poop to prevent post-diet weight gain — Israeli study

From left to right: US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on August 30, 2020. (Jorge Novomeysky/GPO)

Amid F-35 tussle, Gantz says he will work with US to keep Israel’s military edge

The Hailo-8 AI processor developed by Hailo (Courtesy)

Israeli chip maker Hailo to set up Tokyo unit as demand for AI tech grows

By Shoshanna Solomon

A view of the Leviathan natural gas processing rig from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90)

Natural gas, mining brought state NIS 480m in royalties in 1st half of 2020

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

IDF rebukes troops seen not responding as they’re pelted with rocks in Hebron

By Judah Ari Gross

Rosalie Wolpe speaks to a relative on the phone on her 111th birthday at a retirement home in Cape Town, South Africa on August 25, 2020. (David Wolpe via JTA)

Jewish woman celebrates 111th birthday under lockdown in South Africa

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Soldiers fire tear gas in Hebron on August 28, 2020. (WAFA)

IDF troops accused of firing tear gas into Palestinian hospital

By Aaron Boxerman

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)

South Carolina congressman asks US to pressure Ukraine to allow Uman pilgrims

By JTA

Lebanese Prime Minister-Designate Mustapha Adib speaks to journalists at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, August 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Diplomat Mustapha Adib tapped as new Lebanese PM, vows reforms

A French soldier carries a bag of rice as French forces aid the Lebanese army's work at the damaged site of the massive blast in Beirut's port area, in Beirut on August 31, 2020. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool/AFP)

Lebanon blast caused up to $8b in damages, World Bank warns

By AFP

A firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire started by an incendiary device launched from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on the border with Gaza, August 24, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Gaza balloons spark fires in south after report of progress in ceasefire talks

By Judah Ari Gross

Hungarian-born Auschwitz survivor Gabor Hirsch visits the former Auschwitz I concentration camp, which is now a museum, on January 26, 2015 in Oswiecim, Poland. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)

Gabor Hirsch, prominent Swiss activist for Holocaust education, dies at 90

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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