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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 1, 2020

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US President Donald Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner, center, stands with US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien while speaking to journalists during a flight on an Israeli El Al plane to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)

Annexation will be raised again but 'not in the near future'

Kushner: 100% possible, and logical, for all 22 Arab states to recognize Israel

Concluding historic US-Israeli visit to Abu Dhabi, White House adviser says the ‘vocal minority’ against UAE’s normalization with Israel will become more isolated

A flight attendant hands out chocolates with a greeting card to passengers on an El Al plane from Israel en route to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel media reviewThe wonder of human flight (to the UAE): What the press is saying on September 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Emirati and Israeli officials discuss future cooperation agreements in Abu Dhabi on August 31, 2020. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Israel, UAE sign first agreement on finance, including blocking funds for terror

Reporter's notebook

A kosher banquet and a paradigm change: UAE signals this will be a warm peace

Following our historic nonstop flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, the Emirati authorities are going out of their way to make their Israeli guests feel wanted

The traveling Israeli and US press is shown around the Louvre Abu Dhabi, August 31, 2020 (Courtesy Louvre Abu Dhabi)

El Al's airliner, carrying a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE, landing on the tarmac at the Abu Dhabi airport, August 31, 2020. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

Israel, UAE hope to start direct flights within weeks — Foreign Ministry chief

Israeli and United Arab Emirates flags line a road in the coastal city of Netanya on August 16, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel-UAE peaceIsrael says talks underway for quick establishment of embassies with UAE

Medical staff wearing protective clothes as they work at the coronavirus ward of Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh), in Be'er Ya'akov, southeast of Tel Aviv, August 20, 2020.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

100 Israelis die of virus in week; Bnei Brak expected to be declared ‘red zone’

Health Ministry will reportedly include ultra-Orthodox city on list of highly infected areas, restricting gatherings and closing schools; over 1,500 new cases recorded in 24 hours

6:29 pm

Facebook nabs Russia-linked campaign to fuel US chaos
6:24 pm

Outgoing Finance Ministry budget chief fiercely denounces Minister Israel Katz
6:18 pm

Trump arrives in Kenosha to tour damage

National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat meets with his counterpart, UAE National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed, UAE Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, US Senior Presidential Advisor Jared Kushner and US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, and other officials, in the UAE National Security Advisor's palace in Abu Dhabi, August 31, 2020. (Amos Ben-Gershom / GPO)

Senior UAE official: We got US assurances annexation won’t happen

By Raphael Ahren

As Israeli team departs at end of historic visit, Emirati Foreign Ministry’s policy director says nation hasn’t backed down ‘one millimeter’ from support of Palestinians

An Emirati official stands near an El Al plane that carried a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE following a normalization accord, upon its arrival at the Abu Dhabi airport, in the first-ever direct flight from Israel to the UAE, on August 31, 2020. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

Hosting Israeli delegation, UAE tells Palestinians it still backs their cause

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a video conference with education ministry officials, in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 1, 2020 (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei: UAE ‘treason’ against Palestinians and Islam will not last long

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Jewish minyan organized at the hotel of the Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, September 1, 2020. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Israeli delegation and local Jews hold Jewish minyan in Abu Dhabi

By Raphael Ahren

‘We’ve waited for you for a long time,’ community head Ross Kriel tells National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, as shofar is blown and prayer is recited for UAE’s armed forces

Abu Dhabi’s crown prince and de facto ruler of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, May 15, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Report: Netanyahu made secret 2018 visit to UAE for meeting with crown prince

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discusses the Israel-UAE normalization deal at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel-UAE peaceNetanyahu celebrates UAE deal, says Abu Dhabi delegation invited to Israel

A wing tip with the Star of David is visible through the window of an Israeli El Al airliner just before the plane lands in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)

Aboard flight LY971

A new ‘sense of hope’: Israel-UAE flight feels like start of a bigger journey

First we veered east toward the desert terrain rather than west over the Med; then the pilot proudly announced his El Al aircraft had crossed into Saudi airspace for first time

US Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner (R) speaks to Emirati military personnel during a visit to the Al-Dhafra base, about 32 kilometres south of Abu Dhabi on September 1, 2020. (Photo by Sarah STEWART / AFP)

At US base, Kushner meets UAE pilots near F-35s Abu Dhabi hopes to buy

Two men play backgammon while smoking a shisha water pipe at a restaurant overlooking the canal and the Dubai Marina neighborhood in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on May 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

AnalysisUAE and Israel deal opens doors to business

By AFP

Ziona Greenwald

Whose right is it anyway?

While throngs of protestors packed the public square this summer, I had to cancel my only son’s bar mitzvah party. Why?

Why are Jews stuck in the Amazon?

Jewish converts in the remote city of Iquitos are eligible to move to Israel. The government keeps them out by simply ignoring their applications.

Sexual assault, porn and how to get free Internet filtering right now

Surely the fact that the average Israeli child is exposed to pornography by the age of 8 is among the many root causes of the attack in Eilat

Steve Rabinowitz

Tips for High Holiday services from the DNC and RNC conventions

Drop the drab livestream and innovate like your soul depends on it: Zoom, pan, pre-record, vary locations…and suspend your inner film critic

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)

Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal reached after weeks of Gaza balloon attacks

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

In tacit acknowledgment of truce, Israel says it will fully reopen fishing zone, border crossings if situation remains calm

A gas tanker passes through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza from Israel, on May 12, 2019. (SAID KHATIB/AFP)

Fuel begins entering power-starved Gaza after ceasefire declared

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: A Syrian surface-to-air missile explodes in the sky over southern Syria on August 31, 2020. (SANA)

At least 3 reported killed during suspected Israeli strikes in southern Syria

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

2.4 million children start school year amid fears of new virus surge

Over 300 educational institutions to remain shut in cities with high infection rates; threat of strike still looms over issue of teachers at high risk from the virus

A woman receiving radiation therapy (iStock)

Reviving old therapy, Israeli doctors unleash lung radiation against COVID-19

By Nathan Jeffay

Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, head of the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command, speaks at its headquarters, in Ramle, August 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

IDF general overseeing virus task force: It’s an operation on a different scale

By Josef Federman

Writer Etgar Keret (left) and choreographer Inbal Pinto collaborated on the short film 'Outside,' based on his COVID-19 fairy tale written for The New York Times Magazine (Courtesy Etgar Keret)

Behind the headlines

Join ToI Community for a talk with Etgar Keret and a sneak peek at his new short

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member today to hear how the writer worked with choreographer Inbal Pinto on ‘Outside,’ a COVID-19 fable

Illustrative: To create a pre-recorded online service, Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann, center, and musicians and singers from Mishkan Chicago recorded the songs and prayers of the High Holidays in August. (Courtesy of See3 Digital Events/ via JTA)

High holidays 2020

Shira Hanau and PHILISSA CRAMER

US Jews prepare for pandemic-era High Holiday season of rupture and resilience

Many congregations opt for virtual services, while some Orthodox ones will have short in-person prayers, but COVID-19 is testing commitment across the religious spectrum

Food pantry volunteers work outside at the Jewish Federation of Kansas City amid the adoption of new pandemic-era health-and-safety protocols by Jewish institutions around the country. (Courtesy of JFGKC via JTA)

COVID-19 has been buffeting American Jewry for months. What lies ahead?

By Uriel Heilman

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

Four face rape charges in alleged Eilat gang rape of 16-year-old – report

Five others to be charged as accessories; police cyber unit believes it tracked down and confiscated all cellphones with copies of assault videos shared by suspects

Illustrative photo of police at a crime scene in the central city of Ramle, June 1, 2015. (Flash90)

Teacher killed by stray bullet in Ramle, hours before start of school year

By Aaron Boxerman

2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer in a TikTok video published on August 28, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

US Army suspends officer with 3 million TikTok followers for Holocaust joke clip

Social media influencer 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer’s account goes offline following backlash against video, in which he jokes that a Jew’s favorite Pokemon is ‘Ash’

Grass smolders after a fire at a Jewish cemetery in Uman, Ukraine, August 31, 2020 (Screen grab)

Jewish man said attacked in Uman during tensions over Hasidic pilgrimage

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at campaign event at Mill 19 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden tells Arab Americans he opposes BDS, backs proponents’ free speech rights

By Eric Cortellessa

In platform aimed at community, former VP restates opposition to annexation and support for two-state solution; vows to restore US-Palestinian relations

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 nixed filming campaign ad in Israel after Jerusalem speech furor – report

Sheldon Adelson at the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Adelson in talks to buy US ambassador residence for NIS 300m — report

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Illustrative: Employees checking the arrival of the then forthcoming edition of the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, on January 13, 2015, Paris, France. (AFP/Martin Bureau)

French paper attacked in 2015 reprints Prophet Muhammad caricatures

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett speaks during a Knesset plenary session in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Bennett intensifies attacks, says Netanyahu only concerned with his trial

Phone camera footage of the site of a deadly crash on Route 55 in the northern West Bank, on August 31, 2020. (Channel 12 screen capture)

Four Palestinians, among them 6-year-old girl, killed in crash with Israeli bus

Screen capture from a video of natural gas being burned off from the Leviathan natural gas processing platform, May 23, 2020. (Screen capture: Walla)

Leviathan rig staff failed to grasp mortal danger posed by gas leak — report

Ady Barkan attends the Los Angeles Supports a Dream Act Now! protest at the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein on January 3, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images via JTA)

GOP congressman tweets edited clip of Biden appearing to agree to defund police

By JTA

Pathologists at CorePlus in Puerto Rico reviewing a cancer heatmap generated using AI technology developed by Israel's Ibex Medical Analytics. (Courtesy)

Puerto Rico lab to use Israeli AI-based tech to help diagnose prostate cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

Emergency responders arrive at the scene of a stabbing at the Segula Junction outside Petah Tikva on August 26, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Shin Bet confirms last week’s fatal Petah Tikva stabbing was terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fires leap above Butts Canyon Road on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, as firefighters work to contain the blaze in unincorporated Lake County, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Israeli firefighters arrive in California to help battle wildfires

By JTA

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

US vetoes UN resolution on prosecuting, rehabilitating Islamic State fighters

By Edith M. Lederer

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

‘Well-known’ rabbi accused by two women of groping is grilled by police

Doja Cat attends the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast on Sunday, August 30, 2020. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for RCA via JTA)

Cat got the creamJewish singer Doja Cat wins MTV best new artist award

By Josefin Dolsten

Andrew Sullivan speaks at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., April 4, 2014. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images via JTA)

Andrew Sullivan hints he thinks Jews are genetically smarter than other groups

By JTA

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