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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 2, 2020

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A screen showing the route of El Al Flight 972 from Abu Dhabi to Tel Aviv, crossing over Saudi Arabia, September 1, 2020 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

In boon for Israel, Saudi Arabia gives permanent overfly rights to and from UAE

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu hails ‘another tremendous breakthrough,’ promises new policy will shorten and cheapen flights and open Israel up to the Far East

Jared Kushner speaks next to US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien (R) in front of an El Al plane at the Abu Dhabi airport, following the arrival of the the first-ever Israeli flight to the UAE, on August 31, 2020. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain tell Kushner Israel ties will have to wait

By ToI Staff and AFP

UAE delegates wave to the departing El Al plane at the end of Israel-UAE normalization talks in Abu Dhabi, September 1, 2020. (El Al Spokesperson's Office)

El Al plane, ending landmark UAE trip, again flies over Saudi, lands in Tel Aviv

By ToI Staff and AFP

Reporter's Notebook

The (surreal) new normal: Israeli journalists go sightseeing in Abu Dhabi

While the officials discussed the formalizing of ties, we toured the capital and then flew home over Saudi Arabia — routine occurrences that just never happened to Israelis before

Israeli reporters at the historic watchtower in Abu Dhabi, September 1, 2020 (Matty Stern/US Embassy)

Reporter's NotebookUAE’s warm welcome to Israelis reflects changing region

Palestinian report: US aiming for September 13 Israel-UAE signing ceremony

Emirati remarks on West Bank annexation ‘encouraging,’ says Likud MK

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Supreme Court rejects Malka Leifer’s appeal, paving way toward her extradition

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

After years of hearings, judges unanimously say alleged serial pedophile is mentally fit to stand trial in Australia; decision on extradition to be made on September 21

Screen capture from video of one of the suspects in a gang rape in Eilat arriving at the Beersheba District Court, September 3, 2020. (Channel 13 news)

11 indicted for alleged Eilat gang rape, several of them minors

Police and emergency services respond to a suspected car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank on September 2, 2020. (Israel Police)

Soldier, cop lightly injured in suspected car-ramming and attempted stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross

Assailant shot after driving his car into the servicemembers and running at them with a knife at Tapuah Junction in northern West Bank

Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus on June 19, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF opens probe after troops allegedly plant explosives in Palestinian village

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration against Israeli settlement expansion in the village of Shufah, southeast of Tulkarm in the West Bank, on September 1, 2020. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

IDF soldier filmed kneeling on Palestinian protester’s neck during arrest

By Aaron Boxerman and AP

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Top ultra-Orthodox rabbi says yeshiva students shouldn’t take COVID-19 tests

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky reportedly says it wastes Torah study time and could send others into quarantine; Gamzu: Statements ‘endanger ultra-Orthodox public’

Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk in the West Bank Settlement of Beitar Illit on July 8, 2020 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Schools open in ‘red zone’ Beitar Illit despite ban

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky seen at his home in the city of Bnei Brak on his 92nd birthday, January 11, 2019. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Top ultra-Orthodox leader tells yeshiva heads: Don’t rush to quarantine students

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and Education Minister Yoav Gallant (L) visit Israeli kids on their first day of school in the Mevo Horon settlement on September 1, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Israel media review

Back to getting schooled: What the press is saying on September 2

Evening broadcasts and morning broadsheets were supposed to focus on parents finally sending kids off on day 1, but last-minute decision to keep some schools closed steals show

Virus toll rises to 957 as pace of deaths appears to quicken

Edelstein said to back lockdown in high infection areas as virus surges

Third coronavirus vaccine reaches major hurdle of final US testing

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and Carla K. Johnson

Staff wearing protective clothes work in the coronavirus ward at the Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh), near Tel Aviv, August 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

In new record, nearly 3,000 virus cases identified in Israel in 24 hours

2,901 cases diagnosed between Tuesday and Wednesday evening; 8 deaths today take toll to 969; Bnei Brak, Nazareth and Elad expected to be designated ‘red’ cities

6:27 pm

Report: Israeli officials believe PA looking to renew security coordination
6:16 pm

2 Bratslav Hasidim in Uman said diagnosed with coronavirus
6:11 pm

Woman questioned for 'sexually harassing' PM's wife after tweeting of own abuse

Why I am not excited about Israel’s deal with the UAE

No quick trip to Abu Dhabi will make up for the irresponsible ways that Netanyahu and Trump have mishandled their health and economic policies

Rochel Stoklasa

How to move (countries) without killing anyone

6 tips that got me across the ocean (and through other tasks since), including accepting that things will definitely go wrong

Netanyahu, J’accuse!

When it comes to this disease, Israel is losing the war: sound policy was discarded long ago and hundreds, or more, will die in the coming weeks

Uri Pilichowski

Why is your Israel so different from my Israel?

Wanting a moral country above everything else is a whole lot easier when you have no contact with the population that gives you reason to prioritize security

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, center, meets with soldiers from the 202nd Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade on the Gaza border on May 26, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz: Israel has changed ‘equation of response’ to Gaza, will strike if needed

Defense minister says Hamas was surprised by ferocity of retaliation to waves of incendiary balloons, realized Israelis were taking matter seriously

Hamas deputy: We’ll give Israel two months to implement ceasefire

By Aaron Boxerman

Qatari envoy said to meet Israeli gas company to discuss pipeline to Gaza

By Aaron Boxerman

IDF: 100 Hamas targets bombed in past month in response to fire-balloon attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Kyle Rittenhouse, left, with backwards cap, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 25, 2020, with another armed civilian. (Adam Rogan/The Journal Times via AP)

Interview

ADL sees dangers in ‘militia movement’ behind Portland and Kenosha shootings

Thousands protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on August 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Mass anti-Netanyahu rallies are likely not a major health hazard — US expert

By Nathan Jeffay

Do demonstrations spread coronavirus? Major US study on George Floyd aftermath suggests no, and author says that’s good news for Israel

Then-Justice Minister Amir Ohana delivers a speech at a Likud election rally in Or Yehuda, on February 13, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Likud minister: AG is ‘wholly invested’ in Netanyahu’s ‘political liquidation’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) talks with attorneys Micha Fettman (L) and Amit Hadad (R) inside the courtroom as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020 (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu defense attorneys allege ‘criminal’ tactics by prosecutors

Most of the 8,000 or so Jews left in Austria live in Vienna, shown here in 2018. (Andrew Michael/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images via JTA)

Thousands of Jews from around the world expected to seek Austrian citizenship

By Toby Axelrod

Opponents of planned gas-fired power station take campaign to Germany

Claiming to speak for 500,000 residents, head of Southern Sharon Regional Council appeals via German press to Siemens Energy ahead of company’s September stock market float

A Chevron gas station offered gas for 30 cents a gallon during the Amazon Studios "Maisel Day" in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 15, 2019. (Morgan Lieberman/Getty Images via JTA)

Noble Energy investor sues over ‘misleading’ info on Chevron merger deal

Prof. Alice Shalvi giving a history of religious feminism at the Shalom Hartman Institute on February 14, 2018 (Netanel Tobias)

Times of Israel Podcast

LISTEN: Israel Prize-winning educator Prof. Alice Shalvi talks Jewish feminism

While live events are still scarce, this week’s podcast episode revisits an onstage interview in Jerusalem from January 2019

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Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (R) and MK Ofer Shelah at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on November 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yesh Atid MK calls for leadership primary, says he’ll challenge Lapid

Screen capture from video of a picture of Sharifa Abu Muammar displayed on the gates of the school where she taught, September 1, 2020. (Channel 12)

Ramle teacher, killed by stray bullet, had prepared balloons for her students

A police officer patrols a beach in Eilat as a Jordanian national is suspected of crossing into Israel from Jordan on September 2, 2020. (Israel Police)

Jordanian man swims across border to Eilat, says he was seeking better future

AnyVision technology uses behavioral economics to pressure the public to wear masks and wear them correctly (YouTube screenshot)

Face recognition tech ‘nudges’ visitors to wear masks at Sheba hospital

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tel Aviv University's Prof. Noam Eliaz with staff in his lab (Greg Solomon/Fulbright)

Israeli 3D print whizz and visionary of ‘self-healing’ cars gets big US accolade

By Nathan Jeffay

Journalists queue to enter the courthouse before the trial of accomplices in the January 2015 attacks in Paris, September 2, 2020 in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

14 go on trial for aiding 2015 Paris attacks that sparked terror wave

By Lori Hinnant and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY

Budget director Shaul Meridor attends a press conference with at the Finance Ministry office in Jerusalem, September 23, 2019. (Flash90)

Ex-budgets chief claims finance minister fomenting ‘atmosphere of terror’

This photo combo of images shows, clockwise, from upper left: US President Donald Trump speaking during a news conference at the White House on July 22, 2020, in Washington, the Twitter app, Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaking during a campaign event on July 14, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware, and the Facebook app (AP Photo)

Facebook foils Russia-linked campaign to hinder support for Biden in US election

By Glenn Chapman

A European turtle dove, whose species in dnager of extinction, shot dead by a 'sport' hunter in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, September 2, 2020. (KKL-JNF Chief Birdwatcher, Yaron Cherka)

Hunters shoot endangered turtledoves despite calls to spare them

Rabbi Alvin Kass addressing members of the press. (Courtesy Lt. Steven A. Jerome)

NYPD chief chaplain mugged on early morning walk in Upper West Side

Illustrative image of a mosquito (nechaev-kon; iStock by Getty Images)

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus found in Tel Aviv metropolitan area

Hayden Library on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Posters lauding Nazism hung at Arizona State University

By JTA and ToI Staff

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