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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 5, 2020

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US President Donald Trump signs a document as Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti (R) and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (L) sign an agreement on opening economic relations, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2020. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Netanyahu hails first European nation to move embassy

Serbia to move embassy to Jerusalem; mostly Muslim Kosovo to recognize Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Gestures to Israel come as part of US-brokered agreement between Balkan nations signed at White House; Israel to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo

Netanyahu: Kosovo to be first Muslim-majority nation to open Jerusalem embassy

By ToI Staff and AP

Palestinians slam Trump for pushing Serbia, Kosovo to set up Jerusalem embassies

By ToI Staff and Agencies

For former foes Serbia and Kosovo, disagreements extend to Israel as well

By ToI Staff and AP

An aerial view taken on September 4, 2020, shows people at the shores of the Dead Sea at the resort district of Ein Bokek as Israel experienced it's hottest recorded temperatures (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Heat a factor in death of a youth after outdoor nature party

Hottest day in Israeli state history as Eilat, Jerusalem record unprecedented highs

Red Sea resort temperature hits 120°F; capital bakes at 109°F; heatwave set to last through middle of next week; medics treat 186 people countrywide

A woman uses an umbrella to shelter from the heat, on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on September 4, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At least 2 hospitalized for heatstroke as Israel roasts under extreme heatwave

A woman walks a dog in Tel Aviv, , Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel continues to swelter under heatwave, but temperatures ease slightly

People wearing face masks as they shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on September 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel closes in on 1,000 COVID deaths as 2,516 cases confirmed in 24 hours

Death toll climbs to 993 with number of serious patients rising by nine to 426, but country crosses 100,000 mark of Israelis who have recovered from virus

Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu at a meeting with local Arab leaders in Daliat el-Carmel, September 5, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)

Virus czar warns Arab communities could see hundreds of deaths within weeks

Soldiers from the IDF Home Front Command operate in the Druze town of Daliat el-Carmel in northern Israel in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF to step up role in national coronavirus response as cases spike

By Judah Ari Gross

Ben Peter, the third generation owner of The Photo House in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Ben Peter)

The Brighter Side

Huge pre-state photo collection gets new life with third-generation owner

By Jessica Steinberg

An Israeli Air Force F-35 is seen during an air force exercise, June 2019 (IDF Spokesperson)

Intel minister: We’ll act against sale of F-35s to UAE, including in US Congress

Amid reports signing of normalization deal will take place at White House within 10 days, Eli Cohen says Jerusalem will actively oppose advanced weapons deal

Scoop footwear store, September 1 2019 (Screen grab Channel 13 news)

Israeli footwear chain Scoop announces plans for 5 stores in the UAE

A view of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Ahead of expected influx of Israeli tourists, UAE hotel group offers kosher food

In this photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on November 6, 2019, a forklift carries a cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride gas for the purpose of injecting the gas into centrifuges in Iran's Fordo nuclear facility. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Nuclear watchdog: Iran uranium stockpile at 10 times more than nuke deal limit

UN inspectors gain access to one of two sites where undeclared nuclear activity may have taken place in the early 2000s; second site to be inspected later this month

Illustrative - An ambulance is seen in the city of Shiraz, April 12, 2008 (AP Photo)

Chlorine gas canister explosion in western Iran injures more than 200

By AFP and ToI Staff

Students and their teacher attend class after the opening ceremony of the Hashtroudi school in Tehran, Iran, September 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian schools reopen after 7 month closure, with COVID death toll above 22,000

By AP

Dr. Idan Perez holds the 'Siddur Catalunya,' a reconstruction of the prayer book used in parts of pre-Expulsion Catalonia, at Jerusalem's National Library, September 15, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Israeli scholar wins prize for recreating medieval Catalonian Jewish prayer book

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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To the ends of the earth

I’d like to see the curses from this week’s Torah portion convert to blessings (and soon!), just as an Amsterdam rabbi used this text to instigate blessing 360 years ago (Ki Tavo)

Sign up for shul — it’s the new normal

Since I can’t take shul for granted anymore, I ask: what else do we change? Do we shorten the service? The Torah reading? Welcome to the brave new world of COVID-19 worship

Voice artist Faye Shapiro worked with staffers at Israel's National Insurance Institute for July and August 2020, as part of her Israel Festival residency (Courtesy Faye Shapiro)

In unusual year, Israel Festival takes arts to nursing home, public institutions

By Jessica Steinberg

File: Jews pray on a street near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav in Uman, Ukraine, Sept. 20, 2006. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Analysis

Annual religious pilgrimage has created a year-round Jewish community in Uman

Some 200-odd Israeli observant Jews have made the Ukrainian city their home, catering to the visitors to Rabbi Nachman’s grave

A member of the Jewish community of the Brodsky Synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, shortly after his rescue by police, August 28, 2020. (Courtesy of Ukraine National Police)

Ukraine cops free Jewish businessman abducted for ransom outside synagogue

By JTA and ToI Staff

An image released on January 9, 2015 by the French police shows Hayat Boumeddiene (L) and Amedy Coulibaly (R), who killed four people at a Jewish grocery store on January 9, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/FRENCH POLICE)

Jihadist widow behind Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher attacks eludes capture

By Emmanuel Duparcq

As trial gets going, it is not clear if Hayat Boumeddiene, on the run since her partner killed a cop and four Jews in 2015 terror attacks, is dead or alive

A courtroom sketch made on September 2, 2020 at the Paris courthouse shows the fourteen accused and their lawyers, wearing a protective mask, on the first day of the trial of the accomplices in Charlie Hebdo jihadist killings in 2015. (Benoit PEYRUCQ / AFP)

‘I am innocent’: Charlie Hebdo, kosher grocery suspect denies charges

By Valentin Bontemps

A view to a street in Creteil, France. (Flickr/Metro Centric via JTA)

Perpetrator of brutal 2014 Paris robbery and rape arrested in Algeria

By Cnaan Liphshiz

First grade students arrive to their first day of school at Jerusalem's Tali Geulim school on September 1, 2020 (Courtesy Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash 90)

With capsules, masks and no guarantees, schools give lesson in acting on the fly

By Jessica Steinberg

Jessica Krug (Duke University Press)

Professor who faked Afro-Latina identity went to Kansas City Jewish day school

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Jessica Krug attended Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy and her family belonged to Congregation Ohev Sholom in suburban Prairie Village

Jessica Krug (Duke University Press)

University says Jewish prof who lied about being Black won’t teach this semester

By ASHRAF KHALIL

US President Donald Trump speaks as he visits Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, during Wreaths Across America Day. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking US war dead as ‘losers’

By Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe

Democratic nominee declares Trump ‘unfit’ for the presidency after Atlantic report; ‘It is absolutely damning. It is a disgrace,’ says Biden. ‘Who the heck does he think he is?’

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking in a court room in Moscow, Russia, August 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Trump: US has seen ‘no proof yet’ of Navalny poisoning

By AFP

FILE -- US President Donald Trump looks at his phone during a roundtable with governors on the reopening of America's small businesses, in the State Dining Room of the White House, June 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

With false, manipulated content, Trump team pushes social media limits

By IAN TIMBERLAKE and Arthur Macmillan

Hamas terrorists march in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, November 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

2 members of US far-right group Boogaloo Bois arrested for attempt to aid Hamas

By JTA

Pair recorded by an operative presenting himself as a member of the terror organization promising to act as mercenaries for the group in exchange for cash

A man standing with members of Patriot Prayer and other groups supporting gun rights wears a gun during a rally, Aug. 18, 2018, at City Hall in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Facebook removes accounts of far-right group Patriot Prayer

By AFP

Supporters stand with construction executive Marjorie Taylor Greene, right, August 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

After anti-Semitic content, GOP candidate has post removed for inciting violence

More Headlines

A screenshot from a video published September 5, 2020, showing Israeli troops carrying a pair of Palestinians on stretchers in the West Bank city of Jenin. (Screen capture: Twitter)

2 armed Palestinians wounded during Israeli raid in Jenin — IDF

Police next to barriers near the Prime Minister's Residence, Jerusalem, August 29, 2020 (Israel Police)

13 held over alleged attempted heist of police barriers ahead of anti-PM protest

A view to Neve Shalom (Howard Shippin, Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

Arab-Jewish school near Jerusalem damaged in fire

By JTA

Lebanese and Chilean rescuers search in the rubble of a collapsed building after getting signals there may be a survivor, early Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon. A pulsing signal was detected Thursday from under the rubble of a Beirut building that collapsed during the horrific port explosion in the Lebanese capital last month, raising hopes there may be a survivor still buried there. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Survivor search grips a grieving Beirut a month after blast

By HUSSEIN MALLA

Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Yeshiva University nixes LGBTQ club, saying it’ll support students in other ways

By Josefin Dolsten

Jacob Blake's father, Jacob Blake Sr. talks to a crowd at a rally Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Right-wing media calls attention to anti-Semitic posts by Jacob Blake’s father

By JTA

Scotland's Kieran Tierney, right and Israel's Eran Zahavi vie for the ball, during the UEFA Nations League Group F soccer match between Scotland and Israel, at Hampden Park, in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)

Israel ties Scotland 1-1 in UEFA Nations League opener

A grave digger walks in the COVID-19 section of the cemetery of San Lorenzo Tezonco Iztapalapa on the outskirts of Mexico City, Sept. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Pandemic hits Mexico so hard that states run out of death certificates

By AP

Residents stand in a queue to register their names as a health worker collects a swab sample to test for the coronavirus, at a primary health center in Hyderabad on September 4, 2020. (NOAH SEELAM / AFP)

India becomes 3rd country to pass 4 million virus cases, stretching resources

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL

A medical worker gives coronavirus vaccine candidate to a volunteer during a trial at a community health center in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Indonesia's only vaccine production company has started this week a so-called phase 3 clinical trials to test a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by a Chinese company. (AP Photo/Kusumadirezza)

WHO cautions no widespread coronavirus vaccination before mid-2021

By AFP

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