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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 6, 2020

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Police officers close synagogues and hand out fines to Haredi Jews in Jerusalem's Bukharim neighborhood, following government restrictions imposed as part of the effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, April 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'We won't forget who turned us into enemies of the people'

Netanyahu cancels cabinet vote on local lockdowns as Haredim threaten rebellion

In unprecedented letter, 4 ultra-Orthodox mayors accuse PM of turning their community into national ‘punching bag,’ say they won’t cooperate with new restrictions

Illustrative photo: A student moving into the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem on August 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewGive us liberty and give us death: What the press is saying on September 6

By Joshua Davidovich

A Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) medical worker holding the hand of a patient in the coronavirus ward, August 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel passes bleak milestone of 1,000 coronavirus deaths

Illustrative: Jewish men pray at a synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, Gush Etzion, May 20, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said to promise prayers will be safeguarded under any holiday lockdown

In talks with Haredi lawmakers, PM reportedly vows right to worship will be maintained in Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot under virus restrictions

6:25 pm

Ministers approve local curfews instead of lockdowns after Haredi pressure
5:49 pm

Tens of thousands march in Minsk to demand Belarus leader resigns
5:45 pm

Netanyahu said to promise right to prayer will be safeguarded under any lockdown

A father holds his son waving Kosovo's flag as they celebrate the 12th anniversary of the country's independence, in the capital Pristina, Monday, Feb. 17, 2020 (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

AnalysisIsrael feared setting a precedent regarding the Palestinians

Kosovo’s Jerusalem embassy offer was available for years, but Israel was wary

By Raphael Ahren

Pristina’s move to recognize the Jewish state is being hailed as a breakthrough, but it had long been courting Jerusalem, which balked at endorsing a unilateral statehood move

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (seated, left) appears to react with puzzlement as US President Donald Trump announces that his country will be moving its Israel embassy to Jerusalem by July 2021. (screenshot)

Serbian leader seems puzzled by Trump announcement of embassy move to Jerusalem

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, left, listens to his Kosovo counterpart Behxhet Pacolli during a joint press conference in Pristina, Kosovo on October 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Turkey ‘disappointed’ by Kosovo’s move to recognize Israel

By AFP

Performance artist Zeev Engelmayer protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on August 15, 202 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police arrest artist in naked woman costume at anti-Netanyahu protest

Zeev Engelmayer, a fixture at the Balfour protests as his character ‘Shoshka,’ claims he was strip-searched; cops say he’s suspected of ‘sexually harassing the public’

Police drag away a protester during a rally calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation, outside his official residence in Jerusalem on September 5, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

12 arrested, 2 cops hurt at protest outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home

By Anat Peled and ToI Staff

Police clash with anti-Netanyahu demonstrators during a march in Jerusalem, on September 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police, protesters clash in Jerusalem as activists march to PM’s residence

By Anat Peled and ToI Staff

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

2 tests, set groups, supervised quarantine: Ministers said to propose Uman plan

Unclear if Ukraine will make exception for Israeli pilgrims and waive ban on foreigners; proposal said to allow for 5,000-7,500 pilgrims to make trip, including those already there

Virus czar: Contact tracing program may not be fully operational for 2 months

Officials mull Temple Mount closure as Old City declared a COVID-19 ‘red zone’

Interior minister says only nationwide lockdown can stem virus spread

MK Pnina Tamano-Shata at a Blue and White party conference in Rehovot, February 18, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Interview

Trailblazing minister battles to get things done in a do-nothing government

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Malawi's newly elected President Lazarus Chakwera greets supporters after being sworn in in Lilongwe, Malawi, June 28, 2020. Chakwera is Malawi’s sixth president after winning the historic election held last week, the first time a court-overturned vote in Africa has resulted in the defeat of an incumbent leader. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Malawi’s new president vows to open diplomatic office in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Following Serbia and Kosovo, Lazarus Chakwera announces reforms that could include first mission by an African nation in Israel’s capital

Ariel Tzafrir (Facebook)

Court remands 4 organizers in custody after soldier, 19, dies at illegal rave

Organizers are suspected of causing death by negligence, obstructing an investigation and operating a business without a license

Israelis enjoy the hot weather at the beach in Tel Aviv, September 5, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Boy, 14, dies of heatstroke as record-breaking heatwave enters 2nd week

Laura Shaw Frank

Seth Rogen is wrong about Israel education in America

As an Israel educator, I have seen the sea-change in the way Israel is taught; his critique may have once been on-target, but it is no longer legitimate

Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson

How is fighting circumcision Denmark’s priority in 2020?

The revived push for a ban on brit milah, much of it coming from politicians who simply hate Jews and Muslims, is a stain on Danish history

National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat elbow bumps with an Emirati official ahead of boarding the plane before leaving Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, September 1, 2020. (Nir Elias/Pool/AFP)

Israel-UAE normalization to be given peace treaty status — report

News site says Israeli officials requested agreement be made similar to that of the Jewish state’s treaties with Egypt, Jordan; deal will be ratified by Knesset

Two Emiratis wearing face masks due to the coronavirus pandemic talk on the floor of the Dubai Financial Market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 7, 2020 (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Heads of Israel’s 2 largest banks to lead business delegations to UAE

Illustrative: Members of the Islamic Jihad attend the funeral of 42-year-old Palestinian Mu'in al-Attar, who was killed in an internal explosion at an Islamic Jihad site, in Gaza on September 8, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90

Hamas, Hezbollah leaders meet to discuss Israeli ties with Arab world

By AFP and ToI Staff

A church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, February 11, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

Despite virus, Europe’s synagogues going ahead with interfaith culture series

By Cnaan Liphshiz

IDF soldiers near the scene of a shooting attack near the northern West Bank Ariel Junction on March 17, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Assailant tries to stab soldiers outside Ariel in West Bank, is shot

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says suspect arrested after attempting to flee scene following failed attack; border guards also arrest Palestinian teen with a knife in Hebron

Illustrative: Palestinian demonstrators wave flags during a protest in the West Bank town of Biddya on July 6, 2020. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP)

Israeli man indicted for shooting, injuring 2 Palestinians in West Bank brawl

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

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Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 27, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Cohen’s memoir casts him as ‘star witness’ against ‘organized crime don’ Trump

By Jim Mustian and Michael R. Sisak

Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari. (screenshot)

Iran airs purported confession by wrestler sentenced to death for murder

Jessica Krug (Duke University Press)

Jewish professor who lied about being Black steered clear of her family – report

By ToI Staff and AP

A police officer and vehicles are seen at a cordon in Irving Street in Birmingham after a number of people were stabbed in the city center, Sept. 6, 2020 (Jacob King/PA via AP)

1 dead, 7 hurt in stabbings in UK’s Birmingham; police: no sign of terror link

By AP

Illustrative image of a hacker and online fraud. (scyther5; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli chip manufacturer Tower says it was targeted in cyberattack

Illustrative image of brainstorming, hackathon (iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv to hold 24-hour online hackathon in bid to create 100 new startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

A glassblower forms glass at factory, which is recycling the broken glass as a result of the Beirut explosion, in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on August 25, 2020 (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

From window to jug: Lebanese recycle glass from massive Beirut port blast

By Susannah Walden

Illustrative: A water pool built for visitors at Einot Tzukim on January 3, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Parks Authority to try out segregated swimming at West Bank nature reserve

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