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What Matters Most On Monday, September 7, 2020

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Then-defense minister Naftali Bennett delivers a statement to the media in Ariel, in the West Bank, January 26, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Poll: Bennett’s Yamina would surge, pick up 21 seats, if elections held

Television survey gives Likud 31 seats and indicates Netanyahu still seen as best-suited to be PM; but respondents report deep dissatisfaction with his handling of pandemic

6:23 pm

Israeli ambassador being investigated for sexual harassment -- report
6:03 pm

TV report alleges police cover-up of investigator's conflict in Netanyahu probes
5:38 pm

TV poll gives Naftali Bennett's Yamina 21 Knesset seats

The departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport on August 16, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Greece opens to Israeli tourists, lifts restrictions on numbers and destinations

Athens cancels curbs on number of Israeli travelers allowed and on where they can visit, despite Jerusalem’s inability to gain control over virus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hosted by Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party (left), at a meal to celebrate the birth of Litzman's grandson, June 18, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewLock blockers: What the press is saying on September 7

By Joshua Davidovich

Magen David Adom ambulance workers wearing protective clothing seen outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rate of positive virus tests climbs to 12.3% as 2,157 more cases diagnosed

Analysis

Joshua Davidovich and Sue Surkes

An unfathomable calamity: 1,000 deaths, each a world lost

In the interminable official count, they were just numbers. But each of Israel’s virus victims was a life, and in death leaves a universe shattered. Here are some of their stories

A medical worker holds the hand of a coronavirus patient at Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) in Beer Yaakov, southeast of Tel Aviv, August 20, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AnalysisA thousand more dead: As Israel tops one bleak milestone, can it avoid the next?

By Nathan Jeffay

One thousand chairs symbolizing people who died from the coronavirus are placed at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Sept. 7, 2020 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

1,019 empty chairs placed in Tel Aviv square to protest coronavirus dead

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Opposition MK: PM giving ultra-Orthodox everything they want

Facing Haredi rebellion, ministers approve local curfews instead of lockdowns

In bid to appease ultra-Orthodox, Netanyahu scraps full closure plan in favor of curfew between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. in 40 ‘red’ cities

A father seen with his kids at home after the cabinet voted not to open schools in hot zones, in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, September 1, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Health experts, ER heads join chorus against new lockdown

Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak Halevi talks to AFP in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat on April 17, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Eilat mayor says potential nightly curfew would ‘destroy’ resort city

From the blogs

Yosef I. Abramowitz

My date with history… and hope

Scientists on a desert kibbutz coaxed fruit out of 2,000-year-old seeds found at Masada. It tastes like honey mixed with inspiration

Illustrative: Faith leaders pray with then-US president Donald Trump during a rally for evangelical supporters at the King Jesus International Ministry church in Miami, Florida, January 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Trump said to disparage evangelical Christianity as ‘bullshit’ before 2016 vote

Former fixer Michael Cohen’s book details alleged comments after leaders pray for Trump; along with offensive remarks about Hispanics and Blacks

US President Donald Trump arrives to attend a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of the First World War at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, Sunday, November 11, 2018. (Benoit Tessier/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump loaded Air Force One with art from Paris envoy’s residence on 2018 trip

By AFP

Saudi king indicates to Trump Israeli-Palestinian peace a prerequisite for ties

In phone call, US president talks up peaceful overtures between Israel, Gulf; Salman says Riyadh appreciates US efforts but signals that Palestinians remain main focus for kingdom

In this file photo taken on May 20, 2017, US President Donald Trump (L) and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud take part in a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

An official stands at the door of an Israeli El Al airliner after it landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, August 31, 2020. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)

Official UAE delegation planning trip to Israel on September 22 — report

The deputy chairman of the Dubai Police and General Security, Lt. General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim (Via Twitter)

Top Dubai police official: Abbas not arbiter of who can have ties with Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Shin Bet says it foiled bomb plot planned by Israeli citizen on behalf of Hamas

By Stuart Winer

Resident of Bedouin town of Segev Shalom suspected of choosing Bilu Junction bus stop as target; Mahmoud Makdad said to have spied on Iron Dome batteries, received training in Gaza

Bedouin-Israeli Mahmoud Makdad who planned to bomb a bus stop at the Bilu Junction, according to a Shin Bet statement on September 7, 2020. (Shin Bet)

Khalil Abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, the Palestinian terrorist accused in the August murder of Rabbi Shai Ohayon in Petah Tikva, seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing in Lod, on September 7, 2020. (Flash90)

Palestinian indicted for murder, terror in stabbing of rabbi in Petah Tikvah

Omar Farhadi, an elderly Iraqi Kurd points to a frame showing a stylized hexagram, or a Star of David, hanging in a room dedicated to famous Jewish Kurdish art teacher and painter Daniel Kassab, at the Museum of Education in Erbil's oldest primary school, in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 5, 2020. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)

In Erbil, Iraq’s few remaining Jews cling to a fading heritage

By Qassim Khidir

Defense Minister Benny Gantz delivers a statement to the media at the Knesset, on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

Gantz said planning to okay almost 5,000 new settler homes after 6-month freeze

Defense minister reportedly asks Netanyahu to convene key committee; move seen as attempt to cement ties with settler leaders, who are angry at PM for reneging on annexation

Illustrative: Hamas' political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh greets supporters during a visit to the Ein el-Hilweh camp, Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, near the southern coastal city of Sidon on September 6, 2020. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

Rallying masses in Lebanon, Hamas leader threatens rockets on Tel Aviv

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh visits an elementary school in Ramallah, on September 6, 2020. (WAFA)

Palestinian school year opens amid worsening pandemic in West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Elsa freezes Anna

We know that superheros don’t always save the day in real life; what we need to learn is that we all have superpowers – our own unique gifts – that we are called to use

WATCH: Sneaking into Israel

A single mother of six is one of thousands of Palestinians who illegally enter the country to find work every day. The 1-hour journey starts at 4:30 am

Baltimore Orioles pitcher Dean Kremer delivers against the New York Yankees during the first inning of a baseball game, September 6, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

Ace of base

1st Israeli in Major League Baseball pitches a victory in debut

US-born Dean Kremer of the Baltimore Orioles throws the team to a 5-1 win over the New Yankees, hails game as ‘dream come true’

Israeli national team player Eran Zahavi celebrates a goal during the Euro 2020 qualifying football match between Israel and Austria at the Sammy Ofer Stadium, in Haifa, on March 24, 2019. (Roy Alima/ Flash90)

Goal accomplishedIsraeli soccer star gets more than 500k likes to join Turkish team

Amiram Ben-Uliel sits in the Lod District Court on May 18, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Pool Photo via AP)

Court rejects defense’s bid to upend conviction in Duma arson case

By Aaron Boxerman

While defense claimed survivor, 5 at the time, gave interviews that contradicted evidence, judge rules ‘no factual findings can be determined based on his version’

Two students learning computers in the school of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, March 31, 2008. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Arson suspected as 2nd fire in a week damages Arab-Jewish school near Jerusalem

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

As coronavirus cases rise, Arab mayors welcome new restrictions

By Aaron Boxerman

Municipal leaders back nightly curfews, but express concern over potential return to total lockdown; acknowledge mass weddings are driving spike

A technician carries out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab at the Ziv Medical Center, in the northern city of Safed on August 24, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Virus lab workers end strike as agreement reached with treasury

Illustrative: The Mamilla pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. (iStock/ YKD)

Lawmakers extend Shin Bet phone tracking by 10 days, but voice reservations

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of stamps seized by police during an investigation into a large-scale tax offenses and money laundering case. Image blurred to protect the identity of victims of the scam. (Israel Police)

30 arrested in massive tax graft said to involve hundreds of millions of shekels

By Stuart Winer

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

Cops who arrested artist in naked woman suit thought he was mocking PM’s wife

A building damaged by a fire, at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, in a photo released on July 2, 2020. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran claims it’s identified saboteurs behind blast at nuclear site

Workers at an industrial chicken farm secretly filmed violently handling birds that have been caged under a Ministry of Agriculture-approved pilot project. (Courtesy, Animals Now)

Secret footage shows workers abusing chickens at ministry-backed plant

Screen capture from a Health Ministry coronavirus awareness ad, released September 6, 2020. (YouTube)

OK COVIDHealth Ministry’s China-offending virus mascot makes a comeback

Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Prosecutors appeal acquittal of men who lynched migrant mistaken for terrorist

By Michael Bachner

Arab students take part in a Makeathon in 2020 at Tel Aviv University organized by Tsofen. A Makeathon is when teams work to build new products (Courtesy)

Proposed 5-year $237 million plan seeks 20,000 Arab engineers for Startup Nation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Danish lawmakers to mull circumcision ban, sparking protest

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rescuers search at the site of a collapsed building after getting signals there may be a survivor under the rubble, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 5, 2020 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

After possible pulse detected in Beirut rubble, official says search was in vain

By AFP

Intel Corp.'s Daniel Benatar (Courtesy)

Intel Corp. names Israeli to second in command for global manufacturing

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rapper Kodak Black performs onstage at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles on December 15, 2018. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images via JTA/File)

Rapper Kodak Black says he is being denied access to a rabbi in prison

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, welcomes his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis in the Iranian capital Tehran on September 7, 2020. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

In Tehran, Swiss foreign minister holds ‘fruitful’ talks on peace, rights

By AFP

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