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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 8, 2020

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews are pictured praying outside a synagogue in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, amid measures put in place by authorities in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19 on September 7, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Record high 3,425 new COVID cases confirmed in 24 hours

Police gear up to enforce nightly curfew; ultra-Orthodox town may resist order

After delays, new rules for 40 virus hotspots to go into effect at 7 p.m.; Beitar Illit says it will comply only if government offers more information; schools also to be closed

Municipalities cry foul over curfews, settlement vows to ignore rules

Ministers okay nightly curfews, school closures in 40 virus hotspots

Israel hits new high with over 3,400 infections in day, as curfew snarl persists

Op-ed

As High Holidays near, harsh judgment looms for Israel’s handling of COVID-19

Having initially tackled pandemic well, Israel’s leadership failed to strategize, and lost public trust with incoherent, politicized decisions. Lessons need to be learned, and fast

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Israelis to be sure to use tissues when they cough and sneeze, at a press conference about the coronavirus at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

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

Illustrative: Stressed man and woman at home. (Istock Images)

Keeping spirits upVirus stress driving both genders to smut, sauce and sweets — research

Law enforcement said to have covered up conflicts of interest in Netanyahu probe

PM calls report ‘shocking’ and an ‘atom bomb’ that proves the corruption cases against him are a conspiracy, right-wing lawmakers call for investigations into allegations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement before entering a courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24, 2020, for the start of his corruption trial. Among those alongside him from left are Likud MKs and ministers Gadi Yevarkan, Amir Ohana, Miri Regev, Nir Barkat, Israel Katz, Tzachi Hanegbi, Yoav Gallant and David Amsalem. (Yonathan Sindel/Pool/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes (composite image: Flash90)

Netanyahu ally asks state to drop graft charges after police cover-up alleged

Liat Ben-Ari arrives at District Court in Jerusalem, May 24, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Prominent Likud activist arrested for threats against Netanyahu prosecutor

Israeli police stand next to a vehicle that crashed into police officers in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, January 18, 2017. (Israel Police)

Police minister calls for fresh probe into 2017 killing of Bedouin teacher

Amir Ohana questions claim that Yaqoub Abu Al-Qia’an was shot during attack at Umm al-Hiran, as PM’s allies seize on report alleging coverup by ex-prosecutor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of his trial on corruption charges, May 24, 2020. Visible behind him are two of the three judges in the case, Rivka Friedman-Feldman and Oded Shaham (Screen capture/Government Press office)

Israel media reviewWho polices the police’s police: What the press is saying on September 8

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein holds a press conference during a visit at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Health minister, virus czar to enter quarantine after staffer catches COVID-19

By Michael Bachner

Host of other top Health Ministry officials, including its director-general and deputy minister, will also enter 14-day isolation

6:34 pm

US sanctions 2 Lebanese politicians allied with Hezbollah
6:27 pm

Netanyahu confirms attendance at next week's signing of UAE deal
6:23 pm

Health minister, host of top ministry officials to enter virus quarantine

Prisoner of Zion Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky is escorted by US Ambassador Richard Burt after Sharansky crossed the border at Glienicker Bridge on Feb. 11, 1986, at the start of an East-West spy and prisoner exchange in Berlin. (AP Photo/Files)

Behind the headlines

Join the ToI Community for a video interview with Sharansky to launch his memoir

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member and hear co-authors Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy discuss prison, politics and the Jewish people

This is your brain on Elul

It’s a month of hardcore training for the metaphysical marathon of the High Holidays: Do the work, and epiphany can be the reward

My journey from BDS activist to Israel educator

I grew up hearing in mosque and elsewhere about the need to support the Palestinian struggle. I had a notion of Israel as all-bad. That changed.

Michael Humphries

What can Israel and the UAE sell to each other?

In the quest for business opportunities, areas of potential cooperation include high-tech accessories, tourism and, of course, oil

Avidan Milevsky

Why school is not important now

What’s more important than education? Addressing the mental health upheaval created by this pandemic and tending to children’s basic needs

From left to right: Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked, and Bezalel Smotrich, at a campaign event in the West Bank settlement of Elkana on August 21, 2019. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Poll: Yamina would surge to 21 seats, majority think Netanyahu caved to Haredim

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

Yesh Atid-Telem leader Yair Lapid gives a statement to the press on April 21, 2020. (Elad Guttman/Yesh Atid-Telem)

Rejecting primaries, Lapid says ‘internal’ leadership vote to be held next year

By Raoul Wootliff

Ofer Shelah (Flash90)

Coalition MKs block state comptroller investigation into budget ‘farce’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at a military base belonging to the IDF's Home Front Command, on September 7, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

PM rips into opposition after call not to heed virus rules: ‘This is anarchy’

Netanyahu says experts concerned about likely spike in serious cases, deaths; claims cases have not been traced to rallies against him because demonstrators shut off phones

After red light from lawmakers, virus czar says he’ll adjust, soldier on

Virus czar apologizes for criticizing Haredi rabbi who reportedly bucked testing

Liberman tells Israelis to disregard government’s ‘illegal’ virus regulations

Employees of Liantech, the company behind Lbinary and Ivory Option, enjoying a poolside employee party on August 7, 2016 (Facebook)

ToI investigates

Simona Weinglass

‘Why so little?’ victim asks, as SEC settles $5m. Israel fraud case for $1.2m

The SEC alleged Israeli binary options company Lbinary defrauded investors out of $5 million, but settled the case for a quarter of that. US victim says he hopes it’s not over

This picture taken on September 5, 2020, shows a view of the exterior of the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia, at its current premises in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

EU implies Serbia, Kosovo could risk EU membership bid with Jerusalem embassy

The 27-nation bloc’s long-held policy is that the city’s status should be worked out between Israel and the Palestinians as part of broader peace negotiations

A boy plays on a drum decorated with Kosovo's flag to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the country's independence, in the capital Pristina, Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. (AP/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo speaker of parliament sends warm message to Israel

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on a video from Israel to the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Director interview

New Israeli film projects AIPAC’s steady drift from idealistic bipartisan roots

By Jordan Hoffman

From the blogs

David E. Bernstein

Misunderstanding AIPAC and American politics

The director of a film that slams the pro-Israel org holds the erroneous view that any group that’s not explicitly left-wing is the right-wing enemy

An Israeli soldier arrests a Palestinian man as part of a manhunt for the person who threw a brick at Sgt. First Class Amit Ben-Ygal, killing him, in the West Bank village of Yabed on May 12, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

In tacit threat, IDF makes mass arrests of Hamas members around Hebron

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian media say 45 people detained in overnight raids; military says it picked up 21 operatives; arrests come amid uptick in West Bank violence

A man prays in his home in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, September 6, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

Facing new COVID-19 restrictions, Bnei Brak adapts

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Frustrated and feeling targeted, residents of ultra-Orthodox city say they are doing all they can to prevent the spread of the coronvairus in their close-knit community

Illustrative: Children play on a sidewalk in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, Thursday, June 4, 2020 in New York during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Large weddings blamed as virus rates spike in NYC Orthodox neighborhoods

Illustrative: Youths take part in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/March of the Living)

In face of ongoing pandemic, New England March of the Living holds online event

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Israeli model May Tager, left, covers herself with an Israeli flag next to Anastasia Bandarenka, a Dubai-based model who covers herself in a UAE flag on the set of a photo shoot in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, September 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Model diplomacyIsraeli model waves flag in UAE pajama photoshoot

By FAY ABUELGASIM

Illustrative: A large number of students sitting at a high school assembly. (Lincoln Beddoe/ Istock Images)

Israeli classrooms have 5 more kids than OECD average; teachers earn 5% less

Artist's impression of cable cars crossing Jerusalem's Hinnom Valley, from a promotional video posted to YouTube.

Jerusalem cable car backers miss court deadline to prove plan will boost tourism

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli ambassador being investigated for sexual harassment — report

Hiram Epstein, center, is a character who appears as a ghost in the third episode of 'Lovecraft Country.' (Screenshot/via JTA)

Spoiler alertWhy does HBO’s anti-racist ‘Lovecraft Country’ stumble into anti-Semitic tropes?

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A courtroom sketch made on September 2, 2020, at the Paris courthouse shows the 14 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)

Chilling testimony grips Paris court trying alleged Charlie Hebdo accomplices

By Anne-Sophie LASSERRE

A pump operates during a drill to practice for a marine oil spill near to the Leviathan natural gas platform off Israel's northern Mediterranean coast, September 6, 2020. (Fred Arzuan, Ministry of the Environment)

Multiple Israeli groups drill for massive oil spill

This August 2020 photo provided by Dr. Se-Jin Lee shows a normal mouse and a “twice-muscled” mouse developed at the The Jackson Laboratory of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Conn.(Dr. Se-Jin Lee/University of Connecticut School of Medicine via AP)

Do you even lift-off?Researchers find ‘mighty mice’ stay musclebound in space

Illustrative: Defense Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a visit at Midreshet Lindenbaum for Women in Jerusalem on February 16, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

12 students at women’s seminary in Jerusalem test positive for coronavirus

Illustrative: Austrian passports (iStock.Getty Images)

Israeli man, 84, becomes first Jew to reclaim Austrian citizenship under new law

By JTA

Israeli actor Yossi Marshak appears in a campaign video to men against sexual violence in Israel (Screenshot/ Twitter)

Men lead new Israeli social media campaign against sexual violence

Palestinian doctors treat patients at the emergency room of the al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, September 7, 2020. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Virus puts new strain on Gaza’s overwhelmed health system

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