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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 9, 2020

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Police seen at the entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina as Israel enforces a nightly curfew in some 40 cities badly affected by the coronavirus, September 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

'Media says there's a lockdown but it doesn't look like it'

A charade: Nightly curfew in ‘red’ cities mocked as measures go unenforced

By Michael Bachner

Cops seen merely explaining new rules to residents and business owners, with people freely roaming the streets; authorities say enforcement will be stepped up in coming days

Illustrative: In this April 11, 2020, photo, Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade and a main road are empty of people during a lockdown following government measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Health Ministry said to seek immediate, month-long nationwide lockdown

Police seen at the entrance to the neighborhood of Ramot in Jerusalem as Israel began enforcing a nightly curfew, September 8, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Full list of curfew areas1.3 million Israelis locked down as curfew kicks off in 40 virus hotspots

Kosher food, prepared by Baker and Spice, that was served to a delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations visiting Abu Dhabi in February 2018. It was certified as kosher by the South African UOS (courtesy)

Gefilte in the Gulf? Abu Dhabi tells all its hotels to offer kosher food

By Raphael Ahren

Anticipating influx of Jewish tourists, city instructs its many hotels to offer kosher items on all menus and bars, ‘designate an area in all kitchens for Kosher food preparation’

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki calls on the Arab League to condemn normalization between the United Arab Emirates and Israel on September 9, 2020 (Screenshot: WAFA)

At Arab League summit, frustrated Palestinians call for condemnation of UAE deal

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel. (Israel Defense Forces)

Wasserman Schultz op-ed opposing F-35s to UAE puts Dem strategy on display

Deputy Minister of Education Meir Porush speaks during a ceremony for newly appointed Minister of Education Yoav Galant, at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

UTJ deputy minister Meir Porush attends mass ultra-Orthodox wedding in Haifa

Hundreds of guests crowd indoor event hall, ignoring Health Ministry guidelines; Porush’s office says he was there ‘for only a few minutes,’ calls on populace to follow rules

Police seen at the entrance to the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak as Israel enforces a night curfew, applied to some 40 cities all over country which have been badly infected with the coronavirus, September 8, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

In first, active cases soar past 30,000, as 3,506 are newly diagnosed with virus

Clalit Health care workers take test samples of Israelis to check if they have been infected with the coronavirus, in a testing center in Modiin Illit, on September 7, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

RedHill says in-vitro study shows drug is ‘potent’ inhibitor of coronavirus

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli police seen at the entrance to the neighborhood of Ramot in Jerusalem as Israel enforces a night curfew on September 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Nocturnal submission: What the press is saying on September 9

By Joshua Davidovich

Millions of people are under nightly curfew, though descriptions in the media focus on lack of enforcement, confusing rules and downright refusal by some to heed them

Yesh Atid party member Yoel Razvozov speaks to supporters in Tel Aviv, ahead of general elections, on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Opposition MK calls for recount of coronavirus deaths, claims figure inflated

Palestinians at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, August 27, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

After delay, UN to handle Gaza medical transfers to Israel, West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets schoolchildren as he attends a ceremony to mark the start of the school year in Mevo Horon on September 1, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Virus-battered Israel pays the price of Netanyahu’s endless election campaign

A consensus is building on left, right and center that no pandemic or economic meltdown will convince the PM to stop electioneering long enough to manage the crisis

People walk past closed stores in the empty Mamilla Mall in Jerusalem, during a COVID-19 lockdown on March 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hospital heads say wards overflowing, staff collapsing, full lockdown inevitable

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health minister, coronavirus czar, top ministry officials enter virus quarantine

US President Donald Trump listens to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speak during a signing ceremony with Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti, in the Oval Office of the White House, September 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Serbia won’t open Jerusalem embassy if Israel recognizes Kosovo – Serbian source

By Raphael Ahren

A ‘diplomatic relationship’ with Pristina is acceptable, but full recognition would ‘destroy’ Israel’s ties with Belgrade, source says after speaking to Serbian leader

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Abdelkerim Déby, Chad's cabinet chairman and its president's son, in Jerusalem on September 8, 2020. (Kobe Gideon/GPO)

Chad said to deny plans to open diplomatic mission in Jerusalem

Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen (L) and Chad’s cabinet chairman Abdelkarim Déby during a meeting in Jerusalem, September 8, 2020. (Intelligence Ministry)

Chad willing to open diplomatic mission in Jerusalem, Israel says

Molly Livingstone

Israel is a hot mess

There are so many better ways to handle this situation that don’t involve inconsistency, hypocrisy, randomness, or illogical busy-work

How we flattened the curve among the ultra-Orthodox flip-phone users

Once we had tracked a population that doesn’t use the internet and dramatically reduced its large number of seriously infected cases, I knew we could manage it anywhere

Tehila the Kosher Diva (aka Yael Yekel) (Dvir Chalamish)

ToI premiere

Kosher Diva debuts new ‘Mizrahified’ version of hit mammeloshen song

By Renee Ghert-Zand

US President Donald Trump speaks to the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting, August 21, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for brokering Israel-UAE deal

Conservative-leaning Norwegian lawmaker says he has recommended US president, who has done ‘much’ more than Obama to receive award

Israel, UAE to sign deal at White House ceremony next Tuesday

By Jacob Magid and AP

US envoy reports progress on Israel-Lebanon maritime border talks

By AFP

In rare move, US sanctions 2 Lebanese politicians allied with Hezbollah

Yaqoub Mousa Abu al-Qia'an. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu apologizes to family of man killed by police and accused of terrorism

By Aaron Boxerman

Opposition calls PM’s apology ‘opportunism;’ Yaqoub Abu al-Qi’an’s widow says it is ‘better late than never’ but her family has suffered ‘a lifelong injustice,’ still has no home

Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen in court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018, (FLASH90)

Former top officials sue Yair Netanyahu over Wexner ‘pedophile cult’ claims

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit in Jerusalem on December 27, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu bashes AG as report claims officials discussing if PM must step down

By Joshua Davidovich

Mandelblit’s office denies he is mulling if PM has to leave office for using bully pulpit in service of legal defense; Netanyahu calls for independent probe, saying AG won’t do job

7:10 pm

Cops raid renegade Ramot nuptials
6:34 pm

Bank Hapoalim head says UAE financial deals coming soon
6:23 pm

Virus death toll up to 1,053; Jerusalem passes 4,000 active cases threshold

FILE - In this July 30, 2006 file photo, Mariana Jimenez walks on her farm where burst oil pipes contaminated her land earlier in the month near Lago Agrio, in Ecuador's Amazon region. Late Tuesday, July 10, 2018, Ecuador's highest court upheld a $9.5 billion judgment against oil giant Chevron for decades of rainforest damage that harmed indigenous people. (AP Photo/Lou Dematteis, File)

International environmental groups unite to warn Israel against Chevron

US expert researching company’s global record finds dozens of cases of litigation; Energy Ministry: ‘We don’t act on ‘gossip,’ we rely on US Energy Ministry support for Chevron

Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee members evacuate a meeting on climate change after smelling smoke in the room and identifying a fire in the ceiling, September 8, 2020. (Screenshot/Knesset channel.

Fire breaks out in the Knesset during climate crisis debate

American hunter Aaron Raby shoots an elephant for sport. (Screenshot, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

El Al to ban shipments of hunting trophies, after US elephant killer’s interest

Dr. Rabbi Levi Cooper. (Courtesy)

ToI podcast interview

LISTEN: How rabbis of yore fought plague with Temple rite, social distancing

Dr. Rabbi Levi Cooper takes us back in history to show eerie parallels with today’s health measures, then forward – to a helicopter with a trio of rabbis blessing Israel from above

More Headlines

Migrants walk inside the burnt Moria Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on September 9, 2020, after a major fire. (Anthi PAZIANOU / AFP)

Thousands homeless as Greece’s main migrant camp gutted by blaze

By Will Vassilopoulos and John Hadoulis

Israeli soldiers guard at a bus stop near the settlement of Kokhav HaShahar, in the West Bank, on January 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF launches surprise drill simulating West Bank kidnapping

By Judah Ari Gross

Avishai Cohen, the co-founder and artistic director of the event, performs on stage during the Jerusalem Jazz Festival in Jerusalem on September 8, 2020. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Improv skills‘Israeli jazz dares’ — Jerusalem festival adapts to pandemic

By AFP

Jake Auchincloss in 2019 (Courtesy/Jakeforma.com)

Jewish ex-Marine Jake Auchincloss wins Massachusetts Dem congressional primary

By JTA

The Ezekiel W. Cullen Building on the campus of the University of Houston. (Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons)

US files charges over ‘Zoom-bombed’ Islamic State threat to Texas students

By AFP

Illustrative: Pakistanis rally in support of Khalid Khan, who gunned down Tahir Naseem in courtroom, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, July 31, 2020. Naseem, a US citizen, was standing trial on a charge of blasphemy. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Pakistan Christian gets death sentence for blasphemy; wouldn’t convert to Islam

By AFP

Rescue workers and security officers work at the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

From the webHow a massive, deadly bomb came together in Beirut’s port

Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch, left, holds up a medal and a certificate he received at the parliament of Ukraine in Kyiv, September 7, 2020. (Courtesy of Markovitch via JTA)

Kyiv rabbi makes history receiving Ukraine parliament Medal of Honor

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The icon for TikTok. (AP Photo/File)

Amid anger over Holocaust role-play clips, TikTok joins EU’s hate speech code

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: American Jewish teens participating in a trip to Israel organized by BBYO. (Courtesy of BBYO via JTA)

New initiative will significantly lower price of US Jewish teen trips to Israel

By Josefin Dolsten

Josh Rosen of the Miami Dolphins leaves the field following a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints at the Superdome in New Orleans, August 29, 2019. (Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images via JTA)

Buccaneering moveNFL quarterback Josh Rosen signed by Tampa Bay Buccaneers

US Independence Day party at the American ambassador's residence in Herzliya in 2012 (photo credit: CC BY SA US Embassy/Flickr)

Adelson said to buy US ambassador’s residence in Herzliya for record $88 million

By AP and ToI Staff

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