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What Matters Most On Friday, September 11, 2020

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, September 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President 'frankly surprised' Ramallah still boycotting him

Trump says another country could be ‘added into’ Israel-UAE signing ceremony

Speaking ahead of September 15 White House event, president doesn’t specify which nation may be next to normalize ties with Jerusalem; says he spoke to Saudi king about accord

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 20, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)

‘Saved his ass’: Trump reportedly boasted he shielded MBS after Khashoggi murder

By AFP

Illustrative: Vice President Joe Biden addresses the J Street gala on April 19, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

In back-handed compliment, Biden praises Trump for Israel-UAE deal

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara boarding a plane at Ben Gurion Airport before departing to Moscow, Russia, on July 11, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu abandons plan to fly to Washington on private jet after criticism

PM’s office now says he’ll join rest of delegation ‘so as not to allow media to divert attention from historic accord with the UAE’; planned flight was said to cost NIS 600,000

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters at Ben Gurion Airport on September 25, 2018, before boarding a flight to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

Citing COVID fears, Netanyahus to fly in private plane to US for UAE ceremony

Illustrative: An Israir flight taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, September 3, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israir announces it will launch Tel Aviv-Abu Dhabi route

Clockwise from top left: Former Prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky, ToI Jewish World editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, and historian Gil Troy, discuss the new book, 'Never Alone.' (screenshot)

Behind the headlines

WATCH: Sharansky on UAE peace treaty, rise of doublethink in US and Jewish unity

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative: Mask-clad Israeli restaurant owners and others protest against lockdown measures in Tel Aviv on July 17, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

As gov't set to impose 14-day national shutdown next week

Lockdown rebellion: Business heads warn Netanyahu of disaster, threaten defiance

By Shoshanna Solomon and ToI Staff

Letter to PM says economic damage will last a decade; shops, restaurants, gyms vow to remain open, saying a second shutdown will destroy them financially

A woman walks by a poster critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, in Tel Aviv on September 10, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewSystem of a lockdown: What the press is saying on September 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Israelis wear protective face masks in Tel Aviv on August 25, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Virus task force: At least 3 months needed to bring cases down to 400 a day

Ultra-Orthodox students at their school in the city of Rehovot on September 10, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ministers okay full lockdown as virus deaths, infections reach new highs

Lockdown set to last 14 days from mid next week, feature 3 stages of varying severity; full cabinet must still finalize it; 4,000 cases recorded in past day, 20 fatalities in hours

Men hold prayers outdoors in Jerusalem on September 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Schools, businesses, prayers: The 3 phases of the new virus lockdown plan

People walk with face masks on Jaffa street in Jerusalem on September 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Daily virus cases surpass 4,000 for 2nd day as Israel heads toward lockdown

Known only as Mosul Eye, an anonymous blogger documenting Islamic State’s atrocities, Iraq's Omar Mohammed reveals his identity in Europe on December 5, 2017. (AP Photo)

Interview

The man who risked everything to report from IS-controlled Mosul

Analysis

Abraham H. Foxman

Trump is bad for America and bad for the Jews

For 50+ years, I kept out of politics; now, with a demagogue who threatens American democracy as US president, I must speak out

An Ethiopian Israeli woman holds pictures of relatives as she protests in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

ToI investigates

As Israel okays some Ethiopian immigrants, thousands more ‘face disaster’

A man wearing a mask bearing the national flags of America, Israel and United Arab Emirates, watches a ceremony after an El Al plane from Israel landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 31, 2020. Nir Elias/Pool via AP)

Coming soon to Israel: Medical tourism from UAE, as part of new hospital deal

By Nathan Jeffay

Sheba Medical Center says Israel will become popular destination for treatment, due to geographical proximity to Gulf state and convenience of having many Arabic speakers on staff

An Emirati official stands near an El Al plane that carried a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE following a normalization accord, upon its arrival at the Abu Dhabi airport, in the first-ever direct flight from Israel to the UAE, on August 31, 2020. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

UAE delegation’s Israel visit likely to be delayed as lockdown looms — minister

Shmuly Yanklowitz

When help is not forthcoming and the anxieties pile up

If we get used to talking compassionately and without judgement about our mental health, we’ll be able to take our inner turmoil seriously, and before it escalates

How to renew a nation (Nitzavim – Vayelech 5780)

The institution of the reading of the Torah on Shabbat morning took on new significance in an era of exile: it became a reenactment of a reenactment of Sinai

Russell F. Robinson

9/11: Remember their names. Remember their faces

I am committed to recognizing each and every life that was cut short on September 11, and I call on you to join me in remembering those we lost

Noa Hirsch Choritz

How COVID-19 is the same as polio

It takes public buy-in to conquer the disease, as the March of Dimes and Dr. Jonas Salk teach well, but we’ll need to get it ourselves; this government has checked out

Syrian Air defenses respond to alleged Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

Syrian state media reports Israeli airstrikes near Aleppo

By Judah Ari Gross

Official SANA news agency claims air defenses downed incoming missiles in area of populous northern city; no reports of casualties or damage

Israeli troops take part in a surprise exercise simulating a kidnapping in the West Bank in September 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

In surprise drill, IDF simulates kidnapping, outbreak of violence in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: This Saturday, March 31, 2018 photo released by Hezbollah Central Military Media, shows the wreckage of an Israeli military drone that crashed not far from the Israeli border, in the area of Khalet Mariam near the southern village of Baraashit, in south Lebanon. (Hezbollah Military Media, via AP)

Lebanese army claims to shoot down IDF drone over its airspace

In this Jan. 21, 2020, photo, state Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, California (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California state senator faces anti-Semitic, homophobic attacks, death threats

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A US flag hanging from a steel girder, damaged in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, blows in the breeze at a memorial in Jersey City, N.J., Sept. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

In a year of restrictions, virus changes 9/11 memorial ceremonies

By Jennifer Peltz

Dueling events will be held for 2001 terror attack in New York, after officials spark outcry by deciding to cancel traditional reading of victims’ names due to COVID-19

US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally with Air Force One in the background on September 10, 2020 in Freeland, Michigan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump: I didn’t want to jump up and down and scream ‘Death! Death!’ about virus

By Sebastian Smith

Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts that once faced the outer walls of the World Trade Center towers, after the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Explainer19 years after 9/11, US still fears foreign terror, underplays domestic attacks

By Jeff Gruenewald

Illustrative: A class at the Lippman School, a Jewish day school in Akron, Ohio, in August 2014. (Uriel Heilman)

Analysis

US Jewish day schools open for the year — and gird for virus closures

‘Today I’m in person, tomorrow I may be virtual,’ say educators as new, costly coronavirus safety regulations implemented

Protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside his official residence in Jerusalem, on August 29, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

20 virus patients attended anti-government rallies in past month, report says

By Stuart Winer

Menachem Mendel Cohen, Septmember10,2020. (screen capture: Ynet)

Ukraine rabbis plead against Uman trips after 1 falls critically ill with virus

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State Attorney Shai Nitzan speaks at the Makor Rishon Conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Under fire for alleged cover-up, former prosecutor says Netanyahu ‘full of lies’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Gazelles grazing in a protected park in Jerusalem. (Amir Balaban)

Man detained after attempting to hunt gazelles in protected Jerusalem valley

Screenshot from a video said to show a large explosion at a Jordanian army base near the capital, Amman, September 11, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Huge blast rocks Jordanian military arms depot outside capital Amman

By AFP

Lebanese firefighters try to put out a fire that broke out at Beirut's port area, on September 10, 2020 (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Beirut port fire brought under control after terrifying nation

The cordoned-off scene outside the kebab shop in Halle where a shooter killed one of his two victims. (Rebecca Spiess via JTA)

German Jewish students raise money to help owner of attacked kebab shop in Halle

The Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, on April 8, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Woman shot dead in southern Bedouin city, reportedly in front of baby daughter

By Aaron Boxerman

(From L-R) Sheldon Adelson, Miriam Adelson and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attend a ceremony marking the start of the school year for the inaugural class of students at Ariel University's medical school on October 27, 2019. (Josef Photography)

Congress probing sale of ambassador’s residence in Israel to Adelson

By LISA MASCARO and Josef Federman

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) listens during a press conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on US President Donald Trump's decision to remove US military forces from Syria. December 19, 2018. (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Graham tried to convince Trump not to assassinate Iran general Soleimani — book

Shalom Yehudiel is one of a handful of kosher-keeping chefs to compete on the cooking competition show "Chopped." (Courtesy of The Humble Toast via JTA)

Rabbi-approvedKosher deli chef will compete on Food Network’s ‘Chopped’

Screen capture from video of pilgrims tearing down metal barriers at the grave site complex of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, in Uman, Ukraine, September 10, 2020. (YouTube)

Ukraine to expel two Hasidic Jews for tearing down barriers at pilgrimage site

By AFP and ToI Staff

A man dressed as an employee of Israel Railways prevents an ultra-Orthodox couple from boarding the train, in an elaborate PR stunt by the Bnei Brak municipality, sparking a backlash. (Twitter)

Off the railsBnei Brak pays man to keep ultra-Orthodox off trains, in PR stunt

Illustrative: Israeli children run to a bomb shelter during a Color Red alarm warning of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip, January 8, 2009. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90/File)

Sirens sound in south in false alarm, IDF says

By Judah Ari Gross

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