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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 12, 2020

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Photo collage: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at a press conference about the Israel-UAE peace accords, in Jerusalem on August 30, 2020; US President Donald Trump (C) arrives on the south lawn of the White House on September 11, 2020; and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in Windsor, England on May 10, 2019. (Andrew Matthews, Andrew Harnik, Debbie Hill/AP)

For Israel, after 2 peace treaties in 72 years, 2 in a month

Bahrain establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel, Trump announces

By Jacob Magid and Raphael Ahren

Kingdom’s FM will join Tuesday’s Israel-UAE signing ceremony, sign ‘Declaration of Peace’; Netanyahu hails accord, says ‘there will be more’; Manama also urges Palestinian peace

Israel's Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi (left) and his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, as pictured in a tweet from the Bahrain foreign ministry after their first publicly acknowledged phone call, September 12, 2020 (Twitter)

After announcement of Bahrain ties, Israel says it wants to quickly open embassy

US President Donald Trump listens as Jared Kushner speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on September 11, 2020, in Washington, after Trump announced the US had brokered a peace deal between Israel and Bahrain. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Kushner: Accords allow Arab states to separate own interests from Palestinians’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, listens to Bahrain's then Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa during an emergency Arab League session at in Cairo, Egypt, May 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Palestinians denounce Israel-Bahrain deal as another ‘stab in the back’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PA recalls its Manama envoy, says deal ‘torpedoes’ Arab Peace Initiative; PLO slams ‘betrayal of Jerusalem and the Palestinians,’ while terror group Hamas brands it an ‘aggression’

Illustrative: Iranians wave Bahraini flags as they chant slogans during a demonstration in Tehran, Iran, May 18, 2012 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran: With ‘shameful’ normalization, Bahrain now a partner to Israel’s ‘crimes’

Muslim worshippers, some wearing protective masks, perform together Friday prayers outside a mosque in Bahrain's capital Manama on February 28, 2020. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

ExplainerBahrain, Israel’s new peace partner: A tiny country in the shadow of Iran

By AP

Worshipers, including Trump administration Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt (2nd left) attend morning prayers at synagogue in Manama, Bahrain, June 26, 2019 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Bahrain Jewish community welcomes normalization: ‘A historic moment’

Kingdom is home to small number of Jews, mostly of Iraqi origin; leader says deal with Israel was ‘never expected in our lifetime’

Combination image shows (L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairing the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020, and (R) King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, speaking with another delegate during the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council summit held at the Saudi capital Riyadh on December 10, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun and Fayez Nureldine/Various Sources/AFP)

Bahraini opposition blasts normalization deal with Israel

By Aaron Boxerman

Likud's Gilad Erdan in Jerusalem, May 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel UN envoy speaks to Bahraini counterpart in 1st public contact since deal

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on September 18, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

Saudi Arabia, key backer of Bahrain, silent on deal but likely approved it

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Riyadh seen unlikely to follow Abu Dhabi and Manama in normalizing ties with Israel for now

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, shortly after the announcement of Bahrain's decision to normalize ties with Israel, September 11, 2020. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

From the webBehind the scenes of the US-brokered Israel-Bahrain agreement

Combination image shows (L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairing the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020, and (R) King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, speaking with another delegate during the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council summit held at the Saudi capital Riyadh on December 10, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun and Fayez Nureldine/Various Sources/AFP)

Peace deal brings once secret Israel-Bahrain contacts into the open

By AFP

Democratic presidential candidate, 2nd from left, Joe Biden, and his wife Jill Biden, left, join Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, 2nd from right, and her husband Doug Emhoff, during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, in Wilmington, Delaware, Aug. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Analysis

Biden lashes Trump Israel policies as Democrats look to shore up Jewish support

Democratic presidential candidate says US president erred on Iran, Syria, 2-state solution, as his campaign launches fundraisers and representatives make moves in Congress

Supporters take photos with Republican conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene, background right, in Rome, Georgia, August 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Challenger to QAnon-supporting US House candidate bows out of race in Georgia

Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari. (screenshot)

Iran executes wrestler who made purported confession of murder

Official says Navid Afkari killed at Adelabad prison in Shiraz; wrestler reportedly forced to say he carried out 2018 killing; Trump had called on Tehran to release him

International Olympic Committee ‘shocked’ by execution of Iranian wrestler

Iran says it drove off US aircraft that flew close to military exercise zone

By AFP

Huge explosion in battery workshop near Tehran kills 1, damages buildings

By AFP and ToI Staff

The 'Library of Exile' installation by Edmund de Waal at the British Museum. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)

Interview

‘Library of Exile’ exhibit opens at British Museum before resettlement in Iraq

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

God, take the wheel

Maybe it’s not surprising that Dave found comfort in taxis; after all, one saved his life

Dyonna Ginsburg

Choosing life, one action at a time

What if Maimonides is right, and our world of multiple concurrent crises is hanging between extinction and redemption – and the difference depends on you?

Shoppers, some wearing face masks against the coronavirus, crowd Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on September 11, 2020. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

13 deaths reported Friday as coronavirus numbers continue to climb

Health Ministry revises Thursday’s daily record of new coronavirus cases up to 4,217; total infections since start of pandemic now 148,564, of which 35,740 are active cases

View of the United Nations General Assembly during a vote on the US-imposed embargo on Cuba on November 7, 2019. (Evan Schneider/UN)

UN assembly approves pandemic resolution despite objections from US, Israel

By Edith M. Lederer

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they march in Jerusalem to his official residence, September 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators rally at what they’re calling ‘Democracy Square’

Protesters march from central Jerusalem to prime minister’s residence, where thousands denounce the PM over his indictment on graft charges, handling of pandemic

MK Betzalel Smotrich speaks during a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool/Flash90)

Knesset expected to vote next week on committee to probe legal system

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)

Private jet owners said to have told Netanyahu they didn’t want him to use plane

Spirits from the Hollander Distillery, making European-style schnaps and liqueurs from seasonal fruits (Courtesy Hollander Distillery)

Drink the nectar of apples (and other fruits) in these Judean shnaps and ciders

By Jessica Steinberg

US marks 9/11 anniversary at tributes shadowed by pandemic, politics

By Michael R. Sisak, Karen Matthews and Jennifer Peltz

Americans commemorate victims of deadliest terror attack on US as nation grapples with COVID-19, racial tensions and fraught political scene ahead of presidential election

(L to R) US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Qatar's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamad Bin Abdel Rahman Al-Thani and Mutlaq bin Majid al-Qahtani, the special envoy of the Qatari Foreign Minister for Terrorism and Mediation in the Settlement of Disputes, attend the opening session of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in the Qatari capital Doha on September 12, 2020. (KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

Afghan peace talks with Taliban begin after decades of conflict

By Aya Batrawy and KATHY GANNON

Lara Trump, front and center, campaigned with Laura Loomer, on the right. Loomer is the Republican congressional candidate in the Florida district that includes President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. (Twitter via JTA)

Analysis

In a South Florida congressional race, Jewish culture wars erupt

Two coreligionist women vie for America’s most Jewish district as far-right underdog Laura Loomer, a self-described ‘Islamophobe,’ seeks to unseat Democratic incumbent Lois Frankel

A map shows the 20 congressional districts with the most Jews. (Laura E. Adkins/JTA)

This map shows the 20 US congressional districts with the most Jews

Bette Midler stars in "Coastal Elites." (HBO)

Bette Midler shines as an angry Jew in HBO’s new film ‘Coastal Elites’

By Curt Schleier

More Headlines

Illustrative image of newborn baby (Getty Images)

Parents flee hospital with seriously hurt baby after circumcision gone wrong

The official promo poster for 'Wonder Woman 1984' starring Gal Gadot. (Photo via the Wonder Woman Film official Twitter account)

Not so wonderfulRelease of Gal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ delayed yet again

By ToI Staff and JTA

A man suspected of endangering beachgoers is seen driving on a motorcycle in the southern city of Ashdod on September 11, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Man arrested for ‘going wild’ on motorcycle at Ashdod beach, found with knife

Kafr Kanna, in the Galilee region, March 28, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Man stabbed to death in northern village, reportedly by uncle

Israel's midfielder Eran Zahavi celebrates after scoring his hat trick during the Euro 2020 Group G football qualification match between Israel and Austria at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa on March 24, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Israeli soccer star Eran Zahavi arrested, handcuffed after cops raid party

New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital (Courtesy)

‘Go beat up a Zionist’: NY hospital wants to fire doctor for anti-Semitic posts

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A piano that belonged to Władysław Szpilman is going up for auction. (Desa Uninicum via JTA)

Key auctionPossessions of Holocaust survivor behind ‘The Pianist’ story up for sale

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Visitors at the synagogue in Halle the day after a gunman targeted the house of worship in eastern Germany, October 10, 2019. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images/via JTA)

1 year after shooting, virus forces Halle’s Jews out of synagogue for holidays

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ismail Haniyeh gestures to 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)

Hamas leader: Egypt mediating possible prisoner swap with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The German training ship Karlsruhe,, at Kiel, Germany, on June 18, 1934. (AP Photo)

Nazi warship found off Norway coast, 80 years after it was ordered sunk

By AFP

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