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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 13, 2020

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Israeli police seen at the entrance to the neighborhood of Ramot in Jerusalem as Israel enforces a night curfew. September 13, 2020.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Treasury predicts NIS 6.5 billion hit to economy from weeks-long lockdown

Netanyahu announces three-week nationwide closure, during which Israelis will be kept within 500 meters from home; schools, restaurants, malls, hotels will be closed

7:21 pm

Special needs programs to remain open despite lockdown
7:06 pm

Lapid to Netanyahu: Admit you failed in handling pandemic
7:00 pm

Saudi Arabia to ease international flight restrictions from September 15

Newly appointed housing minister and former health minister Yaakov Litzman, at his installation ceremony at the Housing Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Olivier FitoussiFlash90)

Housing Minister Litzman resigns in protest of looming holiday lockdown

Ultra-Orthodox former health minister accuses government of failing to act earlier and deliberately picking Rosh Hashanah as the start date of closure

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein holds a press conference during his visit at the Assuta hospital in Ashdod on August 20, 2020. (Flash90)

Health minister tells cabinet it’s his lockdown plan or nothing

Police at a temporary checkpoint on Route 1 outside Jerusalem on April 9, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cabinet meets to discuss nationwide lockdown, as minister threatens to resign

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers warned virus spread is the fastest in months, imperiling health system

Military task force sounds alarm ahead of cabinet decision on lockdown; Health Ministry announces 2,715 new cases, 5 new deaths; serious cases keep rising

People wear protective face masks in Tel Aviv, September 10, 2020 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel’s coronavirus case count passes 150,000, deaths cross 1,100

Store owners at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market scuffle with police during a protest over the continued closure of open-air markets, April 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Insane’: Health Ministry’s lockdown plan meets swift pushback from ministers

(L-R, rear) US senior presidential advisor Jared Kushner, US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien clap for US President Donald Trump after he announced an agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to normalize diplomatic ties, at the White House, August 13, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Exclusive

US assured UAE it won’t back Israel annexation before 2024 at earliest, ToI told

UAE prioritized receiving assurances from Washington, sources say, given that Netanyahu has made clear he won’t advance controversial move without US support

The face of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen through a multitude of umbrellas during a memorial for Israel's former Premier Levi Eshkol held on February 23, 1997, in Jerusalem's Har Herzl cemetery. (AP/Nati Harnik)

Israel media reviewThe new normalization: What the press is saying on September 13

Illustrative: Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade, marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (AFP/STR)

Revolutionary Guard: Bahrain Shiites will take ‘harsh revenge’ for Israel deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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)

Interview

Emiratis are ‘enthusiastic’ about peace with Israel, senior UAE official says

‘There needs to be trust’ for bilateral ties to flourish, Hend al-Otaiba says on controversial F-35 deal with US; vows Abu Dhabi’s support for Palestinians ‘will never diminish’

UAE investor said mulling stake in Israeli soccer team known for anti-Arab fans

In wake of diplomatic ties, Jewish Agency to work on aiding community in Bahrain

Europeans welcome Bahrain-Israel normalization as opening for peace

Analysis

As Netanyahu heads back to DC, settlers now find themselves on the outside

Settlement leaders were euphoric during PM’s trip to see Trump’s peace plan launched. Now, their cherished annexation is suspended, and they’re accusing the PM of deception

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting schoolkids in the West Bank settlement of Elkana on the first day of school, September 1, 2019. (Courtesy)

After UAE and Bahrain deals, Trump said aiming for direct Israel-Morocco flights

Oman welcomes normalization of ties between Israel and Bahrain

Analysis‘Alternative normalization’ with Saudi Arabia seen in Bahrain-Israel deal

Palestinian men burn the exed-out portraits of the Bahraini king, US president and Israeli premier during a protest in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on September 12, 2020. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Bahrain told us they would not normalize with Israel, top Palestinian laments

By Aaron Boxerman

Saeb Erekat says Manama had emphasized its commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative, which requires peace with Palestinians before normalization, in private as well as in public

US President Donald Trump (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan at the White House, January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Book: Netanyahu showed Trump likely doctored clip of Abbas backing child murder

Palestinian men burn portraits of Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally organized by Hamas in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah on September 12, 2020, to condemn the Israel-Bahrain normalization agreement. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gazans burn photos of Bahraini king; Hamas: ‘Fight the virus of normalization’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israeli top model Bar Refaeli, right, and her mother, Tzipi Rafaieli wear face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic as they leave a courtroom in Tel Aviv, September 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Model Bar Refaeli gets 9 months community service for tax evasion; mom jailed

By AP and ToI Staff

Court gives supermodel’s mother 16 months in prison in plea bargain; pair fined NIS 2.5 million apiece on top of paying millions in back taxes

From the blogs

Why Jews would vote for Trump: Answering Abe Foxman

This Republican president has a strong pro-Jewish and pro-Israel record. The Democratic Party, meanwhile, has mainstreamed anti-Semitism

Brooke Schwartz

My body, my choice: Feminism in tzniut

I didn’t hate the idea of modesty, I hated being judged. Once I had the freedom and tools to reach my own conclusions, I chose skirts

Israeli tribalism will be the death of us

The politicians must unite, and work together in a professional, serious manner that leaves no room for rifts and divisiveness in the war against the coronavirus

How Trump saving MBS’s ‘ass’ begat Israel-UAE-Bahrain deal

It’s a quid pro quo from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi

September 2005: Our last days in Gaza

What began as innumerable games of backgammon and a sea of Turkish coffee ended with demolishing the remnants of an Israeli civilian populace

A protester holds a sign which reads "Full closure" in Hebrew, after chaining himself during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

As fresh shutdown brews, anti-lockdown sentiment permeates Balfour protests

Demonstrators add looming restrictions, and expected massive economic damage, to laundry list of reasons they are calling for the government to be ousted

Protesters demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, on September 12, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

In last major rally before lockdown, anti-PM activists joined by business owners

By Aaron Boxerman, Anat Peled and ToI Staff

Wine cellar room at the Tel Kabri archaeological site.

Archaeologists say earthquake caused sudden disuse of Canaanite wine palace

By Stuart Winer

Joint Israel-US team at Tel Kabri site in Galilee region propose why thriving complex with well-stocked cellar was abandoned 3,700 years ago despite no sign of war or pandemic

More Headlines

New Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn speaks during a ceremony at the Justice Ministry on May 18, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Justice minister asks for probe into alleged cover-up of Bedouin man’s killing

A photo of the socially distanced audience at an Idan Raichel concert in Tel Aviv September 12, 2020. (Screengrab: YouTube)

The right noteIdan Raichel plays to 1,000 socially distanced fans at Tel Aviv concert

In this June 2016 photo provided by Guila Fakhoury, her father Amer Fakhoury holds his granddaughter, Kira, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. (Guila Fakhoury via AP)

Charity founded to honor ex-member of Israel-backed militia jailed by Lebanon

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

Family of Bedouin man killed by cops demands former top officials stand trial

Illustrative image of a mosquito (nechaev-kon; iStock by Getty Images)

West Nile virus found in Jezreel Valley

US Vice President Mike Pence boards Air Force Two after attending a ceremony marking the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, September 11, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Pence drops out of fundraiser hosted by QAnon fans who shared anti-Semitic posts

By AP and ToI Staff

Women and children registering for the Fort Ontario Refugee Camp, August 1944. (public domain via wikipedia)

From the webThe secret story of the only US camp that sheltered Holocaust refugees

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks in Bornholm, June 14, 2019. ( News Øresund/Johan Wessman via JTA)

Netanyahu thanks Danish prime minister for opposition to circumcision ban

By ToI Staff and JTA

The removal of a bronze figure of a Confederate soldier known as “At Ready” in Charlottesville, Virginia, September 13, 2020. (Screengrab: The National Desk via Facebook)

Charlottesville removes Confederate statue near site of 2017 far-right rally

By AP

Melio CTO Ilan Atias, left to right, CEO Matan Bar, and COO Ziv Paz (Courtesy).

Israeli startup Melio seeks to revolutionize how businesses pay suppliers

By Shoshanna Solomon

El Al planes parked at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel, on August 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

El Al to file prospectus for share offering this week

By Shoshanna Solomon

Women gesture, standing in front of a police line during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. (Tut.by via AP)

Thousands of women march in Belarus to protest president

By AP

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