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What Matters Most On Monday, September 14, 2020

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Amiram Ben Uliel in the Lod District Court on May 18, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Pool Photo via AP)

Jewish terrorist gets 3 life terms for killing Palestinian family in 2015 arson

By Michael Bachner

Court says Amiram Ben Uliel firebombed Dawabsha family’s West Bank home, killing baby and his parents, due to ‘extreme and racist ideology’

Israeli police at the entrance to the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot enforce a nightly curfew aimed at containing the coronavirus, September 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

First country to impose 2nd lockdown; set to cost NIS 6.5 b.

Israel to enter 3-week lockdown from Friday; schools, malls, hotels to be closed

Starting from Rosh Hashanah eve, Israelis to be barred from traveling 500 meters from home; Netanyahu denies closure and soaring cases show his policies have failed

Stacked chairs outside a restaurant on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on July 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition leaders slam reimposition of lockdown, say government failed

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)

Full textIsrael’s lockdown rules, effective from September 18 at 2 p.m.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara get off the plane at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, DC, early on September 14, 2020, to sign normalization agreements at a White House ceremony with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. (Avi Ohayon / GPO)

Netanyahu lands in Washington to sign normalization deals with UAE, Bahrain

PM’s plane touches down at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington; Bahraini foreign minister arrived Sunday, as historic agreements set to be signed Tuesday at White House

Palestinians hold a poster with crossed-out pictures of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, US President Donald Trump, and Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, 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)

PLO, Hamas to hold joint rallies decrying UAE, Bahrain normalization with Israel

By Aaron Boxerman

In this 2012 file photo, Lana Marks and her husband, Dr. Neville Marks, are shown at the 2012 Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County, Inc. Bell Society Dinner at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida (Meghan McCarthy/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Iran said plotting to assassinate US envoy to South Africa to avenge Soleimani

Jared Kushner (right) meets Bahrain's king and crown prince in Manama in early September, 2020, in an image posted by Ivanka Trump on September 12 (Twitter)

Bahrain won’t have to abolish Israel boycott law — because it did so years ago

By Raphael Ahren

As opposed to UAE, tiny island kingdom withdrew legislation in 2005 after inking free-trade agreement with US; Manama currently busy rescinding other anti-Israel rules

Weizmann Institute inks cooperation deal with UAE university on AI research

Iran says 1,044 centrifuges now active at underground plant

By AFP

UN atomic watchdog: Hopeful of greater trust with Iran

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds copies of the Israel-UAE treaty and the Israel-Bahrain declaration of peace at his Washington DC hotel on September 14, a day before the Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House. (GPO Screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Holding still-secret UAE, Bahrain deals, PM says they’ll be ‘huge turning point’

By Joshua Davidovich

Meanwhile Yair Netanyahu, in Washington with dad for ‘historic’ signing, tweets support for Jewish terrorist convicted of murdering Dawabsha family in Duma firebombing

6:27 pm

Dozens of migrants rescued from boat off Lebanon
6:22 pm

Gantz: UAE deal drafted professionally, lockdown may last a while
6:02 pm

Netanyahu's son backs crowdfunding site for Jewish terrorist

From the blogs

Noah Shufutinsky

Jessica Krug’s leftist blackface pit my peoples against each other

Parroting JVP talking points, my teacher blamed Jews and Israel for American racism, undermining the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement

Bishara A. Bahbah

A lot can happen between now and 2024

Palestinians have a real chance at a state if they seize the moment with creativity and strategy, which won’t happen under their current leadership

COVID-19 highlighted the cracks in Israeli society; it didn’t create them

Instead of Netanyahu, we need a wall-to-wall coalition emergency government that will stem the spread of the pandemic, approve a 2021 budget, and handle all the other crises

Israelis shop for groceries at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on September 14, 2020.(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘It’s unfair!’ Israelis rail at new coronavirus lockdown dampening holidays

By Rosie SCAMMELL

Populace frustrated by three-week closure; some voice concerns about its mental health impact as pharmacist cites a run on sleeping, anxiety pills

Police seen at the entrance to the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem as Israel enforces a night curfew, applied to some 40 cities and areas all over Israel which have been badly affected by the coronavirus, September 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry head: We’ll weigh easing lockdown when daily cases fall to 1,000

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton chairing the Knesset Coronavirus Committee on June 17, 2020. (Instagram)

Knesset committee chair rips into lockdown plan, questions COVID death toll

Israeli police at the entrance to the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot enforce a nightly curfew aimed at containing the coronavirus, September 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Same shutdown, different day: What the press is saying on September 14

By Joshua Davidovich

The first lockdown was a celebration of solidarity, but from the looks of things, Israel’s second foray into virus-closureville will be a festival of loathing, guilt and anger

Israeli police seen at the entrance to the neighborhood of Ramot in Jerusalem as Israel enforces a night curfew, applied to some 40 cities all over Israel which have been badly affected by the coronavirus. September 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel is world’s first to reimpose lockdown, as Europe, others see COVID soar

By AFP

A worker checks the temperature of a customer at a store in the northern Arab Israeli town of Deir al-Asad on April 18, 2020. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Arab hospital chief: It’ll take deaths in villages to get virus taken seriously

By Nathan Jeffay

Sara Loffman of the Challah Back Girls weighing the options -- coffee crumb or chocolate chip. (Courtesy)

Interview

New Jersey’s Challah Back Girls raise dough for racial justice

By Cathryn J. Prince

Worshipers dance late into the night at Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn after Selichot services early on Sunday, September 13, 2020. (Screenshot from livestream/via JTA)

Packed prayers at Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn raise virus alarm

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Doctors issue warning after Saturday night selichot services at iconic 770 Eastern Parkway site crowded with worshipers, many without masks

A teenager blowing a shofar that has been modified for the pandemic with the addition of a face mask (Nathan Jeffay/Times of Israel)

High Holidays 2020How risky are these common High Holiday activities during COVID-19?

Screen capture from video of World Health Organization Europe director Hans Kluge. (YouTube)

WHO Europe: October, November to be ‘tougher,’ with more coronavirus deaths

By AFP

Illustrative image of innovation, AI, machine learning and robots. (ipopba; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel ‘well positioned’ to benefit as coronavirus fast-forwards tech revolution

By Shoshanna Solomon

Paper by Start-Up Nation Central says Israel should help drive the pandemic-induced ‘new normal’; warns of tech sector ‘disconnect’ from rest of the economy

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 13, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel sees 2,506 new virus cases Sunday as country heads to 3-week lockdown

Bnei Brak residents surround a police vehicle enforcing a nightly curfew, September 13, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Violent clashes in Bnei Brak as police fail to enforce nightly curfew

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UNIFIL peacekeepers patrol near the village of Mais el Jabal, along the southern Lebanese border with Israel, August 26, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

90 UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contract coronavirus

By AFP

US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally at Xtreme Manufacturing, September 13, 2020, in Henderson, Nevada (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

In open defiance of Nevada governor, Trump holds indoor rally

By Jonathan Lemire and Ken Ritter

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani, left, talks with his Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 4, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran says locally made COVID-19 vaccine ready to move to human testing

By ToI Staff and AP

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)

US praises Serbia for designating all of Hezbollah a terror group

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, visits with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, at the National September 11 Memorial in New York, September 11, 2020, before a ceremony marking the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Bloomberg to spend at least $100 million to help Biden in Florida

By Julie Pace and Alexandra Jaffe

Public Security Minister Amir Ohana in an interview with Channel 12, September 12, 2020. (Channel 12 screen capture)

Public security minister: Prosecution, law enforcement are ‘corrupt systems’

President Reuven Rivlin working to establish a unity government following an election. By Amos Biderman, published in Haaretz, September 19, 2019 (Courtesy of Haaretz / President's Residence)

Rivlin pokes cartoon fun at himself, previous presidents for his 81st birthday

The results of a reported Israeli airstrike on a missile production in the town of al-Safira, outside Aleppo, in northern Syria on September 11, 2020. (ImageSat International)

Israeli intel firm: Friday airstrikes in Syria hit missile production facility

By Judah Ari Gross

A woman throws a bottle into a recycling bin in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Activists push minister to apply deposit law to large bottles as deadline nears

David Attenborough at a ceremony for the naming of the RRS Sir David Attenborough at Camel Laird shipyard, Birkenhead, England, September 26, 2019. (Asadour Guzelian/Pool Photo via AP)

UK broadcaster Attenborough, 94, hosts families of his Jewish refugee ‘sisters’

From left, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, President Reuven Rivlin, IDF chief Aviv Kohavi and former national security adviser Yaakov Amidror give the Israel Security Prize to a recipient at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 13, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Classified defense projects receive Israel’s top security prize

By Judah Ari Gross

Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis at the rescheduled, smaller 2020 Israel Festival in Jerusalem (Courtesy Yoel Levi)

Live art rerunIsrael Festival offers online reruns after successful week of events

By Jessica Steinberg

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