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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 15, 2020

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The flags of the U.S., United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain seen on the side of a road in the city of Netanya, September 14, 2020. (Flash90)

Premier hails 'a massive turning point in history of Israel'

700 due at White House Israel-UAE-Bahrain signing; Netanyahu to meet Trump first

By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff

Hours before ceremony, wording of UAE ‘peace treaty’ and Bahrain ‘peace declaration’ still not published; PM’s office says UAE deal will be valid only when Knesset gives okay

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)

White House peace confab to aim for social distancing, but masks won’t be forced

The flags of the US, the United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain seen on the side of a road in Netanya, September 14, 2020. (Flash90)

Israel media reviewWith this accord, I thee normalize: What the press is saying on September 15

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020, as he travels to Philadelphia, (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

After UAE, Bahrain deals signed, Trump says 7-9 countries seek peace with Israel

By Marissa Newman

Soon after historic Abraham Accords ceremony at the White House, US president includes Saudi Arabia among those nations also now ready to normalize ties with Jewish state

9:18 pm

Full text of UAE-Israel 'Treaty of Peace'
9:05 pm

Full text of Israel-Bahrain 'Declaration of Peace'
9:00 pm

Full text of the Abraham Accords Declaration

Interview

‘Palestinians need to want to help themselves,’ senior UAE diplomat tells ToI

Assistant FM encourages PA to use annexation suspension to reengage with Israel; downplays disagreement over F-35 sale, saying real issue is new Middle East ushered in by accord

UAE Assistant Minister of Cultural and Public Diplomacy Omarr Ghobash. (Courtesy)

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)

Ashkenazi praises UAE’s leaders, calls for Palestinians to follow their example

Omar Saif Ghobash, assistant minister for culture and public diplomacy in the United Arab Emirates Foreign Ministry. (YouTube screenshot)

Top Emirati diplomat: Peace with Israel will better serve Palestinian cause

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

The prerequisite for peace is Israeli power – and pragmatism

Military might and economic strength helped lead to normalization with the UAE and Bahrain, as did the willingness to back down on annexation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the city of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on September 8, 2020. (Alex Kolomiensky/Pool/AFP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu earned his moment in the sun – and the public distrust that clouds it

PM is both the grand strategist who produced the peace being unveiled Tuesday, and the political acrobat whose ceaseless campaigning is undermining Israel’s coronavirus fight

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at campaign event at Mill 19 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden leads Trump 67-30 among Jewish voters, survey finds

Dov Kotler, CEO of Israel's Bank Hapoalim, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Largest banks in Israel, UAE sign cooperation agreement

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, September 14, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Daily infection rate surges to nearly 5,000 ahead of lockdown

Record high testing still returns over 10% rate; expert advising government says spread in Israel now ‘out of control’; some 50 said infected as result of a wedding

Coronavirus czar wants schools shuttered before Friday lockdown

Deputy minister: If lockdown ignored, we’ll see dead in streets like NY, Italy

Police to set up hundreds of checkpoints, impose high fines during lockdown

Illustrative image: 3D rendering of the coronavirus attacking a lung with severe pneumonia (iStock)

New coronavirus proteins found by Israeli lab, potentially helping drug efforts

By Nathan Jeffay

‘We now know the enemy better,’ says Noam Stern-Ginossar, after finding 4 previously unknown proteins that may be wreaking havoc in COVID-19 patients

Illustrative photo: Students at The Moriah School in Englewood, New Jersey, attend a socially distanced assembly on the first day of school. (Courtesy of The Moriah School via JTA)

‘This was expected’: Closures, quarantines widespread at US Jewish day schools

Illustrative: Rabbi Menachem Lazar, right, officiates at the wedding of Marco Del Monte and Elinor Hanoka at the Great Synagogue of Rome, June 7, 2020. (Courtesy of Chabad Piazza Bologna via JTA)

Chicago Orthodox Jews take up volunteer contact tracing tailored to community

Screen capture from video of Bratslav Hasidim at the border between Belarus and Ukraine, September 2020. (Haderim10)

At least 1,000 Hasidim said stuck on Ukraine-Belarus border in pilgrimage chaos

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Red Cross provides humanitarian aid to ultra-Orthodox travelers caught in the middle of crossing, unable to proceed to Uman or turn back

Undated photo of Meir Rubinstein, mayor of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, outside of Jerusalem. (Yaakov Lederman/FLASH90)

2 mayors of ‘red’ ultra-Orthodox cities fly to Uman despite virus restrictions

El Al planes on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport on August 3, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

Ben Gurion Airport to stay open for previously scheduled flights during lockdown

Opposition leader Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid-Telem at his office in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on September 14, 2020. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Interview

Lapid: I must do better in making people see we’re the only alternative to Bibi

‘Betrayed’ by Gantz and facing a challenge inside his party, the opposition leader is nothing if not resilient, battling a PM he calls ‘the most divisive Jewish leader in history’

Israelis play tennis on an empty road during lockdown, following the government's measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel, April 9, 2020. (AP/ Oded Balilty)

New measures ‘not even close’ to a full lockdown, says top virus aide

By Nathan Jeffay

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid during an interview at his office (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/File)

Lapid: Despite UAE, Bahrain deals, Netanyahu won’t talk peace with Palestinians

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Composite image shows, at left, Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Tel Aviv, August 18, 2020, and at right, Bahraini Minister of Defense Affairs, Abdullah bin Hassan al-Nuaimi, in an undated photograph. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry, Bahrain News Agency)

In first, Gantz speaks to Bahraini counterpart, invites him to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense ministers discuss plans to work closely together; Gantz invites Abdullah bin Hassan al-Nuaimi for official visit

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohamed bin Nayef Al Saud, left, and Bahraini Interior Minister Sheik Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, right, speak together during a Gulf Cooperation Council interior ministers gathering to discuss security issues in Manama, Bahrain, November 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Bahrain minister says Israel deal strengthens kingdom in face of Iran threat

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (left) presents a Torah scroll to Bahrain's king, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, while visiting the Gulf state in early September, 2020. (Twitter/Avi Berkowitz)

Photo shows Kushner giving Bahrain king a Torah for local synagogue

Trump’s Balkan agreement may harm Israel. Why did Netanyahu agree?

The deal ruffles feathers all around with no firm certainty 2 new embassies will open in Jerusalem. Embracing it was a political favor to Trump.

Leila Khaled hijacked my plane. Why did a public university invite her to speak?

Even after 50 years, the convicted terrorist who changed my life has never disavowed her actions. What will she teach SFSU students?

Trump supporters displaying QAnon posters appeared at US President Donald Trump’s rally, July 31, 2018 at the Florida State Fair Grounds in Tampa Florida (Thomas O'Neill/NurPhoto via JTA)

Florida Latinos flooded with anti-Semitic conspiracy messaging ahead of election

Theories — including on ‘Jews and Blacks’ running the country if Biden wins, and on Soros as ‘puppet master’ — appear to stem from QAnon, are amplified by respected media outlets

Geeta Sidhu-Robbat attends an awards ceremony in London, U.K. on June 17, 2008. (Fiona Hanson - PA Images via Getty Images via JTA)

London mayor hopeful suspended for telling 1997 voters: ‘Don’t vote for a Jew’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Toppled headstones at the Jewish cemetery of Zabrze, Poland on September 11, 2020. (Dariusz Walerjański via JTA)

Tombstones vandalized at Jewish cemetery in Poland

By Katarzyna Markusz

Amiram Ben Uliel (L), the suspect in the Duma arson murder in July 2015 where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives for a court hearing in Lod on June 9, 2020. (Tomer Appelbaum, Haaretz)

Palestinian arson victims’ family praises verdict; Jewish attacker vows appeal

By Aaron Boxerman

‘We wish this decision could have come before the crime,’ says uncle, while killer’s wife maintains his innocence: ‘We’re not giving up hope’

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

Fundraiser for Jewish terrorist in Duma attack raises over NIS 500,000 in a day

FILE - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and son Yair in Tel Aviv, January 23, 2020. (Aleksey Nikolskyi/Sputnik Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

In DC for peace deal, Netanyahu’s son tweets in support of Duma killer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a face mask in line with public health restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, stands inside the courtroom as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Witness list announced for January hearings in Netanyahu’s bribery trial

Court to be hear testimony from Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua and former PM aide turned state’s witness Nir Hefetz, among others, in hearings on Case 4000

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at the court in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Supreme Court chief calls for probe of ‘worrying’ leaks from Netanyahu case

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

One anti-Netanyahu group to suspend protests during lockdown, others press on

More Headlines

BMW to equip smart cars with Israeli tech to better ‘feel the road’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Iranian troops participating in a military drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Iran, September 10, 2020. (Mehdi Marizad/Fars News Agency via AP)

Iran warns US against ‘strategic mistake’ after Trump threat

By AFP

Illustrative -- An ambulance the entrance to the emergency unit at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, on March 6, 2019 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Toddler falls to death from 3rd floor window in northern village

Undated photo of British monitor HMS M15 at Mudros, Greece. (Public domain/Wikipedia)

Hamas said to retrieve ammunition from British WWI warship sunk off Gaza coast

Former Knesset member and Walla editor Yinon Magal delivers a statement to the press outside his home in Tel Aviv on January 25, 2016. (Flash90)

Right-wing radio host and ex-MK says he’d shoot journalists if he were Netanyahu

Kosovan and American flags wave in Pristina, Kosovo, June 29, 2020. (Ferdi Limani/ Getty Images via JTA)

Kosovo’s Jews cheer their Muslim-majority state’s new deal with Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Senior adviser to the prime minister and deputy head of the national security council Reuven Azar. (Screengrab: YouTube)

Adviser to Netanyahu violates delegation’s coronavirus regulations in US

An aerial view of the Israeli Tamar gas processing rig 24 kilometers off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon.

Energy Ministry’s Petroleum Council backs Noble Energy-Chevron merger

Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu is seen at his home ahead of a press conference a the new national lockdown, September 13, 2020 (video screenshot)

Czar's Zoom zingersLeaked clip shows angry virus czar caught off guard by TV presser

Putting used cans and bottles into an automated compression machine that delivers a voucher to return deposits paid in advance. (Screenshot Tomra Group)

Environment minister demonstrates future of bottle recycling

A view of the planet Venus from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. (NASA)

Astronomers see possible hints of life in clouds of Venus

By Seth Borenstein

CEO of Intel Corp., Bob Swan, center, visits the US tech giant's Haifa facility on June 16, 2019. (Ezra Levy)

Intel to expand startup growth program from Tel Aviv to Texas and Germany

By Shoshanna Solomon

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