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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 16, 2020

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UAE: Accord lets us help Palestinians realize statehood

Marking ‘dawn of new Middle East,’ Israel signs historic deals with UAE, Bahrain

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Trump speaks of ‘changing course of history,’ Netanyahu hopes for end to Arab-Israeli conflict ‘once and for all,’ while Gulf FMs pledge commitment to Palestinian cause

Israel media reviewPeace and its disconnects: What the press is saying on September 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Full text: Trump’s speech at Abraham Accords signing ceremony

Full text of Trump-Netanyahu meeting: ‘Israel has never been less isolated’

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Washington. Trump is en route to Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says Saudi Arabia among 7-9 countries expected to make peace with Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

US president says he spoke with the Saudi king and normalization will come ‘at the right time,’ earlier said 5-6 more countries on path to formal ties with Israel

Hosting Netanyahu, Trump says 5-6 more countries ready to make peace with Israel

Trump says he has ‘absolutely no problem’ with selling F-35s to UAE

Noting ‘questions’ over F-35 sale, Pelosi vows to ensure Israeli military edge

L-R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan wave from the Truman Balcony at the White House after they participated in the signing of the Abraham Accords, where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Analysis

Accords mark Mideast peace breakthrough, but Palestinian issue isn’t going away

Treaties signed with UAE, Bahrain at White House herald a new era for Jerusalem; they don’t solve Israel’s longstanding problems with its closest neighbor

AnalysisAgreements indicate UAE and Bahrain are now less pro-Palestinian than Europe

By Raphael Ahren

ExplainerBahrain, UAE deals urge resolving Palestinian issue, but don’t specify 2 states

Jewish representative Nancy Khedouri, second from left, and other Bahraini officials meet with foreign representatives, including US Ambassador Justin Siberell, far left. (Courtesy of Khedouri via JTA)

Jews have lived in Bahrain for 140 years; the Israel deal changes their lives

By Josefin Dolsten

Leader of tiny community, Ebrahim Nonoo, says he can now talk to relatives and feel free about coming to Israel; hopes Jews will settle in Gulf nations

From left to right: Jewish leaders Rabbi Bruce Lustig, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, Eric Fingerhut and Ross Kriel, at the White House peace ceremony, September 15, 2020 (courtesy)

At White House ceremony, UAE Jews hail treaties as ‘epoch-making’

By Raphael Ahren

Op-Ed

Moving White House ceremony starts to relegitimize a precious little word: Peace

26 years after the Israel-Jordan treaty, a whole generation of Israelis and Arabs witnesses something it had simply never seen before

Full text: Netanyahu’s address at signing of Israel-UAE-Bahrain peace accords

Full text: Bahrain foreign minister’s speech at Abraham Accords signing ceremony

Op-edThe tender photo that just might signal start of true change in Arab-Israel ties

By David Horovitz

Palestinians protest in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank against Israeli normalisation deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on September 15, 2020, hours ahead of a signing ceremony at the White House. - The decision by the UAE and Bahrain to normalise ties with Israel breaks with decades of consensus within the Arab world that a peace deal with the Palestinians is a prerequisite for establishing relations with the Jewish state. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

As Israelis celebrate, Palestinians decry ‘disgraceful’ UAE and Bahrain deals

By Aaron Boxerman

Abbas: No peace or security without ending occupation; hundreds gather at several protests in the West Bank and Gaza, two rockets fired into Israel from Strip during DC ceremony

Israel’s UN envoy insists West Bank annexation ‘not off the table’

Gantz lauds normalization, but says no stability without talking to Palestinians

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu said forced to scramble for Ashkenazi’s okay to sign UAE peace deal

Jerusalem residents, wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus, on Jaffa Street in the city center of Jerusalem, August 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Rosh Hashanah 5781

Israel’s population up to 9.25 million, though growth rate, immigration down

State body says 25,000 people immigrated since the last Jewish New Year, down from 38,000 the year before; life expectancy, among world’s highest, rising slightly

President Reuven Rivlin reads a report on the state of young people at risk during the coronavirus pandemic prepared by the Elem organization on July 6, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin, in nationwide address, apologizes for leaders’ failure to rein in virus

President warns government it must restore public trust and may not be given another chance, pleads with Israelis to heed lockdown rules, not blame others for outbreaks

6:26 pm

IDF soldier moderately hurt in training accident, army says
6:08 pm

White House mum on reports of COVID-19 infections among staff
5:54 pm

Mossad chief says UAE, Bahrain peace deals the culmination of a 'dream'

Realizing one Bahraini’s vision of Arab-Israeli peace

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa has been a beacon of encouragement throughout the years of striving for a new Mideast paradigm

Melody Sucharewicz

Europe‘s mental lockdown

The EU continues to focus on Palestinian interests to its own detriment, as Arab states move on, achieving their own strategic objectives

This Rosh Hashanah, I’m going to miss the singing the most

I remind myself that song is important not because I enjoy it, but because it can bring people together – when there’s no virus for it to spread

Karen Miller Jackson

Learning from the women: The High Holidays during the coronavirus

It is mothers in particular, from the Bible to the current day, whose experiences help us navigate our uncertain, disturbing time, beginning with ’this too shall pass’

The Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank town of Hebron, June 22, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

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LISTEN: Purloined pottery from Tomb of Patriarchs gets 1st scientific study

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustration of an empty classroom in a school in Mevaseret Zion, August 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Schools to close a day early as over 5,500 virus cases confirmed in 24 hours

Health minister, deputy don’t expect lockdown to cause dramatic infection drop

State virus adviser slams lockdown as ‘stupidest and most hazardous solution’

By Nathan Jeffay

Minister says new lockdown will be looser, more focused on mental health

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli airstrike in the Khan Younis town of the southern Gaza Strip on September 16, 2020 following rocket fire on Israel. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

After peace deals, Gazans fire 13-rocket salvo at Israel; IDF hits Hamas targets

By Judah Ari Gross

Iron Dome intercepts 8 missiles in predawn assault; IDF responds with 2 waves of airstrikes; in earlier attack, 2 hurt from Gaza rocket fire as Israel signed historic accords in DC

Iran says UAE, Bahrain will bear ‘consequences’ of Israel deals

By AFP and ToI Staff

After rockets, Netanyahu says Palestinians want to set back peace, won’t succeed

By ToI Staff and AFP

Gaza flogged for rocket attack during White House peace bash

From left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords at the White House on September 15, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Full text of the ‘Treaty of Peace’ signed by Israel and the United Arab Emirates

Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi sign wide-ranging treaty establishing full relations, ‘recognizing that the Arab and Jewish peoples are descendant of a common ancestor, Abraham’

Foreign Affairs Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, and US President Donald Trump participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House on September 15, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Full text of the ‘Declaration of Peace’ signed by Israel and Bahrain

US President Donald Trump, center, with from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Full text of the Abraham Accords signed by Israel, the UAE and Bahrain

An IDF mobile howitzer stands at the ready near the Lebanese border in an undated photo (Israel Defense Forces)

After 58 days bracing for Hezbollah attack, IDF shows no sign of easing up

By Judah Ari Gross

Protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the White House on September 15, 2020 (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu greeted at White House by Israeli, pro-Palestinian demonstrators

Anti-corruption protests follow PM to Washington; some 50 marchers, draped in keffiyehs and carrying Palestinian flags, chant, ‘Free Palestine’

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, on December 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Comptroller rules out probe of alleged police cover-up in Bedouin man’s killing

Soldiers from the IDF's religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion chant right-wing slogans at protesters outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on September 15, 2020. (Screen capture: Kikar Hashabbat)

IDF troops in uniform harass demonstrators outside PM’s residence

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

Holocaust survivor and former prisoner of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Johnny (Ephroim) Jablon, left, crosses the gate with the inscription reading "Work sets you free" (Arbeit macht frei) in Oswiecim on January 26, 2020, one day before the 75th anniversary of its liberation. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Study: More than one in 10 Americans under 40 thinks Jews caused the Holocaust

A Jewish terror suspect arrives to hear his verdict on his involvement in an arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, October 24, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Teen accomplice in deadly 2015 Jewish terror attack sentenced to 3.5 years

By Aaron Boxerman

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

US President Donald Trump (L) and then-defense secretary James Mattis at a Cabinet meeting in the White House on March 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Trump says he wanted to kill Assad, but Pentagon chief blocked him

By AFP

Then-Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at a campaign event in Providence, Rhode Island, February 5, 2020. (David Goldman/AP)

How Bloomberg’s $100 million Florida bet may shape US presidential campaign

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and Alexandra Jaffe

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, August 28, 2020, in Londonderry, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump comes across as ‘boorish and arrogant,’ but worthy of Nobel: Norway MP

By AFP

Jewish participants in the Abraham Accords ceremony gather for prayer on the White House lawn, September 15, 2020 (Twitter screenshot)

Holy workPeace, then prayer: Mincha service held on White House lawn

Sacha Baron Cohen arrives at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 5, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Insta-protestSacha Baron Cohen hops off Instagram to protest hate speech policy

Illustrative: Students at the Darchei Torah Boys School study during a visit to the school by the US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, May 16, 2018 in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of the Queens borough in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)

New York yeshiva closes after 13 students test positive for COVID-19

Morton Klein (Mort Klein), President of the Zionist Organization of America, in Washington, DC on December 12, 2018. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

Umbrella group won’t tackle infighting among US Jewish community bodies

Shlomi Fogel, owner of Israeli shipping firm DoverTower (left) and Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem (right), chairman and CEO of Dubai's DP World, sign memorandum of understandings on bidding for the privatization of Haifa port, September 16, 2020. (Robbins Steinmetz PR/courtesy)

Direct Israel-UAE shipping route? Dubai firm bids to take over Haifa port

By AP

Bank Leumi's chairman Samer Haj Yehia, fourth from left, High Excellency Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade, fifth from left, and CEO Hanan Friedman, second from right, with UAE officials; Sept. 14, 2020 (Courtesy)

Israel’s Bank Leumi, UAE banks sign accords to promote business ties

By Shoshanna Solomon

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