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What Matters Most On Monday, September 21, 2020

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

Flooded by cases, hospitals in Jerusalem and Ashdod stop taking virus patients

Health Ministry director orders hospitals to stop elective surgery, warns of ’emergency situation’ and foresees another 200-300 seriously ill COVID-19 patients by end of week

Soroka Medical Center staff members at the hospital's coronavirus ward, in Be'er Sheva, on September 15, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Virus czar orders hospitals to open new COVID wards, warns of 600 deaths monthly

Traffic jams in Tel Aviv as police put up temporary checkpoints during a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus, September 21, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police checkpoints jam roads as Israelis go back to work under lockdown

Malka Leifer seen on a screen, left, via a video link during a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on July 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court rules accused sex abuser Leifer to be extradited to Australia

In possibly final ruling after 6 years of hearings, judge says ex-principal must face child sex abuse charges in Melbourne, pending expected appeal

Australian sisters Elly Sapper, Dassi Erlich and Nicole Meyer who were allegedly sexually abused by former headteacher Malka Leifer arrive for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem, March 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Leifer accusers express relief at long-awaited extradition ruling

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Police arrest a man suspected of speeding in his car toward protesters during a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, September 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Driver who sped toward anti-PM rally denies attack; mental fitness questioned

Attorney says his client did not try to ram protesters in Jerusalem, notes video shows him braking; suspect said to tell cops he was headed to explain to PM ‘about the coronavirus’

Police remove demonstrators who were blocking a road during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, September 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

11 arrested at first major anti-Netanyahu protest under new lockdown

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Police officers arrest a man who allegedly sped in his car toward protesters during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, September 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Driver held for speeding toward protesters as thousands rally against Netanyahu

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is greeted on stage by members of congress and their staffs during an annual Women's History Month reception at Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Netanyahu on Ginsburg: ‘The Jewish people will always be proud of her’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Prime minister says after end of Rosh Hashanah holiday: ‘I join the American people in mourning’ US Supreme Court justice

Trump says he’ll announce replacement for Ginsburg by week’s end

Biden to Republican senators: Don’t jam through Ginsburg replacement

By Laurie Kellman, LISA MASCARO and Alexandra Jaffe

Ginsburg’s impact on women spanned age groups, backgrounds

By Jocelyn Noveck

Likud MK Yifat Shasha-Biton speaks outside her home in Zichron Yaakov, on August 2, 2020 (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset virus committee chief: PM should get it together, stop looking for blame

After Netanyahu intimates her actions contributed to case surge, Likud MK says he should focus on solutions, ‘not shirking responsibility and slinging mud and filth

6:45 pm

Italy's left claims victory in battle with far-right for Tuscany
6:21 pm

Scientists to combat anti-Semitism with artificial intelligence
6:10 pm

Likud MKs lash colleague Shasha-Biton, tell her to find another party

Missiles are fired in an Iranian military exercise by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, on July 28, 2020. (Sepahnews via AP)

Planning new sanctions, US said to claim Iran can make nuke in months

By ToI Staff and AP

Official offers no evidence for assertion that Tehran will have enough material for bomb by year’s end; over 2 dozen individuals and entities linked to arms trade to be penalized

Defense Minister Benny Gantz delivers a statement to the media at the Knesset, on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

Gantz to take off for Washington to discuss F-35 sales to UAE

File: The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi delivers his speech at the opening of the general conference of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, September 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Nuclear deal with world powers worth preserving, Iran tells IAEA summit

By David Rising

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, September 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

5781 problems and a lockdown’s just 1: What the press is saying on September 21

Israel’s just a couple of days into its 2nd lockdown and health officials, along with much of the media, are already declaring it a failure. Still, no one seems sure what to do now

Netanyahu aide spotted appearing to break quarantine to film anti-PM protest

Second Netanyahu adviser accused of breaking quarantine after US trip

Ultra-Orthodox protest lockdown, with some suspected of evading travel rules

Propaganda wars: Cavalry vs. blitzkrieg

How has QAnon infiltrated the social media of my bubble of educated, liberal, middle-aged Israelis?

Protest is essential during lockdown. So is prayer.

Even if freedom of expression is constitutionally ranked above communal prayer, tipping the scales between them undermines public confidence

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stands with Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the head of the ruling sovereign council, in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (Sudanese Cabinet via AP)

US, UAE said holding ‘decisive’ meeting with Sudan over Israel normalization

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Report says Khartoum asking for billions in economic assistance in return for agreement with Jerusalem; if demands met, announcement could come within days

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Jerusalem on October 29, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Honduras to move embassy to Jerusalem by end of 2020, Israel says

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Emirati television anchor and his guest prepare for a program at the Arab Media Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Israeli, UAE film agencies ink deal to work together on film and TV production

By AP

Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Fifteen people were killed, and 130 injured. A sixteenth victim died in 2023. (AP/Peter Dejong)

Leaked docs: Arab Bank was involved in potential terrorist financing until 2016

By Uri Blau in partnership with Shomrim

Despite settling a lawsuit with terror victims in 2015, Amman-based bank continued to transfer money to entities with suspected links to terrorist groups, documents show

Illustrative: Drones in a hangar at Israel Aerospace Industries, near Tel Aviv, on May 28, 2013. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Leak: Israel aerospace giant paid $155m to opaque firms linked to Azeri elites

These headshots provided by the Bulgarian Interior Ministry shows Canadian citizen Hassan El Hajj Hassan, right, and Australian citizen Meliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein, left, both suspected of being involved in the July 2012 Burgas bombing. (courtesy Bulgarian Interior Ministry)

Bulgarian court jails duo for life in absentia over 2012 Burgas bus bombing

By Diana SIMEONOVA

Judge finds alleged accomplices of bomber in airport attack that killed five Israelis and local bus driver guilty of terrorism, manslaughter

Illustrative: Police collect evidence at the scene where a police officer was killed in Karbabad Village, Bahrain, Saturday, April 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Bahrain said to foil Iran-backed terror attacks on diplomats and foreigners

By Jon Gambrell

Alan Feld, a Canadian-Israeli founder and managing partner of Vintage Investment Partners (Courtesy)

Interview

Coronavirus may force Israeli tech sector out of ‘white boys club,’ VC guru says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Schitt’s Creek sweeps comedy awards at ‘freaking weird’ socially distanced Emmys

Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, ceremony features 100-plus nominees linked remotely, jokes about the coronavirus pandemic, and reflections on the political climate in the US

Ato Essandoh, right, as Kwesi Weisberg-Annan in Netflix's space drama 'Away.' (Diyah Pera/Netflix/via JTA)

InterviewTypecast? In Netflix’s ‘Away,’ Ato Essandoh again plays a Black Jew with a twist

By Gabe Friedman

In this photo released by the US Air Force, Col. Todd Benson, the US Air Force Central Command director of space forces, center, leads airmen through their enlistment ceremony as they became members of the Space Force at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, September 1, 2020. (Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force via AP)

US Space Force blasts off to… the Arabian Desert

By Isabel Debre

More Headlines

UK Royal Air Force night fighters made Nazi raiders pay dearly for their temerity. Spitfires on patrol, on June 20, 1941. (AP Photo)

Westminster Abbey service, flypast mark 80 years since Battle of Britain

By AP

Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer visits the Clinical Research Facility, a joint facility with NHS Lothian, at the University of Edinburgh School of Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday Sept. 17, 2020. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

UK’s Labour begins virtual bid to regain support after Corbyn era

By Martine PAUWELS and Alice Ritchie

Illustrative: A Maccabi Tel Aviv player, in white, dribbles the ball between opposing players during a match against Beitar Jerusalem in Jerusalem on June 8, 2020. (Flash90)

6 Maccabi Tel Aviv players test positive for coronavirus

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) meets with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the Presidential palace in Baabda, east of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on September 1, 2020. (Photo by GONZALO FUENTES / POOL / AFP)

Lebanon president warns country going ‘to hell’ if no government formed

The port of Haifa. September 13, 2008. (Jorge Novominsky/Flash 90)

Israel’s Bank Leumi, Dubai’s DP World to explore regional shipping cooperation

By ToI Staff and AP

The home in Mitzpe Ramon where a husband stabbed his wife while she was on a video call with her parents on September 18, 2020. Screenshot/Channel 12

Mitzpe Ramon woman stable after weekend stabbing attack

Diego Schwartzman practicing in Buenos Aires, February 1, 2017. (Gabriel Rossi/LatinContent/Getty Images)

Jewish tennis whiz beats Nadal to advance to Italian Open finals

By Emily Burack

Illustrative: A Brazilian Navy motor boat from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) approaches a boat overcrowded with migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, October 11, 2018. (UNIFIL via AP)

Lebanon recovers 4 bodies after deadly sea crossing

By AFP

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