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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 22, 2020

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a ceremony celebrating the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi, Freedom, Square in Tehran, Iran on February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Live updates (closed)

Rouhani at UN: Washington can’t impose negotiations or war on us

Iranian president rails against US in General Assembly speech, says it won’t be a ‘bargaining chip’ in upcoming American election

6:22 pm

Deri says he'll quit government if synagogues closed while protests permitted
6:14 pm

Israeli kibbutz tweaks its name to honor Ginsburg
6:13 pm

Coronavirus cabinet meeting ends without decisions; will reconvene tomorrow

Smoke billows in the Lebanese village of Ain Qana after an unexplained explosion, September 22, 2020. (Twitter screen capture)

Explosion rocks alleged Hezbollah arms cache in Lebanon, casualties reported

By Aaron Boxerman

Military declares site in Ain Qana a closed zone, amid reports blast was in a weapons depot belonging to the terror group

US unveils additional ‘UN’ sanctions against Iran, will enforce arms embargo

By Agencies and ToI Staff

East Jerusalem woman charged with spying for Hezbollah

By Aaron Boxerman

US issues security alert for citizens in Bahrain after normalization with Israel

By AFP

Naftali Bennett visits the ultra-Orthodox city of Elad, September 6, 2020 (FLASH90)

Bennett: PM distracted, showing lack of leadership, blaming everyone but himself

Yamina chief compares Netanyahu unfavorably to former Israeli leaders; Lapid says Israel no longer a functioning country

Knesset virus committee chief: PM should ‘get it together,’ stop casting blame

By Raoul Wootliff

Coalition whip: I regret not firing renegade virus panel head, hope PM ousts her

Netanyahu defends quarantine-breaking aides, chiding ‘selective enforcement’

Police at a temporary "checkpoint" in Jerusalem, on September 21, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel media review

Tight club: What the press is saying on September 22

By Joshua Davidovich

The first rule of tight club is that you do not talk about tightened coronavirus restrictions, since they’ll change tomorrow; anyway the PM’s people break the rules, so why not you

InterviewHospital chief: Government ‘abandoning’ us with order to end elective surgeries

By Nathan Jeffay

Gov’t announces fresh $3 billion virus aid package, pay cuts for lawmakers

Cabinet mulls new restrictions as treasury warns of ‘irreversible’ economic harm

A mask-wearing traveler looks at his cellphone in front of a flight panel (Vergani_Fotografia; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli instant COVID gargle test set to deploy in European airports

By Nathan Jeffay

Inventors in self-service spit test have signed a deal with airport security giant to pilot tech on the continent, predict it will be a ‘de facto solution for air travel’

Gantz orders IDF to build field hospital for virus cases as hospitals fill up

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli virus cases per capita overtake US, deaths surpass global average

World powers set to take the stage, virtually, at UN General Assembly

Flowers and notes are left outside of the US Supreme Court to mourn the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, September 21, 2020. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Righteous timing

Does RBG’s Rosh Hashanah death really make her a ‘tzadik’?

Viral tweet by NPR reporter Nina Totenberg hours after beloved Justice’s death Friday claims ‘God held her back until the last moment.’ But does this runaway idea have Jewish legs?

Mandy Patinkin blows a shofar next to his wife Kathryn Grody on MSNBC. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Hear him outMandy Patinkin blows shofar in TV tribute to RBG’s dying wish

By JTA

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, speaking at the Georgetown University Law Center campus in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)

Ginsburg’s style was more than a subtle courtroom statement

By Jessica Gresko

A screenshot from a webinar during which Israeli journalists, officials and communications professionals discussed the media's role in advancing Arab-Israel peace with media professionals from numerous Arab countries, September 21, 2020 (courtesy)

ToI editor: Mutual understanding vital to sustain new era

Bahrain, UAE, Saudi, Sudan, Algeria media folk join Israelis in historic webinar

By Raphael Ahren

In unique, 2-hour Arab-Israel meet, reporters, officials from across region discuss journalists’ role in warming ties; Rivlin sends letter inviting Arab participants to Israel

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman smiles as he listens during his meeting with US President Donald Trump during a working breakfast on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

AnalysisSaudi Arabia on road to ties with Israel, but not quite there yet

Sunlight reflects off the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, during a rain shower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

UAE’s first kosher restaurant launches in world’s tallest building

Analysis

6 weeks after UAE’s normalization bombshell, Palestinians still have no strategy

With former regional backers abandoning ship, Ramallah needs a new way forward. Instead Abbas has opened the familiar ‘crisis playbook,’ and it isn’t working

Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah burn pictures of Emirati Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (top) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, during a demonstration against the UAE-Israeli agreement to normalize diplomatic ties, August 15, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a joint meeting of the Palestinian leadership on August 18, 2020, following Israel's normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates (Courtesy: Wafa)

Hamas, Fatah delegations in Istanbul for another attempt at reconciliation talks

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas flashes the V-sign as Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan looks on after their meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah, December 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer/File)

PA arrests ‘dozens’ of associates of Abbas rival Mohammad Dahlan in West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Immigrants from France arriving at Ben Gurion Airport, July 2018. (Nir Kafri, The Jewish Agency for Israel)

TOI investigates

Simona Weinglass

Israel now requires FBI checks of would-be immigrants. Why’s that controversial?

An aliya turf war between the Interior Ministry and Nefesh B’Nefesh highlights how easy it remains for criminals to obtain Israeli citizenship

Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich applauds his players after they defeated Arsenal 6-0, in an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on March 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Leaks show Chelsea owner Abramovich donated $100m to Israeli right-wing group

Analysis

As Holocaust awareness declines in US, youth make art to preserve fading history

NY’s Olga Lengyel Institute reacts to disturbing new research about lack of once common Holocaust facts, highlighting its new ‘How High School Students See the Holocaust’ exhibit

'Genocide' by Madeline Dittman, a submission to TOLI's online art exhibit (courtesy)

Pepe the Frog, an internet meme, has become a symbol of the alt-right. (Twitter via JTA)

Scientists combat online anti-Semitism with artificial intelligence

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Noomi Rapace stars as Maja in “The Secrets We Keep.” She believes she has some Roma heritage. (Patti Perret/Bleecker Street)

Holocaust thriller had a Jewish protagonist, but Israeli director made her Roma

By Gabe Friedman

Bishara A. Bahbah

Amb. Friedman hinted at new Palestinian, US paradigms

The US envoy to Israel put Palestinian sovereignty on the table and raised the need for Palestinians to choose their own leaders

Julian Schvindlerman

Nobody is Charlie anymore

The French satirical magazine continues to defend freedom of expression with courage, irreverence and little support from progressives

Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel, January 2020. (IDF spokesperson)

US, Emirates said to seek an F-35 sale agreement by December

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Reuters report says one idea to uphold Israel’s military edge is to give it tech to detect stealth planes; Gantz in Washington for talks on controversial arms deal

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks to local leaders from southern Israel, August 19, 2020. (Oded Karni/GPO)

Gantz heads to Washington to discuss F-35 sales to UAE

By AP and ToI Staff

UAE delegates wave to the departing El Al plane at the end of Israel-UAE normalization talks in Abu Dhabi, September 1, 2020. (El Al Spokesperson's Office)

UAE envoy: Broad support for deal shows Israelis want peace more than annexation

Women embrace at a makeshift memorial for late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the steps of the United States Supreme Court on September 20, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Alex Edelman/ Getty Images/AFP)

Israel’s Supreme Court president mourns Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By ToI Staff and JTA

Jewish US Supreme Court justice was ‘a groundbreaking jurist and an inspiration to judges across the world,’ says Esther Hayut

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, talks with filmmaker David Grubin about his PBS series, 'The Jewish Americans,' on January 10, 2008 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

From camp ‘rabbi’ to pursuing justice: How Judaism animated Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Amy Coney Barrett (C-Span screenshot)

Judge tipped to replace Ginsburg on court accused of mixing faith and law

Philosopher Dr. Micah Goodman (screenshot)

Behind the headlines

Join ToI Community for best-selling author Micah Goodman on global polarization

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member to hear a discussion with the philosopher on the wisdom of uncertainty

Maria Schrader, center, and the team from 'Unorthodox' accept the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special, during the 72nd Emmy Awards telecast on September 20, 2020. (Invision for the Television Academy/ AP)

Interview

Emmy-winning ‘Unorthodox’ director thrilled show didn’t ‘fly under the radar’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

The renovated Chords Bridge at Jerusalem's entrance lights up, September 17, 2020 (Jerusalem Municipality)

A bit of flareRenewed Jerusalem Chords Bridge lights up to tune of $1 million

Illustration of an electric bus traveling along a stretch of Electreon smart road, recharging as it travels. (ElectReon screenshot)

Tel Aviv-Jaffa aims to be world’s first city with network of recharging roads

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Australia state leader welcomes Israeli decision to extradite Malka Leifer

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu in 2013. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)

High Court orders disciplinary action against Safed’s acerbic chief rabbi

Tropical fish at the Eilat Dolphin Reef. (Asaf Zvuloni/ Israel Nature and Parks Authority/FLASH90)

Israeli study: Rate of sea warming, not just temperature, linked to fish deaths

Zarie Sibony, survivor of the Hyper cacher Jewish supermarket jihadist killings on September 18, 2020, at the Paris courthouse in Paris. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

Kosher supermarket cashier to testify on the ‘most horrible 4 hours’ of her life

By Karine Perret

A massive, ancient stone structure in Saudi Arabia, with platforms at both ends and connecting walls in between. Two barely visible researchers standing at the far end provide a sense of scale. (courtesy/ Huw Groucutt/ The Holocene)

Mysterious, massive stone monuments in Arabia some of world’s oldest, study says

Flags of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan, and other political parties are waved with other protest signs denouncing the US-led Middle East economic conference in Bahrain, on June 21, 2019. (Khalil Mazraawi/ AFP)

Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood to take part in parliamentary elections

By AFP

Maccabi Tel Aviv's Dor Micha controls the ball during a Europa League soccer match against Villarreal at the Ceramica stadium in Villarreal, Spain, December 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Prosecution closes case against Maccabi soccer stars accused of statutory rape

Troy Harris in front of his Grassroots kosher food truck. (Joseph Kaczmarek vis JTA)

Chicken soup for the soulLaid off by COVID, UPenn kosher chefs to launch food truck for needy

Model and host of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, Bar Refaeli, poses on the Orange Carpet, during the opening event, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on May 12, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bar Refaeli and mother Tzipi begin serving tax evasion sentences

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Supporters hold Italian flags during a center-right coalition rally of the Lega, Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia parties for the regional elections, on September 18, 2020, in Florence, Tuscany. (Carlo Bressan/AFP)

Italy’s left defeats far-right bid to take stronghold Tuscany

By AFP and ToI Staff

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