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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 24, 2020

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Police set up a temporary roadblock on Menachem Begin Street in Tel Aviv to enforce a coronavirus lockdown, on September 23, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Protests outside Netanyahu's home limited to 2,000 people

Cabinet approves near-total national shutdown to stem runaway infection rate

Ministers limit holiday prayer gatherings and demonstrations, close ‘nonessential’ businesses ; finance minister decries new closure’s ‘critical’ harm to the economy

A worker from 'Hevra Kadisha,' Israel's official Jewish burial society, prepares a body before a funeral procession at a special morgue for COVID-19 victims in Holon, September 23, 2020 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

New virus cases near 7,000 for 2nd straight day, with over 1 in 8 tests positive

A police officer stops cars at a checkpoint in Jerusalem on September 20, 2020, amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewWhere we don’t go one, we don’t go all: What the press is saying on September 24

By Joshua Davidovich

Top IDF officers look at a map during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. (Israel Defense Forces/Defense Ministry Archives)

Declassified: ‘Golden’ communique that could’ve averted Yom Kippur War disaster

By Judah Ari Gross

Air Force Chief Amiram Norkin speaks during an interview broadcast September 24, 2020 (Screen grab)

Air force chief: UAE F-35 sale could be ‘less optimal’ for Israel in long term

A person rides a bicycle on an empty street as the sun sets on the first day of a three-week lockdown in Tel Aviv, September 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Op-ed

As Israel makes loose lockdown tighter, its decisions risk alienating the people

The government wants to rebuild public trust in its virus fight. But it’s done just the opposite with the chaotic and unsettling way it adopted stricter measures

Illustrative: Closed businesses for COVID-19 pandemic outbreak (Maridav; iStock by Getty Images)

Employment Service: 110,000 people register as unemployed in less than a week

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on August 24, 2020. (Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Talks on new curbs devolve into finger-pointing on protests by Netanyahu, Gantz

Ronni Gamzu at a meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at the Jerusalem City Hall, August 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Virus czar: Lockdown stricter than it should be, will have ‘tremendous’ costs

Ronni Gamzu says he recommended just tightening restrictions, but was rebuffed by government; respects final decision

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett during a visit in downtown Jerusalem on August 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition leaders fume at ‘insane’ virus lockdown

Technicians prepare beds in the underground parking of Rambam Health Care Campus which was transformed into an intensive care facility for coronavirus patients, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on September 23, 2020.(Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

As hospitals overflow, Haifa’s Rambam transforms parking lot into virus ward

By Majeda El Batsh

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement at his official residence in Jerusalem on September 17, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Lockdown was unavoidable, claim I did it to end protests is ‘absurd’

PM blames ‘populist politicians’ for soaring virus rates, says he’s working on getting faster testing and a vaccine; 59 Israelis have died of COVID-19 since last night

6:40 pm

Justice minister to Netanyahu: Stop inciting against the protesters
6:39 pm

Lapid to Netanyahu: Stop blaming the whole world for your failure to curb virus
6:30 pm

Finance minister: Defense industries, construction can continue during lockdown

Yom Kippur the rabbi ate peas and grits

But wait! It wasn’t peas and grits. And it wasn’t that rabbi! It was Yom Kippur, though, and those details don’t matter, as long as preserving life is your priority

Singing ‘Amazing Grace’ for Ruth Bader Ginsburg is perfectly fine

Mourning for the Jewish Supreme Court Justice is hard enough without taking offense at what may seem ’inappropriate’ gestures

Arnold M. Eisen

Turning the page to 5781… alone

‘Social distance’ is the exact opposite of what we need as we ask forgiveness from God and one another

The ‘Trump is Good for Israel’ illusion

The US president’s record of lies and unfounded insinuations renders him a fickle and unreliable ally for the Jewish state

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz attends the opening session of the 30th Arab League summit in the Tunisian capital Tunis on March 31, 2019. (Fethi Belaid/Pool/AFP)

Saudi king warns UN of Iranian threat, backs US peace efforts in Middle East

Salman castigates Iranian attempts to sow ‘chaos, extremism and religious fanaticism’; calls to disarm Hezbollah; stops short of directly endorsing Israel-UAE-Bahrain accords

King Salman, of Saudi Arabia, is seen on a video screen remotely addressing the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 23, 2020, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Iran: Saudi Arabia a wretched creature among Arab states for warming Israel ties

By AFP

Lebanese and Chilean rescuers search a collapsed building in Beirut, Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon pleads for world’s help ‘to rise from its rubble’

Screenshot from a webinar during which Israeli and Arab journalists, officials and communications professionals discussed the media's role in advancing Arab-Israel peace. September 21, 2020 (Facebook)

Op-ed

Historic webinar shows how journalism can help sustain warming Arab-Israel ties

Media folk from Israel, its new allies and potential new allies this week began a vital dialogue; the better we understand each other, the better the chances of stable relations

Illustrative: United States ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US envoy to UN claims new Israel-Arab peace deal possible ‘in next day or two’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) is welcomed by a Sudanese official in Khartoum on August 25, 2020. (AFP)

US-Sudan normalization talks reportedly ‘constructive,’ but no breakthrough

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

Poll: Yamina closing in on Likud; public supports limiting protests, prayers

Survey also finds that if popular Likud MK Yifat Shasha-Biton ran her own party, she could win up to eight seats, although she has given no sign she plans to do so

A protester holds a sign depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest a against him outside the PM's residence in Jerusalem, on July 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Netanyahu ally: Anti-PM protesters are happy there are 7,000 daily cases

Jerusalem police officer Koby Yaakobi wears a mask with his nose exposed while standing among a crowd of protesters demonstrating against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on Sunday, September 20, 2020. (Screen capture/Ynet News)

Police officer in charge of anti-Netanyahu protests contracts coronavirus

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)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg went from the Notorious RBG to Ruth the Tzaddik

Public perception of US Supreme Court judge evolved, from staid jurist to pop culture icon — and finally even to a spiritual figure

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s empathy born of Jewish history, ‘otherness’

By GARY FIELDS and Sally Stapleton

Jewish service held for Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court

RBG gave one of her lace collars to a museum in Tel Aviv

By JTA

Rabbi David Wolpe (Facebook)

Behind the headlines

Join the ToI Community for Rabbi David Wolpe on Yom Kippur and Jewish resilience

Gain access to Friday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member today

When chef Nofar Zohar needed to rethink her career during the coronavirus, she pivoted to a pop-up shop of deluxe schnitzel sandwiches (Courtesy Nofar Zohar)

For Israeli chefs, pandemic means pivot

By Jessica Steinberg

Israelis, wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus, shop for groceries at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on September 14, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

OECD: Israel is healthy, happy but highly unequal – and COVID is making it worse

By Simona Weinglass

Coronavirus has dealt a stunning blow to economy, recovery will be slow, says report from intergovernmental economic organization

David Jacobson in the sanctuary of Chicago Jewish Funerals, September 2020. (Silvio Ribeiro)

Chicago burial fund gives penniless Jewish COVID victims a dignified sendoff

By Jessica Donath

More Headlines

Capsules for up to 20 women to worship, a measure to curb the spread of the coronavirus, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, sit empty on Sept. 18, 2020, on the first day of a nationwide three-week lockdown in reaction to a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Put it in writingWestern Wall stays shut to most, but notes can still be sent

Panelists at webinar organized by the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Department at San Francisco State University on September 22, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

YouTube shuts down livestream of US college event honoring Palestinian hijacker

A postcard from the collection donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Courtesy/Hebrew University)

Collector gifts Hebrew U. 130,000 postcards showing Holy Land since Ottoman era

Dozens of Formosan termites eat wood at the lab where Nan-Yo Su, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida in Davie, conducts experiments, March 2, 1998. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Spectacularly destructive ‘super-termite’ arrives in Israel for first time

Adela Raz (left), Vice-President of the 75th session of the General Assembly and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations,and Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed at the UN General Assembly's 75th session on September 22, 2020. (UN Photo/Manuel Elías)

At UN General Assembly, 50 male speakers before the first woman

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A United Airlines jet prepares touches down at Newark Liberty International Airport on Jan. 23, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

After Jewish woman writes CEO, United changes Israel flight to avoid Yom Kippur

Some 190 objects from the L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art planned to be sold at Sotheby's London on October 27, 2020 (Courtesy Sotheby's)

Jerusalem’s Islamic art museum says it has to auction off part of its collection

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: The IDF carries out overnight raids in the West Bank, August 1, 2016 (IDF)

Army shoots at Palestinians throwing Molotov cocktails; 2 said injured

Zarie Sibony, survivor of the Hyper cacher Jewish supermarket jihadist killings, speaks to journalists on September 18, 2020 at the Paris courthouse. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)

He said ‘You’re not dead yet’ and fired: Hyper Cacher worker recalls 2015 attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

US President Donald Trump during a signing ceremony with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti, in the Oval Office of the White House, September 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Report: Trump complained to aides Jews ‘only in it for themselves’

By JTA and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (L) and First Lady Melania Trump welcome the arrival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife, Sara, on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on September 15, 2020. (Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Netanyahus said to bring suitcases of laundry from Israel to wash at White House

Natalie Portman at the Oscars on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

On the right pageNatalie Portman’s debut kid’s book makes 3 classic tales ‘gender-safe’

By Gabe Friedman

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