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What Matters Most On Monday, September 28, 2020

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Hospital team members in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Health official: 2 weeks lockdown probably not sufficient

33 COVID-19 deaths over Yom Kippur, record high of over 200 on ventilators

763 patients in serious condition, with 208 people on breathing machines; Haifa hospital calls in extra staff due to surge of virus patients

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a briefing on coronavirus development in Israel at his office in Jerusalem, September 13 2020. (Alex Kolomiensky/Yedioth Ahronoth via AP, Pool)

Prepare for 1,500 seriously ill COVID-19 patients by week’s end, warns Netanyahu

A border police officer on patrol in Jerusalem's Old City during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, September 27, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police pull infected worshiper from Jerusalem synagogue

From the blogs

Lockdown is already wreaking hunger in Israel… again

As stomachs rumble across the nation, our food distribution charity is again busier than ever, but it’s hard to ask donors to give yet again

Pedestrian killed; paramedics treat 2,360 people on Yom Kippur, deliver 2 babies

54-year-old woman dies after being hit by vehicle in north of country; Magen David Adom says coronavirus testing continued in Arab towns

Police guard at a temporary checkpoint in the entrance to Jerusalem, on Yom Kippur, September 28, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police hand out close to 4,000 fines over Yom Kippur for virus rule violations

In this file photo taken on June 10, 2020 An Iraqi man in a hazmat suit takes pictures of a relative's tombstone at a cemetery for COVID-19 victims, 20 km from the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf. - More than one million people have died from the coronavirus, according to an AFP toll, with no let-up in a pandemic that has ravaged the world economy, inflamed diplomatic tensions and upended lives from Indian slums and Brazilian jungles to America's biggest city. (Ali NAJAFI / AFP)

Nine months of 'a crisis like no other'

One million deaths and rising: Global coronavirus toll passes grim milestone

By Simon Malfatto

Half of humanity was under some kind of lockdown by April; since restrictions were eased, infection rates have soared again and WHO has warned toll could double

Illustrative: Residents walk through the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on September 23, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

NYC threatens to sanction schools as COVID surges in Orthodox areas of Brooklyn

By AFP

A lab technician prepares chemicals to process COVID-19 tests in Argenteuil, near Paris, Sept. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Million who died of COVID-19 also illuminated treatment

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Emirati club Al-Nasr presents news signing, Israeli midfielder Diaa Sabia, bought from Chinese club Guangzhou R&F. (via AFP)

Scoring a goal for normalization, UAE soccer team signs Israeli player

By AFP

Midfielder Diaa Sabia, who has played 10 times for Israel’s national team, moves from Chinese club to Dubai’s Al-Nasr two weeks after Israel-UAE made peace

Interview

With or without normalization, expert on Gulf sees Israel as regional peacemaker

In new book on Middle East’s changing alliances, Sigurd Neubauer explores Jerusalem’s little-known role as mediator in rivalries between Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar

Sigurd Neubauer, right, with a senior Omani official at Oman's Consultative Assembly, Muscat 2019 (courtesy)

President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during a news conference at the White House, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

'Fake news,' says Trump, promising 'it will all be revealed'

Bombshell report shows Trump paid just $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017

US president paid no federal income tax at all in 10 of the last 15 years, New York Times says; ‘It appears the president has gamed the tax code,’ charges prominent Democrat

President-elect Donald Trump waves to members of the media after a meeting with admirals and generals from the Pentagon at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Many of his best-known businesses are losers, and 4 more NYT Trump tax takeaways

By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks during a news conference at the White House, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump tax revelation could tarnish the image that fueled his rise

An ultra Orthodox Jewish man of the Zvhil (Hasidic dynasty) "whips" another with a leather belt as a symbolic punishment for his sins during the traditional "Malkot" ceremony, a few hours before the start of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy day of Atonement, in a synagogue in the ultra orthodox neighborhoods of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, September 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A pandemic judgment day: Yom Kippur marked worldwide in shadow of COVID-19

By Shira Hanau and PHILISSA CRAMER

The holiest day in the Jewish calendar has the potential to prove a superspreader event, much like Purim was in March

An airplane circles Melbourne, Australia, September 27, 2020, for locked-down Jews who could not conduct the pre-Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot. (Youtube screenshot)

Chickens on a planeAirborne Yom Kippur ritual for locked down Melbourne Jews

By PHILISSA CRAMER

In this Monday, September 21, 2020 file photo, ultra-Orthodox Jews wear face masks during a morning prayer in a synagogue separated by plastic partitions, in Bnei Brak, Israel. (AP/Oded Balilty, File)

Rabbis weigh COVID-19 queries as virus complicates ultra-Orthodox rites, customs

By Ilan Ben Zion

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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)

Sudan reportedly requesting billions in aid in exchange for ties with Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iran's new Zolfaghar Basir missile (via Twitter)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveil naval ballistic missile, claim 700 km. range

By AFP

This grab taken from a video obtained by AFP shows French police detaining an alleged suspect after several people were injured near the former offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following an attack by a man wielding a knife in Paris on September 25, 2020 (Laura CAMBAUD / AFP)

Confusion surrounds identity of Paris meat cleaver attacker

By Alexandre Hielard

In this image taken from a footage released by Armenian Defense Ministry, Armenian forces destroy an Azerbaijani military vehicle at the contact line of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, September 27, 2020. (Armenian Defense Ministry via AP)

Heavy fighting breaks out between Armenia and Azerbaijan, raising fears of war

By Mariam HARUTYUNYAN and Emil GULIYEV

Actress Ilanit Ben-Yaakov in the Israeli comedy series 'Chamishim' ('Fifty'). (Screenshot/YouTube)

Good for a laughIsraeli comedy show nominated for international Emmy

Wiley performs at O2 Academy Brixton, March 2, 2018. (Ollie Millington/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

UK police drop investigation into rapper Wiley’s anti-Semitic tirade

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