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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 29, 2020

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

Israel surpasses US in daily COVID-19 deaths per capita

Military task force also shows country ahead of many others in daily infections and positive test rate, as officials warn of continued lockdown

Members of the Vizhnitz Hasidic sect gather in the primarily ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak late on September 28, 2020 (Screen capture; Kan)

Many ultra-Orthodox flouting virus rules entirely, reports indicate

Men walk with prayer shawls in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, September 28, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewHunker mentality: What the press is saying on September 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Healthcare workers wearing protective clothes as they work at the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Seriously ill virus patients top 800, number once cited as max for hospitals

Total number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients hits 1,593, as Israel’s per capita death rate from the virus surpasses the United States’

Israel’s virus death toll passes 1,500, with 500 victims added in three weeks

Health minister: No chance lockdown will end after holidays

Photo essayPrayers in a pandemic: Yom Kippur in pictures

Exclusive

In Zoom meeting with local Jews, UAE minister hails ‘wisdom of Shabbat’

By Raphael Ahren

Minister of State Shamma Al Mazrui notes similarities between Islam and Judaism, calls herself a ‘new student of the Jewish tradition and wisdom, your values, your ethics’

UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs Shamma Al Mazrui addressing the Jewish Community of the Emirates' weekly pre-Shabbat Zoom meeting, September 26, 2020 (screen grab)

From the blogsThe Abraham Accord is the starting point for radical tolerance and love in our region

By Shamma Sohail AlMazrui

From the blogs

Natan Sharansky

With Yuri Orlov’s bold vision, we lit a fire under the Soviet regime

My fellow USSR dissident, who died Sunday, was jailed and exiled for making sure that the truth couldn’t be buried in the KGB’s dungeons

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

A peace paradox: Sidelined Palestinians may finally have their leverage

Israel’s inroads in the Arab world are based on strategic necessity. The Palestinians can’t stop the new peacemaking, but they can set a high price for it

Palestinians protest against the peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 15 September 2020. (Flash90)

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Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset set to ban mass rallies as anti-Netanyahu protesters decry move

Law limiting protests to a kilometer from home up for vote Tuesday; Likud removes demand that ban remain after lockdown ends; demonstrators claim PM ‘trying to crush democracy’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at the annual ceremony commemorating the soldiers who were killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl on September 29, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz compares virus to ’73 war: Israel again unprepared, will pay the price

Israelis protest against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu near his home in Caesarea, on September 26, 2020. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

Protests held near ministers’ homes ahead of renewed fight over limiting rallies

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit holds a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, announcing his decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three corruption cases, November 21, 2019. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Mandelblit: Netanyahu could have to be suspended due to conflict of interest

Attorney general says PM has not yet crossed boundary but that situation in which premier uses his office to interfere in own criminal case ‘must not be allowed’

6:30 pm

Biden releases latest tax returns hours before Trump debate
6:28 pm

Miri Regev replaces Litzman on coronavirus cabinet
6:24 pm

Sweden allocates $1.1 million to start work on its first Holocaust museum

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

Interview

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

By Raphael Ahren

Visitors wearing mask to protect from the coronavirus walk past a 5G sign at the China Beijing International High Tech Expo in Beijing, China on September 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Hailing ‘revolution,’ Israel launches 5G wireless service

By ToI Staff and Shoshanna Solomon

Government authorizes 3 telecom companies to start offering ultra-fast internet, though only 3 devices currently sold in the country support it

Uri Pilichowski

AOC reveals her true colors

The congresswoman’s withdrawal from an event honoring Yitzhak Rabin proves progressives and Palestinian activists have no interest in peace

Pamela Laufer-Ukeles

Our treehouse minyan taught me about empowerment

With a prayer group of just 20, every person had to be fully present and fully responsible. The same goes for how we each handle the Covid crisis.

Behind the Headlines

Join ToI Community for rapid-fire COVID FAQS from top UK-Israeli epidemiologist

Gain access to Thursday’s Behind the Headlines webinar with Bar-Ilan University Prof. Michael Edelstein by becoming a ToI Community member today

Dr. Micah Goodman delivers his acceptance speech for the 2014 Marc and Henia Liebhaber Prize for Religious Tolerance. (courtesy)

Times of Israel PodcastLISTEN: Philosopher Micah Goodman on how to overcome a pandemic of polarization

Josh and Alissa Ruxin, proprietors of Heaven Retreat as well as Heaven Restaurant & Boutique Hotel in Kigali, February 2020. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)

US couple’s swanky ‘hotel Rwanda’ brings jobs, sustainable prosperity to Kigali

By Larry Luxner

US President Donald Trump listens as Ivanka Trump speaks about the deployment of 5G technology in the United States during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House,April 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump wanted Ivanka as running mate in 2016, ex-campaign aide says in new book

Rick Gates says the president repeatedly floated his daughter’s name during race for America’s top office, according to excerpts obtained by Bloomberg

Tax bombshell throws Trump on defensive ahead of debate

By Sebastian Smith

For Joe Biden, debate with Trump offers moment of truth

By Michael Mathes

Trump’s 2016 team accused of deterring millions of Black Americans from voting

By AFP

Sacha Baron Cohen in 2006's 'Borat' (screenshot)

Is nice!

All signs indicate Borat sequel coming; Trump, COVID in focus

Growing reports of filming taking place in US in recent months; Sacha Baron Cohen has reportedly done screen tests for a select few

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks at an online video conference on September 3, 2020 (Ministry of Environment Government of Japan via AP)

UN chief says pandemic toll of 1 million is ‘mind-numbing’

By AP

As global death toll crosses grim milestone, Guterres stresses need for cooperation, affordable vaccine for all

Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish men use social distancing as they pray outside the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, Friday, March 20, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Positive coronavirus tests rising in New York’s Orthodox Jewish areas

By AFP

Coffins carrying the bodies of people who died of coronavirus are stored waiting to be buried or incinerated in an underground parking lot at the Collserola funeral home in Barcelona, Spain, April 2, 2020. (AP/Felipe Dana)

Photo essayAs deaths cross threshold of 1 million, pictures of the pandemic’s global impact

By AP

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Deputy State Attorney Liat Ben-Ari arrives at the District Court in Jerusalem, ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial on May 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ombudsman refuses to rule on complaints against Netanyahu prosecutor

In this June 19, 2015, file courtroom sketch, David Wright, second from left, is depicted standing before Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell, left, with attorney Jessica Hedges, second from right, and Nicholas Rovinski, right, during a hearing in federal court in Boston. (Jane Flavell Collins via AP, File)

US man gets 30 years for IS plot to behead right-wing provocateur Pamela Geller

By AP

Students at the Tel Aviv University on the first day of the new academic year, October 14, 2018 (Flash90)

4 Israeli universities named among top 50 producers of entrepreneurs

By Shoshanna Solomon

The US embassy, seen from across the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

US warns Iraq of Baghdad embassy closure if attacks continue

By SAMYA KULLAB and Matthew Lee

Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt, addresses a huge crowd gathered in Republic Square, Cairo, Feb. 22, 1958, from a balcony of the National Union building, after he was elected the first president of the United Arab Republic (AP Photo)

Egypt’s Nasser still a polarizing figure, 50 years on

Illustrative: Israelis, immigrants and international interns during a Masa Israel-sponsered Dialogue Seminar in Ein Gedi (Louis Fisher/Flash90)

Sharp growth in gap year participation from US this year despite COVID – report

Illustrative: The Saudi Arabia flag flies over the consulate in Istanbul, on October 3, 2018. (AP Photo/ Lefteris Pitarakis)

Saudi Arabia arrests 10 members of ‘terror cell’ with alleged ties to Iran

By AP

Spokesperson of the German right wing party AFD (Alternative for Germany) Christian Lueth attends a press conference to launch the party's election manifesto in Berlin, March 9, 2017. (Odd ANDERSEN/AFP)

German far-right party fires official for comment on shooting, gassing migrants

By AP

The shark pool in Eilat's Underwater Observatory also includes walruses, stingrays and other creatures. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Over half a million sharks could be killed for COVID-19 vaccine, activists warn

This Aug. 26, 2003 image made available by NASA shows Mars as it lines up with the Sun and the Earth. Photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, it was about 55.8 million kilometers (34.6 million miles) from Earth. (J. Bell/NASA via AP)

Salty lake, ponds may be gurgling beneath South Pole on Mars

This undated booking file photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows Christopher Cantwell, of New Hampshire. (Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP)

‘Crying’ US neo-Nazi found guilty of rape threat in far-right feud

By Michael Casey

Illustrative: Hezbollah operatives stand in formation at a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, or Al-Quds Day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Defying Macron, Hezbollah says it will continue to fight Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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