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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 1, 2020

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study Torah in small 'capsule' groups at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva in the city of Modiin Illit, August 24, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Is ultra-Orthodox ideological disobedience fueling Israel’s soaring virus rate?

By Nathan Jeffay

Top medic blames ‘irresponsible behavior,’ crowded living conditions; others call finger-pointing ‘borderline racism,’ ascribe surge to yeshivas’ reopening 10 days before schools

Gamzu: 40% of new virus cases are ultra-Orthodox, with rise in older patients

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis 2.5 times more likely to test positive, virus czar says

Large sukkahs for mass gatherings seen going up in ultra-Orthodox areas

Nearly 9,000 virus cases recorded Wednesday as infections hit new high

Health Ministry says 810 people in serious condition, with 206 on ventilators, amid worries over hospitals being unable to cope with influx of patients

Medical professionals in full protective equipment work in in the critical care coronavirus unit, which was built in an underground parking garage at Sheba Medical center in Ramat Gan, September 30, 2020, amid a spike in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Netanyahu: It could be a year before coronavirus lockdown is fully lifted

Edelstein says coronavirus czar Gamzu should stick around, as early exit mulled

Ministers extend lockdown beyond holiday as over 7,000 new infections recorded

US President Donald Trump gestures to supporters as he arrives at Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport on September 30, 2020, in Minneapolis. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump denounces white supremacists, calls on far-right group to ‘stand down’

US president says he’s never heard of Proud Boys, then adds: ‘Just stand by. Whatever group you’re talking about, let law enforcement do the work’

Biden blasts Trump as ’embarrassment’ for not denouncing far-right organization

By Michael Mathes and Roberto Schmidt

After chaotic first debate, US commission plans changes to avoid repeat

By David Bauder

Fact check: False claims swamp first Trump-Biden debate

By Calvin Woodward and Hope Yen

Protestors outside the headquarters of the Tel Aviv District Israel Police, on September 29, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset panel approves restrictions on protest, prayer during lockdown

Rules will reportedly go into effect within hours; Aryeh Deri claims ultra-Orthodox keeping virus rules ‘far more than general public’

6:14 pm

Hamas deputy political chief contracts COVID-19
6:08 pm

3,000 said protesting in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu
6:07 pm

Knesset panel signs off on demonstration restrictions during lockdown

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Rabbinic debate settled? Study takes measure of biblical ‘handbreadth’ unit

Comparison of 350 years of Iron Age storage jars finds that despite changing vessel shapes, the rims maintain diameter of a man’s hand — the source of the elusive ‘tefah’ measure

Ortal Harush (Hebrew University)

An ancient Roman Jewish farm discovered in the Galilee, with an intact ritual bath that was moved to nearby Kibbutz Hannaton in September 2020 (Courtesy Ibrahim/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Northern community successfully transfers ancient ritual bath to new home

By Jessica Steinberg

Members of the Israeli COVID-19 task force, part of the IDF Home Front Command, attend a meeting at the task force crisis headquarters in Ramla on September 30, 2020. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Op-ed

Flailing in the face of COVID-19, Israel is now on the brink of catastrophe

The contagion rates, serious case numbers and death toll are dire and worsening. They are not yet exponential, but they will be soon in the absence of a coherent, credible strategy

Public pressure, misplaced trust led to virus rebound — deputy health minister

$2,920 for breaking quarantine: Gamzu wants far bigger fines for COVID violators

Israelis being allowed to fly even if they bought tickets after lockdown began

Protesters block a road as they demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on September 30, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hundreds march through Tel Aviv against law limiting demonstrations

4 arrested in coastal city after government approves emergency regulations banning Israelis from protesting more than 1 km from their homes, gathering in groups of more than 20

Police minister criticizes officers for allowing Tel Aviv protest march

AG: New limits on protests not valid until fresh regulations passed

Police seeking to question protesters filmed feuding with soldier, cop

By Judah Ari Gross

New York medical workers attend to an ambulance gurney outside of Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park where three members of the city's Orthodox Jewish communities died from the coronavirus over the last four days on September 28, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

As virus rebounds in New York, ultra-Orthodox decry stigmatization

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

City looks to crack down on areas seeing spikes in new cases, many of them with large Jewish populations, adding to tensions between community and local officials

Mayer Rispler, center, a leader in the Satmar Hasidic community, at a meeting in 2017. (Twitter via JTA)

Major Satmar Hasidic leader in US critically ill with COVID-19

Screen capture from video of the TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater Township. (YouTube)

Pray ball1,000 attend Yom Kippur service at ballpark in New Jersey

From the blogs

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg got it wrong on Pollard

Justice Ginsburg’s ruling in an appeal against the spy’s life sentence exacerbated existing divisions within the Jewish American community

A screen capture from an ad by the Jewish Democratic Council of America released on September 29, 2020. The ad draws parallels between the rise of fascism in Germany and the Trump presidency. (YouTube)

Analysis

Long off-limits, new anti-Trump ad suggests Nazi comparisons are becoming kosher

While ADL chief calls JDCA campaign spot ‘deeply offensive to the memories’ of Holocaust victims, his predecessor says ‘it’s not Nazism, but our antennas are quivering’

My Jewish love of Christmas lights

Sukkot, the most aesthetic, welcoming and creative Jewish holiday, is my seven day antidote to Christmas envy

The other pandemic: Racism

A Jewish settlement blocked an Israeli Arab medic’s entry based solely on his race. When I inquired, I was shocked to learn that I too would be barred

Yotam Ottolenghi in Laura Gabbert’s 'Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles.' (Courtesy IFC Films)

Interview

In film on over-the-top Versailles gala at NY Met, Ottolenghi proves food is art

By Jordan Hoffman

Illustrative image of a race, ranking or competition. (SARINYAPINNGAM; iStock by Getty Images)

Startup Nation slips 3 spots to 19th in global ‘digital readiness’ ranking

By Shoshanna Solomon

Despite its drop, Israel gets high marks for spending on research and development, for the number of high-tech patent grants and for cybersecurity expertise

The technology developed by IceCure Medical Ltd. destroys tumors by freezing them in a minimally invasive procedure with no surgery or hospitalization requirement (Courtesy)

IceCure to distribute cancer-freezing tech in Thailand via Japan’s Terumo Corp

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tech firm blamed for Yom Kippur outage that left homebound US worshipers in dark

Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to the president of Azerbaijan, in an interview September 20, 2020 (screenshot: Walla)

Azeris use Israeli-made drones as conflict escalates with Armenia — report

By ToI Staff and AP

As two countries fight for 4th day over separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region, assistant to the president of Azerbaijan lauds Israeli military technology

Illustrative: Three pilots stand in front of an F-16 fighter jet as it takes off from the Israeli Air Force's 117th Squadron, which was closed on September 30, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF closes fighter jet squadron, ending 67 years of operations

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry and Rafael defense contractor test an upgraded version of the Iron Dome missile defense system in January 2020. (Defense Ministry)

US Army receives 1st of 2 Iron Dome batteries, but future unclear

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

Clare Bronfman arrives at federal court, Sept. 30, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Bronfman heiress jailed for bankrolling sex slave cult leader

Belgian Minister of Cooperation Development and Finance, Alexander De Croo, right, and Belgian francophone Socialist Party chairman, Paul Magnette attend a media conference at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Almost 500 days after Belgian parliamentary elections, seven parties from both sides of the linguistic border have agreed on forming a fully functioning majority government that will center on dealing with the pandemic and its devastating economic impact. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Incoming Belgian government on collision course with Israel, local Jews say

By Raphael Ahren

A view of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library in New York, Sept. 25, 2019 (Josefin Dolsten/via JTA)

Columbia students pass university’s first-ever Israel boycott referendum

By Hannah Dreyfus

Picture taken on July 4, 1959 shows Italian actress Sophia Loren, American journalist Elsa Maxwell and festival director Dr. Alfred Bauer, right, at the festival in the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin. (Konrad Giehr/dpa via AP, file)

Major Berlin film fest acknowledges its founder’s ‘alarming’ hidden Nazi past

By Deborah Cole

President Reuven Rivlin during a meeting with hoteliers, business people and residents in Eilat on June 6, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin issues first pardon for pandemic-related debt

Claire Gimpel arrives in the Paris appeals court courtroom for the opening of a trial with members of her family, descendants of Jewish art collector Rene Gimpel, who filed suit against the state for restitution of three Andre Derain paintings looted during WWII in Paris; June 25, 2019. (Jacques DEMARTHON/AFP)

Court orders France to return art to Jewish collector’s heirs

By AFP

Redwood High School in Larkspur, California. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

California Jewish students push district to act against anti-Semitism

Artist, Marilee Asher Shapiro, in her home on November 11, 2015. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via JTA)

Marilee Shapiro Asher, artist who survived pandemics century apart, dies at 107

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