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What Matters Most On Friday, October 2, 2020

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US President Donald Trump stands on stage with first lady Melania Trump after the first presidential debate with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, September 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Trump announces he and Melania tested positive for coronavirus

By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin

‘We will get through this TOGETHER!’ US president tweets shortly after close aide confirmed to have COVID-19; White House physician says the two ‘are both well at this time’

Leaders in Israel, around the world, wish Trump a speedy recovery

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump joins growing number of virus-infected world leaders

Trump is world’s biggest driver of coronavirus misinformation — Cornell study

By AFP

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in the central city of Bnei Brak on September 22, 2020. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Top ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 92, tests positive for coronavirus

President Reuven Rivlin (L) makes a visit to the home of Rabbi Shalom Cohen (R) on October 1, 2020 (Koby Gideon/ GPO)

Rivlin makes ’emergency’ visit to top ultra-Orthodox rabbi as virus cases spiral

A synagogue in Bnei Brak, closed down by police on October 1 after a large congregation was found gathered there in violation of coronavirus rules. (Courtesy of Israel Police)

Israel media reviewSick in the heads: What the press is saying on October 2

By Joshua Davidovich

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in Jerusalem builds a sukkah for the upcoming holiday of Sukkot, September 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government report warns sukkahs a ‘serious danger’ for spreading coronavirus

Health Ministry says 7,639 new infections confirmed Thursday, with number of cases since pandemic began rising to 255,771; death toll remains at 1,622

Is my sukkah an outdoor space? Rule brings fresh chaos to Haredi COVID crisis

Taking the gloves off: Top COVID cop says police ramping up lockdown enforcement

By Nathan Jeffay

Amid record infection numbers, Netanyahu warns of tighter lockdown

Blue and White MK Asaf Zamir at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Blue and White minister quits, citing Netanyahu’s skewed focus, curbs on rallies

‘I can no longer sit in a government in whose leader I haven’t an iota of faith,’ Asaf Zamir says of Netanyahu; accuses PM of putting his legal woes before virus fight

Police officers on horseback block protesters during a demonstration against lockdown measures that they believe are aimed at curbing protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

MKs give final okay for restrictions on protests, indoor prayer during lockdown

Israelis protest against Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside Tzur Hadassah, September 30, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hundreds of small, local anti-Netanyahu protests nationwide ahead of new limits

Screen capture from video of a car, center, as it hits anti-government protesters during a rally in Tel Aviv, October 1, 2020. (Twitter)

Suspect arrested for alleged car-ramming at anti-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv

Pini Luzon, who was filmed accelerating into protesters, claims he was trying to flee scene after feeling ‘surrounded and attacked’ in his car

Screen capture from video of a car, center, as it hits anti-government protesters during a rally in Tel Aviv, October 1, 2020. (Twitter)

Suspected car-ramming at Tel Aviv anti-government protest; no one injured

By Stuart Winer and Aaron Boxerman

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inspects a military honor guard at the parliament, in Ankara, Turkey, October 1, 2020 (Turkish Presidency via AP. Pool)

‘Jerusalem is our city,’ Turkey’s Erdogan declares

By Raphael Ahren

Addressing lawmakers in Ankara, Turkish president says the Palestinian people have lived in the capital ‘for thousands of years’

Then-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a Tel Aviv University cyber conference, on June 24, 2019. (Flash90/File)

Mossad chief openly visits Bahrain for first time, meets with security chiefs

Israel's offshore Leviathan gas platform. (Albatross)

Lebanon and Israel confirm talks this month over disputed maritime border

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

The cover of 'The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi,' Avi Katz's illustrated work about the Ribal based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1863 poem (Courtesy Avi Katz)

The Brighter Side

A missing rabbi, an empty tomb and a caper with the Angel of Death, now for kids

By Jessica Steinberg

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

My Ushpizin, my loved ones

This year, I will invite my friends and family who embody the traits of each of the traditional biblical sukkah guests we welcome each night to join us in spirit when they do

Avi Issacharoff

Twenty years since the Al-Aqsa Intifada, what do Palestinians hope for now

Optimism generated by the Oslo Accords has long since given way to grave pessimism regarding the possibility of ever resolving the conflict

Yehudis Fletcher

I am woman, watch me grow

I wonder what my traditional mother would say to my finding her life lessons in Helen Reddy’s feminist anthem that resonates so deeply with me

Holy imperfection: Sukkot and our unstable reality

Building a sukkah is all about making do with less — which fits perfectly with our experience this year, where we know that what we do won’t be perfect, but may be great

David Kross as Bert Trautmann in 'The Keeper' (Jürgen Olczyk/Menemsha Films)

Forgive and never forget?

How an ex-Nazi found UK soccer stardom thanks to a refugee rabbi’s intervention

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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)

Five serious COVID patients recover after experimental Israeli treatment

Enlivex Therapeutics says it administered its Allocetra therapy to severe and critical cases in Jerusalem hospital; all recovered completely, tested negative for coronavirus

Epidemiologist Prof. Michael Edelstein in conversation with Nathan Jeffay on 'Behind the Headlines,' October 1, 2020. (Times of Israel)

Behind the HeadlinesWATCH: Epidemiologist Michael Edelstein on Israel’s mishandling of virus crisis

A nurse gives a volunteer an injection as part of a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the US National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, New York, July 27, 2020. (Hans Pennink/AP)

Israeli vaccine candidate reportedly set to begin human trials next week

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ira Glasser speaks in this still from 'Mighty Ira.' (Courtesy)

Interview

Film explores why a Jewish former ACLU head defended Nazis’ right to free speech

By Jordan Hoffman

Hila Avraham (right) and Meir Russo, director of the archives, in the Jerusalem Cinematheque archives that were digitized for general use during the coronavirus (Courtesy Jerusalem Cinematheque)

In time for lockdown, Cinematheque puts film history treasure trove online

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli Film Archive holds over 30,000 titles, recorded on two million meters of film, now available online, for free

Singer-songwriter and spoken word artist Hadara Levin Areddy will perform works of Bob Dylan at the online Ushpizin Song Festival, October 4-6, 2020 (Courtesy Confederation House)

Tangled up in boothsOnline Sukkot festival welcomes iconic sounds of Bob Dylan

By Jessica Steinberg

Jordan Blashek, left, and Christopher Haugh are the co-authors of 'Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground.' (Courtesy)

Interview

Political odd couple takes epic road trip across polarized US in search of unity

By Rich Tenorio

Ludwig, Ida, and Amos Steinberg, circa 1940; the briefcase of Ludwig Steinberg. (Courtesy of the family and Auschwitz Museum)

Note in murdered boy’s shoe lets Auschwitz Museum match with father’s briefcase

By Jenni Frazer

Researchers discover that a barely visible number scrawled on Ludwig Steinberg’s valise corresponds to transport number of his six-year-old son Amos, killed at Auschwitz in 1944

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Azeri drone striking an Arminian artillery battery. (Screengrab: Walla)

Armenia recalls ambassador from Israel to protest sale of weapons to Azerbaijan

A Republican Jewish Coalition ad warning against Joe Biden presidency, released on October 1, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Republican Jewish group runs $3.5m TV ad campaign targeting Florida

Screen capture from video of passengers on an El Al flight to Athens that failed to take off due to engine trouble, October 1, 2020. (Ynet news)

First El Al commercial flight after virus hiatus is grounded due to engine fault

Hamas official Hassan Yousef at his office in Ramallah, July 30, 2015. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Israel arrests senior Hamas leader in West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative image: A medic working in the underground parking lot 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 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

IDF plans to run 2 coronavirus wards in Haifa hospital as outbreak worsens

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) talks with attorneys Micha Fettman (L) and Amit Hadad (R) inside the courtroom as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020 (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu’s lawyers given more time to respond to charges, likely delaying trial

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a farewell ceremony for outgoing state prosecutor Shai Nitzan in Jerusalem, December 18, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Attorney General resists opening probe into leaks from Netanyahu case

Sacha Baron Cohen in the trailer to the Borat sequel. The trailer was released by Amazon on October 1, 2020. (Screenshot/YouTube)

The subsequent moviefilmBorat’s back, offering VP Pence his daughter in trailer for new sequel

David Schenker, US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 9, 2019. (Hussein Malla/AP)

US says ‘can’t tolerate’ attacks by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq

By AFP

The Portshift team (Courtesy)

US giant Cisco to buy Tel Aviv application security startup Portshift

By Shoshanna Solomon

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