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What Matters Most On Monday, October 5, 2020

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The 2020 Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine are announced during a news conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday Oct. 5, 2020. The prize has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, left on screen, Michael Houghton, center, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. (Claudio Bresciani/TT via AP)

Academy stresses parallels with current COVID-19 battle

Jewish scientist shares Nobel for finding hepatitis C, helping to save millions

By AP and ToI Staff

‘For first time, disease can now be cured’: Harvey J. Alter gets medicine Nobel, with Charles M. Rice and Michael Houghton; says 4:45 a.m. call was ‘best alarm clock I’ve ever had’

Large numbers of ultra-Orthodox Jews gather for the funeral for Rabbi Mordechai Leifer, in Ashdod, Israel, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Police, mourners clash as some 5,000 crowd funeral of rabbi who died of COVID

Screen capture from video of police breaking up a gathering in Kiryat Gat. Video blurred to protect identities. (Channel 12)

‘I envy you’: Hasidic rabbi tries to sweet-talk cops dispersing his gathering

A boy who was seen on video getting hit by a bucket hurled by a cop in Beitar Illit a day earlier points to a copy of Israel Hayom with a picture of the incident, while in Jerusalem on October 5, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewWhen numbers go low, we go lower: What the press is saying on October 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Worshipers pray in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, October 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbis, worshipers at Western Wall pray for Trump’s recovery from virus

By ToI Staff and AFP

Chief rabbis attend traditional priestly blessing service at Old City site as supplication made on behalf of US president stricken with coronavirus

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the Kohelet Forum Conference at the Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US envoy Friedman: If Biden wins, it will be bad for Israel and Gulf on Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This combination of file pictures created on September 28, 2020 shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden(L) speaking in Tampa, Florida on September 15, 2020 and US President Donald Trump speaking during an event for black supporters at the Cobb Galleria Centre September 25, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia. (JIM WATSON and Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Biden up 14 points in national poll as Trump struggles on multiple fronts

By ToI Staff and AP

US President Donald Trump waves from the back of a car in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on October 4, 2020. (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN / AFP)

Trump slammed for leaving hospital to greet supporters, exposing guards to virus

By Brian Knowlton and Joshua MELVIN

Experts say ‘stunt’ broke public health guidelines requiring patients to isolate while they are in treatment and still shedding virus, and endangered Secret Service protection

What we know, and what we don’t, about Trump’s virus diagnosis

By AP

Trump’s doctor’s comments on symptoms, care spark confusion, again

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Doctors say Trump improving, could be discharged from hospital Monday

By Jill Colvin, Steve Peoples and Jonathan Lemire

Then Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel attends a ceremony in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Flash90)

Calls to fire minister who broke lockdown to visit family, then fell ill

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Gila Gamliel apologizes for ‘error in judgment’ by traveling to visit family in Tiberias, claims she did not violate guidelines; PM says he wants to wait for ‘full picture’

Illustrative: Luxury apartment skyscrapers in north Tel Aviv, December 2, 2016. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Housing sales plummet amid coronavirus economic crisis

A health official (L) collects a swab sample from a student to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a government school in Lahore on October 1, 2020, after the educational institutes reopened nearly six months after the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Arif ALI / AFP)

WHO: 10% of world population may have been infected with virus

By Jamey Keaten

A nurse in Haifa's Bnai Zion Medical Center's coronavirus ward (Courtesy Micha Brikman)

Faces from the frontlines: Photographer at hospital captures COVID-19 ‘angels’

By Jessica Steinberg

Police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox protesters during a demonstration against the enforcement of coronavirus regulations in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, October 4, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

18 arrested in violent clashes between police and ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem

Police say 2 officers injured, number of vehicles damaged during operation to enforce virus regulations

Ultra-Orthodox men block a police vehicle attempting to enforce coronavirus lockdown rules in Bnei Brak, October 4, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Violent clashes erupt between cops, ultra-Orthodox in Bnei Brak, Jerusalem

Screen capture from video of clashes between police and the ultra-Orthodox community in the settlement of Beitar Illit, October 4, 2020. (Twitter)

Cop hurls bucket at boy, TV crew attacked by Haredi rioters amid virus crackdown

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Lab technicians test samples of suspected Covid-19 patients at the Clinical Virology Laboratory of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on September 30, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Daily virus cases continue downward trend, with positive rate of 11.7%

Ministers set to discuss increasing penalties for those caught flouting regulations; expert says sharp fall in new cases in Arab community but still rising among ultra-Orthodox

‘Cautious’ Netanyahu resists pressure to lift restrictions as 900 seriously ill

Israel may be first to deploy new 23-minute virus test, defense minister says

Rush young kids back to school, they’re the most virus-proof citizens — experts

By Nathan Jeffay

Smoke trails from a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists are seen over the Gaza Strip on February 24, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Rocket shot from Gaza at Israel, no injuries or damage reported

By Joshua Davidovich

Projectile said to land in open area after sirens go off in Kerem Shalom area, breaking calm along border

6:34 pm

Jewish cemetery in Athens defaced ahead of verdict in neo-Nazi attack
6:33 pm

Doctor to deliver update on Trump's condition, after day-long silence
6:19 pm

Report: Litzman attended mass Ashdod funeral

Illustrative: Policemen stand guard in front of the Hohe Weide synagogue in Hamburg, northern Germany, on October 5, 2020 (MORRIS MAC MATZEN / AFP)

German police probing attack on Jewish man as anti-Semitic attempted murder

By Agencies and ToI Staff

26-year-old kippa-wearing student badly injured when assailant repeatedly struck him on the head with a shovel outside Hamburg synagogue

In this Oct. 4, 2020, photo police officers stand at the cordoned-off crime scene outside the synagogue in Hamburg, Germany, that was the scene of an attack (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP)

German officials express outrage over attack on Jewish student outside synagogue

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Witness in alleged ramming at anti-Netanyahu rally dragged out of bed to testify

Man says police attempted to intimidate him by arriving at his home at 1 a.m., taking him to station; police suspect driver of premeditated grievous assault

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on October 3, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After protest violence, Tel Aviv mayor says cops are being used to play politics

Richard Shavei-Tzion

Dear Children, the Gates of Life are closing

If someone had told you last year that a million people would die from a plague and that we would be praying outside in ’capsules’ would you have believed it?

Bishara A. Bahbah

A cynical ploy by bankrupt Palestinian leadership

Desperately needed elections and unity are not on the horizon. For one thing, Mahmoud Abbas would lose, and he knows it

Can Israel’s protests induce change?

6 factors that are necessary for effective nonviolent protest

This IS the wedding of our dreams!

Where else could a young couple get married on holy land where Jewish history is being played out as they wed?

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (middle row on the right) takes part in a first-ever town hall with Gulf and Saudi journalists, October 4, 2020. (Courtesy)

In 1st town hall with Gulf and Saudi reporters, Gantz says Turkey opposes peace

Defense minister tells journalists that deterring Ankara from destabilizing region is complicated by it being a NATO member, calls for international pressure

Illustrative: Image of Russian S-400 long-range air defense missile systems deployed at Hemeimeem air base in Syria, December 16, 2015. (Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian ambassador says ‘no problem’ selling S-400 to Iran when arms ban expires

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Dismissing MK’s comment, Blue and White members signal coalition to stay intact

As Gantz’s party convenes, sources quoted saying Miki Haimovich was merely expressing her own opinion when she said group within party favors ending partnership with Netanyahu

Miki Haimovich with Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)

Blue and White MK says growing group within party favors breaking with Netanyahu

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Nvidia Corp.'s Jensen Huang presents the Holodeck processor at the firm's GTC developers conference in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

US tech giant Nvidia unveils ‘breakthrough’ processor sired by Israel team

By Shoshanna Solomon

Aviad Moshe, accused of the attempted murder of his wife Shira in Mitzpe Ramon, undated (Courtesy)

Man indicted for attempted murder of his wife in front of infant son

Israeli police and soldiers inspect the scene of a thwarted stabbing attack at Elias junction near Hebron and the settlement of Kiryat Arba in the West Bank on November 5, 2018. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Police: Assailant tries to stab officer near West Bank city of Hebron

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

US President Ronald Reagan meets with Richard Schifter, US representative to the UN Human Rights Committee, in the Oval Office of the White House, February 2, 1984, in Washington. (AP Photo/White House Photo/Mary Anne Fackelman)

Former US diplomat and presidential adviser Richard Schifter dead at 97

From 'Susita,' the documentary shown at the 36th Haifa Film Festival, October 3-10, 2020. (courtesy, Haifa Film Festival)

Front row seatThis year’s Haifa Film Fest is all online, with 95 films to choose from

By Jessica Steinberg

Police at the scene of a fatal shooting in the northern town of Bi'ina, October 4, 2020 (Israel Police)

Woman shot dead, 2 men injured in north, in suspected criminal dispute

For illustration: A team works on a high-tech project (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel launches ’emergency human capital program’ for tech sector

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli Naama Goldman-Shwartz, 45, walks with a guest at Juha's Guesthouse in the northern coastal village of Jisr az-Zarqa on September 30, 2020 (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israelis seek to save embattled Jewish-Arab hostel amid pandemic

By Alexandra Vardi

The Australian Stock Exchange (Courtesy)

InterviewAustralia Securities Exchange eases terms for dual listing of Israel tech firms

By Shoshanna Solomon

Workers move bodies to a refrigerated truck from the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 29, 2020. (Craig Ruttle/AP)

NY mayor announces shutdown plan for 9 neighborhoods, including Jewish areas

By AFP

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