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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 6, 2020

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, second right, UAE Foreign Minister Abdulah Bin Zayed al Nahyan, left, and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, second left, listening to a presentation at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial on October 6, 2020. (Courtesy/Foreign Ministry of Israel)

Israeli FM: Meeting 'symbolizes beginning of a new era'

‘Never again,’ UAE’s top diplomat declares at Holocaust memorial with Ashkenazi

By AFP and Aaron Boxerman

Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan writes in guestbook: ‘I salute the souls of those who fell victim to Holocaust’; Ashkenazi surprises him with own family’s Holocaust tale

Israeli, UAE foreign ministers meet in Berlin, which is ‘honored’ to host summit

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel Export Institute, Dubai World Trade Centre sign cooperation accord

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sukkah rises at base of world’s tallest tower in UAE

By Isabel Debre

US President Donald Trump removes his mask upon his return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 5, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

'Don't let it dominate your lives. Get out there'

‘Don’t be afraid of it,’ says Trump, back at White House after COVID treatment

By ToI Staff and AP

Biden: Tell that to ‘all the families who lost somebody’; US president tries to spin his infection as an act of leadership: ‘Nobody that’s a leader would not do what I did’

White House staff, Secret Service angry and scared over possible virus exposure

By Jill Colvin, Deb Riechmann and Colleen Long

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tests positive for COVID-19

John Hagee, prominent pro-Israel evangelical pastor, ill with COVID-19

By AP

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Embarrassed and pummeled by outside criticism, Haredim despair of virus fight

As broad swaths of their community flout lockdown restrictions, some are calling their peers to task — and asking the rest of Israel to understand their frustration

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 officers enforcing a coronavirus lockdown, seen outside the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, October 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police said to agree to let Hasidim hold mass events as long as they’re discreet

A mass funeral in Jerusalem on October 5, 2020 (screen capture via Kikar Hashabat)

Chaos as police break up large ultra-Orthodox funeral in Jerusalem, arrest 11

Gila Gamliel speaks at a conference in Kedem, in the West Bank, on September 5, 2019 (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

AG to rule if police will probe minister for allegedly lying to contact tracers

Criminal investigation requires Mandelblit’s nod; dozens protest near home of Gila Gamliel, who broke lockdown, then contracted coronavirus

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Pittsburgh Rebbe Mordechai Leifer in the city of Ashdod on October 5, 2020. (Photo by Flash90)

Israel media reviewDying to get together: What the press is saying on October 6

By Joshua Davidovich

MK Mickey Levy, seen during a meeting of the Finance Committee in the Israeli parliament on November 6, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yesh Atid MK leaves virus committee after twice violating lockdown

Medical team members work in the coronavirus ward of Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva on October 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Number of daily cases on the rise again with over 5,000 new infections diagnosed

Numbers likely a result of testing increase, with positivity level staying steady at around 11%; 52 fatalities in just over 24 hours

Over 100 soldiers on IDF base reportedly test positive for virus

PM says ‘too early’ to ease closure; reports say no change likely before Oct. 18

Ex-police official: Absurd rules causing chaos, throwing trust ‘down the drain’

By Aaron Boxerman

Mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, June 26, 2015. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

Scientists of Jewish heritage among trio to win Nobel prize for black hole finds

By AP and ToI Staff

Britain’s Roger Penrose and American Andrea Ghez receive physics award along with German Reinhard Genzel for showing phenomenon predicts general theory of relativity

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)

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

By AP and ToI Staff

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan gives a scathing lecture criticizing the Palestinian leadership on al-Arabiya on Monday, October 5, 2020 (Screenshot: Youtube)

Saudi prince: Palestinian leaders have been ‘failures’ for 70 years

By Aaron Boxerman

In unsparing interview, Bandar bin Sultan, an ex-envoy to US and spy chief, says Palestinians took Riyadh’s support for granted, slams ‘reprehensible’ criticism of UAE-Israel deal

Israeli border guards block anti-government protesters during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, amidst the coronavirus lockdown, in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on October 6, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Activists in Tel Aviv face off with police as protest march blocked off

By Joshua Davidovich

Anti-government groups rally across country; hundreds in Tel Aviv gather at Habima Square, try to march down boulevard; little fighting reported

7:12 pm

Facebook pulls Trump post downplaying virus
6:55 pm

Police to protesters: We are not against you, stay healthy
6:54 pm

Israeli diplomat appointed to senior UN post

Thou shalt not intervene

As America heads to the polls, Israeli meddling will create a self-inflicted wound, hurt US Jewry, and drag down this most special of relationships

Cloudy, with a chance of recurrence

It’s hard to love God without seeing Him directly, especially when someone you adore is suffering. So instead, I focus on loving God’s creations

Heather A. Stone

Ambassador Friedman, here’s the deal on Biden

The US envoy’s claim that a Democratic win will embolden Iran ignores Trump’s failure to halt nuclear breakout. It also violates State Dept rules

Andrew Baker and Holly Huffnagle

Europe can’t fight Jew-hatred without a working definition of anti-Semitism

OPINION: A German court’s failure to rule a synagogue torching an anti-Jewish act illustrates the urgent need to adopt the IHRA Definition

In this October 4, 2020, file photo, two women walk with children during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/Kathy Willens)

Orthodox Jews bristle at NYC’s selective response to virus surge

By David Crary and MARIAM FAM

‘It’s not like we’re the only people in New York getting COVID,’ says one resident amid mounting anger that city is singling them out for criticism, closures

In this October 4, 2020, photo, an Orthodox Jewish family crosses a street during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the Borough Park neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Cuomo orders some NYC schools, mostly in Orthodox areas, closed amid virus surge

By AP

Bobov Hasidic rabbi, hailed by NYC for mask-wearing, tests positive for COVID-19

Then-IDF chief of staff David Elazar visits the Egyptian front during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, as seen in footage released from the IDF archives on October 6, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

47 years on, Defense Ministry releases color footage of Yom Kippur War

By Judah Ari Gross

Soldiers on the Suez, actor Chaim Topol visiting troops, top brass visiting the Egyptian front among scenes in high-quality video released from military archives for first time

Dr. Filipe Natalio, seen here at a site in the Negev Desert, holding a flint tool. (screenshot)

ArchaeologySecond study at site finds ash used as a preservative

Cave dwellers forged their tools in fire 300,000 years ago, Israeli study shows

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Weizmann Institute findings based on AI analysis of flint from Qesem Cave, using tool-making re-enactment, hi-tech Raman spectroscopy, and machine learning

Researcher Susanna Sabin working in the ancient DNA lab of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. (Courtesy/Zandra Fagernäs)

Researchers dig into medieval Jerusalem poop for insights into modern gut health

Adeena Sussman in her Tel Aviv kitchen. (Courtesy of Dan Perez)

Behind the Headlines

Join ToI Community for culinary conversation with cookbook author Adeena Sussman

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar with Adeena Sussman and hear about her latest book, ‘Sababa,’ by becoming a ToI Community member today

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a school in Jerusalem, ahead of the opening of the school year, August 25, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

AG set to close probe into Netanyahu’s lucrative sale of stock in cousin’s firm

Reports say Mandelblit believes there is insufficient evidence regarding claims PM broke the law in sale of shares to Nathan Milikowsky

James Packer at a news conference of the Studio City project in Macau, October 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Australia tycoon tied to PM’s case said to threaten to sic Mossad on businessman

Screen capture from video of the moment police volunteers in a patrol car, bottom left, shouted support for the prime minister as they passed under a bridge carrying anti-government protesters, October 5, 2020. (Twitter)

Two police volunteers suspended for shouting support for Netanyahu at protesters

In this Oct. 4, 2020 photo a man and a boy walk towards the cordoned-off area in front of a synagogue in Hamburg, Germany that was the scene of an attack (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP)

Merkel condemns ‘repulsive’ attack on Jewish student in Hamburg

After 26-year-old seriously injured outside synagogue, German chancellor says ‘every such act is a disgrace’; police probing attack as attempted murder with anti-Semitic intent

Masked soldiers of the German military special commando forces, 'Kommando Spezialkraefte' (KSK), hold their weapons ready as they move along a wall during an exercise in Baumholder, southwestern Germany, in this Sept. 11, 1997. (Hermann J. Knippertz/AP)

Germany to present report on far-right extremism in police, military

By Mathieu FOULKES

A person carries a sign supporting QAnon at a protest rally in Olympia, Washington, May 14, 2020. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

QAnon far-right conspiracies go global in coronavirus pandemic ‘perfect storm’

By Qasim Nauman

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of a man trying on a shtreimel in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel moves to ban fur trade, with major exception for ultra-Orthodox hats

Illustrative: An explosion caused by Iron Dome air defense system missiles intercepting rockets fired from Gaza, February 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra/ File)

Rocket fired from Gaza at southern Israel; IDF retaliates with strike

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A view from the Israeli settlement of Har Gilo of Route 60, backdropped by the West Bank village of Beit Jala. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Israel to advance plans for 4,400 new settlement homes, mostly outside blocs

By Aaron Boxerman

Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat of California, talks to reporters in a basement corridor at the Capitol in Washington, January 4, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pro-Israel groups audition Dems seeking top congressional foreign policy seat

A house in Napa County burns in the Glass Fire, September 29, 2020. (Napa County Sheriff/ via JTA)

How the Northern California fires affected an already disrupted Yom Kippur

By Maya Mirsky, Dan Pine and Gabe Stutman

Abdullah Saeed Al Naboodah, chairman of Al Naboodah Investments in Dubai, and Jon Medved, CEO of OurCrowd in Jerusalem, sign an MoU to increase business ties between startups and investors in the UAE and Israel (Courtesy/OurCrowd)

Jerusalem’s OurCrowd, Dubai’s Phoenix join forces to boost Israel-UAE tech ties

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli soldiers during a raid in the village of Shuweika, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem on October 20, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90/File)

IDF says soldiers fire on Palestinians wielding Molotov cocktails, wounding one

By Aaron Boxerman

President Reuven Rivlin (R) with Armenian President Armen Sarkissian at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on January 26, 2020. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Armenian envoy expects Israel will halt arms sales to Azerbaijan amid conflict

Ricardo Montaner poses for photos with his recognition for record sales during a press conference in Mexico City, July 4, 2019. (Adrián Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images via JTA)

Latin loveLatin music star goes viral for saying ‘Jewish daughter-in-law is gift from God’

By JTA

An FBI poster showing a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, right, of how he would look like now after five years in captivity, and an image, center, taken from the video, released by his kidnappers, and a picture before he was kidnapped, left, displayed during a news conference in Washington, March 6, 2012. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

US court orders Iran to pay $1.4b to family of ex-FBI agent presumed dead

By Jon Gambrell

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya's annual conference on September 10, 2020. (Screen capture: IDC)

Ex-IDF chief Eisenkot, Tel Aviv mayor Huldai said planning joint Knesset run

A view of the Leviathan natural gas processing rig from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90)

Chevron seals acquisition of Noble Energy, which operates in Israel gas fields

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

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