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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 7, 2020

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David Vodiansky, right, with his wife Alin Zaraabel (Courtesy of Alin Zaraabel)

Wife says: 'It kills me that I can't help him'

‘But there is no coronavirus,’ shocked cynic told doctors, waking up in hospital

By Nathan Jeffay

Alin Zaraabel is praying for the life of her 51-year-old husband, in serious condition for a month now, at the mercy of a virus they both doubted was real

Israel media reviewHair today, goners tomorrow? What the press is saying on October 7

By Joshua Davidovich

Head of Shin Bet, agency that tracks virus carriers, violates lockdown

Health Ministry closes hotline for reporting quarantine violations

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives to a court hearing at the regional labor court in Jerusalem, in the case of Shira Raban, a former employee at the Prime Minister's Residence, December 23, 2019. (Yonatan SIndel/FLASH90)

Sara Netanyahu had hairdresser visit home, in violation of lockdown — report

Sources representing prime minister’s wife say haircut was necessary for her appearance in a public service video urging Israelis to comply with virus rules

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett, left, attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Tuesday, August 30, 2016. (Abir Sultan/Pool/via AP)

Poll: Closing the gap, Bennett’s Yamina trails Netanyahu’s Likud by just 3 seats

Enviromental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel attends a Knesset Economy Committee debate on bottle deposits, September 14, 2020 (Courtesy)

Sick minister went to Knesset with symptoms, but contacts not quarantined — TV

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)

Rate of positive coronavirus tests drops to lowest level in weeks

Initial signs indicate lockdown is starting to flatten the curve, as Health Ministry confirms 4,682 new cases on some 44,700 tests; 46 new deaths recorded in 24 hours

People wearing face masks walk through the largely shuttered Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on October 7, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet meeting on lifting lockdown delayed by a day, drawing ministers’ ire

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taking a 15-minute coronavirus test, October 6, 2020. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu stokes ‘cautious optimism’ as positive virus tests slide downward

'Great Royal Visit,' March 8, 1929. L-to-r: P.L.O. Guy (above), A. Murray Dryer, David Rockefeller, Geoffrey Shpton, Mary 'Tod' Clarck, Edward DeLoach, Robert Lamon, Abby Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., James Henry Breasted, Harry Parker, unidentified fez-wearer. (courtesy Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)

ToI Podcast Interview

Digging at Armageddon: Tumultuous saga of doomed search for Solomon’s Lost City

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Police officers arrest a protester during a rally against enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations, outside the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem, October 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cops attacked while enforcing virus closure in ultra-Orthodox areas; 24 arrested

Mobs throw stones, other objects at police in Modiin Illit and Jerusalem in another night of violence as authorities face intransigent factions within Haredi community

Police in Beit Shemesh in conflict with ultra-Orthodox men on October 6, 2020. (video screenshot)

Cops enforcing virus rules scuffle with ultra-Orthodox in Beit Shemesh

Protesters rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, October 6, 2020. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Ministers approve 1-week extension for restrictions on protests, prayers

Haviva Ner-David

Fragile and beautiful, impossible and possible, dreams

When the world conspires to make me even more aware of how fleeting it all is, the best I can do is try to protect myself and my family from every harm that is in human hands

Loving Vincent in the time of Corona

From stickers to sandals, Van Gogh’s paintings have become a super-commodity, so I was most pleased to be able behold his work ’in person’ in Finland

What do you do when there’s a hole in the boat?

Israel must reclaim its relinquished sovereignty over the ultra-Orthodox and cancel their rabbis’ unlimited power brokering between their flocks and the state

Allowing mixed faith weddings under the chuppah is long overdue

The UK’s Liberal Judaism aims always to strengthen Jewish life by bringing new meaning to ancient traditions; this decision on chuppah does exactly that

Thousands of people gather for a protest outside a court as it delivered a landmark verdict in the marathon, five-year-long trial against the country's extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, in Athens, October 7, 2020. (Yorgos Karahalis/AP)

Greek court rules neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party a criminal outfit

Anti-fascists clash with police as some 15,000 gather outside Athens courtroom for highly charged verdict; party leader Nikos Michaloliakos could face 5-15 years in prison

Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam speaks at Saint Sabina Church, May 9, 2019, in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

YouTube removes Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam channel

Screen capture from a video of a Bat Yam man abusing a dog, which went viral in . (Channel 12)

Angry mob descends on home of Bat Yam man seen beating dog

By Stuart Winer

Police struggle to arrest suspect as hundreds, led by celebrity bodybuilder Mishel Taroni, seek to lay their hands on him

US President Donald Trump puts his mask in his pocket as he stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House from Walter Reed Medical Center, October 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates (closed)

Trump symptom-free for 24 hours, hasn’t had fever in 4 days — doctor

US president hasn’t needed supplemental oxygen since initial hospitalization last week, says Sean Conley

6:11 pm

Economy minister backs up Katz on criticism of health plan
5:51 pm

Main police officer accused in George Floyd killing released on bail
5:39 pm

Netanyahu hits back at finance minister over lockdown criticism

From right: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand hold a banner at the march against anti-Semitism in New York City, January 5, 2020. (John Lamparski/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via JTA)

ADL: Soros conspiracies central to deluge of online attacks on Jews in Congress

Anti-Defamation League says misinformation about liberal, Jewish philanthropist features in an ‘astounding’ 39% of ‘problematic’ tweets targeting 30 Jewish incumbents

A white supremacist leaves Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Homeland Security: White supremacists are ‘most persistent and lethal’ US threat

Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest during a rally to re-open California and against Stay-At-Home directives on May 1, 2020 in San Diego, California. (Sandy Huffaker/AFP)

Facebook says it will ban groups that openly support QAnon

By Barbara Ortutay

Protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 6, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Anti-Netanyahu protests resume at hundreds of locations around country

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Hundreds of activists in Tel Aviv square face off with police as protest march blocked off; reports indicate relative calm maintained

Opposition leader Yair Lapid at the Knesset, as the 35th government of Israel is presented on May 17, 2020. (Knesset/Adina Veldman)

Lapid to float doomed no-confidence motion to replace government, oust Netanyahu

Former Israeli Air Force general and leading critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Brig. Gen. Amir Haskel poses for a photo in Tel Aviv, on June 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Anti-Netanyahu protest leader accused of racism after comments to Ethiopian cop

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)

Orthodox group slams New York lockdown, says it targets religious practices

By AP and ToI Staff

After Cuomo reinstates localized virus restrictions focused on several heavily Jewish areas, Agudath Israel of America vows to fight ‘surprise’ new rules limiting prayers

An Orthodox Jewish man walks through the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn on Yom Kippur, Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

New York governor imposes new rules on worship, schools, essential businesses

Illustrative: Boys stand outside a school on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, in Kiryas Joel, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Schools in upstate NY Hasidic enclave shuttered amid soaring COVID infections

Illustrative: Chevra Kadisha workers wearing protective clothes carry the body of a patient who died from complications of COVID-19 at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem, March 29, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Doctor: Carelessness killing my patients, Trump’s example may make things worse

By Nathan Jeffay

‘The death of every patient who didn’t need to die upsets me,’ says physician Daniel King, who lost four people under his care in one day

President Donald Trump supporters cheer outside of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., before Trump is lifted off on Marine One Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump’s supporters unmoved by his diagnosis, not budging on masks

By Michelle L. Price and Farnoush Amiri

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)

Facebook, Twitter sanction Trump post for minimizing virus danger

By AFP

Preparations take place for the US vice presidential debate outside Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah, October 5, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Pence, Harris to hold hotly anticipated debate as Trump recovers from virus

By Steve Peoples, KATHLEEN RONAYNE and Jill Colvin

Appearance by US vice-presidential candidates expected to be less chaotic than Trump-Biden brawl, will focus on COVID-19 response and Democrats’ liberal policies

Trump says he’s ‘feeling great,’ looking forward to next presidential debate

Top Trump aide Stephen Miller tests positive as president again downplays virus

By AP

Biden widens lead over Trump after debate, virus diagnosis — CNN poll

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Prime Minister's Residence, Jerualem, 23 January, 2020. (Amos Ben Gershon/GPO)

Netanyahu discusses Iran with Putin after reports of possible S-400 sale

Conversation comes days after Russian ambassador to Tehran said Moscow would have ‘no problem’ selling it advanced air defense system when arms ban expires later this month

Egyptian TV airs Israeli FM’s speech on peace — on Yom Kippur War anniversary

Kuwait chooses next crown prince, keeping old guard in place

By Isabel Debre

With 239 deaths, Iran hits its highest daily COVID-19 toll

By Nasser Karimi

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Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnap-slaying, appears at the court in Karachi, Pakistan, March 29, 2002. (Zia Mazhar/AP)

Pakistan’s top court rules Daniel Pearl killer to remain in prison

By KATHY GANNON

Some of the 700 paintings by Jewish artist Gertrud Kauders which she hid in a classmate's house during the Holocaust. (Amos Chapple/RFE/RL via JTA)

Czech Jewish artist’s works, hidden in walls since Holocaust, finally see light

By Toby Axelrod

Cops won’t be prosecuted for planting gun in Arab man’s home for docuseries

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Participants get creative on their laptops during a seminar at Tech2Peace, September 2020 (Micha Silverman)

Safe crossing: Israeli, Palestinian seek smoother transfer of patients and info

By Jake Epstein

Illustration of an electric bus traveling along a stretch of Electreon smart road, recharging as it travels. (ElectReon screenshot)

Israeli company that builds recharging roads expands in Europe

Sarah Weiss-Maudi (Israeli Mission to the UN)

In win for Israel at United Nations, diplomat appointed to key committee post

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Shore Parkway Jewish Center in Brooklyn. (JTA)

Man arrested in vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue

Illustrative: A Jewish wedding with chuppah in Vienna 2007. (CC BY SA 2.5 Gryffindor)

UK liberal rabbis allow interfaith couples to marry under a traditional canopy

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