Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Community(members only)

Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Community(members only)
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy Your Privacy Rights

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Thursday, October 8, 2020

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Illustrative: Groups of protesters gather in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park to denounce lockdowns of their neighborhood due to a spike in COVID-19 cases on October 7, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Was 'saved by heroic police officers' and some in community

Jewish journalist assaulted by ultra-Orthodox mob at Brooklyn virus protest

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jacob Kornbluh hit, kicked, called ‘moser’ and ‘Nazi’ as he documents Haredi community protests against New York coronavirus shutdowns that largely target Orthodox neighborhoods

Reporter says he was beaten by ultra-Orthodox men as he covered Jerusalem event

Following Orthodox protests, de Blasio and Cuomo avoid naming Jewish community

‘What does this remind you of?’ Trump asks of NYC crackdown on Jewish gatherings

3D illustration of sperm cells moving to the right towards an egg (Christoph Burgstedt via iStock by Getty Images)

COVID is harming sperm, Israeli researchers say, raising infertility worries

By Nathan Jeffay

Reviewing studies worldwide, experts see a 50% drop in sperm’s quantity and ability to move in patients who had moderate or serious coronavirus

US author Louise Glück giving a speech at the 2014 National Book Awards in New York City, November 19, 2014. (Robin Marchant / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

American Jewish poet Louise Glück wins Nobel literature prize

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Writer recognized for her ‘unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’; critics see traces of her Jewish heritage in several poems

A man wearing face mask rides his bicycle next to boats with face masks hanging on them during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, at Jaffa port near Tel Aviv, October 7, 2020. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Positive virus test rate continues to drop as COVID spread appears to slow

Of the 46,350 checks done Wednesday, just 8.9% came back showing infection, matching a figure not seen for last three weeks; death toll rises to 1.846

Illustrative: An Israeli laboratory worker holds a blood sample during serological tests at the Leumit Health Care Services laboratory in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN/ AFP)

Antibodies survey finds 5% of Israelis exposed to COVID, far from herd immunity

Passengers wear face masks as they leave a train in the central train station in Frankfurt, Germany, October 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Germany faces ‘uncontrollable’ COVID spread as Europe renews lockdowns

By AFP

Orna and Natalie Kimchi (Facebook screenshot)

Op-ed

From a family bereaved by COVID-19, a heartfelt plea for mutual responsibility

‘Be responsible for each other. From the neighbors to the heads of state, follow the rules,’ urge the relatives of Haim Kimchi, 59, who died last week. Is that too much to ask?

US President Donald Trump speaks during a video message on October 7, 2020 (Screencapture/Twitter)

Trump promises all Americans free access to same experimental COVID drugs he got

By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and AAMER MADHANI

Sara Netanyahu is seen in a video encouraging people to wear masks and social distance that was posted to her Instagram account on October 2, 2020. (Screen capture: Instagram)

TV: PM’s wife made mask video as ‘excuse’ to get haircut in breach of lockdown

A view of the settlement of Modiin Illit, February 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Top cop in Haredi town indicates he’s turning a blind eye to closure violations

Recording of Modiin Illit’s top law enforcement official shows him saying he won’t ‘mess with’ synagogues, so long as they listen to officers when someone calls in a complaint

6:34 pm

US imposes sweeping sanctions on Iran's major banks
6:14 pm

NYC mayor: Police response to ‘disgusting’ assault of journalist ‘will be fixed’
6:05 pm

Thousands protest against Netanyahu, in hundreds of locations throughout country

Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris and US Vice President Mike Pence wave before the vice presidential debate on October 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

VP debate

Pence touts Israel embassy move, Harris knocks Trump for Iran deal pullout

After Democrat accuses administration of abandoning allies, vice president highlights Suleimani strike; cites president’s Jewish relatives when slammed over Charlottesville

This combination of file pictures created on September 29, 2020, shows US President Donald Trump (L) and Democratic candidate Joe Biden squaring off during the first presidential debate at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. (Jim Watson and Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump vows not to take part in virtual debate with Biden

The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, as the justices continue arguments in a new term without their colleague, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Everything ‘up for grabs’: Jewish groups watching unusual Supreme Court session

Menachem Bombach

No community is an island: The ultra-Orthodox Corona crisis

As long as Haredi Israelis see themselves as cut off from the institutions of state, their behaviors will run counter to wider public norms and rules

Donniel Hartman

Since we can’t dissuade the ultra-Orthodox from their harmful actions, we must physically separate ourselves from them

US President Donald Trump, center, with from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Netanyahu to bring UAE peace treaty for approval in cabinet, Knesset next week

Agreement to fully normalize ties with Abu Dhabi, signed at White House ceremony last month, must be ratified by ministers and the legislature before taking effect

US Air Force crew members beside an F-35 Lightning II at the Paris Air Show June 18, 2019. (AP/Michel Euler)

After UAE, Qatar also said to submit request for F-35 jets

Illustrative photo of young Israelis at a cafe in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Inside Story

Shoshanna Solomon

The kids are not alright: Next generation will foot massive pandemic bill

While acknowledging that money, and lots of it, must be devoted to safeguarding the economy, experts rail against unwise and profligate spending and warn of the heavy toll to come

Katz said to warn indiscriminate closure driving millions to despair and hunger

Shin Bet chief apologizes for violating COVID-19 restrictions by hosting family

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF finds flaws in safety protocols after 100 soldiers infected on one base

By Judah Ari Gross

An Ethiopian worshiper at the synagogue in Addis Ababa praying and holding photos of family members living in Israel. (Bernard Dichek/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu pushes plan to airlift 2,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

Announcement of NIS 370 million project comes days after video surfaces of prominent anti-government protest leader making race-tinged remark to cop from Ethiopian community

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, left, and Education Minister Nafatli Bennett announce the establishment of the New Right (HaYamin HeHadash) party at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 29, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Shaked: We need elections after 2nd virus wave, Bennett would be ‘excellent’ PM

'Sababa' author Adeena Sussman, left, speaks with Times of Israel Culture & Lifestyle Editor Jessica Steinberg for the Behind the Headlines series, October 7, 2020. (Times of Israel)

Behind the Headlines

WATCH: ‘Sababa’ author Adeena Sussman on how COVID started a challah revolution

A Palestinian man walks outside the Central Elections Commission offices in Gaza City on September 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Analysis

Despite flurry of fresh promises, Palestinians skeptical elections will happen

A national vote has not been held for 14 years, and public pledges by senior Hamas and Fatah officials won’t bring them any closer without concrete steps

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the media at the EU Council in Brussels on January 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU said to condition expanding aid on PA’s acceptance of tax funds from Israel

More Headlines

Eitan Haber, standing outside Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, announces the death of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Saturday, Nov 4, 1995. Rabin was gunned down by a Jewish extremist following a peace rally in central Tel Aviv earlier that evening. (AP PHOTo/Eyal Warshavsky)

ObituaryEitan Haber, top aide to Rabin who, in anguish, announced PM’s death, dies at 80

In this March 30, 2019, file photo, Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," speak during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Islamic State ‘Beatles’ charged in gruesome killings of American, other hostages

By Eric Tucker and Matthew Barakat

An etrog fruit. (edelmar/Getty Images via JTA)

Four species solutionTrump envoy brokers etrog deal of the century

People on the beach in Tel Aviv, during a nationwide lockdown. October 07, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel hit with rare October heatwave as summer swelter stretches into fall

A view of the modest former nuclear power plant control room in Obninsk, Russia, which is now a kind of museum. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)

Russian home of world’s first nuclear plant gets first synagogue

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sue Bird #10 of the Seattle Storm holds on to the WNBA Championship Trophy after defeating the Las Vegas Aces 92-59 in Game 3 of the WNBA Finals at Feld Entertainment Center on October 06, 2020, in Palmetto, Florida. (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)

Jewish ballers helped power Seattle Storm to WNBA championship

By Emily Burack

Illustrative: German police seen in Potsdam's central train station, June 26, 2020. (Julian Stähle/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

German 14-year-old accused of planning armed attack on synagogue or mosque

By Cnaan Liphshiz

'Israel Terrorism' is spray-painted in Spanish in Lujan de Cuyo, Argentina. (DAIA Argentina via JTA)

Online giants removing anti-Semitic content in Spanish — watchdog

By JTA

Illustrative: A police car stands outside a court in Berlin on October 7, 2020 (Tobias Schwarz / AFP)

Berlin synagogue mezuzah vandalized with swastika

Allergan Aesthetics, an arm of the US firm AbbVie, has signed an agreement to acquire Israel's Luminera, a privately held aesthetics company that develops dermal filler products (YouTube screenshot)

US aesthetics firm AbbVie to buy Israel’s Luminera for skin filler products

By Shoshanna Solomon

An aerial view of the Israeli Tamar gas processing rig 24 kilometers off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon.

IEC asks antitrust boss to probe Noble Energy for holding it ‘hostage’

Illustrative: Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport during a nationwide lockdown, on September 24, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Dozens squeeze in line to fill out health declarations at Ben Gurion Airport

View Edition by Date

September	October 2020					November
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
Your Privacy Rights
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.