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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 11, 2020

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Illustrative: Young members of the Hasidic community 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)

Reporter's notebook

Unmoved by COVID rules, ultra-Orthodox in Brooklyn celebrate holiday under radar

Scant few in hotspot Borough Park seen wearing masks as they head to synagogues for Simhat Torah eve, apparently choosing to violate guidelines beyond sight of few cops on patrol

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance during Simchat Torah celebrations, October 10, 2020 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox seen flouting virus rules with mass holiday celebrations

Holocaust

Mystery solved: Babyn Yar massacre location pinpointed after 79 years

In Ukraine, Nazi war crimes expert uses 3-D simulation and aerial photography to locate Holocaust ravine beneath Kyiv city. Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center planned for 2026

After the mass murder of 33,771 Jews at Babyn Yar, Ukraine, October 1941 (public domain)

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster (2nd-L) attend a commemoration service on the first anniversary of the antisemitic attack on the synagogue in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)

German leaders voice shame as tribute defaced a year after anti-Semitic attack

By Femke COLBORNE

A classroom at an elementary school is empty after Israel closed schools ahead of a nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus in Tel Aviv, September 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Live updates (closed)

Top health official: Schools likely won’t reopen next week

Sharon Elrai details Health Ministry’s plan for easing lockdown, says figures showing drop in infections are ‘encouraging’ but ‘we still don’t think we’ve reached the goal’

6:29 pm

In first, hospitals report treating reinfected COVID patients
5:46 pm

Senior PLO member Hanan Ashrawi tests positive for coronavirus
5:29 pm

Netanyahu reportedly won't oppose expiration of restrictions on protests

Outgoing minister of Social Equality Gila Gamliel attends a ceremony marking her departure to become minister for environmental protection, at the Ministry of Social Equality in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Flash90)

TV: Gamliel upgraded to top NY hotel citing allergies, refused to repay $3K cost

Likud minister, already under fire for evasiveness on how she caught COVID, has cost taxpayer thousands by ‘mixing private and public’ use of resources, report says; she denies it

Izhar Shay poses at the Knesset, on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Gantz ally: If Netanyahu calls elections ‘we’ll ensure he won’t be PM’

Eyal Berkovic, left, during an interview with Transportation Minister Miri Regev, right, October 9, 2020. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Wading into row, sports minister says politics won’t determine next soccer coach

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

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People wearing face masks shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on October 7, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry plans 4-month exit from second wave lockdown — report

Initial stage of plan’s total 8, as reported by Israeli TV, could start October 18, see preschools, many businesses reopen; 1-kilometer travel limit nixed; families allowed to meet

A paramedic with Israel's Magen David Adom medical services speaks with a driver at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing center in Jerusalem on October 7, 2020 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Positivity rate of virus testing drops to lowest in month; death toll hits 1,956

Police at a temporary roadblock to enforce the national coronavirus lockdown on Highway 40, October 9, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Coronavirus czar says he expects daily case rate to drop to 2,000 this week

Tens of thousands nationwide rally against Netanyahu

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Reports indicate latest evening of rallies throughout country may be largest yet; Likud: ‘Left can continue protesting, PM will continue saving lives’

Israeli activist and former air force general Amir Haskel holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on June 28, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Anti-Netanyahu protest leader apologizes for remarks to Ethiopian cops

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2020. (Amit Shabi/Flash90)

Coalition row deepens as Netanyahu ally calls Blue and White ‘danger to nation’

View of the closed down shops in the Givatayim Mall, on October 5, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media review

Drop till you shop: What the press is saying on October 11

By Joshua Davidovich

The media looks at the Health Ministry’s slow plan to ease the lockdown, but voices calling for hurrying up the openings rise to the fore, leading to prophecies of doom

View of closed shops in the empty Dizengoff Center mall in Tel Aviv on March 19, 2020 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Retail chains threaten revolt, say they will open in one week

Closed store at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on June 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Small business owners vow to open Sunday in defiance of lockdown

The PM’s ‘buy made-in-Israel’ initiative will backfire. Here’s the solution

Mandating preference for ’blue-and-white’ goods will drive up prices. There is one approach that really will work: Increase work productivity

Eran Ben Yemini

To save Israel’s environment, we must save the Jewish National Fund

The Zionist Congress is on course to reelect a JNF chair who disregards green voices. Progressive Jewish factions could still reverse the decree

Michael Levy (Screen capture: Twitter)

Officer who headed police unit at Tel Aviv hospital dies of COVID-19

Michael Levy, 55, commander of force’s presence at Ichilov medical center, is survived by five children

IDF medical staff prepare to open two coronavirus wards in Haifa's Rambam Medical Center in Haifa in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF opens two coronavirus wards in Haifa’s Rambam hospital

By Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

An Israeli soccer legend is now one of the sport’s top consultants

Ronny Rosenthal helped Liverpool to its 18th English League championship in 1990. Now, he is a talent scout responsible for recruiting some of the best athletes in the world

The Times of Israel investigative journalist Simona Weinglass (courtesy)

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WATCH: How Simona Weinglass’s reporting on fraud changed Israeli law

In this Times of Israel behind-the-scenes video, Weinglass discusses her investigation into the Wolves of Tel Aviv, the binary options scammers who fleeced victims worldwide

President Donald Trump removes his mask before speaking from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House to a crowd of supporters, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump no longer contagious, doctor says as US president plans return to rallies

By Jonathan Lemire and AAMER MADHANI

Statement from White House physician does not say if Trump tested negative, hours after he appeared without a mask before hundreds of supporters

US President Donald Trump removes his face mask to speak from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House to a crowd of supporters, October 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump appears before hundreds of supporters at White House: ‘I’m feeling great’

By Jonathan Lemire and AAMER MADHANI

More Headlines

Team Israel Start-Up Nation rider England's Alex Dowsett celebrates as he crosses the line for victory during the 8th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2020 cycling race, a 200-kilometer route between Giovinazzo and Vieste on October 10, 2020. (Luca Bettini / AFP)

Israel cycling team wins first-ever Grand Tour stage in Italy

By AFP and ToI Staff

File: The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi delivers his speech at the opening of the general conference of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, September 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iran’s nuclear chief has COVID-19; country sees highest daily virus death toll

Benzi Gopstein, leader of the extremist group Lehava, speaks at a ceremony in Jerusalem honoring the late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane on November 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

TikTok said to block account of far-right racist group Lehava

This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT, shows a military parade with what appears to be possible new intercontinental ballistic missile at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. (KRT via AP)

North Korea appears to parade new ballistic missile, possibly largest yet

By KIM TONG-HYUNG

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi talks to Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during a meeting at the Diaoyutai state guest house in Beijing, Dec. 31, 2019. (Noel Celis/Pool Photo via AP)

In rebuke of US, China backs Iran nuclear deal, calls for Mideast security forum

By AFP

Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah prepare balloon-borne incendiary devices to be launched toward Israel on August 8, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel and Hamas said to reach agreement for 6-month ceasefire

Screen capture from video of the scene of a forest fire in Ras el-Harf village, in the Baabda district, Lebanon, October 9, 2020. (AP)

Deadly wildfires brought under control in Syria, Lebanon

By AFP

In this photo from April 2, 2019, Britain's then Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson arrives at Downing Street in London for a cabinet meeting. (Adrian Dennis/AFP)

UK education secretary accuses universities of disregarding anti-Semitism

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