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What Matters Most On Monday, October 12, 2020

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Oxygen concentrators used by a private ultra-Orthodox medical initiative treating coronavirus patients at their homes, without authorities' knowledge, October 2020. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

'Did we steal anything? Is there any danger? We are helping'

Secret ultra-Orthodox program treating thousands of COVID patients at home

By Michael Bachner

Organizer tells TV report private initiative is saving lives, alleviating pressure on hospitals; 170 unregistered serious patients mean tally is at 1,000

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Rabbi Kanievsky orders Haredi boys schools to reopen, then rescinds his decision

Then-health minister Yaakov Litzman at a press conference about the coronavirus at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Month after resigning to protest lockdown, Litzman set for return to government

People walk past a billboard posted by the Health Ministry instructing people to wear face masks, in Jerusalem on October 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Positive virus tests hit lowest rate since August as outbreak appears to ebb

Figures show 3-week lockdown is working; 8 cities account for 40% of confirmed cases, 6 of them are home to major Haredi population centers

Medical staff at the coronavirus unit, in Ichilov hospital, Tel Aviv, May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv hospital: We can’t take any more COVID patients requiring special care

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)

Top health official says schools likely won’t reopen next week

By Michael Bachner

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)

Hoping to outdo Trump’s ‘miracle cure,’ Israelis develop new antibody cocktail

By Nathan Jeffay

US president took lab-made cocktail reportedly based on antibodies of mice and humans; Tel Aviv team says its version uses only human antibodies, potentially boosting reliability

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 insists he is free of virus, ready for campaign trail

By Jonathan Lemire

In this Oct. 1, 2020, photo, Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, meets with Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., at the Capitol in Washington. Confirmation hearings begin Monday for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. If confirmed, the 48-year-old appeals court judge would fill the seat of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last month. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)

US Senate gears up for contentious Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearing

By Mark Sherman, LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and Mike Balsamo

The Arab Israeli town of Kafr Qasm, near Tel Aviv, July 2, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Analysis, guidance, some pleading: How an Arab Israeli city is crushing COVID-19

By Aaron Boxerman

Gal Gadot attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Camp: Notes on Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 6, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Gal Gadot to star as Cleopatra, sparking dispute over Israeli in role

Actress to team up again with ‘Wonder Woman’ director Patty Jenkins; while some call for Arab or Black actress to be cast as queen of Egypt, others note Cleopatra was Greek

Crowd gathers outside the Brooklyn home of journalist Jacob Kornbluh, October 12, 2020 (Screen grab/Twitter/Yid info)

Mob threatens journalist outside his home after NY anti-lockdown leader arrested

By ToI Staff and JTA

Police block entrance to Jacob Kornbluh’s building as ultra-Orthodox men chant insults at him, after Heshy Tischler arrested in connection with assault at earlier protest

New York radio host Heshy Tischler. (Screenshot/YouTube via JTA)

Brooklyn anti-lockdown protest leader arrested for ‘inciting riot’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Then-defense minister Naftali Bennett at the Yamina campaign launch ahead of the general elections, on February 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett backs no-confidence motion that would’ve made Lapid PM

Netanyahu’s Likud blasts Yamina head for supporting measure, calls him a ‘conniver’; hitting back, Yamina says ruling party should focus on virus fight, ‘not more C-class spins’

6:33 pm

Yamina, Likud trade barbs over no-confidence vote in Netanyahu
6:09 pm

27 troops in elite unit said infected with COVID after commander broke quarantine
5:36 pm

Oldest man in Israel dies at 117

Noam Yomtovyan (second from right) and some of his fellow Special DJs performing for assisted living facilities and coronavirus hotels in Jerusalem on October 7, 2020 (Courtesy Tzamid)

The Brighter Side

Jerusalem’s traveling troupe of lockdown DJs turns the tables on disability

By Jessica Steinberg

PM Netanyahu addresses the cabinet before it votes on the peace treaty with the UAE, October 12, 2020 (GPO)

Netanyahu and UAE crown prince agree to meet ‘soon’ as cabinet okays treaty

By Raphael Ahren

PM and ‘friend’ Mohammed bin Zayed invite each other for visits and call for ‘further consolidation of peace in the Middle East,’ Knesset to vote Thursday

An F-35 fighter jet pilot and crew prepare for a mission at Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, August 5, 2019. (Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury/US Air Force via AP)

Israel will oppose any US sale of F-35 jets to Qatar, minister says

A woman looks at a caricature by Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj depicting the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, holding a dove with Israel's flag on it, spitting in his face, with Arabic writing referring to Israel's opposition to the sale of US F-35 aircraft to the UAE, on August 27, 2020. (AFP)

Arab social media hyper-critical of normalization with Israel, ministry says

By Raphael Ahren

Judith Margolis Friedman

I’m out of the conservative closet. Now for the mass unfriending

To my liberal friends: The next time you want to vent your spleen on social media, please re-think yourself, so we can still be friends

Our green lung is collapsing

One remaining pristine place of nature in Israel’s north is about to become apartments and roads and sidewalks — which I fear is the beginning of the end of Israel as we know it

Keren Terner Eyal, then-director general of the Transportation Ministry, attends a hearing at the Knesset, on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Treasury director resigns amid deepening turmoil under Minister Katz

By Raoul Wootliff

Keren Terner Eyal steps down after just 5 months on the job, as crisis swirls over budget and virus response; move comes after several other senior ministry officials resign

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen during a vote to stave off a budget deadline and thus avert elections, at the Knesset on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Knesset winter session opens under shadow of fresh coalition infighting

Then-Foreign Minister Israel Katz speaks during an emergency meeting the at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on February 13, 2020. (Flash90)

Katz denies Treasury turmoil as top officials exit ministry

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative image of a doctor comforting a patient with Alzheimer's Disease. (Chinnapong, iStock by Getty Images)

In bid to whip Alzheimer’s, Israeli scientists use immune system to repair brain

By Shoshanna Solomon

ImmunoBrain Checkpoint’s antibody that boosts immune cells’ communication with brain seen effective in lab animals; clinical trials in humans to start next year

Professor Paul Milgrom is interviewed at Cambridge University, November 2019 (Screen grab/YouTube)

American Jewish economist Paul Milgrom shares Nobel for auction theory work

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Award given jointly to Michigan-born professor and US colleague Robert Wilson for their work understanding value and bidding

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Blogger and model Stephanie Yeboah (Youtube screenshot)

UK magazine sacks new diversity champion over tweets mocking the Holocaust

Activists protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Dizengoff Square Tel Aviv, on October 10, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Netanyahu won’t oppose resumption of protests against him – reports

Illustrative: Moshe Barkat (C), Police commander of the Judea and Samaria District attends a ceremony for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on February 11, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Senior cops are latest officials to be accused of breaking lockdown

The platform of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, pictured from Israel's northern beach of Dor on December 31, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Lebanon names team for maritime border talks with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Deputy Police Chief and head of the investigations division Ziv Sagiv in an interview with Channel 13 News on October 10, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter/Channel 13)

Top cop sparks probe after pushing fake claim protesters planned violence

Three Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers in 1942. (Wikipedia/Royal Air Force official photographer/Public Domain)

Polish divers face delicate mission to defuse British WWII ‘earthquake bomb’

By Stanislaw Waszak

Israel's offshore Leviathan gas platform. (Albatross)

Five years on, bonanza from offshore gas a pipe dream for most Israelis

By Joseph Krauss

View of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center during a general strike of the Nurses all over Israel, August 7, 2018. (Photo by Flash90)

Woman dies days after suspected assault by her partner

A municipal worker cleans swastikas spray painted on columns of the Rivoli Street in central Paris, on October 11, 2020. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)

Man arrested over swastikas sprayed near Louvre museum in Paris

By AFP

Ethiopian families are reunited on October 9, 2016, as the first group of Ethiopian immigrants arrives at Ben Gurion airport since the government announced the "end" of Ethiopian aliyah in August 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ethiopian-Israeli IDF vets slam Netanyahu over decision to airlift only 2,000

People wear protective face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus in downtown Tehran, Iran, Oct. 11, 2020 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran hits new record for daily deaths and cases as it struggles with pandemic

Jon Ossoff speaks in Atlanta after losing in a special election for a House seat, June 20, 2017. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/via JT)

Ads, some nasty, play key role in Georgia Senate race with Jewish challenger

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