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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 13, 2020

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Yehuda Meshi-Zahav. (courtesy of ZAKA)

An insider's plea

Haredi health pioneer: COVID-19 defiance fuels anti-Semitism, sullies God’s name

By Nathan Jeffay

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav says many ultra-Orthodox are fighting virus, but a worrying number refuse and won’t reconsider even as death toll rises and hatred of community spreads

Laniado Hospital, also known as the Sanz Medical Center, in Kiryat Sanz in the coastal city of Netanya, March 26, 2020. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Report: Second Hasidic leader secretly treated at home for COVID-19

Candles placed by activists from the "Darkeinu" movement in memory of Israel's coronavirus victims, near the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem on October 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewGetting past 2,000: What the press is saying on October 13

By Joshua Davidovich

People sift through shoes in Tel Aviv on October 12,2020, after a distraught shop owner, bankrupted by second virus lockdown, empties the contents of his store onto the sidewalk (screen capture/Channel 13)

In viral clip, Tel Aviv shoe store owner ruined by lockdown gives it all away

‘It’s all caused by desperation,’ says Avi Samay. ‘If I’m going to lose everything, at least others should benefit.’ In further insult, Samay fined by city, but fine later canceled

People on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on October 12, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ministers deliberate easing lockdown as lawmakers push for faster opening

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on September 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Mass anti-Netanyahu rallies planned as government ends lockdown curb on protests

Then-defense minister Naftali Bennett delivers a statement to the media in Ariel, in the West Bank, January 26, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Yamina chief Bennett hospitalized with neck pains

Right-wing leader, who has gained popularity as government flounders in COVID-19 battle, to remain at Sheba Medical Center until results of tests come back

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett speaks during a Knesset plenary session in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Bennett backs unsuccessful no-confidence motion that would have made Lapid PM

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the opening of the Knesset's winter session on October 12, 2020. (Yaniv Nadav/ Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

‘The air is full of gunpowder’: In Knesset speech, Rivlin laments social discord

A memorial of 2,000 candles in Jerusalem's Paris Square for the Israeli lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic, on October 12, 2020 (Darkeinu)

Israel passes 2,000 COVID-19 deaths — doubling its toll in just 5 weeks

Second wave of pandemic has killed as many people in barely a month as died between March and September; majority of fatalities over age of 70; 4 victims under age of 19

Virus cases up, positive test rate steady as ministers to meet on lockdown exit

Police fine Hasidic day schools in Beitar Illit for opening during lockdown

Hasidic rebbe secretly treated at home for COVID by Hadassah Ein Kerem — report

Inside story

Haviv Rettig Gur

Breaking law nobody enforces, Netanyahu, Gantz yet to file financial disclosures

Corruption allegations have upended Israeli politics, yet a key mechanism to ensure transparency in dealings of top politicians is being ignored, partly because it is so cumbersome

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Defense Minister Benny Gantz, both wearing protective masks due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli naval base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Ex-Defense Ministry chief’s testimony ties Netanyahu to submarine graft case

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative image of a payment (wutwhanfoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel among few countries preventing foreign bribery, watchdog says

By AP and ToI Staff

Heshy Tischler, a City Council candidate and activist in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park, leaves Kings County Criminal Court after his arraignment Monday, October 12, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

NY anti-lockdown leader charged with inciting riot, ordered away from reporter

By AP

Heshy Tischler released on bail day after arrest, warned he will be hauled back in if he contacts Jewish Insider journalist Jacob Kornbluh, who was attacked at Brooklyn rally

Heshy Tischler, center, then a City Council candidate and activist in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park, walks out of Kings County Criminal Court after an arraignment, October 12, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Home on bail, NY anti-lockdown leader vows to keep up fight, but not violence

Jewish Insider reporter Jacob Kornbluh (bottom left) is surrounded by dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters in Brooklyn, New York, on October 7, 2020. (screencapture/ Twitter)

Jewish Democrats and Republicans jointly condemn Brooklyn attack on journalist

Facebook bans posts that deny or distort the Holocaust

By AP and ToI Staff

Reversing past position, Mark Zuckerberg says his opinion and the social media giant’s policies have ‘evolved’ after an increase in anti-Semitic violence in the US

Archaeology

Weight, weight: Western wall dig uncovers flubbed 2,700-year-old 2-shekel stone

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

23-gram limestone weight displays ‘very rare’ — and perhaps ignorant — craftsmanship by local who was likely unfamiliar with Egyptian style used at the time

The Eviation Alice is introduced by Eviation CEO Omer Bar-Yohay at the Paris Air Show on June 19, 2019. (screenshot: YouTube)

ToI investigates

Promise of hydrogen-fueled future lights a fire under Israeli innovators

While Europe and the Far East invest, Israeli tech is researching and developing. Could the Start-Up Nation pull off another Mobileye?

A throat swab for a coronavirus test. (Galina Sandalova via iStock by Getty Images)

Slowest part of COVID tests ‘eliminated’ with Israeli single-molecule method

By Nathan Jeffay

British actress Elizabeth Taylor on May 8, 1962 during the filming of the famous movie "Cleopatra" in Rome's Cinecitta Studio in Italy, which at the time of filming was the most expensive film ever made. (AP Photo)

Before Gal Gadot, Liz Taylor sparked debate as Jewish actress playing Cleopatra

By Gabe Friedman

Dani Ishai Behan

Gal Gadot as Cleopatra is not whitewashing

Those protesting casting for the film about an Egyptian ruler 2 millennia ago ignore historical facts, starting with Cleopatra’s ethnic origins

How to help the elderly avoid COVID isolation

Get them onto social media, help them avoid scams and fake news, but also — go old school and write them a letter

Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. (Courtesy of ADL/via JTA)

Behind the headlines

Join ToI Community to learn how ADL helped Facebook formulate hate restrictions

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar with ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt by becoming a ToI Community member and hear about the 107-year-old organization’s ongoing campaigns

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, left, and State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

AG heard cursing out state attorney for failing to close case against him

‘Do you understand that that maniac isn’t making a decision on my case?’ Mandelblit recorded saying of affair in which he was cleared by the Supreme Court

6:24 pm

Greek farmer gets life for rape, killing of US scientist
6:17 pm

Israeli news crew attacked by extremist settlers
6:12 pm

AG heard cursing out state attorney for failing to close case against him

Vehicles belonging to UN peacekeepers drive along a road along the Israel-Lebanon border near the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Kila on September 1, 2019. (Ali Dia/AFP)

Israel lowers expectations ahead of ‘historic’ maritime talks with Lebanon

By Raphael Ahren

Wednesday’s negotiations aimed only at solving minor border dispute to allow offshore drilling in disputed areas, Jerusalem stresses; senior official expects results within months

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)

Israeli-US delegation to visit Bahrain on second ‘historic’ flight to ready pact

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

52 F-35 jets line up for a launch exercise at Utah's Hill Air Force Base in show of force and combat readiness amid US-Iran tensions, January 6, 2020. (US Air Force/R. Nial Bradshaw/Twitter screen capture)

Analysis

Aiming for regional peace, could normalization deals spark arms race instead?

With Gulf states linking advanced US weapons sales, including F-35s, to peace deals with Israel, only solution to maintaining Jewish state’s edge may be to sell it more arms too

Airliners at at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 11, 2019. (Jon Gambrell/AP))

Israel-UAE flights delayed to January due to coronavirus pandemic

By Sarah Stewart

MSC PARIS nearing Haifa port October 11, 2020. (Geodrones)

Cargo ship arrives after stop in UAE in tandem with 1st step to ratify accord

More Headlines

ILLUSTRATIVE -- A man walks through a cemetery in Jerusalem (Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Man said to be Israel’s oldest dies at 117

Israelis and tourists wave flags as they participate in the Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 8, 2018. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli Orthodox rabbi: Judaism doesn’t ban same-sex couples building families

By Josefin Dolsten

The empty Park HaYarkon in Tel Aviv, on September 20, 2020. Israel has seen a spike of new COVID-19 cases bringing the authorities to reimpose a nationwide lockdown which began on Friday and will last at least three weeks. (Menachem Lederman/Flash90)

Over 10,000 sign petition to asking gov’t to allow nature trips during lockdown

The team of Dutch students with the Luca, a 'zero-waste car' made out of bio-based material developed by Israeli startup UBQ Materials, October 8, 2020 (Bart van Overbeeke)

‘Zero waste car’ made by Dutch team with bio-based tech of Israeli startup UBQ

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this December 20, 2017, photo provided by Joel Friedman, Rabbi Avrohom Pinter makes a speech at Canvey Island,in Essex, southeast England. (Joel Friedman via AP)

Lives lost in pandemicUK rabbi felled by COVID remembered for building bridges between people, faiths

By DANICA KIRKA

Paul R. Milgrom, professor at Stanford University, during an interview about winning the Nobel Prize in economics at his home in Palo Alto, California, October 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

No bell? Try knockingVideo shows prof alerting fellow Nobel winner with 2 a.m. door rap

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Former prime minister Ehud Barak (2nd right) eulogizes Eitan Haber, Tel Aviv, October 13, 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet)

Journalist, Rabin aide Haber remembered as model of unity in polarized times

Illustrative image of beetroot slices: Israeli startup Phytolon uses fermented yeast to produce natural colors like that of the beetroot, cactus, bougainvillea (sagarmanis; iStock by Getty Images)

In living color: Israel’s Phytolon uses fermented yeast to make natural food dye

By Shoshanna Solomon

A US firefighter passes flames while battling the Glass Fire in a Calistoga, California, vineyard October 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

UN: Climate change means more weather disasters every year

By AP

Marian Kotleba, chairman of the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia, walks to arrive at the Supreme Court in Bratislava, Slovakia, on February 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Slovakia’s far-right leader gets 4 years in jail for using neo-Nazi symbols

By AP

Plastic waste on an unidentified beach. (YouTube screenshot/Zavit)

Justice Ministry changes tack, agrees to support single-use plastic ban

Soldiers of the Givati brigade prepare for a late night mission in the West Bank city of Nablus on October 7, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson/FLASH90)

IDF to punish soldiers and their commanders for brawl on Givati Brigade base

By Judah Ari Gross

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