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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 14, 2020

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An Israeli soldier opens the gates of the Rosh Hanikra border crossing between Israel and Lebanon in northern Israel, on October 14, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Lebanon, Israel have ‘productive’ first talks on setting maritime border

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Joint US-UN statement says both sides reaffirmed their commitment to continue negotiations, which are scheduled to resume on October 28

A convoy of the Lebanese delegation arrives to the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force in the southern Lebanese border town of Naqoura, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Lebanon and Israel are to begin indirect talks Wednesday over their disputed maritime border, with American officials mediating the talks that both sides insist are purely technical and not a sign of any normalization of ties. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israeli and Lebanese officials hold first border negotiations in 30 years

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers guard at the Israeli side of the Quneitra Crossing, on the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights on March 23, 2019. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF destroys 2 Syrian military positions in rare cross-border raid – report

Lawmakers ratify lockdown extension but ease rules on air travel

Knesset panel okays government decision to extend closure to Sunday night; new exceptions to 1-kilometer limit include travel to weddings, professional sports training

The Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approves an extension of the nationwide lockdown until October 18, October 14, 2020 (Knesset spokesperson's office)

Israel media reviewLocks to think about: What the press is saying on October 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Just 2,255 virus cases found Tuesday with positive test rate lowest since July

Netanyahu, Edelstein heartened by lower virus rates amid lockdown

Likud MK and chairman of the Knesset Regulatory Committee Miki Zohar at the Knesset, September 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Netanyahu ally threatens more dirt will air about AG if he doesn’t resign

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Miki Zohar criticized after saying that recording of Mandelblit slamming then-state attorney supports unsubstantiated theory he was blackmailed into filing charges against PM

Then-Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, left, and outgoing state prosecutor Shai Nitzan attend a farewell ceremony held for Nitzan in Jerusalem, on December 18, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG heard railing against ex-state attorney in old calls, drawing fury from Likud

The offices of British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC in Macclesfield, England, on July 21, 2020. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

Germany to include Israel in EU deal for vaccine, citing ‘special relationship’

By Toby Axelrod

Berlin’s foreign minister reportedly tells Gabi Ashkenazi that Israel will get AstraZeneca COVID-19 inoculation when it is sold to European countries

Religious Affairs Minister Yaakov Avitan (Screen capture/YouTube)

Religious affairs minister officiates wedding in violation of lockdown

A poster reads "closed because of me" with an image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a closed shop in Tel Aviv, October 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Coronavirus lockdown 2.0 deepens divisions, social gaps in Israel

By Josef Federman

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, on September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Iran reports ‘large-scale’ cyberattack on government institutions

Government spokesman asserts no significant damage caused; unconfirmed reports say Iranian ports, banking system also targeted

Illustrative: The newly-opened emergency underground hospital at Rambam Medial Center in Haifa (courtesy of Rambam Medical Center)

81 Israelis suspected of being reinfected with coronavirus — Health Ministry

By Nathan Jeffay

Admission comes as first confirmed Israeli and American reinfections documented in journals; Expert: Don’t worry, these are exceptions that prove rule of immunity

Laying out targets, health official signals reopening of most schools is far off

Changing course, IDF to let troops quarantine at home after massive outbreak

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet said set to probe COVID-19 patients suspected of lying to investigators

Ultra Orthodox Jews walk in Bnei Brak on October 14, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

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Deaths still mounting, but new virus cases maintaining slide, figures show

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu says ministers to hash out separate plan for cities with high infection rates to exit lockdown, backs airport opening

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UK puts London in second-highest infection tier
6:24 pm

UN says Israeli settlement approvals could fuel instability
6:16 pm

Orthodox Jews back Trump by massive margin, poll finds

The entrance to the Haaretz building in Tel Aviv. (Screenshot/Google Street View)

Man sabotages Haaretz offices, threatens journalist

Suspect arrested after vandalizing circuit breaker panel at newspaper’s building in Tel Aviv, shouting, ‘What do you want from Bibi?’

A right-wing protesters sprays mace at anti-Netanyahu demonstrators. October 13, 2020 (screen capture via Twitter)

Right-wing protester pepper-sprays anti-Netanyahu demonstrators in Holon

A settler with a cudgel (L) attacks Channel 12 news reporter Ohad Hemo during clashes with Palestinian olive harvesters in the West Bank village of Burka, October 13, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Israeli news crew attacked by settlers during West Bank clashes

With one post, Mark Zuckerberg changed Holocaust education forever

The hatred of anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers that was allowed to germinate and grow in the fertile soil of cyberspace has suffered an unimaginable blow

Amy Coney Barrett’s supporters count on her beliefs swaying her rulings

Given Judge Barrett’s profound commitment to sectarian doctrine, it is unlikely, regardless of her disclaimers, that she would miss the opportunity of reversing Roe

Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

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What El Al’s new owner needs to do to prepare for liftoff

National carrier’s former CFO specifies urgent tasks for Eli Rozenberg: Curb cash bleed, regain market share, cut fleet and costs, rebuild employee confidence, reorganize debt

El Al planes parked at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel, on August 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

El Al to resume flights to Los Angeles, Miami, Amsterdam

Illustrative: Parked airplanes belonging to Israir and El Al at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Dubai-based company to bid for purchase of Israir Airlines

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Top UAE official laments PA’s ingratitude after Abbas envoy rants on Israel ties

By Raphael Ahren

Anwar Gargash slams Palestinians’ ‘lack of loyalty’ after Ramallah diplomat calls Emirati leader a ‘little dictator’ and says UAE, Bahrain have ‘become more Israeli than Israelis’

Palestinians with a banner showing Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan wearing an Israeli flag, during a rally against the United Arab Emirates' normalization deal with Israel, in the West Bank village of Turmusaya near Ramallah, Aug. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief of the Conference of European Rabbis, at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, file)

Top European rabbi to address Saudi Arabia interfaith forum

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister speaks with European lawmakers by video link on October 12, 2020. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Palestinian Authority PM: God help us if Trump reelected

By AP and ToI Staff

Ahlam and Nizar Tamimi at their wedding in Amman (Screenshot)

Jordan deports Sbarro bomber’s husband, also a convicted terrorist, to Qatar

By Aaron Boxerman

Nizar Tamimi expelled without explanation by authorities; terror victims’ advocates have long sought his wife’s extradition to US over deadly 2001 attack at Jerusalem pizzeria

Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan in his New York office on October 13, 2020. (Israeli Mission to the UN)

Erdan slams UN Human Rights Council after Russia, China, Pakistan, Cuba elected

By Jacob Magid and AP

Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen during a vote at the Knesset on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on October 13, 2020. (JIM WATSON / AFP)

70% of Jews plan to vote Biden, Pew study finds

Projected numbers are nearly identical to the real Jewish vote during 2016 US election

Israeli-US businessman Haim Saban arrives before the start of the third US presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on October 19, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

Democrat megadonor: Mail ballot fight and ‘closet Trumpists’ could tip election

Joel Rubin (Courtesy via JTA)

American Jewish Congress hires Sanders’ former Jewish outreach director

Illustrative: Photograph by Roman Vishniac of Jewish schoolchildren in Mukacevo, Eastern Europe, in the 1930s. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography)

Author interview

Overlooked by Nazis, an untouched Jewish village in Poland remeets ‘real’ world

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Morad Hassan (left) and Yoel Rozenkier play two men meeting on a dating app in 'Borders,' a play that went virtual during the coronavirus (Courtesy Nimrod Danishman)

A play about gay men on Grindr goes virtual during COVID-19

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Borders,’ Nimrod Danishman’s production about an Israeli-Lebanese couple, is adapted for the phone app Telegram this week

Independent theaters in Israel, such as Habait Theater, returned to performing during the coronavirus, often with one-person performances and audiences of just a few, as in this work of puppeteer Shay Persil, and her play about a woman who lives alone in a small apartment (Courtesy Habait)

Theater makers search for footing in year of the absurd

By Jessica Steinberg

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Illustrative. A pile of $100 bills. (choness, iStock by Getty Images)

Israel startups raise record $2.74 billion in Q3, but early-stage funding dives

By Shoshanna Solomon

A tour group listens to a guide at the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem against the backdrop of the Old City in 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Wheel of misfortuneWhither the Jerusalem Promenade? Locals air fears on Facebook

By Jessica Steinberg

'Valley of Tears,' a KAN 11 series about the Yom Kippur War, launches October 19, 2020, with world rights purchased by HBO Max (Courtesy KAN 11)

Hour of reckoningHBO purchases rights for Israeli TV series about Yom Kippur War

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel demolishes a house built without a permit in Yatta, in the West Bank on August 11, 2020 (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

British firm under fire over bulldozers used to demolish Palestinian homes

Illustrative: Joseph Kleinman, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and Dachau Nazi death camp wearing a face mask and holding an Israeli flag at his porch in Jerusalem, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Germany agrees to pay $662 million in coronavirus aid to Holocaust survivors

By David Rising

Presiding judge Maria Lepenioti reads the sentences during the Golden Dawn trial, in Athens, October 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece: Extreme-right party leaders jailed for 13 years

By AP

People kayaking in the Jordan river in northern Israel on August 27, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israelis told to avoid northern streams after leptospirosis outbreak

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

Iran coronavirus death toll hits record high for the third time in a week

By AP

A man wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus stands on a hilltop at a public park in Beijing, Saturday, April 25, 2020. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Pandemic caused steepest emissions drop in modern history — study

By Patrick Galey

Flamingos (aka Phoenicopterus Roseus) are pictured at a reservoir in Atlit, north of Tel Aviv on October 13, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Pink stopEn route to Africa, flamingos make stop near Haifa

Illustrative image of the IDF 931 Nachal Brigade seen during search patrols in Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank, on the night of June 16, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

2 soldiers injured after explosive thrown at them during West Bank raid

By Judah Ari Gross

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (L) and KKL-JNF head Daniel Atar plant a tree for Tu B'Shvat at the US ambassador's residence in Jerusalem, February 12, 2020. (Rafi Ben Hakoon/KKL-JNF)

Gantz backs Daniel Atar for second term at KKL-JNF helm

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