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What Matters Most On Friday, October 16, 2020

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Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk in Bnei Brak on October 14, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

As cases plunge, gov’t may ease rules in virus hotspots, all said to be Haredi

List of ‘red’ areas said to comprise 5 ultra-Orthodox cities and towns, 3 Jerusalem neighborhoods; virus czar says sharp decline in infections is ‘real,’ including among Haredim

Health care doctors and medics take test samples of Jerusalemites to check if they have been infected with the coronavirus in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem on October 08, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus sees lowest rates in 3 months; gov’t said weighing opening ‘red’ cities

Former Shin Bet deputy director Yitzhak Ilan (video screenshot)

Former Shin Bet deputy chief who led fight on West Bank terror dies of COVID-19

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with his lawyers in the courtroom, as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

AG says won’t investigate Netanyahu over lucrative stock sales, submarine case

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

Likud says High Court has no authority to rule on post of alternative 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)

Mandelblit apologizes to former state attorney for bashing him in recording

Screen shot of Zoom call attended by Sudanese pro-Israel activists and a group of Israelis, October 15, 2020. (Screenshot)

In rare Zoom call with Israelis, Sudanese activists say country ready for peace

By Raphael Ahren

Violating local laws, group of journalists and artists from Sudan tell Israelis about the trials and tribulations of promoting normalization with the Jewish state

Reports: US gives Sudan 24 hours to take or leave normalization with Israel

PM: Successful Lebanon maritime talks could be first step to ‘true peace’

Lebanon says ‘heavily’ relying on US to help solve Israel maritime border talks

By AP

Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman in 'The Trial of the Chicago 7.' (Niko Tavernise/NETFLIX)

Film review

‘Chicago 7’ makes its case but trial’s Jewish history stricken from the record

By Jordan Hoffman

In this Feb. 21, 2020, file photo businessman and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson (red hat) and wife Miriam wait for the arrival of President Donald Trump to a campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Adelsons donate $75 million to pro-Trump super PAC attacking Biden

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

Creation of new group is a sign that some Republican donors are worried by the approach taken by Trump’s campaign

US President Donald Trump leaves after an NBC News Town Hall in Miami, Oct. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump refuses to disavow QAnon as he and Biden hold dueling town halls

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: New York police officers stand guard at the door of the Union Temple of Brooklyn, November 2, 2018. (Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

US officials say no known Election Day threats to Jews, but urge vigilance

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)

Knesset approves UAE normalization 80-13; mainly Arab party is sole opposition

By Raphael Ahren

Overwhelming support for historic peace agreement, which now heads to cabinet for final ratification

New York Rabbi Elie Abadi (YouTube screenshot)

Small but growing, UAE’s Jewish community to get second full-time rabbi from NY

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Karlin (Hasidic dynasty) praying according to the social distancing rules outside their synagogue in Jerusalem on August 10, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hasidic rabbi who had COVID rips into Haredi violations: ‘How did we get here?’

Karlin-Stolin leader Baruch Meir Yaakov Shochet laments ‘contempt for lives’ in the ultra-Orthodox community, invokes Jewish obligation to safeguard life

A doctor in the coronavirus section of Rambam Health Center in Haifa (courtesy of Rambam Health Center)

Experts fear fresh virus outbreaks if ‘red zones’ not kept under lockdown

By Nathan Jeffay

Yeshiva students study in separation capsules in Jerusalem on September 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gov’t, yeshivas said to agree on plan to relaunch studies under capsule program

Acting US Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Antoinette T. Bacon, speaks at a repatriation ceremony for the painting "Winter," in Albany, New York, October 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Hill)

Jewish family’s painting looted by Nazis, spotted in NY, returned to its heirs

By Michael Hill

Artwork located by chance in small upstate New York museum returned after 87 years; was one of 1,000 pieces of art seized from household by Nazi party during its rise

Following Facebook, Twitter says it will ban posts that deny the Holocaust

By AP and AFP

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

The Knesset winter session is off to a running start. On a treadmill

While politicians tussle and pontificate, their failure to pass a budget and appoint top officials leaves government agencies unable to tackle the worst fallout of the pandemic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on March 26, 2020. (Knesset)

Illustrative: Children return to kindergarten in Tel Aviv from a lockdown of over two months, on May 10, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel media reviewSchool’s back, so are schoolyard tactics: What the press is saying on October 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: Children at a kindergarten in Tel Aviv return from a two month coronavirus lockdown on May 10, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

As lockdown set to be eased, daycares say they won’t be ready to reopen Sunday

This photo from February 15, 2017, shows the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

European powers, Jordan condemn Israel settlement approvals

By AFP and ToI Staff

Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Spain say green-lighting of 5,000 homes is ‘counterproductive’ and undermines regional peace efforts

Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud speaks during his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the State Department, October 14, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Manuel Balce CENETA / POOL / AFP)

Saudi FM pushes Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, nixes imminent normalization

By ToI Staff and Agencies

New apartments buildings under construction in the Beit El settlement in the West Bank with the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the background, October 13, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Plans for over 2,700 more settlement homes advanced — making 5,000 in 2 days

Taking responsibility

Will we heed desire, as did Adam and Eve? Will we listen to anger, like Cain? Or will we follow the voice of God calling us to make a more just and gracious world? (Bereishit)

Sarah C. Rudolph

The speech of the serpent

Did snakes really used to speak? The challenge of understanding the seduction of Eve in the Garden of Eden

Jesse K. Sultanik

A Zionist movement free of petty politics

The General Zionists, unbeholden to specific political or religious agendas, are free to forge global, unifying strategies. Join us

Michael Humphries

This World Food Day, consider the moshav model to stop hunger

To eliminate the cycle of poverty and food insecurity, learn from self-sustaining farm communities that can function as collectives for efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and more

Wine experts Roni Saslove (left) and Guy Haran (second from left) partnered with graphic design artist Itamar Gur and photographer David Silverman (right) to create 'Wine Journey,' a guide to Israeli wineries (Courtesy Wine Journey)

Vineyard visit? Wine not, write 2 oenophiles in fresh guide to Israeli wineries

By Jessica Steinberg

A street in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Sept. 29, 2020. (Daniel Moritz-Rabson via JTA)

Some Brooklyn yeshivas are operating despite school closure over virus

In repeat of spring, schools in Borough Park defy health regulations despite rising infections

Protesters gather on the sidewalk outside the the offices of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in New York City, October 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

3 New York Jewish groups sue state, calling COVID rules ‘blatantly anti-Semitic’

By Larry Neumeister

AnalysisIs it anti-Semitic for Mitch McConnell to highlight Chuck Schumer’s NY roots?

ToI Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaks with ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt on the Behind the Headlines online video series, October 14, 2020. (Times of Israel)

Behind the Headlines

WATCH: ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, ‘Jew-hatred links all forms of US extremism’

The face of the Jewish fight for universal equality speaks about his organization’s roots and why its 107-year-old mission continues today

More Headlines

Illustrative: The first patient enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, receives an injection, May 4, 2020. (University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

Pfizer to seek emergency approval for COVID vaccine next month

By AFP

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks speaks at a press conference announcing his winning of the 2016 Templeton Prize, in London, March 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Former UK chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks says he is being treated for cancer

The Shahid Rajaee port facility in the Iranian coastal city of Bandar Abbas. (Iran Ports and Maritime Organization)

Iran says ports hit by cyberattack this week, but flow of goods unhindered

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A security car drives away as a Haredi man protesting the extension of a lockdown over his city falls, in Beitar Illit on October 15, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Anti-lockdown protester hit by security car in Haredi settlement, lightly hurt

Police arrest a man suspected of speeding in his car toward protesters during a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, September 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Driver who sped toward anti-PM rally deemed mentally unfit for trial

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Habima square in Tel Aviv, on October 15, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hundreds protest against Netanyahu in week’s 3rd day of rallies

Illustrative. Soldiers from the elite Duvdevan Unit in a training exercise. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF boots special forces officer who broke quarantine, lied about it

By Judah Ari Gross

The Vibers, Yael Tal (left) and Michal Karni, bring their grandmothers' Yiddish heritage to life with their electronic-swing video (Courtesy Vibers)

Beats from bubbeYiddish classic gets electronic redo in retro video

By Jessica Steinberg

A screenshot from a Lost Tribe Esports tournament where participants played Rocket League, a game in which flying cars play soccer. (Screenshot/ via JTA)

Jewish and into video games? There’s an esports league for that

Preparations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the resumption of group prayers, October 15, 2020 (Western Wall Heritage Foundation)

Western Wall is prepared for resumption of limited group prayers

Ma'aleh Film School created a competition for up to two-minute films about home, for creators from the world over (Courtesy of Ma'aleh)

No place like it?Stuck at home? This film school wants you to make a movie about it

By Jessica Steinberg

Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski, left, poses for the media with Stanislaw Buchala, right, who received the Israeli distinction of the Righteous Among the Nations on behalf of his late grandparents, Stefania and Jan Buchala, who saved Polanski, from the Holocaust in 1943-45, during the ceremony of bestowing the honor in Gliwice, Poland, October 15, 2020.(Michal Buksa/AP)

Roman Polanski pays tribute to Poles who saved him from Holocaust

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

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