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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 17, 2020

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Women hold a sign reading 'I am a teacher - Freedom of speech' in front of a middle school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 30kms northwest of Paris, on October 17, 2020, after a teacher was decapitated by an attacker in a terror attack. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

France killer asked pupils to point out teacher before beheading – official

‘I have executed one of the dogs who put Muhammad down,’ killer bragged after murdering Samuel Paty, 47, who had shown cartoons of Muslim prophet to class; suspect is Chechen teen

French police officers gather outside a high school after a history teacher who opened a discussion with students on caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad was beheaded in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, north of Paris, October 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France reels after grisly beheading of history teacher in Paris terror attack

By Elaine Ganley

French police officers gather outside a high school after a history teacher who opened a discussion with students on caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad was beheaded in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, north of Paris, October 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Teacher who showed students Muhammad cartoons decapitated in Paris terror attack

By Jurgen HECKER

The Etihad Airways Hebrew-language website, October 17, 2020. The text reads, "Welcome, from Abu Dhabi" (Screen grab)

With new Hebrew website, Etihad Airways readies for launch of direct UAE flights

‘Welcome from Abu Dhabi’ reads Hebrew message on Emirati airline’s site; transportation official says aviation deal to be inked, working on security protocols for Israeli travelers

Mnuchin to lead Israeli-American delegation to UAE and Bahrain

Israel, Bahrain to sign joint declaration in step toward full peace agreement

‘The main challenge is obtaining ingredients’: UAE gets ready to go kosher

By Shatha YAISH

Police guard as ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Yechezkel Koren in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood of Jerusalem on October 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fear of Haredi revolt said to lead ministers to okay school openings in hotspots

Former general leading effort to curb pandemic in ultra-Orthodox areas warned some communities would ‘disobey the government’ if daycares, preschools kept closed, report says

People wearing face masks walk in downtown Jerusalem on October 15, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown. ( Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gov’t votes to keep closure in virus hotspots, all Haredi, but opens preschools

Medical staff members work at the coronavirus ward of the Kaplan Medical Center, in Rehovot, on September 22, 2020 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

3 children with rare virus-linked syndrome in intensive care at Israeli hospital

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gestures as she gives her victory speech to Labour Party members at an event in Auckland, New Zealand, October 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

New Zealand’s COVID-beating Ardern elected to 2nd term in landslide win

PMs popularity soared after she led effort to stamp out coronavirus — there’s currently no community spread and people therefore not required to wear masks or social distance

Medics tend to a COVID-19 patient at the Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital in Tehran, Iran, October 14, 2020. (Akbar Badrkhani/Iranian Health Ministry via AP)

Iran’s virus deaths pass 30,000 but minister says actual toll may be double that

A view of Jerusalem from Mount Scopus. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

On Jerusalem’s Mt. Scopus, stories of tragedy, daring and charity

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Former state attorney Shai Nitzan in an interview with Channel 12 news, October 16, 2020. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Former state prosecutor blasts ‘conspiracy theories’ after attacks from Likud

Shai Nitzan dismisses claims from PM’s allies that he coerced AG into indicting Netanyahu, after release of old calls in which AG bashes him over handling of past military scandal

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)

Gantz said threatening new elections if Netanyahu tries to again delay budget

US Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) reacts as Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on October 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images/AFP

Republican senator: Trump ‘kisses dictators’ butts,’ party facing ‘bloodbath’

By AFP

In leaked call, Ben Sasse says he’s never supported the president, whom he also claims mistreats women and uses the White House as a business

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to a campaign rally at Ocala International Airport, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, in Ocala, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

His reelection bid sagging, Trump derides Bidens as ‘an organized crime family’

By AP

Backdropped by a billboard supporting US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, people wave flags on a bridge during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, October 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

From the webWhite House election race reaches streets of Tel Aviv

Michael Helfand

Dear New York, here’s how not to seem anti-Semitic during COVID

After coming across as unfairly singling out Jewish neighborhoods, the state must do better at explaining the numbers and the science

Kenneth S. Stern

Examined Zionism: Mira Sucharov and belonging

In a thoughtful memoir, the author dives deep into her complex relationship with Israel: A chapter on cancel culture takes on the BDS litmus test

A young girl holds a poster she made as she joined protesters outside the offices of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Analysis

‘It’s totally irresponsible’: How NYC Jews feel watching Borough Park unrest

Residents conflicted between fears of soaring coronavirus, rising anti-Semitism and anger at those publicly defying public health restrictions

Mayer Rispler, center, a leader in the Satmar Hasidic community, at a meeting in 2017. (Twitter via JTA)

Mayer Rispler, 70, Satmar leader who urged following virus rules, dies of COVID

By JTA

San Diego Rabbi Yonatan Halevy describes an anti-Semitic assault against him. (Screenshot/San Diego Channel 10 News)

Rabbi assaulted in San Diego; Orthodox man beaten in Brooklyn

By Cnaan Liphshiz

White nationalist and neo-Nazi groups carry torches at the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11, 2017. Participants were said to chant: 'Jews will not replace us.' (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

Man avoids federal prison for attacks on Charlottesville anti-racism protestors

By Michael Kunzelman

Cole Evan White admits he used torch as weapon during infamous ‘Jews will not replace us’ nighttime rally, also attacked counter-demonstrators a day later

This photo provided by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office shows Richard Holzer, who was arrested, November 1, 2019, in Pueblo, Colorado. Holzer, who is accused of plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue, appeared briefly in court on November 4, 2019. (El Paso County Sheriff's Office via AP)

White supremacist pleads guilty in neo-Nazi plot to blow up Colorado synagogue

By COLLEEN SLEVIN

A scene from 'Disappearing Stories' on Instagram, a 2020 series made in Russia (courtesy)

World War II

Heroic Russians’ WWII mini-sagas dramatized for Instagram in ‘Disappearing’

By Matt Lebovic

Twitter alters policy on hacked content after blocked Biden story

By AFP

Social media giant says it will now only block stolen information posted by hackers after Republican fury over removal of contentious story on Hunter Biden

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani poses with Trump supporters during a Columbus Day gathering at a Trump campaign field office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Tabloid’s Biden email episode illustrates Giuliani risk to Trump campaign

Alex Goldstein curates the Faces of COVID Twitter account, which showcases Americans who have died in the pandemic. (Illustration by Grace Yagel/ JTA)

Interview

Man behind Faces of COVID Twitter account tweets to make US confront its grief

By PHILISSA CRAMER

More Headlines

The smoke trail of a rocket, fired by Palestinian terrorists, flying over the Gaza Strip, on February 23, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Palestinians in Gaza fire rocket into Israel, no injuries

Republican guards stand outside the Hyper Cacher supermarket ahead of a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the deadly attack against the store in Paris on January 5, 2017. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)

‘You will pay:’ Paris kosher market suspect warns police witness during trial

By AFP

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a round table meeting at an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, October 15, 2020 (Yves Herman, Pool via AP)

Hungary’s Orban says Jewish group ignores anti-Semitism as left, far-right unite

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Military vehicles and equipment, parts of the S-400 air defense systems, are unloaded from a Russian transport aircraft at Murted military airport in Ankara, Turkey, July 12, 2019. (Turkish Defense Ministry via AP, Pool)

US warns of ‘serious consequences’ as Turkey said to test S-400 defense system

By Suzan Fraser and Lolita C. Baldor

Congressional candidate Josh Eisen holds a campaign sign tagged with anti-Semitic graffiti. (Screenshot from News12 via JTA)

NY Jewish congressional candidate’s signs vandalized with ‘Nazi lover’

Security footage shows man apologetically robbing Bat Yam grocery store, October 11, 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 12)

Polite purloiner‘Sorry ma’am, I’m going to rob you’: Regretful robber to be charged

Tombstones vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Randers, Denmark, November 10, 2019. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Danish neo-Nazi jailed for a year for desecrating over 80 Jewish graves

By AFP

An exterior view shows the facade of the Supreme Court in London, September 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK court rules Orthodox housing associations can decline non-Jewish applicants

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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)

Cybersecurity groups: Iranians targeted top Israeli firms in ransomware attack

Late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks after the screening of "RBG," the documentary about her, in Jerusalem, July 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Caron Creighton, File)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg to get a statue in her native Brooklyn

A bottle containing the drug Remdesivir is shown by a health worker at the Institute of Infectology of Kenezy Gyula Teaching Hospital of the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary, October 15, 2020. (Zsolt Czegledi/MTI via AP)

WHO says no evidence remdesivir, 3 other drugs, benefit serious COVID cases

By AP

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