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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 22, 2020

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Belgian para-commandos patrol near a synagogue in the center of Antwerp, Belgium, on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Virginia Mayo)

Europe’s Jewish population down 60% since 1970, as low as it was 1,000 years ago

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Bombshell study finds 1.3 million people who describe themselves as Jewish in continental Europe, UK, Turkey and Russia, compared to 3.2 million 50 years ago; number still falling

Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

TikTok says it will crack down on anti-Semitism, white nationalism

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: The pro-Israel rally on July 31, 2014 took place outside Paris's Israeli embassy. (Glenn Cloarec/The Times of Israel)

Paris police nab seven in attempted ramming of officer near Israeli embassy

Jerusalem's mayor meets with young Israeli twins going into first grade at a school in Jerusalem on September 1, 2020 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Experts pan ‘fundamentally flawed’ ministry report that kids are superspreaders

By Nathan Jeffay

Nine leading academics say Health Ministry research has it all wrong with assessment that children are drivers of infection – a conclusion that may slow down school reopening

Israeli border police officers patrol on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on as Israel steps out of coronavirus lockdown and rolls back restrictions on October 21, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Virus numbers drop further, 2.7% of tests positive, as lockdown payoff felt

An empty classroom at a school in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hakerem on October 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Coronavirus cabinet pushes off decision on reopening schools, shops

Sudanese students burn an Israeli flag as they demonstrate against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza outside the UN headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan, December 29, 2008.(AP/Abd Raouf)

Israel, Sudan said to reach final agreement to normalize ties

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Announcement to be made over weekend or early next week, reports say, following trip by Israeli-US delegation to Khartoum

Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, left, head of the military council, speaks during a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan on June 29, 2019. (AP/Hussein Malla) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a briefing on coronavirus development at his office in Jerusalem on September 13 2020. (Alex Kolomiensky/Yedioth Ahronoth via AP, Pool)

Israeli officials said to visit Sudan amid talk of normalization

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani amd Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat, at the signing ceremony of a peace agreement between Israel and Bahrain, in Manama, October 18, 2020. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Israel reportedly operated secret diplomatic mission in Bahrain for past decade

Film review

‘Borat 2’: Original’s insanity and anti-Semitism, multiplied by a factor of 2020

By Jordan Hoffman

In the long-awaited sequel starring Sacha Baron Cohen, out Oct. 23 on Amazon, the undercover comedian exposes real-life Jew-haters, creepy conservative fathers — and Rudy Giuliani

Sacha Baron Cohen arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 4, 2018, left, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. on Nov. 20, 2016. Giuliani appears in a scene in the new “Borat” film. The scene, which was filmed in a New York hotel room in July, resulted in Giuliani calling police. (AP Photo)

Giuliani seen with hand in pants in new ‘Borat’ film hotel bedroom scene

By AP and ToI Staff

Times of Israel Opinion & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag (left) interviews musician and 'Tehran' star Liraz Charhi for the Behind the Headlines online video series, October 21, 2020. (Times of Israel)

Behind the Headlines

WATCH: Star of ‘Tehran’ Liraz Charhi on dangers of collaborating with Iranians

The Israeli-born actress and musician strongly identifies with her parents’ native Iran, and reaches across borders to work with Persian artists — despite the risks this can pose

Interview

Daughter of Springsteen drummer pens book on beating breast cancer ‘like a boss’

By Cathryn J. Prince

Today’s extraordinary diplomatic achievements were years in the making

Foreign Ministry emissaries have been quietly working behind the scenes in the Gulf with the singular goal of ensuring this peace will be a warm one

Robert Sugarman

Biden-Harris: Good for Israel, good for American Jews

Biden has always assured funding to Israel, he’s pragmatic on the Iran deal, and will repair the damage Trump has done to US foreign policy

Far more of a gift than a burden

My daughter’s suicide has left me feeling intense grief, indescribable sadness, and immense sorrow, but not a shred of anger at her

Judge Amy Coney Barrett has met Jews before

The US Supreme Court nominee joined my firm and worked on behalf of Hasidim and on my ’public menorah’ team; I am confident that she’ll uphold religious liberties for all

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, October 21, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool via AP)

Pompeo said set to declare human rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’ over Israel stance

Expected State Department report would target groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam for alleged BDS support and end US aid for their activities

Coalition whip Miki Zohar pleads his case to Deputy Knesset Speaker Mansour Abbas in the plenum on October 21, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset)

Israel media reviewGet out the votes: What the press is saying on October 22

By Joshua Davidovich

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, right, with Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Pentagon, Washington, September 22, 2020. (Shmulik Almani/Defense Ministry)

Gantz heads to US for ‘security meeting’ with Pentagon chief

By Judah Ari Gross

The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles seen in the sky in the early morning of August 21, 2020. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Two rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, one intercepted

By Michael Bachner

Second rockets lands in open area, no injuries or damage reported; video shows apparent interception attempt over Ashkelon as border tensions rise

7:34 pm

IDF confirms two rockets shot at Israel
7:27 pm

Video shows rocket interception attempt over Ashkelon
7:19 pm

Rocket alarms sound in south

Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin in the Knesset plenum, October 21, 2020 (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset)

Knesset legal adviser backs decision to nix vote to probe submarine affair

Sagit Afik says Speaker Yariv Levin acted properly and that revote knocking down proposal can stand; measure’s sponsor says she’ll file High Court petition Thursday

Likud MK Miki Zohar reacts during a meeting at the Knesset, January 13, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Zohar: I stopped ‘underhanded’ opposition bid by nixing vote to probe sub affair

Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg after Knesset speaker nullifies a vote calling for inquiry into submarine affair, October 21, 2020 (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset)

Opposition fumes, plans court challenge after submarine probe vote voided

A nurse gives a volunteer an injection as part of a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the US National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, New York, July 27, 2020. (Hans Pennink/AP)

Israel expected to receive Moderna’s COVID vaccine by mid-2021

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli chief medical officer of US biotech firm confirms timeline; separately, hopes raised Israeli-produced shot could be ready in 6 months

Illustrative: A doctor checks a medical ventilator control panel while wearing protective clothing at the Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, March 16, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

With low survival rate, doctors see ventilators as gut-wrenching last resort

By Nathan Jeffay

Laboratory technicians work at the mAbxience biopharmaceutical company on an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and the laboratory AstraZeneca in Garin, Argentina, August 14, 2020. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Volunteer in Oxford COVID vaccine test, given placebo, dies in Brazil

By AFP

Illustrative: Students seen at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 27, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Screen test: Coronavirus is causing ‘academic Darwinism’ as campuses stay closed

Students struggle financially and socially, with the challenges bigger for those who are already disadvantaged; ‘if they fall, they will bring down all of us,’ warns one dean

A general view of closed stores on Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem on March 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Up to 60,000 Israeli businesses may close in 2021 amid COVID-19 fallout: report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Shilo Junction in the West Bank, October 8, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Man indicted for pepper-spray attack on anti-Netanyahu protesters

Prosecutors say 24-year-old drove up to demonstration, verbally abused participants and then sprayed them with mace before fleeing in car

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)

Prosecutors ask court to deny Netanyahu’s request for more case materials

Dennis Potodinsky throwing rocks at anti-Netanyahu protestors. (Screengrab: Twitter)

Homeless man gets 8 months in prison for hurling rocks at anti-Netanyahu protest

Sigalit Landau's 'Squirting Cucumber,' one of the sculptures on display on 'Returning to Nature' at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens (Courtesy Jerusalem Botanical Gardens)

Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens bring sculpture to green spaces

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Mel Brooks endorses Joe Biden for the US presidency (YouTube screenshot)

High anxietyCiting his will to survive pandemic, Mel Brooks, 94, backs Biden

Talia Lavin and the cover of her new book, 'Culture Warlords.' (Courtesy of Lavin/ via JTA)

InterviewWith false identities, author exposes extremists hiding in web’s dark underbelly

By Emily Burack

PLO secretary general Saeb Erekat addresses the media following a meeting with diplomats in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 30, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Intubated and on life support, PA’s Saeb Erekat undergoes bronchostomy

By ToI Staff and AP

Then Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Harir speaks in Beirut, Lebanon, October 20, 2016. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Ex-PM Hariri asked to form new government in crisis-hit Lebanon

By Sarah El Deeb

French lawmakers gather to pay homage to slain teacher Samuel Paty on October 20, 2020 on the steps of the National Assembly in Paris. (AP/Lewis Joly)

France dissolves Hamas-inspired group linked to teacher’s beheading

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This photo provided by the Israel Defense Forces on October 20, 2020, shows a soldier operating along the border with the southern Gaza Strip, after a tunnel entering Israeli territory was found in the area. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Gaza attack tunnel found this week was dug by Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University (YouTube screenshot)

‘Piggy Morty’: US campus divided over chants against Jewish president

Arnold Roth attending a meeting of the House Oversight Committee of the US Congress in Washington in 2016. (Courtesy)

From our partnerMalki Roth’s father slams BBC for giving Sbarro terrorist a platform

In this file photo from September 13, 2017, activists from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) protest against the conflict between North Korea and the USA with masks of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, right, and US president Donald Trump, left, in front of the US embassy in Berlin, Germany. (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)

US urges countries to withdraw from UN nuclear ban treaty

By Edith M. Lederer

Minister for Social equality Gila Gamliel (Likud) (Flash90)

IDF probing whether soldiers stole, leaked file on minister who broke lockdown

Illustrative: Smoke billows following an alleged Israeli airstrike south of Damascus, Syria, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

Monitor claims 3 pro-Iran fighters killed in alleged Israeli strike in Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pope Francis delivers his message on the occasion of the weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, October 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

In first, Pope Francis publicly endorses same-sex civil unions

By Nicole Winfield

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