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What Matters Most On Friday, October 23, 2020

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Sudanese demonstrate in support of their people in Sudan, in south Tel Aviv, on April 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis53 years after Sudan summit's 'No, no, no,' a reversal nears

‘Yes, yes, yes’: Why peace with Khartoum would be true paradigm shift for Israel

By Raphael Ahren

The big, poor African state and the small, rich Gulf monarchies couldn’t be more different; for a start, unlike Bahrain and the UAE, Sudan actually went to war against Israel

US President Donald Trump, left, steps off Air Force One at Reno-Tahoe International Airport on October 18, 2020, in Reno, Nevada. (AP/Alex Brandon); Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, bottom right, 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, top right, speaks during a briefing on coronavirus development at his office in Jerusalem on September 13, 2020. (Alex Kolomiensky/ Yedioth Ahronoth via AP, Pool)

Israel-Sudan deal seen Friday as Trump orders Khartoum removed from terror list

Clockwise, from top left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem, September 13 2020. (Alex Kolomiensky/Yedioth Ahronoth via AP, Pool); Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok at the Elysee palace in Paris, September 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus); US President Donald Trump at the White House, October 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon); Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the military council, west of Khartoum, June 29, 2019 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Israeli, Sudanese officials confirm talks in Khartoum, say normalization near

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox wedding. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox wedding held in Arab town in effort to avoid detection

Eyewitness tells Israeli TV that wedding in Kfar Qasim included Arabic music, as part of efforts to blend in

A groom is seen at a wedding at the Dead Sea, after police were called to disperse some of the guests to maintain health regulations, October 21, 2020 (video screenshot)

Groom nearly faints as police enforcing health rules clash with wedding party

A Sudanese man performs on his motorbike on the bank of Nile River, in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, June 21, 2019. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Israel media reviewGetting to yes: What the press is saying on October 23

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (Jim Bourg/Pool via AP)

The final debate: A laptop from hell, dog whistle fog horns and Hitler

By AFP

US President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden hold their last showdown before the vote, clashing on everything from immigration to racism

Biden swats away attacks as Trump tries to go after son Hunter

By Michael Mathes

Facebook, Twitter CEOs ordered by Republican senators to testify on censorship

By Marcy Gordon

No knockouts as Biden and Trump debate 12 days before election

By Eric Baradat, Sebastian Smith and Shaun Tandon

Peta Jones Pellach

Learning from Noah’s quarantine

Did it take the forced lockdown of the flood for humans to understand what their place in creation should be? (Noah)

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The day we leave these arks

Will we rise to the challenge, and shape the post-coronavirus world to be a better place? Or will we try, like Noah, to leave this time in the past, and forget it all?

Running on empty

How the somewhat withered artisanal part of me that still wanted to design meaningful, useful, beautiful things overcame the crazy, jargon-infused, technology-enabled noise

Quarantining with my Holocaust survivor grandmother

She did not understand my droopy bright sweatpants and she suggested my husband shave his head, but we got to know each other anew, and she gave me her ’life-must-go-on’ ethos

Incoming chair of the World Zionist Organization Yaakov Hagoel. (Photo: ZOA)

Inside Story

Yaakov Schwartz

Last-minute Zionist Congress deal prevents marginalization of non-Orthodox Jewry

After the Likud and religious right try to box progressive center-left Jews out of influential positions, legacy organizations step in, delay vote, hammer out a compromise

Illustrative: Blue and White party member Omer Yankelevich at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Diaspora Affairs Ministry proposes bill to connect government, world Jewry

Ethiopian Bible manuscript from circa 15th century. (Faitlovitch Collection at TAU)

Scholarly SWAT team forged to rescue endangered Ethiopian Jewish oral tradition

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Medical staff in PPE, as seen in 'Totally Under Control' documentary film (Courtesy of Neon)

Director interview

Renee Ghert-Zand

Whistleblower film shows Trump coronavirus response not ‘Totally Under Control’

Using unique filmmaking techniques, Suzanne Hillinger and colleagues uncover politically motivated decisions that ignore science and turn US handling of pandemic into chaotic mess

US President Donald Trump in an interview with '60 Minutes' released by his administration on October 22, 2020, before its official broadcast (video screenshot)

Breaching deal with CBS, Trump posts ’60 Minutes’ interview he walked out on

By AP and ToI Staff

Modiin Mayor Haim Bibas (left) and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai (composite image: Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

The two ambitious mayors who may save Netanyahu and doom the left

Will a run by Tel Aviv’s Ron Huldai drive Meretz out of the Knesset? Will Modiin’s Haim Bibas, an outspoken Netanyahu critic, be his lifeline?

Thousands demonstrate against government in Tel Aviv, Haifa

AnalysisAs budget appears set for further delays, Likud loses control of the narrative

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Coalition scrap intensifies as Blue and White launches anti-Likud campaign

Syrian President Bashar Assad, right background, prays during Eid al Adha prayers behind Damascus Mufti Mohammed Adnan Afiouni, foreground, in Daraya town suburb of Damascus, Syria, in a photo released on September 12, 2016 by the Syrian official news agency SANA. (SANA via AP)

Bombing kills mufti of Damascus, who pushed reconciliation with rebels

Adnan al-Afiyuni, who was close to Syrian ruler Bashar Assad, killed by explosive outside capital; Sunni cleric was key figure in 2016 deal between regime and insurgents

Illustrative: Hezbollah operatives stand in formation at a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, or Al-Quds Day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Guatemala declares Hezbollah a terror organization

Supporters of Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah chant slogans ahead of his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, January 5, 2020. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Estonia bans entry to Hezbollah members, sanctions terror group

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, speaks to his father, King Salman, at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, December 9, 2018. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi Arabia will soon move to normalize ties with Israel, official predicts

Senior defense official says the kingdom could be next to ‘come out of the closet,’ amid reports that Israel on verge of normalizing relations with Sudan

The head of the Israeli delegation, National Security adviser Meir Ben Shabbat (L), and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, sign the Israel-Bahrain accord formalizing diplomatic relations, in the Bahraini capital Manama, on October 18, 2020. US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (C) looks on. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

Knesset to vote on normalization agreement with Bahrain

Election workers sort returned ballots at the King County Elections office in Renton, Washington, Oct. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

US officials say Russian hackers targeting state, local government networks

FBI and Homeland Security say upcoming election not under threat, but warning about hacking amplifies fears of tampering and undermining public confidence in vote

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)

Iranian hackers targeting US voters identified by ‘dumb mistake’ — report

By ToI Staff and AFP

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas terrorist movement chief Ismail Haniyeh, prior to their meeting in Istanbul, February 1, 2020. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool/ File)

Hamas said to be secretly operating cyber, counterintelligence HQ in Turkey

British newspaper says facility in Istanbul is overseen by terror group’s military leadership in Gaza, was set up without the knowledge of Turkish authorities

Illustrative: Flames are seen following an Israeli air strike in the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, October 20, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF strikes Hamas targets in Gaza in response to rocket fire

Illustrative: Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, November 13, 2019. (AP/ Hatem Moussa)

Two rockets fired from Gaza at Ashkelon, one intercepted; no injuries

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustration of an empty classroom in a school in Mevaseret Zion, August 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM to propose increasing fines for schools reopening in violation of virus rules

Education, health officials discuss allowing students to return to class, with grades 3 and 4 slated to do so on November 1, but sides spar over how grades 1 and 2 can resume

Israelis shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on October 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Number of new daily COVID cases falls below 1,000

IDF soldiers perform contact tracing for coronavirus patients. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF’s virus squad, now fully operational, readies for feared winter outbreaks

By Judah Ari Gross

Cpt. 'Shin,' the Israeli Air Force's only female F-35 pilot -- who can only be identified by her rank and first Hebrew initial -- sits in one of the fifth generation fighter jets in a undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel’s only female F-35 pilot named deputy commander of squadron

By Judah Ari Gross

The officer, whose name is classified, completed training on the stealth fighter jet in 2016 and has flown the plane ever since

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right, and US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper hold a joint statement in the Pentagon on October 22, 2020. (Shmulik Almani/Defense Ministry)

Gantz touts ‘major leap’ for Israeli security as US re-ups military edge promise

By Judah Ari Gross

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)

‘We aren’t going to ask America:’ Erdogan confirms testing Russian S-400

By AP

More Headlines

Israeli Ambassador in Albania Noah Gal Gendler speaks during the inauguration of a Holocaust memorial in Tirana, on Thursday, July 9, 2020. (Xhulio Hajdari /Tirana City Hall via AP)

Albania becomes first Muslim country to adopt anti-Semitism definition

Arthur Balfour, and the Balfour Declaration. (Wikipedia)

Palestinian lawyers file lawsuit against Britain for 1917 Balfour Declaration

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Police at a march in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 6, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Man arrested for allegedly planning to attack anti-Netanyahu march in Tel Aviv

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)

ADL slams US effort to declare human rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Palestinians participate in a rally marking the 52nd anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in Gaza City, December 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel designates PFLP’s student wing a terror group

By AFP

Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn lawmaker Christos Pappas. (screen capture Golden Dawn website)

Leading member of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn on the run from police

By AP

Supporters listen as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ends his speech at the Pittsburgh train station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 30, 2020, during a train campaign tour (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

J Street polls: Biden winning Jewish vote by 50+ points in Florida, Pennsylvania

Ghislaine Maxwell in 1991. (AP Photo/Dominique Mollard, File)

Epstein helper denied finding sex partners for Prince Andrew, transcripts show

By Jim Mustian and Larry Neumeister

US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney on October 21, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Senate panel advances Barrett Supreme Court nomination; Democrats boycott vote

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Princess Beatrix, 14-week-old daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard, appeared in public for the first time, when she was christened in the Groote Kerk, the Protestant Church on May 12, 1938, in the Hague, Holland, Netherlands. (AP Photo)

Dutch Protestant Church to admit failing Jews in Holocaust

By AFP

French police officers secure the bridge leading to the Eiffel Tower, September 23, 2020 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French women charged with stabbing veiled Muslims, using racist slurs

By AFP

Bernd Wollschlaeger (Screengrab: YouTube)

Jewish son of Nazi officer describes growing up under shadow of Holocaust denial

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