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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 25, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explains Israel's new overflight options in the wake of its normalization accord with Sudan, October 24, 2020. (screen capture: Channel 13)

PM: Israel was isolated, now it's connecting to whole world

Netanyahu hints at Israel role in past Sudan raids, hails Mideast’s changing map

PM says African nation was formerly used by Iran to smuggle weapons to Hamas, but Israel ‘prevented this’; delegation to travel to Khartoum in coming days to finalize peace accord

AnalysisAn Israeli embassy in Khartoum? Not so fast. This peace deal may take some time

By Raphael Ahren

Mossad Director Yossi Cohen attends a handover ceremony for the position of IDF chief of military intelligence, at the Glilot military base, near Tel Aviv, on March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel expects Oman to normalize next, Mossad chief says Saudi deal soon — TV

Analysis

Borat 2’s Jewish gags run the gamut from anti-Semitic to very nice

Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Subsequent Moviefilm’ doesn’t just mock age-old stereotypes; it also tackles Holocaust denial and the hate that now pervades social media

This image released shows Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." (Amazon Studios)

Sacha Baron Cohen appears as Borat on Jimmy Kimmel's show, October 19, 2020. (Screenshot)

Hitting back, Baron Cohen tells Trump: I don’t find you funny either

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli laboratory worker conducts serological tests for coronavirus at the Leumit Health Care Services laboratory in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Computer bug freezes virus tally ahead of ministers’ discussion on lockdown

Error, possibly related to switch to standard time, keeps Health Ministry from publishing regular daily update, meaning coronavirus cabinet may not have needed info when it meets

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

Ministers set for key meeting on reopening schools, some businesses

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz hold a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2020. (Tal Shahar/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Gantz trade accusations about alleged secret F-35 talks

By Judah Ari Gross

After Israel agrees to not oppose US supply of the stealth fighter jet to UAE, defense minister accuses PM of hiding weapons deals from defense officials; Netanyahu denies it

Illustrative: US Air Force F-35A Lightning II’s at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, on November 16, 2019. (Joshua Williams/US Department of Defense)

Justice minister compares Netanyahu secrecy on F-35s to submarine graft case

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Alan M. Dershowitz

Choose life! That’s the Jewish way, and it hasn’t changed

I grew up in Orthodox Borough Park and I’m sad that what I see there today doesn’t represent the life-affirming sources of Jewish law that have served Jews for millennia of crises

Michael Hilkowitz

6,285 points to consider when discussing an Israeli-Sudanese peace

The new diplomacy may push Israel to take action on the local asylum seekers from Sudan; or Bibi could buy time by granting them 5 years of temporary residence

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study Torah in small 'capsule' groups at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva in the city of Modiin Illit, August 24, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

1 in 5 students in yeshiva ‘capsule’ program contracted COVID-19 — TV

Report says some 7,000 came down with coronavirus after weeks-long isolation from outside world in August-September

7:34 pm

Sudan says it will discuss trade, migration with Israel
7:33 pm

France urges Arab countries to battle boycott calls
7:19 pm

Head of Sudanese pro-Israel group: 'We are waiting to see you in Khartoum soon'

IDF troops are seen during an exercise in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF launches its largest drill of the year, simulating war against Hezbollah

By Judah Ari Gross

‘Lethal Arrow’ meant to improve the military’s attack capabilities; exercise scaled back from original plan due to coronavirus pandemic

Protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near his official residence in Jerusalem, on October 24, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators rally throughout the country for 18th week

Clashes, arrests in Jerusalem as many thousands protest across nation; organizers claim 170,000 take part; several reports of violence against activists, suspects arrested

Yamina Party chairman Naftali Bennett at a press conference in Jerusalem, on May 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina says elections needed — and Naftali Bennett should be next PM

PM Netanyahu addresses the cabinet before it votes on the peace treaty with the UAE, October 12, 2020 (GPO)

Cabinet ratifies UAE treaty, sends Bahrain agreement to Knesset for approval

By Raphael Ahren

Landmark accord to establish ties with Emirates will enter into force once government in Abu Dhabi issues ratification decree

The Israeli tech delegation to the UAE led by JVP (Elad Gutman)

Food, cybersecurity firms leave for UAE in bid to forge tech ties

By Shoshanna Solomon

Equestrian Nancy Zeitlin, the American-Israeli rider who is the subject of 'UnReined,' a new documentary about her life (Courtesy UnReined)

Record-breaking equestrian stars in new doc weaving her history with Israel’s

By Jessica Steinberg

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures at a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, on September 21, 2020. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

As Macron moves against Islamists, Erdogan says he needs ‘mental checks’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Turkish premier alleges unfair policies against Muslims, as France attempts clampdown on extremism in response to terror wave including teacher’s beheading

Arab-Israeli protesters gather outside the residence of the French Ambassador to Israel, in Tel Aviv on October 24, 2020, in response to comments by French President Emmanuel Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Arab Israelis rally against Macron over his defense of Mohammed cartoons

By AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, wearing a protective face mask, waits to welcome Armenian President Armen Sarkissian for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. (Charles Platiau/Pool via AP)

France recalls envoy to Turkey after Erdogan questions Macron’s mental health

By Sylvie Corbet

Actor Yehuda Barkan in 2020 (video screenshot)

Obituary

Jessica Steinberg

He made Israel laugh: Actor and prankster Yehuda Barkan dies of COVID-19

75-year-old icon was known for 1970s cult classics and for his hidden prank movies

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File: A menorah and flowers are seen outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in preparation for a celebration service on the first night of Hanukkah, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, December 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Now dispersed by pandemic, Pittsburgh Jews seek healing 2 years after massacre

Illustrative: A hacker in action. (BeeBright; iStock by Getty Images)

10,000 Israelis have used 119 cyberhotline to report hacks: Cyber Directorate

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: People gather at Al-Rawda Mosque in Bir al-Abd northern Sinai, Egypt, a day after attackers killed hundreds of worshipers, November 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Tarek Samy)

Booby traps left inside Sinai homes by IS kill at least 14 civilians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Diver volunteers helping to collect trash from the Mediterranean Sea. (Dov Greenblatt, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Large volunteer sand and sea cleanup planned for Friday

Illustrative. Israeli soldiers stand near the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack at the entrance to the village of Husan, in the West Bank, on June 23, 2018. (Flash90)

Palestinian man killed under disputed circumstances during IDF pursuit

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Maher al-Akhras, a 49-year-old security prisoner, while on hunger strike in Kaplan hospital in Rehovot, October 8, 2020 (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)

Israeli lawmaker says he’ll join hunger strike of Palestinian security prisoner

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

In this picture taken on September 13, 2017, activists of the International campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) wear masks of US President Donald Trump (R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un as they demonstrate in front of the US embassy in Berlin. (AFP/dpa/Britta Pedersen)

UN says nuclear weapons ban treaty to enter into force in 90 days

Illustrative: Police seen at the mixed town of Abu Snan in northern Israel, November 15, 2014. (Flash90)

Woman, 46, stabbed and seriously wounded in north; husband arrested

Anti-government protesters gather on the closed Joumhouriya Bridge that leads to the Green Zone government areas in Baghdad, Iraq, October 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Thousands rally in Iraq to mark one year since mass protests

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

American author Paul Auster will speak in a webinar as part of Docustream, the October 2020 screenings produced by the DocAviv Festival that will show 'Paul Auster: What If' (Courtesy Docustream)

Talk timePaul Auster to discuss his dream of America with Israelis

By Jessica Steinberg

Both sides of a commemorative 10 euro coin celebrating the 300th birthday of the Vilna Gaon in Lithuania. (Courtesy of the Bank of Lithuania/ via JTA)

Lithuania mints first-ever EU coin with Hebrew letters, honoring Vilnius scholar

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Clocks in Israel turn back as daylight saving ends

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