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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 27, 2020

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Analysis

Renee Ghert-Zand

Poignant new anthology marks second anniversary of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Editors Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji asked local writers — journalists, academics, authors, rabbis — to personally reflect on the tragic event of October 27, 2018

People pay their respects Thursday, November 1, 2018, at a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue to the 11 people killed October 27, 2018 while worshiping in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

From the blogs

After the Tree of Life shooting, I went to Shabbat services and never stopped

Going to temple weekly for 2 years has taught me profound lessons about Jews and Blacks in America and enriched my own Christian faith

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

Cabinet decides grades 1-4 to go back to school Sunday, salons to reopen

Students will be divided into separate pods; after-school programs also to resume; businesses that receive customers on one-by-one basis allowed to reopen

A sign in a window shop on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on October 25, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

State comptroller cites ‘significant shortcomings’ in Israel’s pandemic response

By Nathan Jeffay

A young girl is tested for the coronavirus by a healthcare worker at a COVID-19 testing center set up at a basketball court, in Ramat Gan, October 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Percentage of positive COVID tests the lowest since June; serious cases drop

US President Donald Trump talks to reporters as first lady Melania Trump listens before boarding Air Force One for a day of campaign rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nebraska, October 27, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

Trump says 5-10 more Arab countries to normalize with Israel after US elections

‘It’s peace in the Middle East with no money and no blood,’ US president enthuses, predicting agreements with both ‘big and smaller’ nations

7:27 pm

Israel and US to extend scientific cooperation to West Bank, Golan Heights
7:21 pm

Arab Israelis, Palestinians protest Macron’s defense of Mohammad cartoons
6:44 pm

Trump says 5 to 10 more Arab countries set to normalize with Israel

Workers lift the 3rd-century CE Roman boundary stone at Israel Antiquities Authority excavations at Nafah in the Golan Heights (Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Greek inscription links modern Israeli army base to 1,700-year-old Roman village

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the winner of a Democratic Congressional primary in New York, talks to the media, June 27, 2018, in New York. Ocasio-Cortez, 28, upset U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in the election. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Analysis

Simona Weinglass

2 Israeli startup entrepreneurs played roles in rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

After she pulled out of an event commemorating Rabin, some concluded that AOC doesn’t like Israelis. But 2 were instrumental in the lawmaker’s early career

Uri Pilichowski

100 times President Trump supported Israel

Sure, he moved the embassy to Jerusalem, paved the way for the Abraham Accord and recognized Golan sovereignty, but there’s more. Much more.

It’s never a good time: Ending a dog’s life

Dassie was suffering, and it was our job as her owners to care for her even – perhaps especially – in this last part of her life

How Israelis get American elections wrong

Who’s better for Israel is not the question. Either way, Israel will face the same foreign policy challenges and must get ready to seize opportunities

Why India supports the Abraham Accord

My country is deeply engaged with the GCC states in myriad domains and is a close and large market for the fruits of this new partnership

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Alteyb Hhmad. a Sudanese asylum seeker, in Tel Aviv on October 25, 2020 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In Tel Aviv, Sudanese migrants say Israel making peace with a rotten regime

By Simona Weinglass

Asylum seekers question why Netanyahu would normalize ties with transitional leaders considered illegitimate by pro-democracy Sudanese

File: Sudanese and Eritrean refugees in South Tel Aviv in 2011 (Nicky Kelvin/Flash90)

Israel, Sudan discuss draft proposal for repatriating Sudanese refugees – report

Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan speaks during a military-backed rally in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, file)

Sudan’s leader: We weren’t blackmailed; we’re the biggest winners of Israel deal

Claudine Aoun, the daughter of Lebanese President Michel Aoun. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Daughter of Lebanese president says open to peace with Israel, under conditions

‘I would not object to the prospect of a peace agreement,’ says Claudia Aoun of deal with Jewish state, in latest comment to draw ire

Hezi Kugler, left, and Marc Zell, right. (Screenshot/YouTube, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli Democrats, Republicans spar over election impact on normalization deals

By Raphael Ahren

An Iranian oil worker rides his bicycle near an oil refinery south of the capital, Tehran, December 22, 2014. (AP/Vahid Salemi/File)

US hits Iran’s oil sector with further sanctions

By AFP

Israeli students wear protective face masks as they return to school for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus, May 3, 2020 in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

Getting schooled: What the press is saying on October 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Local authorities and pundits put on a clinic for the government to learn how to think outside the classroom, and the comptroller releases a damning, but not damning enough, report

A worker checks the temperature of a customer at a store in the northern Arab Israeli town of Deir al-Asad on April 18, 2020. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Arab Israelis see new virus surge as weddings ‘return with a vengeance’

By Aaron Boxerman

Nachman Ash at a welcoming ceremony for an Israeli military delegation in Japan on April 12, 2011. (IDF spokesperson)

Israel’s next coronavirus czar named as former IDF medical chief Nachman Ash

US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, meets with Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Amy Coney Barrett confirmed as US Supreme Court justice in partisan vote

By LISA MASCARO

Monday’s deeply controversial 52-48 vote to approve Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement was the closest high court confirmation ever to a presidential election

A man fills out his ballot during early voting for the US presidential election, October 20, 2020, in Adel, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

US sees fresh virus spike in Midwest, at worst possible time for Trump

By Thomas Beaumont

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, right in blue mask, condemned Donald Trump in an interview earlier this month. (Facebook via JTA)

Modern Orthodox rabbi in Israel hits out at ‘mentally disturbed’ Trump

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

Glorious nation

Kazakhstan adopts Borat’s ‘Very nice’ as tourism slogan

Central Asian nation embraces catchphrase in ads released to coincide with movie; separately, US judge dismisses Holocaust survivor’s estate’s lawsuit over her appearance in film

Prof. Zeev Rotstein, CEO of Hadassah Hospital, speaks during a press conference to introduce the new medical team at the hospital's hemato-oncology department, June 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Hadassah in negotiations to open hospital in Dubai

Head of Jerusalem medical center says proposal could turn Hadassah into a ‘medical power in the UAE,’ denies using talks to leverage funds from Finance Ministry

Then-public security minister Gilad Erdan, at a press conference on January 2, 2019. (Flash90)

UN envoy chides Security Council for ‘ignoring’ Israel normalization deals

United Arab Emirates fans cheer for the team during the AFC Asian Cup group A soccer match between United Arab Emirates and India at Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

With cooperation as their goal, Israel and UAE soccer leagues ink agreement

By AFP

Rami Aman, 38, speaks to Israeli activists during a videoconference in April before being arrested by Hamas authorities (Screenshot: Youtube)

Hamas convicts, but then frees activists who held Zoom conference with Israelis

By Aaron Boxerman

Rami Aman was in Hamas prison since April, when he was arrested for joining a ‘Skype With Your Enemy’ conversation in which Israelis participated

Border Police officers at the entrance to the settlement of Hashmonaim, where an armed Palestinian was arrested on February 9, 2018. (courtesy)

Palestinian indicted for planning terror attack in Rosh Ha’ayin

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomes Turkish-Cypriot leader (not pictured) during an official ceremony in Ankara, on October 26, 2020. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Turkey’s Erdogan invokes Holocaust to condemn French crackdown on radical Islam

Some 190 objects from the L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art planned to be sold at Sotheby's London on October 27, 2020 (Courtesy Sotheby's)

Jerusalem Islamic museum scraps Sotheby’s sale of its exhibits following outrage

A man walks in the yard of a house destroyed by shelling by Azerbaijan's artillery during a military conflict in Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Oct. 9, 2020 (AP Photo)

Report: Israeli arms manufacturers paid millions to Azeris through Russian bank

By Simona Weinglass

A view of the oil leak in the Arava area of southern Israel, on December 9, 2014 (Environmental Protection Ministry)

State-owned company, 5 executives may face trial over 2014 desert oil spill

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the traditional selling of hametz (food containing leavening) of the State of Israel to a non-Jew before the upcoming Passover holiday, on March 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ombudsman calls to review Sephardi chief rabbi’s status as rabbinical judge

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner gives thumbs up as he walks back to the West Wing after a television interview at the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kushner accused of racism for saying Black people must ‘want to be successful’

By AP

Illustrative image of the American and Israeli flags. (3dmitry; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel, US relations blossom as nations mark 35 years since free trade accord

By Jake Epstein

Yesh Atid MK Yair Lapid speaks during a Knesset plenum session on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool/Flash90)

Opposition chief to file bill next week to dissolve Knesset, call new elections

The moment a man ran over his friend over a NIS 300 debt in video broadcast on October 25, 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 12)

Man runs over friend who reportedly owed him NIS 300, seriously injuring him

Microsoft's Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk (Courtesy)

Microsoft, Google top two best tech firms to work for in Israel: D&B

By Shoshanna Solomon

Using old surgical masks as plant pots. (Courtesy, Pablo Chercasky, Director of the KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund's Gilat Tree Nursery in southern Israel)

Second natureJNF official: Don’t trash used masks, use them to grow plants

File: Oscar Isaac attends the 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' European Premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square on December 18, 2019 in London (Mike Marsland/WireImage)

It's super mensch!Oscar Isaac in talks to play Marvel rabbi’s son-turned superhero

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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