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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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USAmbassador to Israel David M. Friedman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign agreements to further binational scientific and technological cooperation in a special ceremony held at Ariel University on October 28, 2020 (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Netanyahu hails a blow against 'those malevolent boycotters'

PM fetes ‘important victory’ as US okays funding science projects in settlements

By Raphael Ahren

In move seen by some as precursor to future West Bank annexation, Washington removes geographic restrictions from three 1970s science cooperation agreements

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

Trump: Up to 10 countries set for peace with Israel, ‘largely after’ elections

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli supporter of the reelection of US President Donald Trump waves American and Israeli flags from a car at a rally outside of the US Embassy, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Trump supporters rally at US embassy in Jerusalem

By AP

Circa 400 CE Byzantine church excavated at Banias Nature Reserve. (Yaniv Cohen)

Archaeology'You are Peter and, on this rock, I will build my Church'

Ancient church found where Jesus said to tell Peter to establish Christianity

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

4th-century church, one of earliest in Israel, was built atop temple to Pan at spot in Banias where New Testament says Peter saw Jesus as Messiah, was told to spread his teachings

The modern Dead Sea is hypersaline and in an arid desert environment, but was once a freshwater lake surrounded by fertile grasslands. October 4, 2018. (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)

Early humans used green Levant, including Israel, as steppingstone out of Africa

From the blogs

Mosab Hassan Yousef

A Palestinian dreams of Isaac and Ishmael

In the eternal battle between fear and hope, writes the ‘Son of Hamas,’ the Abraham Accords offer a chance to break free from irreconcilable dogmas and imagine what is possible

From the blogs

Shalom and welcome to Bahrain

I was the first Bahraini female Jewish envoy to the US, so you can believe me when I tell you that my country is a bastion of religious freedom. Come see it for yourselves!

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Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, head rabbi at New York's Park Avenue Synagogue. (courtesy)

Behind the headlinesJoin ToI Community as Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove calls for a new American Judaism

Kenneth Jacobson

Words matter: Reflecting on the 25 years since Rabin’s assassination

Rhetoric spawned violence, and it could again; 45% of Israelis believe that incitement could lead to another assassination for political ends

Joe Biden: 2 years after the Tree of Life shooting, we must be the light

If I am elected, we will fight the evil that is anti-Semitism, address domestic extremism and maintain our unbreakable bond with Israel

FILE: Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of the capital Tehran, on April 9, 2007. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP)

UN watchdog says Iran building new underground nuclear facility

By David Rising

IAEA says centrifuge structure meant to replace Natanz plant hit by mysterious explosion over summer; Tehran had promised to replace site with more secure one in mountains

Bipartisan House bill will encourage US to sell bunker buster bombs to Israel

By Jacob Magid and Judah Ari Gross

Satellite photos show construction at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site

By Jon Gambrell

Facebook shuts down Iranian deception campaign that targeted Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lara Trump, front and center, campaigned with Laura Loomer, on the right. Loomer is the Republican congressional candidate in the Florida district that includes President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. (Twitter via JTA)

Analysis

A guide to the 10 Jewish Republicans running for Congress in 2020

From NY candidate who canvases for homeless, to a gay Texas Latino, a former child addict who speaks fluent Hebrew, and a self-confessed Florida Islamaphobe who got Trump’s vote

Illustrative: A woman stands with her son during a Yom Kippur service hosted by the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, during the coronavirus pandemic, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, at the Dezerland Park drive-in theatre in North Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

United States of Anxiety: New fears have American Jews questioning the future

By Uriel Heilman

A Trump campaign website briefly hacked (screenshot)

Trump campaign website briefly hacked and defaced

By AFP

Illustrative: Man holding a US passport. (Shutterstock)

Live updates (closed)

US to let citizens born in Jerusalem list Israel on their passports — report

Politico says policy change, which pro-Israel groups have long pushed for, could be announced as soon as Thursday

7:29 pm

Riga Holocaust museum to stay open after city government waives rent
7:17 pm

Senior Hamas official warns Gaza border violence could resume
7:04 pm

Ministers may allow synagogues to reopen next week -- report

Illustrative: From 'Til Kingdom Come,' a new documentary about the unlikely relationship between Jews and evangelical Christians, premiering on Kan 11 on October 28, 2020 (Courtesy Maya Zinshtein)

Documentary eyes Evangelicals: Trump’s 2016 win, Jerusalem embassy and beyond

By Jessica Steinberg

The Knesset Education Culture and Sports Committee convenes in Jerusalem on October 28, 2020. (Ronit Gal/Knesset)

Knesset rejects ‘illogical’ outdoor studies plan, causing PM to reconsider

Education Committee unanimously shoots down proposal to only allow groups of 15 for grades 5-12 with 100-meter distance between groups, saying it’s too stringent

Israel media reviewLearning the hard way: What the press is saying on October 28

By Joshua Davidovich

COVID-19 infections continue to drop, but daily deaths still high

Tax Authority to demand return of hundreds of millions in coronavirus stipends

Gravestone engraved in Hebrew at the Jewish cemetery in Buchach, western Ukraine. (Public domain)

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LISTEN: Medieval Jewish ghost stories, heaven, hell, and a lot of punishment

Singer Bob Dylan leans towards the mike at New York's Madison Square Garden Jan. 30, 1974 during one of three appearances with The Band in New York City. Robbie Robertson, left, accompanies Dylan on guitar. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine)

Lost interviews show Dylan worried about anti-Semitism when he changed his name

By WILLIAM J. KOLE

Transcripts of 1971 interview and letters going up for auction also reveal ‘Lay Lady Lay’ was written for Barbara Streisand, but don’t elaborate on the relationship

Arab Israeli Muslim demonstrators, mask-clad due to the coronavirus pandemic, hold up signs depicting French President Emmanuel Macron as a medieval crusading knight, during a protest against comments by Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, near the French embassy in Tel Aviv, on October 27, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Arab Israelis, Palestinians protest Macron’s defense of Muhammad cartoons

By Aaron Boxerman

Scattered demonstrations on Monday night followed by protest in front of the French Embassy in Tel Aviv organized by Islamic Movement; protests also held in Ramallah

Demonstrators chant slogans during an anti-France protest in Istanbul, October 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkish leaders denounce Charlie Hebdo for lecherous Erdogan cartoon

By AP and ToI Staff

People attend a memorial march in homage to the history teacher who was beheaded last week, Tuesday, Oct.20, 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, who was later shot dead by police. Police officials said Paty had discussed caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad with his class, leading to threats. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Most Jews back French crackdown on radical Islam, targeting religious activities

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Umm al-Fahm residents Anas and Riham Aghbaria, who instead of holding the massive wedding party they'd planned decided to donate the money to charity and forego the ceremony in light of the coronavirus pandemic (Screenshot: Facebook)

Umm al-Fahm couple, unable to hold large wedding, gives away 450 bags of food

By Aaron Boxerman

Supplies to tackle the coronavirus pandemic donated by the Qatar Fund for Development are loaded onto a Qatar Airways flight to Kigali in Rwanda at Doha's Hamad International Airport, April 28, 2020. (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

Qatar apologizes after ‘appalling’ invasive examination of women on 10 flights

Hamas deputy Gaza chief Mahmoud al-Zahar scolds the Palestinian Authority for having "tied its fate to the Israeli occupation" in an interview with Iranian Al-Alam TV, October 27, 2020 (Screenshot: YouTube)

Senior Hamas official: PLO won’t change, reconciliation ‘nearly impossible’

By Aaron Boxerman

The installation of sewage-monitoring stations at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (courtesy of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Israel takes crack at sniffing out COVID outbreaks in people’s poop

By Nathan Jeffay

MK and Chair of the Committee David Bitan, Chair of the Jewish Agency Isaac 'Boogie' Herzog, Secretary-General of the Jewish Agency Josh Schwartz, and MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh, at the Knesset Aliya Committee's observance of the anniversary of the Pittsburgh terrorist attack, October 27, 2020. (Becca Wertman)

2 years on, MKs seek ways to remember Pittsburgh massacre, prevent another

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on August 24, 2020. (Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Gantz: Netanyahu committing a ‘crime against the state’ by stalling budget

Illustrative: Palestinian men use a computer in the southern Gaza Strip on January 20, 2012. (Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)

Bots from Gaza trying to delegitimize Israel, inflate hostility, ministry says

Chief Justice Esther Hayut (R) and High Court Justice Hanan Melcer arrive to a hearing on petitions against the position of alternate prime minister, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court swats ‘political’ challenges to legality of alternate PM post

By Michael Bachner

Sudanese asylum seekers gather on October 25, 2020 in an area in the southern part of Tel Aviv where thousands of them live. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Sudanese in Israel fear deportation after normalization, say they face danger

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Courtroom drawing showing defendant Keith Raniere, center, leader of the secretive group NXIVM, during the first day of his sex trafficking trial, May 7, 2019. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Head of NXIVM sex-cult tied to Seagram’s heir gets 120 years in prison

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays

Screenshots of two anti-Semitic tweets that have since been removed (screen grab)

South African Jews celebrate first criminal conviction for online anti-Semitism

By Raphael Ahren

EffieEitam speaks during the Gush Katif conference at the Tel Aviv Museum on March 23, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Apparent pick of nationalist ex-minister to head Yad Vashem sparks outcry

By Joseph Krauss

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