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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 29, 2020

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UK opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his residence in north London on October 28, 2019. (DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

UK Labour suspends unrepentant Jeremy Corbyn after damning anti-Semitism report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Watchdog finds party broke equality laws with handling of anti-Semitism; ex-leader retorts that problem of Jew-hatred in his tenure ‘dramatically overstated for political reasons’

UK probe finds Labour guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination

UK Jewish groups: Anti-Semitism report is ‘damning verdict’ on Corbyn’s Labour

By ToI Staff and AFP

UK Jewish News LIVEUK equalities watchdog slams Labour Party under Corbyn on anti-Semitism

Israelis wear protective face masks on the beach in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Reopening of shops reportedly to be delayed a week

Coronavirus cabinet convenes to discuss further easing lockdown measures; Health Ministry reports 7 deaths, 384 new infections since midnight

7:35 pm

US proceeds from Iranian fuel it sold to aid terror victims
7:23 pm

Jerusalem man killed in stabbing
6:58 pm

Biden commemorates Rabin: 'I was honored to call him a friend'

Rivlin: Hatred is still dividing the country

Marking 25 years since Rabin killing, Netanyahu says he is now PM under threat

Role of incitement in political violence main theme as leaders pay respects to late prime minister; premier defends stance during lead-up to 1995 assassination in Knesset speech

Knesset members hold a minute of silence during a plenum session to mark 25 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, October 29, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset)

A child shakes the hand of Yitzhak Rabin, head of the Labor party, at an election rally held June 20, 1992 in Tel Aviv, days before Rabin's election victory. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Op-ed25 years after Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, a reminder

By David Horovitz

Prof. Joseph Klausner, the surgeon who tried to save Yitzhak Rabin's life on November 4, 1995, in a Channel 12 interview on October 28, 2020 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Surgeon who tried to save Rabin: Nobody had the guts to declare him dead

French members of the elite tactical police unit RAID enter the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice as forensics officers wait outside after a knife attack in Nice on October 29, 2020. (Valery HACHE / AFP)

Three killed in grisly stabbing attack at Nice church

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Suspected assailant detained; one victim’s throat slit; attack comes amid high alert in France following protests over Muhammad cartoons

Hapoel Beersheba fans wave Israeli flags before the UEFA Champions League group stages play-off soccer match between Celtic and Hapoel Beersheba at the Turner Stadium in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on August 23, 2016. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Israeli soccer team in Nice requests extra security after knife attack

(L-R) Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, US President Bill Clinton, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on September 13, 1993. (Wikipedia)

Yitzhak Rabin was always a realist. How would he have handled the 2020 Mideast?

By Dennis Ross and David Makovsky

For starters, he’d have used the new ties with the Gulf states to help restore the sense of possibility for peace with the Palestinians, and broken the stalemate with them

ToI Community Exclusive

Israel Unlocked: Powerful online journeys that support Israeli tourism

Join the ToI Community to access our exclusive virtual tours series – and support Israeli tourism at this difficult time

2,000-year-old seal with the image of Apollo discovered in the City of David near Jerusalem's Western Wall. (Eliyahu Yanai/City of David)

Archaeology

In 2,000-year-old Apollo seal, a sunny glimpse of pluralism in ancient Jerusalem

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

From the blogs

Rabin’s first peace negotiation (and necktie)

The threadbare suit the future PM wore in 1949 when in Rhodes for armistice talks spoke volumes about the man and his fledgling nation

Boaz Kolodner (video screen capture: Ynet)

Israeli COVID vaccine starts human trials: ‘I’m giving my body, but no big deal’

By Nathan Jeffay

Israel has started producing its new coronavirus vaccine. Will it work? Boaz Kolodner and 80 other Israelis have volunteered their immune systems to find out

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)

With 688 new cases, daily virus rates in Israel hit lowest level since June

Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer player Eran Zahavi seen at the final of the State Cup between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa in Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, on May 24, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli striker Zahavi taken off plane ahead of match due to bout with COVID

Illustrative image of a race, ranking or competition. (SARINYAPINNGAM; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel losing ‘Startup Nation’ image, needs rebranding, study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Under 1% of businesspeople in survey associate Israel with startups; pandemic is the time to position country as forward-thinking and problem-solving, urges nonprofit Vibe Israel

A man passes shuttered stores on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Economic restrictions costing Israel NIS 2.3 billion a week, ministry says

By Shoshanna Solomon

View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. September 09, 2020 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Moody’s keeps Israel’s A1 credit rating despite pandemic, ‘polarized politics’

Illustrative: Elementary school students at the Orot Etzion school in Efrat wear protective face masks when they return to school on May 3, 2020, for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus. (Gershon Elinon/Flash90)

Shifting tack, ministers okay reopening elementary schools for 4 days a week

Towns that can afford it are permitted to provide extra days; PM says plan only temporary; cabinet set to also discuss opening stores, synagogues

In this Monday, September 21, 2020 file photo, ultra-Orthodox Jews wear face masks during a morning prayer in a synagogue separated by plastic partitions, in Bnei Brak, Israel. (AP/Oded Balilty, File)

Synagogues could open next week as ministers ease lockdown — reports

People walk next to closed shops in downtown Jerusalem on September 30, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Finance and health ministers at loggerheads over reopening of stores

Trump demolished liberals’ Mideast fallacies – he had help from Iran

‘Palestine First’ died in Abu Dhabi. Yet ’Twitter Man’ was just the midwife of the Abraham Accords. The deal was fathered by imperialist Tehran

Boris Krichevsky

Do Black lives matter to Russian Jews?

What happens when we recognize that the America we idealized, for which we uprooted our lives, lied to us?

This January 16, 2019 photo shows a a first lab-grown steak during a presentation by the Israeli company Aleph Farms, in Jaffa, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Analysis

Israeli protein startups flourish in bid to cut meat’s carbon footprint

Big food companies investing in alternatives to conventional meat and dairy, due to environmental damage caused by livestock farming and need to feed 10 billion mouths by 2050

A United Nations ship is pictured in the southernmost area of Naqura, by the border with Israel, on October 14, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Lebanon reportedly demanding control of 2 Israeli gas fields in maritime talks

Beirut claim on 1,430 square kilometers beyond disputed blocks leads to heated argument, according to reports, with negotiations set to resume Thursday

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) visits a military drill in northern Israel on October 28, 2020. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Touring IDF drill, Netanyahu threatens Hezbollah with ‘steel fist’

In this July 14, 2015, photo, an Iranian woman holds up a national flag as people celebrate a landmark nuclear deal, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

AnalysisIran holds its breath for US election it claims to not care about

By Jon Gambrell

A supporter of US President Donald Trump wears a hat in the colors of the American flag at a rally for his re-election, at a promenade overlooking Jerusalem, October 27, 2020. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

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

Announcement on change of decades-old policy, which sought to avoid taking position on final status issue of conflict, expected less than week before presidential election

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting to discuss the United Arab Emirates' deal with Israel to normalize relations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 18, 2020. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Palestinians denounce inclusion of settlements in US-Israel scientific pact

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill on October 28, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Twitter CEO suggests Holocaust denial not banned, in Senate grilling

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and JTA

Spokesperson later says Twitter bars ‘attempts to deny or diminish such events,’ after Jack Dorsey questioned by Republicans about why some posts removed while others remain

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a video conference with education ministry officials, in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 1, 2020 (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei says pictures of Muhammad same as Holocaust denial

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Police arrest La Familia soccer hooligans at the First Station in Jerusalem on July 30, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

YouTube removes soccer song by Israeli far-right fans insulting Prophet Muhammad

By AFP

More Headlines

In this Sept. 10, 2019, photo released by the U.S. Air Force, an F-35A Lightning II fighter jet is directed out of a hangar at Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. A U.S.-brokered deal that saw Israel and the United Arab Emirates begin to open diplomatic ties may end up with Abu Dhabi purchasing advanced American weaponry like the F-35, potentially upending both a longstanding Israeli military edge regionally and the balance of power with Iran. (Tech. Sgt. Jocelyn A. Ford/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Top Biden foreign policy adviser ‘concerned’ over planned F-35 sale to UAE

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Times of Israel Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaks with Park Avenue Synagogue Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove on the Behind the Headlines video series, October 28, 2020. (Times of Israel)

Behind the HeadlinesWATCH: Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, ‘US Judaism needs to be Netflix, not Blockbuster’

Kathy Manning, the Democratic candidate for the the 13th Congressional District of North Carolina speaks to supporters during an election night event in Greensboro, North Carolina, November 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Meet the 11 Jewish Democrats vying in 2020 to join Congress for first time

Members of the Arab Israeli community protest against violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities, outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on October 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Four killed in day of violence, shootings in Arab Israeli towns

Palestinian entrepreneur Heba al-Hindi demonstrates a locally designed and manufactured smart sterilization device in Gaza City on October 8, 2020, as the machine is to be to be deployed across various facilities in the Gaza Strip as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus disease (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Machine learningGaza woman’s disinfect-o-mat aims to kick COVID to the curb

Clockwise, from top left: Al Gross, Jon Ossoff, Merav Ben-David and Matt Lieberman. (Screen shots from YouTube; Getty Images; Ron Kampeas, all via JTA)

US politics4 Jews are running for Senate in 2020; 2 have a chance to help turn it blue

Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen's works will be on display at the 8th PHOTO IS:RAEL festival, beginning November 9, 2020 (Courtesy Jonas Bendiksen)

Shift the focusPhoto exhibit zooms in on transformation in a changing world

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

Muslim-majority Albania hosts first ever Balkan anti-Semitism forum

By LLAZAR SEMINI

Holocaust survivor and double Olympian Sir Ben Helfgott receives his Pride of Britain award from Stephen Fry by the Holocaust Memorial in Hyde Park, London, October 2020. (Philip Coburn/ via Jewish news)

Holocaust survivor and Olympian Sir Ben Helfgott wins Pride of Britain award

By Justin Cohen

Illustrative: Groups of protesters gather in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park to denounce lockdowns of their neighborhood due to a spike in COVID-19 cases on October 7, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Senior Satmar rabbi denounces Brooklyn anti-lockdown rallies

Workers dig at an archaeological site at the Tower of David Museum in the ancient citadel of Jerusalem near the Jaffa Gate entrance to Jerusalem's Old City on October 28, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

With visitors away, Jerusalem’s Tower of David undergoes major facelift

By Ilan Ben Zion

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in the central city of Bnei Brak on September 22, 2020. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi Kanievsky free from coronavirus, says doctor

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