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What Matters Most On Friday, October 30, 2020

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Palestinians gesture during a protest against comments by French President Emmanuel Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, on October 30, 2020. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

French president denounced as 'enemy of God'

Hundreds protest at Temple Mount against Macron, Muhammad cartoons; 3 arrested

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Police say suspects held for disorderly conduct; French president’s vow to protect the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad continues to roil the Muslim world

Islamists have declared war on France, Jewish community leader says

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Malaysia’s former PM says Muslims have right to kill millions of French

By AFP and ToI Staff

A timeline of jihadist attacks in France in recent years

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel. (Israel Defense Forces)

White House informs Congress of plans to sell as many as 50 F-35s to UAE

Informal notice of $10.4 billion sale gives lawmakers opportunity to raise objections before it moves forward, comes days after Netanyahu gave blessing to transfer

US President Donald Trump speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone about a Sudan-Israel peace agreement, in the Oval Office on October 23, 2020 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

US announces citizens born in Jerusalem can now list Israel on their passports

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right, and senior Israeli defense officials meet with US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, left and his staff at military headquarters in Tel Aviv on October 29, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz, Esper meet for 3rd time in a month, this time in Tel Aviv, on arms sales

By Judah Ari Gross

Keir Starmer, left, with Jeremy Corbyn at the European Union headquarters in Brussels after a bilateral Brexit meeting, September 27, 2018. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

UK Labour in turmoil as Corbyn vows to fight his suspension over anti-Semitism

Senior party sources warn volatile situation could even lead to split; shadow cabinet rallies around new chief Starmer; unions bemoan alleged injustice

AnalysisA brutal verdict on Labour anti-Semitism; stunning fallout as Corbyn is booted

By Robert Philpot

US voters mark their ballots during early in-person voting, Oct. 29, 2020, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP/Elise Amendola)

Israel media review

Polls apart: What the press is saying on October 30

By Joshua Davidovich

An Israel still smarting from the deadly results of its own divisions peers across the sea to a polarized America as it tries to gauge who will be president and what it could mean

Shattering hubris in our ‘old-new’ land

Abraham was on the move to find his truth, which led him to doubt the broken idols of home and mind; and to renew his path of mystery, beauty, and wonder. We can do no less

David Seidenberg

Pray like our lives – and the election – depend on it!

’May You give a listening heart to whomever we elect and may it be good in Your eyes to raise a good government to bring healing, justice and peace to all living in this land…’

Joshua Hammerman

Borat’s hidden message to Jews

If you know even a little Hebrew, you’ll catch more of Sacha Baron Cohen’s most satirical commentary, in his newest effort to smoke out bigotry wherever it may be found

Corbyn condemned himself with the mural

But tolerance for anti-Semitism in the UK Labour ranks has existed for decades: That's the real problem that needs to be addressed

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Yigal Amir, the convicted assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, seen during a court hearing in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

25 years on, Rabin’s jailed assassin still a national threat: security service

Shin Bet says Yigal Amir has a following among far-right activists and there is concern he may direct them from within prison, where he is serving life sentence for 1995 killing

A display of 25,000 memorial candles in honor of the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, October 29, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tel Aviv square lights up with 25,000 candles 25 year after Rabin assassination

Protesters march against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 29, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hundreds march through Tel Avi in protest of Netanyahu

Then US Vice President Joe Biden on his way to speak to the press at the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool)

Analysis

‘The good cop’: Joe Biden and Israel during the Obama years

Democratic presidential candidate was loyal to the president during his White House tenure, but remained a steadfast friend to Israel and acted as a key interlocutor, insiders say

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., front left, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and other House impeachment managers, walk to the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

A guide to the 23 Jewish Democratic incumbents running in US election

Joe Biden speaks with media before boarding his plane at Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida, Oct. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump and Biden hold dueling rallies in key battleground state of Florida

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Then-US president Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk to a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Analysis

Ami Eden and Ben Sales

Why Trump’s Jewish supporters say he’s been a ‘dream come true’ on Israel

Most American Jews disapprove of president and will vote Biden, but for some, his record on the Jewish state is nearly spotless

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller speaks to the media on October 11, 2019, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Stephen Miller reportedly nods to QAnon, prepares further immigration curbs

By Ben Sales and PHILISSA CRAMER

Qassem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC Quds Force, attends an annual rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

US officials said briefed on security threat, possibly tied to Soleimani killing

Operators at an ERAN call center. (Courtesy of ERAN)

Pandemic of loneliness, anxiety: Crisis hotline says suicide calls have doubled

By Nathan Jeffay

ERAN helpline says many of those calling now don’t have diagnosed mental health issues; Rivlin: We must treat the isolation as well as the virus

Virus test positivity rate drops to 1.8%, the lowest level in Israel since June

Ministers decide to reopen synagogues on Sunday, but shops to remain closed

PM spars with Katz after finance minister tweets criticism from cabinet meeting

US Vice President Joseph Biden, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wave to the press ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Israel-Arab accords an earthquake for Palestinians, who now pin hopes on Biden

Sudan deal has deepened the shock in Ramallah, which is digging in despite impatience among erstwhile Sunni supporters. The Palestinians aren’t going anywhere, but the PA might be

IDF soldiers take part in a large-scale exercise 'Lethal Arrow' simulating war in the north in October 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

With massive exercise in north, IDF prepares for war on multiple fronts

By Judah Ari Gross

Lethal Arrow drill simulates fighting in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and elsewhere against Iranian proxies and Palestinian terror groups

IDF soldiers during a raid on illegal weapons manufacturing workshops in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank on September 26, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF says bomb thrown at troops, who then open fire; 3 Palestinians injured

Soldiers form the Italian contingent with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) monitor the area near the southern Lebanese border town of Naqura during the second round of talks between Lebanon and Israel at a UN base on the demarcation of the maritime frontier between the two countries, on October 29, 2020. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT/AFP)

Israel, Lebanon end second round of ‘productive’ maritime border talks

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) speaks to the press as Nice's mayor Christian Estrosi (R) listens outside the the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Basilica in Nice on October 29, 2020 after a jihadist attack in the city. (Eric Gaillard/POOL/AFP)

After 3 killed in Nice church, Macron says France under Islamist terror assault

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Killer beheaded one victim, kept shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’; security to be upped for schools, religious sites nationwide; Nice chief rabbi says synagogues, schools closed on Friday

French police question man over contact with Nice church killing suspect

By AFP

Nice church killer is Tunisian, 21, entered France from Italy three weeks ago

By Lori Hinnant and DANIEL COLE

World leaders including Netanyahu, Trump condemn deadly stabbings in France

By AFP and ToI Staff

Left to right: Members of the Joint List party MKs Osama Saadi, Ayman Odeh, Ahmad Tibi and Mansour Abbas arrive for a consultation with President Reuven Rivlin on who he should task with trying to form a new government, in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

When Israel’s Arabs began to demand their own ‘normalization’ deal

Mansour Abbas, who drew fire from his opposition colleagues for helping Likud overturn a Knesset vote last week, is a conservative Muslim urging ‘pragmatic’ Arab Israeli politics

Arab Israelis march in Kafr Qasim to commemorate a 1956 massacre by Israel Border Police on Thursday, October 29, 2020 (Credit: Yousef Jabareen)

Hundreds march through Kafr Qasim to mark 64th anniversary of massacre

By Aaron Boxerman

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People work on a collapsed building, in Izmir, Turkey, Oct. 30, 2020, after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has shaken Turkey and Greece (DHA via AP)

At least 14 dead as strong earthquake hits Turkey, Greece

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

Travelers at the almost empty halls of Ben Gurion International Airport, during a nationwide lockdown, October 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Israel imposes 14-day quarantine for travelers returning from Germany, Italy

Volunteers in Israel's beach cleanup efforts, October 30, 2020. (Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Thousands collect trash from shores and seas in Israel’s biggest beach cleanup

Clean up efforts underway at the site of an oil spill some 3 kilometers off Ashkelon's coast, October 30, 2020. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

Environment ministry investigating, cleaning up oil spill off Ashkelon coast

A picture taken from a distance shows the French consulate in the Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah on October 29, 2020. (Photo by Mohammed Ahmed / AFP)

Saudi man arrested after stabbing guard at French Consulate

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A man sleeps on a public bench next to closed shops on Hillel Street in downtown Jerusalem, on September 23, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli study finds paying off debt, not spending, is main use of stimulus cash

Illustrative: Israelis at home during a power outage in the coastal city of Netanyahu, October 26, 2015. (Chen Leopold/FLASH90)

Power outages across Israel; electric company: ‘Unequivocally not cyberattack’

Screen capture from video of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent-Vermont, speaking during the first night of the Democratic National Convention, August 17, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP)

At Pittsburgh memorial, Bernie Sanders warns authoritarianism rising in Israel

Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs at Westerbork Memorial Center, May 14, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Dutch chief rabbi says ‘no need’ for churches’ mea culpa over Holocaust inaction

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Argentine Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich, undated (Screen shot from YouTube via JTA)

Leading Argentine rabbis deny businessman’s claim they run kosher meat ‘mafia’

By JTA

A decorative silver Torah shield signed and dated by Elimelekh Tzoref of Stanislav, 1782. (JTA)

Pair of 18th-century Torah shields expected to fetch $1m each at auction

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: A police patrol car in Jerusalem, September 20, 2017. (Times of Israel/Stuart Winer)

Man stabbed to death in Jerusalem’s Talpiot industrial zone

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