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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 31, 2020

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Members of the Druze community carry the body of late spiritual leader Sheikh Abu Zain Al-Din Hassan Halabi, during his funeral in the Golan Heights border town of Majdal Shams on October 30, 2020, despite a nationwide ban on mass gatherings due to the coronavirus. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Most at mass event wear masks, keep social distance

Defying restrictions, thousands hold funeral for Druze leader who died of COVID

Virus czar says all those at funeral in locked down town of Majdal Shams should test for COVID-19; body of Sheikh Abu Zain Al-Din Hassan Halabi was snatched from the hospital

Druze Israelis break into Ziv Medical Center in Safed to snatch the body of Sheikh Abu Zain Al-Din Hassan Halabi on October 30, 2020. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Followers of Druze sheikh snatch his body from hospital to hold mass funeral

Illustrative: A woman stands next to a makeshift checkpoint in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on April 9, 2020. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Ministers impose, extend virus lockdowns on northern Israeli Arab towns

Jewish children dressed up to celebrate the Purim holiday in Sudan, 1950. (Courtesy Tales of Jewish Khartoum)

Interview

Yaakov Schwartz

Exiled Jews would ‘love’ to see Sudan again, if given chance via new Israel ties

UK-based Tales of Jewish Sudan website founder Daisy Abboudi talks about tiny community’s rich but short history, in which all her grandparents played a part

Illustrative: Two US Air Force F-22 Raptors fly over Syria, February 2, 2018. (Air National Guard/ Staff Sgt. Colton Elliott via Department of Defense)

Trump approves selling F-22 Raptor to Israel — Saudi report

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Newspaper says US is okaying sale of the advanced stealth aircraft to maintain the Jewish state’s military superiority, after announcing plans to sell F-35s to UAE

Menachem Zivotofsky (L) is handed the first US passport to have 'Israel' labeled as a place of birth by US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on October 30, 2020. (US Embassy in Jerusalem)

US gives first passport with ‘Israel’ birthplace to Jerusalem-born teen

An Israeli supporter of US President Donald Trump waves a campaign flag at a rally for his re-election, on a promenade overlooking Jerusalem, October 27, 2020. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Poll indicates Israelis favor Trump over Biden 54% – 21% in upcoming US vote

Illustrative: A cartoon published in the Guardian, portraying UK Labour Party leader Kier Starmer holding up former party leader Jeremy Corbyn's severed head on a golden plate.

Guardian under fire for cartoon of Labour leader with Corbyn’s head on platter

Referencing a Caravaggio painting of Judean princess Salome receiving head of John the Baptist, drawing criticized as anti-Semitic and insensitive following beheadings in France

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Members of rescue services search for survivors in the debris of a collapsed building in Izmir, Turkey, October 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Death toll climbs to 28 in quake that hit Turkey and Greece

By AP and ToI Staff

Over 800 people injured as rescue teams search for survivors in rubble of buildings that collapsed in Turkish city of Izmir; Israel has offered to assist in rescue efforts

Rescue workers and local people carry a wounded person found in the debris of a collapsed building, in Izmir, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has shaken Turkey and Greece. (AP Photo/Ismail Gokmen)

Israel offers to send IDF search and rescue team to Turkey after deadly quake

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Supporters of religious groups burn a representation of a French flag during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and the republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Lahore, Pakistan, Oct. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

‘Death to France’: Tens of thousands of Muslims protest against Macron

Demonstrators in dozens of countries rage at French president, who is standing by right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad in wake of Islamist terror attacks

A speech by the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah terror group's leader Hassan Nasrallah is transmitted on a large screen in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on September 2, 2019. (AFP)

Hezbollah terror chief tells France to back down over Muhammad cartoons

By AFP

French soldiers secure the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Basilica in Nice on October 30, 2020 during a tribute to the victims killed by a knife attacker the day before. (Valery Hache/AFP)

Jewish schools and synagogues in Nice close Friday, fearing terror attacks

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Unfortunate compromise

In the 1877 US presidential election, a compromise won the Republicans the election, but they lost almost everything they believed in (Lech Lecha)

God’s will be done

If Donald Trump’s election to the US presidency is part of the divine plan, then the prayers of Trump-supporting kabbalists for his win are in vain, or at least redundant

Rabbi Barry Kornblau. (Courtesy via JTA)

Interview

New York Orthodox rabbi bucks community to urge vote for Biden

Turned off by nationalist fanaticism of Trump’s inner circle, Rabbi Barry Kornblau speaks out against president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and nod given to white supremacists

Ivanka Trump says she’s pro-life, taking side on abortion for the first time

Iranian hackers who sent threatening emails to Americans accessed voter data

Trump rallies keep packing in thousands as virus surges in US

By Deb Riechmann

Illustrative: Members of the Jewish Orthodox community gather around a journalist as he conducts an interview on a street corner, October 7, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Analysis

A cure for ignorance? US Orthodox doctors battle both COVID and disinformation

With coronavirus increasingly politicized and amid shifting recommendations, physicians find themselves struggling to maintain their communities’ trust in medical professionals

Cody Tupen, a firefighter with the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority, performs a deep nasal nose-swab COVID-19 test on Nancy Backus, left, the mayor of Auburn, Washington, at a King County COVID-19 testing site in Auburn, south of Seattle, October 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

US records over 100,000 infections in new global high, days before the election

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Members of the Orthodox Jewish community wait for school buses to collect them in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, October 8, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Schools in NY Orthodox neighborhoods can reopen under new testing plan

This image grab from AFP TV shows a picture of Nice assailant Brahim Issaoui, who a day earlier killed three people and wounded several others in the southern French city of Nice, held by his mother at the family home in the Tunisian city of Sfax, on October 30, 2020. (AFPTV teams / AFP)

Tunisian in deadly Nice terror attack turned to religion after teen troubles

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘It’s not normal’: Family of Brahim Issaoui, suspected of killing three in French church, express dismay; officials say he was arrested for knife crime in 2016

Indignant Palestinian shoemaker marks his wares with names of Trump and Macron

By AFP

Third suspect detained over deadly Islamist terror attack at Nice church

By Stuart Williams

Malaysia ex-PM stands by tweet that Muslims have right to kill French millions

By AP

The Grumpy Roadsters, a group of New York City bike riders doing their Alyn hospital fundraising ride for 2020 in the Berkshires of Massachusetts this year, rather than in Israel (Courtesy Alyn)

The Brighter Side

Alyn riders keep wheels close to home as rehab hospital renovates for COVID-19

By Jessica Steinberg

This year’s Wheels of Love fundraising ride takes place worldwide rather than in Israel, still helping kids’ rehab center raise funds

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Sean Connery arrives at the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award event honoring Al Pacino in Los Angeles on June 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

ObituarySean Connery, the ‘original’ James Bond, dies at 90

By Jill Lawless and Bob Thomas

Boaz Kolodner (video screen capture: Ynet)

Candidate to receive 1st Israeli COVID vaccine dose forced to withdraw

Jeanise Jones, right, and actress Maria Bakalova, left, in the new "Borat" film. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Baron Cohen gives church $100K after member duped into appearing in new ‘Borat’

By AP

A screen shot from a video of an incident in Philadelphia in which visibly Jewish men at a Black Lives Matter protest were shoved and told to leave, October 27, 2020. (Screenshot from Instagram via JTA)

Jewish men abused with anti-Semitic slurs at Philadelphia racial justice protest

Democratic candidate for Senate Jon Ossoff is shown during a small rally in Athens, Georgia, October 26, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Jewish Senate candidate lashes rival for attack ads that lengthened his nose

Members of the Global Imams Council during a meeting in 2017 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Courtesy of the Council via JTA)

Muslim council adopts anti-Semitism definition, outlawing demonization of Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: A man wears a Dominican flag on his way out of the subway station to march with the Green Movement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, July 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)

Dominican Republic considering moving embassy to Jerusalem

A driver slams his car into a door of Mecca's Grand Mosque, October 30, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Saudi man slams car into gates of Mecca’s Grand Mosque

By AP

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