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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 1, 2020

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Sheba Medical Center nurse Hala Litwin injects a dose into Israel's first human test subject, Segev Harel, as part of trials for Israel's experimental coronavirus vaccine, BriLife, on November 1, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

First 2 volunteers injected with Israeli virus vaccine, kicking off human trials

Netanyahu says development of vaccine will be ‘the true exit from the coronavirus crisis’; Gantz says volunteer implored him to help Israelis suffering economic effects of pandemic

Segev Harel, the first volunteer for trials for Israel's coronavirus vaccine. (Sheba Medical Center)

Volunteer to receive 1st Israeli vaccine shot hails ‘historic opportunity’

By Nathan Jeffay and ToI Staff

Students at Orot Etzion School, in the Jewish settlement of Efrat, in the West Bank on November 1, 2020 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

School is back in session for grades 1-4 as lockdown eased; synagogues reopen

Rabbi Yisroel Hager, the head of Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty, speaks to his followers in the northern city of Safed on August 14, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Leading Hasidic rabbi denounces ‘Jews who snitch’ over violations of virus rules

Vizhnitz Rabbi Yisroel Hager says closure of ultra-Orthodox schools caused ‘unbearable spiritual and material damage,’ vows they won’t be shuttered again

A man helping a child with her mask as children make their way to school in Moshav Yashresh, on November 1, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel media reviewLet’s talk about me: What the press is saying on November 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky attends a campaign event for the ultra-Orthodox Degel HaTorah party in the northern city of Safed on February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

‘Nobody here is crazy’: Top rabbi’s grandson defends continuing study amid COVID

TOI investigates

Wikipedia probe exposes an Israeli stealth PR firm that worked for scammers

By Simona Weinglass

Hosts US Vice President Joe Biden and Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken (R), during a luncheon gathering in honor of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on June 30, 2015, at the State Department in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Interview

Biden aide on UAE F-35 sale: Only Israel was meant to have those jets in region

Antony Blinken says accord with Emirates, while positive, seems to be quid pro quo; says Jerusalem, Ramallah too far apart for talks so Biden would work to prevent unilateral steps

President Donald Trump speaks about a Sudan-Israel peace agreement, in the Oval Office on October 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Jared Kushner is behind him (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP

Sudan, US ink deal blocking further compensation claims in American courts

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

From the blogs

No, no, no! The naked cynicism of the Israel-Sudan deal

Devoid of humanitarianism, the accord scores political points for Trump and Netanyahu and tramples the will of citizens in a fragile democracy

US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 31, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump: It’ll take weeks to count votes, ‘very bad things’ could happen

By AFP and ToI Staff

US president warns of ‘bedlam in our country’ if no winner declared on November 3, which he predicts is ‘highly likely’

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former US President Barack Obama make a stop at a canvass kickoff event at Birmingham Unitarian Church on October 31, 2020 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Obama: Trump failed to take pandemic and the presidency seriously

By Steve Peoples, Alexandra Jaffe and Zeke Miller

Residents wait to cast their absentee ballots during early voting, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in Lewiston, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

66% of 2016 turnout have already voted in US election: Good for Biden…probably

By Nicholas Riccardi and Angeliki Kastanis

What’s ‘good for Israel’? Bipartisan support

Both Israel and the US would do well to move past the way Trump turned the Jewish state into a political football

Angels needed in America

My cousin knits socks of different sizes and shapes from multi-colored strands, and the analogy to my country and its varied needs stares me in the face

Illustrative: A scientist inspects water in a creek (kosmos111 via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli experts make global stink over coronavirus surviving in treated sewage

By Nathan Jeffay

Researchers issue call for sewage plants worldwide to disinfect wastewater, lest pumping it into natural water sources lead to infections among animals or humans

AnalysisIn pandemic’s shadow, health coverage decisions move from doctors to politicians

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Israelis walk past a closed shop outside the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on September 23, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Finance, health ministers lock horns over reopening of shops

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)

Macron says can ‘understand’ Muslim shock over Muhammad cartoons

By Jérôme RIVET and Stuart Williams

But amid protests, French president tells Al-Jazeera violence over caricatures cannot be justified

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)

AnalysisBattling virus and Islamist attacks, France’s Macron faces a defining moment

By Jérôme RIVET

French gendarmes secure the area around the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Basilica in Nice on October 31, 2020, two days after a Tunisian man stabbed three people to death in a terror attack. (Valery Hache/AFP)

2 more suspects arrested over deadly Islamist terror attack in Nice church

By AFP

A man walks out from a building of Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp. January 25, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Media groups embroiled in Netanyahu graft cases won’t be charged

By Michael Bachner

Attorney general has decided not to indict Yedioth Ahronoth, Walla and Bezeq, according to unconfirmed report, meaning PM’s trial won’t face delay; premier decries ‘absurd’

7:17 pm

Report: Media groups involved in Netanyahu cases won't be charged; cases won't be delayed
7:00 pm

Poll shows Netanyahu widening lead over Bennett's Yamina
6:38 pm

Anti-Netanyahu protesters scuffle with police in Jerusalem; 1 arrested

Anti-Netanyahu rallies across country draw thousands; protesters attacked

By AP and ToI Staff

Violence against demonstrators reported in several cities; rallies also memorialize former PM Yitzhak Rabin, with some linking his murder to Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset plenum on October 19, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset Spokesperson)

Netanyahu claims tax exemption for all expenses in private home — report

The Prince Regent's No. 2788 Breguet watch, from the David Salomons collection at the L.A. Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem, to be sold at Sotheby's London (Courtesy Sotheby's London)

Spared the auction block for now, Islamic museum’s artifacts face unclear future

By Jessica Steinberg

A museum robber is seen in security footage from Kibbutz HaZore’a in northern Israel, August, 2020. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

A kibbutz’s beloved museum collection is stolen, and some suspect an inside job

33 statues valued at NIS 2 million (almost $600,000) carried off from Kibbutz HaZore’a; members think one of their own may have played a part, TV report says

More Headlines

Independent candidate Al Gross (Gross for Senate Campaign via AP)

Alaska GOP senator’s ad against Jewish challenger criticized as anti-Semitic

Israel's ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, left, with United Nation's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, and IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, in a helicopter as they review the security situation along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, August 30, 2017. (Israel UN/Shlomi Amsalem)

IDF chief’s helicopter makes emergency landing after motor malfunction

By Judah Ari Gross

In this photo taken with a drone members of rescue services search for survivors in the debris of collapsed buildings in Izmir, Turkey, Oct. 31, 2020 (Ali Aksoyer/DHA via AP)

70-year-old pulled out alive as Turkey quake death toll hits 53

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shlomo Scharf (Screen capture: YouTube)

Soccer commentator suspended for saying Black player ‘should go eat bananas’

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, April 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

ADL slams conservative PAC for calling Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum an ‘anti-Semite’

Police officers and forensic investigators at the scene of a suspected triple murder at the Tel Dan national park in northern Israel, November 1, 2020. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

3 men found dead near nature reserve in apparent triple murder

Coronavirus czar Prof. Ronni Gamzu at the Jerusalem Municipality, on October 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Outgoing coronavirus czar calls for mass testing in Arab communities

An illustrative image of Earth, as viewed from space (YouTube screenshot)

Tel Aviv University aims to launch shoebox-size satellite next year

By Shoshanna Solomon

Comedian Ari Teman (Courtesy)

US rabbis appeal to Trump: Pardon Jewish comic accused of bank fraud

An illustration of the software developed by Vocalis Health, to identify vocal biomarkers to detect illnesses (Courtesy)

Israel’s Vocalis, Mayo Clinic to develop voice-based medical biomarkers

By Shoshanna Solomon

A firefighter truck is parked in front of the National Assembly of Quebec, in Quebec City, early on November 1, 2020, after two people were killed and five wounded by a sword-wielding suspect dressed in medieval clothing (Jordan PROUST / AFP)

2 dead, 5 injured in sword attack by man in ‘medieval clothes’ in Quebec City

By AFP

FILE -- People take part in a 'Resist and Act for Freedom' protest against a mandatory coronavirus vaccine, wearing masks, social distancing and a second lockdown, in Trafalgar Square, London, Sept. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Online forums for anti-vaxxers are ‘hotbeds’ of anti-Semitism, UK report finds

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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