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What Matters Most On Monday, November 2, 2020

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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speaking in the Knesset plenum, October 12, 2020. (Yaniv Nadav/Knesset spokesperson's office)

'Israel cannot afford to be a branch of the GOP'

Opposition leader accuses Netanyahu of alienating Democrats for personal gain

MK Yair Lapid says PM to blame for Israel no longer being a bipartisan cause in US, but insists both Trump or Biden will be friends of Jewish state

Hebron spokesman Yishai Fleisher, right, and Marc Zell, the head of Republicans Overseas Israel, blow shofars to show their support for Trump November, 2, 2020. (Courtesy Har Hevron regional council spokesperson)

In shadow of patriarchs, settler leaders gather in Hebron to pray for Trump win

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)

Netanyahu praises Trump moves, hopes they continue

By AP

This combination of pictures created on October 31, 2020 shows US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (panel L) and US President Donald Trump (panel R) during competing campaign events October 29, 2020, in Florida. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI and Jim WATSON / AFP)

US campaign enters frenzied final day as fears of election day unrest mount

By Jerome Cartillier

A man wearing a flag-themed body stocking waves from a car as hundreds of vehicles gather at Tropical Park ahead of a car caravan in support of US President Donald Trump, in Miami, November 1, 2020. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

Israel media reviewPrez dispenser: What the press is saying on November 2

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on November 1, 2020, at Richard B. Russell Airport in Rome, Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

If 2020 is like 2000, Trump believes he’s got the votes — on the Supreme Court

By Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman

Analysis

Renee Ghert-Zand

Yiddisher Black cantors from 100 years ago rediscovered thanks to rare recording

Discographer Henry Sapoznik tracks down record by international Yiddish-language performer Thomas LaRue, and slips into a rabbit hole of Black Jewish history

The Moorish Zionist Temple, Harlem, NY, 1929 (James Van Der Zee/The Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem via the National Library of Israel Digital Collection)

Clockwise, from right: 'Honey on the Page' by Miriam Udel (courtesy); 'Labzik: Stories of a Clever Pup,' by Khaver Paver (NYU Press/ via New York Jewish Week); author Miriam Udel (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/via New York Jewish Week); background: Yiddish 'King Lear' poster (flickr/CC-SA-2.0/ Rachel-Esther)

InterviewNew collection of Yiddish kids’ stories comes out from under shadow of Holocaust

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

The scene of a shooting incident near a synagogue in Vienna, Austria, November 2, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Live updates (closed)

Gunshots reported near Vienna synagogue, police arrive at scene

Austrian media says attacker may have detonated explosive belt; Jewish community leader says no casualties among local Jews

7:52 pm

Gunshots heard near synagogue in Vienna, police at scene -- reports
7:12 pm

Gantz said to tell Blue and White that Netanyahu won't honor rotation deal
6:49 pm

Israeli court orders PA to pay NIS 13 million to family of Israeli couple killed in suicide bombing

A coronavirus ward at Galilee Medical Center (Ancho Gosh Jini Photo Agency via Galilee Medical Center)

Explainer

COVID-19 antibodies vanish fast. That doesn’t mean mass reinfection looms

Experts say disappearing antibodies don’t spell the end of immunity, following seemingly alarming British study

‘I feel great’: Israel’s first vaccine volunteer heads home from the hospital

By Nathan Jeffay

Virus quarantine to be shortened from 14 to 12 days, health minister says

Israeli experts make global stink over coronavirus surviving in treated sewage

By Nathan Jeffay

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Make America Great rally at Dubuque Regional Airport on November 1, 2020, in Dubuque, Iowa. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

It all boils down to 6: The swing states that will decide the US election

By Michael Mathes

Biden leads by 3.2% overall in the battlegrounds — Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arizona — which all went to Trump in 2016

Day before US election, both camps traffic in inaccurate claims

By Louis Baudoin

Stores boarded up in Washington, DC, in anticipation of election violence

By Lucie AUBOURG

Trump and Biden tangle over bus broil as campaigns round corner ahead of vote

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The U-shaped courtyard of the former Schneller German Protestant Orphanage, now slated for renovation and rebuilding as Beit Hakehillot museum and institute (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Museum about Jews planned for Jerusalem compound built by Protestant missionary

By Jessica Steinberg

What my concussion means for Israeli democracy

My attacker was emboldened by society’s tolerance for endemic violence against women and motivated by the PM’s divisive cult of personality

The ultimate (and balanced) Trump scorecard

I’m not a fan of the US president. I think he’s a disgrace. But his actions in office are often legit, and they deserve a fair review, especially for those who are still deciding

Henry Greenspan

The American bystanders who did nothing

Where is the patriotic decency of the Senate Republicans? They have the means and power to do good – including blocking the worst of Trump; instead, they have failed us

Jewish-Arab partnership: A way forward

This political realignment addresses decades of prejudice that have oppressed Arab citizens and undermined the inner fabric of Jewish society

Yuval Rabin, son of the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, speaks at a memorial service marking 22 years since his assasination, held at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem. November 1, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Israel hasn’t learned the lesson of Rabin’s assassination, slain PM’s son says

By Raphael Ahren

Quarter-century after his father was slain by Jewish extremist, Yuval Rabin worries about history repeating itself, but takes solace in growing anti-government demonstrations

Labor MK Merav Michaeli (Hadas Parush/Flash90).

Renegade Labor member skips party’s Rabin memorial

Israelis light candles, as part of a display of 25,000 memorial candles in honor of the 25th Memorial Day for the assassination of late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on October 29, 2020.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

25 years after assassination, Rabin-lit hope for peace with Palestinians dims

By AFP and ToI Staff

Magen David Adom worker takes a patient to the coronavirus unit at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem on November 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As virus cases rise, task force warns downward trend in infections may be over

Positivity rate reaches 3.1% with 649 new cases of the coronavirus diagnosed on Sunday; government to re-examine mask requirement for first and second graders

Over 12,000 packed onto Temple Mount for Friday prayers, with little enforcement

Ministers told virus transmission rate climbing, public resisting testing

Health Ministry announces Israeli-developed faster PCR tests for virus diagnosis

In this photo taken on October 27, 2020, Emirati Minister of State for Food and Water Security Mariam al-Muhairi (L) and Erel Margalit, founder and chairman of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), greet each other with an elbow bump at the headquarters of the Government Accelerators in Dubai. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

From instant hummus to insect sensors: Israeli CEOs build ties, deals in UAE

By Jonah Mandel

Group of 13 Israeli business leaders meet with Emirati officials, see potential to reach broader Arab markets

El Al's airliner, carrying a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE, landing on the tarmac at the Abu Dhabi airport, August 31, 2020. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

UAE ratifies mutual visa exemption agreement with Israel

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Yamina leader Naftali Bennett speaks during a Knesset plenary session in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Yamina will vote for bill to dissolve Knesset, in challenge to Blue and White

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session in the Knesset, on December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud regains some ground, increases lead over Yamina in poll

Israeli security forces demolish the home of a Palestinian man suspected of stabbing to death an Israeli rabbi in a terror attack, in the northern West Bank village of Rujeeb on November 2, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF razes home of Palestinian accused in deadly Petah Tikva stabbing

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

A police stands in a flooded area of Highway 90 in southern Israel, November 1, 2020 (Israel Police)

Storms batter south and center of Israel, flooding some roads

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

Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School is celebrating 30 years of filmmaking with a free VOD site in November, marking filmmaking moments that have included Doron Djerassi's 2007 opportunity to film David Lynch in Israel. (courtesy, Yossi Zwecker)

Screen timeTwo options for cheap and free flicks in November

By Jessica Steinberg

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, listens during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing on the federal government response to COVID-19 Capitol Hill on September 23, 2020, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)

Face of US virus fight warns nation in for ‘hurt’ unless sharp changes made

By AFP

The Pafos Innovation Institute (PPI) was born from the vision of Prof. Uriel Reichman, the President and Founder of IDC Herzliya, and aims to foster regional cooperation and friendship (Courtesy)

In Cyprus, Israeli-founded college opens its doors, hoping for regional progress

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Media groups embroiled in Netanyahu graft cases won’t be charged — report

Priest Henri de La Hougue, left, celebrates the All Saints Day mass in Saint-Sulpice church, in Paris, France, November 1, 2020. (Thibault Camus/AP)

French churches honor 3 Nice terror attack victims as police detain 5 suspects

By Angela Charlton

Illustrative: Police stand at an intersection after an officer was shot on September 23, 2020, in Louisville, Kentucky. (AP/John Minchillo)

High school reporters reveal Hitler quoted in Kentucky police training materials

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Protesters burn a representation of the American flag during a rally against the US's decision to designate Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization, after their Friday prayers at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in Tehran, Iran, on April 12, 2019. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says it’ll focus on actions of next US administration, not who wins

By AFP

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