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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 3, 2020

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This combination of pictures created on October 30, 2020, shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) and US President Donald Trump waving as they board planes. (Angela Weiss and Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump or Biden? Polls open as fraught US election gets underway

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Huge turnout predicted after nearly 100 million Americans cast their ballots early; results expected to trickle in overnight with potential legal skirmishes

US President Donald Trump smiles at supporters after a campaign rally at Gerald R. Ford International Airport, November 3, 2020, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump feels ‘very good’ about chances, says he won’t declare victory prematurely

By AFP

Hundreds of people wait in line for early voting on October 12, 2020, in Marietta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)

Huge US voter turnout expected despite virus, political rancor

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE

Voters mark their ballots at First Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Stamford, Conn. (AP/Jessica Hill)

Tuesday updates (closed)

Signs of massive turnout in US as voting begins to wind down in some states

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Biden says he’s ‘hopeful’ but refuses to predict victory; long lines reported in several places; first polls close at 1 a.m. Israel time in Indiana and Kentucky

10:26 pm

Follow our election results liveblog as returns announced
10:02 pm

No attempts to hack US election, feds say
9:50 pm

Khamenei pimps Bob Woodward book to trash Trump

US President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall, May 22, 2017, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Op-ed

Who would Israelis be voting for today?

Israelis overwhelmingly see Trump as ‘preferable’ candidate ‘from the standpoint of Israel’s interests.’ For most, that’s the same as saying they’d vote for him. But not for all

A voter casts a ballot at a polling station in New York City on November 1, 2020. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel media reviewHere, let me cast that ballot for you: What the press is saying on November 3

By Joshua Davidovich

An Israeli supporter of the re-election of US President Donald Trump waves American and Israeli flags from a car at a rally outside of the US Embassy, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

By 70% to 13%, Israeli Jews say Trump is better candidate than Biden for Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara meet Vice President of the United States Joe Biden (center) in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010 (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

Analysis

Preferring Trump, Netanyahu is still prepared to score points with Biden victory

A win-win? PM prides himself on achievements he credits to his friendship with incumbent president, but also on having stood up to pressure from the Obama-Biden administration

Netanyahu scolds EU, says bloc doesn’t understand changing nature of Middle East

By Raphael Ahren

Gantz admits he doesn’t expect Netanyahu to honor premiership rotation deal

Rivlin, Netanyahu condemn ‘despicable’ Vienna terrorist attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas listens while US President Donald Trump makes a statement for the press before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski/ File)

Analysis

Palestinians, desperate for a Biden victory, hold their breath as America votes

Ramallah sees a Democratic win as a return to the status quo. And if Trump is triumphant? ‘God help us’; official hints PA preparing to resume accepting tax revenues from Israel

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan (L) and Palestinian peace activist Mohammed Massad, in a joint video calling on Americans to vote for Donald Trump, November 1, 2020. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Settler leader, Palestinian ex-terrorist urge Americans to vote for Trump

LEFT: President Donald Trump during the swearing in ceremy of Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court justice. Washington, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. (AP Photo / Patrick Semansky) RIGHT: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a video conference with education ministry officials, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Iran's supreme leader called the United Arab Emirates' recognition of Israel "treason that will not last for long." (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Quoting Trump, Iran’s Khamenei mocks US election: ‘This is American democracy’

By Nasser Karimi

A police officer patrols in front of an entrance of a car park with broken glasses after a shooting in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 3, 2020 (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

4 killed in Vienna ‘Islamist terror attack’; Jewish institutions to remain shut

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Manhunt underway for at least one assailant; 15 wounded in assault that targeted 6 locations, starting outside synagogue; Austrian leader won’t rule out anti-Semitic motive

Vienna terrorist likely acted alone, ‘fooled’ de-radicalization program

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Austrian minister: Vienna terrorist was convicted for trying to travel to Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘We are in shock’: Austrian capital reels after gunmen kill at least four

By Denise HRUBY

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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

Absentee ballot: Living the American election from Israel

All politicians may lie and lay blame for their own failings, but the past 4 years have not been ’business as usual’; they’ve taken a real toll, even at a distance

Michael Laitman

Following US elections, the task will be to unify a fragmented society and regain the ability to rise above the differences for the common welfare

Michal Cotler-Wunsh

Alone in a pandemic: Immigrants in Israel need to see loved ones

The corona restrictions on visits from abroad are too narrow and too specific for the varied needs of olim. I’m working to change that.

Jonathan Feldstein

YouTube flagged Chris Mitchell’s prayer for Israel as age-inappropriate. Huh?

The incomprehensible love note I received from the social media giant made about as much sense as saying ’It ain’t over till it’s over’

Harry S. Truman holds up an Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced 'Dewey Defeats Truman' on November 4, 1948. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)

Interview

How a nascent Israel was a key issue in Truman’s stunning 1948 election upset

By Rich Tenorio

A father and son wave Trump flags at Marine Park in Brooklyn, New York on October 25, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Analysis

For US Orthodox Jews, vote caps a season of unprecedented partisan activity

Community has come out strongly for Trump due to his stances on Israel, school vouchers, religious freedom

US Jewish umbrella group urges Jews to be cautious around Election Day

‘Closeted’ liberal Jews plan to vote for Trump, but fear alienation from peers

By Hannah Dreyfus

Michigan Jewish cemetery vandalized with ‘TRUMP’ and ‘MAGA’ graffiti

Meital Ben Ari (left) and Adit Romano, founders of Freedom Farm. (Courtesy, Freedom Farm)

How two businesswomen changed course to give animals a home and a voice

Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu speaks during a press conference at the military's "Alon" contact tracing headquarters on November 3, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Virus czar: For every confirmed COVID patient, 10 more may have virus

During tour of IDF contact tracing headquarters, Ronni Gamzu urges people to undergo coronavirus tests to help cut chains of infection

People shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, 2 November, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel virus cases up, positive test rate falls; jail says 65 prisoners infected

Shas party chairman and Interior Affairs Minister, Aryeh Deri, left, speaks with United Torah Judaism party leader, then health minister, Yaakov Litzman in the Knesset, March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Knesset vote on higher fines for virus violations stalled amid Haredi opposition

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Then-US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, accompanied by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, place stones and flowers on a memorial as they pay their respects at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

2 years after shooting, Pittsburgh Jews choose community unity over politics

Israelis protest against PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and commemorate assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Jerusalem, on October 31, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

In tribal, divided Israel, Rabin’s memory overwhelmed by partisan mistrust

25 years after the assassination, each side believes it is the new target of incitement – and the other side is the perpetrator

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)

Rabin’s assassin requests prison furlough to attend son’s bar mitzvah

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Rescue workers, who were trying to find survivors of an earthquake, surround Ayda Gezgin after they pulled the young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir, November 3, 2020, (AFAD via AP)

4 days after quake, Turkish rescuers pull girl, 3, alive from collapsed building

By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser

Residents dig a mass grave for victims of an attack that left over 60 dead in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan, July 27, 2020. (Mustafa Younes via AP)

US seeks ending of Sudan sanctions over Darfur, citing human rights improvements

By AFP

Bank Hapoalim delegation of Israeli businesspeople, led by Dov Kokler, rings the bell to begin the day's trading at the NASDAQ Dubai exchange in Sept. 2020. The delegation was welcomed by the exchange's president, Hamed Ali, and the president and the CEO of the Dubai stock exchange, Hassan Abdul Rahaman Alserka (Courtesy)

Delegation of 200 Israelis to visit UAE to forge business, tech ties

By Shoshanna Solomon

Maher al-Akhras, a 49-year-old security prisoner, while on hunger strike in Kaplan hospital in Rehovot, October 8, 2020 (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)

Palestinian security prisoner’s hunger strike hits 100 days

By Aaron Boxerman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, later attorney general, during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 21, 2014. (AP/Menahem Kahana, Pool/File)

AG issues final ruling barring Netanyahu from making judicial appointments

By Michael Bachner

The West Bank Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, on October 21, 2018. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Government asks High Court for more time to prepare razing of Bedouin village

El Al Airlines' Boeing 737s are pictured on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, March 10, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP/ File)

From the webTreasury turns down El Al request for increased aid

Screen capture from video of a scuffle at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center as family members try to reach a woman who died of the coronavirus. (Twitter)

Violent clash at hospital as family tries to get to woman who died of COVID

Schoolchildren observe a minute of silence for slain history teacher Samuel Paty, Monday Nov 2, 2020 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

French schools reopen in mourning and tribute after beheading of teacher

By Lori Hinnant

Palm Beach County School principal William Latson, October 31, 2019. (WPTV Screen grab via CNN)

Florida principal fired again for his refusal to say the Holocaust happened

Terje Rod-Larsen, a Norwegian diplomat who was one of the main architects of the Oslo Accords signed 25 years ago, during the annual Norwegian Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Trafalgar Square, London, December 6, 2018. (Matt Dunham/AP)

Oslo peace accords architect resigns as think tank CEO over Epstein link

By Edith M. Lederer

President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem during the Knesset elections on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

President denies pardon to woman serving life for murdering her abusive husband

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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