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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 4, 2020

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Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware on November 4, 2020. (JIM WATSON / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Biden predicts ‘we will be the winners,’ as Trump falsely claims 4 more states

Democratic challenger stops short of declaring victory, but says he is well-positioned to take White House; Trump campaign attempts to stop count of mail-in votes in some states

12:07 am

Trump falsely claims wins in several more states
12:06 am

Fox, MSNBC, NY Times also project Biden win in Michigan
12:06 am

Biden set to win Michigan, CNN projects

US President Donald Trump speaks during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump falsely declares victory: ‘Frankly, we did win this election’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Without evidence, US president says he’ll go to Supreme Court to stop alleged ‘major fraud’ by Democrats; Biden campaign says it’ll fight Trump in court

This combination of pictures created on October 30, 2020 shows Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden gestures prior to delivering remarks at a Drive-in event in Coconut Creek, Florida, on October 29, 2020 and US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives to a campaign rally at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin on October 30, 2020. (JIM WATSON and MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Biden urges patience; Trump claims without evidence Dems trying to ‘steal’ race

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump pumps his fist after speaking during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

News organizations rebuke Trump over unsubstantiated, explosive victory claim

By David Bauder and Lynn Elber

Op-ed

From a riven Israel in 1996 to a divided US today, every legitimate vote counts

Only a full, definitive result — however narrow its margin, however frustratingly long it might take to finalize — can allow a leader to credibly govern a country

This combination of September 29, 2020, file photos show US President Donald Trump, left, and former vice president Joe Biden during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, holds a joint press conference with United States Vice President Joe Biden at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2016. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

TV: ‘Jerusalem’ said expecting a Biden victory; Shas leader prays for Trump win

People in Times Square dressed in Donald Trump and Joe Biden costumes as they await election results on November 3, 2020 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

Poll: Jewish voters favored Biden over Trump 77-21

By JTA and Jacob Magid

Focus shifts to Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in nail-biter US election

By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Alexandra Jaffe

Trump takes battleground prize Florida along with Ohio, Iowa, Texas; some outlets give Biden Arizona, as well as Minnesota, New Hampshire; North Carolina, Georgia races in the air

Republican Senate candidate Sen. Mitch McConnell, second from right, and his wife, Elaine Chao, right, look on as aides show him the election results in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

GOP appears to hang on to US Senate control, dashing Democrat hopes

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Demonstrators gather to pray mincha before a pro-Trump rally at Marine Park in Brooklyn, New York on October 25, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Anxious Jewish voters turn to prayer to get through elections

With the votes in, is it too late to pray for a winner?

If God experiences time as occurring all at once (even if we can’t understand how), shouldn’t I pray for what I perceive as a done deal and for God is happening right now?

’If he’d really abused her, the police would’ve arrested him’

When Orthodox domestic abuse victims do call the police and don’t get the help they need, community support is all the more important – and may be less forthcoming

When Auschwitz goes digital

The Holocaust memorial seems to be tweeting a scrapbook of those who died there. I can think of better, less risky, ways of using that Twitter account

We talked of peace, I stood at his grave: Yitzhak Rabin’s indelible mark on me

In our long-ago interview, Rabin foreshadowed his own tragic fate when he told me Israel would be taking a lot of risks for peace

Illustrative: Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to Georgia attorney general Chris Carr during a campaign rally for Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler in Roswell, Georgia, October 31, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

QAnon conspiracy promoter Marjorie Taylor Greene wins seat in US Congress

By AFP

Baseless theory to have a voice in House of Representatives, illustrating radicalization of US politics; Georgia Republican falsely claims George Soros was a Nazi collaborator

Madison Cawthorn appears in a campaign video posted online in September, 2020. (Screenshot/YouTube)

GOP’s Cawthorn, who sparked row with visit to Hitler site, wins US House race

US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks as, from left, Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley listen during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, July 15, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘Squad’ of progressive Democrats all easily win 2nd House terms

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

People wait to cast their ballot on the first day of early voting at an advance polling location October 17, 2020, in Overland Park, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

America isn’t falling apart. But it has forgotten how to talk to itself

The two political poles in American life don’t speak to each other, don’t live near each other, and rarely interact

Lois Frankel defeats far-right Laura Loomer in Florida House race

By Gabe Friedman

Cori Bush, Democrat who supported BDS, wins Missouri congressional race

Kathy Manning, ex-Jewish Federations head, wins N. Carolina congressional race

A small caravan of trump supporters park at a polling station in Public School 160, on November 3, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

Reporter's notebook

Same city, different views: Jews in Manhattan, Brooklyn cast their ballots

Jews of Upper West Side hope to send Trump packing, while just 30 minutes away, Satmar Hasidim say backing incumbent is a ‘mitzvah’

AnalysisFor most US Jews, Trump’s immigration policy is working against him

US presidential race 2020Rabbis volunteering in Philadelphia encounter the unexpected: Peace and optimism

Israeli-born Merav Ben-David fails in Wyoming Senate bid

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: a newborn baby in Jerusalem on October 29, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel to pay millions to man who says he shouldn’t have been born

In a video distributed by the Islamic State terror group, Vienna attacker Kujtim Fejzulai pledges allegiance to IS caliph Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, while holding a gun and a long, serrated knife. (Screenshot)

Islamic State claims responsibility for Vienna terror attack

By Aaron Boxerman and Agencies

Terror group releases video of alleged gunman Kujtim Fejzulai pledging allegiance to caliph, hails him for targeting ‘gatherings of Crusaders’ in Austrian capital

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt speaks at a synagogue in Monaco on November 23, 2017. (Courtesy of the Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)

European rabbis urge ‘much more’ government control of mosques

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Armed police on Victoria Embankment in Westminster, after a car crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament, in London, August 14, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

UK raises terrorism threat level to ‘severe’ after attacks in Austria, France

By AFP

A soldier opens fire toward a car after the IDF says the driver shot at troops near a West Bank checkpoint, November 4, 2020 (Screen grab/Twitter)

PA security officer opens fire on IDF troops, is shot dead, army says

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Military says suspect drove up to Hawara checkpoint and opened fire; Palestinians identify him as a captain in the Preventative Security Forces, say he was executed

Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman left) in 'Chicago 7' and the title character in 'Borat 2.' courtesy)

Times of Israel Podcast

LISTEN: Borat 2 and Chicago 7 — good for the Jews? ToI’s film critic weighs in

Business owners protest against the ongoing nationwide closure in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2020. (Flash90)

Rising virus transmission could halt exit, derail store reopening, says expert

By Nathan Jeffay

Israel’s beleaguered customer-facing businesses are banking on reopening November 15, but their hopes could be dashed by resurgent infections

Separation between grandparents, grandchildren spurred Israeli vaccine volunteer

By Nathan Jeffay

Daily virus cases rise as Knesset vote delayed on hiking fines for rule-breakers

Health Ministry to oppose reopening stores next week as virus cases climb

Behind the Headlines

Join the ToI Community for rare sneak peek into Israel’s ancient coin collection

Head of the Coin Department at the Israel Antiquities Authority pulls out treasure from the vaults in this week’s Behind the Headlines series, exclusively for ToI Community members

More Headlines

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)

Court rejects request by Rabin’s assassin for furlough for son’s bar mitzvah

Architect's impression of the planned cable car station on Mount Zion. The Dormition Church can be seen to the left. (From plans submitted to the National Planning Council)

Jerusalem cable car excavation work to begin in next few days

Illustrative: Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion sit in a field at the Peles Military Base, in the Northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Top court gives government until February to pass ultra-Orthodox enlistment law

Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaks at the Knesset plenum on October 28, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset)

Yesh Atid withdraws motion to dissolve government, slamming Blue and White

FM Gabi Ashkenazi, right, and his Malawian counterpart, Eisenhower Mkaka, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, November 3, 2020 (Avo Ohayun/GPO)

Malawi vows to open embassy in Jerusalem by next summer

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative. Shabbat candlesticks. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Nonprofits use tech to match study partners on hows, whys of Shabbat unplugging

By Shoshanna Solomon

Seth Rogen plays a Russian-Jewish immigrant and his own great-grandson in 'An American Pickle,' which will open the 2020 Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival on November 11, 2020 (Courtesy HBO)

Sour and sweetJerusalem Jewish film fest to open with Rogen’s ‘American Pickle’

By Jessica Steinberg

'Painting with Houses' ('Bild mit Häusern'), a 1909 painting by Wassily Kandinsky. (Wikimedia Commons/PD-old-75)

Heirs of Dutch Jew allege bias over refusal to return Nazi-looted painting

Arthur R. Butz, 48, an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University, shown January 28, 1977. (AP Photo)

Book calling Holocaust a hoax to go on sale in Iceland

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative image of clothes, fashion, on hangers (Naypong; iStock by Getty Images)

Eco-friendly hangers made by Israeli trash-redeemer UBQ to hit fashion industry

By Shoshanna Solomon

Aya Ben Ron's Do You Care artwork at Tel Aviv's Habima Square, part of the city's Open Skies art event, November 12-14, 2020 (Courtesy Tel Aviv municipality)

Free loveDespite COVID, art prevails on Tel Aviv streets

By Jessica Steinberg

The aftermath of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in Chisinau, Moldova on Oct. 31, 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Moldova via JTA)

Headstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Moldova, Hungary

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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