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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 5, 2020

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Biden feels ‘very good’ about election outcome, has ‘no doubt’ of victory

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

As Biden closes in on White House win with Pennsylvania gap shrinking to 65,000, US president demands that the vote count be stopped

9:40 pm

Biden feels 'very good' about election outcome, has 'no doubt' of victory
9:26 pm

US Defense Secretary Esper said to have prepared resignation letter
9:22 pm

Trump's lead in Pennsylvania drops below 100,000

US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, early Sunday, June 21, 2020, after stepping off Marine One as he returns from a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

With Biden just 1 key state away from White House, Trump faces high hurdle

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

In race to 270, former vice president at 253 electoral votes while president, with 213, would need to win all four remaining swing states as yet undeclared

A man waves a Biden-Harris flag as demonstrators gather at Black Lives Matter plaza across from the White House on election night in Washington, DC on November 3, 2020. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Biden snags key Wisconsin win as Trump campaign files legal challenges

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Flipping Michigan, Biden says believes ‘we will be the winners’ of US election

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli supporters of Donald Trump hold a support rally ahead of the US presidential elections, in Beit Shemesh on November 2, 2020. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Israel media review

Israel starts to feel blue: What the press is saying on November 5

By Joshua Davidovich

As the US leans into the likely dethroning of Trump, Israel sees it as pretty much a done deal, sparking laments from Trump backers here and predictions of what it may mean

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)

Likud officials worry Biden victory could damage Netanyahu, Israel’s UN standing

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Supporters of US President Donald Trump wave Israeli and US national flags and carry placards in support, on the day of the US presidential election, in Carmiel, northern Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

An ocean away, Israelis keep close tabs on US election thriller

By Raphael Ahren and Jacob Magid

Arnon Mishkin (Screengrab: YouTube)

Jewish head of Fox News numbers team upsets Trump with swift Arizona call

By Gabe Friedman

Arnon Mishkin, a Jewish registered Democrat from New York, also angered Republicans in 2012 after he correctly projected an Obama win in Ohio early

US President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, November 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Dovish Jewish groups rap Trump for false victory call, urge all votes be counted

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 democracy

By AFP

Protesters hold letters that spell Count Every Vote as they cross an overpass while marching in Portland, Oregon, November 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Peaceful ‘count the vote’ protests in NY; armed Trump backers rally in Phoenix

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demanding to ‘halt the vote,’ Trump supporters converge on counting centers in Michigan and Arizona as election officials continue tally; protesters clash with police in Oregon

Election challengers yell as they look through the windows of the central counting board as police were helping to keep additional challengers from entering due to overcrowding, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Trump sues in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia; asks for Wisconsin recount

By Mark Sherman

People wanting to be election challengers yell as they look through the windows of the central counting board as police were helping to keep additional challengers from entering due to overcrowding, November 4, 2020, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Trump backers protest outside Michigan vote center, demanding: ‘Stop the count!’

By Mike Householder and Tim Sullivan

A live broadcast of President Donald Trump speaking from the White House is shown on screens at an election night party, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

Trump alleges ‘surprise ballot dumps’ stealing vote as Biden aide says he’ll win

President’s comments, without evidence, come after he claimed he’d won election, alleged fraud, said he’d go to Supreme Court; Democrat challenger ahead in Michigan, Wisconsin

President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the East Room of the White House, early Wednesday, November 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Twitter flags Trump tweets on election fraud as battle spills onto social media

Supporters pose with US Sen. Lindsey Graham, center, following his victory speech after winning another term in office on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Republicans poised to quash Democrats’ hopes for Senate control

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah S. Boyarin

The Torah, the paupers, and the Vilna Gaon

A Yiddish story offers a crucial lesson on extending open hospitality to the poorest among us, one that has not faded in the hundreds of years since it was first told (Vayera)

Terror attack in Vienna: Setting the record straight

The shooting wasn’t an anti-Semitic attack, there was only one shooter (not 6), and the people of the city rallied heroically to help each other

A hoard of gold coins dating to the Abbasid Caliphate is pictured during a press presentation of the discovery at an archeological site near Tel Aviv in central Israel (Heidi Levine / POOL / AFP)

Behind the headlines

WATCH: Israel Antiquities Authority coin head displays treasures from the vault

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Dr. Donald T. Ariel joins the ToI Community’s exclusive Behind the Headlines series for a deep dive into early and rare coins found in excavations in Israel

A man in isolation at home during the pandemic (PIKSEL via iStock by Getty Images)

Lockdown accelerates aging, causes ‘deterioration that can kill’ – geriatrician

By Nathan Jeffay

Isolation is fast eroding cognitive function, memory and physical ability, says top Jerusalem doctor, urging government to overhaul attitude to elderly

A new vaccine on display at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia, August 6, 2020. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/ Russian Direct Investment Fund via AP)

Hadassah hospital orders 1.5 million as-yet-unproven Russian virus vaccines

Haiti's Foreign Minister Bocchit Edmond addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters, September 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)

UAE, Bahrain, Sudan join huge majority backing anti-Israel moves at UN panel

By Raphael Ahren

Jerusalem’s new ambassador to Turtle Bay, Gilad Erdan, promises not to ‘allow business as usual anymore’; new Arab normalization partners vote with Europeans on annual resolutions

A Palestinian Bedouin leads his donkey past the remains of his tents after Israeli soldiers demolished the tents in an area east of the village of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank, on November 3, 2020. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Israel razes Bedouin campsite in largest West Bank demolition in a decade

By Aaron Boxerman

Military says structures were built ‘illegally in a firing range’; rights group claims move deliberately timed while world focused on US elections

A Palestinian Bedouin leads his donkey past the remains of his tents after Israeli soldiers demolished the tents in an area east of the village of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank, on November 3, 2020. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

EU, UN condemn Israeli demolition of West Bank Palestinian hamlet

By Aaron Boxerman

A woman walks next to a closed store at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on October 13, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ministers vote to reopen shops next week, over objections of health officials

Health minister and virus czar cite rising rate of new cases stemming from each infection; Finance Minister lauds move, after nearly two months of being shuttered

People wearing face masks in downtown Jerusalem due to the coronavirus outbreak on November 4, (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

754 new virus cases tallied Wednesday – the lowest figure in 3 days

Joseph Oakman and fellow Proud Boys plant a flag in Tom McCall Waterfront Park during a rally in Portland, Oregon, on August 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

US presidential race 2020

Disappointed liberal US Jews: ‘We had hoped for a massive rejection of Trumpism’

Movements’ leadership fear for future of American Jewry in a country where anti-Semitism is politicized

An attendee wears a 'Make America Great Again' kippah before US President Donald Trump speaks at an annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition on April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

Exit polls point to Trump gains among Jewish voters

Wooden boards protect a Starbucks location near the White House on October 31, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Alex Edelman / AFP)

Despite calm voting day, ADL warns of violence amid election tumult

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Democratic Representative Elaine Luria speaks to participants in a USO Pathfinder program in Virginia Beach, Virginia, October 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Elaine Luria, Elissa Slotkin prevail in competitive races to remain in Congress

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A military police officer guards at the crime scene near a synagogue in Vienna, Austria, November 4, 2020. Several shots were fired shortly after 8 p.m. local time on November 2, in a lively street in the city center of Vienna. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Vienna attack shatters sense of security for city’s Jewish community

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Minister of Defense Benny Gantz speaks to the media and protesters outside his home, during a demonstration of Israeli workers from the culture and art industry in Rosh Haayin, on August 9, 2020.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz asks police to allow protests outside his home

Israeli soldiers opening gates for tank during the IDF's withdrawal from Lebanon, on June 22, 2000. (Flash90)

IDF to recognize 18-year occupation of south Lebanon as official campaign

By Judah Ari Gross

Plastic waste in the sea. (dottedhippo/iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli, Portuguese researchers to collaborate on plastic-busting bacteria

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President Donald Trump supporter Loretta Oakes reacts while watching returns in favor of Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, at a Republican election-night watch party, November 3, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Anxious US public turns to booze, news as fate of divided nation in balance

By Matt Sedensky

The graduation ceremony of a cybersecurity boot camp in Oct. 2020. The initiative is a joint effort by Israel's Cybint, a cybersecurity company focused on education, and the Southern New Hampshire University’s Global Education Movement initiative (Courtesy)

Israeli startup Cybint equips African refugees with cybersecurity skills

By Jake Epstein

This artist’s impression shows a magnetar in the star cluster Westerlund 1. (ESO/L. Calçada/Wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

Radio burst from within Milky Way may help solve cosmic mystery

By Kelly MacNamara

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