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What Matters Most On Friday, November 6, 2020

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Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at the Queen venue in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 5, 2020. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Ahead in Pennsylvania, Biden closes in on White House

By Jacob Magid, Luke Tress, Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Differential in decisive Keystone state climbs to over 14,000; Trump ally Lindsey Graham calls on Republican campaign to provide examples of voter fraud, which it has yet to do

7:08 pm

Twitter flags 'president-elect Biden' posts as premature
6:54 pm

PA senator speculates Biden will win state by some 100,000 votes
6:39 pm

Biden's lead in decisive state of Pennsylvania grows to 13,371

This combination of Sept. 29, 2020, photos shows 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)

Biden moves ahead in decisive PA, up in Georgia; Trump ‘has no plans to concede’

By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller and Will Weissert

Democrat also maintains leads in Arizona and Nevada; President claims election is being stolen, charges fraud, his campaign says ‘this election is not over’

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Thursday afternoon, November 5, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump threatens ‘a lot of litigation’ as he baselessly alleges US election fraud

By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican Senator: No evidence to support Trump’s vote-fraud claims

By Matthew Daly

US President Donald Trump leaves after speaking at the White House, Nov. 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump erupts with baseless claims of fraud as Biden closes in on US presidency

By AFP

President attacks democratic process with unfounded allegations of ‘illegal votes’ as his lead dwindles in battleground states that will decide next White House occupant

US Senator Ted Cruz (Republican of Texas) during a break in the Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump, January 23, 2020 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Backing Trump’s falsehoods, two Senate allies attack legitimacy of vote count

By AFP

US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he steps off Air Force One upon arriving at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on October 1, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump tweets his outrage in all caps, demanding that election count be stopped

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC on November 5, 2020. He charged that he had won the election but it was being stolen. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Op-ed

Trump’s unconscionable assault on American democracy, and its ripples for Israel

The president’s incendiary demand to halt the vote count, and his unsubstantiated charges of fraud, also raise concerns and disturbing echoes in Jerusalem

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC on November 5, 2020. He claimed without evidence that the election was being stolen. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

‘Counting votes is not fraud’: Trump blasted for incendiary assault on democracy

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump walks away after speaking at the White House, Nov. 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US networks cut away from live Trump address due to ‘lie after lie’

By AFP

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)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Win or lose, results suggest Trump was a liability for Republicans

Exit poll stats and a growing body of down-ballot returns show GOP did better in battleground states than its candidate, while dislike of Trump drove a Democratic run on the polls

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, right, holds a jar of discolored tap water during a news conference on June 25, 2020 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (AP/Mark Scolforo)

Pennsylvania’s Jewish AG thrown into spotlight, monitoring tally in key state

Rupert Murdoch, center, Chairman of Fox News Channel with US Donald Trump, left (with back to camera), Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy Turnbull, right, during dinner aboard the USS Intrepid, a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked in the Hudson River in New York on May 4, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump reportedly screamed at Murdoch after Fox News called Arizona for Biden

We all would have looked back

Mrs. Lot did the wrong thing, sure, but admit it: You’d take your chances with the salt and look back because it was your life, and because you care

Masking and un-masking the divine image

Abraham put God on hold in order to cater to three humans, and idolaters at that! What was he thinking?!

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

Israel media review

Count every pundit: What the press is saying on November 6

By Joshua Davidovich

After days of closely watching states tally ballots, some Israelis are saying goodbye to Trump and everyone is wondering what’s next

A election worker hands out ballots to be counted at State Farm Arena on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

ExplainerWhich US battlegrounds are still in play and why, 3 days after election

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

A county election worker scans mail-in ballots at a tabulating area as an observer watches at the Clark County Election Department, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada (AP Photo/John Locher)

Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over American ballots

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE

Illustrative: Police officials stand guard during a protest after the Nov. 3 elections, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Two detained outside Pennsylvania vote count center in alleged attack plot

Local media reports the men are suspected of planning to attack convention center, as Trump spreads false claims of widespread voter fraud

Supporters of US President Donald Trump rally outside the Maricopa County Recorders Office on November 4, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Protesters, spurred by Trump falsehoods, spark fear for US election officials

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

In this November 3, 2020, file photo, a woman votes at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Kansas City, Missouri. (AP/Charlie Riedel, File)

US places with highest virus surges overwhelmingly came out for Trump

By Carla K. Johnson, HANNAH FINGERHUT and PIA DESHPANDE

Jon Ossoff campaigning in Chamblee, Georgia, June 15, 2017. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Democrat Senate hopes may hinge on Jewish candidate in potential Georgia runoff

By ToI Staff and AP

Jon Ossoff looks set for repeat contest as rival drops below 50%; that race, and another senate runoff in traditionally Republican state, will likely determine control of chamber

Congressional Progressive Caucus member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Panning razing of Palestinian hamlet, Omar accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’

Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives to talk to reporters about Election Day results in races for the House of Representatives, at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

House Democrats cast blame for losses on polls, message, even Trump

By LISA MASCARO

Nadiv Schorer, right, married Ariel Meiri in 2020 with Orthodox rabbi Avram Mlotek officiating. (David Perlman Photography via JTA)

Small but growing number of US Orthodox rabbis officiating same-sex weddings

By Josefin Dolsten

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)

Austria plans intelligence reforms after failure to thwart Vienna terror attack

Having followed up inadequately on tip by Slovakian authorities about Kujtim Fejzulai, Chancellor Kurz says country can’t allow that to recur

Police officers in position following a shooting attack, in Vienna, Austria, November 3, 2020. (Ronald Zak/AP)

German police raid flats, offices in several towns over Vienna attack

French soldiers secure the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Basilica in Nice on October 30, 2020 during a tribute to the victims killed by a knife attacker the day before. (Valery Hache/AFP)

Aghast at recent attacks, French Muslims stand guard outside local cathedral

By Angela Charlton

Women's rights activists protest against recent tightening of Poland's restrictive abortion law in front of the parliament building as inside, guards had to be used to shield right-wing ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski from angry opposition lawmakers, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish Jewry

Abortion protests rock Poland, shining spotlight on longstanding communal rift

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) talks with attorneys Micha Fettman (L) and Amit Hadad (R) inside the courtroom as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020 (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu to High Court: AG can’t shackle my law enforcement appointments

Likud MK Miki Zohar chairs a House Committee meeting on a bill to dissolve the Knesset and hold fresh elections on May 28, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu ally questioned by police over threat to air dirt on attorney general

By Michael Bachner

Israelis wear protective face masks in Tel Aviv, on November 5, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Virus czar says infection rate could stymie rollback of restrictions

Facebook says Iranian fake news network sought to back anti-Netanyahu protests

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, October 28, 2020, in Washington (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Facebook shuts down pro-Trump group organizing rallies against ‘stolen’ election

By AFP

The Sa'ar-6-class corvette that will be officially handed over to the Israeli Navy on November 11, 2020, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel set to receive new warship to defend gas rigs from missile attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli poet Natan Zach (screen capture: YouTube)

Israel Prize-winning poet Natan Zach dies at 89

By ToI Staff and AP

Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli. (Wikemedia commons)

Long-dead Jewish poet given Christian reburial in Belarus

By JTA and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump watches as UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (R) speaks from the Truman Balcony at the White House during the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

From the webTrump administration said to advance $2.9 billion drone sale to UAE

Stefanos Chios. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Greek newspaper publisher fined for op-ed calling Jewish leader a thief

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Pierre Simonet in an undated photo (Courtesy)

France mourns loss of one of its last WWII resistance heroes

By AFP

Yair Netanyahu on the first episode of his new podcast, The Yair Netanyahu Show. (Screengrab:YouTube)

Double actYair Netanyahu talks to son of Brazil’s Bolsonaro in podcast debut

By Marcus M. Gilban

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