Kushner: Saudi deal inevitable * UN rejects US’s Iran arms embargo * Michael Oren: UAE deal upends the ’rules’ * Why Hezbollah is untouchable* I sraeli hotels’ virus pivot

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, August 15, 2020 Presented by IDC Herzliya [Kushner says Israel-Saudi Arabia normalization is an ‘inevitability’]( By [TOI staff]( [Following landmark deal with UAE, US president’s son-in-law and adviser says Jerusalem and Riyadh will ‘do great things together,’ despite silence from Saudis on accord]( [UAE Jewish community leader beckons Israelis to visit: ‘Cheaper than Eilat’]( By [TOI staff]( [Trump misspoke in saying Israel is suspending ‘settlements,’ meant annexation]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [UAE minister: We bought lot of time on annexation; Palestinians should negotiate]( By [TOI staff]( [Day after historic deal, Foreign Minister Gargash tells Israeli site his country wants to push forward on normalization with Israel ‘as soon as possible’]( [UAE defends Israel deal as ‘shake-up’ of tired Mideast diplomacy]( By [Mohamad Ali Harissi]( [Netanyahu thanks Egypt, Oman, Bahrain for their ‘support’ of UAE deal]( By [AFP]( From the blogs [Michael Oren]( [Stunning Israel-UAE deal upends the ‘rules’ of Middle East peace-making]( [Setting aside a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the main impediment to peace, to work on the region’s other priorities, marks a fundamental shift that just might work]( [Iran claims victory after UN soundly rejects US bid to extend arms embargo]( By [AFP]( [Rouhani says US failed to kill off ‘half alive’ deal; Iranian Foreign Ministry: America is isolated; Washington expected to deliver snap back letter next week to restore sanctions]( [UN Security Council votes to let Iran arms embargo expire, rejecting US demands]( By [Edith M. Lederer]( [As UN votes, Pompeo says it’s ‘nuts’ to let Iran arms embargo expire]( By [Matthew Lee]( [Iran’s Rouhani: UAE made ‘huge mistake’ with Israel normalization deal]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Iranian president says Jerusalem shouldn’t be allowed ‘foothold’ in region, calls defeat of US-proposed UN resolution to extend Iran weapons ban a ‘humiliation’ for Washington]( [Erekat: I never expected this poison dagger to come from an Arab country]( By [Josef Federman]( [Nasrallah: UAE betrayed Arabism, did Trump a ‘personal favor,’ with Israel deal]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Erdogan says Turkey could suspend relations with UAE over Israel deal]( By [AFP]( Analysis [Avi Issacharoff]( [Hezbollah, Lebanon’s enemy within, remains untouchable despite port catastrophe]( [The terror group is in a sensitive position given its role in weakening the country — but while protestors fume, they cannot and dare not muster truly meaningful opposition]( [FBI team to arrive in Beirut this weekend to join port explosion probe]( By [Bassem Mroue]( [Hezbollah’s Nasrallah demands unity government after Beirut blast]( By [Agencies]( [Families of Beirut blast victims plead for international investigation]( By [Zeina Karam and Lori Hinnant]( Holocaust [After 76 years, victims of Nazi massacre in Italy identified through DNA testing]( By [Giovanni Vigna]( [CRM]( [Deep cleaning, co-living, kids’ games: Israeli hotels pivot to survive pandemic]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Anti-Semitism on campus [Instagram account shares anonymous stories of Jew-hatred on US college campuses]( By [Gabriel Greschler]( Top Ops [Paul Mirbach]( [When COVID comes knocking]( [I want to tell you what happens. Your whole world shrinks. You’re caught up in the prospect of two weeks in isolation, while you wait for the other shoe to drop. Will I catch it?]( [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [Jenny and Tzippy and that aching middle place]( [Of mothers and daughters, and cats and kittens, and that time of maturity when surely we will all get along]( [Shortened census period means Brooklyn’s Orthodox may be undercounted]( By [Shira Hanau]( Analysis [Ron Kampeas]( [Quiet on Israel for now, US progressives still at odds with pro-Israel community]( [It may not top agendas for America’s growing far-left during campaign season, but when pressed if the DNS supports the Jewish state’s right to exist, leadership refuses to answer]( [California Orthodox Jewish school didn’t take gender-fluid child, parents claim]( By [Josefin Dolsten]( US politics [Ron Kampeas]( [Jewish Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: Watch Florida]( [Conventions hosted by both political communities differ on all topics, except the belief that Jews in the Sunshine State could sway the presidential election]( [Russia has a full-time surgeon whose only job is circumcising Jewish men]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( More Headlines [Leading Israeli legal scholar Ruth Gavison dies at 75]( By [TOI staff]( [Hamas: Israel will ‘bear consequences’ after 2 kids said lightly hurt in strikes]( By [TOI staff]( [UAE deal won’t distract us, say protesters, gathering outside Netanyahu’s homes]( By [TOI staff]( [NY Democratic Socialists asks City Council candidates to pledge no Israel visits]( By [Shira Hanau]( [1,525 virus cases recorded in last 24 hours as ministers pass new restrictions]( By [TOI staff]( [Michael Cohen’s book foreword: Trump ‘wouldn’t mind if I was dead’]( By [Hillel Italie]( [Small screen queen / Epic TV series ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ to feature ‘Shtisel’ star Aloni]( By [Gabe Friedman]( [Israeli, German jets to make 1st joint flyover at Dachau, Munich Olympics site]( By [Toby Axelrod]( [Trump dodges question on QAnon right-wing conspiracy theory]( By [Jill Colvin]( [Obituary / Pixel inventor, computer scientist Russell Kirsch dies at 91]( By [AP]( [Fund set up by Bayern Munich stars donates $80,000 to Auschwitz museum]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [1-year-old killed in car crash; mother, siblings aged 3 and 5 seriously hurt]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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