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NEWSBRIEFS Gal Gadot Is Third Highest-Paid Actress in 2020
ISRAELI ACTRESS Gal Gadot, who is best known for her role
as the title character in “Wonder Woman,” is 2020’s third-highest
paid actress, according to Forbes, JTA reported.

She will earn $31.5 million in 2020, including $20 million
for “Red Notice,” which also stars Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne
Johnson. The biggest feature film ever made by Netflix is set to
be released next year.

Gadot also stars in the sequel “Wonder Woman 1984,” whose
release date has been pushed back four times because of the
pandemic. It is now set for a Dec. 25 release.

Sofia Vergara of “Modern Family” placed first with $43
million, and Angelina Jolie was second with $35 million.

Gadot first appeared on the Forbes highest-paid actresses list
in 2018, when she was 10th with $10 million in earnings.

Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson ranked first on the 2019 list
with $56 million in earnings.

NYC to Shut Down 9 Neighborhoods Due to COVID-19 Spike
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Oct. 4 that the
city will reimpose a COVID-19 lockdown in several neighbor-
hoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations, JTA reported.

The lockdown will last two to four weeks in parts of Far
Rockaway, Queens and Kew Gardens in Queens; and parts
of Borough Park, Midwood, Gravesend, Bensonhurst and
Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, The New York Times reported. At
least 3% of those tested there have tested positive for COVID-19
in recent days.

The lockdown will include the closing of schools and nones-
sential businesses; the city had just reopened all public schools
the previous week.

Anti-Semitic Chants Added to Dutch Soccer Match
Anti-Semitic chants were added to the soundtrack of a live Dutch
soccer game that aired Oct. 4 on Fox Sports Netherlands, JTA
reported. In a match between the Amsterdam team Ajax and a rival
from the city of Groningen, the network added a recording from
a past game that featured the chant “Whoever doesn’t jump is a
Jew.” Because of the pandemic prompting games to be played in
empty stadiums, many TV stations are adding audience sounds
to broadcasts.

Supporters of rival teams sing the chant to taunt the players
on Ajax, which many Dutchmen associated with Jews because of
Amsterdam’s rich Jewish history.

“Due to human error during the match, during the first
halftime a certain chant was heard that should not have been
played. The fragment was removed,” FOX News Netherlands
wrote on Twitter.

Jewish Researcher Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded on Oct. 5 to three scien-
tists who identified the hepatitis C virus, including Harvey Alter
of the National Institute of Health, who is Jewish, JTA reported.

Alter, 85, was born in New York and attended medical school
at the University of Rochester. He worked previously with Nobel
Prize-winning scientist Baruch Blumberg, who identified the
hepatitis B virus.

Alter shared the award with Michael Houghton of the
University of Alberta and Charles Rice of Rockefeller
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