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What Matters Most On Monday, August 3, 2020

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Israeli army forces seen stationed near the border between Israel and Lebanon in the Golan Heights on July 27, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel holds Damascus responsible

IDF says it killed 4 terrorists planting bombs on Syria border

Incident comes as military braces for attack by Hezbollah, which is seeking revenge for a fighter killed in an airstrike attributed to Israel

IDF footage showing a group of four people whom the IDF says crossed into Israeli territory and tried to plant a bomb in an unmanned outpost on August 2, 2020. (Screen capture/Israel Defense Forces)

Syrian cell entered Israeli territory to plant bomb in unmanned army post — IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

Military vehicles are amassed in the Golan Heights on August 3, 2020. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Israel media reviewMaybe they won’t notice: What the press is talking about on August 3

By Joshua Davidovich

Seth Rogen arrives at the premiere of "Good Boys" on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Seth Rogen says mom made him call Jewish Agency chief, appears to deny apology

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Jewish Agency said actor spoke on Zoom with its chairman, Isaac Herzog, and ‘apologized’ for recently saying that Israel ‘doesn’t make sense,’ claiming comments were made in jest

Seth Rogen arrives at the premiere of "Good Boys" on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Seth Rogen said to apologize for comments doubting Israel’s legitimacy

By Michael Bachner

A man walks near an open bomb shelter in the northern Israeli city of Safed on December 4, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Gimme shelters: Comptroller says millions have nowhere to run from rockets

By Judah Ari Gross

Report finds that plans to improve access to bomb shelters have foundered, though the country’s physical defenses and preparations for war have improved in recent years

Illustrative: A ball of fire is seen following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip early on August 3, 2020. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

After rocket attack, Israel hits ‘underground’ Hamas targets in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

A piece of shrapnel from an Iron Dome interceptor missile hit the back windshield of a car in the southern town of Sderot on August 2, 2020. (Oranit Pahima)

Gaza rocket fired at south, intercepted, in first launch in over a month

By Judah Ari Gross

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem on August 1, 2020. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu: My father is amused by the ‘aliens’ protesting against him

PM’s son clarifies he was referring to costumed demonstrators; organizers of rallies say that to the Netanyahus ‘we are not even human’

Deputy State Attorney Liat Ben-Ari arrives at the District Court in Jerusalem, ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial on May 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police said to place 24-hour security around Netanyahu prosecutor over threats

Transportation Minister Miri Regev, who lowered her face mask to speak, during a press conference at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem on July 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

TV news, reporter ordered to compensate minister for defamation

From the blogs

The day Israel’s president showed up to help me feed pandemic poor

Ruby Rivlin came to sort and pack produce for needy families and to learn more about today’s food security challenges. That’s true leadership

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wears a face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting, at the foreign ministry, in Jerusalem, July 5, 2020. (Gali Tibbon/AP)

Netanyahu: Israel’s infection rate leveling off, but among world’s highest

PM warns of jump in COVID-19 deaths, says cases could rise ‘to numbers we won’t be able to handle’ as ministers meet to discuss easing some restrictions, tightening others

Israel added just 19 hospital beds during outbreak, MKs hear as wards fill up

Health minister says Israel has ‘stopped the rise in infections’

Virus tests — and infections — appear to rise again after weekend trough

Doctors treat a patient at the coronavirus unit at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

8 virus deaths take national toll to 546; 1,518 cases found in past 24 hours

There are currently 26,005 active COVID-19 cases, 331 of which are serious; so far 13,670 tests have been carried out today

6:38 pm

Deri: I've told Gantz, Netanyahu people won't forgive us if we go to elections
6:04 pm

Justice Ministry expected to fine Likud for massive data breach -- report
5:51 pm

Reports: Strikes on Iranian targets in Syria cause deaths, injuries

Former Bank of Israel deputy governor Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg. (Bank of Israel)

Behind the headlines

Join top economist to learn how Israel can crawl out of COVID financial crisis

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member today

Jack C. Bendheim

Don’t skip out on Jewish day school this year. It’s an ethical issue

Great yeshiva education is the key to our thriving communities: Without registration, received tuition, and the hiring of teachers, our schools will fail

Who’s afraid of elections?

There are 3 democratic paths to get Netanyahu gone – and going to the polls will be the safest, most effective way to overhaul Israeli society and rehab its economy

A grasshopper eats wheatgrass at the Hargol grasshoppers breeding farm in Kidmat Tzvi in the Golan Heights on July 12, 2020. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Plague to protein: Israeli firm seeks to put locusts on the menu

By Jonah Mandel

Illustrative: Jewish men study torah in small groups at the Orot Shaul Yeshiva in Tel Aviv on July 7, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Opposition MKs rap virus czar for approving entry of 17,000 foreign students

Liberman warns Israel will pay a ‘heavy price’ for decision, accuses Ronni Gamzu of ‘failed decision-making’

Coronavirus czar okays entry of around 17,000 foreign students to Israel

Corona flicksTel Aviv reopens drive-in theater for night of romantic flicks

By Jessica Steinberg

Cabinet approves NIS 4.2 billion plan for school year under coronavirus

Ayelet Zurer stars in 'Losing Alice,' HOT and Dori Media's hot new drama thriller that will also be shown on Apple TV (Courtesy HOT)

Actress Ayelet Zurer packs a punch in psychological thriller ‘Losing Alice’

By Jessica Steinberg

In this July 14, 2020, photo, a road is partially blocked with garbage and bins in protest of uncollected trash, in Beirut, Lebanon (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Analysis

Often on brink, Lebanon hurtles toward collapse

Beirut speeding toward tipping point at alarming speed, driven by financial ruin, collapsing institutions, hyperinflation, rapidly rising poverty, and a pandemic

Lebanese foreign minister resigns as economic crisis deepens

Iran covered up true virus death toll of 42,000 – report

WHO: Despite vaccine race, there may never be a COVID-19 ‘silver bullet’

By Robin MILLARD

Illustrative: Rabbi Yossi Sapirman holds a prayer service on camera in the city's Beth Torah synagogue, without congregants. (Courtesy of Sapirman/ via JTA)

For virtual High Holiday services, some US synagogues to outsource to the pros

More Headlines

Shops in Bilu Center mall, in Kiryat Ekron, July 30, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Treasury reportedly warns failure to pass state budget could hurt credit rating

Likud MK Miki Zohar speaks in the Knesset, Jerusalem on February 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition whip predicts government heading for ‘divorce’

In this Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, US Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks at a rally in Springfield, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh File)

Ilhan Omar, seeking 2nd term, faces challenger targeting her celebrity

By Steve Karnowski and MOHAMED IBRAHIM

01 August 2020, Berlin: A flag on which various symbols from a Red Cross form a swastika is shown by a participant in the demonstration against corona restrictions in front of the Brandenburg Gate. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish community protests ‘open anti-Semitism’ at Berlin coronavirus protest

By Toby Axelrod

Paramedics try unsuccessfully to resuscitate a man who drowned on a Tel Aviv beach on April 19, 2018. (Magen David Adom)

Palestinian teenager drowns off Haifa coast

Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Tel Aviv Medical Center)

‘Well-known businessman’ quizzed after year-old son tests positive for drugs

Parents demand changes to childcare oversight laws, including tougher sentences for abusive daycare workers and better regulations for supervision of daycare centers, August 1, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Police arrest owner of Ramle preschool after protests over alleged abuse

Controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala arriving at a Paris courthouse, March 12, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)

Facebook permanently bans French comedian Dieudonne for anti-Semitism

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a police officer holding a pair of handcuffs. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Woman, daughter arrested over 2016 murder of 6-year-old boy in south

Illustrative: Border Police officers stand guard at a West Bank checkpoint on April 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Three border guards arrested on suspicion of robbing, assaulting Palestinians

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Senior clergy among Togo activists said targeted by Israeli spyware

This October 7, 2015, photo shows a general view of the Eshkol power station, the first in Israel to produce electricity from natural gas, in the coastal city of Ashdod. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

OECD: Gas-based electricity system will jeopardize aim of zero carbon footprint

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