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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 8, 2020

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An explosion in Beirut's port on August 4, 2020. (screen capture: Twitter)

'Material that exploded in the port is not new to Nasrallah'

Israel TV: Hezbollah apparently wanted Beirut’s ammonium nitrate for Israel war

TV cites assessment Nasrallah may have intended to use stockpile that caused port blast in ‘Third Lebanon War’, notes cases in Germany, UK where Hezbollah caught with same material

Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah gives a speech in the aftermath of the deadly explosion in Beirut, on August 7, 2020 (al-Manar screenshot)

Nasrallah ‘categorically’ denies Hezbollah stored any weapons in Beirut port

By Aaron Boxerman

People look at the scene of Tuesday's explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. Rescue teams were still searching the rubble of Beirut's port for bodies on Friday, nearly three days after a massive explosion sent a wave of destruction through Lebanon's capital, killing over a hundred people and wounding thousands. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Lebanon president says he knew of chemicals at port in July

By Zeina Karam and Andrea Rosa

Yona Avrushmi, who served 27 years in prison for killing activist Emil Grunzweig at a 1983 peace rally by throwing a hand grande into the crowd, as seen in an August 2020 TV report. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Arrest him: Protesters file incitement complaint against peace activist’s killer

Yona Avrushmi, who in 1983 murdered Peace Now activist Emil Grunzweig at a protest, on his release from the Hadarim prison on January 26, 2011. (Flash90)

Peace activist’s killer calls anti-Netanyahu protesters ‘germs’ to be dealt with

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on August 7, 2020. (Flash90)

3,000 protest in latest anti-Netanyahu rally outside his home

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, questions former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a US diplomat in Ukraine, as they testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Exclusive

Dems seeking House foreign affairs job would restrict Israel aid over annexation

By Eric Cortellessa

All 3 candidates running to chair powerful committee say American assistance shouldn’t go toward Israel annexing parts of West Bank, signaling growing Democratic support for idea

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds a joint press conference with then-US vice president Joe Biden at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

Biden intervened to keep Israel ‘occupation’ out of Democratic platform

Illustrative: California Senator Kamala Harris endorses Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during a campaign rally at Renaissance High School in Detroit, Michigan, on March 9, 2020. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP)

2020 US election primerA Jewish guide to Joe Biden’s VP short list

By Gabe Friedman and Ron Kampeas

Author interview

Nazi hunter teams up with Lithuanian journalist to investigate Holocaust crimes

Efraim Zuroff and Ruta Vanagaite chronicle a partnership and budding friendship as they seek to convince her countrymen to face a genocide perpetrated in part by their forebears

Illustrative: A half-sunken cargo ship (Brazilian Navy via AP)

Photos show sunken ship that brought ammonium nitrate to Beirut – and never left

By ToI Staff and AP

The MV Rhousus stopped at the Lebanese port in 2013 to pick up freight, but legal and technical difficulties led it to be detained and its explosive cargo impounded

Fireworks were stored in same Beirut warehouse as ammonium nitrate — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Lebanon president rejects global probe into port blast

By Hashem Osseiran and Jean-Marc Mojon

Owner of cruise ship sunk by Lebanon blast sues

By AFP

Members of the Lebanese Kataeb party carry the coffin of their party's secretary-general Nazar Najarian, killed by the explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut on August 4, during his funeral procession in the capital Beirut, on August 8, 2020. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon sees string of MP resignations following Beirut blast

By AFP

Three-member parliamentary bloc steps down, citing government corruption and negligence

People remove debris from a house damaged by Tuesday's explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Seething Beirut cleanup volunteers boot ministers out of ravaged districts

By AFP

US President Donald Trump holds a face mask as he speaks during a news conference at the White House, Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump tells Lebanon’s president US help on the way for Beirut disaster

Want to help end racial segregation? First do this

The Jewish community of my city, Rochester NY, must acknowledge our complicity in creating segregation and racism

Patience, plodding, perseverance…

The qualities that will help us thrive on this strange journey through Covid land can be honed through Jewish sources and practices

In video released on July 28, 2020, an explosion is seen next to a mock US aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz during military exercises held by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Iran accidentally sinks its mock US aircraft carrier, blocking key waterway

Satellite imagery published by Forbes shows ship capsized at 90 degrees in middle of strategic passageway that Tehran needs clear to transport other vessels

IDF chief says Iran was behind Sunday’s thwarted attack on Syrian border

Iran asks UN to hold US accountable for plane interception

By Edith M. Lederer

UN set for showdown over US Iran arms embargo push

By Peter HUTCHISON

Art Garfunkel and Sandy Greenberg in the 1970s. (Courtesy of Greenberg/ via JTA)

‘Hello Darkness…’: A blind man’s lifelong friendship with Art Garfunkel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2020. (Tal Shahar/Pool/AFP)

Likud ministers said to pan Netanyahu’s push for new election ‘disaster’

Cabinet members tell TV new vote would be unnecessary, detrimental; coalition chair Miki Zohar: Election inevitable if Blue and White don’t yield on budget

Yoaz Hendel (L) and Benny Gantz (R) at the Knesset on May 13, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Minister: I’ve been offered ‘everything’ to ditch Gantz, form narrow government

People wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, queue to walk through disinfecting spray booths aimed to combat the spread of COVID-19, before doing shopping at Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Analysis

As South Africa’s virus cases surge, MDs apply tough lessons from HIV epidemic

Doctors Barry Schoub and Lucille Blumberg are among medical leaders confident that a COVID vaccine won’t be hindered by ‘political’ issues, as the yet undiscovered AIDS vaccine is

Israeli school children who will begin 1st grade in the upcoming academic school year, on August 06, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel sees 1,716 new infections as death toll rises to 581

Illustrative: Yehud Comprehensive High School students take their mathematics English matriculation examination (Bagrut), in Yehud, July 8, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Analysis

Shira Rubin

To shrink classes amid COVID-19, Israel needs 15,000 teachers. It won’t be easy

Teacher shortage long predated the pandemic, but the issue has been exacerbated by the need to reduce the number of pupils gathered at any one time

Students sit in a classroom on the first day of the new school year at the United Nations-run Elementary School at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, August 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza children back at school with few virus safety measures

In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a pedestrian wears a face mask while standing outside the High School of Economics & Finance, closed due to coronavirus concerns, in New York (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Cuomo clears New York schools statewide to open, carefully

By MARINA VILLENEUVE

Seth Rogen as Ben and Herschel Greenbaum in 'An American Pickle' (HBO Max via JTA)

The real history behind Seth Rogen’s ‘An American Pickle’

By Lior Zaltzman

More Headlines

Two brothers aged 7 and 4 who went missing in Kfar Silver on Friday August 7, 2020 ( Israel Police)

After massive hunt, two missing brothers, 7 and 4, found unharmed

Illustrative -- Israeli troops patrol the streets of the West Bank city of Jenin, January 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians say 23-year-old woman killed during clashes with IDF

By Aaron Boxerman

Beyonce wearing a dress designed by Israeli designer Shahar Avnet, one of three Israelis who created looks for the singer's 'Black Is King' album (Courtesy Shahar Avnet)

Mediterranean modeBeyoncé wears Israeli-designed looks in new filmed album

By Jessica Steinberg

Balloons carrying an incendiary device were found near Kibbutz Nir Oz on Saturday, August 8, 2020. Photo via Eshkol Regional Council

Police sappers neutralize balloon-borne incendiary device near Kibbutz Nir Oz

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

James Mackler at a panel on 'How to on Survive an Authoritarian in a Red State' in Nashville, Dec. 18, 2017. (Jason Davis/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

Dem-backed Jewish veteran loses Tennessee Senate primary to progressive activist

Matt Lieberman, who is running for Senate in Georgia as a Democrat, poses in Atlanta, Nov. 22, 2019. (Ron Kampeas)

Joe Lieberman’s son Matt, a Senate candidate, under fire for ‘racist tropes’

This Tuesday, April 28, 2020 file photo shows Jerome Fedor, left, voting using social distancing at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, in Cleveland, Ohio (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

US intel: Russia acting against Biden, while China and Iran seek to hurt Trump

By Eric Tucker and Deb Riechmann

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in a scene from the 1987 film 'Dirty Dancing.' (Vestron/Getty Images/ via JTA)

Baby is back‘Dirty Dancing’ sequel starring Jennifer Grey announced

By Gabe Friedman

Sarah Lefton, creator of the 'Yo Semite' T-shirt, with her son, Levi. (Courtesy of Lefton)

Park and mispronunciationJewish educator’s ‘Yo Semite’ shirt in spotlight after Trump gaffe

By Esther Kustanowitz

Israelis protest being separated from their significant others outside the residence of the foreign minister by having solo romantic picnics on the eve of Tu B'Av, the Jewish day celebrating love. The signs read, "We also want to embrace our loved ones. Open the skies for them. Families want to be together." (Courtesy: Plia Kettner via JTA)

Together, alone: Israel’s closed borders, marriage rules forcing couples apart

Douglas Macgregor. right, appears on Fox News, Dec. 30, 2019. (Screen shot via JTA)

Jewish groups protest Trump’s Germany envoy pick for remarks on Nazi history

A general view shows the Maghen Abraham Synagogue in the Lebanese capital Beirut while undergoing restoration on October 19, 2010. (OSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Beirut synagogue appears to suffer only minor damage from explosion

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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