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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 27, 2021

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Saeid Mollaei of Mongolia celebrates with his silver medal during the award ceremony for the men -81kg judo match at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Tokyo 2020

Winning judo silver in Tokyo, Iranian defector Mollaei dedicates medal to Israel

By Amy Spiro and Agencies

Judoka says ‘todah’ to Israelis for support; Israeli Sagi Muki, who had disappointing finish, congratulates his unlikely friend: ‘I’m so happy… He deserves it’

Israel's Tohar Butbul gets ready to compete in the judo men's -73kg elimination round bout during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on July 26, 2021. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Tokyo 2020

International Olympic Committee ‘concerned’ by forfeits to avoid Israeli judoka

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko competes during the 100-meter backstroke final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 27, 2021. (Amit Shisel/Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020

Record-breaking Israeli Olympian swimmer: I’m not done yet

With more competitions to come, 17-year-old Anastasia Gorbenko says her goal ‘is always to advance as far as possible, and to break my own personal records’

Anastasya Gorbenko (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP) and Sagi Muki (Amit Shisel/Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo Olympics 2020Tokyo disappointment for Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko, judoka Sagi Muki

Medical staff conduct tests for coronavirus in Jerusalem on July 22, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Over 2,000 daily virus infections for 1st time since March; serious cases rise

17 more patients in serious condition since Monday evening; health minister cautions against ‘indifference’ to rapidly rising case numbers

US advises unvaccinated to avoid travel to Israel amid surge in virus cases

Bennett says Israel is ‘very close’ to approving a COVID booster shot

Top health official: Proposed 48-hour quarantine for schoolkids ‘impossible’

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In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, July 14, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Analysis'Iran has created new nuclear facts on the ground'

After months of optimism, a return to the Iran nuke deal begins to look unlikely

By Lazar Berman

The Islamic Republic’s demands, along with progress in its program, make a return to the JCPOA seem much more difficult than when Biden came into office

A screenshot from video of protesters marching in Tehran, Iran, on July 26, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Iran says armed Mossad cell arrested over plot to provoke clashes at protests

Tehran claims to seize guns, grenades, ammunition to be used by Israeli spies to carry out ‘urban riots and assassinations’ during demonstrations over water shortage

The Daily Briefing

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 27 – Is Israel responsible for NSO’s spyware surveillance?

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross gives context to global Pegasus Project shonda; Jacob Magid from the US discusses how PM Bennett is in a bind ahead of an upcoming DC trip

Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a Blue and White faction meeting at the Knesset on July 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz heads to Paris to discuss NSO Group with French counterpart

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett seen during a plenary session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset approves Bennett-Lapid power-sharing deal after hours of debate

Most opposition MKs skip vote; amendment enabling premiership rotation finalized with 61 in favor, 2 opposed

11:25 am

New Hope decries 'unrestrained attacks' on Shasha-Biton as she scraps with Health Ministry
6:27 pm

Education Ministry: 4,711 students have COVID
6:13 pm

Likud to sever ties with coalition whip Silman

The American colossus may crumble

A confused and disoriented US population lacks the resolve and unity of purpose needed to defeat a looming new US-China cold war

Hezbollah’s defiance and the United Nations’ duty

Flouting UN resolutions, the terror group has stockpiled arms, threatened, and attacked along Israel’s border. The Security Council must impose sanctions.

What Israelis want: Kosher food at affordable prices

The new minister of religious affairs has a plan to provide more reliable supervision and lower food prices – all without harming the Chief Rabbinate

Anna-Christina Schmidl

Germany is no poster child for dealing with the past

The country’s official Holocaust reckoning has evaded most citizens, who remain conveniently oblivious to how ordinary Germans enabled the machinery of death

Analysis

Memory of Netanyahu era gives Bennett leverage over Biden, at least for now

New government managed to delay reopening of consulate for Palestinians, and slack from Washington could extend to other contentious issues, but power dynamic goes both ways

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Maalot on July 20, 2021. (Rami Shlush/POOL)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and US President Joe Biden. (composite image: AP, Flash90)

Bennett aides to travel to DC for meetings with Biden staff ahead of PM’s visit

By Tal Schneider and Jacob Magid

Masked Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists prepare incendiary balloons east of Gaza city, to launch across the border fence towards Israel on June 15, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

Analysis

Message in a balloon: Hamas threatens violence unless Israel allows Qatari aid

By Judah Ari Gross

Amid now-resolved dispute over delayed entrance of Doha-purchased fuel into Gaza, terror group gives apparent approval for arson attacks along the border

In this May 19, 2021, photo, an Israeli artillery unit fires shells toward targets in Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Human Rights Watch accuses IDF, Palestinians of war crimes in May Gaza conflict

By Lazar Berman

Israeli forces struck civilian buildings with no military targets nearby, group charges in report; will release separate report on Palestinian rocket attacks

View of the Israeli-Jordanian border on February 10, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Jordan said to nab Islamic State terrorists for plot to attack Israeli soldiers

Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir (L) forcefully removed from the Knesset podium and ejected from the plenary after called Joint List MK Ahmed Tibi (R) a 'terrorist,' July 26, 2021. (Screen capture: Knesset Channel)

Itamar Ben Gvir dragged off Knesset podium for calling Arab chair ‘terrorist’

By Raoul Wootliff

Ahmad Tibi ejects far-right lawmaker from plenum after he initially refuses to refer to him as ‘Mr. Deputy Speaker’

Litzman accuses coalition whip Silman of secretly recording MKs for news outlet

Haredi MK compares religious affairs minister to villain of Hanukkah story

After blunder, Knesset gives initial ok to bill for rabbinical court reform

Israel's national baseball team at a team practice in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Tokyo 2020

Home run: Olympic baseball players hope medal can boost the sport back in Israel

The 24-man team will see its debut in Tokyo on Thursday with a game against South Korea, a day before it faces the US

More Headlines

Skull of a maned rat found in the Judean Desert (via Haifa University)

Rat bones found in Israel suggest ancient Africa-Europe ecological travel route

The scene where Mohammad Abu Nijm was shot on January 24, 2021 in Jaffa (Israel Police)

5 arrested over shooting death of Islamic Movement leader in Jaffa

Meretz party chair Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz leads a Meretz faction meeting at the Knesset on July 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health minister warns he won’t back budget unless healthcare funding is boosted

By Raoul Wootliff

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in Munich on Dec. 5, 1931. (AP Photo, File)

German man forced to remove statue at grave of father over resemblance to Hitler

Israeli modeling agent Shai Avital speaks with Channel 12 news. (Video screenshot)

Police launch probe of modeling agent for alleged sexual abuse

A vew of the campus at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York. (CC BY-SA Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia Commons)

50 US professors quit union after it calls Israel a ‘settler-colonial state’

By JTA

Professor Steven Weinberg, then of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 15, 1979. (AP Photo/File)

ObituaryNobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies at 88

By AP and ToI Staff

Prof. Zeev Rotstein, CEO of Hadassah Hospital speaks during a press conference at the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem on November 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hadassah chief Rotstein pushed out of position

Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale at a shop in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Angry over settlement boycott, NYC grocery chain to limit Ben & Jerry’s sales

An illustration of the Zoog app in action (Courtesy)

Adding tech twist to storytelling, entrepreneurs try to bridge generation gap

By Shoshanna Solomon

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