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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 1, 2021

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Israel's Artem Dolgopyat competes in the artistic gymnastics men's floor exercise final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo on August 1, 2021. (Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Tokyo 2020

Artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat wins Israel’s 2nd-ever Olympic gold

24-year-old takes top place on the podium with stunning floor exercise, scoring 14.933 and besting tough Spanish and Chinese competition

Israel's Artem Dolgopyat competes in the floor event of the artistic gymnastics men's floor exercise final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo on August 1, 2021. (Loic VENANCE / AFP)

Tokyo 2020Israel’s gold medalist gymnast: I thought I lost it all, routine wasn’t my best

Israel's Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko competes in the women's triple jump final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 1, 2021. (Andrej Isakovic/AFP)

Tokyo 2020Israel’s Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko finishes sixth in Olympic triple jump

Artem Dolgopyat of Israel celebrates after winning the gold medal on the floor exercise during the artistic gymnastics men's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, August 1, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Op-ed

Israel’s modest gold medalist: Artem Dolgopyat proves a disarming Olympic hero

The artistic gymnast who soared to the second gold in Israeli Olympic history keeps his feet firmly on the ground amid national euphoria

Israel's Daniel Valencia (2nd R, #19) celebrates his three run home run with teammates during the third inning of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games baseball round 1 game between Israel and Mexico at Yokohama Baseball Stadium in Yokohama, Japan, on August 1, 2021. (KAZUHIRO FUJIHARA / AFP)

Tokyo 2020Israel’s Olympic baseball team beats Mexico, keeping medal hopes alive

Ankie Spitzer (R) at the Israeli memorial for the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, in Japan on August 1, 2021 (Israel Olympic Committee)

At Munich massacre memorial in Tokyo, widow lauds Olympics’ long-awaited tribute

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Lebanon is sliding back to the Stone Age, and Iran couldn’t be happier about it

Israel’s northern neighbor is facing water, electricity and medicine shortages and its prospective new government won’t weaken Hezbollah; will the PA suffer a similar disaster?

A patient rests on a bed in a hallway of the Rafic Hariri University Hospital in Lebanon's capital Beirut, on July 23, 2021. (STR/AFP)

Political graffiti is visible in front of the scene of the August 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, August 9, 2020. (AP/Hussein Malla)

A year after the mushroom cloud, Lebanon still bleeds

By Jean-Marc Mojon

This Jan. 2, 2016 photo shows the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street off Cape Town, South Africa (Johan Victor via AP)

Iran denies ‘baseless’ Israeli claim it struck ship in deadly attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranians, mostly wearing face masks, are pictured in a train carriage at a metro station in the capital Tehran on June 10, 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic crisis (STRINGER / AFP)

TV: Israel believes Iran struck ship in response to cyberattack on train system

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This Jan. 2, 2016 file photo shows the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street off Cape Town, South Africa. (Johan Victor via AP)

Israel in diplomatic campaign for a forceful world response to attack on ship

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

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Rob Malley, US special envoy for Iran (R) and Stephan Klement, EU ambassador and European external action service special advisor on Iran, talk in front of the Hotel Imperial near the Grand Hotel Vienna where closed-door nuclear talks took place in Vienna, Austria, June 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter)

US said increasingly skeptical return to Iran nuclear deal is possible

NY Times reports on pessimism in Washington amid challenges facing accord, including new hardline government in Tehran and growing Iranian technical knowhow

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) greets Foreign Minister Yair Lapid ahead of their meeting in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP)

Live updates (closed)Lapid speaks to Blinken about deadly ship strike, urges international response

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on July 25, 2021. (Lazar Berman/ Times of Israel)

Lapid calls for UN action against Iran after deadly attack on ship

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Israeli man receives a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit health care maintenance organization in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 1 – Israelis turn guinea pigs as 3rd COVID dose rolled out

Lazar Berman explains why Israel is up in arms after an alleged Iranian attack on an oil tanker; health reporter Nathan Jeffay lists pros and cons of Israel’s 3rd dose campaign

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota left, joined at right by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, listens to US President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Antisemitism increasingly politicized in 2020 US media coverage – study

By Lazar Berman

Tel Aviv think tank finds that press investigated hatred of Jews expressed around COVID, Black Lives Matter protests, elections

Rachel Gershon, 83, receives a third Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from a Magen David Adom national emergency service volunteer, at a private nursing home, in Netanya, August 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett: Goal is ‘to vaccinate everyone’ by end of August

‘This is ambitious, but possible,’ PM tells HMO chiefs while calling to increase pace of vaccination to ‘five times what it is now’

6:13 pm

Florida breaks its pandemic record for COVID hospitalizations
6:00 pm

Lapid: Israel to keep working with allies on formulating 'necessary steps' to counter Iran
5:39 pm

Blinken says US 'confident' that Iran behind attack on Israeli-linked ship

We tell ourselves that our soldiers would not shoot for no reason

We must fight hatred of Jews as if there’s no oppression in this land, and we must fight the injustices of our own government and army as if there’s no antisemitism

Haviva Ner-David

Torah commands both love and vengeance: In Israel, we live that contradiction

What if instead of trying to repeat history, we are meant to correct it? The Jews were sovereign on this land twice already, and it did not end well.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)

In key test for new government, cabinet to meet to approve 2021-2022 budget

Israel has been without a budget since 2019; health minister threatens to oppose; Ra’am leader will reportedly be on hand for negotiations

Health ministry chief as positivity rate tops 3%: ‘We’re not seeing a slowdown’

Nachman Ash says 3rd shot will help fight against coronavirus but boosters may be needed perpetually; serious COVID cases rise to 212

New Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on July 13, 2021. (Flash90)

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine are pictured at a Magen David Adom mobile vaccination in Tel Aviv, on July 5, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel said set to toss 80,000 expiring vaccine doses at midnight

Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Rafah Medical Complex in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on November 23, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Ismail Haniyeh elected to another term as Hamas chief

By Aaron Boxerman

Terror group’s leader has held the position since 2017, would stay on until 2025; quadrennial Hamas elections said to be drawing to a close

Palestinian workers from the West Bank city of Hebron carry personal belongings as they cross into Israel through a hole in security fence near the West Bank city of Hebron, January 31, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Ministers okay granting 15,000 more work permits to Palestinians

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Palestinian supporters of Hamas, gather to celebrate the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel on May 21, 2021, in the West Bank town of Hebron. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Hamas intensifies efforts to launch West Bank terror attacks — report

Orthodox Jewish runner Beatie Deutsch. (Projects in Torah/ via JTA)

Interview'I'm using God's gift to fulfill my earthly mission'

Adidas chooses an American-Israeli Orthodox mom as the face of a new campaign

By Bonnie Azoulay

Beatie Deutsch appeared out of nowhere in 2016 to become a top female runner globally — all while racing in modest attire; now a top sporting brand wants to showcase her faith

More Headlines

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 20, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky/POO)

Bennett slams ‘evil’ daubing of swastikas on Bnei Brak synagogue walls

Hotel guests clash with employees at the Herbert Samuel hotel in downtown Jerusalem on July 31, 2021. (Screenshot)

Eight Israelis arrested for attacking Arab hotel workers in Jerusalem

Illustrative: People take part in a MMA (Mixed Martials Arts) training session, on May 2, 2016 in Paris. (Francois Guillot/AFP)

Lebanese athlete said to pull out from MMA contest to avoid facing Israeli

By Emanuel Fabian

Ebrahim Raisi, who went on to win Iran's presidential election, waves after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, on June 18, 2021. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Sweden case against accused Iranian war criminal may spell trouble for Raisi

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ruth Pearl is seen at the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco, on June 18, 2012 (Ryan Anson/AP Images for Association for Computing Machinery)

Mother of slain journalist Daniel Pearl dies at 85

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People enjoy a hot summer day at the Ein Lavan Spring in the Jerusalem Mountains, July 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel braces for weeklong scorcher

Illustrative: In this August 6, 2012 file photo, Egyptian border guards patrol near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt. (AP/Ahmed Gomaa, File)

5 Egyptian troops killed in Islamic State attack in northern Sinai

Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ Flash90/ File)

Man shot to death in northern Druze town

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