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What Matters Most On Monday, August 2, 2021

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Cabinet approves the state budget, August 2, 2021 (GPO/Amos Ben Gershom)

Legislation must now clear all Knesset readings by Nov. 4

Cabinet approves state budget for 1st time in 3 years in key test for government

Bennett: ‘After 3 years of stagnation, Israel is back to work’; Liberman says reforms focus on lowering cost of living; Horowitz said to secure NIS 2 billion increase for health

Top left, Shaare Zedek Medical Center staff (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90), top right, Israeli farmers block junctions (Yossi Aloni/Flash90) Bottom left, Woman at the Mahane Yehuda market (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Bottom right, Traffic jams on the Ayalon highway (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

ExplainerHealth funding, farming reform, later retirement for women: Israel’s new budget

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh during a press conference in Tehran, on February 22, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran warns it will respond to any action over deadly tanker attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

US, UK blame Iran for deadly strike on ship with Israel ties, weigh response

By Emanuel Fabian, 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)

UK deputy envoy says Israel ‘needs to make own considerations’ over ship attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Three Israeli filmmakers held in Nigeria for 20 days pictured after their release, on their flight from Abuja to Istanbul before boarding a plane for Israel, July 28, 2021 (courtesy)

Exclusive

‘We didn’t know if they’d execute us’: Full saga of Israeli trio held in Nigeria

By Lazar Berman

How 3 Israeli filmmakers who came to document Igbo Jews found themselves locked in a dark cage with terrorists in a Nigerian prison

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The West Bank town of Qalqilya is seen behind Israel's security barrier. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

IDF shoots Arab Israeli allegedly trying to break through West Bank barrier

Military says the man and another suspect were spotted by troops trying to sneak through security fence from Palestinian side

6:44 pm

Blaming Iran, Blinken vows 'collective response' to drone attack on ship
6:43 pm

Troops fire flares along Lebanon border after suspicious activity spotted
6:29 pm

Housing Ministry seeking to advance E J'lem construction before Bennett's expected US visit

Illustrative image: Herzog hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, July 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

88 patients, 0 intubated: Israeli ‘precision’ COVID drug wrapping up early trial

By Nathan Jeffay

Placebo study still to come, but inventor says medication ‘could be a game changer’ after around 9 out of 10 participants in Greek trial are released from hospital within 5 days

Illustrative. Money and a gavel. (alefexe/iStock by Getty Images; illustration by Joshua Davidovich)

TOI investigates10 cases that highlight allegedly ruinous ongoing fraud

Foreigners file slew of lawsuits against alleged Israeli investment scammers

By Simona Weinglass

People who say they lost large sums to fraudulent trading firms are seeking justice in civil court, though they face webs of shell companies and opaque ownership structures

Artem Dolgopyat of Israel, left, 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)

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Daily Briefing Aug 2 – Why Israel’s Olympic gold medalist can’t marry at home

We hear about last night’s budget nail-biter from Haviv Rettig Gur and all about Team Israel’s guts and glory from Amy Spiro

Gold medallist Israel's Artem Dolgopyat celebrates on the podium of 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. (Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Israel’s Olympic gold medalist can’t marry in the country, his mother laments

Israel's Artem Dolgopyat (C) celebrates with his team after winning 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 2020

Israel’s Olympic gold medalist Dolgopyat: I’m already planning for Paris 2024

Gymnast declines to discuss law that prevents him from getting married in Israel due to his religious status: ‘These are things in my heart and my own personal issues’

Artem Dolgopyat of Israel poses 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, Japan. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Tokyo 2020From Ukraine to Israel to Tokyo: Journey of an Olympic gold medalist

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Facing religious reforms, some Haredim now call for synagogue-state separation

The new government, Haredi politicians warn, is ‘destroying’ and ‘corrupting’ Israel’s Jewish character. Separation, some say, may be inevitable

Representatives of the Chief Rabbinate deliver a kashrut certificate to a local restaurant in central Jerusalem, on December 31, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Members of the state commission of inquiry into the tragedy at Mount Meron tour the site on August 2, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Members of state inquiry into Meron disaster are protested while touring site

Aliza Davidovit

Remembering my great friend, Jackie Mason

What I liked most about him was that he didn’t hobnob with the upper crust; Jackie’s favorite hangouts were New York’s delis and diners

Sherwin Pomerantz

Is US support of Israel slipping?

Opposition to the foreign aid bill by Republicans and far-left Dems may be weaponized to support false claims of slippage in support from traditional Israel stalwarts

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 on August 1, 2021. (AP Photo/ Oded Balilty)

Israelis over 60 flock to receive COVID vaccine booster dose

As Israel becomes 1st country to widely administer 3rd shot, PM says goal is to vaccinate everyone eligible by month’s end; tells health care providers to work ‘five times’ as fast

Travelers seen in the departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Journalists from banned COVID countries cannot directly enter Israel

Top social media platforms fail to act on reported antisemitism, study finds

By Stuart Winer

Hate watchdog says 84% of content it flagged as anti-Jewish hatred was not dealt with by Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok; tech giants say more work to be done

People gather to protest against the COVID-19 vaccination pass in Rome on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

European protesters compare vaccine passes to Holocaust, apartheid

By Colleen Barry

Palestinian schoolchildren studying at an UNRWA school in Gaza City. (IRIN/Creative Commons via JTA)

Watchdog: Dozens of UNRWA teachers condone violence, spread antisemitism online

UN Watch urges donor countries to defund UN agency for Palestinians, says it made no effort to address past complaints

A bus of IDF soldiers is seen in the West Bank city of Hebron, August 1, 2021. (Video screenshot)

Bus with IDF soldiers mistakenly enters Palestinian area of Hebron

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel's bronze medal-winning mixed judo team arrives at the Ben Gurion International Airport, July 27, 2021 (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Tokyo 2020

Israel’s bronze medal-winning Olympic judokas fly home to a hero’s welcome

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Eleven overjoyed team members express gratitude to those who turned out at airport to cheer them as they arrive from Tokyo

Tokyo 2020After trouncing by South Korea, Israeli Olympic baseball hopes hang on next game

By AP and ToI Staff

Russian-Israeli tennis player Karatsev wins silver for Russia in mixed doubles

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Going for goldIn medal mix-up, Karatsev briefly takes gold for his tennis partner

Illustrative: Israeli travelers enter a COVID testing center at the Menahem Begin Terminal or Taba passage, between Israel and Egypt, on August 1, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Police reprimanded rape victim for violating quarantine to go to hospital

An unvaccinated woman who was raped on vacation in Sinai returned to Israel and went to the hospital; she says policemen who came there treated her aggressively, fined her friend

Unrecognized Bedouin villages around the Ramat Hovav industrial area in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chenical evaporation ponds and an Israel Electric Corporation power plant on December 28, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)

Israel to impose carbon tax, starting with fossil fuels

Tax to be introduced gradually from 2023 to 2028, expected to increase electricity bills by five percent, cover about 80% of country’s greenhouse gas emissions

Illustrative. Heatwave. (iStock by Getty Images)

Israel tells UN it aims to cut global warming gases by 27% until 2030

Tourists wait to be evacuated from smoke-engulfed Mazi area as wildfires rolled down the hill toward the seashore, in Bodrum, Mugla, Turkey, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)

Tourists, villagers evacuated by boat as wildfires ravage Turkish resorts

By Mehmet Guzel and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

Portrait of Chaucer from a 1412 manuscript by Thomas Hoccleve, who may have met Chaucer (Wikimedia commons)

Explainer

Rapist, racist and antisemite? Expert says efforts to ‘cancel’ Chaucer misguided

By Jennifer Wollock

Researcher argues that the father of English poetry gets an increasingly bad rap as scholars confuse his characters’ toxic views with his personal opinions

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Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana speaks during a conference of the 'B'sheva' group in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Religious affairs minister dismisses women in army combat roles as ‘a mistake’

People are evacuated as Lebanese soldiers deploy in armored vehicles amid clashes in the Khalde area, south of the capital, on August 1, 2021. - At least five people including three Hezbollah members were killed south of Beirut when a funeral procession for a party member was ambushed(Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Three Hezbollah men among five killed in Lebanon funeral shooting

Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg who is presiding over the petitions against the state regarding the illegal Palestinian encampment of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, in a Supreme Court hearing, March 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court justice recuses himself from ‘Jenin, Jenin’ film case

A handout photo from police shows an unexploded bazooka round discovered at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on August 1, 2021. (Israel Police)

Unexploded bazookas found at site of Six Day War battle in Jerusalem

By Emanuel Fabian

A woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, California, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google announces plan for undersea cable connecting Israel, southern Europe

Illustrative: A IDF military vehicle drives near the border with Gaza east of Bureij, on December 6, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Israeli troops nab 4 Gaza infiltrators, 3 of them armed with knives

By Emanuel Fabian

Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, October 11, 2019. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Azerbaijan opens first trade office in Israel to boost economic ties

Lille's players celebrate with the trophy after winning the French Champions' Trophy (Trophee des Champions) final football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Lille (LOSC) at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, on August 1, 2021. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Israel hosts French soccer league curtain raiser: Lille beats PSG

By AFP

General view of the Lahav 433 police unit headquarters in the city of Lod, on November 4, 2019. (Flash90)

Elected local official among 7 arrested on suspicion of bribery

By Stuart Winer

Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who said her team tried to force her to leave Japan following a row during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, walks with her luggage inside the Polish embassy in Tokyo on August 2, 2021. (Yuki Iwamura/AFP)

Belarus Olympic sprinter gets Poland visa after refusing to be sent home

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