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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 3, 2021

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Gravediggers in protective suits carry the coffin of the deceased, who died of COVID-19, as relatives and friends stand at a distance in the coronavirus section of a cemetery in Kolpino, outside St. Petersburg. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Global COVID death toll over a million higher than reported, Israeli study finds

By Nathan Jeffay

4.22 million have been reported dead but many were left out, say Hebrew University researchers, pointing to authoritarian regimes downplaying virus and others unable to keep track

Care home resident Gwen Nurse, aged 86 receives her first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in south west London, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Britain, Germany to begin giving 3rd doses of coronavirus vaccine

By ToI Staff and AP

A man sits in a corridor as he waits for news of his wife who is suspected of having COVID-19 at the Dr. Norberto Raul Piacentini Hospital in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Scientists try to understand COVID ‘brain fog,’ potential link to Alzheimer’s

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accompanies his mother, Myrna, as she gets a COVID-19 booster shot on August 3, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett warns of tighter COVID restrictions if vaccination pace doesn’t rise

Ministers convene to discuss potentially imposing further measures to stem outbreak; 2,052 new cases, 1 death confirmed since midnight

6:18 pm

Officer stabbed to death in burst of violence outside Pentagon
6:07 pm

Cuomo denies sexual harassment accusations in NY AG's report: 'Not who I am'
5:49 pm

Health Ministry said seeking to delay start of school year

Travelers stand in line to get coronavirus checks upon arriving at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, on July 1, 2021. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Arrivals from 18 more countries, including US, Greece, to require quarantine

Italy, France and Egypt also added to list of countries from which travelers must self-isolate from next Wednesday even if vaccinated

Illustrative: Children take test samples as part of a coronavirus test at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, August 02, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Daily COVID cases surge past 3,800; ministers to mull new restrictions

Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, July 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Unemployment still high despite cut to pandemic benefits

Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai arrives at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Warns Israel must not tamper with Temple Mount status quo

Minister: Reviving Western Wall compromise is on cabinet agenda, backed by PM

By David Horovitz and Lazar Berman

Nachman Shai tells ToI plan has clear majority; also hails ‘unprecedented’ NIS 40m budget to boost Reform and Conservative Judaism; laments no coalition consensus on civil marriage

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delivers televised remarks at Ben Gurion Airport, on June 22, 2021. (Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug 3 – How Israel is preparing for Bennett’s visit to Washington

We hear from Jacob Magid about what is being done to bolster the relationship with the US ahead of the PM’s visit and Emanuel Fabian fills us in on West Bank security incidents

Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and European diplomats attend a hearing regarding their eviction from their homes at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court floats compromise in Sheikh Jarrah eviction cases

By Aaron Boxerman

Justices tell residents, Jewish owners they’re seeking ‘practical solution’; Palestinians offered protected tenancy in exchange for paying rent to Jewish owners

The Atarot industrial zone, with the Ramallah suburb Kafr Aqab seen in the background. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel eyeing East Jerusalem housing project ahead of Bennett’s Washington visit

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers check a Palestinian woman as she waits to cross the Qalandiya checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, April 23, 2021. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel seeking to bolster PA, says senior official ahead of Bennett’s US visit

Defense Ministry holding off on settlement building approvals but will okay plans when timing is right, giving preference to projects in so-called blocs, says Israeli official

Illustrative: Yamam counter-terrorism unit forces are seen during training. (Israel Police)

Heavy gun battle in Jenin between Israeli troops, attackers; 6 Palestinians hurt

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians illegally crossing the Israeli security fence through a hole to enter Israel on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Hebron, on August 6, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

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

I’d marry Artem Dolgopyat in an instant – even without the gold medal

He has a Jewish father, he threw his lot in with the Jewish state and people, he is a ’seed of Israel,’ and entitled by Jewish law to an easy pathway to conversion

South African Israelis must lead the fight against the apartheid libel

Expats like me who marched for equal rights should be mobilized to stand up to the abhorrent BDS campaign to discredit – and destroy – Israel

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

Analysis

US, UK know Iran attacked oil tanker, but are unlikely to strike back

Blinken promises a ‘collective response,’ but any military reaction will have to come from Israel

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)

Rouhani confirms Israeli heist of Iran’s nuclear archive

Eyal Hulata, in an undated photograph. (Courtesy)

In DC, new national security adviser discusses Iran threat with US counterpart

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens as he gives a joint press conference with Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, following a meeting of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, at the Fiera di Roma, in Rome, as part of Blinken's three-nation tour of Europe, on June 28, 2021. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP)

Blinken vows ‘collective response’ to Iran over hit on tanker with Israel ties

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Secretary says US coordinating with UK, Israel, Romania and others on response to deadly attack; Johnson says Tehran will have to face consequences of its ‘outrageous’ actions

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a conference in the Eshkol region, southern Israel, on July 13, 2021. (Flash90)

Gantz urges action against Iran ‘right now’ in response to deadly drone attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset during a plenum session on August 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bashing Bennett, Netanyahu says Biden will thwart Israeli attack on Iran

By Raoul Wootliff

Artem Dolgopyat, who won a gold medal at the Olympic games in Tokyo, is greeted by family and friends during a welcome ceremony, at Ben-Gurion International Airport on August 3, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tokyo 2020'I still can barely digest it and believe it'

‘Warmest welcome ever’: Olympic gold medalist Artem Dolgopyat returns to Israel

‘I feel like crying from all the excitement, even more than when I won the medal — just kidding,’ says the gymnast after being doused with champagne outside Ben Gurion Airport

Israeli runner Selamawit Teferi runs in the finals of the women's 5000m meter race at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on August 2, 2021. (Amit Shisel/Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020Israeli runner finishes women’s 5000m final in 10th place

An underwater view shows Israel's Eden Blecher and Shelly Bobritsky compete in the preliminary for the women's duet free artistic swimming event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo on August 2, 2021. (François-Xavier MARIT / AFP)

Totally in syncIsrael’s artistic swimmers snapped at the Olympics

By ToI Staff and AFP

Screen capture from video of judoka Peter Paltchick presenting his mother Larissa with the bronze medal he won at the Tokyo Olympic Games, August 2, 2021. (Instagram)

Winning move

Judoka presents COVID nurse mom with his bronze Olympic medal

By Stuart Winer

After arriving home from Tokyo, Peter Paltchick surprises his mother by taking prize to hospital where she works and placing it around her neck

Simone Biles, of the United States, performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Tokyo 2020Simone Biles takes home a bronze in balance beam in Olympic return

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, gives his official seal of approval to newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi in an endorsement ceremony in Tehran, Iran, August 3, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran supreme leader Khamenei formally tasks ultraconservative Raisi as president

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hardliner, who takes over as country is in negotiations over nuclear deal and crippling sanctions, vows nation’s economy won’t be tied to ‘will of foreigners’

In this file photo taken on June 22, 2021 Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi delivers speech at the Imam Reza shrine in the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran. (Mohsen Esmaeilzadeh / ISNA NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Flattery and subservience: Israel raps EU plan to attend Iran pres. inauguration

By AFP and ToI Staff

An IDF military outpost on the border between Israel and Lebanon, July 20, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Testing troops’ readiness, IDF launches drill along Lebanon border

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks in the Knesset on August 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM to opposition: We okayed budget in 36 hours, you couldn’t do it in 36 months

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Finance minister confident spending plan will win Knesset approval by November, says coalition will recruit Joint List MKs if needed; Arab party retorts: We can’t be bought

Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on July 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu assails ‘atrocious’ state budget; Lapid predicts it’ll pass in Knesset

By Raoul Wootliff

A car drives along a flooded road in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya on January 8, 2020, after a river burst it banks. Some 40%, or 250 millimeters (9.8 inches), of the city's average annual rainfall fell from January 3 to 9, that year. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Environment Ministry to get extra NIS 625 million to fight climate change

1st time climate crisis receives allocation in state budget; another sum will help Arab cities prepare for global warming and modernize waste disposal infrastructure

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

Illustration of humam sperm (vchal via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli MD analyzes billions of sperm, finds COVID vaccines don’t harm fertility

By Nathan Jeffay

Hadassah doctor hopes to allay false fears vaccine harms men’s ability to conceive, after surveying samples from before and after vaccination and finding there’s no change

Inmates of the German concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, stand in line during an attendance check, December 19, 1938. German car parts maker Continental says it used slave labor from the camp during World War II. (AP Photo)

100-year-old alleged former Nazi guard to stand trial in Germany

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Suspect is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder, stands accused of working for SS at the Sachsenhausen camp in 1942-1945

Massive forest fire near Jerusalem drives residents from homes

By Stuart Winer

Six planes and dozens of firefighting units battle blaze that fire commissioner says was likely human-started, though not clear if deliberately or through negligence

More Headlines

The scene of a stabbing attack in Petah Tikva on August 2, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Shin Bet investigating Petah Tikva stabbing as possible terrorism

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv teacher indicted for rape of 12-year-old student

Marine archaeologist Frank Goddio works at the site of the sunken remains of Thonis-Heracleion. (Wikimedia Commons)

4th-century BCE baskets still containing fruit found in sunken Egyptian city

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Roman Zadorov arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Nazareth, on August 3, 2021. (Gil Eliyahu/Flash90)

Convicted killer of Tair Rada, 13, to be freed to house arrest ahead of retrial

Billie Eilish performs onstage at the iHeartRadio ALTer EGO concert, January 28, 2021. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartMedia via JTA)

Not lovelyBillie Eilish slammed for promoting album to Israeli fans

By JTA and ToI Staff

Freshly caught herrings lie in a fish box. (Jens Büttner via Getty Images)

Scaling upTel Aviv’s Sherry Herring sandwich shop to open in New York

An American Airlines plane makes an emergency landing at Ben Gurion Airport on August 2, 2021. (Screen capture)

American Airlines plane with flat tire lands safely at Ben Gurion Airport

Guests attend the Kitty Spencer and Michael Lewis wedding at Villa Aldo Brandini in Frascati, Italy on July 24, 2021. (Ernesto Ruscio/GC Images)

Princess Diana’s niece marries Jewish South African fashion tycoon

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah joined others at a 2016 press conference condemning the appearance of Smith & Wesson's CEO at a conference. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

Rabbi of New York City LGBTQ synagogue to rejoin US religious freedom commission

By JTA and ToI Staff

Belarusian activists cast shadows as they carry an old Belarusian flag on a rally in support of Belarus' opposition in the Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Missing Belarusian activist found hanged in Ukraine; police open murder probe

By Ania TSOUKANOVA

IAI's MRSAM missile during the test June 2016. (Israel Aerospace Industries)

Israel Aerospace Industries inks $237 million radar deal with German military

Author and photographer Rachael Cerrotti with Rabbi Bent Melchior in Denmark, 2019. (courtesy)

ObituaryFormer Danish chief rabbi Bent Melchior dies at 92

By Yaakov Schwartz

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