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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 4, 2021

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Paramedics look on as smoke rises from the scene where rocket landed near the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, on August 4, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

PM, defense minister and IDF chief discuss response

3 rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel; IDF responds with 3 rounds of shelling

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Sirens sound in Kiryat Shmona as 2 missiles hit outside city, sparking fire; 4 people treated for anxiety; Israel said to assess that armed Palestinian groups are behind attack

Burnt fields near the northern town of Kiryat Shmona following rocket fire from Lebanon, on August 4, 2021. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Thousands of dunams up in smoke as rocket from Lebanon sparks massive blaze

Firefighters still working to extinguish fire caused by missile after it destroys large swathes of agricultural lands in north of country belonging to Kibbutz Misgav Am

6:16 pm

Thousands of dunams up in smoke as rocket fire from Lebanon sparks massive blaze
5:47 pm

WHO urges COVID vaccine makers to keep prices down
5:46 pm

US rebuffs WHO call for moratorium on COVID booster shots

ArchaeologyFind has significance beyond link to biblical text

Archaeologists unearth 1st Jerusalem evidence of quake from Bible’s Book of Amos

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

8th century BCE tremblors recorded by biblical prophet get new proof from current excavations in the City of David; scholars hope it will help them crack the city’s timeline

Public urged to stop shaking hands, hugging, congregating

Ministers approve slew of new restrictions to curb COVID resurgence from Sunday

Masks required outside in large crowds; work from home encouraged; quarantine for vaccinated carers of infected kids; on August 20, full Green Pass will return, including for young

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

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) at the opening of a vaccination center in Jerusalem, August 4, 2021 (Haim Zach / GPO)

With over 3,000 cases for 2nd day, PM says ‘we’ll know when to hit the brakes’

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)

Full FDA approval for Pfizer vaccine expected in early September — report

By AFP and ToI Staff

China's Premier Li Keqiang (2nd R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L) attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 20, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / Lintao Zhang)

The Washington Institute

China’s Middle East Gambit

Where does Israel draw the line on China, and what implications does this line hold for relations with Washington?

Israelis at the beach in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

From 20 days a year of 30°C in Tel Aviv in 1960s, to 80+ now

Relentlessly hotter: Sizzling heat increasingly the norm in Israel, data shows

Graphs compiled by number cruncher Gil David frighteningly show how Israel is experiencing hotter days over longer periods

Israelis at the beach in Tel Aviv, on June 8, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel swelters as heatwave peaks, with temperatures set to hit 43°C in south

Israeli soldiers of the IDF Givati brigade attend an army exercise in the southern Judean desert, June 6, 2012. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90 /Flie)

IDF tentatively facing up to Israel’s next major threat — climate change

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot summer day. June 29, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 4 – It’s too darn hot. What Israel is doing to change that

Environment reporter Sue Surkes explains why we’re sweating and how it’ll only get worse, while Palestinian affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman updates us on hot-spot Sheikh Jarrah

Cuyahoga Councilwoman and congressional candidate Shontel Brown speaks during a Souls to the Polls rally at Sanctuary Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio on August 01, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

In upset, pro-Israel-backed candidate wins Ohio Democratic congressional primary

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Progressive Squad-backed Nina Turner saw her massive lead shrink in recent weeks as more centrist Shontel Brown emerged from crowded pack of candidates with help of Jewish groups

Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale in a shop in Yavne, on July 20, 2021. (Flash90)

Florida may drop Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever over settlement boycott

By AP

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (C) confers with U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, (D-MI) (2nd R) and Rep. Ayanna S. Pressley (D-MA) (R) during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing July 12, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

7 Dems urge US Treasury to review tax-exempt status of pro-settlement charities

Illustrative: The oil tanker Mercer Street, which came under attack last week off Oman, is seen moored off Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021 (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Hijackers leave vessel in Gulf of Oman, British navy group says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Military says ‘incident complete’ after reports of armed men commandeering ship near UAE; details surrounding episode remain unclear

Illustrative: Tugboats are moored next to the Israeli-linked tanker MT Mercer Street, off the Fujairah port in the United Arab Emirates, on August 3, 2021. (Karim Sahib/AFP)

Britain says UN Security Council ‘must respond to Iran’s destabilizing actions’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: This photo released on January 13, 2021, by the Iranian Army, shows an Iranian Navy warship during a navy military drill in the Gulf of Oman. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran-backed forces said behind ‘potential hijack’ in Gulf of Oman

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks at the UN in New York in January 2021. (Shahar Azran/ Israeli Mission to the UN)

Erdan calls on Security Council to condemn, sanction Iran over strike on tanker

Envoy says members of top UN body must recognize destabilizing role IRGC playing in region, calls last week’s attack ‘another instance of maritime terrorism’ by Islamic Republic

A child rides a swing as the Israeli-linked Japanese-owned tanker MT Mercer Street is seen off the port of the Gulf Emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates on August 3, 2021 (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

Israel-linked ship hit in drone attack docks in UAE

By AFP

The Israeli-linked Japanese-owned tanker MT Mercer Street is seen off the port of the Gulf Emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates on August 3, 2021. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

6 ships in Gulf of Oman lose control, days after vessel attacked by drones

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Jewish case for freeing Britney

The Talmud has a vision for what a conservatorship system should look like, and Jamie Spears would not meet Judaism’s standards for a guardian

Show up

After a near-death accident, normal acts are scary, but so far I went on stage, drove a car and slept at home. Next step: get back to do comedy in Israel

A gavel monument symbolizing justice is seen in front of the damaged grain silos at Beirut port on August 4, 2021, as Lebanon marks a year since a cataclysmic explosion ravaged the capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Lebanon seethes with grief and rage as it marks one year since Beirut blast

By Jean-Marc Mojon

‘The security officials, the government, the customs, of course they all knew’ of the hazards, says a worker at the port’s grain silos who lost seven colleagues in the explosion

France's President Emmanuel Macron at the Lebanon donors' conference gathering online representatives of international institutions and heads of state, one year after the Beirut port blast, at the Fort de Bregancon, in Bormes-Les-Mimosas, southern France, on August 4, 2021. (Christophe Simon/Pool/AFP)

Macron says Lebanon leaders ‘owe their people the truth’ about Beirut blast

By AFP

Muntasir Shalabi, suspect in a May 2, 2021, West Bank drive-by shooting, in an undated photo (Courtesy)

Palestinian-American convicted of deadly West Bank terror attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Muntasir Shalabi found guilty of murdering 19-year-old Yehuda Guetta when he opened fire in May on a West Bank bus stop

Israel's relief pitcher Zachary Weiss hurls the ball during the eighth inning of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games baseball round 1 repechage game between Israel and Dominican Republic at Yokohama Baseball Stadium in Yokohama, Japan, on August 3, 2021. (KAZUHIRO FUJIHARA / AFP)

Tokyo 2020

Israel’s Olympic baseball dreams crushed with loss to Dominicans

By AP and ToI Staff

Jewish state’s team eliminated after 7-6 defeat; Israeli synchronized swimmers, women’s sailing team also fail to advance — but equestrian makes it to finals

Israel's Ashlee Bond riding Donatello 141 competes in the equestrian's jumping individual final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Equestrian Park in Tokyo on August 4, 2021. (Amit Shissel/Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020Israeli equestrian Ashlee Bond finishes 11th overall in jumping final

Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (C) walks through Terminal 1 before boarding her Vienna-bound flight at Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, outside Tokyo on August 4, 2021 (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Belarus Olympic athlete leaves Japan after Poland offers refuge

By Kyoko HASEGAWA and Sara Hussein

Sidney Marantz boasts a collection of over 12,000 Olympic pins. (Courtesy of Marantz/ via JTA)

'I enjoy the hunt as much as having the collection'

76-year-old Jewish philanthropist from LA among world’s top Olympic pin traders

By Stephen Silver

Marantz says he’s traded pins with everyone from Olympians to heads of state and celebrities – including Prince Albert of Monaco, Hillary Clinton, and gymnast Mary Lou Retton

Head of the New Hope party Gideon Saar, leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset on May 31, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New Hope submits bill barring person under indictment from serving as PM

MK Michal Shir says legislation, widely seen as targeting Netanyahu, will ‘rectify absurd situation’ in which indicted individual can lead country

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (L) addresses Yamina MK Amichai Chikli following the rookie lawmaker's maiden Knesset speech, August 3, 2021. (Screen capture: Knesset Channel)

Netanyahu to rebel Yamina MK: ‘You deserve deep gratitude, unlike your friends’

By Raoul Wootliff

Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar at the Knesset on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Yisrael Beytenu’s Avidar becomes minister after threats to break with coalition

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A Bedouin community living next to the biggest landfill in Israel, near the city of Rahat in southern Israel, August 10, 2016 (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Comptroller finds state failing on Bedouin and Israelis of Ethiopian origin

Hanin Zoabi of the Joint List party in the Knesset on December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former MK Hanin Zoabi, 12 others indicted in Balad fraud scandal

An Israeli woman outside a distribution center for needy people in Lod, September 11, 2012. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minimum wage hikes in Israel benefit men more than women, think tank says

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during a visit to Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer in Ramat Gan on August 3, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Horowitz announces shortened waiting time for gender reassignment surgery

Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon, August 2, 2021 (Courtesy Gideon Sharon)

Senior adviser to Mandelblit nominated as next deputy AG

A section of a partially collapsed building is seen early June 24, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami, Florida. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

‘This is humongous:’ Video released of officers responding to condo collapse

By AP and ToI Staff

Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah of Iran, poses for a picture during an interview with AFP in Washington, DC, on August 3, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Shah’s son urges West to drive ‘nail in coffin’ of Iran clerical state

By Shaun Tandon and Francesco FONTEMAGGI

In this image taken video provided by Office of the NY Governor, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes a statement on a pre-recorded video, released Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in New York. (Office of the NY Governor via AP)

Biden, top democrats urge Cuomo to quit after sexual harassment report

By Andréa Bambino and Peter HUTCHISON

Illustrative: In this photo provided by the United Nations, the pre-recorded message of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, is played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday Sept. 23, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. (Eskinder Debebe/United Nations via AP)

UN creates permanent body to address challenges of racism

By Edith M. Lederer

An illustrative image of a stack of credit cards. (alexialex; iStock by Getty Images)

Rapyd becomes Israel’s most valuable private startup with $300m funding round

A man with a skullcap takes a photo at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany announces $40 million investment in antisemitism research

By AP

Illustrative: A 2008 photo of Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, where a number of foreigners and dual nationals have been detained over the years. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)

German-Iranian activist sentenced to 10 years in Iranian jail, daughter says

By AFP

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