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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 5, 2021

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An Israel woman receives a third Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the central city of Ramat Hasharon, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Live updates (closed)

Top health official: Lockdown ‘an option,’ but can be averted with vaccinations

As country rolls out boosters, health providers report shortfall; huge shipment expected Saturday night

6:30 pm

Iran warns Israel against military action: Don't test us
6:28 pm

Government: More destinations requiring isolation to be added Sunday
6:07 pm

US urges Iran's Raisi to resume nuclear talks

In this June 14, 2012 photo, the ship that would later become the Asphalt Princess sails through Quebec City, Canada. (Steve Geronazzo via AP)

Crew of tanker said to have thwarted Iranian hijackers by sabotaging the engines

By ToI Staff and AP

Five or six gunmen tried to take control of Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess off UAE coast, sail it to Iran, UK officials say; they fled after US and Omani warships arrived at scene

Illustrative: In this photo provided Friday, Dec. 27, 2019, by the Iranian Army, a warship sails while approaching Iran's southeastern port city of Chahbahar, in the Gulf of Oman (Iranian Army via AP)

US says it suspects ‘Iranian personnnel’ in ‘hijacking’ of ship in Gulf of Oman

By AFP

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

Amid rising tensions, Gantz says Israel is ready to strike in Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

But defense minister adds that what is needed is global mobilization against Tehran for its malign activities, as Islamic Republic is linked to recent maritime attacks

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid briefs envoys from states on the UNSC about the Iranian threat to the region, August 4, 2021 (MFA)

Israel names Iranian drone commander allegedly behind lethal ship attack

By Lazar Berman

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (C) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) addressing foreign ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, August 4, 2021. (Israel Foreign Ministry)

Gantz: Iran 10 weeks away from amassing enough weapons-grade material for nuke

By Lazar Berman

Lebanese President Michel Aoun speaks during an address to the nation at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, November 21, 2019. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanese president pans Israeli ‘aggression’ after IDF retaliates for rockets

Aoun asserts use of airforce in response to attack on Kiryat Shmona is ‘first of its kind since 2006’ and ‘a flagrant and dangerous violation’ of UN resolution that ended 2006 war

Fires are seen on the Ramim Ridge near Kiryat Shmona, on the Israel-Lebanon border, late on August 4, 2021. (screen capture: Twitter)

Israel launches airstrikes in Lebanon as blaze from rocket engulfs northern hill

A Lebanese man kicks a teargas cannister as Lebanese army and security forces clash with demonstrators near the parliament in downtown Beirut on August 4, 2021. (AFP)

Biden promises $100 million in aid to crisis-hit Lebanon

By AFP

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)

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Daily Briefing August 5 – Could northern border tensions escalate into war?

Zman editor Biranit Goren explains why Israel wants to avoid a full-blown conflict, while political correspondent Tal Schneider assesses the new coalition’s 1st legislative session

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People, some wearing face masks, walk on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, July 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Treasury chief comes out against ‘easy solution’ of lockdown to stop virus

By Stuart Winer

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during his visit to the Beilinson Medical Center on July 27, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health minister: Lockdown over holidays is a last resort

An El Al plane parked at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Pilot program: El Al to try out inflight COVID-19 testing

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israel's Matan Roditi competes during the men's marathon swimming event at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Tokyo 2020'If you're going to swim well, let it be at the Olympics'

Narrowly missing bronze, Israel’s Matan Roditi comes 4th in 10 km Olympic swim

By ToI Staff and AP

In best-ever showing for Israeli swimmer, 22-year-old finishes 23.8 seconds shy of medal; he’d hoped to make top 8; credits performance to strong start, staying near front of pack

Op-ed

Enough of the legal gymnastics: Why Israel should let its gold medalist marry

Artem Dolgopyat and his fiancée aren’t complaining. But they and 400,000 others are victims of a nonsensical policy that gives them citizenship but denies them the right to wed

Artem Dolgopyat, Israeli artistic gymnastics men's gold medalist, stands with his fiancée Maria Sakovich, on his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, August 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Brig. Gen. (res.) Michael Herzog, Senior Fellow, The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute at the Conference of Presidents meet-up in Jerusalem, February 15, 2016 (Tamir Hayoun)

President’s brother Michael Herzog is Bennett’s pick for US ambassador

By Jacob Magid and Tal Schneider

Nomination of retired brigadier general and veteran peace negotiator still needs to be confirmed by cabinet, which could vote on matter as early as Sunday

Blue and White MK Yael German attends an event in Kfar Saba, on March 8, 2019. (Flash90)

Lapid taps former health minister Yael German as Israel’s ambassador to France

By Stuart Winer

George R. Mastroianni

Questionable testimony in Holocaust doc is grist for deniers

The award-winning documentary ‘The Last Days’ was rereleased but there are serious doubts about the veracity of the recollections of a survivor featured in the film

Yudith Oppenheimer

Why we went to the UN Security Council about East Jerusalem

The evictions and demolitions have political and moral ramifications far beyond those of standard real-estate disputes and the government has failed its duty to intervene

This Hebrew school teacher was the first world weightlifting champ

Strongman, educator, culture critic, civil society leader, journalist, publisher and historian. Edward Lawrence Levy was all of these and more

Vaccinations, community, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Kudos to the mother who, during a terrifying pandemic, let an old woman ’rip open’ her children’s veins and stick them with ’the best sort of small-pox’

Religious Zionism MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

MK Smotrich blasted for saying gay pride parade touched off virus wave

Health Ministry calls remark a ‘dangerous combination of ignorance, populism, frustration and hatred’; Religious Zionism leader insists he was misquoted, video ‘edited’

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Maxwell Berry after being duct-taped to his chair on a Frontier Airlines flight to Miami in July 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Low-cost solution

Frontier Airlines staff members duct-tape groping passenger to seat

By AP and ToI Staff

Airline says it’s placed crew involved on paid leave while probing their response to passenger who grabbed two flight attendants’ breasts and punched another in face

Illustrative: Iraqi men stand on an Israeli flag and hold a banner depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as they take part in a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Baghdad, July 1, 2016. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Israel in contact with most Arab countries, including Iraq — senior diplomat

By Lazar Berman

Outgoing Middle East Division head Haim Regev says official ‘enemy states’ among many countries Jerusalem is in touch with, though list does not include Lebanon, Syria and Yemen

The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, photographed on October 17, 1934, is superimposed with an image of a page from a manuscript of a Tiberias rabbi who traveled to Europe on a fundraising mission in 1807. (MCNY/Gottscho-Schleisner/Getty Images/ via JTA)

'Us book people in our blood, we see it and get pissed off'

A NY Jewish library’s treasure surfaces at online auction. How did it get there?

The Jewish Theological Seminary’s quiet sale of a 200-year-old travelogue from the Holy Land raises questions about what responsibilities private libraries have to the wider public

Lapid has not attended a single coronavirus cabinet meeting

Rejecting criticism, the foreign minister and alternate PM says his presence at the decision-making forum is unnecessary and his representatives there update him

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on August 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset, on July 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Like Lapid, Liberman also not attending coronavirus cabinet meetings

A man receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by medical staff at a vaccination center in Anglet, southwestern France, July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

After Israel, France to give COVID boosters to elderly, vulnerable

By AFP

Illustrative -- Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 10, 2021 (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Analysis

Pro-Israel groups split over whether new US spending bill conditions foreign aid

J Street says requirement that secretary of state inform Congress of any instance where funds used in manner inconsistent with national security a new stipulation. AIPAC disagrees

A view of the crowd at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, November 10, 2015. (JFNA via JTA)

Jewish Federations of North America cancels in-person confab due to COVID

The old Washington Post building, June 9, 2011. (Daniel X. O'Neil/Creative Commons via JTA)

Obituary

Israel, science, toilets — Jewish Washington Post letter writer covered it all

More Headlines

Moayyad al-Alami, father of Mohammed al-Alami, 12, carries a poster with picture and name of his son and reads "Palestinian National Liberation movement, Fatah, offers her hero martyr child," at the family house, in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, August 4, 2021. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Father of Palestinian boy killed by Israeli fire says he expects no justice

By AP and ToI Staff

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, a woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Ownership of Israeli NSO Group up in air amid latest Pegasus scandal

By ANDREW SELSKY

Newly elected Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, right, speaks after receiving official seal of approval of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, in an endorsement ceremony in Tehran, Iran, August 3, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s new hardline President Ebrahim Raisi to take oath before parliament

By AFP and ToI Staff

Labor MK Efrat Rayten (left) and Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman. (Flash90)

No Likud rep as coalition, opposition MKs elected to judicial selection panel

A woman receives the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at the Iran Mall shopping center in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 17, 2021. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran COVID cases top 4 million, as Mideast’s worst-hit country sees new surge

By AFP

Israelis shop at the Azrieli mall in Tel Aviv, on July 13, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Average salary falls as lower-paying industries continue pandemic recovery

A helicopter drops water over a fire in Varibobi area, northern Athens, Greece, August 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Israel offers aid to Greece as it battles dangerous wildfires

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Likud MK David Bitan attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting on June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK forgoes right to seek parliamentary immunity from graft indictment

People participate in a protest against NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and protest for a moratorium on evictions on August 4, 2021 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Most NY state lawmakers want Cuomo out over harassment allegations

By MARINA VILLENEUVE

The Fleur de Passion research ship before it left Eilat in southern Israel for Port Sudan, July 19, 2021. ((Marcos Schonholz)

Israeli-European Red Sea coral study delayed by a year after ship runs aground

By AFP

Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, from left, Sen. Ben Cardin, Sen. Bob Menendez and Sen. Jim Risch, meet on Capitol Hill in Washington on Aug. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

US Senate committee votes to advance bill repealing Iraq war powers

By Ellen Knickmeyer

A resident from the Amigor elder care facility receives a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine on August 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US rejects call by WHO to stop giving COVID booster shots

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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