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What Matters Most On Friday, August 6, 2021

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Israeli self-propelled howitzers fire toward Lebanon from a position near the northern town of Kiryat Shmona following rocket fire by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, August 6, 2021. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel, in heaviest barrage since 2006 war

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says 10 projectiles were intercepted by air defenses, 6 struck open areas and 3 landed in Lebanon; terror group says attack was in response to recent Israeli airstrikes

Israeli self-propelled howitzers fire toward Lebanon from a position near the northern town of Kiryat Shmona following rocket fire by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, August 6, 2021. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Israel warns of ‘overt and covert’ response if Hezbollah rocket fire continues

By Emanuel Fabian and Judah Ari Gross

IDF carries out artillery strikes in response to 19-rocket barrage by terror group, heaviest since 2006 war; Hezbollah releases video of rocket fire

A Hezbollah operative is confronted by local Druze villagers in southern Lebanon after rocket fire at Israel (Twitter)

Lebanese Druze confront, detain Hezbollah rocket crew after it fires at Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Angry villagers in Chouya accuse terror group of endangering lives by firing from near civilian areas; Lebanon army arrives, confiscates launcher, arrests 4 suspects

Former MK Michael Eitan holds a cup of coffee four months after brain surgery to relieve him of symptoms of Parkinson's disease.(Screncapture/Channel 12)

Eitan goes public to make those suffering aware of surgery

Longtime ex-Likud MK staves off Parkinson’s with rare brain treatment

Michael Eitan hopes to inspire others by documenting dramatic improvements after deep brain stimulation surgery that quelled his tremors and allowed him to resume an active life

President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech after taking his oath as president in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, on August 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

On Israel TV, prisoners who escaped Iran’s 1988 killings compare Raisi to Hitler

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Describing the torturous conditions in the Islamic Republic at the time, ex-political prisoners label new president ‘the head of Auschwitz’ for his role in mass executions

Iran's newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi speaks at his swearing in ceremony at the Iranian parliament in the capital Tehran, on August 5, 2021. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranian hardliner Raisi sworn in as president, vows to resist pressure

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

The moral challenge of the third vaccine shot

The World Health Organization’s call for a freeze on booster shots until poor countries can get their first doses deserves serious consideration in Israel

Civil marriage now

Most Israelis want the state to stop denying hundreds of thousands of citizens the right to marry – and this government might even be able to make the change

Jewish men wear protective face masks as they pray at a synagogue in the settlement of Efrat, in the Etzion Bloc, March 3, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Anger over synagogue exemptions as cabinet OKs new Green Pass virus restrictions

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

Lapid vows he’ll now attend coronavirus cabinet meetings ‘as often as possible’

This January 17, 2001, file photo shows pedestrians entering CNN Center, the headquarters for CNN, in downtown Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)

CNN axes three employees for coming to work unvaccinated

By David Bauder

Police enforce coronavirus restrictions in Jerusalem on August 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New daily COVID infections continue to rise, to almost 4,000

Serious cases dip slightly; ambulance service to set up rapid-testing stations around country as Green Pass restrictions tightened

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with actress and social media influencer Shira Levi in Tel Aviv on August 5, 2021. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Bennett: Not vaccinating like going round with machine gun firing Delta variants

By Amy Spiro and AFP

An Israeli woman receives a third coronavirus vaccine injection at a senior center in Jerusalem, August 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Government assures public there is no vaccine shortage

Linoy Ashram (L) and Nicol Zelikman (R) are seen during the rhythmic gymnastics competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on August 6, 2021. (Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020

Israel’s two medal-hope rhythmic gymnasts advance to Saturday’s Olympic finals

Linoy Ashram earns top score in routine with ball as both she and Nicol Zelikman finish among top 10 in qualifiers

Tahani Alqahtani of Saudi Arabia, left, and Raz Hershko of Israel react after competing in their women's +78kg elimination round judo match at the 2020 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Tokyo 2020Israeli judoka Raz Hershko praises ‘brave’ Saudi opponent for fighting her

Illustrative: Israelis at the beach in Tel Aviv, on a hot summer day, July 6, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Intense heatwave blanketing Israel to peak over weekend

Meteorological service warns of extreme heat in most of the country before temperatures begin dropping at start of next week

Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in Afidnes area, northern Athens, Greece, on Thursday, August 5, 2021. (AP/Michael Varaklas)

Israel to dispatch firefighters to blaze-stricken Greece

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Michael Ben-Ari (Greenfield) convicted of running a $150 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded several hundred US and Israeli investors (Courtesy EGFE)

NY court orders assets seized from ‘Israeli Madoff’ on run in $150m Ponzi scheme

Michael Ben-Ari, arrested in April, fled on a false passport after posting NIS 2 million bail; investigators say he fleeced investors for 15 years in largest-ever scam in Israel

'We have never called to defund Rutgers Hillel'

Did a pro-Palestinian US campus group actually call for ‘defunding’ Hillel?

Last week, an outpouring on social media accused the Rutgers chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine of urging divestment from the campus group – but is this accurate?

Illustrative: Northeastern University students protest after Students for Justice in Palestine was temporarily suspended by the university, March 18, 2014. (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Palestinians receive their financial aid as part of assistance given by Qatar, at a post office in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 6, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

PA official: Deal reached to send Qatari cash to Gaza, but challenges remain

By Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid

Palestinian banks reportedly concerned over international sanctions should they transfer funds to Gazans linked to Hamas

President Ebrahim Raisi, center, waves to journalists as he is surrounded by group of lawmakers after taking his oath as president at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, August 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

After Gantz threatens attack, Iran warns Israel: ‘Don’t test us’

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘ANY foolish act against Iran will be met with a DECISIVE response,’ tweets spokesman for Tehran’s foreign ministry

Children ride a swing as the Israeli-linked 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)

UN Security Council to discuss deadly tanker attack blamed on Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustration of metastasis, or metastatic disease, which is the spread of a cancer or other disease from one organ or part of the body to another not directly connected with it. (7activestudio via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli research suggests new path to predict and prevent cancer relapses

By Nathan Jeffay

Specific signs in lung may give early warning of breast cancer relapse, Tel Aviv scholars say, hoping to use the knowledge to avert repeat illness

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Chabad rabbis from across the former Soviet Union pose for a group photo in Almaty, Kazakhstan, July 29, 2021. (Yehezkel Itkin via JTA)

Snap backChabad rabbis take first group photo since pandemic — and are fined

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Demonstrators outside the home of Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, at the time still in negotiations to form a government, in Ra'anana, on June 4, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bennett’s neighbors appeal to High Court to force him to move to Jerusalem

Chanan Weissman, center, speaking with Jewish Federations Washington director William Daroff, right, and Jordan Hirsch. (Ron Sachs from CNP/Courtesy of Jewish Insider)

Biden to announce Chanan Weissman as White House liaison to US Jewry

Israelis enjoy the Tavor Stream nature reserve, on March 19, 2021. (Yahav Gamliel/Flash90)

Israelis warned to stay out of 11 streams due to high pollution

Senior Public Prosecutor Thomas Will, head of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, stands among the files used for the work of the Central Office at the branch office of the Federal Archives in Ludwigsburg. (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

Germany seeks to prosecute over a dozen more Nazi war criminals

By Toby Axelrod

Miami, Florida, on January 10, 2021. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP)

Miami’s largest university launches course on Israeli entrepreneurship

Former Israeli Supreme Court head Miriam Naor and other members of the Meron Disaster Inquiry Committee visit the site at Mount Meron where 45 people were killed in a crush during Lag B'Omer celebrations, on August 2, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

State inquiry into Meron disaster summons its first witnesses

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/ GPO/ Flash90)

Hungary’s Orban: It’s a ‘strong challenge’ having Netanyahu, Trump out of office

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira in the Knesset, December 31, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ex-ombudsman said to highlight human rights concerns about NSO Group last year

President Reuven Rivlin addresses a group of UN ambassadors in New York on June 29, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Former president Rivlin reportedly set to join ‘smart road’ tech company

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