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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 8, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid (L) attend a cabinet meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on August 8, 2021. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL via Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett said to tell ministers to prepare for possible lockdown next month

By Michael Bachner

TV report says PM has said nationwide closure could be imposed during High Holidays if current steps fail to contain COVID outbreak

6:32 pm

Netanyahu blames staff for press release before Shabbat end, says it won't repeat
5:59 pm

Police arrest 3 brothers suspected of murdering their mother, hiding her body
5:48 pm

Israeli envoy slams UN chief for turning a 'blind eye to Hezbollah's war crimes'

(LtoR) Russia's Dina Averina (silver), Israel's Linoy Ashram (gold) and Belarus' Alina Harnasko (bronze) pose during the medal ceremony of the individual all-around final of the Rhythmic Gymnastics event during Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics centre in Tokyo, on August 7, 2021. (Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Israel’s gold medal gymnast harassed online by indignant Russians

By ToI Staff and AP

Linoy Ashram’s social media accounts subjected to torrent of abuse from users claiming Russia’s Dina Averina should have taken first place

Israeli gymnast Linoy Ashram performs during the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Saturday, August 7, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP/Ashley Landis)

Fresh off Olympic gold, Linoy Ashram says she’s ‘the happiest’ with achievements

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli gymnast Linoy Ashram performs during the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Saturday, August 7, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP/Ashley Landis)

Russia seeks probe into rhythmic gymnastics judging after Olympic win for Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Health Minister Director-General Nachman Ash at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 14, 2021.(Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Health Ministry chief: ‘Impossible to say for sure’ if school year will open

Nachman Ash suggests lockdown in September would be best option for economy, concedes government does not have outbreak under control

Medical staff in the Coronavirus ward of the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, on July 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New COVID curbs take effect as serious cases climb over 300 and 16 die in 2 days

Protestors hold a French flag and a sign reading 'Liberate France' during a demonstration, part of a national day of protest against the mandatory Covid-19 health pass to access most of the public space, near Ecole Militaire in Paris on August 7, 2021. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

Quarter of a million rally in France against new COVID restrictions

By Romain FONSEGRIVES

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett, after flare-up on northern border: Lebanon ‘must take responsibility’

Following rocket fire at Galilee claimed by Hezbollah, PM says Israel ‘will not abide fire on its territory,’ Beirut must clean up its ‘backyard’

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah gives a speech, on August 7, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Hezbollah chief vows retaliation for future Israeli strikes in Lebanon

By Aaron Boxerman

In this April 24, 2019 picture, Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (Sepahnews via AP)

Hezbollah rocket attack on Israel a ‘message’ to new PM, says Iranian commander

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Budget shows Bennett-Lapid gov’t aims to transform Israel, as Netanyahu once did

It’s a pattern too consistent to be coincidence: A dramatic crisis opens the political window for change, and Israeli governments find the courage to step through it

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-education minister Naftali Bennett (left) at the annual Bible Quiz at the Jerusalem Theatre on Independence Day, April 19, 2018. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 8 – Golden highs & a few lows of Team Israel at Tokyo 2020

Olympics wrap-up with Amy Spiro and a look forward to the COVID Winter games; diplomacy reporter Lazar Berman talks about signals being sent by new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi

Runners compete during the men's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Aug. 8, 2021, in Sapporo, Japan. (AP/Shuji Kajiyama)

Tokyo 2020Setting new Israeli Olympic record, Marhu Teferi finishes 13th in Tokyo marathon

Team Israel competes in the group all-around final of the Rhythmic Gymnastics event during Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics centre in Tokyo, on August 8, 2021. (Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Rhythmic gymnastics team finish sixth, concluding best-ever Olympics for Israel

Getting to know my Mum, z”l

A family history that explains how a rabbi came to put up a crucifix in the room of a dying Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust

After the rockets

Of course, Israel doesn’t negotiate with the Palestinians while under attack, but Israel isn’t negotiating with Palestinians now either, even with a ceasefire in place

Elazar Stern of the Yesh Atid party attends a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Will a PM choice for Jewish Agency head be nixed by nominating committee, again?

Intelligence Minister Elazar Stern appears to be the leading candidate to head the world’s largest Jewish nonprofit organization. But challenger Danny Danon may have a chance

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

Cabinet approves Gil Limon as a deputy attorney general

Opposition MKs scold leader Netanyahu for phoning Olympic medalist on Shabbat

After leaders of all 3 religious slates in bloc slam ‘desecration’ of Jewish day of rest, Likud apologizes for ‘technical error’ that led to statement’s publishing before nightfall

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

The Ahr river floats past destroyed houses in Insul, Germany, July 15, 2021. (Michael Probst/AP)

Key ocean water flow, vital in regulating weather, could be on brink of collapse

By Stuart Winer and AFP

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, which includes Gulf Stream, shows signs of tipping into instability, researcher says, warning of potential environmental catastrophe

An American flag is placed on a burned fire engine at a burned fire station in downtown Greenville, California on August 7, 2021. (JOSH EDELSON / AFP)

Five reported missing as huge wildfire rages through northern California

By AFP

A man stands in front of the Kemerkoy Thermal Power Plant (R) with the blaze approaching in the background, in Milas, near Oren, on August 4, 2021. (SERDAR GURKAN / AFP)

#HelpTurkey: Hashtag sparks culture war between Erdogan, foes over wildfires

By Fulya Ozerkan

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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)

Iran nuclear talks could resume in September, says EU official

By Christian SPILLMANN

Palestinian students receive new studying books inside their classroom, during the first day of a new school year, at one of the UNRWA schools, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 3, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)

UNRWA launches probe into 10 staffers amid allegations of antisemitism

A man sits in a water spring in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, during the summer vacation, on August 6, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Heat wave to break Sunday, though weather will remain warm

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) greets new Iran President Ebrahim Raisi at the latter's office on August 6, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Raisi hosts Palestinian terror chiefs, vows to keep cause at top of agenda

Muslim pilgrims arrive to circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand mosque in the holy Saudi city of Mecca during the annual hajj pilgrimage, on July 17, 2021 (Fayez Nureldine / AFP)

Saudi Arabia to reopen borders for vaccinated pilgrims to visit Mecca

By AFP

An army soldier patrols as stranded people wait for the reopening of the border crossing point which was closed by the authorities, in Chaman on August 7, 2021, after the Taliban took control of the Afghan border town in a rapid offensive across the country. (Asghar Achakzai/AFP)

Second Afghan city falls as Taliban tighten noose over countryside

By Mushtaq Mojaddidi

View of the new Mental health center in Mayanei HaYeshua ("Springs of Salvation") Medical Center in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, May 29, 2016 (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Police probe suspected abuse in toddler’s death in Bnei Brak

Hannah Einbinder at an HBO Max event for 'Hacks' at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, May 20, 2021. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO/ via JTA)

Interview‘Hacks’ star Hannah Einbinder on growing up in the Jewish and showbiz traditions

By Molly Tolsky

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