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What Matters Most On Monday, August 1, 2022

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MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, speaks during a press conference ahead of the upcoming elections, in Jerusalem, July 11, 2022; MK Bezalel Smotrich, right, leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid (R) shakes hands with the incoming director general of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, Moshe Edri, August 1, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

At atomic agency ceremony, Lapid says Israel’s ‘other capabilities’ keep it safe

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Iran arrests Baha’i community members, alleges they spied for Israel

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Then-US president Donald Trump, center, is flanked by then-ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, and then-senior adviser Jared Kushner in the Oval Office on August 12, 2020. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

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Top Trump aide says ‘my knuckles turned white’ as Netanyahu used peace plan rollout to promise sovereignty in settlements and Jordan Valley, did so thanks to Friedman’s assurances

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Ukraine offensive seeks to recapture south, force Russia to divert forces from east

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Dr. Rey Biton (center), head of the Mirsham organization of medical residents, holds a press conference at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, August 1, 2022. (Flash90)

Medical residents threaten mass resignations after plan to shorten shifts delayed

Postponement sparks fresh protest among trainee doctors; chair of residents organization says government ‘failed both professionally and morally’

Lapid urges UN chief to disband ‘tainted’ Gaza probe over remarks deemed antisemitic

Prime Minister Yair Lapid demanded United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres disband his organization's ongoing, open-ended Commission of Inquiry into last year’s 11-day fight between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, over "antisemitic remarks" made by one of the members. Miloon Kothari, a member of the commission, told a podcast... Continue Reading

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following their talks in Moscow, on April 26, 2022. (Maxim Shipenkov/ Pool/ AFP)

Illustrative image: a single sperm is injected directly into an egg as part of IVF (Lars Neumann via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli embryo-selecting system to boost IVF success gets European green light

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A Palestinian woman walks past a destroyed building in the al-Rimal commercial district in Gaza City on May 22, 2021, following a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian terror groups. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Hamas claims Israel bombed facility holding captive remains of IDF soldier last year

By Emanuel Fabian

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Israeli troops are seen operating at the home of a Palestinian with alleged ties to Hamas, in the West Bank, August 1, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF raids 39 homes of Palestinians with alleged Hamas ties, arrests 13

By Emanuel Fabian

President Isaac Herzog (left) and IDF chief Aviv Kohavi (right) award Naama Rosen-Grimberg the rank of brigadier general at the President's Residence, July 31, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

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40-year-old Brig. Gen. Naama Rosen-Grimberg, who has filled series of intelligence roles during 22 years of service, hailed by Herzog for ‘making history’

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Likud party head Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and faction chair Yariv Levin (R) lead their party's faction meeting at the Knesset, May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s judicial reform plan seeks to end ‘rule by judges’ and constrain the AG

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MK Michal Shir speaks at a Labor and Welfare Committee meeting in the Knesset, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Journeywoman MK Michal Shir announces move from New Hope to Yesh Atid

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Prison officer questioned over ex-soldier’s claim she was raped by inmate

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Milk for sale at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dairy and electricity prices go up as gas, public transportation costs drop

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

August brings a slew of cost of living changes, with power bills up by 8.6%, and a 4.9% jump in the price of milk; tighter controls on cash payments come into force

A teacher protests against the state of the education system, in Tel Aviv, May 22, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Finance Ministry report finds jump in young teachers leaving profession

Chief of police Kobi Shabtai attends a ceremony honoring Israeli security forces, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid (L) meets with King Abdullah II (R) in Amman, Jordan, July 27, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Government advances plan for joint industrial park with Jordan

Holocaust survivor Shaul Paul Ladany talks to youth players of FC Chelsea in Nuremberg, Germany, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Top level youth soccer clubs Bayern, Chelsea play Holocaust memorial tournament

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In Nuremberg, 8 teams of teenage players, including Maccabi Tel Aviv, hear survivors’ stories as part of competition dedicated to education and tolerance

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Lebanon's caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad (R) meets with US Senior Advisor for Energy Security Amos Hochstein (C) in the presence of US ambassador Dorothy Shea, in Beirut on July 31, 2022. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

US envoy ‘optimistic’ that Lebanon and Israel can settle maritime dispute

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Amos Hochstein meets Lebanese leaders in bid to ink agreement as Hezbollah threatens escalation with Israel over Karish offshore gas field

Dust is seen rising from the grain silos in the port of Beirut after a portion of them collapsed after a fire on July 31, 2022. (AP Photo)

Iconic Beirut port silos damaged in 2020 blast partially crumble

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Paul Naggear, stands next a portrait of his daughter Alexandra, who was killed in 2020 massive blast at Beirut's seaport, during an interview in the town of Beit Mery in the hills east of Beirut, Lebanon, July 12, 2022. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

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Decorative elements in the mosaic pavement at an ancient convent at Horbat Hani, near the central town of Shoham. (Gilead Stern/Israel Antiquities Authority)

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The bulk carrier Razoni, carrying a shipment of 26,000 tons of Ukrainian corn starts its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine, August 1, 2022. (AP/Michael Shtekel)

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Members of the Israel Fire and Rescue Services prepare to enter a hole where a soldier fell into, near the town of Mevo Modi'im, August 1, 2022. (Fire and Rescue Services)

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Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, left, and and National Road Safety Authority chair Avi Naor during a press conference at the Ministry of Transportation in Jerusalem, July 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Fires burn near the community of Kfar Haruv on the southern Golan Heights on July 31, 2022. (Fire and Rescue Services)

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Members of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus which is celebrating ten years with a celebratory concert on August 8, 2022 at the Jerusalem YMCA (Courtesy Jerusalem Youth Chorus)

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Illustrative: An El Al flight takes off at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv, October 25, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

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