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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 3, 2022

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In town with uncertain loyalties, confident Ukrainian troops face down Russian fire

The Times of Israel joins a Territorial Defense unit in a heavily-shelled sector, and discovers bright, self-assured soldiers eager to chat — and to show off their Hebrew

Oleksander (L) and Volodymyr, officers in the Territorial Defense Force's 128th Battalion, speak in Chuhuiv, July 28. 2022. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

A Russian serviceman guards in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

‘Volatile’ situation at Russian-held Ukrainian nuclear plant, says IAEA head

By AFP

President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with gymnast Alina Kabaeva at a Kremlin banquet in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 4, 2004 . (ITAR-TASS, Presidential Press Service/AP)

US slaps sanctions on Alina Kabaeva, Putin’s rumored girlfriend

By FATIMA HUSSEIN

Smoke rises from a house following a US drone strike in the Sherpur area of Kabul, July 31, 2022. (AFP)

Did the US use a secret flying ‘ninja bomb’ to kill al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri?

By AFP

2 missiles hit home of terror chief without sign of blast and Washington says no one else was injured — suggesting use of Hellfire R9X, said to dice targets with 6 large blades

People walk by the One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan a day after President Biden announced that the US killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan on August 02, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

US travelers warned of increased violence risk after Zawahiri killing

By AFP

US President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House August 1, 2022, in Washington, as he announces that a US airstrike killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Zawahiri killing boosts Biden on anniversary of chaotic Afghan exit

By Sebastian Smith

President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, far right, attend the Gulf Cooperation Council July 16, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP/Evan Vucci, File)

Two weeks after US president's Jeddah visit

Biden approves $5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, UAE to counter Iran

Deal includes $3 billion for Patriot missiles for Riyadh, designed specifically to protect against rocket attacks by Houthis in Yemen, and $2.2 billion for UAE missile defense

A woman looks at a painting as she visits the Teer Art fair at Charsou complex in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

In eye-for-an-eye punishments, Iran said to sentence 3 to partial blindings

By AFP

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks at the start of the tenth annual review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at UN headquarters on August 1, 2022 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Iran’s ‘ambitious’ nuclear program ‘moving ahead very, very fast,’ warns IAEA head

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

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Iran installs new advanced centrifuge cascades at Natanz enrichment plant

Increase in uranium enrichment comes as Tehran, Washington returning to indirect talks over reviving to Iran nuclear deal

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Iran installs new advanced centrifuge cascades at Natanz enrichment plant
6:15 pm

Man drowns off Ashkelon beach
6:05 pm

Lapid kicks off election campaign, vows to fight cost of living increase

Screen capture from an August 2, 2022, interview with a former Gilboa Prison guard, 'Shirli,' who alleged that she was sexuallly assaulted by a Palestinian security prisoner. (Channel 12)

Ex-prison guard alleges sexual assault by security inmate accused of raping soldier

New claims from another guard at Gilboa Prison add to growing scandal over accusations that female wardens were ‘pimped’ to Palestinian prisoners

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev attends a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister says female soldiers to continue guarding terror inmates unless law changes

Police and medical personnel at the scene of the murder of Rabab Abu Siyam, a mother of three in her 30s who was shot dead in Lod, July 26, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

MK Touma-Sliman: Lock up men who threaten violence against women

By Jeremy Sharon

AIPAC-backed Stevens ousts Levin in race seen as bellwether on US-Israel politics

By Andrew Lapin

Michigan progressive Levin notes opponent spent 5 times more than his campaign due to ‘outside money,’ alluding to pro-Israel lobby, but pledges to support Stevens in November vote

You can’t rebuild the Temple in the Tower of Babel

The factionalism of zealots who are furious that we don’t all want what they do gets us nowhere. We need an ethos of diversity instead

The dark side of TikTok

After 30 days on the app, I knew exactly why the kids love it, and why it’s so dangerous for them: it’s addictive by design, with no real safeguards in place

Enes Kanter Freedom leads at a basketball camp in Jerusalem's YMCA, July 31, 2022. (SoulShop Studios)

Interview

Activist NBA player: Israelis should build trust with Palestinians, but not Erdogan

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Months after China brouhaha that cost him his job, Turkish-raised Enes Kanter Freedom lends his celebrity to teaching coexistence in Israeli basketball camps

Troops block roads near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 3, 2022 (Flash90)

Goldin family begins march from Kfar Saba to Gaza border

IDF bolsters troops to secure Gaza-area roads amid fears of Islamic Jihad attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Military stays on alert after arrest of West Bank terror chief, deploying 100 reservists, 3 conscript companies near Strip; air defenses ready for possible rocket fire

Israeli soldiers block roads near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 2, 2022. (Flash90)

Gaza-area roads stay shut for 2nd day amid fears of Islamic Jihad revenge attack

By Emanuel Fabian

In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits a human rights museum in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Pelosi meets Taiwan leaders, promises support as China readies military drills

House speaker departs for next leg of Asia trip after tense visit to Taipei, including talks with anti-Beijing dissidents, as Taiwanese president says country ‘will not back down’

Field organizer Jae Grey places signs on the podium before the pro-choice Kansas for Constitutional Freedom primary election watch party in Overland Park, Kansas, August 2, 2022. (Dave Kaup/AFP)

Kansas votes to maintain abortion rights, in first test since Roe v. Wade overturned

By Caitlin WILSON

Biden hails result and urges Congress to pass a bill permitting abortion on a federal level; referendum draws high turnout, similar to that for a general election

Rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Democrats allege cover-up on deleted January 6 Secret Service texts, demand records

By Farnoush Amiri

This artist sketch depicts Guy Wesley Reffitt, joined by his lawyer William Welch, right, in Federal Court, in Washington, on Feb. 28, 2022. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Rioter who stormed US Capitol with gun and armor handed 7-year prison sentence

By Michael Kunzelman

Promising to pursue Netanyahu, libertarian rebel MK Avidar announces own party

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Launching Israel Free’s campaign, former Yisrael Beytenu minister blasts ex-allies for not legislating to stop Likud chief retaking power, vows to fight for freedoms, against graft

Eli Avidar attends a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on August 22, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Illustrative: South African Keegan David Cohen lifts a barbell during the clean-and-jerk segment of the Maccabiah's weightlifting competition in Jerusalem on July 19, 2022. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

‘Muscular Judaism’: Athletes compete for unofficial title of world’s strongest Jew

By Judah Ari Gross

Bringing weightlifting back to the Maccabiah Games after over 3 decades, competitors from around the globe — amateurs and pros — hoist barbells in staggering shows of strength

From left: Omer Keilaf, Innoviz CEO and co-founder, Tali Chen, Innoviz CBO, and Oren Buskila, Chief of R&D. (David Garb)

Israel’s Innoviz secures $4b deal to supply Volkswagen with LiDAR sensors

By Ricky Ben-David

Kfar Saba-based company to provide VW’s autonomous vehicle unit CARIAD with millions of sensors for self-driving systems

Interview

Carrie Keller-Lynn

After years lobbying for Knesset transparency, journalist sets sights on inside job

Shakuf’s Tomer Avital is leaving good governance reporting to run for tightly-packed Labor party list in August 9 primaries

Tomer Avital, outside of the Knesset in Jerusalem. (Asaf Shafir)

File: US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides (L) and opposition chairman Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Knesset on December 9, 2021. (US embassy in Israel)

US envoy warns time running out on visa waivers, amid Likud refusal to cooperate

As Tom Nides lobbies for legislation needed for Israel to join US Visa Waiver Program, Likud adamant it will not back the bills, claims it’s a lost cause this year anyway

Peter Shapiro, right, brings out a birthday cake to Phil Lesh, who turned 79 on the evening of his 79th performance at the Capitol Theatre. (Jay Blakesberg/ Courtesy)

Interview

Renowned concert promoter Peter Shapiro’s new memoir is jam-packed with wisdom

By Jordan Hoffman

Out now, ‘The Music Never Stops’ doesn’t just offer candid stories of a jam band guru’s wild music industry career, but also a kind and insightful take on business philosophy

A large pink, speckled galaxy resembling a wheel with a small, inner oval, with dusty blue in between on the right, with two smaller spiral galaxies about the same size to the left against a black background. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

Webb telescope captures colorful Cartwheel Galaxy, 500 million light-years away

By AFP

NASA reveals images of rare ring galaxy in the Sculptor constellation

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The scene of a crime-related shooting on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, August 2, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Shots fired on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street in attempted criminal killing

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

Slamming government, medical residents reject compromise offer on shortened shifts

An image of the coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat. (Dror Tzural/Environmental Protection Ministry)

‘Worrying’ Red Sea coral decay: Monitor warns of construction, rising water temps

By Michael Horovitz

An illustrative photo of a person on a desktop (SanderStock via iStock by Getty Images)

Anti-revenge porn tech launches in Hebrew, allowing digital tagging of images

By Stuart Winer

Israelis set up tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, to protest against the soaring housing prices in Israel and social inequalities, on June 19, 2022. Sign reads: 'Rent, not Greed.' (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Rent rouletteNew interactive game pokes fun at absurdities of Tel Aviv rental market

By Danielle Nagler

Screen capture from video of former UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn during an interview with Al-Mayadeen, July 2022. (YouTube)

UK Labour ex-chief Corbyn claims support for Palestinians led to antisemitism charge

A diabetic woman injects herself with insulin (dzika_mrowka via iStock by Getty Images)

Diabetes patients struggle to get medication that’s snapped up as weight-loss drug

By Michael Horovitz

An illustrative rendering of fiber optic cables. (kynny via iStock by Getty Images)

70% of Israelis to have access to fiber optic internet by end of year, says minister

By Ricky Ben-David

Lebanese president Michel Aoun, left, meets with Lebanese Maronite archbishop Moussa el-Hajj, at the presidential palace, in Baabda east of Beirut, Lebanon, July 22, 2022. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Archbishop carrying bags with $460,000 from Israel sparks sectarian brawl in Lebanon

Avraham Moshe Klinerman (Courtesy)

Two additional suspects arrested in case of teen missing for 130 days

'High Light' by Looky Circus at the 31st Jerusalem Puppet Festival, August 14-18, 2022 (Courtesy Hadar Berel)

Pulling the stringsImaginary worlds come to life at Jerusalem puppet festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Record executive Mo Ostin, foreground left, is embraced by singer/songwriter Paul Simon, right, as singer/songwriter Neil Young, background left, and producer Lorne Michaels look on after Ostin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York on March 10, 2003. (Gregory Bull/AP)

Music giant Mo Ostin, famed Warner records chairman, dies at 95

By Hillel Italie

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