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What Matters Most On Friday, August 5, 2022

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This picture shows the damage caused by an Israeli air strike on a building in Gaza City, on August 5, 202 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF strikes Islamic Jihad across Gaza, kills commander as it launches major op

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel announces Operation Breaking Dawn after towns shuttered for days under attack threat: ‘We won’t let terrorists set agenda’; Israelis in area told to stay near shelters

Gantz vows Islamic Jihad threat on Gaza border will be removed ‘one way or another’

By Emanuel Fabian

Anger mounts among Gaza border residents as closure set to continue over weekend

By Michael Horovitz

IDF said to fear Temple Mount clashes on Tisha B’Av may ignite already-tense Gaza

A 3D illustration of the brain-eating infectious amoeba Naegleria fowleri (iStock)

Israeli man dies after contracting very rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’

Health Ministry says investigation launched to discover where 36-year-old resident of northern Israel came into contact with extremely rare, but often fatal organism

This 1964 microscope image made available by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows damage from the polio virus to human spinal cord tissue. On Thursday, July 21, 2022, New York health officials reported a polio case, the first in the US in nearly a decade. (Dr. Karp/Emory University/CDC via AP)

Polio virus found in New York wastewater after first case in nearly 10 years

By AP

Empty vials of monkeypox vaccines lie on a table after being used to vaccinate people at a medical center in Barcelona, Spain, July 26, 2022. (AP/Francisco Seco)

Medical staff call to be vaccinated against monkeypox after doctor infected

By Michael Horovitz

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Tisha B’Av at Western Wall to test how serious Lapid is about religious pluralism

On Saturday night, Jews will gather at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall to read the Book of Lamentations, describing in horrid detail the destruction of the Jewish temple some 2,600 years ago -- or at least they hope to. Last year's Tisha B'Av day of mourning, Orthodox extremists overran the egalitarian section, also... Continue Reading

Ultra-Orthodox youths interrupt a bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on June 30, 2022. (Laura Ben-David)

Illustrative image: Viruses, known as phages, infecting bacteria. The Weizmann Institute has developed pages which it says could counter harmful bacteria in the bowel. (libre de droit via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli scientists developing ‘precision’ viruses that kill bowel-harming bacteria

By Nathan Jeffay

In peer-reviewed study, Weizmann researchers tout ‘silver bullet’ approach promising pinpointed suppression of disease-causing microbes in Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis patients

Op-ed

Fiasco in the East Room: The trainwreck unveiling of the Trump peace plan

An earlier version of this Editor’s Note was sent out Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. A very strange thing happened in the East Room of the White House on January 28, 2020: US... Continue Reading

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

US President Donald Trump (left) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Netanyahu hits back at ‘baseless’ claim he shocked Trump with annexation declaration

Israel's Blessing Afrifah celebrates after winning the Men's 200m during the World Athletics Under-20 Championship, in Cali, Colombia on August 4, 2022. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP)

Israel’s Blessing Afrifah wins gold in 200m dash at under-20 world championship

By Michael Horovitz

Sprinter claims Israel’s second gold medal ever at international competition, beating favorite Letsile Tebogo of Botswana to set event record

Chris Moore, left, a forward for Auburn University's basketball team, takes a selfie with fans during a game against the Israeli national under-20 basketball squad, in Malha Arena, Jerusalem, August 2, 2022. (Steven Leonard/Auburn University)

Top US college basketball team Auburn tours Israel for eye-opening, 1st of kind trip

By Jacob Rivkin

Jewish coach Bruce Pearl’s Tigers set out on inaugural ‘Birthright for College Basketball’ tour, will take to the court against Israeli national teams

Oded Turgeman (left) and Gal Yissar, two of the New Legend co-founders (Courtesy)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Film accelerator turns Israel from high-tech to content nation

New Legend finances Israeli film and television content with backing from major Israeli investment house

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani (L) leaves after talks at the Coburg Palais, the venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Vienna on August 4, 2022. (Alex HALADA / AFP)

Top EU official notes progress in renewed Iran talks after securing US assurances

By AFP and TOI staff

Official says it’s agreed the US won’t be able to scupper deal by withdrawing in the future, claims world powers looking to finalize text soon

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, at right, arrives at the Coburg Palais, the venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) talks in Vienna on August 4, 2022. (Alex Halada/AFP)

AnalysisAfter years of denial, Iran now openly says regime has ability to make nuclear bomb

By Jon Gambrell

Avidan Freedman

First Temple problems

As much as the ’senseless hatred’ blamed for the Second Temple’s fall resonates, we should heed the rebuke of the sins of power that brought down the first one

Shira Efron and Ghaith al-Omari

Don’t downgrade the US security coordinator from a three-star general to a colonel

Israel and the PA need to trust the USSC to coordinate during crises to prevent bad situations from spinning out of control – the job needs a high-level officer

Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas attends the INSS conference in Tel Aviv on April 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ra’am set to deliver electoral slate in favor of joining next coalition

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

On Saturday, Islamic party’s oversight body to determine key Knesset candidates, with all top contenders allied with chief Mansour Abbas’s vision of engaging in mainstream politics

David Laniado, a disqualified candidate in the Likud party primaries. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Likud committee bars primary candidate over 2011 assault conviction

By Michael Horovitz

Screen capture of the Channel 14 website, August 4, 2022. (Channel 14)

TV network said to offer Likud primary candidates exposure boost for NIS 50,000

Newborn baby found abandoned in cardboard box on Acre street

A newborn baby was found abandoned in a cardboard box in the northern city of Acre on Thursday. A passerby found the infant, believed to be only a few days old, and called the police. First responders from the Magen David Adom emergency services group rushed the child to... Continue Reading

A newboard baby was found abandoned in this cardboard box in Acre on August 4, 2022. (Israel Police)

Similac on sale at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem, on February 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Stores report rising baby food thefts as price rises drive parents to desperation

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative. Shoppers at a mall in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, July 24, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Average salary in Israel falls slightly; tech wages hold steady

By Ricky Ben-David

Miloon Kothari, member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, briefs reporters on the first report of the Commission, June 14, 2022. (UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré)

Member of UN Gaza probe says sorry for ‘Jewish lobby’ remark; Israel rejects apology

By AFP and TOI staff

In letter to head of Human Rights Council, Miloon Kothari says he is ‘deeply distressed’ by offense caused by comments deemed antisemitic; Israel: ‘Pathetic and unconvincing’

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

The Maccabiah Games are dead; long live the Maccabiah Games

The Maccabiah Games, which came to a close last week, are an endeavor that has long outlived its original purpose but has since gone on to find a new one. The Maccabi movement was the institutional extension of what Zionist thinker Max Nordau dubbed "Muscular Judaism" more than 120 years ago, a belief that in... Continue Reading

The final Futsal match between United States and Australia as part of the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem on July 22, 2022. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Israeli and US wheelchair basketball teams square off in the final match of the competition at the Jerusalem International YMCA on July 21, 2022. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Israeli team takes gold in Maccabiah wheelchair basketball tournament

By Charlie Summers

A painting by the secretive British graffiti artist Banksy that was mysteriously transferred from the West Bank is revealed in Urban Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. . (Oded Balilty/AP)

Banksy protest painting sprayed in West Bank resurfaces in swanky Tel Aviv gallery

By Ilan Ben Zion and ISAAC SCHARF

Artwork depicting a slingshot-toting rat was originally painted on a 900-pound concrete slab, part of an abandoned Israeli army position next to Bethlehem security barrier

Magic Kass Interior (courtesy Magic Kass)

They’ve cracked it: Israeli wonderland Magic Kass draws thousands per day

By Danielle Nagler

Israeli development group behind nation’s largest indoor amusement park has big real estate plans for West Bank settlement’s industrial area

Housing snapshot: 10 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

In this picture from left: Redefine Meat's plant-based steak, Plantish's plant-based salmon fillets, and plant-based 'egg' by Israeli startup Yo! Egg. Israeli companies currently lead in investments in the plant-based alternative protein sector, according to a Good Food Institute (GFI) Israel report for the first half of 2022. (Credits: Redefine Meat, Plantish, Yo! Egg)

Israeli companies lead world in plant-based food tech investments — report

By Ricky Ben-David and Sue Surkes

New study shows Israel comes second only to the US in funds invested in global alternative protein industry

From left: IATI CEO and president Karin Mayer Rubinstein, Bahraini Ambassador to Israel Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma, and Bahrain Fintech Bay CEO Bader Sater sign a fintech cooperation deal in Tel Aviv, August 2, 2022. (Alon Gilboa)

Israel, Bahrain organizations ink fintech cooperation deal

By Ricky Ben-David

Alex Jones attempts to answer questions about his text messages asked by Mark Bankston, lawyer for Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, during trial at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022. (Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool)

Alex Jones ordered to pay Sandy Hook parents over $4M for claiming shooting a hoax

Texas ruling marks 1st time Infowars host held financially liable for false allegations regarding deadliest school shooting in US history; penalty just 2% of plaintiffs’ demand

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban (R) and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer review an honor guard in front of the Federal Chancellery during Orban's official visit to Austria in Vienna, July 28, 2022. (Alex Halada/AFP)

Hungary’s Orban to make headline speech at CPAC a week after ‘mixed race’ remarks

By Paul J. Weber

White nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday, August 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Inside storyFueled by almost unrestricted social media access, US white nationalism on the rise

By Sophie Bjork-James

More Headlines

Heavy dust rises as part of the grain silos in the port of Beirut collapse on the 2nd anniversary of a deadly blast which killed 220 people, August 4, 2022. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)

Part of blast-damaged Beirut silos collapse on 2nd anniversary of port explosion

Palestinians ride a donkey near the Gaza power plant in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip October 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Gaza’s sole power plant may shut down amid border closure, warns manager

By AFP and TOI staff

Mourners wave red flags as they gather around flag-draped coffins of five members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard killed in Syria, whose remains were recently recovered, during their funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2022. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran holds mass funeral for Revolutionary Guard officers killed in Syria years ago

By Nasser Karimi

A sign in Castrillo Mota de Judíos, Spain, was found vandalized with antisemitic spray paint, August 3, 2022. (Courtesy/Lorenzo Rodriguez via JTA)

Spanish town formerly named Fort Kill the Jews vandalized with antisemitic graffiti

By Orge Castellano

American author Melissa Bank poses during a portrait session held on January 9, 2006 in Paris, France. (Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)

Bestselling Jewish author Melissa Bank dies at 61

By Andrew Lapin

Financier and philanthropist Michael Steinhardt attends the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala at the Marriott Marquis on May 5, 2016, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Beleaguered Birthright founder Michael Steinhardt resigns from NYU board

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Thousands of Shiite Muslims take part in Ashura mourning at Imam Hussein's shrine in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala on September 20, 2018.(AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Iran arrests 10 Islamic State members, blames Israel for sending them

By AFP

Virginia school district apologizes for swastika-like logo, insists no ‘ill-intent’

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative: A shopper picks out General Mill's Haagen-Dazs ice cream at a grocery store in Palo Alto, California, June 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Haagen-Dazs ice cream recalled in Israel after traces of toxic substance found

Jonathan Parducho, a pharmacist, removes a tray of vials of of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox from a box containing 20 doses, in the vaccine hub at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, July 29, 2022. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

As cases climb, US declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency

Jews nationwide have been involved in protecting abortion rights, but Florida’s Jews have been uniquely positioned as leaders in their state. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via JTA)

Florida’s Jews find themselves front-and-center in abortion fight with DeSantis

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The ship Navi-Star carrying a load of corn starts its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine, August 5, 2022. (AP/Nina Lyashonok)

3 more grain shipments depart Ukrainian ports under UN-brokered deal

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

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