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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 6, 2022

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Rockets are fired from Gaza City on August 6, 2022, in the aftermath of Israeli aerial bombardment. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel hits Gaza targets, after rockets launched at south for 2nd straight night

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Over 350 rockets launched from Strip in first 2 days of Operation Breaking Dawn; IDF kills 2nd top PIJ commander; Israel says deadly Jabaliya blast was a failed rocket launch

12:23 am

United flight from Newark to Israel said delayed, citing nonexistent 'curfew'
11:51 pm

Top US Senate Democrat backs Israel in fight against Islamic Jihad
11:29 pm

Jordan pans Israeli 'aggression' in Gaza, warns of 'provocations' at Temple Mount

A reporter interviews a man (right) in the southern city of Sderot whose home was struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, August 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rocket hits Sderot home as family shelters in reinforced room

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

‘Thank God nothing happened to us’: No injuries in strike from Gaza, though father of two young children says ‘very significant’ damage to building

IDF says ready for ‘week of fighting’ amid rocket barrages from Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Operation Breaking Dawn deep into 2nd day as IDF says ‘no negotiations underway’; barrages fired at southern towns as well as Modiin; 3 lightly injured in attack on border town

A picture taken on August 5, 2022, shows Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza City into Israel. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Southern Israel residents spend night in shelters amid intermittent Gaza rocket fire

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Islamic Jihad fires missile volleys; IDF hits terror group’s weapons facilities, sites; Hamas says 15 killed in Gaza, including 5-year-old girl; 5 Israelis get medical treatment

A picture taken on August 5, 2022, shows Palestinian rockets fired from in Gaza City into Israel. Palestinians fired rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Friday evening, AFP correspondents in Gaza City witnessed. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Islamic Jihad fires dozens of rockets at Israel as IDF hits its assets across Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinians in Gaza fire rockets at Israel on August 5, 2022. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)Under rocket fire, Israelis near Gaza spend night in shelters; IDF hits PIJ targets

Rockets fired by Palestinians toward Israel, in Gaza City, August 5, 2022. (AP/Fatima Shbair)

Analysis

As Islamic Jihad sparks Gaza-Israel conflict, all eyes are on Hamas

Hamas regards its last major confrontation with Israel, in May 2021, as a success. But does it want another round now, triggered by its smaller, Iran-backed ally-rival?

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, above the southern Israeli city of Sderot on August 6, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)

AnalysisExplainer: What is driving the current Israel-Gaza violence

By Tia Goldenberg and Fares Akram

‘Full support’: Opposition’s Netanyahu, Smotrich back Gaza op; Joint List slams it

Arab MKs lambaste ‘war crimes’ in the Strip, but other politicians strongly approve of military offensive after days of Islamic Jihad threats to South

Opposition leader MKBenjamin Netanyahu during an inauguration ceremony for a new neighborhood in Beit El, in the West Bank, July 12, 2022. (Sraya Diamant/ Flash90)

US Ambassador to Israel Thomas (Tom) Nides visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem on December 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US says Israel has a right to defend itself; UN envoy ‘deeply concerned’ by violence

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

PA leader blasts ‘Israeli aggression’ in Gaza, while Iran assails ‘the brutal attack of the Zionist apartheid regime’

In this photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia, EU and UK urge maximum restraint in Gaza fighting

Meeting PIJ chief, head of Iran Guards warns Israel will pay ‘heavy price’ over Gaza

As Tehran hosts head of terror group firing barrages of rockets at Israeli towns, President Raisi says Gaza ‘resistance’ will hasten decline of Jewish state

Head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (L) meets in Tehran with Palestinian Islamic Jihad's general-secretary Ziad Nakhaleh, August 6, 2022. (Screenshot)

A Palestinian man is comforted by others as he reacts following an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City, on August 5, 2022. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Islamic Jihad says Israel has ‘started a war against our people,’ vows to hit back

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Interview

Losing beloved zoo, Ukrainian Jewish leader haunted by assault on his city

Oleksandr Feldman, one of country’s richest people and a community benefactor, laments that Israel is not doing more during Russian invasion that hit his home and businesses

Kharkiv businessman and politician Oleksandr Feldman in his Kyiv office, August 2, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Eliyahu Berkovits

Does it matter how many people attended Haredi rabbi Tuvia Weiss’ funeral?

A simple head-count fails to capture the influence of his fringe group and its influence on the mainstream

The silent escalation, explained

Roadblocks and lockdowns are clearly better than rockets exploding in our communities, but we did have the advantage of being used to dealing with rockets

Steve Carell plays a Jewish therapist named Alan Strauss in FX's new series 'The Patient.' (Screenshot from YouTube)

‘The Patient’ creators defend casting Steve Carell as Jewish therapist

By CALEB GUEDES-REED and Gabe Friedman

In latest ‘Jewface’ flare-up, Jewish writers of Hulu thriller say non-Jewish actor plays part ‘brilliantly’ in business where ‘people are pretending to be other people’

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

Alex Jones ordered to pay $49.3 million to Sandy Hook parents over hoax lies

Infowars conspiracy theorist held financially liable for spreading false claims 2012 school shooting, where 20 kids were killed, was staged; Jones faces more defamation suits

Camp Ramah in the Berkshires seen in a promotional video posted by the camp in March 2022. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Camp Ramah settles lawsuit alleging mishandled sexual assault complaint

By Luke Tress and JTA

Berkshires summer camp, former director and national commission accused of ‘deliberate indifference’ after one camper allegedly assaulted another in 2018

'This is no simple act. It is a vision of a better world'

Can an interfaith Peace Cathedral help save Tbilisi’s dwindling Jewish community?

By Johanna Ginsberg

A house of worship for Jews, Christians and Muslims seeks unity in an increasingly divided Georgia. Its founder, Bishop Malkhaz Songulashvili, says it’s so crazy it just might work

Prevented from reaching Gaza border, Goldin family, supporters scuffle with cops

Hundreds joined bereaved family in protest over inaction in returning bodies of soldiers, civilians held by Hamas; Hadar Goldin’s mother: Former PMs were too scared to act

Leah Goldin (C), mother of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body has been held by Hamas since the 2014 Gaza conflict, is prevented along with others from proceeding by Israeli police forces in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Karmia on August 5, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

More Headlines

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

Russia must take responsibility for nuclear plant ‘terror,’ says Zelensky

By AFP

Abortion-rights protesters fill Indiana Statehouse corridors and cheer outside legislative chambers, August 5, 2022, as lawmakers vote to concur on a near-total abortion ban, in Indianapolis. (AP/Arleigh Rodgers)

Indiana first US state to approve abortion ban post Roe ruling

By Arleigh Rodgers

A Chinese J-11 military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait near Pingtan, the closest land of mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, August 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Taipei says China’s military drills appear to simulate attack on Taiwan

By AP

Illustrative: Women spend an afternoon around the Persian Gulf Martyrs' Lake in Tehran, Iran, July 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Concern grows for Iranian woman detained, hospitalized after hijab protest

By AFP

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