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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 7, 2022

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Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza City, August 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Islamic Jihad expands rocket range, firing at Jerusalem and Beersheba

By Emanuel Fabian

On 3rd day of Gaza-Israel conflict, terror group launches large barrages at south and central Israel; military says nearly 1,000 rockets launched at country so far

Batteries of Israel's Iron Dome defence missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, are stationed in southern Israel on August 6, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Iron Dome at 97% success rate after 580 rockets fired from Gaza since Friday

Palestinians salvage belongings from the rubble of their home, following Israeli air strikes in Gaza City, on August 7, 2022. Israel says it is conducting strikes on terror targets while terror groups fire rockets at Israel. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gaza death toll hits 31; Israel: At least 9 killed by terror group’s rocket misfires

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

In this screengrab from a video published by the IDF on August 7, 2022, a rocket launch from the Gaza Strip falls short in the Jabaliya refugee camp. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel says Gaza terrorists’ failed rocket launch kills several Palestinian children

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Initial reports from Gaza claimed an Israeli strike in Jabaliya killed 7, including 4 kids; IDF publishes video, radar data showing it was rocket misfire

Illustrative: Demonstrators waving Palestinian flags protest the IDF's Operation Breaking Dawn, outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, August 6, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Several small protests in Israel oppose Gaza war; some back Islamic Jihad terrorists

By Michael Horovitz

Live updates (closed)

Gaza ceasefire appears to hold after shaky start, as days-long flareup winds down

Missile shot down by Iron Dome minutes after deadline to halt fighting, but sides maintain calm; IDF keeps restrictions on border towns in place, will reconsider in morning

10:10 pm

Gazans chant for martyrs, revenge after ceasefire
9:53 pm

IDF keeps safety restrictions on Gaza-area residents in place, for now
9:32 pm

Soldiers raid Palestinian village to raze alleged Elad terrorists' homes

Analysis

Why Israel may want a ceasefire, and why it might not be easy to achieve

The longer the conflict goes on, the greater the potential for the IDF’s achievements to be reversed. But as so often, it may prove harder to end the fighting than it was to start

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (right) holds an assessment with military and security officials at the IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv, August 6, 2022. (Kobi Elkatzur/ GPO)

An Israeli soldier takes cover as an Iron Dome air defense system launches to intercept a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Efforts underway for Egypt-brokered full ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivers a television address, August 6, 2022. (Screengrab/Twitter)

Nasrallah blasts Israel over Gaza op: ‘The resistance will have the upper hand’

Netanyahu attends 1st security briefing with Lapid, gives ‘full backing’ to Gaza op

Former prime minister says he ‘listened carefully’ and offered advice during consultation, after refusing for over a year to meet with PMs Bennett and Lapid

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has a briefing on the Israel-Gaza conflict with Prime Minister Yair Lapid, August 7, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (second from right) meets top military and government officials during a security cabinet meeting on Operation Breaking Dawn in Gaza, at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, August 6, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Security cabinet meets as over 350 rockets target Israel, sirens sound in Tel Aviv

By Emanuel Fabian

Ra'am Party leader MK Mansour Abbas attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mansour Abbas: Ra’am opposes any war but has ‘no influence’ on Gaza operation

Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders Khaled Mansour (right) and Tayseer Jabari (left) in an undated photo. The pair were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes on August 5 and 6, 2022. (Ashraf Amra/Courtesy)

Israel strikes and kills another top Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

After targeted killing of terror group’s north Gaza commander, IDF kills southern counterpart Khaled Mansour; officer says Israel believes it has taken out entire PIJ top brass

Then-presidential candidate Miriam Peretz seen at the Knesset, June 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Miriam Peretz says ‘difficult day’ as terrorist behind son’s death killed in Gaza op

Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 6, 2022. (AFP)

‘Enough!’: Exhausted Gazans suffer again in war between terror group and Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Kfir Arbiv, Israel Antiquities Authority excavation director, cleans a 2000-year-old ballista stone at the Russian Compound excavation site in Jerusalem. (Yoli Schwartz/srael Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyThe Roman army 'was a ruthless war machine'

Proving Josephus: Research on Roman ballistics confirms Second Temple battle account

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Computer calculations of 70 CE Roman arsenal uncovered in excavations in Jerusalem demonstrate veracity of Jewish historian Josephus’s report of intense fighting near Third Wall

Fresh Pompeii discoveries shed light on the city’s lower classes

By Frances D'Emilio

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept and refused to sing

The people mourn Jerusalem, and rage at its destruction, even as they believe they’ll return one day. In the meantime, in exile, they help each other

On Tisha B’Av, the long road of memory

The Romans set fire to Jerusalem, out to destroy its very memory, leaving only ash behind. But the Romans failed, for you can go touch that ash – in rebuilt Jerusalem

Laura Ben-David

PHOTO ESSAY: Tisha B’Av in my backyard

Imagine looking out from the fortress Herodion, when it was still held by Jews, as the Temple fell to Rome. You see as far as the Temple. And you watch it burn

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Nathan Fielder’s HBO show ‘The Rehearsal’ made me appreciate Tisha B’Av

When we rehearse tragedy, we handle it better when it comes for real, rejoice more when it doesn’t, and, either way, get back to our lives the next day, renewed

Jews visit the Temple Mount, August 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

2,200 Jews including MK Ben Gvir visit Temple Mount for Tisha B’Av, as tensions boil

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Firebrand lawmaker heckled during visit; ‘We mustn’t give in to terror,’ he says; police aim to prevent escalation at flashpoint Jerusalem site during Gaza violence

Thousands pray at the Western Wall on the eve of Tisha B'Av in the Old City of Jerusalem, on August 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Police deploy in force in Jerusalem for Tisha B’Av events amid Gaza flareup

People gather to hear a reading of the Book of Lamentations at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on August 6, 2022. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Egalitarian Tisha B’Av service at Western Wall held peacefully despite protest fears

By Judah Ari Gross

Organizer calls the muted, melancholic service a ‘corrective experience’ after last year’s reading of the Book of Lamentations was overrun by ultra-Orthodox extremists

The state of the campaign

Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman

The mergers, or missed mergers, that could determine the election

Will Ben Gvir and Smotrich maintain their alliance on the far right, and should Labor and Meretz revive theirs on the left? The political stakes could not be higher

MKs Bezalel Smotrich (L) and Itamar Ben Gvir (C) at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on October 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas leads a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset, June 29, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Mansour Abbas holds onto Ra’am’s top spot in primary, fills out slate with loyalists

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Riyad Mansour listens to speakers during a meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting Monday to discuss Gaza-Israel violence

UAE is one of nations initiating meeting, expressing ‘deep concern’ over violence; Jordanian FM decries Israel’s ‘aggression’ in Strip, warns against Temple Mount ‘provocations’

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaking at a military academic college in Egypt, August 6, 2022. (Screengrab/YouTube)

Sissi says Egypt working to prevent Gaza violence from ‘getting out of control’

Palestinians search through the rubble of a building in which Khaled Mansour, a top Islamic Jihad terror commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, August 7, 2022 (AP Photo/Yousef Masoud)

IDF says it hit Islamic Jihad ‘attack tunnel’ in Gaza, another 140 terror targets

By Emanuel Fabian

Operation Breaking Dawn enters 3rd day; military says terror groups launched nearly 600 rockets at Israel, including toward Jerusalem; 120 fall short, some killing Palestinians

Israel Defense Force Artillery Corps near the Israeli border with Gaza on August 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI PodcastDaily Briefing Aug. 7 – Operation Breaking Dawn: How we got here and why it’s unique

Illustrative photograph of drilling oil on land. (bashta, iStock at Getty Images)

'It feels like a reckoning with the source of their wealth'

How US Jewish philanthropies sprung from oil fortunes are handling climate change

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

At least a dozen major dynasties have been involved in the fossil fuel industry, and they follow diverse giving patterns when it comes to environmental causes

Illustrative: A Dreamliner 787-10 pulls up to a gate in Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, in 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Flight from US delayed when pilot refused to fly to Israel over ‘security situation’

Passengers say they were given contradictory reasons for delay, including United Airlines’ pilot’s refusal to fly and a non-existent ‘curfew’ at Ben Gurion Airport

More Headlines

Greece's then-intelligence chief Panagiotis Kontoleon at Greece's parliament in Athens, July 29, 2022. (Yiannis Panaagopoulos/Eurokinissi/AFP)

Greek intel chief, PM’s aide quit over alleged use of Israeli-developed spyware

By Helene Colliopoulou

A man takes a picture as the Glory bulk carrier makes its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine, August 7, 2022. (AP/Nina Lyashonok)

Four more cargo ships set to depart Ukraine as Russia moves to defend southern front

Contestants on Israel's 'Big Brother' asleep just before an air raid siren sounded in the house on August 7, 2022. (Screenshot)

Wake-up callIsrael’s ‘Big Brother’ contestants awakened by rocket sirens

Amnesty International Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand, September 8, 2015. (chameleonseye/istock)

Amnesty’s Ukraine chief quits over report accusing country of using human shields

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