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What Matters Most On Monday, August 8, 2022

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Israelis stay in a bomb shelter following rocket attacks fired by terrorists in the Gaza Strip toward Israel, in Ashkelon, August 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Lapid: If ceasefire violated, Israel will respond 'strongly'

Gaza truce takes effect, ending 3 days of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad

Ceasefire begins 11:30 p.m. Sunday, though some rocket fire continues 20 more minutes; Egypt-mediated deal said to include promise to try to release PIJ members held by Israel

Israelis from the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, near the Gaza Strip, return to the beach after an overnight truce, on August 8, 2022 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

As Gaza ceasefire holds, Israel lifts all security restrictions

This picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon shows Palestinian rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on August 7, 2022 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

With Gaza ceasefire imminent, Lapid tells mayors Israel has achieved its goals

By ToI Staff and AFP

Analysis

Operation Breaking Dawn was a tactical success, but won’t be last round of fighting

Military officials praise Iron Dome unit for preventing major civilian casualties during 66-hour battle, but acknowledge Islamic Jihad still has thousands of rockets ready

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system fires to intercept rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Ashkelon, August 7, 2022. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Iron dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in Sderot, on August 7, 2022. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 8: As sun sets on Operation Breaking Dawn, some rays of hope

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)

'There is an opportunity we don't want to miss'

Israel didn’t agree to free PIJ prisoners, sees chance of wider Gaza deal with Hamas

By Lazar Berman

Officials say Jerusalem didn’t accede to prisoner release to end Operation Breaking Dawn, but hint there are signs Hamas ready for progress in talks for deal on Israeli captives

Supporters of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group march with posters depicting senior commanders Khaled Mansour (L) and Tayseer Jabari, who were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, during a rally in Lebanon's refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh on August 7, 2022. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Islamic Jihad names 12 members of military wing killed in Gaza flare-up

A rocket strike in the southern city of Ashkelon after a barrage launched toward Israel by a Gaza terror group, August 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government in effort to fast-track compensation for damage caused by Gaza conflict

By Danielle Nagler

Good Faith Effort Podcast

Warryn Campbell – From the Grammys to the Book of Exodus

Rabbi Ari Lamm speaks with the award-winning artist and producer – who’s also an ordained pastor – about faith and American music.

Left, Prime Minister Yair Lapid delivers a message a day after the close of Operation Breaking Dawn, from the Israel Defense Forces' Tel Aviv headquarters on August 8, 2022. Right, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi delivers a speech during the One Ocean Summit, in Brest, Brittany, February 11, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO; Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Lapid speaks with Egypt’s Sissi, thanks him for negotiating Gaza ceasefire

PM also discusses regional issues and his hopes to improve Palestinian economy with the Egyptian leader in extended conversation, his office says

8:18 pm

Lapid thanks Egypt's el-Sissi for brokering Gaza ceasefire
7:53 pm

Grease star Olivia Newton-John dies at 73
7:44 pm

PIJ leader: If Israel doesn't free prisoners in a week, we'll resume fighting

Op-ed

Modest success for Israel, self-serving restraint by Hamas: Insights on Gaza flareup

Israel achieved its limited tactical objectives; public diplomacy improved and the Iron Dome astonished, but still the rockets flew; and Iran has cause for satisfaction

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

Israeli messaging on deadly Jabaliya explosion makes inroads on international media

Effort by Israeli officials to show children killed Saturday were victims of failed rocket launch, not IDF strike, is widely picked up by news outlets reporting on conflict

A headline on the German newspaper Bild's website, August 7, 2022, that reads: 'Palestinian rocket kills civilians in Gaza' (Screenshot)

A friend of a young Palestinian killed during the night in disputed circumstances in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip reacts during his funeral in the same camp, on August 7, 2022 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF believes 12 children killed in Gaza by Islamic Jihad’s rocket misfires – report

Video footage shows children playing around the house of Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Khaled Mansour, which caused the IDF to delay the strike against him several times. (Israel Defense Forces)

Video shows IDF delaying strike on PIJ commander due to kids playing nearby

US President Joe Biden responds to reporters' questions as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on his way to his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home after his most recent COVID-19 isolation, August 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden welcomes Gaza ceasefire, says US proud to back life-saving Iron Dome

US president thanks Egypt for leading talks alongside Qatar, backs probe of civilian casualties caused by Israel and PIJ, commends Lapid’s leadership during the crisis

Rescuers walk in the rubble of a building following Israeli airstrikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 7, 2022, amid fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Head of African Union accuses Israel of targeting civilians in Gaza airstrikes

By AFP and ToI Staff

Reporter’s Notebook

Carrie Keller-Lynn

As rockets rain down, many vulnerable Ashkelon residents still lack adequate shelter

Nearly 40,000 residents of a city that absorbs brunt of Gaza rocket attacks do not have proper access to protected areas when air raid sirens sound

Children playing outside an apartment building in Ashkelon, during Operation Breaking Dawn, August 7, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn / The Times of Israel)

A patient (left) with nurse Shoshi Diamant at the Kaylie Rehabilitation Medical Center, which is 40 kilometers from the Gaza border (courtesy of the Kaylie Rehabilitation Medical Center)

Rocket-proof and ready for anything, new hospital near Gaza unfazed by flareup

By Nathan Jeffay

Even as sirens blared, there was been no rush to shelters at new rehab center located 40km from Strip, since all beds and staff are placed in a vast reinforced area

The muses are never heard in Gaza

If Israel had thought Gazans would become so miserable that they’d overthrow Hamas, it was wrong. And now that they’re miserable, Israel needs a new plan

From Breaking Dawn to rising sun

The real test for Israelis and Palestinians lies in translating the temporary calm into a diplomatic process that can yield a lasting accommodation

Emirati royal Hend bint Faisal Al-Qasimi, during an interview with Philadelphia Arabia, in 2013. (YouTube)

Comparing Muslim deaths to Holocaust, UAE royal suggests Jews are hung up on Shoah

By Tobias Siegal

Princess of Sharjah’s social media feed includes frequent anti-Israeli tirades, as well as examples of antisemitism

The US Capitol building is seen on the evening of August 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images/AFP)

US Senate passes sweeping climate and health plan, in major victory for Biden

By Camille CAMDESSUS

After 18 months of negotiations, all Democrats back $430 billion spending plan, which Republicans have slammed as too costly while liberal Democrats say it doesn’t go far enough

Interview

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Labor’s Moatti: We must separate from Palestinians, oust outlying West Bank settlers

Ahead of Tuesday’s Labor primaries, MK lays out her vision for building a foundation for peace, branding the alternative – a binational solution – ‘horrible’

Labor party MK Emilie Moatti attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, November 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Joint List MK Sami Abu Shehadeh (Screen capture: YouTube)

Joint List MK: Lapid went to war to win election, ‘at expense of Palestinian blood’

By Tobias Siegal

Ram Ben-Barak leads a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesh Atid MK apologizes for saying Netanyahu has ‘mental problems’

A prison guard is seen in a watchtower at Gilboa prison, in northern Israel, September 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Palestinian terror inmate suspected of raping guard repeatedly

Partial lifting of gag order on explosive case reveals soldier’s claim she was left alone in prison’s security wing, attacker threatened her life if she told anybody

Military bulldozers demolish the home of a Palestinian accused of killing three Israelis in Elad earlier this year, in the West Bank town of Rummanah on August 8, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF demolishes homes of Palestinians charged with killing 3 in Elad terror attack

By Emanuel Fabian

West Bank homes of As’ad al-Rifa’i and Subhi Sbeihat, accused of deadly axe rampage, razed by military bulldozers; troops detain four wanted Palestinians in overnight raids

Police officer Barak Meshulam, killed July 17, 2022 (Courtesy)

Teen charged with murder for deadly ramming of cop in stolen car

A group of Jewish men shouts the Shema prayer after leaving the Temple Mount, where prayer by non-Muslims is prohibited, August 7, 2022. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

For many activists, ascending Temple Mount for Tisha B’Av an act of defiance

Over 2,000 visit the holy site on Jewish day of mourning commemorating destruction of two Temples, in an act that seeks to demonstrate Jewish attachment to and control over site

Deputy Secretary General and Political Director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora addresses the media in front of the Grand Hotel Vienna, where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, June 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter)

Top nuclear negotiators optimistic Iran deal will soon be reached

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘We are advancing,’ EU official at Vienna talks says, but Tehran’s demand to shut down UN watchdog’s probe remains unresolved

This image taken from video footage aired by Iranian state television on March 8, 2022, shows the launch of a rocket by Iran's Revolutionary Guard carrying a Noor-2 satellite in northeastern Shahroud Desert, Iran. (Iranian state television via AP)

Iran denies reports Moscow will use its new surveillance satellite for Ukraine war

By AFP

More Headlines

This Wanted poster released August 7, 2022, by the Albuquerque Police Department shows a vehicle suspected of being used as a conveyance in the recent homicides of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Albuquerque Police Department via AP)

New Mexico police suspect ‘very strong link’ between killings of 4 Muslims

By AP

Australian gold medalist Jemima Montag celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's 10,000m athletics event at the Alexander Stadium, in Birmingham on day nine of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, central England, August 6, 2022. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

Commonwealth gold medalist Montag inspired by Holocaust-surviving grandmother

By AFP and ToI Staff

This July 22, 2019, photo taken from video gives a 360-degree view of Ramadan prayers on the plateau of the Dome of the Rock, which can be seen in The Holy City, a virtual reality experience in the metaverse. (The Holy City VR via AP)

From the Western Wall to Mecca: VR lets virtual pilgrims explore world’s holy sites

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO

Janice Longone, Curator of American Culinary History, holds up a book from the exhibit titled "The Old Girl Network: Charity Cook Books and the Empowerment of Women" at the University of Michigan Clements Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 5, 2008. (Alan Warren/Ann Arbor News via AP)

ObituaryJanice Longone, chronicler of US culinary history, dies at 89

By AP and ToI Staff

A school destroyed in a rocket attack outside of Kramatorsk in Donetsk region, on July 25, 2022. (BULENT KILIC / AFP)

Amnesty regrets ‘distress’ after report claiming Ukraine violated international law

By AFP

Amber Heard, at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, June 1, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

Heard around townActress Amber Heard spotted vacationing in Tel Aviv

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