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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 9, 2022

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid delivers a message a day after the close of Operation Breaking Dawn, from the Israel Defense Forces' Tel Aviv headquarters, August 8, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)

Lapid offers a new path to residents of Gaza: Livelihood, dignity and peace

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

As fighting ends, PM says Abraham Accords can be an alternative model for Gaza: ‘There is another way’; Gantz says Israel will keep using preemptive strikes to maintain security

An Israeli artillery unit on the Gaza border during Operation Breaking Dawn, in an image published by the military on August 9, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it ‘significantly’ damaged Islamic Jihad during Gaza operation

By Emanuel Fabian

Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll gives a webinar on effective hasbara, or public diplomacy, to activists following the end of Operation Breaking Dawn, August 8, 2022. (Courtesy Office of Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll)

‘Public diplomacy gives us time, legitimacy’ in army ops, deputy FM tells activists

By Jeremy Sharon

Egyptian Ambassador to the UN Osama Abdel Khalek addresses the Security Council on August 8, 2022. (Screen capture/UN TV)

US envoy joins Erdan in urging council to condemn PIJ

After mediating Gaza ceasefire, Egypt’s envoy castigates Israel at Security Council

As Lapid praises Sissi, Cairo’s envoy to UN laments ‘martyrs’ killed, Israeli ‘desecration of al-Aqsa,’ calls for end to Israeli blockade and says Israel responsible for Strip

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)

In phone call, Lapid thanks Egypt’s el-Sissi for brokering Gaza ceasefire

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, August 5, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Erdogan rails at Israel over Gaza fighting: ‘No excuse for killing children’

A gunman affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, marches as men carry the body of Dirar al-Kafrayni, killed during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Jenin, during his funeral at the Jenin refugee camp, on August 2, 2022. (Jaafar Ashitiyeh/AFP)

PIJ threatens to renew fighting if Israel refuses to release two of its members

In pamphlets to Gaza residents, terror group warns violence to resume if demands not met; Israel sees opening for wider deal with Hamas

A Palestinian youth salvages a toy from the rubble of his house which was destroyed during the latest three days of conflict with Israel ahead of a truce, in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 8, 2022. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

In rare interview to Israeli TV, Gaza mother says support for wars fading

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians inspect a crater following three days of conflict with Israel ahead of a truce, in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 8, 2022. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Gaza residents welcome ceasefire, clear rubble, bury dead after 3-day fighting

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ensuring Holocaust Survivors Don’t Just Survive – But Thrive

One organization is there for Holocaust survivors in Israel suffering from hunger, loneliness, and isolation.

MK Naama Lazimi casts her vote in the Labor primaries, at a polling station in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Younger MKs take top spots in Labor primaries; ministers Barlev and Shai lose out

Lawmakers Naama Lazimi, Gilad Kariv, Efrat Rayten, Ram Shefa and Emilie Moatti clinch places likely to keep them in next Knesset

7:09 pm

Kicking off election campaign, far-right Noam declares war on 'postmodern culture'
6:20 pm

Finance minister urges US, EU to help increase competition on imports to Israel
5:41 pm

Labor primaries: Younger MKs take top spots; Barlev and Shai likely out

(L) Don Samuels, Democratic candidate for Minnesota's 5th Congressional district. (R) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. at a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 6, 2019. (Neighbors for Samuels; AP/J. Scott Applewhite/collage by Times of Israel)

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Don Samuels says Squad member alienated groups, including Jews, and that most rejected her effort to defund police; poll ahead of Tuesday primary shows support still with incumbent

Former minister Yaakov Litzman in court for a hearing on his plea bargain, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, June 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Litzman gets minor fine, no jail for shielding alleged pedophile Leifer from justice

Lenient sentence comes as part of plea deal; ex-health minister has admitted to unsuccessfully working to undermine extradition of accused sexual predator Malka Leifer to Australia

Screen capture from video of a former IDF soldier who alleged she was raped by a security prison when she was serving as a guard at the Gilboa Prison, seen during an interview with Channel 12, August 8, 2022. (Channel 12)

Former prison guard details her alleged rape at hands of terror inmate

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades commander Ibrahim Nabulsi in an undated photograph. (Social media)

Wanted terrorist among 3 killed in IDF raid in Nablus, 40 injured

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops surround home of Ibrahim Nabulsi, member of terror cell that carried out several shooting attacks in West Bank, fire rocket into building after gun battle breaks out

9-year-old Zili, a dog belonging to the Yamam counterterrorism police unit, in an undated photo. Zili was killed on August 9, 2022, during a raid in Nablus. (Israel Police)

‘A true four-legged warrior’: Police hail elite unit dog killed in West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Lapid is the Gaza operation’s political winner, but can this be converted to votes?

Caretaker PM has shown his ability to lead a limited military operation, but in a country where security is necessary but not sufficient, he’ll need to do more for election success

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

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)

Public thinks Lapid handled Gaza battle well, but no electoral boost — polls

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (L) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz (2nd-L) tour the IDF's Southern Command on August 7, 2022, amid fighting in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Likud says Lapid broke campaign rules by posting photos with troops

We must eliminate the threat of our own self-destruction

How sad that it takes enemy fire to remind us of our own common ground. We need to stop reviling each other and find that strength of unity in times of peace

Elchanan Poupko

6 ways to stop the Great Teacher Shortage

What happens when great teachers leave the profession (and when those who can become great teachers don’t enter it)? Shaky schools and an uncertain Jewish future

Police direct traffic outside an entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Monday, August 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate. (AP/Terry Renna)

FBI executes search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate

By AP and ToI Staff

Former president says bureau conducted ‘unannounced raid,’ rails against ‘weaponization of justice system’

Then-US president Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly walk toward Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Report: Trump demanded his generals be loyal like German generals were to Hitler

Interstellar vindication'Reviewers had doubts, but I was confident from the start'

Israeli scientist proves his far-out theory on interstellar meteor is down to earth

By Rich Tenorio

Undeterred by naysayers or controversy, Prof. Avi Loeb stuck to his guns about a rare 2014 space rock — and his findings have finally been vindicated by the US government

Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John attends the 2018 G'Day USA Los Angeles Gala in Los Angeles on Jan. 27, 2018. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

‘Grease’ star Olivia Newton-John, granddaughter of Jewish Nobel laureate, dies at 73

By AP and ToI Staff

Grammy winner, famed singer and actress of Jewish heritage battled breast cancer for 30 years, was ‘symbol of triumphs and hope,’ family says

Labor leader Merav Michaeli votes by phone in the Labor leadership primaries, at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor expected to announce candidate slate on Tuesday evening, following primary

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

33 candidates vie for gender-alternating seats behind party leader Merav Michaeli; currently holding 7 seats, Labor polling at 5-6 for November election

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

Overturning decision, Likud court okays primaries candidate convicted of assault

United Torah Judaism party chief Moshe Gafni, during an interview with Channel 12 on August 8, 2022. (Channel 12)

Under attack for ambiguity, Gafni says UTJ will stick with Netanyahu ‘at all costs’

Hezbollah warns Israel: ‘Any arm’ trying to steal Lebanon’s wealth ‘will be cut off’

Nasrallah’s remarks come amid intensified US efforts to resolve an ongoing maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel; speech made during the Shiite holy day of Ashura

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during the Shiite holy day of Ashura, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Ice cream containers at the Ben and Jerry's factory near Kiryat Malachi, on July 21, 2021. (Flash90)

Ben & Jerry’s seeks injunction against parent company as Israel legal battle goes on

In court hearing, ice cream maker seeks to block future transfer of branding and intellectual property to Ben & Jerry’s Israel

The sun sets behind the Palais Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, August 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter, File)

US says its ready to ‘quickly conclude’ nuke deal with Iran on basis of EU proposal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State Department suggests deal’s restoration is in Tehran’s hands after EU submits ‘final text’ of drafted proposal; Iran expresses skepticism

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a press statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, February 27, 2022. (Stephanie Lecocq,Pool Photo via AP, File)

EU submits ‘final text’ in Iran nuclear talks, signaling negotiations have ended

By AFP

In this handout photo taken from video released by Roscosmos on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, a Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off to carry Iranian Khayyam satellite into orbit at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome near Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Roscosmos via AP)

Russia successfully launches Iranian spy satellite as concerns over Ukraine war loom

By AFP

Lightning strikes the ocean off of Port-la-Nouvelle, in southern France. (Maxime Raynal, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Why is lightning less frequent at sea than on land? Israel-led study clears the air

Big aerosol particles in sea spray cut ocean lightning by up to 90%, researchers in Israel, China and US find, in discovery that could help weather, climate, forecasts

Bread wheat. (Courtesy, Prof. Vered Zin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).

Israeli study: Pest defenses in wild wheat can help save cultivated species

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President Isaac Herzog (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Collage/AP)

Herzog calls Putin in effort to convince him to halt looming Jewish Agency closure

By Judah Ari Gross

Jewel the cat returns home after the family held a funeral for him when he was believed killed in a rocket attack in the Eshkol region. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

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The popular US animated show "The Simpsons" features an image that looks like the northern Israel kibbutz Nir David (Screen capture/20th Century Fox)

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Zofia Posmysz, a then-96-year-old Polish Catholic woman who survived the Nazi German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck, poses at her home in Warsaw, Poland, January 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Polish Holocaust survivor and novelist Zofia Posmysz dies at 98

By AP

An illustration of the Orion aircraft carrying two female-form human mannequins, one wearing the AstroRad protection suit by Israeli company Stemrad. (NASA/DLR)

Israel’s StemRad gears up for major demo of anti-radiation suit on NASA’s Artemis I

By Ricky Ben-David

James Franco at the premiere of HBO's 'The Deuce' third and final season in New York, September 5, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

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American actor Zac Efron prepares pancakes using Kodiac Cakes mix next to a grizzly bear as part of a promotional video uploaded to his Instagram account on June 14, 2022. (Instagram)

Too much to bearPETA slams Zac Efron over pro-conservation ad featuring grizzly bear

By Tobias Siegal

Screen capture from video of MDA medic Monay Jamal with a newborn baby found abandoned on a street in Acre, August 8, 2022. (Channel 12)

Baby found in box on street in Acre was smuggled from Nablus in West Bank — report

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg said she donated to victims of sex trafficking to make amends for benefiting from the Wexner Foundation, whose benefactor had close ties to Jeffrey Epstein. (Collage from Instagram via JTA)

Rabbi who benefited from Epstein-associated fund donates to sex trafficking victims

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Matan Tsinman (Courtesy)

Palestinian driver suspected of negligent homicide in crash that killed Israeli boy

Chief Superintendent Nisso Guetta arrives at the court in Rishon Lezion to hear his sentence after he was convicted of assaulting a protester and a journalist, August 9, 2022. (Flash90)

Police officer gets probation for using violence at anti-Netanyahu protest in 2020

Pop star Noa Kirel in her latest video, 'Thought About That' (Courtesy Noa Kirel Instagram)

After hesitation, Noa Kirel said to agree to represent Israel at Eurovision 2023

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