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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 14, 2022

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Police inspect the scene of a terror shooting outside Jerusalem's Old City, August 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Screams of terror’: 7 hurt, including 2 seriously, in shooting near Western Wall

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Bachner

Terrorist waited for bus to stop outside Jerusalem Old City, opened fire in 2 places and fled; manhunt underway; ‘I jumped inside the bus and lay low,’ says passenger

Amir Sidawi, named as the perpetrator of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem on August 14, 2022, in an undated photo. (Social media)

Terrorist in Jerusalem shooting turns himself in to police

Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror shooting attack outside Jerusalem's Old City, August 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Embassy condemns Jerusalem terror shooting, confirms Americans among victims

Syrian air defenses are reportedly seen over the Lebanese coast, August 14, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli jets said to target site in coastal Syrian city of Tartus

Arab media reporting Israeli jets flew over Lebanese coast before launching missiles; footage said to show Syrian air defenses engaging targets

6:20 pm

Israeli jets said to target site in coastal Syrian city of Tartus
6:13 pm

At launch of new alliance, Eizenkot emphasizes commitment to minority rights, separation from Palestinians
5:35 pm

TV polls predict Eizenkot joining Gantz's party to change little in election results

Exclusive

Senior UN official loses her post after tweet condemning PIJ rocket fire at Israel

The UN has removed the head of one of its offices serving the Palestinians after she posted a tweet in which she condemned Palestinian Islamic Jihad's "indiscriminate rocket fire" during the recent Gaza conflict, a UN spokesperson has confirmed to The Times of Israel. The revelation came days... Continue Reading

OCHA OPT Head Sarah Muscroft speaks in a video address on June 10, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, May 17, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief Eisenkot, former Yamina minister Kahana join Gantz-led ‘National Unity’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Retired general to get 3rd spot on newly rebranded electoral alliance of the Blue and White party and New Hope; Matan Kahana chooses Gantz over Shaked, will get 9th slot on list

Deputy Minister of Religious Services Matan Kahana speaks with Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Shaked swipes at Kahana as he leaves Yamina for ‘statesmanlike left-wing camp’

Illustrative: Then-incoming IDF chief of staff Gadi Eizenkot (L) and then-outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz (L) seen at a changing of the ranks ceremony held at the PM's office in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing August 14: Gantz adds another general to Blue and White. Big whoop?

From the blogs

Rushdie and me: A Persian tale

We studied the death sentence and argued with our teachers: how could it be permissible in Islam for Khomeini to order this killing?

Hadi Matar, 24, arrives for an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York, August 13, 2022. Matar is accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against 'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Israel says Rushdie stabbing ‘an attack on our values,’ evidence of Iran’s brutality

By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies

Lapid says author’s attempted murder in the US is result of ‘decades of incitement’; deputy FM adds regime in Tehran is a threat to the free world; Biden condemns ‘vicious’ attack

Author Salman Rushdie appears at a signing for his book "Home" in London on June 6, 2017. Rushdie was attacked while giving a lecture in western New York. (Grant Pollard/AP)

Salman Rushdie felt his ‘life was very normal again’ prior to stabbing

Author J.K. Rowling attends the HBO Documentary Films premiere of 'Finding the Way Home' at 30 Hudson Yards on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

J.K. Rowling gets death threat by person who hailed Rushdie’s stabbing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Author Salman Rushdie speaks during the Mississippi Book Festival, in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Rushdie off ventilator and talking, a day after being stabbed, agent says

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and Hillel Italie

‘The Satanic Verses’ author likely to lose an eye after being attacked on stage in the US; accused assailant pleads not guilty

Salman Rushdie’s stabber charged with attempted murder, assault

By Agencies and ToI Staff

ExplainerWhy decades later, Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial

By Myriam Renaud

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo slams Rushdie stabbing

By AFP

Pop singer Szivka Pick, 72, died August 14, 2022 (Courtesy Michal Kahana)

Iconic Israeli singer-songwriter Svika Pick dies at 72

By Jessica Steinberg

The classically trained musician collaborated on 1970s hits and later on Eurovision songs, including 1998 winner ‘Diva’; is eulogized as a ‘pillar of Israeli pop’

State of the campaign

Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman

Paltry bump for Lapid after Gaza op shows Israelis’ ‘electoral identity’ is baked in

Last weekend, Israel launched Operation Breaking Dawn against Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip. Though not as dramatic as past rounds, the operation saw over a thousand rockets, mortars and missiles fired from Gaza at Israel, and close to 200 Islamic Jihad targets struck by the IDF. The media of course provided round-the-clock coverage of the mini-war... Continue Reading

Yisrael Beytenu party head Avigdor Liberman launches the party's campaign in Neve Ilan, ahead of the upcoming elections. August 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Unveiling party platform, Liberman aims to make it harder to topple a government

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Yisrael Beytenu chief issues series of socioeconomic and governance vows, including promise to raise to 90 the number of MKs needed to bring down a government in its first 2 years

Hanoch Milvitzky, former deputy Peta Tikvah mayor and legal counsel of the Beni Baruch group, has won the 26th slot on the Likud list for the November 1 elections. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Would-be Likud Knesset member accused of helping cover up sexual abuse claims

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh (Hadash) at a Knesset faction meeting on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ayman Odeh reelected as Hadash party leader ahead of November election

'I was aware of how strangers helped my ancestors, too'

After meeting on Clubhouse, a NY Jew is working to help an Afghan man out of Kabul

34-year-old musician Nat Rosenzweig is raising funds to secure safe passage for a man who’d worked with the US Army and has been hiding from the Taliban for nearly a year

Friends and family at the funeral of Anat Tal-Katelev who was killed in a car accident on Route 6, at the cemetery in Beit Kama, southern Israel, on July 29, 2022. (Flash90)

Israel ranked last among European nations in reducing traffic deaths

Recent report showing Jewish state lags behind others in cutting vehicular fatalities is highlighted after week in which 19 were killed on Israeli roads

Rami Abu al-Qia'an. (Courtesy)

Man killed in crash near Beersheba; president mourns ’18 worlds destroyed in a week’

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The particular Jewish meaning of my hamsa collection

’Cool’ Jews like me don’t display tchotchkes decorated with Jewish stars or bearded dancing Hasids. My souvenirs connect me to the modern multicultural Israel

Joshua Hammerman

A moonshot for Planet Earth

New US legislation that provides massive investment for tackling climate change has launched humankind on a profoundly spiritual rescue mission

'Sun & Sea,' the beachside opera that spotlights climate change, winner of the 2019 Venice Biennale Golden Lion, will be performed at the 60th Israel Festival, September 15-19, 2022 (Courtesy The Artists)

Upcoming Israel Festival offers sandy opera, Dayan’s missing eye and VHS memories

By Jessica Steinberg

60th year of annual Jerusalem event aims to break down walls between performers and audiences

Tal Rachevski, the owner of Tometomato open/closed prepares a pasta dish, in a documentary published by the Kan public broadcaster on August 9, 2022. (Screenshot)

A saucy noodle

No fettuccine for you: Tel Aviv’s ‘Pasta Nazi’ goes viral

In clip taking social media by storm, restaurateur Tal Rashevski breaks conventions with capricious management style, seeming indifference to customers… but still they come

This combination of file pictures created on September 29, 2020, shows US President Donald Trump (L) and Democratic candidate Joe Biden squaring off during the first presidential debate at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. (Jim Watson and Saul Loeb/AFP)

Analysis

Sebastian Smith

Documents scandal boosts prospect of Trump vs Biden rematch in 2024

FBI raid on former US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort seen as a game-changing moment that, ironically, could benefit both him and the incumbent; voters, however, may not want either

The entrance to the FBI headquarters in Cincinnati, August 11, 2022. (Liz Dufour/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)

After Trump Mar-a-Lago search, Ohio gunman threatened FBI before being shot dead

By Mike Balsamo and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON

Iranians lift national flags during a ceremony in the capital Tehran, on January 3, 2022, commemorating the second anniversary of the killing in Iraq of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani (portrait) and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a US raid. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

US upped security at federal buildings in hours after Soleimani killing — WSJ

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mrs. Wolowitz, a 35-year-old northern rockhopper penguin, who was named after the character of Debbie Wolowitz from the TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," died on August 11, 2022, at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. (The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland - RZSS)

Howaaard?

Mrs. Wolowitz, penguin named for ‘Big Bang’ mom, dies in Scotland zoo

Devoted to her one offspring, she was thought to be oldest of her kind in the world, as well as the ‘sassiest penguin in the colony’; she died after a fox broke into her enclosure

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Illustrative: A Coptic Christian man mourns victims killed in an attack a day earlier, during an early morning ceremony at the Prince Tadros church in Egypt's southern Minya province, on November 3, 2018. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)

41 killed in Cairo as fire engulfs Copt church during Sunday mass, officials say

By AFP and ToI Staff

An undated picture of "The Crucifixion," a mural made by Hungarian artist George Mayer-Marton, at the former Holy Rosary church in the town of Oldham, Britain. (G MAYER-MARTON ESTATE)

UK church mural by Jewish artist who fled Nazis to be preserved

Police at a Ramot property August 13, 2022, after reports a young boy was found with strangulation marks on his neck. The boy was pronounced dead the following day. (Israel Police)

4-year-old Jerusalem boy dies after allegedly being choked by uncle

Illustrative: A Dick's Sporting Goods shop in Paramus, New Jersey, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

US man slashes 3 with machete, including manager at shop that wouldn’t sell him guns

By AP

Illustrative: Iranian police officers close the door of the court compound in Tehran, Iran, July 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian forest ranger accused of murder gunned down at court by victim’s father

By AFP

Three newborn lion cubs are displayed at Nama zoo in Gaza City, August 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Days after airstrikes and rocket fire, 3 newborn lion cubs go on display in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Dead fish on the banks of the river Oder in Schwedt, eastern Germany, on August 12, 2022, after a massive fish kill was discovered in the river in the eastern federal state of Brandenburg, close to the border with Poland. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

‘Dead fish everywhere’ in German-Polish river after suspected chemical waste dump

By Hui Min NEO and Bernard OSSER

Sima Samar, a prominent activist and physician, who has been fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan for the past 40 years, speaks during an interview at her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 6, 2021, six months before the Taliban takeover of her country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan rights leader heartbroken after year of Taliban rule

By Edith M. Lederer

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