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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 16, 2022

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Head of the IDF's Central Command, Maj. Gen Yehuda Fuchs, tours the site where Staff Sgt. Nathan Fitoussi (insert) was killed in a friendly fire incident, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, August 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier killed by IDF fire had left post to pray; comrade followed open-fire policy

By Emanuel Fabian

When Staff Sgt. Nathan Fitoussi, 20, returned, colleague misidentified him as a threat, probe finds, and shot him ‘after an arrest procedure’ that was apparently followed correctly

Staff Sgt. Nathan Fitoussi in an undated photograph published by the military on August 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Family of soldier killed by friendly fire says not angry at comrade who shot him

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative. IDF soldiers during arrest operations in the West Bank, August 15, 2022. (IDF)

Israeli soldier killed in apparent friendly fire incident near West Bank city

By Emanuel Fabian

Leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir declares his faction will run independently in the November 2022 election, during a press conference at Kfar Maccabiah on August 15, 2022. (Courtesy: Otzma Yehudit)

Far-right leader Ben Gvir declares solo run, blames Smotrich for collapse of talks

By Jeremy Sharon

Given favorable polls and friction with Religious Zionism, Otzma Yehudit chief claims his hand has been forced, but there’s still a month to go before lists must be finalized

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett and MK Idit Silman in the Knesset, June 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett splits from Yamina, as ex-coalition MKs take revenge on renegade Silman

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

IDF finds Israeli strike killed 5 children in Gaza during recent operation – report

Five Palestinian minors who died in Israel's recent operation in Gaza were killed in an airstrike carried out by the Israeli Air Force, an IDF investigation has reportedly found. The incident took place in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza on August 7, the last day of the... Continue Reading

Illustrative: Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes on a residential building in Gaza, August 7, 2022. (Adel Hana/AP)

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)

Confirming Israeli account, some Gazans acknowledge PIJ rockets landed inside Strip

By AFP and ToI Staff

An aerial view shows security forces uncovering a Hamas tunnel along the northern Gaza border, in an image published by the IDF on August 15, 2022. The fence on the left is Israel's old barrier along the internationally recognized border, and the right fence is the new one, with the underground barrier. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas says Israel using foiled attack tunnel as distraction from its Gaza ‘crimes’

Archaeology

Hera help us! Rare knucklebone dice with names of gods show gaming in ancient Israel

A rare collection of animal knucklebone gaming dice, used 2,300 years ago during the Hellenistic period, have been found to be inscribed with the names of various deities believed to bring help and good fortune, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Tuesday. So-called “astragali," knucklebones of goats, sheep and cattle, were used as dice... Continue Reading

Lee Perry-Gal, an Israel Antiques Authority zooarchaeologist, holds a rare collection of astragali dating from the Hellenistic period. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

The Lost Mural hangs in the entryway of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, in Burlington, Vermont, July 29, 2022. The mural painted in 1910 by a Lithuanian immigrant, which was later hidden behind a wall for years, has been rehabilitated and moved and is what experts say is a rare piece of art. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Century-old synagogue mural uncovered in Vermont restored and revealed to public

Israeli forces examine stolen antiquities recovered during an arrest operation in the West Bank on August 15, 2022. (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories)

Israel recovers rare findings from alleged antiquities traffickers in West Bank

Scene from 'The Last Cyclist' production at La MaMa in New York, August 2017. (Alexander Jorgensen)

Švenk died at 28 on a death march, weeks before end of WWII

A lost comedy cabaret from the Terezin ghetto is reconstructed and finally staged

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Originally banned by the camp’s Jewish leadership after dress rehearsal due to its boldness, Nazi victim Karel Švenk’s ‘The Last Cyclist’ is now getting its turn in the limelight

A construction site for new housing in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on July 28, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Inflation and housing prices continue to climb, breaking new records

By Danielle Nagler

July increase in consumer price index brings Israel’s yearly inflation rate to 5.2%; housing prices jump by 17.8%, the highest in over a decade

AnalysisA correction, not a burst bubble: Israeli tech sector grapples with market realities

By Ricky Ben-David

Military court extends detention of Islamic Jihad leader that sparked Gaza conflict

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A military court on Tuesday further extended the remand of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad member, whose arrest at the beginning of the month sparked a round of fighting between Israel and the terror group in the Gaza Strip. The court at the Ofer military base ordered that... Continue Reading

Bassem Saadi, head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group in the West Bank, arrives for a remand hearing at the Ofer prison, outside of Jerusalem, on August 16, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesters gather with a Palestinian flag outside the hospital in Be'er Yaakov where a hunger-striking security prisoner, Khalil Awawdeh, pictured in the placards, detained by Israel as an alleged terrorist, is in deteriorating health, August 13, 2022. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel rejects appeal to free Palestinian hunger striker it alleges is a terrorist

By AP and ToI Staff

Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar in an interview with Sky News broadcast May 24, 2021. (YouTube screen capture)

Hamas source denies co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar quitting group’s leadership

EU says it’s studying Iran’s response to ‘final text’ of nuclear agreement

By AFP

TEHRAN — The European Union said Tuesday it was studying Iran's response to a "final" draft agreement on reviving a 2015 nuclear accord with major powers it presented at talks in Vienna. The United States had already said Monday that it was informing EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell of its response to... Continue Reading

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, July 18, 2022. (AP/Virginia Mayo)

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani (L) leaves after talks at the Coburg Palais, the venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Vienna on August 4, 2022. (Alex HALADA / AFP)

Iran responds to ‘final’ nuclear talks proposal, after urging US ‘flexibility’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

AnalysisWith ‘deadline’ near, Iran likely to keep extracting more concessions in nuke talks

By Lazar Berman

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands after a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on August 16, 2022. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas, in Germany, says Israel committed ‘holocausts’; beside him, Scholz is silent

Chancellor later tells outraged German media use of term ‘unbearable’; PA leader makes comments while declining to apologize for Munich massacre

6:01 pm

In Berlin, Abbas says Israel committed ‘holocausts’ against the Palestinians; Scholz grimaces silently, later condemns remarks
5:59 pm

UN won't reinstate official transferred for criticizing Islamic Jihad rocket fire
5:40 pm

Israeli killed in Ecuador hiking accident identified as Gil Banks, 25

Habtom Ghebrezghiabher

Lapid’s gift to the Eritrean dictator

In closing its embassy in Asmara, Israel loses touch with a country that controls a vast portion of the Red Sea coast – and has a population inspired by Zionism

David H. Levitt

Good guy with a gun? Prevention or defense?

’Hardening’ venues is not a solution: Even where partially effective, armed response is not a strategy for preventing loss of life and significant injury

Minutes before he was stabbed, Rushdie agreed to be an envoy for threatened writers

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Shortly before he was stabbed at an event in New York on Friday, author Salman Rushdie had agreed to serve as a traveling envoy advocating for fellow writers in peril, according to a co-founder of the group that offers refuge to exiled scribes. The award-winning author has faced... Continue Reading

Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)

Author Salman Rushdie holds up a copy of his controversial book, "The Satanic Verses" during a 1992 news conference in Arlington, Va. (AP/Ron Edmonds)

Stabbing attack on Rushdie sparks surge in interest in his books

By AFP

Screen capture from video of Silvana Fardos, whose son Hadi Matar is accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie in New York, August 2022. (Daily Mail)

Rushdie’s attacker was ‘changed’ by 2018 Lebanon trip, says mother

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative. A computer hacker. (Peshkov/ iStock)

3 arrested in Israeli probe of crypto scheme that defrauded the French government

By Jeremy Sharon

Covert investigation by Israel’s special crime unit, Lahav 433, has uncovered money-laundering scam that saw millions of euros swindled from Paris treasury

Petah Tikva Mayor Rami Greenberg is filmed apparently receiving a stack of cash in a clip released on August 14, 2022. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Petah Tikva mayor filmed taking cash from man involved in his alleged bribery case

The bride and groom, Ophir Haberer and Adi Aboody, exit the chuppah after the ceremony with family and friends applauding, June 4, 2022. (Luna Munn Photography)

In California, a wilderness-inspired wedding celebration marries nature with Judaism

From left to right: Gold medalists, Israel's Maru Teferi, Israel's Gashau Ayale, Israel's Omer Ramon, Israel's Yimer Getahun, and Israel's Girmaw Amare celebrate on the podium after the men's marathon during the European Athletics Championships in Munich, southern Germany on August 15, 2022. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)

Israel wins gold in team marathon event at European Athletics Championships

Success in Munich comes 50 years after 1972 Olympics massacre of Israelis in the German city; Marhu Teferi, Gashau Ayale snag silver and bronze, respectively, as individuals

File: A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, on a table at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/ Rogelio V. Solis)

UK regulator is first to OK Moderna’s updated Omicron-protection COVID booster

Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency says it gave green light to Moderna’s combo ‘bivalent’ vaccine, which will be used as an adult booster shot targeting Omicron variant

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks, ahead of the G-7 summit in St. Ives, England, June 10, 2021. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Pfizer CEO Bourla tests positive for COVID, has ‘very mild symptoms’

More Headlines

Soldiers pose on top of a tank during the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War on October 6, 1973. (Avi Simhoni/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)

Ami Palant, war hero who stopped Syrian advance during Yom Kippur War, dies at 71

By Tobias Siegal

Tribade: Bittah, Masiva Lulla, Sombra Alor, with DJ Mark. (Fegobe via Wikipedia)

Spanish band expelled from music festival for defacing Israeli flag

The Cotopaxi volcano spewing ash and vapor is seen from Quito, Ecuador, November 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Israeli falls to his death while climbing Ecuadorian volcano

The al-Tanf military outpost in southern Syria, October 22, 2018. (AP/Lolita Baldor)

Drones hit US base in Syria, in possible Iran revenge over Israel-attributed strikes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Three of Amer Fakhoury's four daughters, from left, Guila, Macy and Zoya Fakhoury, gather Nov. 5, 2019, in Salem, N.H. Amer Fakhoury was a Lebanese American restaurant owner who made his first trip back to Lebanon in 2019 in nearly 20 years to see family. In Lebanon he was accused of torturing and killing inmates at a former prison where his family says he had worked as a clerk. Fakhoury was released in March 2020 and died that August from lymphoma. (AP/Kathy McCormack, File)

US judge says family can’t sue Lebanon over dead man’s captivity

By KATHY McCORMACK

Illustrative. A resort in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on October 4, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90/File)

Israeli man drowns in Sinai during family vacation with his wife and 2 kids

A view of Municipality Park, formerly named Mayor Tjalma Park, in Hogeveen, the Netherlands. (Courtesy of the Municipality of Hogeveen via JTA)

Dutch city renames park that had honored mayor who betrayed Jews to Nazis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Screen capture from video of Marina Smith speaking about her own funeral, January 2022. (YouTube)

From our partner‘I’ve done the best I can’: Holocaust educator speaks at her own funeral

Julia Haart and her family compete on 'Celebrity Family Feud,' hosted by comedian Steve Harvey, August 14, 2022. (ABC/Christopher Willard via JTA)

‘My Unorthodox Life’ family donates game show prize to anti-child marriage cause

By PHILISSA CRAMER

An undated photo of 2Cello, a duo of Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. (Courtesy Simone Diluca)

Stringing us alongCroatian cellists to bring pop hits, soundtracks to Tel Aviv stage

By Jessica Steinberg

A gravestone in the military section of the Mount of Olives cemetery that was found to be vandalized with graffiti, August 16, 2022. (Israel Police)

Hate slogans scrawled on gravestones in Mount of Olives cemetery

Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball is now known as Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv, with the vegan organization as the main sponsor for the team (Courtesy Hapoel Tel Aviv)

No missed steak hereHapoel Tel Aviv basketball team goes vegan with new sponsor

By Jessica Steinberg

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