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Bassem Saadi, head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the West Bank, appears for a hearing at Ofer prison, outside of Jerusalem, on August 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Terror charges filed against Islamic Jihad leader whose arrest sparked Gaza conflict

By Emanuel Fabian

Bassem Saadi’s indictment includes charges of membership in terror group, incitement, assuming false identity; his detention is extended until Sunday

PalestinianIslamic Jihad fighters pray during an anti-Israel rally in Rafah, south of Gaza City, August 24, 2022. (Fatima Shbair/AP)

Islamic Jihad holds Gaza rocket parade in defiant display after recent flare-up

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Muslim women walk by the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on December 20, 2015. (Esther Rubyan/FLASH90)

Hamas rages at Spanish tourist who posed in ‘immodest’ clothes at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks about Iran at a security briefing for the foreign press at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Aug. 24, 2022. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Lapid says Israeli pressure campaign against Iran deal bore fruit with White House

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

As sides appear close to return to nuclear agreement, PM points to national security adviser’s trip to DC this week as having positive effect on Washington’s position

US President Joe Biden holds a joint press conference with Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2022. (Emil Salman/ Pool)

US said to rebuff request for Lapid-Biden call, Gantz-Austin meet amid Iran push

By ToI Staff and AFP

Op-ed

Beware Itamar Ben Gvir, rising far-right star with a destructive vision for Israel

An earlier version of this Editor’s Note was sent out Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. In a video message on Tuesday, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded with Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich,... Continue Reading

MK Itamar Ben Gvir of the far right Otzma Yehudit party tours the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on July 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Otzma Yehudit party member Itamar Ben Gvir (R) speaks with then-National Union faction leader Betzalel Smotrich, during a campaign event in Bat Yam, April 6, 2019. (Flash90)

Polls show far-right Ben Gvir on rise as Religious Zionism flirts with threshold

MK Shirly Pinto attends a faction meeting of National Unity Party at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on August 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pinto: I left Yamina because Shaked will prop up a narrow Netanyahu government

Mossad chief David Barnea meets Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem, August 25, 2022. (PMO)

Live updates (closed)

Mossad chief quoted saying US ‘rushing into a deal that is a lie’ with Iran

Barnea quoted by multiple outlets as saying the emerging accord with Iran is ‘very bad for Israel’ and ‘a strategic disaster’

6:39 pm

Syria says two civilians injured in alleged Israeli airstrike
6:08 pm

Maccabi Haifa to face PSG, Juventus and Benfica in Champion's League group stage
6:01 pm

Iran urges IAEA to end undeclared nuclear sites issue

Illustrative. A person adds saccharin sweetener to coffee. (nensuria via iStock by Getty Images)

Artificial sweeteners can harm sugar levels, shouldn’t be assumed safe – Israeli lab

By Nathan Jeffay

What if Putin declared victory and walked away?

Exiting with a victory narrative could placate the Russians, satisfy the western powers, and eventually lead the Ukrainians to drop their fight to regain territory

Jeremy Issacharoff

Any power the JCPOA had to curb Iranian nukes is long gone

Khamenei’s regime has so substantially advanced its nuclear aspirations and regional destabilization that none of the deal’s original potential benefits apply

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Reviving 2015 protest, Netanyahu says ‘terrible’ Iran deal even worse than original

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opposition leader criticizes government for failing to torpedo drive toward US rejoining pact, while appealing for unity; says no deal will ever stop Tehran

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani speaks in Tehran, Iran, on August 11, 2022. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

US responds to Iran nuclear deal proposal, says pact close, but ‘not there yet’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks about Iran at a security briefing for the foreign press at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Aug. 24, 2022. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Bashing ‘bad’ nuke deal, Lapid says emerging pact violates Biden’s own red lines

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tel Aviv marks Green Line on classroom maps, bucking Education Ministry

The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality has distributed a map of Israel to the city's schools that demarcates between Israel and areas in captured in 1967, defying an Education Ministry edict prohibiting maps that show the Green Line. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai vowed the maps will remain on classroom... Continue Reading

Part of a map produced by the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality that shows the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. The Green Line is depicted as a red dotted line. (Tel Aviv -Jaffa Municipality)

Merav Michaeli at the new Allenby underground station of the light rail red line in Tel Aviv, June 23, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Minister asks if Tel Aviv light rail can run on Shabbat, sparking Orthodox ire

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: American soldiers during an exercise in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria, December 8, 2021. .(AP/Baderkhan Ahmad)

US forces hit Iran-aligned militias in Syria — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US military launches counter-attack after taking rocket fire from Afghan Shi’ite group said backed by Tehran, US officials tell Reuters

A home the Baha'i International Community says was destroyed by Iranian authorities seen in footage released on August 3, 2022. (Screenshot)

Amnesty: Iran carrying out ‘despicable onslaught’ against Baha’i minority

This frame grab from video taken on Aug. 8, 2018, provided by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, shows the edge of a massive hole caused by drought and excessive water pumping in Kabudarahang, in Hamadan province, western Iran. (ISNA via AP)

Lack of drinking water spurs mass protests in western Iran

By AFP

Dr. Rey Biton (second from right), head of the Mirsham organization of medical residents, holds a press conference at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, August 1, 2022. (Flash90)

‘Nothing to lose’: 200 medical residents resign in protest of 26-hour shifts

By ToI Staff and Ash Obel

2-year dispute was reignited after government delayed plans to shorten shifts; more residents threaten to join mass exodus every week; health minister blames Treasury

Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Aug 24, 2022. (AP/Stephanie Nano)

Israeli study shows Pfizer COVID pill of no benefit in younger adults

By MATTHEW PERRONE

Results from 109,000-patient study show drug still reduces risk of hospitalization, death for high-risk seniors, raises questions on use in US, where it is a go-to treatment

Then-US president Donald Trump listens as Dr. Stephen Hahn, at the time commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, speaks during a media briefing in the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington, August 23, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Trump staffers pressed FDA to okay unproven COVID drug, congressional probe hears

By MATTHEW PERRONE and KEVIN FREKING

A patient is inoculated with the monkeypox vaccine at the OASIS Wellness Center, Aug. 19, 2022, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Global monkeypox drops, signaling possible decline in European outbreak

By AP

An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. (AP/Jenny Kane)

Explainer

Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher

The algorithms behind the spread of online antisemitism

Researchers find social media technology and business model algorithms ensure that ‘the more engagement a post receives, the more users see it,’ driving antisemitic content online

In this May 14, 2022, file photo, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen, center, takes the stage after winning the party's endorsement for governor, at the Minnesota State Republican Convention in Rochester, Minn. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP, file)

GOP nominee for Minn. governor: ‘Legitimate’ to compare COVID policies to Holocaust

By Andrew Lapin

A screenshot shows a reply left on Gab founder Andrew Torba's page after he posted a link to a Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle story. (Screenshot by David Rullo via JTA)

Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle hit with antisemitism after Gab founder targets paper

View of the water cooling tower at the Haifa oil refinery in Haifa, July 31, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Industrial air pollution cost Israel NIS 12.5 billion in 2021

Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg lauds overall trend in reducing emissions, though suspected carcinogens increased by 1.5%; electric company biggest culprit

Doron Almog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, gives his inaugural speech after being elected in Jerusalem on July 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Agency chief: Russian Jews in ‘distress,’ no slowdown in immigration efforts

By Judah Ari Gross

In first interview after taking over as chairman, Doron Almog tells Kan radio he hopes Moscow’s legal battle against the organization will be resolved soon

Israeli and Ukrainian refugees arriving from Ukraine on a rescue flight are welcomed at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Nearly half of Ukrainians who fled to Israel have left the country – report

Adam Neumann, co-founder and CEO of WeWork, attends the opening bell ceremony at Nasdaq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, in New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

What the Flow? Adam Neumann’s new real estate startup is valued at $1b before launch

By Ricky Ben-David

Almost 3 years after WeWork IPO debacle, Neumann is back with a new company, already a unicorn following a $350m investment from Andreesen Horowitz

Concert review

Jessica Steinberg

Alt-pop star Noga Erez brings synthesized sound and politics to Jerusalem

Singer Noga Erez strode out on Jerusalem's Sultan's Pool stage Tuesday night for the final performance of her "Kids" album tour, which has sent her worldwide and now brought her back to Jerusalem. "Hey there, Jerusalem," called Erez, lithe and elegant in a boxy white jacket and black sports bra, her dark brown hair rolled into several buns on her... Continue Reading

Singer Noga Erez performs at Jerusalem's Hutzot Hayotzer fair at Sultan's Pool, August 23, 2022 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Israeli pop duo Static and Ben El Tavori perform in Safed on August 23, 2018. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

Pop music duo Static and Ben-El announce split after seven years

Pop duo Static and Ben El perform at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on October 25, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Two girls lightly hurt as audio equipment collapses at Eilat pop concert

Death toll from Russian strike on Ukraine train station rises to 25

By INNA VARENYTSIA

POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a Russian rocket attack as Ukraine observed its Independence Day has risen to 25, including an 11-year-old boy found under the rubble of a house and a 6-year-old killed in a car fire near a train station that took... Continue Reading

A drone carries a big national flag in front of Ukraine's the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 24, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

People attend a ceremony for the fallen soldiers of Ukraine at the Lychakiv Cemetery in western Ukrainian city of Lviv on August 24, 2022 (YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP)

Russia claims train station strike killed over 200 Ukrainian troops

By AFP

Pallets of 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine are loaded by the 436th Aerial Port Squadron, April 29, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Biden announces nearly $3 billion in new military aid for Ukraine

By Lolita C. Baldor, Matthew Lee and Joe Biden

Israeli mother-and-son pair Svetlana Zilberman (R) and Misha Zilberman hit a return in their mixed doubles event against Malaysian pair Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing on day two of the Badminton World Championships in Tokyo on August 23, 2022. (Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Mother-and-son Israeli badminton players breaking records at World Championships

By Andrew MCKIRDY

Svetlana Zilberman, 64, and her son Misha team up for the doubles contest, claiming victory in their first-round match… and the title of the competition’s oldest-ever winner

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of Vladimir Kozlovsky, an Israeli citizen who was captured by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, shown praying in a synagogue in Luhansk after as he was released from captivity, August 25, 2022. (Youtube screenshot)

Israeli captured by pro-Russia forces in Ukraine released

The scene where a woman's body was found in a field close to Rehovot, August 25, 2022. (Israel Police)

Body of young woman, apparently stabbed to death, found in field near Rehovot

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda battalion are seen at a military base, in the northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Minister wants religious battalion shut amid new case of troops beating Palestinians

By Emanuel Fabian

A group of people practicing yoga. (JackF via iStock by Getty Images)

Heads of yoga ‘cult’ with global studios, including in Israel, busted for tax fraud

By Larry Neumeister

Ethiopian government soldiers ride in the back of a truck on a road near Agula, north of Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. (Ben Curtis/AP)

Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray breaks out anew after five-month lull

By Agencies and Judah Ari Gross

Israeli soldiers operate in the West Bank, August 25, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier lightly injured by Palestinian gunfire during West Bank military operation

By Emanuel Fabian

Nuclear power plants are seen in Ulsan, South Korea, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea signs deal with Russia to help build Egypt’s first nuclear power plant

By AP

The moon sets in front of the NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With liftoff planned for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, the 322-foot rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit. (AP/John Raoux, File)

ExplainerNASA to test new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan court as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial, on February 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Highest NY court agrees to hear Weinstein rape conviction appeal

By AP

Susan Newman, left, and Nell Newman arrive at the SeriousFun Children's Network event at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, May 14, 2015. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Paul Newman’s daughters sue late actor’s charity foundation over fund allocations

By Dave Collins

British museum press assistant Stella Scobie examines the newly conserved ancient glass vessels damaged during the 2020 Beirut port explosion, and displayed at the British Museum in London, on August 24, 2022 (Susannah Ireland/AFP)

British Museum unveils reconstructed ancient vessels smashed in Beirut blast

A parakeet is tied to a stick by a Palestinian youth, as a trap to attract birds of its kind in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, August 22, 2022. (AP/Fatima Shbair)

Photo essayCoveted as pets inside Gaza, invasive birds lure trappers to tense border

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