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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 3, 2024

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Left to right: Israel's Tom Reuveny celebrates after winning the gold medal in the men's IQFoil windsurfing final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Christophe Simon/AFP); Israel's Artem Dolgopyat celebrates his silver medal at the end of the artistic gymnastics men's floor exercise final (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP); Israel's Sharon Kantor celebrates her silver medal win after the women’s IQFoil windsurfing final (Christophe Simon/AFP), August 3, 2024.

2024 Paris OlympicsIsrael sails past Tokyo's 4-medal haul

Historic day at Olympics: Israel wins gold, 2 silvers in windsurfing and gymnastics

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Windsurfers Tom Reuveny and Sharon Kantor land gold and silver, artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat scores silver, as country sets new record with 6 medals at Games – and 3 in a single day

Israeli judoka Raz Hershko smiles after winning a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics on August 2, 2024. (Olympic Committee of Israel)

2024 Paris OlympicsIsraeli judoka Raz Hershko takes home silver at Paris Olympics

Sweden closing its Beirut embassy, evacuating staff

Iran warns Hezbollah will strike civilian targets deeper in Israel as war fears heighten

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Tehran says it expects group to carry out ‘broader and deeper’ strikes in the wake of killing of Fuad Shukr; IDF strike kills ‘a main terrorist’ in Hezbollah’s southern command

An Israeli Navy corvette patrols along the coast of the northern port city of Haifa on August 3, 2024, amid amid threats by Hezbollah to hit targets deeper in Israel. (Oren Ziv/AFP)

A screenshot of unverified video on social media showing the aftermath of a reported Israeli strike in Syria's Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, near the border with Lebanon, late August 2, 2024. (Screenshot X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel said to strike known Hezbollah smuggling area along Syria-Lebanon border

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

A billboard displaying an image of late Iranian Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani (R) and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (C) stands in front of a building targeted in an Israeli military strike on a Hezbollah commander in Beirut the previous day, on July 31, 2024 (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Hezbollah moving top staff, equipment out of Beirut for fear of Israeli strike – report

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

FILE: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF chief Herzi Halevi, October 23, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Gallant's sacking 'is not a matter of if, but when'

Reports: Security chiefs feel PM ‘has given up on hostages’; he’s set to fire some of them

Netanyahu’s office denies TV report he slapped down defense chiefs after Mossad head urged him to take deal; 2nd report says PM to fire Gallant, may oust IDF chief and Shin Bet head

Supporters and relatives of Israelis held hostage by terror groups in the Gaza Strip since October 7, demonstrate to demand their release 300 days since their abduction, in Tel Aviv on August 1, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Anti-government activists, hostage families holding Sat. night rallies despite Iran threat

Ronen Bar (left), head of the Shin Bet security services, speaks with Mossad chief David Barnea during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israeli team visits Cairo for hostage-truce talks with Egyptian mediators

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on August 4, 2024, during a time of ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 3: Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at Israel, many are intercepted, amid high tensions

Israel girds for attack ‘on several fronts’ after terror heads killed * US, UK urge citizens to leave Lebanon, Canada warns of travel to Israel * Israel’s Paris medal count up to 6

9:43 pm

Rocket barrage fired from Lebanon at north; Iron Dome intercepts many
8:40 pm

Police say 5 arrested for disturbing the peace at Tel Aviv demonstration
8:37 pm

Blinken speaks with French and UK counterparts about rising Mideast tensions

Illustrative: A US Navy destroyer fires a missile. (US Navy photo)

US sending more fighter jets and warships to Mideast amid threats from Iran-led axis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pentagon announces it will also keep an aircraft carrier in the region; TV report says Israel is close to reprising the coalition that helped defend against Iranian attack in April

Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

More airlines cancel flights as Israel braces for potential attack by Iran, its proxies

A woman walks amid vehicles next to a billboard of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) and late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at the Valise square in Tehran, August 1, 2024. (AFP)

France urges citizens to leave Iran ‘as soon as possible’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

'It is a humiliation for Iran and a huge security breach'

Mossad hired IRGC agents in May to plant explosives that killed Haniyeh — report

Iran said to arrest dozens, including senior officials over killing; UK daily says Israel planned to target Hamas chief at Raisi funeral but opted to wait, hit him in IRGC guesthouse

An unverified image of the Tehran building where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed on July 31, 2024. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF troops seen operating in the Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on August 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

At least 19 rockets fired at Israel from southern Gaza, the largest barrage in weeks

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri is seen at his home in Jerusalem, February 22, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Al-Aqsa imam eulogizes Haniyeh, is detained on suspicion of incitement, terror support

Hezbollah fighters chant slogans as they attend the funeral procession of senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil, during his funeral procession in the village of Khirbet Selm, south Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2024 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Analysis

Intimidations, threats, assassinations: How Hezbollah suppresses dissent inside Lebanon

By Gianluca Pacchiani

As tensions escalate, a recent poll finds that trust in the Iran-backed group is below 10% among non-Shiites. Dissidents who dare express criticism can pay a heavy price

We don’t hand out candy when our enemies are killed

I can understand the need to rejoice at the wins, but only terrorists treat death with sweets. Celebrate some other way

Denis Passalent

An Italian Jewish family’s story rebuilt

When I discovered that a Jewish family once lived in my hometown, I tried to reintegrate them into my village’s story

People check a car attacked in an IDF airstrike in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, August 3, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/ AFP)

Hamas commander, eight other gunmen killed in IDF drone strikes near Tulkarem

By Emanuel Fabian

First strike hit terror cell en route to carry out attack, military says; second drone strike hits operatives amid clashes in West Bank city

Family releases video of Gazan mob kicking, abusing dead body of hostage Eitan Levy

Family says it chose to release the footage to show ‘there are no innocent civilians in Gaza,’ calls on government to do more to bring home the captives

Eitan Levy (Courtesy)

Ariel Bibas will turn five in Gaza captivity on Monday

By Jessica Steinberg

Family say that instead of a birthday party, they will hold a march on Aug. 5 to call for the release of the Bibas family and all the hostages still held by Hamas

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug. 3: Day 302 – NY rabbi on how to deal with a ‘wicked son’ post-Oct. 7

Rabbi Menachem Creditor visits ToI’s Jerusalem offices and offers words of perspective and ‘hizuk,’ and how to have Jewish pride in a post-fact world

Anesthesiologist Yoel Donchin, who treated Palestinian detainees at the IDF's Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel, speaks in an interview with the Kan broadcaster aired August 2, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Doctor who reported abuse of Palestinian detainee: I blamed fellow prisoners

Anesthesiologist Yoel Donchin, who treated terror suspects at Sde Teiman, confirms seeing signs of serious sexual abuse, says he didn’t think Israelis ‘would do something like that’

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Shapiro seeks to downplay his time as IDF volunteer after college op-ed resurfaces

‘I was 20,’ says Pennsylvania governor and potential VP nominee about op-ed titled ‘Peace Not Possible,’ in which he described himself ‘as a Jew and past volunteer in the Israeli army’

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro waves to the crowd before the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park on July 20, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Justin Berl/Getty Images/AFP)

Campaign to tank Shapiro’s VP chances gathers steam — and antisemitism accusations

Israeli swimmer Andrea Murez prepares for her leg of the 4x100-meter mixed medley relay at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics in Nanterre, France, August 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Fresh out of med school, a 3-time Israeli Olympian works to improve team’s mental health

By JANIE McCAULEY

Swimmer Andi Murez, 32, pushed off Mayo Clinic psychiatry residency to participate in Paris Games; says two passions can be hard, ‘but there’s something about having balance’

More Headlines

A French riot policeman stands guard outside the Paris Synagogue, two days after security measures were reinforced near Jewish temples and schools, in central Paris, on October 9, 2023. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

France increases security at Jewish sites, highlighting Israelis visiting for Olympics

By AFP and ToI Staff

This combination of pictures created on July 22, 2024, shows US Vice President Kamala Harris and former US president Donald Trump. (Brendan Smialowski and Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)

Trump says he agreed with Fox to debate Harris on Sept. 4; VP yet to confirm

By AFP

Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack in Mogadishu on August 3, 2024. (Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP)

At least 32 killed in Islamist suicide bombing, shooting attack on busy Mogadishu beach

By AFP

L-R: Erin Gemmel, Katie Ledecky, Paige Madden and Claire Weinstein; The United States' women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team pose with their silver medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

2024 Paris OlympicsAmerican Jewish teen Claire Weinstein wins silver in 4×200-meter freestyle relay

By jacob gurvis

US Vice President Kamala Harris waves during a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Harris has enough delegates to be presidential nominee, says Democratic committee chair

By Will Weissert and CHRIS MEGERIAN

Thomas Jolly, the artistic director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, poses sitting on a wall near the Seine River with the Eiffel tower in the background (R), in Paris, on July 2, 2024. (Joel Saget / AFP)

Olympics ceremony director threatened for sexual identity, false claim of Israeli roots

By AP

Police officers stand guard between protesters (back) defending the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque in Liverpool on August 2, 2024 against the 'Enough is Enough' demonstration (not seen) called in reaction to the fatal stabbings in Southport on July 29. (Ian Cooper/AFP)

UK police mobilize for far-right protests after third night of anti-Muslim riots

By Peter HUTCHISON

Bronze medalist Jemima Montag, of Australia, stands on the podium after the women's 20km race walk at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

2024 Paris OlympicsJewish Australian Jemima Montag wins bronze in the 20-km racewalk

By jacob gurvis

This February 2017 photo provided by his lawyers shows Khalid Shaikh Mohammad in Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba (Courtesy Derek Poteet via AP)

Pentagon chief scraps plea agreement with 9/11 mastermind and accomplices

Activists don keffiyehs as students and faculty of Drexel University and University of Pennsylvania erect an encapment to protest against Israel amid the war with Hamas in Gaza at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 25, 2024. (Matthew Hatcher / AFP)

US federal probe finds Drexel University has become a hostile environment for Jews

By MARK SCOLFORO

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