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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 4, 2024

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Security forces at the scene of a terror attack in Holon, August 4, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Two dead, 2 hurt in terror stabbing spree in Holon; Palestinian attacker shot by police

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Rina Daniv, 66, and man in 70s declared dead; Daniv’s husband injured; the couple were having their daily walk in the park; assailant did not have entry permit to Israel

A Matador shoulder-mounted launcher and boxed ammo rounds in a trunk, in a photo released by police on February 18, 2024. (Israel Police)

Report: Terror groups trying to use Arab Israeli crime gangs to carry out attacks

PMO: PM doesn't intervene in US politics, expects same from US

‘Stop bullshitting me’: Biden said to scold Netanyahu in call on truce-hostage deal

PM reportedly emboldened to act against enemies since US president pulled out of race; NYT says Biden told PM killing of Haniyeh in Tehran ‘poorly timed,’ could spark regional war

US President Joe Biden (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Ismael Haniyeh, the late leader of Palestinian terror group Hamas, arrives for the inauguration of the new Iranian President at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, on July 30, 2024. (AFP)

Iran state TV says Haniyeh was killed by short-range projectile, not bomb as reported

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An Israeli navy war ship patrol off the coast of Haifa, on August 1, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Report says attack could come as soon as Monday

Israel braces for Iran attack as US works to revive coalition that foiled April assault

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel’s leaders said to discuss readiness for ‘all-out war,’ with concerns attack could be on ‘several fronts’; CENTCOM head expected in Israel; Biden says he hopes Tehran stands down

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from the IDF Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 31, 2024. (Screenshot)

Netanyahu warns Iran: We are ready, we’ll exact a heavy price for any aggression

Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Jordan’s FM makes rare visit to Iran as US allies scramble to prevent escalation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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IDF document shared with northern mayors sets out Hezbollah war scenarios

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Security establishment sees potentially unprecedented rocket fire, major evacuations, power outages, water supply issues, disrupted telecom service and brief internet disruptions

People wave Hezbollah flags as they accompany the casket of the Lebanese terror group's top military commander Fuad Shukr, during his funeral procession in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 1, 2024. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews shop at the Yesh Chesed Supermarket in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, August 1, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 4: Day 303 – Iran attack scenarios and how Israel could counter them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in memory of Zeev Jabotinsky on August 4, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

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August 4: As PM, security chiefs meet on likely Iran attacks, Israel said mulling ‘preventive actions’

By Elana Kirsh and Michael Horovitz

Jordan’s FM urges end to escalation after meeting Iranian counterpart in Tehran * Netanyahu said decided not to seek ties with Saudi Arabia before US elections

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Smotrich says NIS 100 million meant for PA to be given to families of terror victims
6:10 pm

Two men shot dead in northern town, police say
6:00 pm

PM, security chiefs meet ahead of anticipated Iran, Hezbollah attacks; Israel said considering 'preventive actions'

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

Security chiefs, negotiators, US all said blaming Netanyahu for tanking hostage talks

‘There’s no security reason to delay deal,’ Gallant quoted as telling PM, whose office claims that Hamas, rather than the premier, has been introducing new demands to hinder progress

Protesters calling for a deal to release hostages held in Gaza rally outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, August 3, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

At limited weekly rallies amid fears of attack, protesters accuse PM of foiling deal

An unusually large tunnel uncovered by the IDF on the Gaza-Egypt border area, in a photo cleared for publication on August 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF finds tunnel large enough for vehicles to drive through in Gaza-Egypt border area

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Reuters

At least 5 rockets launched from Gaza, triggering sirens near Ashdod and sparking blaze; military says it targeted Hamas cells operating out of 2 schools, Palestinians say 25 killed

A file seized by the IDF in Gaza which the army says shows Al Jazeera reporter Ismail Al-Ghoul was a member of Hamas (IDF)

IDF releases file seized in Gaza to show Al Jazeera reporter was Hamas member

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

from the blogs

O how she sat alone: New laments for a beloved land

Ahead of Tisha B’Av, two October 7 survivors composed ‘kinot’ that place the recent horrors within the long history of Jewish tragedy

Flares of the Israeli army light up the sky of the area bordering Lebanon on August 3, 2024 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Israel kills ‘central’ Hezbollah operative in Lebanon, strikes Hamas targets in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Ali Abd Ali, prominent operative in Hezbollah’s Southern Front, is killed by drone strike near Tyre; IDF hits alleged Hamas command and control center in former school in Gaza City

Passengers depart from Rafic Hariri International Airport as many flights are delayed or canceled in Beirut on July 29, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

US, UK, Jordan urge citizens to leave Lebanon on ‘any ticket available’

The world needs another ‘Don’t’ from Biden

Iran’s aggression by proxies and threats to escalate give the US president reason to show strength in the region and intimidate the Islamic Republic

Bumper stickers for our fallen

The Coke machine is plastered, covered, shrouded with pictures, a short quote, and dates – each for an October 7 victim or a soldier killed since

Passengers disembark from an aircraft of Spanish low-cost airline Iberia Express at Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt (BER) in Schoenefeld, southeast of the German capital on July 16, 2022. (John MacDougall / AFP)

Full list: Iberia Express, Air Europa are latest airlines suspending Tel Aviv route

By ToI Staff and Reuters

A growing number of companies have canceled some or all flights amid fears of Iranian attack, despite Israel’s insistence airspace remains safe

Israel's Tom Reuveny celebrates with the national flag after winning the gold medal in the men's IQFoil windsurfing final at the Paris 2024 Olympics, at the Roucas-Blanc Marina in Marseille, August 3, 2024. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)

2024 Paris Olympics

Hatikva in Marseille: Windsurfing winner Reuveny says he felt all of Israel behind him

By ToI Staff and Reuters

As Jewish state’s national anthem plays for only 4th time in Olympic history, gold medalist speaks of brother fighting in war

Yasser Arafat claps his hands over his head as some delegates give him a standing ovation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, November 14, 1974. The two delegates from Ireland, sitting in front row at left, remain seated. (AP Photo)

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Know thine enemy: When the PLO hosted 80 scholars at a Beirut Israel studies center

By Matt Lebovic

Historian Jonathan Marc Gribetz’s ‘Reading Herzl in Beirut’ excavates a forgotten decades-long PLO research center that helped shift some Palestinians’ thinking regarding Israel

Israel said to pass up dozens of chances to kill Nasrallah

Report chronicles emboldening of Hezbollah amid Netanyahu-Gallant tensions in 2023

Probe says PM nixed meeting on response to infiltration from Lebanon on day he fired Gallant; intel officers were at IDF HQ on Oct. 6, handling Gaza threat unrelated to Hamas invasion

Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks to his supporters after the release of exit poll results in Jerusalem, November 2, 2022. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah gives an address on official party al-Manar TV on June 8, 2021. (Oren Ziv/AP; Screen capture/ Al-Manar)

Campers at Surprise Lake Camp in North Highlands, upstate New York, in a 2016 promotional video (Screen capture: Youtube/Surprise Lake Camp; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jewish summer camps have evolved for a century — but 2024 is a summer like no other

By Jonathan Krasner

Camps mix Jewish identity and values with pure summer fun, but have seen their task complicated by Oct. 7 and its aftermath

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Regulations enter into effect to ban starvation of hens to increase egg production

Yemenis wave flags and lift placards of Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike, and slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, during a rally in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on August 2, 2024. (Abdallah Adel / AFP)

Suspected Houthi missile strike hits container ship in first attack in 2 weeks

By Jon Gambrell

In this August 5, 2020 photo, a drone picture shows the destruction after an explosion at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP/Hussein Malla/File)

Lebanon marks four years since devastating Beirut port blast as war fears loom

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police officers face off with protesters during the 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Bristol, Britain, on August 3, 2024. (Justin Tallis / AFP)

Far-right protesters clash with police as disinformation-linked unrest sweeps UK

By Peter Powell and Peter HUTCHISON

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