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What Matters Most On Monday, August 5, 2024

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A man rides his moped past a billboard bearing portraits of slain terror leaders, Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas (left), Iranian Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani (C), and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr on the main road near the Beirut International Airport on August 3, 2024. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)

US said to believe Iran attack on Israel imminent, Biden to hold situation room meeting

G7 urges Mideast de-escalation: Recent events ‘threaten to ignite a broader conflict’; Gallant, Austin discuss ‘series of scenarios and corresponding defensive, offensive capabilities’

A man walks under an anti-Israel billboard reading in Persian, 'Tel Aviv will be not safe anymore' at Palestine Square in Tehran on July 31, 2024 (AFP)

Iran claims it does not want to escalate regional tensions, but must ‘punish’ Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranians burn an Israeli flag during the funeral ceremony of Hamas terror group leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, who were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel on at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, August 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran said to dismiss US, Arab calls for restraint — even if it sparks war

People take part in a march in the southern Lebanese city of Saida, on August 5, 2024, to protest against the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (portrait bottom) and Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukur (portrait top). (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

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August 5: Diplomats race to tamp down tensions as Israel braces for ‘imminent’ Iranian reprisal

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Four Palestinians killed in West Bank clash, PA says * Blinken warns violence will wrack Mideast until ceasefire in Gaza reached * Biden, Harris briefed on Iran threat

9:18 pm

As US races to ease tensions, Blinken says Gaza ceasefire critical for calm
7:52 pm

IDF spokesman: No changes to Home Front Command guidelines
7:52 pm

IDF says commander in Hezbollah's elite Radwan unit killed in drone strike

The sun rises over the northern city of Haifa and its port on August 3, 2024, regardless of threats by Hezbollah to hit targets deeper in Israel. (Oren ZIV / AFP)

Reporter's notebook'I’m sort of done worrying'

In Haifa, locals meet the prospect of imminent war with calm resolve

By Canaan Lidor

Unperturbed by Iran and Hezbollah’s threat to strike, locals in the northern port city say they’re ready for a showdown they intend to ride out

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Report: Israel could preemptively strike Iran if intelligence shows attack is imminent

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In meeting with PM, defense officials weigh options, say preventative action only possible if there is absolute certainty that intelligence on Iran’s intentions is accurate

From left: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi follow Israel's strike in Yemen from the IAF operations room at the Kirya Headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 20, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

From left to right: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet security services director Ronen Bar at a special operations room overseeing a mission to release hostages in the Gaza Strip, June 8, 2024. (Shin Bet security service)

Shin Bet said to prepare bunker for Netanyahu, senior leadership amid Iranian threat

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog attend a ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in memory of Zeev Jabotinsky on August 4, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Herzog calls for unity as attack looms: ‘Our enemies celebrate when they see division’

A portrait of slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is displayed during a demonstration denouncing his killing and that of Hezbollah's senior commander Fuad Shukr, in the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon, on August 2, 2024. (Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP)

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Daily Briefing Aug. 5: Day 304 – Iran leans on its proxies as Israel gathers its friends

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur zooms out to explore the powers aligning ahead of a potential Iran strike on Israel and weighs in on last week’s Sde Teiman arrests and mob scene

This illustration issued by the IDF on August 4, 2024, shows a Cell Broadcast alert on a phone. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF can now send location-based alerts to phones in case of large-scale attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. (Courtesy)

Israeli shares slide and the shekel weakens amid fears of a retaliatory Iran attack

By Sharon Wrobel

Reporter's Notebook

Amid war fears, at Ben Gurion Airport, it’s business as usual — just less of it

On a Sunday, after some 18 international carriers cancelled services to the Jewish state in anticipation of escalating hostilities, Israel’s main airport was quieter than usual

Illustrative: Arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, on August 4, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/ Times of Israel)

Hundreds mark hostage Ariel Bibas's 5th birthday in Central Park, New York City, August 4, 2024. (Liri Agami, Dani Tenenbaum)

Hundreds mark hostage Ariel Bibas’s 5th birthday with bubbles, candles in Central Park

Bibas family plans march in honor of Ariel in Tel Aviv on Monday, while Israel Railways, Jerusalem honor him with orange lights

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese village of Taybeh on August 4, 2024. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Two IDF soldiers moderately wounded in Hezbollah drone attack on north

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli strike in south Lebanon said to kill two, as skirmishes continue on northern border amid heightened tensions

Passengers wait at Rafic Hariri International Airport after their flights were delayed or cancelled in Beirut on July 29, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Travelers rush to leave Lebanon amid spiking tensions, canceled flights

By AFP and ToI Staff

Bnei HaGolan VeHaGalil Football Club's youth soccer team. (Bnei HaGolan VeHaGalil FC)

Inside Story

Broken hearts club: Northern Druze soccer club mourns teen members blown up by Hezbollah

Killed in the Majdal Shams rocket attack, Ameer Abu Saleh, Johnny Ibrahim, Hazem Abu Saleh were part of an intensely symbolic soccer team that is left bereft but remains resolute

Shayna Goldberg

I’m grateful for what ‘might be our last normal day’

We’re Israelis: We make plans for next week even as we make jokes about the end of the world, because life is too precious to sit around waiting

A (maybe) valediction

The Ayatollah might not let me get all the way through War and Peace, but at least I published this post in time

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in images released on August 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

7 IDF reservists wounded, 4 of them seriously, in blast in southern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Truck driver lightly hurt as barrage of 15 rockets fired from Gaza at south; IDF kills Hamas economy minister in airstrike; bodies of 80 Palestinians said returned to Strip

People gather around the car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. (AFP)

Israel says Australian probe into Gaza aid worker deaths ‘omitted crucial details’

By AFP

File: Palestinians collect water from a UNICEF tanker in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 9, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Smotrich: It may be ‘justified’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but world won’t let us

Far-right minister expresses support for resettling Gaza, says October 7 wouldn’t have happened had it not been for 2005 disengagement from Strip

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 24, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich freezes NIS 100 million in PA funds over ‘incitement to terror’

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Members of Israel's team celebrate their victory during the mixed team elimination round against Mongolia in the team judo competition, at Champ-de-Mars Arena, during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

2024 Paris Olympics

Judo Olympic medalists return home: ‘Our goal was to raise the flag of Israel high’

Raz Hershko, Peter Paltchik and Inbar Lanir greeted as heroes at Ben Gurion Airport, say they were honored to represent Israel in such challenging times

Haredim clash with police as first draftees slated to report to IDF recruitment office

Violence toward female journalists, shouts of ‘shiksa’; police say 3 arrested; ‘This is Auschwitz, the last stop,’ says demonstrator; only a third of draftees expected to serve

Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police during a protest against the military draft, outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, August 5, 2024 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Amit Elor celebrates defeating Davaanasan Enkh Amar of Mongolia and winning the women's freestyle 72 kg wrestling final match during the Wrestling World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, September 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

'After Oct. 7, I got death threats, horrifying messages'

Facing family tragedy, online antisemitism, US wrestler Amit Elor vies for gold in Paris

Undefeated for 5 years, daughter of Israeli parents will step onto the mat Monday as a gold medal contender. She’s been pitted against more trying circumstances in the past

(L) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. (Saudi Press Agency via AP); (C) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem (Alex Kolomoisky/ Pool/ Flash90); (R) US President Joe Biden on November 2, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Michael A. McCoy / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / via AFP)

Report: Netanyahu decides not to seek normalization with Saudis before US election

Israel’s Channel 12 suggests PM is waiting to see who is elected to White House this fall before deciding on approach to Riyadh

Tai Baribo plays for the Philadelphia Union soccer club in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Union)

'Israel is my blood, but this is my job'

After a slow start in Philadelphia, Israeli soccer player Tai Baribo is on a roll

The striker, who has also played for Israel’s national team, had a breakout month in July with a stunning hat trick but hasn’t forgotten his homeland as war rages on

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UK’s Starmer warns far-right rioters will ‘regret’ being part of mass unrest

By Paul Barker and Peter HUTCHISON

Police guard a military court at the Beit Lid base in central Israel, during a protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of abusing a Palestinian detainee, July 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

3 suspects in Sde Teiman abuse case released after new evidence presented

By Emanuel Fabian

In this handout photograph taken and released on July 25, 2024 by Bangladesh Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses the media at a vandalized metro station in Mirpur, after the anti-quota protests (Bangladesh Prime Minister's Office / AFP)

Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina resigns, flees country as protesters storm residence

By JULHAS ALAM and Krutika Pathi

Heavily armed police and the Star Force stand guard at the entrance to the Westfield Marion shopping centre in suburban Adelaide on June 23, 2024 (MICHAEL ERREY / AFP)

Australia raises terror threat level to ‘probable,’ citing ‘extreme ideologies’

Republican presidential candidate former us president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta, August 3, 2024. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Head of Arab Americans for Trump says candidate supports two-state solution

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (lunopark/Shutterstock.com)

Two men shot dead in northern Israel’s Baqa al-Gharbiya

US Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a Sigma Gamma Rho sorority gathering in Houston, July 31, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Harris to interview vice president candidates Sunday evening ahead of deadline

By Nandita Bose

FILE - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, May 24, 2024 (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admits he left dead bear in New York’s Central Park in 2014 prank

By JONATHAN J. COOPER

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