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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 6, 2024

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Illustrative: A Russian-made S-300 air defense system sits on display at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, September 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Russia said to be delivering advanced air defenses to Iran as Tehran touts ties

2 officials tell NY Times some systems provided following an Iranian request for weapons, as it threatens to attack Israel; Iran’s president hosts Russia’s security council chief

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, August 6, 2024. (Gavriil Grigirov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin said to ask Iran to avoid civilian casualties in expected strike on Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US Soldiers stand at the site of an Iranian bombing at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar, Iraq, January 13, 2020. (AP/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)

Five US servicemembers injured in missile attack on base in Iraq

19 injured, one critically, as Hezbollah drones strike near northern city of Nahariya

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF says impact along highway caused by failed interceptor; terror group claims assault targeted military base; Hezbollah says reprisal for top commander yet to come

Footage taken by an onlooker in northern Israel appears to show a Hezbollah attack drone that crossed from Lebanon, on August 6, 2024. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sharon Kantor of Israel celebrates her women's iQFOiL windsurfing class silver medal win among the waves during the 2024 Summer Olympics, August 3, 2024, in Marseille, France. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 6: Day 305 – Split screen as Israel girds for Iran, applauds Olympians

Smoke billows over hills in the Golan Heights after rockets were fired from southern Lebanon on August 6, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

August 6: US appealing to both Iran and Israel to keep lid on brewing conflict, Blinken says

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Top US diplomat says Gaza ceasefire talks in final stage, new Hamas chief Sinwar the deciding voice * Foreign minister calls to ‘swiftly eliminate’ new leader of terror group

9:20 pm

US deploys fighter jets to Middle East base to ready for Iran attack
8:55 pm

Hezbollah hails Sinwar's selection as new Hamas leader: 'Confirms the enemy failed'
8:42 pm

Jordan, Qatar and Saudis rejecting US requests to join post-war Gaza peacekeeping force — officials

Vehicles drive past a huge banner showing slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (left) joining hands with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, August 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

3 blasts heard at Isfahan; governor cites training activity

‘Don’t push it’: US, allies said urging Israel to limit response to expected Iran attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US officials tell Biden timing, nature of assault on Israel unknown; Washington reportedly shifting aircraft carriers toward Israel; Iran said to reposition missile launchers

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center left) meets with United States CENTCOM chief Gen. Michael Kurilla (center right) in Tel Aviv on August 5, 2024 (IDF)

US races to keep tensions from snowballing as Israel girds for expected Iranian attack

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) meets with IAF head Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar (left) and IAF chief of staff Brig. Gen. Omer Tischler (right) at the IAF's underground command room in Tel Aviv, August 5, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

At command center, Gallant says IAF preparing for ‘quick transition to offense’

By Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani, ToI Staff and Agencies

Extremist Haredi protesters break into the IDF recruitment office at the Tel Hashomer base to protest the conscription of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students, August 6, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Extremist Haredim storm IDF recruitment base to protest drafting of yeshiva students

Military says activists removed, denounces illegal breach of site; at least 9 arrested as mounted officers disperse demonstration, with bottles reportedly thrown at security forces

Screenshot from video showing an UNRWA worker next to a white UN jeep, abducting the body of Yonatan Samerano, who was killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot)

UN says 9 UNRWA employees ‘may have been involved’ in Oct 7 attack, have been fired

By Jeremy Sharon and Jacob Magid

Israeli ambassador to UN calls investigation a ‘disgrace,’ alleges that ‘thousands’ of UNRWA employees are ‘involved to various degrees in Hamas’s terror activities’

Inside story

Hostage talks on hold until after Iran response, replacement of Haniyeh — officials

Hamas expected to harden stances, but mediators still plan to try and advance negotiations, which were on verge of breakthrough before assassination, two sources tell ToI

People attend a protest march for hostages held in Gaza, marking 300 days since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, on August 1, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Movement/ Noam Amir)

Vehicles drive past a huge banner showing the Hamas terror group leader Ismail Haniyeh, left, who was killed in an assassination last week, joining hands with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Aug. 5, 2024. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran: No arrests yet made for Hamas chief’s killing, reports otherwise are ‘false’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sophia Tupolev-Luz

Shoes are by the door, the gas tank is full

Parental advisory: Though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we also have work to do in the morning

Washington’s wavering support for Israel

Sharp shifts in American policy cast doubt over whether the US will have Israel’s back if it needs to preemptively strike Iran

Demonstrators block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of Israelis held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, on August 6, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

‘Stop bullshitting us’: Protesters block Tel Aviv highway, demand hostage deal

With negotiations stalled, US said ready to guarantee Israel can continue war against Hamas even if agreement reached with Hamas, but will only put it in writing after deal signed

Family, friends and supporters of Ariel Bibas, who is held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, release orange balloons to mark his fifth birthday in Tel Aviv, August 5, 2024. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

‘There’s no celebration’: Thousands rally as redhead hostage Ariel Bibas turns 5

By ToI Staff and AP

Ariel Bibas, abducted with his baby brother Kfir and parents from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, turns five on August 5, 2024. (Courtesy)

As Ariel Bibas turns 5 in Gaza captivity, his grandmother dreams of seeing him again

Analysis

Amir Bar Shalom

IDF chief’s multifront battle — to maintain army values, free hostages, tackle Iran

Herzi Halevi is operating beyond full stretch: He couldn’t even get to a meeting to okay the strike on Hezbollah’s top commander, diverting instead to a base under attack at home

Then IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi meeting soldiers in Gaza, August 1, 2024 (IDF Spokesman)

Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat poses for a photo with his silver medal in Paris on August 4, 2024, ahead of his return to Israel. (Olympic Committee of Israel)

2024 Paris Olympics

Double medalist Dolgopyat wants to inspire young athletes to ‘believe in themselves’

Returning to Israel, decorated gymnast says short-term plans are surgery on leg and marrying his longtime fiancée; Israeli equestrians, individual dinghy sailors end Olympic runs

Illustrative: The Israeli delegation's flag bearers Peter Paltchik (2R) and Andrea Murez (R) stand at the front of the team's boat during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the Seine river in Paris, France, July 26, 2024. (Damien Meyer / AFP)

‘Armed guards with us 24/7’: Israel’s Olympians compete in Paris under tight security

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An Israeli wounded by rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel arrives at Ziv hospital in Safed, October 17, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israeli hospitals declare themselves prepared for mass casualty events

By Diana Bletter

Since the start of war, hospitals have conducted drills, stockpiled supplies, and moved wards underground, readying themselves for worst-case scenarios, with MDA cooperation

Ziv, a military reservist who expects to be called up again and who lost a friend at the Nova massacre, skates to relax. (Deborah Danan/ JTA)

‘It’s like living in two realities at the same time’

Israelis navigate normal life amid danger and anxiety from war and Iranian threat

By Deborah Danan

Daily routine continues amid a multifront conflict that’s affected major population centers since October 7, as locals live with the ‘new normal’ even while new dangers loom

The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on terror suspects during an operation in Jenin, August 6, 2024 (Screen grab/AFP)

11 Palestinians killed in West Bank during IDF counterterror operations

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Five killed by airstrikes as IDF says gunmen hit in two sets of strikes in Jenin; four more killed in Aqabah, southeast of city; and another two in Kafr Qud

Police and medical personnel at the scene of a stabbing attack at the Tunnels Checkpoint in the West Bank, south of Jerusalem, on August 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Palestinian man stabs, injures border cop during search at Jerusalem checkpoint

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinians returning to their homes a few days after the Israeli army withdrew from the area, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza Strip. April 13, 2024. (bed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

CNN: Hamas central Gaza battalions still effective, may hold hostages; IDF denies claims

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

B’Tselem alleges Israeli policy of abuse, torture of Palestinian prisoners

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prison Service, IDF reject report claiming that under Ben Gvir, detainees subjected to ‘systematic, institutional policy’ of ‘unrelenting physical and psychological violence’

Alleged Hamas members who were caught during their October 7 terrorist massacre and during the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip, seen at a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Far-right protesters rally before storming the Sde Teiman military detention facility in southern Israel following the arrest of nine reservists accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian inmate there, on July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

A week on, no arrests or summonses against rioters who broke into military bases

By Jeremy Sharon

US Rep. Cori Bush, Democrat-Missouri, speaks to supporters in Webster Groves, Missouri, July 31, 2024. (Jim Salter/AP)

Israel-critical Democrat Cori Bush faces primary against pro-Israel rival Tuesday

Political action groups tied to AIPAC have spent at least $9 million on ads for Wesley Bell, who says he will fight to keep US supporting Jewish state

Rabbi Meir Muller, right, and Prof. Devin Randolph, left, teach a new antisemitism awareness course at South Carolina State University, in Orangeburg, spring of 2024. (Courtesy of Muller)

'We’re carving a safe space for free-flowing conversation'

In time for a potentially turbulent school year, new course focuses on Black-Jewish ties

By Cathryn J. Prince

Even as some universities prepare for protests against the war on Hamas, rabbi and prof create semester-long class at historically Black schools on the communities’ cooperation

Illustrative image: A baby receives a vaccine (Marina Demidiuk via iStock by Getty Images)

Researcher warns of whooping cough spike as disease spreads throughout Israel

By Diana Bletter

Infectious disease expert says Israel is in the middle of an outbreak that occurs every four years; Health Ministry urges vaccination for pregnant women to lessen spread

More Headlines

Iranians protest the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, 22, death after she was detained by Iranian morality police, in Tehran, Iran, September 20, 2022. (AP/ File)

Iran executes man accused of killing security officer during Mahsa Amini protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir addresses the Knesset plenum, July 24, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Ben Gvir blocks ‘Rabbis Law’ for 3rd time, demands inclusion in PM’s security forum

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim delivers his speech during a press conference at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Meta says Malaysian PM Anwar’s condolence posts for Haniyeh removed in error

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Former US president Donald Trump attends his trial at the Manhattan Criminal court, May 6, 2024, in New York. (Win McNamee/ Pool Photo via AP)

US Supreme Court upholds gag order on Trump in hush money case

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a human rights-themed event hosted by his Islamist AKP political party in the Turkish capital of Ankara, August 5, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Türkiye Canlı, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Erdogan slams ‘digital fascism’ as Turkey said to ban Instagram over Haniyeh posts

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protesters rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, marking 300 days in captivity for the hostages in Gaza and demanding an immediate deal for their return, on August 1, 2024. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Some evacuated families of hostages said told to vacate government-subsidized homes

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