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What Matters Most On Monday, August 12, 2024

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People walk past a billboard showing a portrait of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (top) next to Palestine Square in Tehran on August 12, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

In reversal, Israel said to now believe Iran plans to attack in next few days

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF says civilian guidelines unchanged as reports say Tehran will possibly strike by Thursday; US announces it’s sending guided missile submarine, expediting strike group’s arrival

People pass by a flag on the wall in Baku, Azerbaijan, Monday, February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

IDF places limitations on soldiers’ travel abroad amid fears of Iranian attack

Vehicles drive past a huge billboard depicting Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) and slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at Tehran's Valiasr Square on August 12, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 12: Day 311 – Iran, Hezbollah said to step up prep for striking Israel

Hezbollah operatives form a human barrier during the funeral procession of slain top Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 1, 2024. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Hezbollah reportedly clears out entire operation from Beirut headquarters

Lebanese media outlet says terror group moved people, computers and other equipment from Dahieh suburb to ‘prepare for the worst’ as it threatens to attack Israel

An Israeli Air Force fighter flies over the border with Lebanon on August 11, 2024. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)

IDF drone strike kills Hezbollah cell in south Lebanon; 30 rockets fired at north

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

An Air India Airbus A350 stands on the tarmac, at the Farnborough International Air Show in Farnborough, England, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/ Alberto Pezzali)

Air India scraps TLV route until Oct. 27 as airlines extend pauses due to war fears

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 13: Smotrich says credit downgrade ‘natural’ amid war, Israeli economy resilient

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Explaining drop from A+ to A, Fitch warns war could spread fully to other fronts, last well into 2025 * Israel, US don’t believe Iran attack will happen Monday night — report

10:56 pm

Smotrich: Fitch credit downgrade 'natural' amid war, but Israel's economy is strong
10:18 pm

Israel, US don't believe Iran's retaliatory attack will take place tonight -- report
10:02 pm

Fitch lowers Israel's credit rating from A+ to A, warning war could last well into 2025

Sources say terror group was never meant to attend meeting

Hamas says it won’t attend Thursday’s ‘last opportunity’ talks for hostage-truce deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Reports conflict on whether Israel is optimistic or pessimistic negotiations could seal the deal; Biden: Region can ‘easily’ devolve into all-out war

Protesters outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv demand early elections and a deal for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, August 10, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset, July 24, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin, Ben Gvir also reportedly discuss wanting to fire AG

In cabinet meeting, justice minister said to call to revive judicial overhaul plan

‘Time has come to make the change,’ Levin is quoted as saying of proposals that sparked mass protests last year; Lapid: We’ll block ‘judicial coup with all tools at our disposal’

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges along with Supreme Court Acting President Uzi Vogelman, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

With negotiations over new High Court president stuck, Levin gets 2-week extension

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting. (Maayan Toaf / GPO, undated photo)

Despite AG’s dissent, cabinet okays plan for PM to choose civil service commissioner

Sgt. Omer Ginzburg (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF announces Sgt. Omer Ginzburg killed in combat in Gaza’s Khan Younis

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Paratrooper shot by sniper in southern Gaza city, where military ordered evacuations and launched operation due to Hamas activity

Palestinians seen with their belongings after evacuating from al-Jalaa in Khan Younis to the designated safe zone in the southern Gaza Strip, August 11, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF says Hamas operating in Khan Younis safe zone, issues new evacuation orders

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Left to right: Al Jazeera presenter Anas al-Sharif (L) is seen in a screen capture from an Al-Jazeera broadcast, via N12 (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law), Israel Defense Forces Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee (Courtesy).

IDF spokesman says Al Jazeera covering up Hamas activity in targeted Gaza school

Reporter's notebook

Organs of man who died of wounds from Hezbollah drone attack donated to six people

Baby girl among recipients; family of Mikhael Sammarah of Kfar Yasif in Western Galilee express disappointment that nobody from Israeli government came to pay their respects

Nasrat and Janka Sammarah with a photo of their son, Mikhael, critically wounded by an Iron Dome malfunction during a Hezbollah drone attack, August 11, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)

Shimshon HaKohen Nadel

Tisha B’Av in the shadow of war

Iran and Hezbollah may target this day of mourning as an ominous time for Jews, but they miss the point: It’s also a time of profound hope

‘As the trauma continues unresolved’: Mourning and hope on Tisha B’Av

It’s too soon to know whether Tisha B’Av is elastic enough to hold October 7 – we’re still a long way from the P of PTSD

Adam Hajaj speaks during a rally for hostages in Gaza in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

'I couldn't imagine ignoring October 7 at synagogue'

October 7 trauma reconnects Israelis with a 2,000-year-old Jewish day of mourning

By Canaan Lidor

Thousands of synagogues prepare to feature lamentations about the Hamas atrocities, on Tisha B’Av, a fast day that commemorates historical – and now contemporary – tragedies

Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror shooting attack in the Jordan Valley, on August 11, 2024; inset: Yonatan Deutsch, who was killed in the attack, (Michael Giladi/Flash90; courtesy)

Civilian killed, another hurt in Jordan Valley terror attack; IDF hunting for shooters

By Emanuel Fabian

Herzog condemns incident: 'We are all brothers and sisters'

Arab Israeli attacked by West Bank mob rejects far-right MK’s claim her car wasn’t Israeli

Husband of victim calls on Otzma Yehudit MK to apologize for justifying attack at Givat Ronen settlement outpost; Democrats MK calls incident ‘attempting lynching’

Lamis al-Jaer, an Arab Israeli woman who was attacked after mistakenly driving into the illegal outpost of Givat Ronen in the West Bank on August 9 speaks to Channel 12, August 11, 2024. (Screen capture via N12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police officers stage outside the Islamic Center Hamburg with the Imam Ali Mosque during a raid, July 24, 2024, Hamburg, Germany. (Daniel Bockwoldt/ dpa via AP)

Head of banned German mosque received orders from Iranian official, report says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Instructions came in hundreds of text messages on WhatsApp, including about how to frame October 7, according to Der Spiegel report, before institution was shuttered last month

File — Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart in Iraq's capital Baghdad on April 26, 2021. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iran’s Zarif resigns from post as vice president for strategy, days after appointment

By AFP

Red Tent Fund founder Allison Tombros Korman. (Courtesy of the Red Tent Fund)

Interview'When pushed out, Jews have always created our own spaces'

Shunned for her stance on Israel, a Jewish US abortion activist starts her own fund

By Cathryn J. Prince

Allison Tombros Korman launches the Red Tent Fund in response to what she calls a movement steeped in antisemitism amid a one-sided conversation about Gaza that isolates many Jews

Israeli tanks stand near the Israel-Gaza border as seen from southern Israel, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Army broadens closed zone around Gaza ahead of prayer event by pro-settlement activists

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Security sources tell media move is a precaution against possible attack on gathering, intended to mark Tisha B’av fast and raise awareness of desire to rebuild Gaza settlements

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell speaks during a meeting at the Government Guest House in Hanoi on July 30, 2024. (Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

EU’s Borrell: Consider sanctions on Ben Gvir, Smotrich for ‘incitement to war crimes’

Screen capture from video showing Vincent Sumpter, left, moments after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli yeshiva student, right, in Brooklyn, New York, August 10, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man charged with hate crime in Brooklyn stabbing of Israeli yeshiva student

Vincent Sumpter, 22, charged with eight felonies over attack in which he allegedly shouted ‘Free Palestine’; victim says knife missed his heart by four centimeters

FILE - Computer monitors and a laptop display the sign-in page of X, formerly known as Twitter, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Musk’s X is platform where it is easiest to find Hamas content, watchdog says

A display at the Anu Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, part of its Jewish Resilience Project. (Roni Caanani/courtesy)

Interview‘How can the Jewish story give us strength in this time?’

Ups and downs of Anu Museum’s ‘Jewish Resilience Project’ usher us through trying times

By Gavriel Fiske

New programming developed after Oct. 7 focuses on an ‘oscillating narrative’ that stresses how Jewish history is filled with highs and lows – a combination that fosters endurance

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Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi attends a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, August 11, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Military AG: Arresting officers at Sde Teiman wore masks as they face ‘dozens of threats’

Illustrative: Armed police officers stand outside Swiss National Bank headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, March 21, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

Swiss police arrest ‘mentally disturbed’ man for pouring gasoline on synagogue

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative. Computer processors. Conventional computers process information, or bits, each of which can be either a zero or a one, in the binary language of computing. Quantum bits, however, used by quantum computers, can be both a zero and one simultaneously. (Rost-9D; iStock by Getty Images)

Amid ongoing war, Israel and the UK launch fund for joint tech research projects

By Sharon Wrobel

Actor Tom Cruise jumps off the roof of the Stade de France, during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, at the Stade de France, August 11, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (Fabrizio Bensch/Pool Photo via AP)

Closing Paris Games, Tom Cruise rappels down stadium, receives Olympic flag for LA

By John Irish and Richard Lough

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