’I thought I lost it’: Olympic gold for modest Israeli gymnast * PM stops cabinet meeting to congratulate him * Lebanon slides back to Stone Age * Adidas’s Orthodox mom

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Sunday, August 1, 2021 Presented by The Boris Mints Institute Tokyo 2020 [Artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat wins Israel’s 2nd-ever Olympic gold]( By [TOI staff]( [24-year-old takes top place on the podium with stunning floor exercise, scoring 14.933 and besting tough Spanish and Chinese competition]( [Tokyo 2020 / Israel’s gold medalist gymnast: I thought I lost it all, routine wasn’t my best]( By [TOI staff]( [Tokyo 2020 / Israel’s Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko finishes sixth in Olympic triple jump]( By [Amy Spiro]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Israel’s modest gold medalist: Artem Dolgopyat proves a disarming Olympic hero]( [The artistic gymnast who soared to the second gold in Israeli Olympic history keeps his feet firmly on the ground amid national euphoria]( [Tokyo 2020 / Israel’s Olympic baseball team beats Mexico, keeping medal hopes alive]( By [Ronald Blum]( [At Munich massacre memorial in Tokyo, widow lauds Olympics’ long-awaited tribute]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( Analysis [Avi Issacharoff]( [Lebanon is sliding back to the Stone Age, and Iran couldn’t be happier about it]( [Israel’s northern neighbor is facing water, electricity and medicine shortages and its prospective new government won’t weaken Hezbollah; will the PA suffer a similar disaster?]( [A year after the mushroom cloud, Lebanon still bleeds]( By [Jean-Marc Mojon]( [Iran denies ‘baseless’ Israeli claim it struck ship in deadly attack]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [But PM Bennett says there’s no doubt Tehran is behind strike that killed 2 people, claims intelligence materials prove it]( [TV: Israel believes Iran struck ship in response to cyberattack on train system]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Israel in diplomatic campaign for a forceful world response to attack on ship]( By [Emanuel Fabian, TOI staff and Agencies]( [US said increasingly skeptical return to Iran nuclear deal is possible]( By [TOI staff]( [NY Times reports on pessimism in Washington amid challenges facing accord, including new hardline government in Tehran and growing Iranian technical knowhow]( [Live updates (closed) / Lapid speaks to Blinken about deadly ship strike, urges international response]( By [TOI staff]( [Lapid calls for UN action against Iran after deadly attack on ship]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( ToI podcast [TOI staff]( [Daily Briefing August 1 – Israelis turn guinea pigs as 3rd COVID dose rolled out]( [Lazar Berman explains why Israel is up in arms after an alleged Iranian attack on an oil tanker; health reporter Nathan Jeffay lists pros and cons of Israel’s 3rd dose campaign]( [Antisemitism increasingly politicized in 2020 US media coverage – study]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Tel Aviv think tank finds that press investigated hatred of Jews expressed around COVID, Black Lives Matter protests, elections]( Live updates [20,000 Israelis age 60 and up so far reported to have received 3rd COVID dose]( By [TOI staff]( [TV cites HMO figures showing some 180,000 people have scheduled appointments to get booster after Israel became first country to begin giving additional shot to elderly]( Top Ops [Leah Solomon]( [We tell ourselves that our soldiers would not shoot for no reason]( [We must fight hatred of Jews as if there’s no oppression in this land, and we must fight the injustices of our own government and army as if there’s no antisemitism]( [Haviva Ner-David]( [Torah commands both love and vengeance. What’s a Zionist to do?]( [What if instead of trying to repeat history, we are meant to correct it? The Jews were sovereign on this land twice already, and it did not end well.]( [CRM]( [In key test for new government, cabinet to meet to approve 2021-2022 budget]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel has been without a budget since 2019; health minister threatens to oppose; Ra’am leader will reportedly be on hand for negotiations]( [Health ministry chief as positivity rate tops 3%: ‘We’re not seeing a slowdown’]( By [TOI staff]( [Nachman Ash says 3rd shot will help fight against coronavirus but boosters may be needed perpetually; serious COVID cases rise to 212]( [Israel said set to toss 80,000 expiring vaccine doses at midnight]( By [TOI staff]( [Ismail Haniyeh said elected to another term as Hamas chief]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Terror group’s leader has held the position since 2017, would stay on until 2025; quadrennial Hamas elections said to be drawing to a close]( [Ministers okay granting 15,000 more work permits to Palestinians]( By [Aaron Boxerman and TOI staff]( [Hamas intensifies efforts to launch West Bank terror attacks — report]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Adidas chooses an American-Israeli Orthodox mom as the face of a new campaign]( By [Bonnie Azoulay]( [Beatie Deutsch appeared out of nowhere in 2016 to become a top female runner globally — all while racing in modest attire; now a top sporting brand wants to showcase her faith]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Bennett slams ‘evil’ daubing of swastikas on Bnei Brak synagogue walls]( By [TOI staff]( [Eight Israelis arrested for attacking Arab hotel workers in Jerusalem]( By [TOI staff]( [Lebanese athlete said to pull out from MMA contest to avoid facing Israeli]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Sweden case against accused Iranian war criminal may spell trouble for Raisi]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Mother of slain journalist Daniel Pearl dies at 85]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Israel braces for weeklong scorcher]( By [TOI staff]( [5 Egyptian troops killed in Islamic State attack in northern Sinai]( By [Agencies]( [Man shot to death in northern Druze town]( By [TOI staff]( From our sponsor [Join the Boris Mints Institute for a webinar on antisemitism]( [The complexities of European media coverage of Israel and its impact on the Jewish community. 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