August 4, 2002 (Sunday)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A Palestinian suicide bombing claims nine lives, near Safed; there is a shooting attack in Jerusalem, claiming 2; there is an attack upon a settler family, killing the parents. Not all of the victims of these attacks were Israeli Jews; some were Israeli Arabs and Druze.
- The water parasite Cryptosporidium was discovered in drinking water as a result of the 2002 Glasgow floods.
- The closing ceremony of the XVII Commonwealth Games which had started on July 25.