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David Horovitz
Op-ed: Seven weeks to elections
David Horovitz
This New Year, let’s start to restore the Israel that is a light unto the nations
Children stand outside a mosque that was burned during an attack by Israeli settlers early in the morning in the West Bank village of Qusra, July 26, 2026. On its wall, Hebrew graffiti reads 'Revenge Benayahu,' referring to an Israeli settlement security squad member killed during clashes with Palestinians in the village of Tell a week before. (AP/Leo Correa)
We shouldn't need Ed Miliband -- way off with some parts of his critique but spot on with others -- to remind us that indulging deadly settler violence against Palestinian civilians is shameful
Palestinians inspect a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Hamas terrorist behind 2003 shooting that killed MK’s husband slain in Gaza airstrike, says Israel
By Emanuel Fabian
Amir Bar Shalom
Op-ed
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Arab warnings to Netanyahu ahead of Oct. 7 massacre shatter his core political defense
Amir Bar Shalom
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner seen during a joint press conference with Ukrainian president following their talks in Kyiv on September 6, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Kushner: Israel acting ‘a little irrational’ on Gaza due to upcoming election
By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Reuters
Former defense minister Yoav Gallant at the funeral of Israeli soldier Staff Sgt. Daniel Oz, at the military cemetery in Kfar Saba, November 6, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 10, 2026, 1:59 pm
Gallant pans Netanyahu’s ‘atmosphere of defeatism’ in days after Oct. 7 massacre
Former defense minister says he didn’t see PM until 3.5 hours after Hamas onslaught began; is unaware of prior warning from UAE leader, but notes that when PMs ‘don’t want people to know, they don’t know’
By ToI Staff
An explosion erupts following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
September 10, 2026, 4:49 am
Hamas says Israeli strike in Gaza killed top operative freed in 2011 Shalit deal
No immediate word from military on reported killing of Farah Hamed; IDF confirms launching strikes on Tuesday that it says destroyed weapons depots and rocket-launching site
By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team meet the Board of Peace pointman for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and others in Jerusalem, May 5, 2026. (Prime Minister's Office)
September 9, 2026, 8:45 pm
Board of Peace official: We won’t have leverage over Netanyahu until after election
Official tells ToI the PM would campaign on snubbing pressure from US-controlled Gaza oversight panel, but board’s leverage will return after Oct. 27 vote, regardless of who wins
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents the new members joining the Likud party’s candidate list ahead of the upcoming general elections, in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 9, 2026, 5:22 pm
Netanyahu says he’ll sue Haaretz over report UAE leader warned him days before Oct. 7
PM again denies he had call with Emirati president, demands criminal probe of the journalists who wrote the story; separate report says Egypt shared intel with Netanyahu that said Hamas wanted to ‘make the ground in Gaza tremble’
By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
An IDF soldier is seen operating in the West Bank, early September 8, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 8, 2026, 8:55 pm
Shin Bet says it foiled ‘significant’ terror network in West Bank, Jerusalem
Over 30 Palestinian suspects detained; 5 Jerusalemites charged with slew of security offenses; IDF says troops killed Palestinian who attacked them during attempt to question him
By Emanuel Fabian
Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Yahya Sinwar, center and Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90/ File, AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
September 8, 2026, 1:59 pm
Days before Oct. 7, UAE leader warned Netanyahu Hamas was planning war, but PM did nothing with info – report
In month before massacre, Sinwar said to convey message via UAE he was ready to launch ‘earthquake’ amid moribund talks with Israel, PM didn’t inform Shin Bet of Emirati president’s warning; Netanyahu: ‘Total lie’; Eisenkot: He’s unfit for office
By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Stav Levaton
Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the US-backed “Board of Peace” tasked with implementing the October 2025 ceasefire plan, speaks at the Hili Forum 2026 in Abu Dhabi on September 7, 2026. (FADEL SENNA/AFP)
September 7, 2026, 4:38 pm
Mladenov: Gaza deadlock, West Bank escalation making two-state solution ‘impossible’
Board of Peace high representative says ‘no credible pathway forward to a political resolution of the conflict’ unless Strip moves forward with Hamas disarmament, IDF withdrawal
By AFP and ToI Staff
Abdallah Nabhan, an aid worker in Gaza killed in April 2024. (Courtesy)
September 7, 2026, 5:16 am
Israel demands Belgium apologize after Gaza aid worker’s possible Hamas link emerges
Brussels had condemned April 2024 strike that killed employee of Belgium agency, who is seen in uniform and described as a ‘mujahid’ in a Hamas-linked channel’s post
By Nava Freiberg
Jewish men build temporary housing units made from shipping containers in the Chavat Meir La’Aretz outpost in the West Bank, March 12, 2026. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)
September 7, 2026, 12:17 am
Netanyahu orders some West Bank outposts removed, amid US pressure over settler attacks
Not clear when move was ordered or will be carried out; 2 settlers arrested over Qusra violence, as High Court, considering separate attack, says phenomenon violates Israeli, Jewish principles of justice; IDF raids Hamas cell, finds rocket
By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian, Jeremy Sharon and Agencies
The Israeli army demolishes buildings east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
September 4, 2026, 7:18 pm
IDF says it killed a Hamas commander who led Oct. 7 assault on border post
Military says Mohammad Mahmoud Marshad al-Qadi also held hostages; captured Hamas internal security chief said cooperating with interrogators, providing ‘intelligence gold mine’
By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Palestinians gather around the burning wreckage of a car after an Israeli army strike in Gaza City, August 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Yousef Alzanoun)
September 4, 2026, 12:39 pm
US wanted Hamas to start disarming before Knesset election, but it’ll have to wait
Despite Kushner’s insistence to the contrary, Israeli buy-in is needed for Board of Peace to meaningfully advance the plan, and that’s not coming before Oct. 27 vote at the earliest
By Jacob Magid
Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks at a Ynet conference, September 2, 2026. (Screenshot)
September 2, 2026, 8:08 pm
Katz: Israel will facilitate emigration from Gaza ‘by any means’ as soon as Trump allows
Defense minister claims 80% of Palestinians want to leave Gaza, but nobody will take them; PM visits IDF post in Strip, says Israel won’t withdraw from territory it currently holds
By Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian
Muein al-Arabid, head of Hamas's internal security apparatus, was captured by Israel on September 1, 2026. (Social media/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 1, 2026, 9:28 pm
Israel confirms capturing Hamas internal security chief in Gaza City raid
Special forces from Shin Bet descend on building in Strip, nab Muein al-Arabid in ‘bold operation,’ PM, military, and security agency say
By Emanuel Fabian
After a three-year closure due to war, Israel's northernmost community of Metula celebrates a first day of school, September 1, 2026. (courtesy)
September 1, 2026, 4:52 pm
‘That’s victory’: In battle-scarred Metula, a reopened school offers hope on the border
School is again in session in Israel’s northernmost community, after 65% of its residents came back to live amid telltale signs of war. It was a celebration three years in the making
By Diana Bletter
People gather near a destroyed vehicle following an Israeli strike in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on September 1, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP)
September 1, 2026, 1:52 pm
IDF strikes Gaza as Hamas official captured in reported raid by Israel-backed militia
Military carries out heavy wave of strikes, says it struck targets to ‘remove threats to security forces’ amid apparent operation by anti-Hamas armed group; 3 said killed
By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
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