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Hellenistic figurines depicting a child, a woman suckling an infant, and a youth. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (Meidad Suchowolski/Israel Museum)
'Childhood is not a universal concept'
From birth to play, new exhibition explores childhood in ancient Israel
By Zev Stub
Israel Museum traces the lives of children through 500,000 years of artifacts: 'What’s amazing about these toys is how similar they are to today'
Yousef Jabareen, chairman of the Joint List, attends the party’s campaign launch event ahead of the upcoming Israeli general elections, in Tel Aviv, October 5, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Joint Arab List says it’s willing to provide safety net for any anti-Netanyahu coalition
By ToI Staff and Zev Stub
Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman arrives for the funeral of Asher Hayon, a former chief of staff and adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, at a cemetery in Modi’in, February 17, 2026. (Jonathan Sahul/Flash90)
Transcript reportedly captures PM’s top aide asking stenographer to falsify Oct. 7 records
By ToI Staff
A man and a woman draped in an Israeli flag watch the release by the Hamas terror group of hostages Ofer Calderon and Yarden Bibas in the Gaza Strip, on a screen at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, on February 1, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)
One in five Israelis ‘still struggling to function’ since Oct. 7 – new study
By Diana Bletter
Yemanu Binyamin Zelka, who was stabbed and killed at his Pizza Hut job in the early hours of Independence Day. (Social media, undated; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 11, 2026, 4:50 pm
Teen indicted for killing pizza worker admits to stabbing for first time
But suspect denies he was aware his actions could result in death of Yemanu Zelka, asks that negligent homicide charge be changed to negligent manslaughter
By ToI Staff
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at the Never is Now conference in New York, March 5, 2024. (courtesy)
October 11, 2026, 9:52 am
ADL chief pays solidarity visit to Jerusalem Reform synagogue targeted in repeated attacks
Jonathan Greenblatt attends Friday night services at Kol HaNeshama, which was vandalized on High Holidays; says ‘no congregation should be targeted because it chooses to be inclusive’
By ToI Staff
Nanaia Melda, who was stabbed and killed in Beersheba, allegedly by her husband, on October 11, 2026 (Courtesy)
October 11, 2026, 9:42 am
Woman stabbed to death in Beersheba apartment, husband arrested after reportedly confessing
Couple’s 5-year-old son said to have been at home when Nania Melda, in her 40s, was killed; husband called police and told them ‘I murdered my wife’
By ToI Staff
An Israeli youth makes a graffiti at a skatepark in Tel Aviv, September 29, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)
October 10, 2026, 9:08 pm
‘Peace is not in people’s minds’: October 7 scars take center stage for first-time voters
Over half a million Israelis will cast a ballot for the first time in this month’s election, and polls indicate they have a clear right-wing slant
By AFP and ToI Staff
Tzachi Braverman attends a Memorial Day ceremony at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv, April 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 10, 2026, 5:17 am
Police said to believe there is enough evidence to charge PM’s chief of staff for altering records
But Tzachi Braverman, probed for forgery and fraud, seen unlikely to be indicted, as it would be tough to disprove his claim that he mistakenly changed timestamp on phone call from morning of Oct. 7 attack
By ToI Staff
Right-wing pundit Yinon Magal, left, speaks with Mauricio Miller, center, and Jimmy Miller, respectively the uncle and cousin of Shiri Bibas, who was murdered in captivity in Gaza along with her young sons Ariel and Kfir, in a video published on October 9, 2026. (Screen capture: X/Yinon Magal)
October 9, 2026, 9:35 pm
Netanyahu ally posts apology video after calling Bibas family ‘despicable’ for criticizing PM
Ofri Bibas, whose sister-in-law and two young nephews were murdered in captivity, says Yinon Magal’s apology video was a manipulation that left her ‘fuming’
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox men block Bar-Ilan Street and clash with police during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, in Jerusalem, October 8, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 9, 2026, 5:25 pm
Report: Netanyahu asked Haredi parties to cancel Thursday’s anti-draft protests, fearing optics
TV report says ultra-Orthodox politicians clarified to PM that demonstrations, which saw three arrested amid clashes with polices, were called by extremist Jerusalem Faction
By ToI Staff
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot visits the Nova music festival memorial site near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, on the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre, October 7, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 9, 2026, 3:20 pm
‘Treason’: Opposition demands criminal probe of PM, after ex-military aide’s Oct.7 revelations
Leaders of anti-Netanyahu bloc call on attorney general to investigate allegations Prime Minister’s Office tampered with records from Oct. 7 to cover up failures, lied to comptroller
By Leon Kraiem
Seven IDF widows have become friends and a support system for one another (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)
October 9, 2026, 11:34 am
Together in their solitude: 7 IDF widows find friendship as they navigate life after loss
Their husbands were killed in the line of reserve duty. Now a group of young Jerusalemite mothers who speak the same language of grief lean on each other for support — and laughs
By Jessica Steinberg
Israel’s far-right influencer Mordechai David speaks during an interview with AFP in Bnei Brak on September 3, 2026. (Jack Guez/AFP)
October 9, 2026, 8:44 am
Far-right online agitator Mordechai David, the new face of Israel’s toxic political discourse
Ben Gvir ally blasts smartphone videos to hundreds of thousands on social media, targeting everyone considered ‘unpatriotic,’ from an Arab Israeli TV anchor to the former Supreme Court chief
By Yaelle Ifrah
At the October 3, 2026 opening of 'The Space That Remains,' an October 7 exhibit at the Peres Center through October 15, 2026 (Courtesy)
October 9, 2026, 1:52 am
Exhibit of October 7 victims’ belongings touches the soul
‘The Space That Remains,’ at the Peres Center, includes Ariel Bibas’s balance bike, and his baby brother Kfir’s bouncy seat
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Israeli security forces raid the southern Bedouin town of Rahat on May 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 8, 2026, 9:19 pm
Shin Bet details alleged plot to form ‘terror battalion’ in Bedouin town in southern Israel
Details come in report saying 72 residents of south have been arrested on security charges this year; about 50 have been indicted, agency says
By ToI Staff
Former Prime Minister and B'Yachad party leader Naftali Bennett speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, September 26, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 8, 2026, 7:46 pm
Bennett accuses Netanyahu of asking October 7 victims to ‘kiss’ his hand
Remarks come after PM’s Likud party, in sole statement on third anniversary of massacre, sought to absolve him of any responsibility and accused media outlet of false propaganda
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
People of Israel party leader Ofer Winter holds a press conference near Ben Gurion airport, October 05, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
October 8, 2026, 7:45 pm
Ofer Winter talks like he’s the opposition, but won’t walk away from Netanyahu
Railing against government failures, People of Israel leader promises political overhaul yet rules out any alternative to the current prime minister; the dissonance is not lost on right-wing voters he’s trying to win over
By Ariela Karmel
An election campaign poster featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot is displayed on a bus in Jerusalem, October 5, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 8, 2026, 7:19 pm
ToI poll: Anti-Netanyahu bloc regains lead but both camps short of majority 19 days ahead of vote
Zman Yisrael survey gives bloc of Jewish-led opposition parties a four-seat edge, with Eisenkot’s Yashar back in first ahead of Likud; Channel 13 poll places PM’s bloc ahead
By ToI Staff
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