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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 5, 2026

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Israeli soldiers tussle with settler activists who attempted to breach the border with Syria, July 5, 2026 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

LIVE: In first, government says it won’t heed High Court ruling, raising fears of constitutional crisis

Former hostages Sasha Troufanov and Sapir Cohen are married * IDF chief Zamir tours Beaufort Castle and nearby Hezbollah tunnel, says IDF ready for offensive if truce violated

11:10 pm

Michigan Democrat suspends Senate run, with Israel critic El-Sayed still in race
10:50 pm

Venezuela quake death toll rises to 3,342, according to official figures
7:43 pm

Palestinian ministry says Israeli forces kill teen in West Bank

In this photo released by Iran's supreme leader's office, Iran's top officials, including the brothers of Iran's new supreme leader, attend funeral prayers over the coffins of the late ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 5, 2026. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Top officials appear in public, signaling feeling of safety

At Khamenei funeral, speaker calls to kill Trump; posters and grafitti urge death to Netanyahu, too

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Iranian poet leads chants of ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America,’ threatens Trump’s life, as mourners declare fealty to new leader and urge revenge; 3 of Khamenei’s sons appear, but not Mojtaba

This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor shows an overview of the Pickaxe Mountain tunnel complex adjacent to the Natanz Nuclear Facility near Natanz, Isfahan province, in central Iran on March 7, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor / AFP)

Satellite images show construction near Iranian nuclear site, in apparent MOU violation

This frame grab of footage aired July 1, 2026, by Iranian state television shows a vessel that ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz. (Iranian state television via AP)

Iranian diplomat says regime will ‘definitely’ collect Hormuz fees, defying US

By AFP and ToI Staff

From the blogs

Daniel Chamovitz

The erosion of the Jewish-American hyphen

As the US marks 250 years, the distance between an unlocked synagogue door and armed security at day schools tells a story about how the country has changed

Promoted Podcast

Is There a Path to Hope for Gaza? Experts discuss on Decision Points

Experts Ghaith al-Omari and Shira Efron join host David Makovsky to tackle challenges in Gaza, from disarming Hamas to advancing Trump’s 20-point plan to easing misery on the ground.

Trump says Netanyahu ‘knows who the boss is,’ will meet with him as soon as next week

Israeli official says meet ‘might take place week after’ upcoming NATO summit; Netanyahu praises US as ‘force of liberty’ on its 250th birthday

US President Donald Trump salutes as he arrives on Air Force One, July 4, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Analysis

Joining legion of Likud castoffs, Edelstein may not yet be clear of Netanyahu’s pull

Splitting from the party that already quit him, the former Knesset speaker becomes the latest senior Likud politician to strike out on his own, though breaking free may not be so simple

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting alongside Likud MK Yuli Edelstein at the Knesset on June 13, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

MK Yuli Edelstein attends a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Edelstein: I left Likud because I couldn’t defend its agenda; seeks ‘broad’ coalition

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

(L-R) Yoaz Hendel in Petah Tikva, May 10, 2026 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) Blue and White chief MK Benny Gantz at the Knesset on June 29, 2026 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) and Dedy Simhi in Jerusalem, July 5, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Hendel said not expected to run with Gantz and Simhi amid Haredi coalition dispute

By Ariela Karmel

Speaker Amir Ohana in a preliminary vote to dissolve the Knesset, May 20, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset expected to dissolve July 17, paving way for October 27 election

By Ariela Karmel

After shelving plans for early vote, government now appears headed for latest possible date

Illustrative: A man votes during Israel's Knesset election in Safed, northern Israel, on November 1, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Coalition said resisting voting booths in some old-age homes to hurt opposition

A display portraying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a leader who doesn't care about his people dying in war, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Cousin of slain hostage to Netanyahu: ‘Would you have also said Yoni came back from Entebbe?’

By Noam Lehmann

As multiple anti-government demonstrations held, Gil Dickmann pans PM for taking credit for returning all the captives, noting that many died, just like Netanyahu’s brother in 1976 raid

Yotam Haim, left, and his mother, Iris Haim, in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Mother of hostage slain by IDF says workers are using his home as a ‘public restroom’

Human feces also reportedly found in another home of Oct. 7 victims from Kfar Aza’s young families’ section, whose fate is subject of dispute between the kibbutz and the government

Trump’s Iran gambit is about elections

The MOU with Tehran is a political calculation during a midterm year in which Republicans hold a razor-thin House majority – not an abandonment of Israel

Nira Broner Worcman

The battle after Entebbe

Israel can never relax its defense of historical accuracy – not when the legitimacy of even the dramatic, decisive Uganda rescue was subject to UN deliberations

Ultra-Orthodox protesters pray and make noise outside Cafe Basimta, in Jerusalem, July 4, 2026. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters disrupt Jerusalem cafe for opening on Shabbat

Haredi protesters, many of them minors, bang on windows, make noise at cafe located in city center; secular residents flock from across the city to support business after incident

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian appears on the Daily Briefing podcast with host Jessica Steinberg (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 5 – IDF chief’s plea for more troops collides with Haredi anti-draft push

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

Inside story

Alice CHANCELLOR and Hiba Aslan

Spiraling crime wave takes toll on Arab youth as law enforcement accused of inaction

Police say they’re treating the murders seriously, but Jaffa’s Muslim Council leader charges string of killings are ‘part of Israeli policies’ toward minority community

Police and rescue forces at the scene where a car exploded in a suspected gangland killiing, in Jaffa, June 28, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Illustrative: A police car in Herzliya, August 15, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Two men shot dead overnight in northern Arab towns; no arrests reported

Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levy (L) and Shin Bet chief David Zini at the state memorial ceremony marking 30 years since the assassination of late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at Mount Herzl cemetery, in Jerusalem, on November 3, 2025. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Shin Bet building program to help police tackle rampant Arab crime wave — reports

Palestinian men inspect the aftermath inside a restaurant after it was burned down by settlers during an attack in the western area of the Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus, in the West Bank on on July 5, 2026. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Settlers reportedly rob Palestinian restaurant near Nablus, set it ablaze

By Nurit Yohanan

Assailants said to steal cash, video shows charred interior of eatery; settlers also reportedly run over and pepper-spray residents of West Bank Bedouin community, ATV driver nabbed

Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinian residents from the village of Qabalan, south of Nablus in the West Bank, from returning to their homes and lands after Israeli settlers, who had established an outpost on the village's land, prevented them from approaching, July 4, 2026. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Three Palestinians said injured by IDF amid settler attack on West Bank village

L-R: Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025 (Democracy Now screenshot/Youtube); A resurfaced photo from 2016 shows Abu Safiya wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group. (Medical services – Gaza Strip)

Life of detained Gaza hospital chief/Hamas officer at immediate risk, lawyer says

Rights group claims Hussam Abu Safiya undergoes daily beatings, bears fresh wounds that made him barely recognizable during lawyer visit; prisoner said to say he doesn’t think he’ll survive

A relative of a missing victim, weeps at the site of destroyed buildings that were hit in an Israeli airstrike in Qannarit village, southern Lebanon, June 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

IDF says it killed armed Hezbollah operative after manhunt in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AFP

Lebanon’s president rejects criticism by Amnesty and other NGOs of deal with Israel, says Beirut seeking to ‘turn the page on wars,’ urges US to ‘keep standing’ by his country

US President Donald Trump gestures at the conclusion of his speech during Salute to America, an Independence Day event honoring the nation's 250th anniversary, Saturday, July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

'We will always be the best'

Trump mixes patriotism with partisanship as he celebrates America’s ‘joyous’ 250th

By STEVEN SLOAN and Michelle L. Price

Americans mark milestone by watching tall ships sail in, fighter jet displays, fireworks and music shows as wild weather forces cancellations or changes in events across East Coast

Members of the US white supremacist group Patriot Front enter Eastern Market metro station on July 4, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Finn Gomez / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Masked Patriot Front white nationalists stage July 4 march through DC

By David Lawder and Jana Winter

New immigrants from France arrive at Ben Gurion Airport on June 25, 2025 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel eases licensing barriers for new immigrant psychologists

Move follows similar efforts to smooth the path for practitioners of other regulated professions, comes amid a manpower shortage in health sector

Choreographer Adi Boutrous' new dance will premiere at the 2026 Israel Festival, July 28-August 20, 2026 (Ascaf)

Israel Festival to mark 65 years with aerial feats, hostage songs and art in wartime

By Jessica Steinberg

Three-week festival, running July 28 to August 20, will feature music, dance, spoken word and theater created over recent years of war and recovery

More Headlines

Screen capture from undated video of Egypt's new defense headquarters, 'The Octagon.' (ON network)

Egypt inaugurates new ‘Octagon’ defense headquarters

This handout picture released by Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah Media Centre on July 8, 2025, reportedly shows a view of damage to the Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C after it was attacked by the Houthis at sea. (ANSARULLAH MEDIA CENTER/ AFP)

Cargo ship comes under fire off coast of Houthi-controlled Yemen

By AP and ToI Staff

Former Hamas hostage Alon Ohel, left, plays the keys as US singer John Ondrasik sings his hit ballad 'Superman' aboard the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in New York Harbor on July 4, 2026. (Screen capture: PR via X)

Redemption songEx-hostage Alon Ohel performs aboard USS Nimitz for 4th of July

Some of seven surface limestone-built tombs, discovered in the Marina el-Alamein archaeological site, are seen west of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt, in a photo provided on July 4, 2026. (Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry via AP)

Egypt says it uncovered lost Byzantine-era residential city in western desert

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