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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 2, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

NY Times: Iran willing to halt or suspend nuclear program

With US and Iran set for talks, Trump warns ‘bad things’ will happen if no deal is reached

By Agencies, ToI Staff, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Regime reported to fear American strike may reignite protests, imperil its rule; Israel expected to stress to Washington importance of curbs on missile program, support for proxies

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses cabinet members, as they visit of the tomb of the late Iranian revolutionary leader ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in Tehran on January 31, 2026. (Handout/Iranian Presidency/AFP)

Iran’s president seeks ‘fair and equitable negotiations’ with the US

People stand on US and Israel flags, outside the US Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, February 1, 2026, during a protest in support of the Iranian government. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 3 – What’s on the table for US-Iran nuclear talks in Turkey?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Four hundred and twenty shekels and four cigarettes in Gaza City on August 19, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 3: Shin Bet head’s brother reportedly to be charged with assisting enemy in wartime

Bezalel Zini named as suspect in Gaza smuggling case * US shoots down Iranian drone, Iranian gunboats approach US-flagged tanker * Dairy farmers call off milk strike

9:54 pm

Three men killed in highway shooting that police say is linked to blood feud
9:43 pm

Trump signs bill ending partial US government shutdown
9:38 pm

IDF says man shot dead in Jericho threw stones at troops

12 people let into Gaza from Egypt, of 42 who tried, on day 1 of Rafah opening – report

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, AFP and ToI Staff

Diplomatic official tells ToI just 12 crossed in each direction, far lower than the quota; report says those who entered Gaza were escorted by armed men to IDF checkpoint

A Palestinian child looks out of a bus window transporting patients and war-wounded, as it heads towards the Rafah crossing to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment abroad, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 2, 2026. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

A Palestinian woman arrives with a child at the Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2025. (Omar AL-Qattaa/AFP)

Doctors Without Borders warns halting its work will be ‘catastrophic’ for Gazans

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Gaza technocratic committee replaces its logo with the PA’s; Israel fumes

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

‘Israel will not accept use of Palestinian Authority’s symbol, and the PA will not be a partner in the administration of Gaza,’ Netanyahu’s office says

Hamas police forces deploy in Gaza City on October 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/ Flash90)

IDF said to give Netanyahu document outlining how Hamas is rebuilding in Gaza

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 22, 2026. (Ramil Sitdikov / AFP)

Palestinian Authority’s Abbas calls first-ever direct PLO parliament elections

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Senior female Muslim officer tapped as next IDF Arabic-language spokesperson

By Emanuel Fabian

Maj. Ella Waweya, known as ‘Captain Ella,’ to replace Col. Avichay Adraee in coming weeks

Military spokesperson Maj. Ella Waweya in an undated portrait. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldiers from the Hasmonean Brigade take part in a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on August 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF okays protocol aimed at enabling Haredi troops to stay religious throughout service

By Emanuel Fabian

The dairy counter in a Jerusalem supermarket offering the cow-free New Milk by tech company Remilk among regular dairy options and other milk substitutes on January 29, 2026. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Inside story'The market is thirsty for it'

New ‘no-animal’ milk has kosher foodies salivating. Here’s why you can have it with your steak

By Rossella Tercatin

Cow-free beverage made from lab-engineered dairy protein is now sold in supermarkets across Israel. At least one restaurateur is setting his table for old-fashioned Southern fried chicken

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speaks at a plenum session for the Knesset's 77th birthday on February 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Aren’t you ashamed?’ Lapid assails Netanyahu as judicial rift dominates Knesset birthday

By Ariela Karmel and Lazar Berman

PM refuses to explain why Supreme Court chief Amit wasn’t invited, warns against one branch overpowering others — a crisis critics say he is deliberately deepening

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a conference in Herzliya on November 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

‘Muslim Brotherhood collaborator’: Right-wing agitators crash event hosted by Bennett

The Democrats chairman Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, February 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yair Golan vows not to fund settlements if he comes to power

That’s not activism. It’s intimidation.

Today’s protests increasingly embrace rhetoric that targets communities rather than engaging them – and they are doing little for their cause

Teen suicide risk is climbing in Israel, and we’re not ready

This generation is carrying trauma into adulthood. Without urgent national collaboration, the burden will grow heavier — and far harder to undo

Q.ai: Apple’s quiet deep-tech bet

How an Israeli company no one talked about reshaped Apple’s future — and why that matters for Israel

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

How to be delightful (a lesson in lipstick)

My 15-year-old resident makeup expert is skilled not only in the art of cosmetics, but also in that of a finely tuned compliment. If only she were running the world

Police prevent activists from blocking trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, in southern Israel, January 29, 2024. (AP/ Tsafrir Abayov)

France issues warrants for two Franco-Israelis for ‘complicity in genocide’

By AFP

Source says warrants were issued in July last year for Nili Kupfer-Naouri and Rachel Touitou over attempts to block aid convoys to Gaza during war

IDF soldiers read out a closed military zone order to coexistence activists who had come to plant trees in the Palestinian West Bank hamlet of Umm al-Khair, February 2, 2026. (Jeremy Sharon / The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'How many forces came to separate those thirsting for peace'

Thwarted tree-planting underscores daily torments for embattled Palestinian hamlet

By Jeremy Sharon

Villagers in West Bank’s Umm al-Khair say security forces quick to stymie Tu Bishvat coexistence event or new soccer pitch, but take their time when it comes to stopping settler harassment

Screen capture from an undated video of Israeli influencer Max Veifer (left) during a conversation with two nurses from a hospital in Sydney, Australia. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sydney nurses plead not guilty for viral video threatening to kill Israeli patients

The trial of the two, who were caught on video last February saying they sent ‘Israeli dogs’ to hell, is scheduled for August 31

In 92NY talk, Bret Stephens urges ‘dismantling’ ADL, investing more in Jewish identity

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Conservative New York Times columnist questions the effectiveness of current efforts against antisemitism, says impulse to seek external validation is ‘a fool’s errand’

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens delivered the "State of World Jewry" talk at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, February 1, 2026. (Peter Jamus/Michael Priest Photography via JTA)

Illustrative: Police separate pro- and anti-Israel protesters in New York City, June 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYPD says Jews in city targeted in hate crime per day last month

Yoram Hazony speaks at the National Conservative convention in Washington, DC, September 2, 2025. (Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images via AFP/ via JTA)

'The fault doesn’t lie with the Jews for being targeted'

Political theorist Yoram Hazony blasted for blaming Jewish groups for Tucker Carlson

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The well-known Israeli-American conservative thinker faces blowback for claiming Jews should convince Republican leadership to distance itself from host who centers antisemitism

The archaeological exhibition, 'From the Great Assembly to the Knesset,' on display at the Knesset in February 2026, to celebrate the building's 60th anniversary. (Emil Aladjem/ Israel Antiquities Authority)

Rare 2,000-year-old jar valued by Jewish law on display for Knesset anniversary

By Rossella Tercatin

The artifact is part of an archaeological exhibition aimed at highlighting the models of Jewish communal leadership from ancient times to the modern Israeli parliament

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Paramedics at the scene of a wedding in central Israel after the groom suffered cardiac arrest, February 2, 2026 (United Hatzalah)

Groom suffers cardiac arrest at wedding, is resuscitated by guest

Illustrative: Dollars and shekels. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Manufacturers warn shekel’s mighty surge could lead to layoffs and brain drain

By Sharon Wrobel

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 2, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump seeks $1 billion from Harvard University in damages in antisemitism row

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A sign of the Credit Suisse which reads in German as 'part of the UBS group' and displayed on a branch of Swiss banking giant UBS in the resort of St. Moritz on December 20, 2024.(Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Hundreds of Nazi-linked accounts discovered at Credit Suisse, US lawmaker says

By Oliver Hirt and Ariane Luthi

Scott Sokol, head of school at MetroWest Jewish Day School in Framingham, Massachusetts, leading morning circle, in 2019. (Courtesy of MWJDS via JTA)

Boston-area Jewish school closing after 25 years, says model ‘no longer sustainable’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: Police carry out searches in Jaffa for the suspected perpetrator of a deadly shooting in the area on November 8, 2025. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in I’billin, in 2nd killing in northern Arab town in less than a day

Historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. attends a seder in “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History.” (McGee Media via JTA)

America’s complicated Black-Jewish story gets an update in new four-part PBS series

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Elaine Grossinger Etess (second from right) with son Mitchell Grossinger Etess (left) and great-grandchildren Ashley and Mark Etess, grandchildren of the late Mark Etess. (Courtesy Grossinger Etess family via JTA)

Elaine Grossinger Etess, 3rd-generation owner of famous Catskills resort, dies at 98

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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