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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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A photograph shows an anti-US billboard displayed on a building in Tehran's Valiasr Square on February 4, 2026. (AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 4: Senior Iranian official says talks with US will only address nuclear program

Amid reports diplomatic efforts near collapse, Arab nations said to heavily lobby administration to hold sit-down * Trump says Khamenei ‘should be very worried’

9:10 pm

Man killed in car blast near Haifa
8:54 pm

Mamdani appoints head of progressive Jewish group to lead his antisemitism office
8:43 pm

Jailed Iranian Nobel winner Mohammadi on hunger strike, lawyer says

In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, meets with his Omani counterpart Badr al-Busaidi at the Omani Embassy in Rome during the fifth round of Iran-US negotiations, Friday, May 23, 2025. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

US and Iran to seek de-escalation in nuclear talks in Oman, regional official says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Tehran requested that meetings be moved from Turkey to location of last year’s talks in order to avoid any expansion of discussions to issues such as its ballistic missiles

This handout image from the US Navy shows an EA-18G Growler launching from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on January 23, 2026. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/US Navy via AP)

US downs Iranian drone flying toward aircraft carrier; PM to Witkoff: Iran can’t be trusted

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jets fly over Israel en route to carry out strikes in Iran, in a handout photo published on June 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israelis split on joining possible US strike on Iran, survey finds

By Stav Levaton

A relative of 6-month-old Mira al-Khabbaz, who was reportedly killed in an Israeli strike earlier in the day, carries her body outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on February 4, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Terrorist who murdered hostage soldier Noa Marciano killed

Reservist seriously wounded in north Gaza ambush; 21 said killed as IDF strikes back

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and Noam Lehmann

IDF accuses Hamas of ‘blatant violation’ of ceasefire, says it targeted terror commanders in response; children reported among dead in Israeli strikes; Rafah Crossing remains open

Children walk past tents and makeshift shelters in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on February 3, 2026. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Gaza hospitals said to receive bodies of 3 Palestinians killed by IDF fire in past day

By Noam Lehmann and Emanuel Fabian

Rotana al-Regeb, who was allowed into Gaza from Egypt following the long-awaited reopening of the Rafah Crossing, reunites with her children in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

3 women returning to Gaza through Rafah say IDF bound, interrogated, threatened them

By AP

Op-ed

Hamas strengthens and the PA returns — this is no recipe for security and stability

As the terror group bolsters its hold on Gaza, a Palestinian Authority-led administration ostensibly prepares to govern alongside it, at odds with it, and outmuscled by it. Whatever happened to Israel’s war goals?

Ali Shaath, the top official of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, signs the committee's mission statement in a photo posted to his X account on January 17, 2026. (Ali Shaath/X)

The northern Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, February 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 4 – Hamas, far from disarming, attacks IDF in Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Iranian Jews, Bijan Barchorderi, a restaurant owner (left); and Isaac Simanian, a merchant, sell Persian specialties at the Levinsky Market in south Tel Aviv, January 22, 2026. (Sharon Wrobel/ The Times of Israel)

Skirting bans, Iranian products from spices to salves find way to Israeli stores

By Sharon Wrobel

Using 3rd-country loophole, merchants and restaurateurs at Tel Aviv spice market sell authentic goods from Islamic Republic, though closure of Turkey conduit sending prices skyward

High Court orders Netanyahu to explain why he hasn’t fired Ben Gvir

Court expands panel for March hearing to nine justices, due to ‘the nature and gravity’ of the case; far-right minister declares: ‘They have no authority, there won’t be a coup!’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the floor of the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a hearing on petitions against the appointment of David Zini as head of the Shin Bet, November 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court president lets deputy pick judicial panel for Oct. 7 inquiry petitions

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (center), together with Deputy President Noam Sohlberg (left) and Justice David Mintz, preside over a hearing on petitions against the appointment of David Zini as head of the Shin Bet, November 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court overturns president’s ruling on appointment process for Civil Service head

By Jeremy Sharon

Space lasers, juice boxes, and my generation’s blind spot

Gen Z Jews are drowning in so much internet irony that we have lost the ability to recognize hate when it’s staring us in the face

Bibi’s right, our democracy is in danger

He’s the one sabotaging it by rejecting any compromise on judicial ’reform’

Janet Bond Brill

The lost grandfather

As I watch my husband with our grandchildren, I grieve for the life and love the Nazis stole from him before he was born

Violence in Arab society: A disaster for all of us

Indifference to the shocking rise in murders of Arab citizens is not only a strategic error, but a moral stain on Israeli society

A truck loaded with humanitarian aid travels along Salah al-Din Road in the central Gaza Strip, near Deir al-Balah, on November 9, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Charges filed against 12 suspects in Gaza smuggling case

By Charlie Summers and Emanuel Fabian

Prosecutors say Bezalel Zini, Shin Bet chief’s brother, who is slated to also be indicted, took NIS 15,000 to transfer goods to Gaza in his vehicle during IDF reserve duty

Bezalel Zini. (Facebook, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Shin Bet chief’s brother named as suspect in Gaza smuggling case

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) speaks at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, January 7, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Police complete Sde Teiman leak probe, confirm attorney general not involved

By Charlie Summers

Former hostage Mia Schem attends a press conference ahead of a concert in memory of the victims murdered at the Nova festival by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Prosecutors close case against trainer accused of rape by ex-hostage Mia Schem

Investigation wrapped up without charges for prominent personal trainer due to lack of witnesses, source says; Schem’s lawyer says she may file an appeal

Avi Fraiman, the CEO of Kibbutz Alumim's dairy in southern Israel, January 13, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

InterviewAlumim resumed milking operations 4 days after Oct. 7 attack

Amid Finance Ministry dairy reform, besieged Gaza border farm’s fate is curdling, says CEO

Outgoing head Avi Fraiman, who has spent 43 years working at Kibbutz Alumim’s milk farm, says the government should target big food cartels rather than have a cow about the dairies

Shoppers face empty milk shelves as dairy farmers ramp up fight against proposed reform

The remains of a car that collided with a bus after the occupants were shot amid a feud between warring crime families, February 3, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

Three men killed in highway shooting that police link to blood feud

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Victims, residents of Arab Israeli town of Tira, apparently lose control of their car and smash into bus after being shot at; police arrest three suspects

Tourism Minister Haim Katz (middle) and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (first on the right) at the opening ceremony of the International Mediterranean Tourism Market (IMTM) fair in Tel Aviv, Feb. 3, 2026. (Courtesy of Ronen Horesh)

Israel banks on Christian pilgrims and faith-based travel to drive tourism recovery

By Sharon Wrobel

Tourism Ministry plans a digital campaign geared to Evangelicals and pro-Israel communities; AI app for Holy Land trips launches with support of US Ambassador Mike Huckabee

Screenshots of video reportedly showing settlers cocking their guns during an attack on Huwara, part of the Masafer Yatta collection of hamlets near Hebron, February 3, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers reportedly assault minor while accompanied by IDF troops who arrest local man

By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian and Rossella Tercatin

Video shows Israeli aiming cocked gun at Palestinians in southern West Bank hamlet; PA reports 1 killed, 3 wounded during Israeli raid in Jericho

The illegal settlement farming outpost of Hesed Olam in the central West Bank where a 'conference of appreciation' for illegal farming outposts was held by the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, February 2, 2026. (Courtesy, Arutz 7)

Katz says he and Netanyahu working to legalize 140 West Bank farming outposts

By Jeremy Sharon

Inside Story

After Jerusalem church leaders rebuke Christian Zionism, schism blamed on Jordan, PA

Patriarch statement seemingly portrayed IDF veteran Ihab Shlayan’s pro-Israel activism as outside religious consensus, but letter lacked Catholic backing and may have been directed from above

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee (left) meets with Israeli Christian Voice founder Ihab Shlayan at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, January 9, 2026 (The Israeli Christian Voice)

Customers line up at Breads Bakery, an Israeli company, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, January 9, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New business coalition to back Israeli companies in NY, amid concerns over Mamdani

The New York-Israel Chamber of Commerce Coalition aims to shield firms from antisemitism, provide resources for tech

Gunman Naveed Akram in the course of a deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025. (Screengrab used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Posters lionizing Bondi Beach terrorist found plastered in Melbourne

Mayor condemns ‘sick’ images of Naveed Akram designed in style of iconic ‘Aussie’ campaign promoting country’s diversity, says municipal staff working to take them down

Britian's then-ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson, delivering remarks in the Oval Office of the White House, May 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

UK to release files related to Mandelson’s appointment as US envoy amid Epstein fallout

By Jill Lawless

PM Starmer vows to ‘make sure that all of the material is published,’ says Mandelson ‘betrayed our country, our Parliament and my party’ by lying about ties to disgraced financier

FILE - Britain's then-ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, speaks during a reception at the ambassador's residence on February 26, 2025 in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP, File)

UK police open probe into whether former ambassador to US leaked info to Epstein

Then-British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson speaks during the rededication ceremony of the George Washington Statue in the National Gallery in London, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK’s former US envoy quits House of Lords amid backlash over Epstein ties

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Refugees from Hungary gather in the HIAS Vienna office, some expressing a desire to immigrate to the United States, and others to Australia, where they have relatives. (HIAS via JTA)

HIAS closes Vienna office that aided generations of refugees after Trump yanks funding

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Illustrative photo of a child with measles. (iStock by Getty Images/ _jure)

Year-old child dies of measles in Jerusalem, in 14th fatality of outbreak

By Diana Bletter

Seif al-Islam Gaddafi speaks to the media at a press conference in a hotel in Tripoli, Libya., February 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Son of late Libyan dictator Gaddafi said killed in his home outside Tripoli

A police vehicle is seen as police officers investigate two blasts near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2, 2024. (Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters)

Denmark hands 2 Swedes lengthy prison sentences for 2024 attack on Israeli embassy

By AFP

Somaliland President Abdirahman Abdullahi Mohamed (right) posing for a photograph with Foreign Minister Gideon Saar at the Presidential Palace in Hargeisa, Somaliland, January 6, 2026. (Somaliland Presidential Office / AFP)

Somaliland president says he expects to soon visit Israel, sign trade agreement

By Steven Scheer

Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam attends a Knesset Finance Committee meeting in Jerusalem, November 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mayor suspected of pocketing millions in donations named as Ashkelon’s Tomer Glam

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

Illustrative: The symbols of bitcoin and the stablecoin Tether (USDT) are displayed at a cryptocurrency store in Hong Kong on July 29, 2025. (Peter PARKS / AFP)

US probing crypto firms suspected of helping Iranian officials evade sanctions

By Elizabeth Howcroft and Tommy Reggiori Wilkes

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro discusses his new memoir, 'Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service,' at the 92nd Street Y in New York, on January 27, 2026. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Josh Shapiro spars with Philly DA Larry Krasner over ICE-Nazi comparisons

By Andrew Lapin

A party member walks in front of a stand during the re-founding of the AfD youth organization as "Generation Deutschland" in Giessen, Germany, November 29, 2025. (Martin Meissner/AP)

Germany says far-right AfD party’s new youth wing maintains extremist links

By AFP

This picture shows the terraces of the Bahai faith temple on Mount Carmel in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, on June 24, 2021. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Bahai activists say Iran intensifying persecution of community in wake of protests

By AFP

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) walks with Saudi officials upon his arrival in Riyadh on February 3, 2026. (TURKISH PRESIDENCY PRESS OFFICE / AFP)

Turkey’s Erdogan visits Saudi Arabia as ties between former rivals warm

By AFP

US President Richard M. Nixon, right, and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev drink a toast at the White House in Washington, DC, June 21, 1973. The toast comes after the two leaders signed a pact to limit offensive nuclear arsenals. (AP)

Ending half-century of arms control, US-Russian nuclear pact set to expire

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Harriet Morris

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