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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 5, 2026

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Screen capture from video of Iran's military spokesperson Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia, January 2026. (YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran’s army says it is ready for war, if that’s what ‘the enemy chooses’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Military spokesman warns that a conflict would encompass ‘the entire geography of the region’; Turkey says it’s working to prevent regional conflict, backs direct talks

From R-L: This combination of pictures shows, a handout photograph provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei showing him addressing a meeting with the people in Tehran on January 17, 2026 and US President Donald Trump speaking in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 3, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / various sources / AFP)

US-Iran talks back on track after Trump warns Khamenei ‘should be very worried’

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: This picture taken on October 31, 2022, shows an oil tanker seized by Iranian naval forces at the Gulf port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. (IRNA / AFP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seize 2 oil tankers in Gulf

By AFP and ToI Staff

$Bodycam footage from August 6, 2024, shows suspects in a break-in at Elbit UK's site in Bristol, England, in which one intruder struck a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine (Screen grab from Thames Valley Police footage)$

UK jury finds pro-Palestinian activists who stormed Elbit factory not guilty

Palestine Action members acquitted of aggravated burglary, with one also found not guilty of causing grievous bodily harm despite being filmed striking policewoman with sledgehammer

People gather to light candles in a makeshift memorial to honor Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim who were killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, during a candlelight vigil outside of the White House in Washington, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Terror charges added to indictment against man accused of killing Israeli Embassy staffers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Brother of Shin Bet chief charged with ‘assisting enemy in wartime’ over Gaza smuggling

By Charlie Summers and Emanuel Fabian

Prosecutors accuse Bezalel Zini of abusing his army role to smuggle crates of cigarettes into Strip, earning hundreds of thousands of shekels and potentially benefitting Hamas

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White House special envoy Steve Witkoff (right) and Jared Kushner wait for the arrival of US President Donald Trump at Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, en route to attend the Club World Cup final soccer match, July 13, 2025. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Feb. 5: Report says US-Iran talks in Oman will only address nuclear file

Muslim countries pushing US and Iran to sign non-aggression pact, diplomats say * IDF says it hit underground Hezbollah weapon storage sites in latest Lebanon airstrikes

9:42 pm

Albino wallaby recovered from Tel Aviv apartment after being stolen from northern Israel zoo overnight
9:16 pm

US Senate committee probes Mamdani for revoking IHRA definition of antisemitism
8:46 pm

Netanyahu releases his answers to state comptroller's October 7 investigation

Hamas terrorist who murdered IDF surveillance soldier Noa Marciano killed in strike

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says Muhammad Issam Hassan al-Habil, a Hamas cell commander, was targeted in Gaza City’s Shati Camp; Shin Bet says he ‘brutally murdered’ Marciano at Gaza City hospital

Cpl. Noa Marciano who was killed in Hamas captivity in November after being taken hostage on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Screengrabs of a video showing Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies and remains of dozens of slain Palestinians which were returned by Israel to the Gaza Strip, February 4, 2026. (X)

Israel returns remains of dozens of slain Palestinians to Gaza, Hamas health ministry says

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

A screenshot from a video published by the IDF on February 4, 2026, shows gunmen, who the military says are Hamas operatives, operating around an ambulance in northern Gaza's Jabalia. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Drone footage shows Hamas gunmen transporting arms in ambulances in north Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says terror group caught in act during ‘routine drone operations,’ says video exposes Hamas’s repeated use of ambulances to transport arms from a hospital to a school

Security camera footage purporting to show masked settlers in the West Bank village of Taybeh on their way to commit a reported arson attack and vandalism, February 4, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Army, police probing alleged settler arson and vandalism in West Bank Christian village

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Car reportedly torched, graffiti daubed on walls in Taybeh; no arrests reported; local priest says community lives in fear that blood will be spilled

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, Pool)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 5 – Inside Abbas’s call for unprecedented PLO elections

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Saudi Arabia does not believe Iran. Period.

As faith in diplomacy erodes, Riyadh is positioning for a post-agreement Middle East in which non-proliferation has failed and US credibility is conditional

A strong shekel doesn’t strengthen Israeli hi-tech

Startups funded in dollars and paying salaries and rent in shekels have less money than they thought they did. That said, there are worse problems to have

I’m a Montana state senator and I’m fighting Jew-hatred. You can too

When I recognized the same silence that doomed my family in the Holocaust, I stopped waiting and began using every tool I have to act, from state legislation to this very essay

The Jewish world’s dangerous amnesia about Mizrahi history

Our history under Islamic rule exposes the moral bankruptcy of anti-Zionism and the fantasy that Jews can survive without sovereignty

Israel Police Chief Commissioner Daniel Levy at the site of a triple homicide in Suweid Hamira, February 5, 2026. (Israel Police)

3 slain in north as violent crime continues to surge in Arab community

Victims reportedly all from the same family, with father and son gunned down on doorstep; Herzog decries deadly violence as ‘national emergency’

A gardener tends to the lawn between the tombstones at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery -- commonly known as the British War Cemetery and in which are interred the remains of 3,217 Allied soldiers who died during World War I -- in Gaza City on September 28, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

IDF said to have damaged Gaza cemetery containing graves of Allied troops from world wars

Guardian report shows destruction, earthworks at graveyard east of Gaza City; IDF says area was ‘an active combat zone,’ contained tunnels used by Hamas terrorists

Palestinians coming from the Rafah Crossing with Egypt arrive at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 4, 2026. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Palestinians in Egypt torn on returning to battle-scarred Gaza with ‘no future’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel's Noa Szollos reacts after competing in the second run of the Women's Slalom, as part of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2025-2026, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, January 4, 2026. (Jure Makovec / AFP)

2026 Winter Olympics

On skis, sleds and skates, Israel’s Winter Olympians ready to give their all in Italy

Israel is sending nine Olympians and one Paralympian to the Milano Cortina Games, with modest aims of setting new Israeli records and proudly flying the flag of the Jewish state

Six Jewish athletes to watch at the 2026 Winter Olympics

By JTA and ToI Staff

Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg at a court hearing, February 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy Supreme Court chief sets panel to hear petitions demanding Oct. 7 state probe

By Jeremy Sharon

Sohlberg picks four other conservatives and two more liberal judges, after chief justice deferred authority on matter since he would appoint members of inquiry if established

Jonathan Freedland, left, and Yonit Levi are the hosts of podcast 'Unholy: Two Jews on the News' (Courtesy)

What Matters Now podcast

Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland: Two Jews on the news discuss all that is Unholy

By Jessica Steinberg

The hosts of the ‘Unholy’ podcast review five years of their collaborative effort to debate the subjects and issues that affect them as a Jewish Israeli and a Diaspora Jew

Left: An undated entry from British officer Orde Wingate's personal notebook showing his notes in studying Hebrew, now available at the National Library in Jerusalem; Right: A 1944 photograph of British officer Orde Wingate, available at the National Library in Jerusalem. (Orde Wingate Archives, National Library of Israel)

New Wingate papers shed light on British officer revered in Israel as ‘the friend’

By Ethan Rubinson

Hebrew study sheets, photos and plans for the formation of a Zionist military are among items recently donated to Jerusalem’s National Library

Illustrative image of a brain scan (utah778; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli researchers identify gene that causes elusive neurodevelopmental disorder

By Diana Bletter

Using CRISPR, Hebrew University of Jerusalem team finds PEDS1 enzyme linked to reduced brain size; study maps 331 genes essential to brain and neuron development

Sharon Stone, winner of the Timeless Award, speaks onstage during the 2026 Astra Film Awards on January 9, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images via AFP)

Actress Sharon Stone backs out of LA Israeli Film Festival due to scheduling conflict

Suggestions that the star, who has a record of supporting Jewish causes and has met Israeli hostages, gave in to anti-Israel pressure have been retracted

Mamdani appoints head of progressive Jewish group to lead antisemitism office

Phylisa Wisdom of NY Jewish Agenda to head city’s Office to Combat Antisemitism; her group is Zionist, unlike Mamdani, though she has also expressed opposition to IHRA definition of antisemitism

Phylisa Wisdom, head of New York City's Mayoral Office to Combat Antisemitism. (Courtesty/Gili Getz)

Manchester City's manager Pep Guardiola looks on ahead of the English Premier League soccer match between Fulham and Manchester City at Craven Cottage, London, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dave Shopland)

Jewish community tells Man City coach to ‘focus on soccer’ after he decries ‘genocide in Palestine’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President Isaac Herzog attends a ceremony marking the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat in the Ben Shemen Forest on February 2, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Australian teen charged with making death threats against Herzog ahead of upcoming visit

The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, completed in 1415, is set to go on auction on February 5, 2026.(Courtesy of Sotheby’s)

Rare 15th-century prayer book looted by Nazis expected to fetch millions at auction

By Rossella Tercatin

Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, completed five years before community’s destruction, going under hammer after being returned to heirs in 2023; expected to sell for $5-7 million

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A sign for the Washington Post is seen at the company's offices, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Washington Post fires one-third of staff, including all its Middle East journalists

By David Bauder

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Horntye Park Sports Complex, in St Leonards-on-Sea, southeast England, February 5, 2026. (Peter Nicholls / POOL / AFP)

Starmer apologizes to Epstein victims for appointing Mandelson, defies calls to resign

Illustrative: This satellite image provided by NASA on September 26, 2022, shows Hurricane Ian pictured from the International Space Station just south of Cuba gaining strength and heading toward Florida. (NASA via AP)

Israeli-founded ‘SpaceX of weather’ raises $175m to send next-gen satellites into orbit

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Airplanes at Ben Gurion Airport. February 11, 2026. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

After years of talks, Israel to approve new international airport in Negev

By Michael Horovitz

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR), Volker Turk, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025. (AP)

UN human rights agency says it’s in ‘survival mode’ due to funding shortfalls

Dradt evader Meir Yonah addresses an event held in honor of his release from military prison, January 26, 2026. (Notnim Gav/The Jerusalem Faction)

Haredi extremists pay grants to draft evaders after their release from military prison

Law enforcement officers arrest Ryan Routh, the man suspected in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump, in Martin County, Florida, September 15, 2024. (Martin County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Man who tried to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf course gets life sentence

By DAVID FISCHER

Serbian Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic arrives at court for his corruption trial in Belgrade, Serbia, February 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serb minister on trial over abuses in Kushner-linked Belgrade real estate project

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