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What Matters Most On Friday, February 6, 2026

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a plenum session for the Knesset's 77th birthday on February 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant: Netanyahu continues 'to lie, incite, hurt the IDF'

Placing blame elsewhere, Netanyahu shares his answers to state comptroller’s Oct. 7 probe

By Lazar Berman

PM releases selective quotes portraying security chiefs and political rivals as opposed to toppling Hamas, though before 2023 attack he wrote that he opposed ‘conquering’ Gaza when Bennett pushed to do so in 2014

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes part in a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to tell MKs there was ‘no treason’ on Oct. 7, countering his son’s conspiracy theory

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 6: Abbas receives draft constitution that aims to transition PA to full-fledged state

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Israel team marches to smattering of boos at Milan Games opening ceremony * ISIS claims suicide bombing at Shi’ite mosque in Islamabad

9:57 pm

IDF gives West Bank settlement all clear after telling residents to shelter in place
9:53 pm

ISIS claims suicide bombing at Shi'ite mosque in Islamabad
9:25 pm

Israel team marches to smattering of boos at Milan Games opening ceremony

Analysis

‘Never Again’ strategy: Facing soaring antisemitism and Holocaust ‘erasure,’ how should Jews fight back?

Defund the ADL? Bet the house on Jewish day schools and culture? Deemphasize Holocaust education… or legislate it? Jewish thinkers are floating lots of ideas. None is likely a panacea

Holocaust survivors and guests sit at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference, January 7, 2026, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Some Jewish groups break with tradition, refuse to sponsor NYC mayor’s interfaith breakfast

By Joseph Strauss

Spectators watch the 2025 Israel Day Parade, on New York's Fifth Avenue, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Even most Israel-supporting US Jews don’t identify as ‘Zionists,’ JFNA survey finds

By Andrew Lapin

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Analysis

No, the Epstein files don’t show that he worked for Mossad

Scraps of info in millions of documents released this week are seized on by conspiracists from Gen Z influencers to Iranian state media

Documents included in the US Justice Department release of files related to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are photographed on January 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

This undated photo released by the US Department of Justice shows Jeffrey Epstein. (US Department of Justice via AP)

Release of latest Epstein files unleashes online wave of antisemitic conspiracies

By Grace Gilson

This undated photo released by the US Justice Department on January 30, 2026, as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files shows the disgraced financier, left, with now-US President Donald Trump in an unidentified location. (HANDOUT / US Department of Justice / AFP)

New release sheds light on Epstein’s ties to presidents, business titans and royals

Seated, left to right, are billionaire Thomas Pritzker, former prime minister Ehud Barak and director Woody Allen, as magician David Blaine stands to the left and late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein stands between Barak and Allen, in an undated photo from Epstein's estate published by US Congressional Democrats on December 18, 2025. (House Oversight Democrats)

Barak wanted Russian immigration to offset Arab population growth, Epstein files show

In recording, the former PM and the late sex offender discussed demographics in Israel and the territories, and the failed peace process with the Palestinians

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at an anti-government rally against at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, May 17, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Ties to former PM Barak prove Epstein didn’t work for Israel

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

This aerial photo shows a view of the Mutrah Corniche in Muscat, Oman, on February 4, 2026, where Iran-US nuclear talks are set to take place. (Haitham AL-SHUKAIRI / AFP)

US-Iran indirect talks in Oman, held amid war fears, move to second round

By Agencies and ToI Staff

White House ahead of talks warns Trump has ‘many options at his disposal’ as Iran insists talks focus only on nuclear issues, not missiles or support for terror proxies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), his military secretary Brig. Gen. Roman Gofman (left) and Likud MK Boaz Bismuth attend a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in Jerusalem, February 5, 2026. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokeman's Office)

Ahead of US-Iran talks, Netanyahu said to tout ‘buildup of conditions’ for regime’s collapse

By Stav Levaton, Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Elimelech Stern, convicted for contact with an Iranian agent, seen after at a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court, February 5, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beit Shemesh man convicted of spying for Iran sentenced to 3 years in prison

By Jeremy Sharon and Charlie Summers

Demonstrators take part in a march in support of the conscription of ultra-Orthodox men into the IDF, from the entrance to Jerusalem to the Knesset, January 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud casts religious Zionist critics of Haredi draft bill as left-wing agitators

In attempt to counter considerable national religious opposition to bill exempting yeshiva students from IDF, ruling party claims activists are trying to topple the government

InterviewReligious Zionism MK says Haredi draft bill needs changes before party can back it

The AI generation gap and the uncanny valley

I liked the music I generated, but it rubbed my kids the wrong way: Too human, not human enough, and very far from what happens when our souls sing together in a room

When only 80% of funding arrives, the most vulnerable pay

The Welfare Ministry suddenly cut funding for services already delivered. Organizations like those serving children with disabilities have to absorb the shock

When Jewish teens finally speak

If American Jewish parents connect to Israel with support and admiration, their kids have a lot of nuanced questions. Will Israelis answer them?

A life examined: Yitro, Moses, and me

My upcoming move has me reviewing every scrap of my existence, pondering what to save, and reckoning that I shouldn’t do it alone. Even the prophet of record had help

Protesters demonstrate against the government's perceived neglect of organized crime in Arab society at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2026. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

'The strategy now is to make sure the struggle doesn’t die'

Ramping up protests over deadly crime, Arab society brings struggle to Jewish street

By Charlie Summers

In shift after years of rampant murder, Arabs rally for action to tackle violence by joining with Jewish opposition that pressured government over hostages, overhaul and other issues

Poll: Arab Joint List wins 14 seats, maintaining deadlock between PM’s bloc and rivals

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Police launch manhunt after two men shot dead in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat camp

By Charlie Summers

The Barnard 68 nebula, located in the constellation Ophiuchus, approximately 400 light-years from Earth. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Dr. Shmuel Bialy of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and his team measured the signals emitted from this nebula as a result of molecular hydrogen excitation by cosmic rays for the first time. (Courtesy/ European Southern Observatory)

A star is born: Israeli team detects stellar-creation particles 400 light-years away

By Diana Bletter

Israeli security forces inspect the scene of a shooting attack near Homesh, in the West Bank, on December 16, 2021. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Palestinians handed life sentences for deadly 2007, 2021 West Bank terror attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF court also orders Ali Dandis, behind killing of 2 off-duty soldiers, to compensate families with $1.6 million; Islamic Jihad gunman involved in Homesh shooting to pay $640,000

Head of the Conference of Presidents William Daroff (left) and ToI diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman in ToI's Jerusalem recording studio. (ToI)

Lazar Focus podcast

William Daroff: What Trump needs to do for that Nobel Prize

By Lazar Berman and William Daroff

With US Jews facing antisemitism from left and right, and with Trump’s Middle East vision in the balance, a national Jewish leader discusses Biden, Trump, Vance, and Netanyahu

A person walks over the memorial in the "Canyon of Heroes" for former Vichy French Prime Minister Pierre Laval in New York City on January 27, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

A maligned marker honoring a French Nazi sympathizer is off NYC’s streets — for now

By Jackie Hajdenberg

One of two plaques honoring leaders of Vichy France was removed due to New York’s cold weather, but there are plans to put it back despite years of protest

French writer Emmanuel Carrere poses for a picture after winning the Prix Medicis literary prize for his novel 'Kolkhoze,' in Paris, France, on November 5, 2025. (Julie SEBADELHA / AFP)

French author said to scrap Tel Aviv event after backlash from literary journal

A Lebanese jeweler arranges gold ornaments at his shop's storefront in the Beirut suburb of Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon, February 2, 2026. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

'An adornment and treasure'

Cash-strapped Lebanon is sitting on a gold mine as precious metal prices surge

By Kareem Chehayeb and Malak Harb

Despite 1986 law banning sale of state gold, Lebanon weighs using its reserves to bail out banks that failed in 2019 and plunged about half of country’s population into poverty

Observers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) stand at a position formerly held by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group in the Khraibeh Valley in el-Meri in south Lebanon on August 27, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon accuses Israel of spraying herbicide in border areas

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Shoppers at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, November 13, 2025. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

IMF sees Israeli economic recovery from Gaza war, but worries over flareup in regional tensions

By Sharon Wrobel

Body warns renewed regional hostilities risk curtailing growth due to high defense spending, elevated risk premia, shortage of workers amid mobilization of IDF reserves

Settler activists stage a protest on the border with the Gaza Strip, February 5, 2026. (Courtesy of the Nachala movement)

‘We’ll settle all over’: Far-right activists cross into Gaza, are caught by IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Civilians handed over to police for questioning; while attending rally near the border, Likud MK declares ‘Israel’s rebirth will come… when Jewish communities thrive in Gaza’

IDF soldiers stand near the entrance to a tunnel (right) in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip, where the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin was held, December 8, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Map shows UAE-planned compound for Palestinians in Israeli-held south Gaza

By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, center left, waves from a boat taking part in a civilian flotilla bound for Gaza, aiming to break the Israeli blockade on the Strip, in Barcelona, Spain, August 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Anti-Israel activists announce plans for new Gaza flotilla in March

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In her new book, Beth Berkowitz explores the way biblical laws invite a conversation about animals and what their family ties can teach us. (University of California Press via JTA)

Interview'These laws don't protect animals as much as sensitize us'

A new book looks at Jewish law’s relationship with animal family bonds

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In ‘What Animals Teach Us About Families,’ Prof. Beth Berkowitz of Barnard College delves into commandments involving mother birds, baby goats – and ethics, if not empathy

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The scene after a bus crashed into a store in Ramat Gan, wounding 10 people, February 6, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

10 injured, one of them seriously, after bus crashes into store in Ramat Gan

A New York City Police Department vehicle is parked outside a synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, October 7, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

US Jewish leaders express alarm over new political conditions for synagogue security grants

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

People attend Canada's Rally for The Jewish People at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on December 4, 2023. (Shawn Goldberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Canadian Jewish groups decry axing of antisemitism envoy in favor of equality council

By Grace Gilson

Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara attends a ceremony for outgoing Supreme Court judge Yosef Elron, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem. September 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG: Levin has given himself veto power over judicial appointments ‘out of thin air’

By Jeremy Sharon

Sharif Hadid was killed in a roadside shooting on Route 6 in northern Israel on January 8, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Off-duty soldier charged with murder for alleged road rage killing of Druze man

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

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