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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 8, 2026

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US President Donald Trump (right) speaks to reporters as he greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)

PM to meet Trump in DC this week, says Iran talks must deal with missiles, proxies

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

Netanyahu slated to fly to Washington Tuesday, be back in Israel by Friday; Witkoff, Kushner tour US aircraft carrier a day after holding talks with Iran’s FM in Oman

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during the 17th edition of the Al-Jazeera Forum in Doha on February 7, 2026. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

Iran again rules out giving up uranium enrichment, suggests US not taking talks seriously

The presidential seal is seen in the newly renovated Rose Garden of the White House, August 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 8 – Netanyahu to urgently jet to DC to reset Iran talks agenda

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Analysis

Michael Bachner

Saying others tied his hands, Netanyahu rewrites own role in allowing Hamas to fester

In response to state ombudsman, PM depicts himself as seeking Hamas’s demise while military leaders objected — a history-altering narrative he hopes will serve him as elections approach

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a 40-signature debate at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli musician Matti Caspi performs in Gush Etzion on December 10, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/Flash 90)

Obituary

Matti Caspi, singer and composer who helped mold Israeli culture, dead at 76

By Jessica Steinberg

Caspi, who performed and wrote some of the country’s most enduring tunes, succumbs to cancer; Herzog mourns loss of ‘one of the greatest Israeli composers of our generation’

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Analysis

Relax, MBS isn’t aligning with Islamists. He also isn’t normalizing with Israel soon

Recent moves by Saudi Arabia against the UAE and toward Qatar and Turkey, along with a rise in antisemitism in the Saudi press, have alarmed many, but these processes are not new

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks at the Saudi-US Investment Forum at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

This handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) being welcomed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as Donald Trump Jr. (R) looks on during the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh on October 29, 2025. (SAUDI PRESS AGENCY SPA / AFP)

Saudi Arabia announces major new investments in Syrian energy, aviation, telecoms

A Palestinian resident of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank burns trash, January 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 8: 3 times more Palestinians than Israelis were victims of West Bank terror in January — report

Norwegian diplomat who mediated Oslo Accords quits over Epstein ties * Iranian authorities said to arrest reformist figures for ‘working in favor of the Zionist regime’

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Norwegian diplomat who mediated Oslo Accords quits over Epstein ties
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Police arrest four suspects hours after Kafr Qara shooting
9:47 pm

French-Israeli activists denounce 'complicity in genocide' case as political trial

Rejects PM's claim that Biden 'embargo' cost soldiers' lives

Gallant: Netanyahu is a ‘liar’ who undermined security chiefs, has built false narrative of Oct. 7

Ex-defense minister joined by Lapid in upbraiding the PM for cherrypicked quotes, shirking accountability in his response to state comptroller’s now-frozen Oct. 7 investigation

Assaf Shmuelevitz (2nd from left) is seen during a security assessment held by then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and other senior officers at the IDF Southern Command on October 9, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

The Tulsa Marching Band performs before an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

'By our return flight home, we knew we were going to move'

Y’alla Oklahoma: As antisemitism surges, Tulsa Jews invite Canadians to join them

A new program bringing potential immigrants to the Bible Belt city is finding unexpected interest from a northern neighbor’s Jewish community battered by discrimination and economic woes

The politics of an Israeli presidential visit

Painting Herzog as war-mongering would be laughable if Australians weren’t so easily swayed by those who twist his solidarity trip into one shopping genocide

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

What Matti Caspi left behind was not just music

One of Israel’s most prolific and beloved musicians, he lived in the space where art is chosen, not dictated. That space is closing — and not by accident

Carmen Targownik

Renting your life: The hidden tax of the digital cloud

Online storage is a trap. As we upload more of our work and our memories, tech giants gain the power to lock us out, raise prices, and profit from our data

Joshua Hammerman

Patriots or Seahawks: God’s prediction

Divining the Super Bowl winner is easy, just delve into Torah, Talmud, numerology, US history, geology and dubious wordplay (and be sure to count up all the Joshuas)

Senior Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is interviewed by Al Jazeera on February 8, 2026 (Screenshot/YouTube)

Top Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal rejects disarmament or ‘foreign rule’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Senior official based in Doha says taking away terror group’s weapons is ‘criminalizing the resistance,’ instead backs extended truce where Hamas would commit not to use weapons

Palestinians are welcomed by relatives after they enter Gaza from Egypt following the long-awaited reopening of the Rafah border crossing, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Rafah crossing may again be open, but delays and major limits on movement hamper relief

By WAFAA SHURAFA, NOHA ELHENNAWY and ADAM GELLER

In this photo obtained by The Associated Press, Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)

After filming Iran’s brutal crackdown on protests, one activist now fears for her life

By Sarah El Deeb

37-year-old beautician tells of being on the streets on the most violent nights of the regime’s crackdown, and her fears that ‘all those people who died will have died in vain’

An El Al flight lands at Ben Gurion International Airport on March 31, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

El Al set to be fined for ‘excessive and unfair’ price gouging during war

By Sharon Wrobel

Competition watchdog plans maximum NIS 121 million ($39M) fine after finding airline abused its monopolistic power to hike prices by 16% on average; class action suit could follow

Arab community leads protest convoys throughout country over rampant deadly crime

Traffic chaos expected as vehicles set to converge on Jerusalem for rally protesting government’s failure to curb killings

Thousands attend a protest against organized crime in the Arab community and call on the state to do more to stop it, in Tel Aviv. January 31, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Senior Academic Officer Tomer Eiges who died in jail on May 16, 2021. (Courtesy)

Identity revealed of soldier who died in jail while facing security charges in 2021

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Tomer Eiges, 24, computer wiz accused of grave security offenses while serving in IDF intel unit, collapsed several times in his cell over months before mysterious death

Ratification's implications on the ground would be limited

Abbas receives draft constitution that aims to transition PA to full-fledged state

Document must be approved by public referendum, which PA president may hold off on scheduling to avoid punitive measures from Israel, which is already withholding billions in funds

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas receives a draft of the State of Palestine's interim constitution from counselor Muhammad al-Hajj Qasim in Ramallah on February 5, 2026. (Wafa)

A gunman walks by the remains of a house destroyed during the recent sectarian clashes in the Druze-majority town of Sweida, southern Syria, on September 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Fahd Kiwan)

Syrian security officer arrested over killing of civilians in Druze-majority Sweida

By AFP

Suspect arrested with help of survivor of attack, in which four people were shot dead and a fifth was seriously wounded while harvesting olives

US military vehicles move along a road in a convoy transporting Islamic State group detainees being transferred to Iraq from Syria, on the outskirts of Qahtaniyah in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on February 7, 2026. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Over 2,200 ISIS detainees moved from Syria to Iraq in ongoing US operation

By AFP

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, center, tours areas in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel in the village of Tayr Harfa, February 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Visiting Israeli border, Lebanese PM vows to expand state authority against Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Members of Israel's bobsleigh team, from left, Uri Zisman, Omer Katz, AJ Edelman, Ward Farwaseh and Itamar Shprinz, pose at the Olympic Committee of Israel headquarters, January 28, 2026, in Tel Aviv, before their departure for the 2026 Winter Olympics. (AP/Julia Frankel)

2026 Winter OlympicsIsraeli bobsled team’s apartment robbed ahead of Milan Winter Games, says athlete

By AP and ToI Staff

Kulanu MK Eli Alaluf seen in the Israeli parliament on February 05, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ObituaryFormer MK, Israel Prize winner Eli Alaluf dies at 80

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