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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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CCTV footage shows a terrorist stabbing attack on two Jewish people in Golders Green, London, April 29, 2026. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Herzog decries ‘unacceptable situation’ for Jews in West

Two Jewish men badly wounded in terrorist stabbing attack in London’s Golders Green; assailant arrested

By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Somali-born UK national, 45, stabs septuagenarian in throat, stabs another man in his 30s; Met Police declare it as terror incident, Iran-linked group claims responsibility; Starmer condemns it as ‘appalling,’ Israel says his statements ‘no substitute’ for combating anti-Jewish hate

US President Donald Trump and Britain's King Charles III (not pictured) meet in the Oval Office of the White House, on April 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump said prepping for extended Iran blockade, says Tehran ‘better get smart soon’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘No more Mr. Nice Guy,’ US president declares, adds Iran’s leaders ‘don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal’; Hegseth to testify before US Congress for first time since war’s start

US President Donald Trump speaks during a State Visit arrival ceremony for Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the South Lawn of the White House, April 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US intel agencies examining how Iran would react if Trump declares victory in war

By Erin Banco and Gram Slattery

Illustrative: A Lufthansa aircraft approaches the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, April 28, 2026. (Michael Probst/AP)

European airlines face biggest crisis since COVID as Iran war drives up fuel costs

By Joanna Plucinska and Alessandro Parodi

Amer Hujirat (Courtesy)

Israeli contractor killed, son wounded by Hezbollah drone in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton

Amer Hujirat hit by FPV drone while operating excavator in area where IDF is demolishing Hezbollah infrastructure; PM says ‘special project’ underway to counter growing threat

Israeli soldiers operate in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Lebanese soldier said killed in Israeli strike, Hezbollah fires 2 rockets at north amid truce

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

A major Hezbollah tunnel located by the IDF in the southern Lebanon town of Qantara, in footage issued by the military on April 28, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF blows up 2 vast Hezbollah attack tunnels built with ‘direct guidance’ from Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is seen on the border with Lebanon, April 29, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

April 29: Israel reportedly asks Trump to put 2-3 week deadline on Lebanon talks amid growing Hezbollah attacks

By Michael Horovitz, Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Trump says Netanyahu complained to him over trial, Herzog would be ‘national hero’ if he pardons PM * In interview blitz, ex-PM Bennett vows to fire officials he deems serve political interests if he becomes premier

8:43 pm

Israeli Navy begins to intercept Gaza flotilla located hundreds of miles from Israel
8:23 pm

Organizers of Gaza flotilla say Israeli Navy attempting to halt them at sea
8:18 pm

Ottawa says 'IRGC officials are inadmissible to Canada' after Iranian soccer officials leave country

Police officers at the scene where Haredi extremists protesting the arrest of a draft evader broke into the backyard of the house of Military Police chief Brig. Gen. Yuval Yamin in Ashkelon, April 28, 2026. (Israel Police)

Haredi anti-draft rioters break into Military Police chief’s home with family inside; 25 arrested

By Sam Sokol and Emanuel Fabian

Netanyahu condemns extremists’ action, as do defense minister and chief of staff, who says it ‘crosses a dangerous red line’; Jerusalem Faction: ‘Leave the Torah students alone’

A child walks in front of a memorial mural of Yemanu Zelka, who was stabbed to death in Petah Tikva on Independence Day a week earlier, Ashdod, April 28, 2026. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Police arrest another teen suspect in Independence Day murder at Petah Tikva pizzeria

By Charlie Summers

Op-ed

Israel heads toward its most fateful elections, with law and order, governance and morality at stake

Deadly Jewish terrorism spiraling in the West Bank, murderous teen gangs terrifying central Israel, ultra-Orthodox youths rampaging nationwide… all these horrors and more stem from a PM who has prized power over national interests and brought two corrosive Jewish supremacists into the heart of government

Footage shows a car burning, and graffiti reading Revenge on a wall, following a reported settler attack in the Palestinian West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, April 18, 2026. (Screenshots/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The line outside Hinds Hall on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, April 21, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

NYC Hinds Hall Palestinian eatery has good hummus, wipes Israel off its menu maps

Upper West Side restaurant named for child killed in Gaza leans into ostensible message of coexistence with Jews, but not with the Jewish state, associating with the anti-Zionist protest movement

Israeli chef closes Berlin restaurant amid constant threats

By Jessica Steinberg

Omer Shem Tov speaks onstage during the humanitarian award dinner for Warner Bros. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav, presented by the Simon Wiesenthal Center on October 30, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Simon Wiesenthal Center/AFP)

UCLA student government censured after condemning event with ex-hostage Omer Shem Tov

By Andrew Lapin

University, Jewish groups and a sitting regent denounce student leaders for claiming freed captive’s talk ‘amplified one-sided narrative that erases systems of oppression and occupation’

FILE - In this September 20, 2014, file photo provided by the US Army, feral horses graze in front of a soldier riding in an armored Humvee, as part of a security detail, at the Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center, in Fort Polk, Louisiana. (Sgt. William Gore/U.S. Army 40th Public Affairs Detachment via AP, File)

US soldier charged for threatening to ‘kill every single Jew’ inside a synagogue

By Grace Gilson

Jaclyn S. Clark

Cole Allen tried to kill the US president. The internet tried to blame the Jews

Once you accept that violence in service of a cause is reasonable, the logical endgame is murder – and antisemitism is the default premise

The US is negotiating with Iran like a venture capitalist

America’s team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran’s diplomats at the bargaining table

Chava (Patricia) Kadoche

I came to Israel for refuge. Then I saw that kippah

For many, the Palestinian flag is now inseparable from unresolved trauma. Wearing it on a Jewish headcovering makes the pain worse

The peace agreements that got us home

Israel has thrived under leaders who knew victory is not measured by the devastation inflicted on its enemies

ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan talks before convening the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, March 14, 2025. (AP/Peter Dejong, Pool)

Report: Qatar offered to ‘look after’ ICC prosecutor who issued warrants for Israeli leaders

By Michael Horovitz and Agencies

Manager of private intel operation to discredit woman accusing Karim Khan of sexual abuse says in recording that the prosecutor is backed by Doha, according to WSJ editorial

Crime rampant in the Negev, police understaffed, governance broken down — comptroller

By Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol

Englman also finds protection rackets rampant, lawlessness on the roads; tells Netanyahu he needs to step in; Ben Gvir, the police minister, calls report ‘twisted’

National Guard fighters and other Border Police forces stand at the entrance to the Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana, which has been closed off with cinderblocks, on December 31, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90); Right: Israel Prison Service Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi, on January 11, 2026. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

AG set to indict Israel Prisons chief in probe linked to Ben Gvir

By Charlie Summers

Left to right: President Isaac Herzog attends an event for outstanding soldiers in Jerusalem on April 20, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Isaac Herzog attends a state memorial ceremony at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, April 21, 2026. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Herzog’s office invites Netanyahu’s lawyer, AG to discuss potential plea deal

By Jeremy Sharon

President’s legal adviser says it would be in national interest to find an ‘arrangement’ to end PM’s trial, which resumed this week after pause due to Iran war; PM wants a pardon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the courtroom at the District Court in Tel Aviv, before the start of his testimony in the trial against him, October 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Netanyahu’s first cross-examination in over two months cut short hours early

US President Donald Trump, right, greets Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz during summit to support ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, October 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Trump fires back at Merz after German leader says Iran ‘humiliating’ US over talks

US president accuses German chancellor, who said ‘Iranians are obviously… very skillful at not negotiating,’ of ‘thinking it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon’

US President Donald Trump (right) greeting Britain's King Charles III at the South Portico of the White House for a State Dinner, April 28, 2026, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Hosting British king, Trump says Charles agrees Iran cannot have nuclear bomb

By Danny Kemp and Frankie TAGGART

Police investigate the site of North York's Temple Emanu-El after it was targeted by gunfire late on a Monday night, Toronto, March 3, 2026. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images via JTA)

'A lot of people are saying police aren't doing enough'

Long-sought arrest in Toronto’s anti-Jewish shootings leaves unanswered questions

By Joseph Strauss

Suspect Mohamed Mahdi captured days after restaurant was riddled with bullets, but unclear whether wave of attacks is linked and whether more police surveillance can provide long-term security

Analysis

Keeping talks with US sputtering along, Iran may be looking for time, not a deal

As negotiations persist despite missed meetings and parleys derided as pointless, some see IRGC effort to rebuild militarily while delaying dealing with intractable nuclear issue

Pro-government demonstrators wave Iranian flags during a gathering in Tehran, Iran, April 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

An Iranian worshipper wears a banner showing portraits of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, bottom, late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, top right, and the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, during Friday prayers ceremony at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, on April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisIRGC shores up wartime power in Iran, blunting supreme leader’s role

By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and Asif Shazhad

Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village in the West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, January 11, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

JNF halts most funding for at-risk youth in West Bank over settler violence links

Fund’s chairman says money was supporting activities leading to expulsion of Palestinians, vows not to back extremist outposts set up by far-right ministers

Left: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky reacts during a press conference at the German-Ukrainian government consultations in Berlin Germany, on April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi); Right: Gideon Sa’ar speaks during a meeting of the Subcommittee on Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, March 23, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel says no proof Russian grain shipment ‘stolen,’ as Ukraine threatens sanctions

By Stav Levaton, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

FM Sa’ar again accuses Zelensky of ‘Twitter diplomacy,’ after Ukrainian president says Israel ‘cannot be unaware’ cargo at Haifa port came from Russian-occupied territory

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 29 – The case of the ‘stolen’ Ukrainian wheat

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Analysis

Sa’ar scolds Ukraine for doing Twitter diplomacy — but he does just the same, as does everyone else

Foreign minister regularly praises and lashes out against his counterparts on X, like other politicians. After a decade-plus of Trump tweets, it’s the new diplomatic normal

Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, January 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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The offices of the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem, November 23, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

After years in limbo, court lets Syrian convert live in Israel with husband, a disabled vet

Researchers take samples as part of the 2024 national monitoring program. (Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research)

The Mediterranean: Warmer, saltier, more acidic, and rising fast — report

Police arrest a suspect as part of an investigation into alleged identity fraud by a Palestinian couple from the West Bank on April 29, 2026. (Israel Police)

Palestinian couple nabbed on suspicion of living under fake Israeli identity for 20 years

By Charlie Summers

Defense Minister Israel Katz attends an event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel’s 78th Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem on April 20, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Report: Katz hired unqualified political allies as consultants at Defense Ministry

Construction of new high rises in Ramat Gan, March 14, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Housing policy out of sync with shifting demand, especially for smaller homes, study finds

Palestinian crews work on a destroyed car after it was struck in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF says senior Hamas intel operative who helped plan Oct. 7 killed in Gaza strike

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Employees of Basra Oil Company, working at the Nahr Bin Umar Oil and Gas Field on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, on April 29, 2026. (Hussein Faleh/AFP)

Price of oil rises as Iran talks remain stalled and Strait of Hormuz closed

By AFP and ToI Staff

Elbit Systems' Watchkeeper XR tactical UAV. (Courtesy of Elbit)

Elbit opens new drone production plant in Romania to expand presence in Europe

By Sharon Wrobel

Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija (8) goes to the basket as San Antonio Spurs center/forward Luke Kornet defends during the first half in Game 5 of a first-round NBA playoffs basketball series in San Antonio, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Avdija’s breakout NBA season ends as Trail Blazers knocked out of playoffs

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Correspondence between J.D. Salinger and his editor referring to his Jewish and Irish heritage, overlaid on top of the book jacket for Salinger's novel, 'The Catcher in the Rye' (Images Courtesy Peter Harrington London via JTA)

J.D. Salinger asked publishers to remove mention of Jewish-Irish heritage, letters show

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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