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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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US President Donald Trump speaks at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, July 15, 2026. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Live updates (closed)

July 15: Trump reportedly being swayed by Arab leaders telling him PM an obstacle to regional peace

After coalition advances controversial legislation, MK leaving Likud says party has been ‘hijacked’ * Transportation Ministry said discussing ways to thwart arrival of anti-Netanyahu voters ahead of Oct. election

9:07 pm

Argentina defeats England 2-1 to reach its second consecutive World Cup final
9:01 pm

Vance claims general trajectory of Iran talks is still positive, despite escalating strikes
8:43 pm

'Go to hell': Vance lashes out at reported Israeli-backed online campaign smearing Iran MOU

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (foreground) walks past ultra-Orthodox MKs as the Knesset prepares to pass a law banning the arrests of draft dodgers that will effectively freeze ultra-Orthodox enlistment into the IDF for at least the next seven months, July 14, 2026. Netanyahu left the chamber before the vote itself. At center, with hands around his mouth, is UTJ MK Meir Porush. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

UTJ MK: A court move to strike down law would have no validity

Knesset passes law banning arrests of Haredi draft dodgers, legitimizing ongoing mass non-enlistment

By Ariela Karmel, Jeremy Sharon and Charlie Summers

Petitions against law filed to High Court; deputy minister quits in protest; Netanyahu skips vote, is denounced as ‘traitor’ by opposition MK; all ultra-Orthodox MKs proudly acknowledge they have relatives who could benefit from the law

Illustrative: A man outside the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Knesset passes law restoring Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over kosher certification

By ToI Staff and Zev Stub

Op-ed

Netanyahu hits new lows in his battle for survival; there will be a great deal of damage for better leaders to undo

PM repairs his partnership with the blackmailing ultra-Orthodox political leadership at the terrible price of destroying equality under the law and, despite the echoes of 2023, weakening Israel’s capacity to defend itself against its enemies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left), and Defense Minister Israel Katz (right), with ultra-Orthodox MKs Yitzchak Goldknopf, Moshe Gafni and Meir Porush behind them, seen in the Knesset shortly before the vote on a law banning arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers and legitimizing ongoing mass ultra-Orthodox non-enlistment, July 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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

Netanyahu to travel to US on Saturday, expected to meet Trump on Monday

By Lazar Berman and Reuters

Analysis

Trying to bypass court, law banning Haredi draft-dodger arrests was doomed from the start

The bench has ruled repeatedly against laws mandating unequal sharing of the military service burden and castigated the government for failing to enforce ultra-Orthodox conscription. Now it’s been swift to freeze the latest law

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest outside Military Prison near Kfar Yona, central Israel, against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, June 17, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

82-year-old man dies of wounds sustained in Iranian missile attack on Haifa in April

Michael Katz’s wife says she will ‘live as half a human being’ after her husband of 55 years succumbs to injuries; same missile killed 4 members of Gershovitz family

Michael Katz, 82, who died on July 15, 2026, of wounds sustained in an Iranian missile attack on April 5, 2026. (Courtesy)

Illustrative: A person holding handcuffs in a Jerusalem court on November 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

IDF soldier sentenced to 5 years for spying on behalf of Iran during June 2025 war

By Emanuel Fabian

A view of the Qumran archaeological site from a recently excavated Dead Sea Scroll cave above, January 22, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

They who control time control the Jewish people

Power of 7: Could an ancient political feud explain Qumran sect’s faulty 364-day calendar?

New theory offers a solution to one of the Dead Sea Scrolls’ longest-running puzzles, arguing the out-of-sync calendar was used for ideological reasons — until it felt safe to abandon it

Shira Lankin Sheps

For a therapist, I sure do know a lot about ballistic missiles

Surely my nervous system has no business having firsthand experience of this many historic events

Stephen M. Flatow

Does protesting the draft count as Torah study, too?

Torah study is a foundational Jewish value, but it’s not the only one. So is the responsibility for one another that the IDF exemplifies

There is nothing to solve

Annexationists and two-staters agree on one thing: the status quo must go. Thirty years of evidence says otherwise

Burqa bans are for losers

Europe’s clothing bans betray a civilization that no longer trusts the values it claims to defend

A still image taken from footage released by US Central Command on July 15, 2026, shows a US strike on an Iranian military target. (CENTCOM via X)

Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait come under Iranian attack

US launches waves of strikes on Iran throughout Wednesday, as IRGC threatens energy exports

CENTCOM says it targeted capabilities used to attack shipping in Strait of Hormuz; Tehran vows ‘decisive response’ after military personnel killed in overnight attacks

US Navy warships and aircraft transit the Arabian Sea in close formation, in a photo released July 8, 2026. (US Navy photo)

US reimposes naval blockade as Trump threatens to ramp up strikes on Iran: ‘You better make a deal’

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Yemeni soldiers patrol the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Yemen, April 5, 2026 (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

AnalysisAfter blocking Hormuz, Iran signals it could ramp up pressure and shut Red Sea gateway, too

By Samia Nakhoul

Netanyahu warns of ‘far more powerful’ response than before if Iran attacks

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Trump backtracks on plan for US Hormuz fees; more explosions heard at Iranian sites, Kuwait intercepts projectiles; European aviation authority warns airlines to avoid region

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Negev Conference in the southern city of Dimona, July 14, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (AP/ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 15 – Why is Iran attacking its Gulf neighbors?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

A undated handout picture released by the family of Craig and Lindsay Foreman through Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in London on February 15, 2025, shows Craig and Lindsay Foreman posing for a selfie photograph at an unknown location. (Photo by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office/AFP)

British man jailed in Iran given additional two-year sentence, family says

ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur speaks with deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan for this week's What Matters Now podcast. (Courtesy / AP)

What Matters Now podcast

Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel still the first campaign stop for wannabe US presidents?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

ToI’s senior analyst on the shift of balance felt by the death of US Sen. Lindsey Graham and recent visits by Rahm Emanuel and US Rep. Ro Khanna

Analysis

There’s a new Democratic consensus on aid to Israel — against it

Military assistance totaling billions annually used to get bipartisan support in Washington. Now, the question for Democrats, exemplified in a key vote on Wednesday, isn’t whether to send Israel money, but whether to still sell it arms

US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, March 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Former US Rep. Cori Bush speaks during a rally in front of the National Archives to highlight then-president Joe Biden’s decision to declare the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution, January 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Cori Bush tells fellow US progressives: My reelection would be ‘knockout’ punch to AIPAC

By Grace Gilson

Finance Minister Bezalel Smortrich, left, and Settlements Minister Orit Strock announce a government plan for dozens of new settlements in the West Bank, July 14, 2026. (Courtesy Religious Zionism)

Government says $431 million allocated last month for 34 new West Bank settlements

By Jeremy Sharon

Ministers Smotrich and Strock declare a ‘day of celebration’ for plan that is ‘killing’ possibility of Palestinian state

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, July 13, 2026. (Marius Burgelman/AP)

European Union seeks to advance trade ban on Israeli settlements

By Shira Li Bartov

Trump said to urge Netanyahu to pull Israeli troops from Syria, Lebanon in recent call

By Stav Levaton, Jacob Magid and Agencies

US leader reportedly told PM ‘they don’t want you there’; Jerusalem and Beirut hold talks on IDF withdrawals from ‘pilot zones,’ with FM Sa’ar saying Israel is ready to move ahead

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Hezbollah supporters sit in front of a giant billboard, that shows the two late leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, center, with other Hezbollah killed commanders, as they listen to the death story of Imam Hussein during the holy day of Ashoura in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, June 26, 2026. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon arrests ‘high-level agent’ close to Hezbollah for allegedly spying for Israel

By AFP

Hamas said to demand increased financial, diplomatic support from Iran

In talks on sidelines of Khamenei funeral last week, terror group reportedly asked for help rebuilding military capabilities and for its demands to be part of Iran’s talks with US

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, meets with chairman of Hamas's Shura Council Muhammad Ismail Darwish, left, July 4, 2026. (Telegram channel of the Iranian Foreign Minister)

Top Democrat in US House says he won’t support bill to cut off US aid to Israel

By Jacob Magid and JTA

But Hakeem Jeffries urges ‘major reset’ in ties between Washington and Jerusalem, which he says ‘has an advanced economy and is capable of paying for its own sophisticated weapons’

US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, July 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

FILE: Brad Parscale, campaign manager for US President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, attends a rally at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, October 22, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Report: Trump’s former ‘digital guru’ is leading Israeli influence campaign targeting MAGA

By Ethan Rubinson

An undated photo of Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, DC, teaching high school students. (Courtesy)

Author says US publisher nixed Holocaust book after he refused to condemn Israel

Tova Saul cradles one of the two kittens she most recently rescued in Jerusalem's Old City, May 2026 (Sarah Tuttle-Singer)

Peoples of Israel'When someone sees an injured animal, how can one not help?'

Tova Saul, the cat rescuer of Jerusalem

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

In this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a woman whose life’s calling is to care for animals in distress

A sign for credit agency Moody's, on August 13, 2010, in New York. (AP/ Mark Lennihan)

Moody’s lowers Israel’s growth outlook, cites heightened risk of conflict, ‘weakened institutions’

By Sharon Wrobel

Rating agency maintains Israel’s credit rating but cautions about lingering economic fallout from defense spending and threats to judicial system

US Air Force refueling aircraft are seen parked on the tarmac of the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on February 25, 2026. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

US halts removal of refuelers from Ben Gurion Airport, but Israel says only 20 can stay

By Sharon Wrobel

Hella Eskenazi (C) poses with the Cuban delegation for the Maccabiah Games in Israel. (Courtesy Hella Eskenazi)

Five countries over four days: How Cuba’s Maccabiah Games delegation made it to Israel

By jacob gurvis

Athletes representing their nation at the ‘Jewish Olympics’ had to contend with complications leaving their beleaguered island and Middle East air flight turmoil

More Headlines

Correspondence between Dr. Jan Nowak and his family during the Holocaust (Auschwitz Museum)

Letters written by Auschwitz doctor offer rare look at wartime family ties

Customers line up for lunch at the Goldie falafel restaurant in Philadelphia, December 4, 2023. A protest against Israel over the Gaza war drew criticism from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as being a "blatant act of antisemitism" after protesters gathered at the Jewish restaurant. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Michael Solomonov’s restaurant group says anti-Israel boycott not behind closure of 6 locations

By Grace Gilson

Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, September 26, 2022. (Peter Dejong, Pool/AP)

UK legal watchdog upholds ICC prosecutor’s suspension, as decision on his firing looms

By AP and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian US activist Mahmoud Khalil, center right, listens as other people speak during a news conference in New York, July 14, 2026. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Anti-Israel US activist Mahmoud Khalil files lawsuit alleging ‘conspiracy’ against him

By JTA and ToI Staff

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