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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 18, 2026

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An F-16 fighter jet flies over an unspecified area of the Middle East, in an image published on June 25, 2026. (CENTCOM)

Live updates (closed)

July 18: Washington reportedly sending more warplanes to Middle East as fighting with Iran intensifies

IDF says explosive that killed Lebanese soldier was planted by Hezbollah * Liberman predicts effort by Netanyahu camp to use Shin Bet against election rivals and media outlets

8:25 pm

US reportedly sending more warplanes to Mideast as fighting with Iran intensifies
7:42 pm

Protest leader Bressler tells Jerusalem demo that Netanyahu seeks 'eternal kingship,' will lose election
7:32 pm

IDF says explosive that killed Lebanese soldier was planted by Hezbollah

Demonstrators wave Iranian and religious flags, including one depicting the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, during a pro-government gathering in Tehran, July 17, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

US embassy issues travel warning for northern Israel

US strikes Iran for seventh night in a row; Iranian forces launch strikes across Gulf

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US sending dozens of refueling jets back to Israel as Trump mulls renewing massive bombing campaign; Iran attacks Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq

Hezbollah supporters wave Hezbollah and Iranian flags during a gathering in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, July 8, 2026. (AP/Mustafa Jamalddine)

Iran said to tell Hezbollah, allies to prepare for wider conflict, which could rope in Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks about the unstable building at 235 East 42nd Street and the surrounding buildings that were evacuated, July 7, 2026, in New York. (AP/Angelina Katsanis)

Israel's UN envoy says it's Mamdani who should be arrested

Mamdani: Netanyahu should be arrested if he visits NYC; I’m discussing it but won’t rewrite laws

New York mayor says he’s having ‘an active conversation’ with city’s legal department to see what steps he could take should the the PM attend UN General Assembly in September

US House Committee on Armed Services Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith, a Washington Democrat, speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Democratic congressman who voted to cut off Israel aid decries far-left harassment campaign

National Education Association (NEA) Secretary-Treasurer Noel Candelaria speaks during a rally in Washington, May 20, 2026. (Kevin Wolf/AP Content Services for United for Democracy)

Inside storyADL and JCPA reactions to US teachers union exposes divide on how to fight antisemitism

By Grace Gilson

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

JD Vance declares war on Israel

Joe Rogan’s vast platform became the stage for a message that recasts Israel as a strategic burden and legitimizes suspicion of its supporters

I gathered the data on Jewish fiction publishing. The trends are alarming.

The future of Jewish storytelling may depend less on winning acceptance from traditional gatekeepers than on creating new ones

Ofir Drori poses in Cameroon with elephant tusks seized from an African-Asian crime syndicate. (Courtesy, EAGLE)

Interview'We work like an army, with discipline'

Inspired by IDF training, Israeli activist spearheads fight against global wildlife crime

Ofir Drori established a network that put 3,000 major animal traffickers behind bars. But now, he is struggling to keep his operation afloat

This combination of file photos created on July 16, 2026, shows Spain’s forward #19 Lamine Yamal in Arlington on July 14, 2026 (L); and Argentina’s forward #10 Lionel Messi in Atlanta on July 15, 2026. (Charly Triballeau and Roberto Schmidt/AFP)

Argentina vs Spain World Cup final becomes a proxy for the Israel-Palestinian conflict

By Juan Melamed and Joseph Strauss

Online fans cast Sunday’s match as a highly symbolic contest due to the opposing views on Israel in Madrid and Buenos Aires; some posts criticizing Messi ‘invoke antisemitic conspiracy theories’

The New York City skyline is seen through a cover of wildfire smoke, in Jersey City, New Jersey, July 17, 2026. (AP/Ryan Murphy)

Forecast unclear: Will wildfire smoke cloud the World Cup final in New Jersey?

By STEPHEN WHYNO

Officials suspect cigarette flicked from car sparked blaze

Fires force evacuations in northern community, West Bank settlement

Several homes catch fire in Havat Gilad, near Nablus; In Jezreel Valley town, first line of houses is vacated as firefighters tackle blaze; no reports of injuries

Illustrative: Firefighters battle blazes in Jerusalem, May 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A dump in Kafr Manda in northern Israel, whose owner was fined nearly $240,000 by the Environmental Protection Ministry for illegal burning of waste, January 14, 2020. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

Just before disbanding, Knesset passes long-awaited construction waste law

Avi Goldberger surrounded by music, May 2026 (Roy Elman)

Peoples of Israel'We try to create a kind of escapist bubble'

Avi Goldberger, pub owner who brings everyone together

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 9th generation Jerusalemite who unites the city over a good drink

IDF manpower chief: Extension of service period doesn’t replace need for more troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Dado Bar Kalifa says extending compulsory service to 32 months ‘allows a minimal breathing room’ for conscripts and reservists, calls ‘to expand the scope of draftees and those serving’

IDF Personnel Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa speaks with new Haredi soldiers at the Tel Hashomer base, May 3, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Ultra-Orthodox residents surround and attack a car presumably carrying Israel Tax Authority employees in Bnei Brak, July 16, 2026. (X video/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Tax Authority freezes war compensation claims in Bnei Brak after attacks on staff

Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, July 16, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Shin Bet reportedly demands unauthorized access to photos of citizens at airport

Separately, 3 Israelis detained for unruly behavior on plane, assaulted officers, police say; passengers on London-Tel Aviv flight stranded in UK after plane damaged before takeoff

Shin Bet director David Zini at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem during Memorial Day on April 21, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief reportedly seeks okay to question Channel 12 journalists over Iran leak

Separately, 5 Palestinians arrested, said to attack settlers

Settlers raid West Bank village in PA-run area; IDF, arriving on scene, lets them flee

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Military reportedly doesn’t hand settlers over to police, declares closed military zone forcing activists to leave West Bank village

Solidarity activists work to block settlers from entering a building in the West Bank village of Jurish, July 17, 2026. (X video/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

View of the Israeli border with Syria, as seen from the northern Golan Heights, April 11, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Settler activists illegally cross into Syria, stay for full day before being nabbed by IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Hostages Tal Shoham (left) and Avera Mengistu (third from left), surrounded by armed fighters, stand on a stage in Rafah as they are released by the Hamas terror group in Rafah on February 22, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Top Hamas aide who held hostages during war killed in strike on Khan Younis

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Anas Mahmoud Ahmad Hamdan served as an aide to commanders Muhammad Deif and Rafa’a Salameh, held Avera Mengistu captive, took part in hostage release ceremonies

Inside story

Colombia and Slovenia recognized a Palestinian state. Now they’re moving embassies to Jlem

Political swings offer rare good news for Israel as hostile governments are replaced by pro-Israel conservatives – though local Jews wait to see what impact, if any, that may have at home

Colombian President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, left, waves to supporters next to his wife Ana Lucia Pineda during a Mass in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira, in Chiquinquira, Colombia, July 9, 2026. (AP/Fernando Vergara)

Participants hoist cut-outs of anti-LGBTQ Israeli politicians and a giant pride flag with the words 'equality' and 'peace' in Hebrew, English and Arabic as they march through Jerusalem's city center during the capital's annual Pride Parade, on June 5, 2025. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Inside story'Life is hard here, but its still better than being killed'

Study of gay Palestinians who fled West Bank finds persecution by both PA and Israel

By Nurit Yohanan

HIAS report says Palestinian cities are distributing flyers instructing residents to report, beat LGBTQ individuals, while Israeli authorities are making it harder for them to find refuge or lead normal lives

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘Tuner’: The Jewiest film of the summer

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the comedic crime thriller that spotlights Dustin Hoffman, Lior Raz and Tovah Feldshuh

'Antibiotics and rest, and the stem cells will recover'

Israeli study finds antibiotics can reverse salmonella damage to stem cells in mice

By Diana Bletter

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers say findings may improve chances of success for some of the 90,000 stem cell transplants performed annually in humans worldwide

Prof. Roi Gazit, left, head of the stem cell laboratory at the Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Courtesy/Dani Michalis), and Dr. Ofir Cohen, also from BGU’s Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics.

Shorty, at left, is part of a thriving community of medical clowns in Israel. (Deborah Danan/ JTA)

'It isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s part of recovery'

Medical clowns offer serious relief for Israeli kids recovering from trauma

By Deborah Danan

Brashness, innovation and willingness to take risks put Israel at global forefront of growing discipline as the country continues to reel from Oct. 7 and subsequent years of conflict

Mamdani of the Midwest?

Francesca Hong, running for governor of Wisconsin, focuses campaign on affordability — and Israel

Candidate in Democratic primary, using pro-Palestinian stance as springboard, appears on podcasts whose hosts have been accused of antisemitism, isolating many local Jewish voters

Governor candidate Francesca Hong speaks on stage during Wisconsin Democrats 2026 Convention on June 14, 2026, in Madison, Wisconsin. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for WisDems/AFP)

Psoy Korolenko, left, and Anna Shternshis, right, collaborated on "Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II." (Photo and design by Dan Rosenberg via JTA)

Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II

Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia

By Shira Li Bartov

Tour through Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing plays Yiddish music rescued by Moisei Beregovsky, a Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist, and rediscovered in the 1990s

More Headlines

Andy Burnham speaks after being confirmed as the Labour Party's new leader and the country's next prime minister, during 'Labour's Special Conference' in central London, July 17, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)

Andy Burnham poised to become UK’s next prime minister after winning Labour vote

By Jill Lawless

Illustrative photo of a Jewish man reading from a prayer book. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Why Orthodox Jews in the US are pushing back against permanent daylight saving time

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

At the gin tasting hosted by the British Embassy for Israeli distributors on July 13, 2026. (Mai Savir)

British gin-vasionUK gin finds a thirsty audience in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during the inaugural Conservative Political Action Conference Great Britain (CPAC GB) in south-east London on July 17, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

Farage to stand against ‘record’ 33 candidates in UK by-election, including Count Binface

By AFP

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