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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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US President Donald Trump (left) welcomes Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House, November 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Minister says Israel will work to block deal

Trump to seek Congress approval for US-Saudi nuclear energy pact without safeguards

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Sources say deal to build reactors not conditioned on normalizing ties with Israel, as demanded by Biden administration; agreement said to fall short of blocking paths to weaponization

President Donald Trump meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office at the White House, July 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Sit-down comes hours after first 'pilot zone' handover

Meeting Trump in DC, Aoun says Lebanon will end hostility with Israel ‘forever’

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

US president says he is willing to meet Hezbollah if Beirut requests, vows to help Lebanon ‘a lot’; IDF says it fired ‘warning shots’ near LAF troops who breached its buffer zone

Lebanese PM plants flag in southern village, hailing start of ‘complete Israeli withdrawal’

By Lazar Berman and AP

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 22: IDF Lebanon pullout takes shape as Gaza peace plan stalls

By Gabriella Jacobs and Nava Freiberg

Trump says he ordered resumption of direct US-Lebanon flights for first time in decades

Yashar responds with supercut of Likud MKs praising Abbas

Critics accuse Netanyahu of mocking Eisenkot’s slain son in AI-generated ad

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Video shows Yashar chief running past young man wearing ‘Israeli unity’ shirt, to instead hug Arab party Ra’am’s chairman Mansour Abbas; Likud denies young man is meant to resemble Gal Eisenkot

Left: Gal Eisenkot (IDF). Right: A young man depicted wearing a 'Unity of Israel' shirt in an AI-generated ad, shared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, against Gadi Eisenkot, on July 21, 2026. (Screenshot via X)

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Op-ed

Losing ground to nemesis Eisenkot, a desperate Netanyahu plumbs new depths

Netanyahu wants to focus the election on the ostensible unsuitability of anyone but him to lead Israel, but his main rival is increasingly seen as a better alternative – serious about the national interest, neither slick nor cynical, and untainted by the worst leadership failure in the country’s history

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center-left) consoles war cabinet minister and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot (center in white kippa) at the funeral of Eisenkot's son, Master Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot, in Herzliya on December 8, 2023. Gal Eisenkot was killed December 7 during an IDF ground operation in the Gaza Strip. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

In an address to the nation, President Isaac Herzog warns against violence surrounding the upcoming elections, July 21, 2026. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Televised plea to nation

‘Elections are not a civil war’: Herzog warns of ‘dangerous violence’ at outset of campaign

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

In address, president pleads for civility, commitment to election integrity; noting Tisha b’Av fast, Herzog stresses past eras of Jewish sovereignty were destroyed by infighting

In an address to the nation, President Isaac Herzog warns against violence surrounding the upcoming elections, July 21, 2026. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Full text of President Herzog’s speech warning against violence ahead of elections

A plume of smoke is seen in the distance from Eilat after an Iranian missile attack on Jordan on July 22, 2026. (Screen capture: Telegram)

Iranian missiles target Jordan, interception explosions boom over Eilat

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Jordanians say 4 missiles, 4 drones downed; US carries out another night of Iran strikes; Rubio warns that Iran’s designs for Strait of Hormuz set ‘dangerous precedent’

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, July 21, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Iran war has cost US $37.5 billion so far, Hegseth tells Senate as he asks for more funds

By LISA MASCARO

Satellite image shows smoke rising from Subiya Power and Water Desalination Plant, in Subiya Kuwait, July 18, 2026, after an Iranian attack, in this handout image obtained by Reuters on July 21, 2026. (CNES 2026, Distribution Airbus DS/Handout via REUTERS)

Kuwait says Iran hit power and water plants, as Tehran steps up attacks across region

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

US President Donald Trump appears on stage at Wheeler High School, July 22, 2026, in Marietta, Georgia. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Live updates (closed)

July 22: Trump claims Iran is ‘not ready to make a deal,’ but they will be very soon

By ToI Staff and Joshua Davidovich

US confirms signing a nuclear pact with Saudi Arabia, to Israel’s alarm * UK withdraws its diplomatic staff from Iran due to ‘ongoing security situation’

8:56 pm

US confirms signing a nuclear cooperation pact with Saudi Arabia
8:24 pm

Trump claims Iran is 'not ready to make a deal,' but they will be very soon
7:55 pm

UK withdraws its diplomatic staff from Iran due to 'ongoing security situation'

Analysis

Israel remains on sidelines of US-Iran fight, which for Jerusalem is just fine for now

Tehran is determined to impose its control over Hormuz, and hitting Israel doesn’t advance that goal. Normalcy returns, but no solution to the Iran threat is even on the horizon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a pilots' graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim Airbase, July 9, 2026. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)

This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor shows vehicles at the western entrance of the Pickaxe Mountain tunnel complex adjacent to the Natanz Nuclear Facility near Natanz, Isfahan province, central Iran, on June 21, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor/AFP)

Trump claims US will strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain ‘probably pretty soon’

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg and Lazar Berman

This June 15, 2026, photo from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, upper right, and the construction at Pickaxe Mountain directly to the south of it. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

ExplainerWhat is Pickaxe Mountain, the underground Iranian nuclear site Trump has threatened?

By Jon Gambrell

Zealotry – not baseless hatred – will lead to Israel’s collapse

Today, as in ancient times, ideologues will risk civil war to thwart compromises. Fortunately, most of the nation thinks they’re wrong

Tisha B’Av and the neighbor behind the hedge

Would my family’s Shabbat prayers disturb our secular neighbor? Would he complain about our new porch? Would our different ’labels’ destroy the peace of my home?

Cecilia Lazzaro Blasbalg

Since when does Lionel Messi stand for Zionism?

World Cup anti-Argentine conspiracies spread like wildfire, painting the country as racist and blaming Israel and the Jews for Argentina’s wins

When your dream is a source of harm, give it up

Tisha B’Av teaches that not every act of destruction is an unmitigated tragedy; ending a marriage can be the needed first step toward a new life

Batya 'Betty' Ezri stands in front of Batya Vintage House on Shlomzion HaMalka, 2026. (Gabi Nissan)

Peoples of Israel'Being in this store lets me travel through time'

Batya Ezri, the ‘time traveler’ 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 the owner of a vintage store where people don’t come only to shop, but to remember

Mamdani admits he lacks power to arrest Netanyahu, after repeated pledges to do so

New York City mayor reneges on campaign promise, saying he ‘doesn’t have the independent legal authority’ to cuff Israel’s premier

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States at City Hall in New York, July 3, 2026. (Anna Connors/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

(Left) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledges audience applause after his address to the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew); (right) Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a union rally on Park Avenue, in New York, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mamdani takes fire from both sides after saying he can’t arrest Netanyahu

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Mohsen Mahdawi speaks outside the courthouse after a US judge released the Palestinian student activist on April 30, 2025 in Burlington, Vermont. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)

US court overturns order releasing pro-Palestinian Columbia activist Mohsen Mahdawi

By AP and ToI Staff

Interview

Karhi’s media overhaul has democracy in its crosshairs, not just broadcasting, expert says

Media scholar says government knew law could not survive judicial review, but advanced it anyway in order to shatter legislative norms and provoke showdown with High Court to please political base

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi at the Knesset, Jerusalem, July 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

People inspect a house that was destroyed by Israeli authorities in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, December 30, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Inside story

As Jerusalem razes enclave to restore open space, Palestinians see city shutting them out

Residents of Silwan’s al-Bustan are up in arms over home demolitions, but authorities say structures were built without authorization and must make room for green space

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) meets with Nauruan Foreign Minister Lionel Aingimea in Fiji, June 2025. (Gideon Sa'ar on X)

Tiny Nauru to open embassy in Jerusalem, will be tenth country to do so

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Pacific island nation, with some 12,000 inhabitants, is firmly pro-Israel, recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2019; FM Sa’ar met his Nauruan counterpart in Fiji last year

Explainer

Where does new UK premier Andy Burnham stand on Israel and antisemitism?

As Manchester mayor, he frequently spoke out against rising attacks against UK Jews, but community leaders have expressed worry over his framing of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza

Then-mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham talks to people as he attends a vigil for the victims of the terror attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, October 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)

Ed Miliband, Britain’s new foreign secretary, arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street in London, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Britain’s new Jewish FM has a long history of support for — and disagreement with — UK Jews

By Kelly Hartog

Yonatan Rom, left, who donated his kidney to Reuven Tam, right, recover together following the transplant at Clalit-Beilinson Hospital on July 14, 2026. Reuven's brother, Eyal Tam, saved Rom's life in a terrorist attack on March 7, 2002. (Courtesy/Clalit-Beilinson Hospital)

'Your brother saved my life 24 years ago; I'm saving yours'

Man donates kidney to brother of man who saved his life in 2002 terror attack

By Diana Bletter

Altruistic organ donation sees survivor of Gush Katif shooting that killed 5 and wounded 23 matched with sibling of commander of emergency response team who neutralized terrorist

Yosef, Henry and Joseph Hamra in front of the US Capitol in 2025. (Courtesy Syrian Emergency Task Force via JTA)

'This wouldn't have happened without the Jewish community'

As Israel urged caution, these Syrian Jews lobbied the US to lift sanctions on Syria

By Theia Chatelle

Unlikely alliance between son of Palestinian refugees and Jewish cantor drives campaign to give second chance to new government — and let exiles visit their former home

Mais Al-Gharam, second from right, poses for a photo with her six siblings from Gaza, who were granted Israeli passports, in her home in Nazareth, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

'Like coming back from the grave'

A family split between Israel and Gaza reunites in Nazareth after years of war

By AP

After years-long effort, Mais al-Gharam’s siblings join her in northern Israeli city, but nothing can bring back their parents and brother, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat

Palestinians inspects a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN condemns Israeli attacks in Gaza, after raft of strikes on Oct. 7 terrorists

By Agencies and ToI Staff

More Headlines

A new police station is located and will be officially opened in Adolf Hitler’s birth house in Braunau am Inn, Austria, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages

By Philipp Jenne

Hasan Piker speaks at a campaign rally for Abdul El-Sayed, a far left candidate in the Democratic primary for US Senate, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Jewish caucus demands apology for US College Democrats’ hosting of Hasan Piker

Illustrative: Leonard Nimoy as Spock from the series 'Star Trek.' (photo credit: Startrek.com)

A most logical choice‘Live Long and Prosper’: Spock’s legacy honors Jewish leaders for fighting hate

Illustrative image of Israeli national identity cards in Jerusalem on January 22, 2008. (Anna Kaplan/Flash90)

Israel seeks to revoke citizenship of 2 Arab citizens convicted of aiding Hamas

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Left: US Rep. Greg Stanton speaks during an election-night watch party on November 5, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin); Right: Kai Newkirk blocks traffic during a “Freedom Friday March” protest at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, August 6, 2021, Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Arizona congressman fends off anti-Israel challenger in Democratic primary

By JTA and ToI Staff

Flowering wild plants that were tested for drought both as individual species growing alone, and in a group. From top left to bottom right: Palestine catchfly, Israel marigold, purple clover, spring groundsel, common oat, and a mixed-species community containing all five species. (Barel Tsafon)

Growing apartDrought makes Israeli wildflowers change bloom schedule, study finds

Republican People’s Party or (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel gestures to party members during his speech during a CHP convention, in Ankara, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ali Unal)

Turkey’s ousted opposition leader says he is forming new party to take on Erdogan

By Fulya Ozerkan

Screen capture from video of an ultra-Orthodox social media influencer speaking about preparations for the Tisha B'av fast. Bottom line of text reads 'in cooperation with the Haredi Authority in the Prime Minister's Office'. (Yael Zien)

Prime Minister’s Office funding ultra-Orthodox influencers’ recipe videos – report

A worker installs a hand-painted billboard, painted by artist Virginia Axioti, for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film 'The Odyssey,' starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, outside Athens’ Athinaion cinema, where every film is promoted with a hand-painted billboard, July 11, 2026 (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Oregon theater manager who added ‘the Jews’ to ‘Odyssey’ marquee claims antisemitism is ‘exaggerated’

By Andrew Lapin

Screen capture of Israeli businessman Yakir Levi from the Channel 13 reality show 'The Americans.' (Channel 13)

Israeli tycoon reality star plunges to death from 28th floor of Miami luxury building

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