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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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A photograph taken on December 27, 2025, shows an Iranian-designed Shahed 136 (Geranium-2) drone used by the Russian Army flying over Kyiv during a Russian drone and missile attack, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

LiveUpdated 2mo ago

July 28: Ukraine tells Iran to stop supporting Russia’s war; Iranian FM demands restitution for weekend strike

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Saudi Arabia says it intercepted drones launched from Iraq targeting oil facilities * Iran proposes temporary Hormuz plan giving itself greater control over transit lines

11:35 pm

Hadash MK shoved by police officer at memorial for slain Palestinian activist
11:20 pm

Ukrainian FM tells Iranian counterpart country must stop supporting Russia's war; Araghchi demands restitution for weekend strike
11:07 pm

Lebanon arrests man suspected of transferring money to ISIS in Syria

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while on Air Force One en route to Oakland County International Airport, July 27, 2026, in Waterford Township, Mich. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon)

Trump, ahead of meet with Netanyahu: ‘I don’t need Bibi’ for intel on Pickaxe Mountain

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

US president, in irritated comments before hosting PM, criticizes Netanyahu for ostensibly speaking publicly about activity at the nuclear site; Katz: Israel wants to strike Iran but US holding us back

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while on Air Force One en route to Oakland County International Airport, July 27, 2026, in Waterford Township, Mich. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon)

Trump on Netanyahu opposing F-35s to Turkey: ‘Nobody tells me what we should be selling’

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/CENTCOM)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 28 – Points of friction as Trump and Netanyahu meet

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Combo pictures, clockwise from top left: Jaber Mohammadin in civilian attire and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform; Ahmad Adel Abu al-Hilal in hospital scrubs and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform; Abd al-Latif Abu Tuaima in civilian attire and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform; and Salem Jumaa Shirab in civilian attire and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform. (Pictures from Palestinian Islamic Jihad social media, Facebook, social media; Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

ToI investigates

Gaza death notices show some so-called health workers were operating for terror groups

By Nurit Yohanan

Times of Israel review of Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcements finds that at least 18 of those identified as doctors, nurses and hospital employees in Gaza were also combatants

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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)

High Court extends freeze on law banning arrest of Haredi draft dodgers

By Jeremy Sharon

Justices barely challenge legal arguments that law is discriminatory and violated Knesset procedure, speak out sharply against Haredi claim in court that Torah ‘forbids’ enlistment

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 9, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG urges court to freeze law granting government control over police internal affairs

By Jeremy Sharon

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Trump listens to a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, on December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)

Ahead of Netanyahu-Trump meeting, mediators believe US-Iran breakthrough near

Sources say Trump waiting to decide on matter until he’s met with Israeli PM; Iran and Oman have okayed proposal to clarify Hormuz disagreements, revive memorandum of understanding

This picture shows ships sailing near the Strait of Hormuz off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates at Khor Fakkan on July 13, 2026. (AFP)

Oman hands Iran Gulf-backed proposal for joint control over Hormuz, with voluntary fees

A commercial vessel passes through an international shipping lane off Yemen’s Hanish Island in the Red Sea on July 27, 2026. (Khaled ZIAD/AFP)

Red Sea tanker traffic rises as progress in US-Iran talks buoys shippers

By Mohi Narayan and ToI Staff

Likud approves Netanyahu’s plan to expand his control over party slate

By Ariela Karmel

Measure gives premier unprecedented influence over more than 1/3 of party’s realistic ticket; lawmakers believe he may give some of his 8 reserved slots in the top 29 to politicians outside of Likud

A person votes at a polling station during the Likud party internal vote in Jerusalem, July 27, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

L: Yashar party chair Gadi Eisenkot, on November 1, 2025. (Moshe Shai/Flash90) R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll shows Eisenkot and Netanyahu neck and neck as public’s preferred PM

Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dror Shalom speaks during an interview at a conference organized by the Institute for National Security Studies, July 27, 2026. (Screenshot: YouTube/INSS)

'Military ability is impressive. It's not enough'

Outgoing top defense official pans ‘resounding failure’ of Israel’s war strategy

In rare interview, Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dror Shalom, who headed Defense Ministry’s Political-Military Bureau, urges diplomacy, says government could have freed Gaza hostages earlier

A video depicts smoke rising following a reported Houthi drone strike on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil processing facility in the country's east on July 27, 2026. (Screenshot/X)

Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq attacked by drones despite lull in US-Iran fighting

US first lady Melania Trump applauds as she hosts the Inaugural Presidential AI Challenge National Champion Awards Ceremony at the White House on June 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

IRGC-linked outlet encourages supporters to kill Melania Trump, threatens son Barron

Benjamin Resnick

What I learned watching ‘The Odyssey’ in Tel Aviv

Homer’s epic tale has a universal appeal that makes it the perfect plot for a blockbuster movie, but the Hebrew Bible has a different, more enduring power

Daniel Chamovitz

Five laws for the Negev, not five culture wars

The coalition just proved it can pass divisive bills at breakneck speed. Imagine using that same discipline to bring physicians, rail, research, and jobs to the south

Yair Golan: PM engages in 'nonstop incitement' to keep job

‘Someone will die’: Vandal smashes Channel 12 office doors again, leaves threatening note

Network’s Tel Aviv entrance hit with two bricks, message demands apology for coverage of alleged abuse of Palestinian at Sde Teiman army base; outlet accuses government of incitement

A masked assailant is caught on surveillance footage hurling a brick at the glass doors of Channel 12's offices in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of July 28, 2026. (Channel 12 via X)

Boy George kicks off PRIDE week with a surprise popup DJ set at Stonewall Inn, June 20, 2026, in New York City. (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images via JTA)

‘If you’re ever confused: I stand with the Jews,’ Boy George releases pro-Israel song

By Kelly Hartog

‘We Will Dance Again – Od Nirkod,’ which takes its title from slogan of Nova festival survivors, is latest show of solidarity from the musician, who is increasingly vocal in support of Jewish communities

3 women stabbed in Paris; suspect arrested, says, ‘Allah commanded me’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pregnant woman reportedly among victims, all of whom are expected to survive; French interior minister says motive still unknown, attacker’s statements ‘incoherent’ upon arrest

Footage of the suspect who stabbed three women in Paris on July 27, 2026. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

From left, Family Minister Karin Prien, Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt carry flowers as they visit Tiergarten park after an attacker rammed a vehicle into a crowd near Berlin’s annual Pride event, in Berlin, July 26, 2026. (Annegret Hilse/Pool Photo via AP)

Merz vows action after Berlin Pride attack amid outcry that suspect was not in jail

The scene of an anti-Jewish stabbing on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, July 23, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Suspect in stabbing of Jewish man in NYC charged with attempted murder as hate crime

Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, State Department Chief of Staff Daniel Holler, US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa and Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh attend a meeting between Israeli and Lebanese delegations hosted by the United States at the State Department in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026. (Oliver Contreras / AFP)

New round of talks between Israel and Lebanon to begin August 4 in Rome

Washington says negotiations will focus on expanding pilot zones of IDF withdrawal, resolving outstanding border disputes, and working toward peace agreement

The mold used to produce the face of the female figurine, alongside the reconstruction produced from it (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Breaking the mold

First Temple-era mold offers clues to mystery of ‘pagan’ female figurines in Holy City

First mold discovery in Jerusalem provides evidence that enigmatic clay artifacts — possibly linked to the goddess Asherah— were manufactured in biblical capital

Left: Defense Minister Israel Katz (L) in Jerusalem, May 31, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90); right: Tal Yinon Dardik (Courtesy)

Katz orders end to administrative restraining order on detained settler extremist

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid

In separate incidents, IDF said to demolish Palestinian family’s Jordan Valley home despite court order against it, Palestinian-American says troops kicked his family out of home to use as lookout position

Illustrative image of freight, containers and shipping and cargo (AvigatorPhotographer; iStock by Getty Images)

Inside story

Trump’s tariff push hits strained Israeli exporters with higher duty on goods to US

By Sharon Wrobel

US administration imposes 12.5% import tax on Israeli goods, saying move targets countries with insufficient regulations or weak enforcement of bans on goods made by forced labor

Anti-Israel protesters chant holding signs at a rally in front of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 28, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso/ AFP/ File)

Legal brief asks US Supreme Court to consider anti-Zionism potential discrimination

Center for Jewish Legal Studies argues anti-Zionist activity can be anti-Jewish due to historical context, hoping to introduce new legal approach to US court battles

US Rep. Haley Stevens (l), candidate for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan, discusses Israel with Jai Singletary, director of a Detroit neighborhood improvement association, in Detroit, Michigan, July 27, 2026. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)

In Detroit, pro-Israel Senate candidate Haley Stevens meets voter for pro-Palestinan rival

By Andrew Lapin

More Headlines

Illustrative: Policemen enter their vehicle on July 23, 2013, in Malia on the Greek island of Crete. (AFP/Costas Metaxakis)

Israelis say they were attacked by anti-Israel mob who stormed their hotel in Crete

By Michael Horovitz

A woman talks on her cellphone as she walks past an anti-US graffiti on the wall of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran hangs two anti-government protesters in public

By AFP

US President Donald Trump arrives to board Marine One on the Ellipse near the White House on July 22, 2026 in Washington, DC, before traveling to Dover Air Force Base to attend the dignified transfers of US service members killed by Iranian military strikes in Jordan. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images/AFP)

Pentagon removes 4 troops killed in renewed Iran fighting from official war death toll

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN

This aerial image shows the damaged AEON Mall, following an earthquake in Kashima, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, July 28, 2026. (Kyodo News via AP)

Powerful quake hits southern Japan, with deaths feared in shopping mall explosion

By Anton Bridge and Mariko Katsumura

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