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What Matters Most On Friday, July 31, 2026

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US President Donald Trump speaks, joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, from third left, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and from bottom row left, Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, speaks during a cabinet meeting, July 31, 2026, at Camp David, the presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Maryland, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Live updates (closed)

July 31: US Treasury chief says seized Iran assets will go to Iranian people

Oil price rises after Iran says it stops ships in Hormuz * Palestinian child injured by reported Israeli gunfire at West Bank village * 12% of Israelis are still undecided ahead of October election — poll *

7:20 pm

Democratic Senate candidate Stevens accuses rival El-Sayed of blaming his problems on Jews
6:56 pm

Palestinian child injured by reported Israeli gunfire at West Bank village
6:10 pm

Bashing Netanyahu, Eisenkot suggests US-backed disarmament deal leaves Hamas in power

Inside story

Trump will be ‘very disappointed’ if Israel obstructs his Gaza plan, US official warns

Comments come after Netanyahu’s office says Israel can’t accept disarmament proposal approved by Hamas, which official says triggered 14-day sprint to set implementation timeline

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office on July 28, 2026. (GPO)

Illustrative: Armed members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad greet people gathering for Eid al-Fitr prayers in Gaza City, March 20, 2026. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Offer envisions gradual handover of guns to NCAG for storage

Trump: Board of Peace has reached agreement on ‘complete disarmament’ of Hamas

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Nurit Yohanan

Mediators pushed Hamas to back deal to ‘place ball in Israel’s court,’ given unlikelihood PM will approve any pullback in Gaza before election; Israeli official: Proposal doesn’t meet our demands

US President Donald Trump holds a gavel during a signing ceremony at the inaugural meeting of the "Board of Peace" at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

DocumentFull text of Board of Peace deal for Hamas to disarm, Israel to withdraw from Gaza

AnalysisIn DC, Netanyahu showcases diplomatic wins, but they all have expiration dates

From the Blogs

Molly Livingstone

The shadow of the Hebrew U. bombing, 24 years later

The day Marla Bennett was murdered, I was waiting for her to return to our California summer camp and tell me all about her time in Israel. I am here because of her

Gaza terrorist who kidnapped Noa Argamani, Avinatan Or on Oct. 7 killed in strike — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian, Reuters and ToI Staff

Hamas commander who held hostages Romi Gonen, Noa Marciano killed in separate attack; strike reported hours after Hamas disarmament deal announced, which Gazans hope Trump will implement

Released hostage Avinatan Or reunites with his girlfriend and former hostage Noa Argamani, upon his release from captivity on October 13, 2025. (IDF)

Freed hostage Evyatar David arrives at his home in Kfar Saba, October 26, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Ex-hostage Evyatar David details struggles with PTSD, a year after Hamas forced him to dig own grave

14 Givati soldiers dismissed from combat duty, given 30-day sentence for leading desertion

By Emanuel Fabian

About 100 soldiers had walked off base, left weapons in protest of commander; 80 or so who returned to be kept there this weekend, undergo training; two yet to be sentenced, one hasn’t returned

IDF soldiers seen leaving the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, southern Israel, July 30, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Left to right: Troops of the Givati Brigade's Tzabar Battalion abandoned their base in southern Israel, July 30, 2026; weapons left behind by the troops; a sign belonging to troops that was smashed by their commander. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

100 soldiers stage mass walk-out at southern IDF base after row with their commander

By Emanuel Fabian

A woman walks near Tzur Misgavi, an illegal outpost in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, November 17, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Analysis'Israel's societal fracture is about religion and state'

God, land and politics: As Israel heads to elections, where do religious Israelis stand?

By Rossella Tercatin

Bombastic, hardline politicians have become the face of the Religious Zionist community, but recent polling shows that while core beliefs are unchanging, the group is far from a monolith

Rumored ‘Likud B’ party led by Erdan and Edelstein picks up 5 seats in new ToI poll

Off-duty soldiers, Border Police attacked in Jerusalem by dozens of Haredi men

Migrants cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)

Italy suspends open-border agreement with Spain

Tens of thousands of migrants breach Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in north Africa; 34 said dead

Chaos in Moroccan border town, with migrants throwing rocks, torching police cars; Spain claims half of 50,000 entrants have headed back; officers warn of ‘humanitarian crisis’ as unaccompanied minors sleep on streets

Members of the Saudi security forces take part in a military parade ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca on May 21, 2026. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Saudis said to gear up for ground invasion against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Saudi forces seen withdrawing from east of Yemen, in possible prep for a campaign, report says, as Riyadh announces 14-country alliance to protect Red Sea shipping

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets Chinese President Xi Jinping, during the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 9, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

AnalysisFrustrated with the US, Gulf states look to China for help reining in Iran

By Samia Nakhoul and Timour Azhari

Palestinian motorists queue at a gas station while the city is experiencing a severe fuel shortage following the Israel Iran conflict, in Ramallah June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

'Morning to night, all you see are lines at gas stations'

West Bank fuel shortage strands Palestinians at pump with economy running on empty

By Nurit Yohanan

Cash liquidity crunch and fiscal strains, some stemming from PA’s reliance on Israeli shekel, seen as driving petrol scarcity, leading to long gas lines and illicit ‘black gold’ sales

Gazan beekeepers struggle to recover after war wipes out honey production

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

Jeremy Sharon, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

Deadly West Bank gunfight underscores peril as Palestinians organize against settler attacks

With friction points moving inside Palestinian cities as settlers carry out violent raids in Areas A and B, residents are getting together to confront assailants, raising fears of armed clashes

A Palestinian stands next to a fire after brush was set ablaze on the roadside to prevent an Israeli settler attack in the West Bank village of Sinjil, July 17, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)

Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks at a pilots' graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim Airbase, July 9, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Katz boasts of ending administrative detention for Jews, increasing its use against Arabs

Lazar Focus podcast

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump must set up an Iranian government-in-exile

By Lazar Berman

Speaking to the Iranians is futile, says the leading classicist and military historian. He explains why American’s don’t have patience for war and why JD Vance is bashing Israel

IDF demolishes Hezbollah tunnels below southern Lebanon’s Beaufort Ridge

By Emanuel Fabian

PM and defense minister say subterranean system blown up in response to drone attack a day earlier, after postponing the demolition due to the framework deal reached in June

An IDF soldier is seen in a Hezbollah tunnel near the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, July 7, 2026. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun before their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, July 30, 2026. (Ugur Yildirim/DIA Photo via AP)

Erdogan says Turkey seeks to join a post-UNIFIL security force in Lebanon

By AP and ToI Staff

How Benjamin Netanyahu eroded Israel’s bipartisan support in America

It wasn’t an accident, nor the result of changing US administrations; Bibi consciously courted a conservative alliance, and Israel is paying the price

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Time to come home

Don’t wait until life over there gets impossible, God forbid, or until staying becomes too painful. Move to Israel now. On your own terms

Singer Boy George is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, June 15, 2026. (AP/Richard Drew)

Boy George pulls out of Jesus Christ Superstar, after releasing pro-Israel single

British pop singer was slated to play Herod in West End production from August 3-15; manager makes oblique reference to ‘We Will Dance Again,’ which defends Jewish state

Demonstrators gather outside the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, July 30, 2026, as a plea hearing for 25 people accused of showing support for Palestine Action takes place. (AP/Alberto Pezzali)

UK Supreme Court to hear appeal against Britain’s ban on Palestine Action group

Harold Grinspoon received a warm welcome by the several hundred participants at PJ Library's conference, held in April 2026 in Springfield, Massachusetts. (Courtesy PJ Library via JTA)

'I always knew that if I made money, I would give back'

The man who changed Jewish bedtime stories is still reinventing himself at 97

By Penny Schwartz

Philanthropist Harold Grinspoon has taken up art while continuing to fund the expansion of PJ Library, which engages young Jewish families with monthly deliveries of children’s books

Senior US official pressured Oct. 7 victims to drop restitution case, lawsuit says

Case against prominent Palestinian-American businessman Bashar Masri — who denies wrongdoing — says he used unnamed government contact to encourage plaintiffs to drop legal claims

Palestinian entrepreneur Bashar al-Masri in front of his residential project of Rawabi in the West Bank, on February 23, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90/File)

The Supreme Court is seen July 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Mariam Zuhaib)

Palestinians ask US Supreme Court to halt $656m payment pending restitution case appeal

By AP

From left foreground, Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney, US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michigan Democratic US Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed, US Sen. Bernie Sanders, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, and US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, join hands following a campaign rally for El-Sayed, July 18, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

The El-Sayed effect: How Jews and Israel are factoring into Michigan’s primaries

By Andrew Lapin

Avowedly pro-Palestinian progressive’s bid to become senator of swing state is mirrored in other contests — including in districts with few Jewish residents

US court dismisses free speech challenge to California’s school antisemitism law

By Shira Li Bartov

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Then-Ibero-American Secretary Rebeca Grynspan speaks in Antigua, Guatemala, November 16, 2018. (AP/Oliver de Ros)

Costa Rica’s Grynspan narrowly leads UN chief race, would be first woman, first Jew

By Reuters and Luke Tress

A view of the damaged entrance door to the Channel 12 News building in Tel Aviv after it was shattered by an unknown suspect overnight, July 28, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man arrested on suspicion of smashing Channel 12 office entrance, leaving death threat

Team at AI security startup Onyx Security. (Courtesy of Netanel Tobias)

Israeli cyber startup raises $113m to secure and control autonomous AI agents

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative image of the Ozora trance music festival in Hungary. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli festivalgoer stabbed in Hungary, two arrested over drug suspicions

Illustrative: Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv during a heatwave, on April 24, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Following Europe, Israel braces for dayslong extreme heat wave on Friday

By Diana Bletter

FILE - A woman walks by a Cornell University sign on the Ivy League school's campus, Jan. 14, 2022, in Ithaca, New York. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Cornell denounces student’s viral antisemitic remarks, but won’t bar him from campus

By Andrew Lapin

The AgriStar kosher slaughterhouse in the United States is located in Postville, Iowa, is seen in an undated photo. (Jake Tapper via JTA)

Fire at Iowa kosher meat plant shuts down production and puts 600 people out of work

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Sara Netanyahu attends a “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit,” at the US State Department, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Suing for $100,000, ex-worker accuses Sara Netanyahu of verbal, physical abuse

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