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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 1, 2026

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A projectile streaks through the sky over central Israel during an Iranian missile attack, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

LiveUpdated 1mo ago

Aug. 1: Israel said to assess Iran will fire missiles at it even if it doesn’t initially join new US offensive

Iran reportedly is top suspect for cyberattacks on US water systems * Bennett says Qatar more dangerous to Israel today than Iran; has access to PM’s office * Officer moderately wounded in southern Lebanon

11:35 pm

Herzog: Mamdani putting lives of NYC Jews at risk, spreads 'blasphemy, hate, antisemitic rhetoric'
11:09 pm

Iran's FM warns against 'adventurous action' by US, says Tehran ready to respond
11:07 pm

Former employee accuses Sara Netanyahu of physical abuse, racism; PMO denies charges

US President Donald Trump flashes a thumbs up while stepping off Air Force One upon arrival at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, July 31, 2026. (Aaron Schwartz/AFP)

WaPo: US gen. warns insufficiently equipped to defend Israel

Trump said to order strikes aimed at forcing Iran’s surrender; US citizens told to be ready to leave Mideast

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Offensive could begin this weekend, last several days; US embassies issue warnings to citizens; Tehran says countries aiding US risk being ‘engulfed by flames of war’; conflicting reports on Israeli role

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting, July 31, 2026, at Camp David, the presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Md., July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump slams ‘dishonorable’ and ‘dishonest’ Iran, hints additional strikes possible

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

In major shift, Yesh Atid MK reportedly set to run as No. 2 in Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party

Yoav Segalovitz, Jewish lawmaker who won trust among Arab public for fighting violent crime, will reportedly meet Abbas to join revamped, historically Islamist party next week

Yesh Atid MK Yoav Segalovitz attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset, July 13, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Analysis

How the Gaza disarmament deal proves everyone right — but could spell trouble for Netanyahu

The deal may not be implemented, but its very signing gives Israel and its critics, and Netanyahu and his opponents, reason to both celebrate and worry; for the PM, it may prove especially problematic as the election nears

US President Donald Trump (C) speaks during the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

US President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen during a cabinet meeting, July 31, 2026, at Camp David, the presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Maryland, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

UN, EU, and Britain urge all parties to respect deal

Trump claims Israel ‘very happy’ about Hamas disarmament deal, as Netanyahu indicates otherwise

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

In further rejection of US-feted deal, Israeli official says pullback won’t happen until ‘real’ disarmament of Hamas; Eisenkot says PM ‘capitulated’ without achieving war’s goals

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing. (ToI/AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 31 – As Hamas agrees to lay down weapons, Israel is up in arms

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Israeli cardiac surgeons from Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and Save a Child's Heart (SACH) and Zambian surgeons perform open-heart surgery on a child in an operating room at National Heart Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, on July 14, 2026. (Courtesy/Save a Child's Heart)

'We can't save the whole word ourselves - so we train them'

In Zambia, Israeli team helps train country’s first generation of pediatric cardiac surgeons

By Diana Bletter

Save a Child’s Heart program mentors hospital staff with 6-year fellowship, recently donated crucial new equipment; group has helped 8,500 kids and trained 160 doctors worldwide

A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country at global AIDS conference

By Jessica Donati

Cancer, chemo and a kinder worldview

After years of telling awe-inspiring stories of those living with and touched by disability, I finally understand what it means to be vulnerable

Ekaterina Deilli

The words I didn’t have

Israel – and my conversion to Judaism – taught me a whole new vocabulary for connecting with people

The market solution to the Haredi draft crisis

Instead of fighting a losing battle over conscription, the IDF should pay fair wages to professional soldiers and let incentives do what coercion has not

Menachem Rosensaft

Thanks to Mamdani, I won’t protest Netanyahu’s UN visit

Liberal Zionists demonstrated during the prime minister’s previous NY trips to support Israel’s democracy movement. We can’t rally alongside antisemites

Migrants run from Spanish police officers after crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)

Israel’s UN envoy sparks Spain spat with accusation of ‘colonial enclaves’ in Africa

Danon’s criticism over Ceuta migrant crisis fuels conspiracy theories accusing Jerusalem of helping orchestrate incursion and draws a rebuke from Israel’s ambassador in Madrid

Migrants wait for a shop to open so they can buy food after crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)

France and Italy tighten border controls amid Spanish migrant crisis

By Lucia Diaz and Hicham RAFIH

'Nova Festival is mirror of my world; I could have been there'

Boy George defends pro-Israel song, says critics ignore Israelis’ suffering

British pop star says his Nova festival tribute is ‘pro peace,’ rejects claims he lacks compassion for Palestinians, after stepping down from West End role amid backlash

Boy George poses for photographers upon arrival at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards in London, November 19, 2023. (Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Members of the band Massive Attack display a Palestinian flag at their concert in Singapore, July 29, 2026. (X video: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Singapore bans 2 members of Brit band Massive Attack for waving Palestinian flag at concert

Meir Charash on one of his bike rides, 2020 (Courtesy)

Peoples of Israel'We carry our losses beside us, but we keep moving'

Meir Charash: Cyclist, father, and advocate who keeps on riding

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

On this week’s Peoples of Israel, we meet a man who measures his life not by the lack of bumps in the road, but his choice to stay the path

Off-duty soldier held for allegedly shooting, wounding child

Settlers assault Palestinians, burn cars in overnight West Bank raid; no arrests

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Police say they are probing settler attack that left 3 wounded in Hebron-area town of Surif; settlers reportedly assault Palestinian couple tending farm near Ramallah

Illustrative: A Palestinian man inspects his burnt-out car after it was set alight by Israeli settlers, near Bethlehem, West Bank, on July 29, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

Israeli settlers carry cardboard boxes from a building under construction in the Palestinian village of Tell, in the West Bank, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian shot by troops amid clash with settlers near Tell, week after deadly gunfight

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AFP

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and President Donald Trump attend a cabinet meeting, July 31, 2026, at Camp David, the presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Maryland. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says Rubio working to bring ICC ‘to heel’ to ‘defend Bibi and others’

US secretary of state hits out at ‘very arrogant’ International Criminal Court, which he says has made itself ‘illegitimate’ by claiming authority over non-member states

Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrate against a cafe operating on Shabbat and clash with Israeli police, while secular protesters hold a counter-demonstration in support of the cafe in central Jerusalem, August 1, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi protesters try to force their way into Jerusalem cafe open on Shabbat

Police said to use batons to disperse demonstrators after they clash with secular patrons, attempt to enter Cafe Basimta, amid largest turnout since 5-week campaign began

Windows of the Herzliya Pasta Basta branch shown smashed on July 31, 2026. (Herzliya Mayor Yaron Fisher/Facebook)

Windows of Herzliya pasta franchise smashed, allegedly because it opens on Shabbat

By Michael Horovitz

This week's The Reel Schmooze podcast features Billy Wilder's 1944 'Double Indemnity.' (courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘Double Indemnity’: Billy Wilder’s film noir masterpiece

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the 1944 release that help launch a genre and put the Jewish refugee from Europe on on the movie-making map

Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan accuses anti-Israel rival of scapegoating Jews

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Haley Stevens says Abdul El-Sayed is blaming all his ‘problems on Jewish Americans,’ as he launches fresh broadside at AIPAC days before the primary vote

Michigan US Senate candidates, Abdul El-Sayed, left, and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., are displayed on a television during a debate inside the spin room at WoodTV studios on July 7, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Kristen Norman)

Illustrative: Congregation Beth Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bangor, Maine. (Wikimedia Commons)

Maine rabbis issue joint call for peace, urge politicians to stop calling Gaza war ‘genocide’

By Grace Gilson

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Jewish Democrats back Michigan AG Dana Nessel’s decision to skip state party convention

By Grace Gilson

Current and pre-revolution Iranian banknotes are displayed by a street money exchanger at Ferdowsi square, Tehran’s go-to venue for foreign currency exchange, in downtown Tehran, Iran, on August 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

'Ideology is IRGC’s branding, profit is its business model'

Illicit Iranian gambling network helped pull off a $4 billion sanctions dodge

By Gavin Finch, Feras Dalatey, Denise Ajiri, Tom Wilson and Farah Master

Gambling is banned in Islamic Republic, but Revolutionary Guards commandeered country’s largest betting websites to move money, including during war, Reuters investigation finds

More Headlines

Firefirghters operate during a wildfire near Porto Germeno, north-west of Athens, Greece, August 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Firefighters in Greece struggle to save coastal resort as winds rage

By AFP

This image made from a video provided by KGTV shows the scene of an F-35 jet crash on July 31, 2026, near the Miramar Air Base in San Diego. (KGTV via AP)

US Marines say F-35 crashed in California; pilot expected to live after ejecting

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA

A burned car is seen after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)

Russia hits Ukrainian capital with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least 9

By VASILISA STEPANENKO

FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks with US President Donald Trump during the presentation ceremony of the 2026 World Cup football tournament final match between Spain and Argentina at the New York/New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford on July 19, 2026. (Mandel NGAN/AFP)

UEFA says it has lost confidence in FIFA’s Infantino after failed plan to privatize World Cup

By AP

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