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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 2, 2026

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US President Donald Trump waves as he walks from Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, July 31, 2026, from Camp David, the presidential retreat. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Saudi leader said to have voiced concern to Trump about plan

Trump says he and Israel have called off Iran attack after being assured deal is imminent

By Jacob Magid, Reuters and ToI Staff

US leader claims pact will fully reopen Hormuz, ‘end’ Iran’s nuclear threat; Tehran had threatened response to planned attack, warning Israeli gas fields would be ‘burned to ashes’

A man looks at a banner depicting US President Donald Trump displayed in front of the Zolfaghar and Zolghadr ballistic missiles exhibited at Azadi Square in Tehran, Iran's capital, on August 2, 2026. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Reuters)

Iran denies it asked Trump not to strike or agreed to deal to split control of Hormuz

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Mideast expert Ksenia Svetlova joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (courtesy/ToI/AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 2 – Saudis talk Trump down from Iran strike… for now

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ksenia Svetlova

An illustrative photo of the Israel-Egypt border, September 9, 2025. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 2: Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 strikes Egypt, is felt in Israel

By Michael Horovitz, Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Israeli Navy to conduct drill off Israel’s coast * American Airlines won’t resume Israel flights before March 27

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 strikes Egypt, is felt in Israel
11:33 pm

Hundreds have fled jihadist attacks in southwest Niger -- officials
10:28 pm

Trump says talks with Iran will start Monday on deal to reopen Hormuz

Palestinian residential salvage what they can from an apartment targeted in overnight Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on August 2, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP)

Islamic Jihad reportedly agrees to disarmament plan

Senior minister says Israel not halting attacks in Gaza as 17 said killed in IDF strikes

By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

Eli Cohen: Cabinet yet to discuss disarmament plan that Hamas agreed to; PMO says it shared ‘concerns’ with US; kids reportedly among dead in Gaza, IDF says it hit Hamas targets

A Hamas gunman stands in Gaza City on November 2, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Exiled Palestinian leader says Kushner told him Israel would halt Gaza strikes; deletes post

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

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Yesh Atid’s Yoav Segalovitz, who has a track record of tackling crime in the Arab sector, is apparently being courted by Mansour Abbas’s Arab party; it could be a major boost to the anti-Netanyahu bloc, but the path to such an alliance may not be smooth

MK Mansour Abbas (left) in the Knesset, July 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); MK Yoav Segalovitz (right) speaks at a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting, June 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shir Matias, whose parents Deborah (Shachar) and Shlomi were killed protecting her brother Rotem at their Kibbutz Holit home in the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, speaks at an anti-government rally in Habima Aquare, Tel Aviv, August 1, 2026. (Movement for Quality Government in Israel)

At Tel Aviv rally, daughter of couple slain on Oct. 7 says government is ‘defiling our dead’

By Noam Lehmann

Weekly anti-government protests held in various locations, slamming failure to probe Hamas attack and also decrying Haredi military exemptions, settler violence

B’Yachad party chairman and former prime minister Naftali Bennett attends the Herzliya conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, July 1, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bennett says Qatar a more dangerous enemy to Israel than Iran right now

In interview, ex-PM again vows to declare Doha an enemy state for funding Hamas, Al Jazeera, alleged influence in Netanyahu’s office; says ‘life’s mission’ is to replace Israel’s current government

A famine in the house of bread

Bethlehem’s Christians are going abroad to escape economic collapse, leaving behind weaker institutions and a more fragile West Bank. Israel can’t afford to lose them

Marco Greenberg

The new ‘Birthright’ play moved me – and I didn’t even go on Birthright

It captures the life-changing experience of spending time in Israel and doesn’t shy from the hard questions participants ask (and argue about) years later

Illustrative: A Superbus driver waits for passengers at the entrance to Jerusalem, August 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Teenagers allegedly beat an Arab bus driver unconscious overnight in Jerusalem

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Driver says he lost four of his teeth in attack, passed out and awoke to ‘faces full of hate’; police launch probe amid spate of similar attacks on Arab bus drivers in capital

Jewish assailants throw stones, spit on entrance to Saint James Monastery in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, in the early hours of August 2, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police arrest six, mostly minors, for spitting on Armenian patriarchate in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Police gather near the scene of a crime in Montreal on June 22, 2026. (Daphné LEMELIN/AFP)

Montreal kosher restaurant severely damaged in fire; cops investigating

Liberal MP calls on police to probe the blaze at Nöam as a hate crime, amid recent string of attacks on Jewish targets across Canada

Suspect Brayton Laschinger (right), who allegedly smashed the window of the Chabad of Downtown SRQ in Sarasota, Florida, July 29, 2026. (Courtesy Sarasota Police Department)

Florida man arrested for throwing a brick through window of Sarasota synagogue

After Minnesota, suspected Iranian hack spreads to water systems in Michigan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

NYT says at least 5 other US states have been targeted, with Iran considered the top suspect; Trump lashes out at Minnesota, claims it’s to blame for being ‘grossly incompetent’

A water tower is seen July 30, 2026, in Plymouth, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Vehicles drive past a billboard showing a photo of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, greeting the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and Iranian and Palestinian flags, at an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, August 1, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisIran’s leadership vacuum leaves two factions battling for control over war’s aim

By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY and Lee Keath

The Technology Awareness Group office in Williamsburg, New York City, July 9, 2026. (Times of Israel staff)

AI rabbis? Some NY Hasidic groups see new technology as a challenge, others as a tool

Artificial intelligence that can answer questions of Jewish law may threaten congregants’ relationships with religious leaders, but also serves as a powerful educational resource

Extreme heat wave across Europe fuels wildfires in France, Greece, drought in Hungary

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hungary’s sole nuclear power plant to shut for the first time in over four decades due to drying out of the Danube; in Israel, temperatures in Jordan Valley hit 113°F on Saturday

Greek firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in the area of Porto Germeno, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Athens in the region of Viotia, on August 2, 2026. (Angelos TZORTZINIS/AFP)

IDF soldiers are seen inside southern Lebanon as seen from the Israeli side of the border, July 30, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Israeli officer moderately hurt in overnight clash with Hezbollah gunmen — army

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF later says it killed the operatives after gunfight in the Ali Taher Ridge area near Nabatiyeh, where members of terror group are believed to be holed up in major tunnel system

Contaminated water flows in the Hebron Stream below Palestinian village of ad-Dahariya, between banks coated in stone dust, July 14, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'In an area so divided, nobody takes responsibility'

As toxic sewage and factory sludge choke Hebron stream, locals refuse to go with the flow

Inadequate infrastructure and coordination result in dumping by Palestinian residents and industry, causing soil and groundwater pollution. Israel’s response has been frustratingly partisan

Uganda’s military chief, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba unveils a monument honoring the late Yoni Netanyahu, brother of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the old terminal of Entebbe International Airport in Entebbe, Uganda, August 1, 2026. (Uganda People’s Defence Forces Press Service via AP)

Statue of Yoni Netanyahu unveiled at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport, 50 years after rescue

Head of Ugandan military also commemorates the four slain hostages while dedicating statue that he has said ‘My God Jesus Christ’ instructed him to build during a dream

A policeman stands guard near the site where an improvised explosive device detonated at a restaurant in central Moscow, Russia, August 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Moscow blast kills 3, including suspected bomber, and injures 21, authorities say

By Andrew Osborn

Woman reportedly may not have known she was carrying explosives; other fatalities are customer at restaurant in city center and security guard who stopped her; background unclear

(L-R) Neta Orbach, Mor Dimri, Moshe Rosenthal, Yair Mazor, Ido Tako, Keren Tzur and Assi Cohen attend the 'Tell Me Everything' Premiere during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival at The Ray Theatre on January 25, 2026 in Park City, Utah. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images/AFP)

‘Tell Me Everything’ tops Ophir Awards nominations with highest-ever 16 nods

Also competing in best picture category – which determines Israel’s submission to Oscars — is Avi Nesher’s ‘Our Loves’ about the intertwining stories of characters on October 7

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