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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 5, 2026

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Abdul El-Sayed arrives for a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan, August 5, 2026, in Detroit. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Now faces tough race vs. Republican opponent in swing state

Anti-Israel Democratic candidate El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Progressive who called idea of Jewish state ‘illiberal,’ and said money is only reason Dems who ‘believe in human rights’ support Israel, achieves narrow victory against pro-Israel, AIPAC-backed rival Stevens

US Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo., speaks during a primary election night watch party after winning the Democratic nomination August 4, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

AIPAC-backed Wesley Bell defeats Israel critic Cori Bush in Missouri primary rematch

By Sharon Udasin

Analysis

Israelis are alarmed over the threat of political violence. Can it be averted?

Amid an ugly campaign season, scholars and officials are warning of a toxic political discourse across the spectrum — and fear things could get worse before they get better

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)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrate against an IDF recruitment conference for the Haredi community in Jerusalem, August 4, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ex-general called ‘traitor’ as Haredi demonstrators riot at event for ultra-Orthodox draftees

A man casts his vote at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Election committee bans polling station workers from telling parties who has voted

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a video statement on August 4, 2026. (Screen capture/Facebook)

PM says Israel presented amendments to Board's proposal

Netanyahu says Israel ‘didn’t agree’ to Board of Peace’s terms for disarming Hamas

After extended silence, PM insists IDF won’t withdraw from ‘current lines’ until Hamas fully disarmed, in seeming opposition to US-backed plan for initial Israeli pullback within Gaza

Palestinians perform burial rites at the mass funeral of people allegedly killed in a November 2023 Israeli strike, in Gaza City, August 4, 2026. (Fathi Ibrahim/Flash90)

Hamas holds mass funeral for 112 people it says were killed in IDF strike at start of Gaza war

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and Agencies

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 5 – Inside Israel’s fortifications on the Gaza Yellow Line

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

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Op-ed

Why these elections are the last chance to save Israel from its ‘spiral of collapse’

Israel’s entire education system is in crisis. And its fastest-growing community, the ultra-Orthodox, is getting by far the worst education of all. An inadequate education spells a non-competitive workforce, a weakened army, and a country that simply won’t survive

Young students in a classroom in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, August 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Knesset Finance Committee chair MK Hanoch Milwidsky leads a committee hearing, August 4, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

High Court freezes contentious Knesset funds for Haredi schools, Settlements Ministry

By Jeremy Sharon

Democrats Party Chairman Yair Golan (left) gives a statement to the media outside the Channel 12 News studios in Tel Aviv, July 28, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Yisrael Beiteinu party chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 13, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman tells Golan to ‘shut up,’ says rhetoric aiding Netanyahu election campaign

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir attend the graduation ceremony of an IDF officers’ course in southern Israel, June 25, 2026. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 5: IDF chief said to slam ‘warped’ Haredi draft law, accusing gov’t of ignoring army’s views

US says Israel-Lebanon talks ended early for the day due to ‘events on the ground’ * Former Likud ministers Erdan, Edelstein tease plans to unveil new right-wing party on Thursday

7:29 pm

Iran threatening to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes
7:28 pm

Iran's president says communication with supreme leader is currently 'very difficult'
7:01 pm

Man in his 50s shot dead in Arab community's 159th homicide of 2026

From the Blogs

Sarit Silverman

The hidden costs of all that reserve duty

New research shows that reservists pay the greatest price for their additional service not in today’s lost income, but in tomorrow’s lost opportunities

Antisemitic assaults in Britain surged by 82% in first six months of 2026 — report

By Zev Stub and Agencies

Community Security Trust says antisemitic incidents in UK rose 21% overall during first half of the year, with a marked spike recorded after start of US-Israel war with Iran

People attend a rally organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism, opposite Downing Street in central London on April 30, 2026, following the stabbing of two Jewish men the day before in the Golders Green neighborhood of northwest London (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

Sébastian Breza of CF Montréal pushes Dor Turgeman of the New England Revolution, after he celebrated a goal in front of the Montreal fans during the first half, at Saputo Stadium in Montreal, August 1, 2026. (Tim Austen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Major League Soccer probes alleged antisemitic abuse targeting Israeli player

By AP

US President Donald Trump talks to reporters before he boards Air Force One, August 4, 2026, at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says ‘all-day’ talks held with Iran, deal could happen on Wednesday or Thursday

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Rubio: Progress made, but there’s still work do to; report says US used up 80% of THAAD interceptors during war; crew of Indian ship rescued after being sunk in Houthi-targeted Red Sea

Iranian protesters hold letters spelling out “Stop Execution” as they gather at the Ergife Palace Hotel to condemn the silence of Western governments in the face of the growing wave of Iranian political executions, in Rome, Italy, on July 16, 2026. (Andreas SOLARO/AFP)

UN ‘alarmed’ by Iran’s surging use of executions to ‘instill fear’ in population

By AFP

Security personnel arrive at the site of a shooting on the outskirts of Tell in the West Bank, on July 24, 2026. (John Wessels/AFP)

Forces 'did not act optimally' during incident

IDF probe of deadly clash finds Tell settler hike was unauthorized, too few troops responded

By Emanuel Fabian

Cpt. (res.) Benayahu Mellet may have been shot by IDF troops amid chaos in West Bank village; Maj. Yuval Ezra exchanged deadly fire with gunman, investigation finds

Shin Bet director David Zini at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem during Memorial Day on April 21, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Zini said to veto agents’ call to put Jewish extremists in administrative detention

Education Minister Yoav Kisch speaks at the inauguration of a school for so-called hilltop youth in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, August 4, 2026. (Arye Minkov/Beit El Municipal Council)

Israel inaugurates first school for extremist so-called hilltop youth in West Bank

By Jeremy Sharon

The world is against us, but what does that have to do with us?

Israelis think we can win back international support by training better spokespeople. The real solution is much more challenging

Janet Bond Brill

The Nazis took the piano. They couldn’t take the songs

How a family on Mila Street sang through the destruction of everything they owned, and why the music outlived the men who came for them

Daphne Lazar Price

The Spain that might have been

When the Inquisition expelled one of Spain’s most intellectual and creative communities, the country lost not only its Jews, but also their future endeavors

Is Mount Herzl the right place for the Herzl family?

When Serbia approved reburial of the Zionist visionary’s grandparents in Israel, its eyes were on Trump’s White House, not on Jerusalem

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, January 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Four-ton SpaceX rocket part crashes into the Moon

By AFP

Falcon 9 part was accidentally pulled into lunar orbit, believed to have slammed into Moon’s northern hemisphere at nearly 9,000 kph, presumably creating a lunar crater, but no live images

A motorcade arrives for a new round of talks between Lebanese and Israeli delegations at the US Embassy in Rome, Italy, on August 4, 2026. (Tiziana FABI/AFP)

Israel-Lebanon talks kick off in Rome despite fierce Hezbollah opposition

By Lazar Berman and AFP

As negotiators discuss pilot zones, borders and Iran-backed terror group’s disarmament, Naim Qassem condemns the process as ‘humiliation,’ drawing rebuke from Beirut

A displaced family with their belongings, wave a Lebanese flag as they return to their village, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, June 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

More than 800,000 displaced Lebanese have begun returning home, UN says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Colombia's incoming foreign minister Omar Bola Escobar (left) meets with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar in Washington on July 14, 2026. (Shmulik Almany/Foreign Ministry)

Sa’ar heads to Colombia, Ecuador as Israel warms ties with Latin America’s right

By Lazar Berman

Foreign minister to attend inauguration of pro-Israel Colombian president, who has vowed to renew strategic alliance, open embassy in Jerusalem after predecessor cut ties over Gaza

Attorney Arbel Feldman, who was shot dead in Rishon Lezion on August 4, 2026. (Social media)

Arbel Feldman named as Rishon Lezion torts lawyer allegedly shot dead by client

By Noam Lehmann

ֿBar association holds minute of silence, offers support to members facing threatening clients; suspect named as Ahmed al-Rajoub, said to refuse to surrender gun to police, keeps silent in questioning

Police work outside the law firm where a lawyer was shot dead on August 4, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Rishon Lezion lawyer shot dead in his office by disgruntled client, police say

By Noam Lehmann

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Rishon Lezion deputy mayor arrested on suspicion of sexually harassing city employee

Aerial view of the excavation area and the Great Synagogue of Vilna (Rytis Tamulynas, Vilna Great Synagogue and Shulhoyf Research Project)

'For centuries, this was their cathedral'

Buried for 70 years, Vilna’s Great Synagogue reveals heart of pre-WWII Jewish community

First-ever excavation of prayer house, which served as spiritual center of Lithuanian Jewry before being destroyed by Nazis and Soviets, uncovers platform for reading Torah and other remains

The "Miked" or “M” room, a secret World War II British intelligence listening facility, is pictured inside the new Trent Park Museum, after its recent opening in Enfield, north London, on July 29, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS/AFP)

New museum opens at UK mansion where captive Nazi officers were spied on to glean secrets

By AFP

‘Listeners,’ mostly Jewish refugees, transcribed conversations of high-ranking POWs during World War II who were lulled by comforts to disclose intel that was used against Germany

Israeli NeuroAI startup Hemispheric builds an AI model to decipher the language of the brain. (Courtesy of David Garb)

'Our model is good at figuring out a brain's unique profile'

Israeli startup looks to harness AI to decode the ‘language’ of the brain

By Sharon Wrobel

Hemispheric says its AI model, trained on EEG data from 100,000 people, can translate a brain’s electrical activity to diagnose conditions like PTSD, but tech yet to be proven, expert warns

Israel rolls out tender for national quantum computer, and plans for advanced AI push

By Sharon Wrobel

More Headlines

Selfie taken by British anti-Semitic activist Joshua Bonehill-Paine, January 16, 2015. (Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

UK Jewish groups reject offer to meet former neo-Nazi Conservative council candidate

Susan Yara, Founder, Naturium speaks onstage at “Inside the Industry” during The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2025 presented by The Business of Fashion at Stanly Ranch on June 10, 2025 in Napa, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion/AFP)

US beauty brand founder Susan Yara faces boycott calls after posting pictures in Tel Aviv

Members of the US Secret Service watch before Marine One with US President Donald Trump aboard, lands near Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles, August 4, 2026, in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Man arrested with weapons at Trump’s LA golf course, was eyeing security

A Falcon 6X by French plane maker Dassault flies during the International Paris Air Show at the Paris Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, June 19, 2023. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Ireland’s new state jet said to struggle to land in fog, after Israeli system rejected

Michael Kleiner, president of the Likud's internal Supreme Court, arrives for a discussion on the proposal to remove former defense minister Yoav Galant from the party, September 29, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Head of party court among Likud figures detained for questioning in tax fraud probe

Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah gestures as he arrives at Istanbul Ataturk Airport to complete his transfer to Turkish football club Trabzonspor in Istanbul on August 5, 2026. (Ozan KOSE/AFP)

Egyptian soccer star Mohammed Salah makes shock move to Turkish team Trabzonspor

By AFP

Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour on June 18, 2026, shortly after his release from Clay County Jail in Brazil, Indiana, where he was detained after his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March. (Yaseen Najeeb via AP)

Defense claims US effort to deport Palestinian mosque head based on forced confession in Israel

By AP

Houthi supporters chant slogans during a rally against the Saudi-led coalition in Sanaa, Yemen, July 31, 2026. (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Service suspended at a Saudi airport after attack claimed by Houthis

By AFP

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