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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 11, 2026

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Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a Shurat HaDin conference in New York City, October 27, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Ex-Mossad chief says ‘we toured’ Iran’s Fordo nuclear site ‘many times’

In remarks at forum in Safed, Yossi Cohen says US bombing of site in 2025 was ‘the fulfillment of all my dreams,’ suggests that 60% uranium enrichment ‘is still far from a bomb’

From left, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pose after signing a trilateral defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, August 7, 2026. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Iran claims Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey deal shows ‘change in perception’ toward US

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency on April 16, 2017, a part of the South Pars gas field facility is seen after being inaugurated by President Hassan Rouhani, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, Iran. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran says it will up gas output by next month as regime repairs damaged facilities

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One following the NATO summit, at Ankara International Airport, Turkey, July 8, 2026. (Washington Post screenshot via X)

Elaborate ruse reportedly took place after NATO summit

Amid Iran threat in Turkey, Trump was secretly spirited off Air Force One in catering truck — report

After boarding presidential plane, Trump was smuggled to smaller jet on tarmac in Ankara; journalists and White House staffers flew out on potentially targeted plane; Trump had said in Ankara that Iran was trying to kill him

Netanyahu reserves Likud spot for candidate who recently called Trump a ‘morally corrupt piece of shit’

By Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Oren Dobronsky, who slammed US president over Iran MOU, attempts damage control, calling him Israel’s ‘greatest friend’ in White House; PM’s party to seat its first-ever Haredi MK

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)

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, right, and Defense Minister Israel Katz, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on November 10, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar, Katz to get newly added reserved slots on Likud list, expanding PM’s control

By Shira Silkoff

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Illustrative: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents make an arrest during an early morning operation in Park Ridge, Ill., September 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 11: Democratic US senators probe alleged coordination between ICE and Iran to deport detainees

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Rubio flew on plane threatened with potential shoulder-to-air missiles, WSJ reports * Report: Minister Barkat alleged to have co-led Likud effort to replace Netanyahu after Oct. 7

8:41 pm

IDF: Gazans crossed 'Yellow Line' and stole pipes, shots fired at them yielded no confirmed hit
7:30 pm

US military confirms it fired on a ship in Gulf of Oman to enforce blockade of Iranian ports
7:25 pm

Man falls to his death in work accident in Rahat

Then-president Bashar al-Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during presidential elections in the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Syrian court sentences ex-president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for war crimes

By GHAITH ALSAYED and SAMAR KASSABALLI

Assad’s cousin Atef Najib, present in Damascus court, also given death penalty for overseeing 2011 crackdown that helped trigger uprising against regime

View of the Israel-Syria border area, as seen from the northern Golan Heights, April 11, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Three settlement activists illegally enter Syria overnight, are detained by IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

IAEA said prepping to remove Syria nuclear material left over from Assad era

Israel reportedly told US it could bomb the site unless material — including yellowcake suitable for a dirty bomb — was safely removed, prompting nuclear watchdog’s deal with Damascus

The Syrian nuclear reactor site before it was destroyed by the IDF in 2007, as seen from a satellite. (Photo: Google Earth)

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

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug. 11 – As 2 Arab states reportedly plot war, how fortified are Israel’s borders?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on IDF operations in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, along with an assessment of the penetrability of the barriers with Jordan and Egypt

Families belong in the ICU — and prejudice does not

An Arab nurse gave our family hope when my son lay unconscious. One allegation must not make thousands of caregivers suspect

Jaclyn S. Clark

I argue with an AI at midnight. It’s the most Jewish thing I do

When AI agents went rogue and followed each other into mischief, they exposed a problem older than computers. An ancient Jewish method could have stopped them

Gadi Eisenkot: The reassuring man with the troubling doctrine

The former IDF chief running for prime minister commands respect, but his security concept and political alliances deserve tough scrutiny from voters

Shayna Goldberg

There is nothing simple about a simple day

Eating ice cream in the park, watching the sunset at the beach, sending your child off to join a combat unit – all these are part of a day in Israel

Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish traveller walks through the Chopin airport in Warsaw, Poland August 22, 2023. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

'Things are really confusing for Jewish travelers now'

Mapping antisemitism, a website helps Jewish jet-setters avoid turbulence

Safe for Jews uses AI, official advisories and more to rate countries and cities for travelers eager to avoid harassment or violence, with Albania, Bolivia and Cambodia listed among the least dangerous

Israel said to tell US it will keep targeting Oct. 7 terrorists as Gaza disarmament stalls

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump teases a ‘good response’ to Netanyahu’s rejection of roadmap for disarming Hamas, though none appears; Board of Peace says talks ongoing and plan advancing despite the setback

Gazans with an earth-mover break through the Israel-Gaza border fence into southern Israel, October 7, 2023. (Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa/Reuters)

Former hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen performs the songs he composed in captivity, on the lawn of Kibbutz Nir Oz as part of the Israel Festival on August 10, 2026 (Orit Pnini)

Reporter's notebook'I imagined my wife in labor as I was in the tunnels'

Former hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen returns home to perform songs he composed in Hamas captivity

By Jessica Steinberg

Concert is held on the lawn of Kibbutz Nir Oz, where singer was born and raised and lived with his family until the October 7 Hamas onslaught

Young Israelis ride an electric scooter in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

'There is sufficient evidence to outlaw e-scooters here'

E-scooter riders 3 times more likely to suffer brain injury than motorcyclists – UK study

By Diana Bletter

Researchers say users have an increased risk of organ trauma; women are more than twice as likely to suffer severe injuries, prompting calls for stricter rules in Israel

Petitioners sit in court, amid a hearing concerning the placement of polling stations in nursing homes and assisted living facilities for the 26th Knesset elections, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem. August 11, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

High Court hears arguments as petitioners seek to keep ballot boxes at retirement homes

Knesset declined to renew COVID-era requirement that assisted-living facilities provide places to vote, in move groups say is discriminatory, could affect 35,000-37,000 voters

Illustrative: Lebanese soldiers man a checkpoint at the entrance to Nabatieh on June 15, 2026 (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP)

Lebanon claims IDF drone attack wounded two, hit ambulance; Israel denies striking

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Authorities claim ‘double-tap’ strike in Nabatieh targeted rescuers from Hezbollah-linked Scouts group; Israeli military says it’s unaware of any strike

FILE: 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)

Six killed in Houthi attack on cargo ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait

Yemeni officials blame group for attack on Tanzania-flagged vessel at Red Sea mouth, but Iran-backed rebels yet to claim responsibility; Houthis also target Yemeni port city

Illustrative: The navigation bridge of a sunken vessel is all that is seen at the surface of the water in the Port of Mokha, the day after an attack by the Houthis on the city Mokha, held by Yemen’s internationally recognized, Aden-based government on August 10, 2026. (Khaled ZIAD/AFP)

AnalysisA blocked Iranian flight is behind latest spiral of violence between Saudis and Houthis

Bernie Sanders urges Democrats to ban ‘corrupt’ AIPAC spending in primaries

By Shira Li Bartov

Jewish progressive slams pro-Israel lobby for considering funding Republican nominee for Michigan Senate seat after failing to tank Abdul El-Sayed’s primary race

Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during an address marking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani first 100 days in office at the Knockdown Center, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Megan Romer, the United States' national co-chair of the DSA, speaks to The New Yorker in an interview published August 7, 2026. (Screenshot/The New Yorker via YouTube)

Co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America defends rallying for Hamas

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 21, 2024. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Michigan rabbis call to protect Jewish delegates at Democratic convention

By Andrew Lapin

Analysis

South Carolina’s GOP Senate nominee will likely be pro-Israel, but no Lindsey Graham

Late senator’s sister, appointed by Trump to fill in for hawkish Republican, is facing eight challengers in special election; Israel hasn’t been an issue in the campaign

Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, December 21, 2025. (AP/ Maya Levin)

View of the first snow this winter on Mount Hermon in Syria, as seen from the northern Golan Heights near the Syrian border, on December 13, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

New Colombian government recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

South American country is just 2nd in world after US to endorse Israeli claim over territory captured from Syria in 1967; FM Sa’ar thanks Bogota for ‘historic decision’

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Israeli mother and daughter missing in Vienna since Friday

Residents and rescue workers search through the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, August 10, 2026. (AP Photo/ Santiago Saldarriaga)

Huge quake hits west Colombia, killing at least 73 people and collapsing buildings

By AP and Lazar Berman

Artyom Kirpichenok (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Russian-Israeli historian missing after landing at Ben Gurion last week

Einav Zangauker speaks during a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, on January 13, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hostage activist Zangauker says Golan broke pledge to put her on Democrats slate

The Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, March 30, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Health officials suspect Ebola in man who returned from DR Congo

Elbit Systems' Watchkeeper XR tactical UAV. (Courtesy of Elbit)

Serbia and Israel’s Elbit set to open joint combat drone factory in September

By Sharon Wrobel

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