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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 12, 2026

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Israeli soldiers stand guard next to settlers (front) in front of the Palestinian houses in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, on August 12, 2026. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Army's Central Command chief Bluth meets with trapped family

IDF fails to remove settler extremists besieging Palestinian home in West Bank

By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Infantry battalion dispatched to area after clashes between Israeli forces and settler activists on outskirts of Qusra hindered efforts; homeowner tells Times of Israel family still unable to leave after 4 days

Settlers outside the home of Youssef Hassan in the West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, August 10, 2026. (Courtesy)

IDF slams ‘reprehensible’ settler outposts in Palestinian villages, but doesn’t demolish them

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

A catering truck is visible parked on the opposite side of Air Force One on the tarmac after US President Donald Trump boarded the plane following the NATO summit at Ankara International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Iranians knew the floor of the building Trump was staying in

Trump’s Air Force One Ankara decoy flight put top officials, reporters at deadly risk — report

NYT says Rubio, Bessent, and key aides were among those on the plane when it departed Turkey; US knew of ‘specific threat’ of surface-to-air missile against plane; someone near NATO summit had been seen with shoulder-fired missile

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

Israeli intel on Iranian plot said to have spurred decision to sneak Trump off Air Force One

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 12 – How Israeli intel triggered top secret Trump plane ploy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 12: Responding to Trump’s claims of control, Iran says Hormuz won’t open until its conditions met

Vienna police say ‘no indication of foul play’ in disappearance of Israeli mom and daughter * Israel to send aid team to Colombia following deadly earthquake

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Settlers filmed attempting to raid Bedouin hamlet in West Bank
8:10 pm

Israel to send aid team to Colombia following deadly earthquake
7:54 pm

Pentagon: US strikes targeting Houthis killed 153 civilians in Yemen last year

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Inside story

Board of Peace blurs Yellow Line as it wages uphill battle to advance Gaza plan

US-controlled Gaza oversight panel avoids specifying whether Israel must withdraw to original ceasefire line, opting for ambiguity in bid to get both sides on board

Palestinian children play on a concrete block meant to mark the Israel-expanded Yellow Line in the Shejaiya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City on July 26, 2026. (Mohammed M. Skaik / JNA Press/Sipa USA via Reuters)

Analysis

Mecca defense pact isn’t meant to challenge Israel, at least not on the battlefield

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey aren’t going to go to war for each other. But they do want to show the US and Iran that they are ready to lead in a region they see as destabilized by Jerusalem

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)

Op-ed

Our AI-generated defense minister emblemizes an Israeli leadership that refuses to face reality

Whatever Israel Katz may want to believe, Iran’s leaders are not cowering, and Israel will not defeat its enemies by endlessly blowing things up; Netanyahu should know better, but he’s in full-blown denial mode

Hezbollah leader Naem Qassem (left) and Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei as seen in an AI-generated video issued by Defense Minister Israel Katz on August 10, 2026. (X screenshot)

Vehicles drive past a banner reading in English and Farsi, 'We will kill Trump,' and banners showing portraits of the late Iranian supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and his son Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, August 10, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran digs in on demands over Hormuz as mediators assert progress made toward deal

By Agencies and Lazar Berman

Iranian official says strait won’t reopen unless US ends Gaza and Lebanon wars and releases frozen Iranian assets; Pakistan says sides ‘close to some sort of an arrangement’

Illustrative: An Israeli settler leads his flock of sheep past a home in the West Bank village of Abu Falah on July 29, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)

ToI Investigates

In Qusra and beyond, settlers are chasing Palestinians out and taking over their homes

By Nurit Yohanan

While previous displacements targeted relatively mobile Bedouin communities, extremists have begun forcing occupants out of permanent structures on village outskirts, and then moving in themselves

Court orders release of settler accused of attacking Palestinian after 38 days in custody

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Likud MK Nir Barkat (foreground) at an event to present the Likud economic plan, in Tel Aviv on February 16, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Report: Barkat co-led Likud effort to oust and replace Netanyahu after Oct. 7

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

PM, who reportedly caught wind of the intraparty coup and quashed it, is said to view next week’s primary as opportunity to settle scores and weaken the tech millionaire

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef reportedly orders students not to vote for Shas

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 8, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister says if he’s reelected, liberal Supreme Court justices ‘will go extinct’

Speaking to Likud activists, Yariv Levin notes 6 judges are set to retire during term of next government, leaving 10 of 15 seats vacant: ‘We won’t need judicial reform anymore’

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

Likud approves reserved spots for Israel Katz and Sa’ar, freezes vote on Haim Katz

Left to right: Jonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein at a court hearing in the Tel Aviv District Court on July 14, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's former aide Yisrael Einhorn. (KAN screenshot).

Report: AG expected to charge Netanyahu aides with security offenses in Qatargate affair

By Stav Levaton

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

I usually give happiness my full attention and sadness a pint of ice cream, but my son entering the IDF is much too unwieldy to process in one sitting

When love means speaking out

I made my reputation as a rabbi based on loving every fellow human being; how can I decry New York City’s mayor as an antisemite?

Yakir Englander

What Mamdani offers young liberal Jews

People who are deeply attached to Judaism through values, prayer and practice can find a home in progressive politics. Don’t dismiss them because of their views on Israel

When your home shakes: The earthquake in Colombia

I left my birth country as a young child, but my strong ties to the place came to the fore when my Abuelita didn’t answer her phone after the 7.4 quake

Democratic candidate for Governor David Crowley, right, August 10, 2026, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Wisconsin Democrats choose David Crowley over anti-Israel Hong as nominee for governor

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Establishment candidate narrowly beats out progressive darling in key swing state; Crowley hopes to become state’s first Black governor, will vie with Trump-backed Rep. Tom Tiffany

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a Democratic candidate for US Senate, smiles on stage during an election night watch party on August 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Progressive Israel critic defeats more moderate Democrat in Minnesota Senate primary

By Joseph Strauss

US Senator Darline Graham speaks with reporters following at a candidate event for hopefuls vying in a special Republican primary to replace her late brother senator Lindsey Graham on November ballots, August 8, 2026, in Florence, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Sister of pro-Israel stalwart Lindsey Graham advances to runoff in GOP Senate primary

By Sharon Udasin

Protesters hold up banners, flags and placards during an anti-Israel demonstration in London, February 3, 2024 (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Israelis second only to Russians among least wanted immigrants to UK, poll finds

Almost half of Britons think their country should allow in fewer Israelis or none at all; survey results significantly more negative toward Israel than 10 years ago

Inside Story

Meet the ‘Third Bloc’ of right-wing parties pushing for a ‘Zionist unity government’

Leaders of new crop of center-right factions believe they can replace the Haredim as kingmakers and broker peace between the competing blocs; the polls, for now, say otherwise

Left to right: Former minister Gilad Erdan and MK Yuli Edelstein in Tel Aviv, August 6, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper in Jerusalem, August 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy Minister Almog Cohen attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on petitions challenging the UNRWA laws passed by the Knesset, August 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Former Otzma Yehudit MK to run in Likud primary after Netanyahu opens door

An undated photo showing Mali (left) and Liel Yahalomi, an Israeli mother and daughter who went missing in Vienna on August 7, 2026, and were found alive and well in Argentina on August 14, 2026. (Israel's Embassy in Austria)

‘Ground swallowed them up’: Search ongoing in Vienna for two missing Israelis

Lahav 443 said taking over Israeli probe into disappearance of Mali Yahalomi and her adult daughter Liel, last seen Friday; Israeli official: ‘It doesn’t look good’

Diplomats take part in direct Israel-Lebanon talks hosted at the US State Department in Washington on June 23, 2026. (Courtesy Israeli Embassy)

US insists Israel-Lebanon talks moving in ‘positive direction’ despite setback last week

State Department says next round of talks to take place in September in Rome, will focus on roadmaps for future pilot zones for IDF withdrawal

Illustrative: Lebanese lawmakers attend a parliamentary session to elect a president, in Beirut, on January 9, 2025. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Lebanon abolishes death penalty in landmark vote, becoming first Arab nation to do so

By AP

Illustrative: A unionist wrapped in a Venezuelan national flag, signs another Venezuelan national flag during a march in Caracas on July 28, 2026. (Federico PARRA/AFP)

Israel and Venezuela renew consular relations for first time since 2009

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

After 17-year diplomatic break, countries say they will reestablish ties, continue ‘cooperation stemming from’ Israel’s humanitarian mission after deadly June double earthquake

Victor Urbancic conducts a makeshift orchestra in Reykjavik, Iceland, sometime after World War II. (Courtesy Árni Heimir Ingólfsson via JTA)

'They arrived at the right moment, despite the antisemitism'

How 3 Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch

By Jenna Gottlieb

Closed borders and antisemitism made the country’s musical genesis story all the more unlikely, but as a newly translated book shows, perseverance and luck helped make history

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Illustrative: A tech development center in Herzliya, October 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Survey finds AI adoption spurring shift in tech hiring from software to hardware

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a shooting in the northern Arab town of Shfaram on June 28, 2023. (FLASH90)

Man shot dead in northern Arab city near Haifa

This handout photo taken and received from the NSW Premier's Department on December 15, 2025, shows Ahmed Al Ahmed, the man who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach terrorists, at St George Hospital in Sydney. (Handout/ NSW Premier's Department/AFP)

Australian police drop charges against Bondi Beach attack hero Ahmed al Ahmed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative view of the Kfar Samir Cemetery in Haifa. April 13, 2012. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

After 78 years, remains of Jewish man killed escaping British camp in Cyprus found

By Emanuel Fabian

Rescue workers search through the rubble of a collapsed building the day after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, August 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Colombia searches for over 3,000 missing after a powerful quake kills more than 170

By MARKO ÁLVAREZ, ASTRID SUAREZ and MEGAN JANETSKY

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)

Rights groups sue Trump over sanctions he placed on ICC due to Israel warrants

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Alex Farfuri's video installation at the Israel Festival Verse event on August 11, 2026 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Cultural callIsrael Festival event urges audiences to listen and speak up

By Jessica Steinberg

This photo provided by the family shows Robert Gilman in Lilburn, Georgia, in 2019. (Gilman family via AP)

Russia frees former US marine jailed for more than 4 years

By Ben Finley and Matthew Lee

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