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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 15, 2026

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Police stationed outside Central Synagogue in New York City, November 4, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Assailant disrupts Shabbat service at NYC synagogue, attacks congregant and guard

Suspect charged with multiple hate crimes after incident at Central Synagogue, days after rabbis warned Mamdani about his rhetoric; nobody seriously hurt

Illustrative: Two young women wear Israeli flags around their waists as a Jewish band plays at a pro-Israel gathering on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey campus, October 10, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)

Some young US Jews pulling back from Jewish life due to Israel discourse — study

By Grace Gilson

Mali and Liel Yahalomi located on a bus in Argentina by police on August 14, 2026. (Screen capture/Israel Police)

Israeli cop tells them: 'We were very worried about you'

Police locate Israeli mother and daughter in Argentina, a week after they vanished in Vienna

Mali and Liel Yahalomi seen seated on a bus as Interpol, Israeli police reps arrive; they are later told they are free to go, as there is no suspicion of criminal wrongdoing; report says they want to start a new life

People and rescue workers gather on a destroyed house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Zahrani village, southern Lebanon, August 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Hezbollah vows an 'appropriate' response

Israeli strikes kill 11 in south Lebanon after Hezbollah wounds 3 IDF soldiers in attack

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Acknowledging civilian casualties in strikes, Israel accuses terror group of deliberately housing women and children in Hezbollah ‘military compound,’ says they were family of targeted commander

People react as Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem addresses crowds via a screen during the first day of Ashura commemorations at the mausoleum of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut’s southern suburbs on June 17, 2026. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Hezbollah chief says Lebanon-Israel deal humiliates the nation and its army

By ToI Staff and AFP

IDF rescue teams join search for survivors after deadly earthquake in Colombia

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Spokesman says team coordinating with local authorities in effort to find hundreds of people still missing days after 7.4-magnitude temblor: ‘Hopefully, we can contribute our small part here’

IDF troops arrive at the site of a collapsed building to assist with rescue operations following an earthquake in Cali, Colombia, on August 14, 2026. (Raul ARBOLEDA/AFP)

‘Completely unacceptable’: UK slams Netanyahu for calling it an ‘Islamic republic’

By AFP and ToI Staff

British government says it raised the matter with Jerusalem; Israeli spokesman downplays remark, claims PM was quoting Vance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves 10 Downing Street after a meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Israeli settlers walk through an open field in Beit Sahur, south of Bethlehem, in the West Bank on August 14, 2026. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 15: 5 hurt, mostly women and children, in settler attack on Palestinian hamlet in South Hebron Hills — report

Police knew Mali and Liel Yahalomi had intentionally fled Vienna when they issued gag order — reports * Hate crime charges filed against man who disrupted prayers, attacked NYC synagogue

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5 injured, mostly women and children, in settler attack on Palestinian hamlet in South Hebron Hills - report
7:11 pm

Qatar 'categorically denies' detaining downed Iranian pilots
6:34 pm

Police knew Mali and Liel Yahalomi had intentionally fled Vienna, but issued gag order so they wouldn't change their plans

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)

Trump said to call Netanyahu ‘his own worst enemy’ as PM vies for election endorsement

Trump unwilling to back premier’s reelection bid due to poor performance in the polls, Axios reports; PM’s aide reportedly insists to president ‘he’s winning’

Inside story

Ballot battlefield takes shape as sides tussle over voters homebound and homeward bound

Experts say disputes over alleged efforts aimed at suppressing or targeting voters cut to the heart of the democratic process in a way that makes the October election among Israel’s most consequential

Israelis count the remaining ballots at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the election, early on March 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The next global trade map could run through Israel — or around it

War froze a plan to connect India, the Gulf and Europe through Haifa just as attacks on shipping made it more vital. Israel must act now to keep itself on the route

Can Jared Kushner get Hamas disarmament moving?

In a trip to the Mideast this week, the US envoy must put forward practical steps to keep the Gaza ceasefire from unraveling

Was the shofar born in silence?

The sound of the ram’s horn we blow on Rosh Hashana is not only a ringing summons but also a way to call out when words fail us

83 years since the Bialystok Ghetto Revolt: We are still here

My grandparents defied the Nazis and survived to pass a message of courage and pride from one generation to the next

A mother and daughter, both Czech Jewish slave laborers at Lippstadt, a subcamp of Buchenwald, 1945. (Wiener Holocaust Library collections)

'Jewish prisoners were at the bottom of the slave hierarchy'

‘Annihilation through work’: London exhibit highlights overlooked story of slave labor in WWII

By Robert Philpot

‘Nazi Slave Labor: Perpetrators and Victims,’ which runs at the Wiener Holocaust Library through the end of October, explains how integral forced workers were in Germany’s wartime economy

Iran's FM says in touch with mediators but no talks with US

Trump says he’ll hit Iran hard economically, will soon declare Hormuz ‘US territory’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president urges Americans to accept slightly higher gas prices for the ‘great service’ of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear bomb, dismisses concerns about conditions aboard aircraft carrier

US President Donald Trump holds an article about prescription drug prices as he speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One, August 14, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

This handout image shows aircraft on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) that are operating in support of the war in Iran, March 3, 2026. (US Navy via AP)

AnalysisUS pulls last aircraft carrier in Pacific as Trump focuses on Iran, Western Hemisphere

By Ben Finley and Didi Tang

Ralph Bakshi's 1977 'Wizards' is the featured film of this week's The Reel Schmooze podcast. (courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘Wizards’: Does animated 1977 art film belong in the canon, or in the geniza?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the completely bizarre mixed-medium movie that wrestles with magic, boobies, evil Nazis and Hitler 5,000 years in the future

Inside story

Israel’s Christians rely on faith and allies as they fear rising harassment

Many Christians, who make up less than 2% of the country’s population, feel the government isn’t doing enough to protect them

Priests gather at the garden of the Basilica of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, northern Israel, on August 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

An El Al plane takes off at Ben Gurion Airport, outside Tel Aviv, August 4, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Major delays reported at Ben Gurion Airport; officials say US refuelers’ presence a factor

Airports Authority also blames flight congestion over Greece for bottleneck, leading many passengers to report hours-long setbacks

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Union St-Gilloise’s Israeli forward #25 Anan Khalaili celebrates scoring his team’s second goal during the UEFA Champions League, league phase day 6, football match between Royale Union Saint-Gilloise (BEL) and Olympique de Marseille (FRA), at the RSC Anderlecht Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, on December 9, 2025. (NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP)

Crystal Palace signs Anan Khalaili in most expensive deal for an Israeli soccer player

Four young girls dressed in matching outfits hold Taliban flags on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the US withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi)

Taliban marks 5 years back in power as Afghan women remain shut out of public life

By Qahar Afghan and Susan Frazer

Jason Arday, pictured in 2024. (Wikipedia / ConiferousForest19 )

Youngest Black professor at Cambridge found dead after resigning amid plagiarism scandal

A plaque from the original Daily Forward office located on Broadway is seen February 1, 2013, in the newspapers’ latest office in the Lower Manhattan section of New York. (Stan Honda/AFP)

Forward editor-in-chief out just months after taking post

By Sharon Udasin

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