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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 16, 2026

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Displaced Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an alleged Israeli strike on a tent in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 16, 2026. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 16: Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, others blame Israel for thwarting Trump’s Gaza plan

IDF says it targeted Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives in separate Gaza strike * Likud threatens legal action against initiative to bring Israelis abroad back to vote

7:41 pm

Hamas says it asked Board of Peace to 'compel' Israel to accept Gaza plan
7:39 pm

CENTCOM Commander Cooper says visit to USS Lincoln was 'awe-inspiring'
7:11 pm

Academics demand Silman retract her support for Ben Gvir's crocodile prison

Elections 2026

Likud politicians ready to battle for shrinking number of spots in Monday primary

Party polling at 22-24 seats in October election, with Netanyahu controlling a third of the top 30 slots, making the hastily convened vote a tighter race than normal

A polling station for the Likud primary in Jerusalem on December 10, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Troops seen outside homes that had been besieged by Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra in the West Bank, on August 14, 2026. (FLASH90)

Besieged Palestinians in Qusra homes say IDF now blocking them in, fear settlers will return

By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Footage seems to show settlers still near W. Bank village, week after siege began; separately, 2 Israelis, 10 Palestinians hurt in Hebron clash allegedly sparked by settler attack

Israeli activists and Palestinian residents stand on the roof of a house besieged by Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, West Bank, on August 14, 2026. (FLASH90)

Two Palestinians hurt by settler gunfire, including nurse said to be paralyzed for life

By ToI Staff, Noam Lehmann and Emanuel Fabian

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Analysis

How an obscure centrist politician could be key to defeating Netanyahu in October

Yoav Segalovitz’s speculated move from Yesh Atid to Ra’am could give the Arab party a new image — and the opposition the seats it needs to form a government

MK Yoav Segalovitz attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on October 20, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Political correspondent Tal Schneider appears on the Daily Briefing with host Jessica Steinberg (Flash 90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 16: Who gets in? Likud candidates face a high-stakes primary

By Jessica Steinberg and Tal Schneider

Israeli strikes reported in south Lebanon as Defense Minister Katz vows to ‘settle scores’

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Reported nighttime attacks come day after three soldiers were seriously injured by Hezbollah drone; IDF names second senior Hezbollah commander killed in Saturday strikes

Heavy machinery, first aid responders and residents search the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in the southern Lebanese village of Deir al-Zahrani on August 15, 2026. (Abbas FAKIH/AFP)

A displaced Palestinian man walks with his children at a camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Augist 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF: Tank in Gaza hit by explosive device in ‘grave’ truce breach; no soldiers hurt

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AFP

Exclusive

Group closely tied to Norway’s government secretly met with top Hamas officials in 2021

By Lazar Berman

NOREF, founded and funded by Oslo, discussed mediating between EU and terror group in undisclosed Gaza meeting, Hamas documents show; ‘Contact does not imply endorsement,’ says organization

Bassem Naim, an official in Hamas's political wing, speaks in Istanbul, Turkey, December 5, 2024. (AP/Francisco Seco)

Jaclyn S. Clark

Yes, James Fishback will probably lose. Make sure it’s humiliating.

A blowout against the ’goyslop’ candidate could make Florida a dead end for his brand of politics

Eating out is political. So is rewriting Israeli food history

New York Magazine’s story about identity in the Middle Eastern dining scene has a glaring blind spot: as one restaurant put it, ’the land mass currently called Israel’

Elisheva Levy at Kumkum Tea House, 2026 (Yitzchak Ledee)

Peoples of Israel'I wanted people to feel like they were coming into my home'

Elisheva Levy, Jerusalem’s fairy godmother

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

On this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a woman who has made a home for everyone in her whimsical British tea house

People walk in the rain in Jerusalem, August 15, 2026. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Summer shpritz

Rare summer rains around Israel break all-time August records

Ma’ale Adumim records 25 millimeters of rain, one of the few times more than 20 mm has fallen in Israel in August; more rain expected Sunday

Bronze medalist Israel’s Gashau Ayale, gold medalist Germany’s Amanal Petros and silver medalist Italy’s Pietro Riva celebrate after competing in the men’s marathon during the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham on August 16, 2026. (Paul ELLIS/AFP)

Israeli marathon team wins gold at European Championships

First-place finish is third such achievement for the Israelis; Gashau Ayale also wins individual bronze, says the team dedicates the win to the people of Israel

A slice of pizza. Beta-casein, successfully engineered into a plant at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, is one of the milk proteins responsible for making cheese melts. (Proformabooks, iStock by Getty Images)

Milk from seeds: Israeli scientists produce key dairy protein from safflower plant

Hebrew University researchers say beta-casein, which helps cheese melt, can be found in ‘cream’ pressed from seeds, eradicating need for cows, and slashing costs and livestock emissions

Fans holds the banner reading ‘Stop Executions in Iran’ before the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group G match between Belgium and Iran at Los Angeles Stadium on June 21, 2026 in Inglewood, California. (Stu Forster/Getty Images/AFP)

Iran executes man who allegedly rammed cops ‘in support of the Zionist regime’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Shahram Sadeghi sentenced to death over incident in which 7 were wounded during January protests that turned deadly

Illustrative: US and Israeli flags are pasted on the ground in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran pushes bill to criminalize journalists’ communication with ‘hostile media’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Explainer

Trump wants more economic pressure on Iran. What are his options?

By Andrea Shalal

A look at actions the US administration may take, from measures targeting oil and Chinese banks to a land blockade on the Islamic Republic’s borders

A billboard with a message that reads in Persian: 'We must rise up' and an image of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei towers over downtown traffic in Tehran, Iran, August 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

This handout picture released by Iran’s Army office on July 24, 2023, shows an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 tactical bomber aircraft releasing bombs during the Fadayeeyan Hareem Velayat aerial exercise in Iran. (Iranian Army office/AFP)

Iran calls on Qatar to free three pilots it says were downed, captured in war

The excavation of a 1,300-year-old industrial and commercial complex in Ramat Gan, announced August 16, 2026 (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

1,300-year-old industrial hub uncovered during bus terminal construction in Ramat Gan

Archaeologists say the early Islamic-era site housed shops, warehouses, and kilns, but much about its purpose and owners remains unknown

Secular activists hold up placards as they stage a counter-protest against Haredi men at Cafe Basimta in Jerusalem, on August 15, 2026. The Hebrew sign reads "We will die rather than drink instant," a play on a slogan used by Haredi men against the IDF draft. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Door to Jerusalem cafe open on Shabbat vandalized as Haredim protest for 7th week

Scheduled opening of Basimta delayed by some 40 minutes after masked perpetrator appears to glue its lock overnight; counter-protesters, secularist MKs show support for cafe

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)

Police issued gag order on Mali and Liel Yahalomi case so they wouldn’t change their plans

Reports say mother and daughter asked Google’s Gemini how to leave Israel quietly, police used chatbot history to find them; two were planning on obtaining fake IDs

More Headlines

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance drives through the streets of Haifa, northern Israel, on October 23, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Children, 5 and 6, hospitalized after eating candy containing hallucinogenic mushrooms

Students seen at the campus of Mount Scopus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

2 Israeli universities listed among top 100 worldwide in Shanghai Ranking

Rep. Rashida Tlaib addresses delegates during the Michigan Democratic Party State Endorsement Convention, April 19, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Florida venue cancels Rashida Tlaib rally after state lawmaker protests ‘anti-Jew’ event

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Flames and smoke rise from the port of Mokha during a strike in Yemen, August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

‘Everyone lives in fear’: Yemenis dread renewed war as Houthis launch attacks

By AFP

Security guards jump over a fence amid a brawl at the Yamit 2000 water park in Holon, on August 15, 2026. (Screenshots via Daniel Amram on X)

Argument spirals into brawl at Holon water park; 12 detained, two workers hurt

In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), rescuers attempt to clear debris at building damaged by an earthquake in Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia, August 15, 2026. (BASARNAS via AP)

Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s coast, killing at least 40 and toppling buildings

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