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What Matters Most On Monday, August 17, 2026

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Likud MK Ofir Katz (top left), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (top right), Likud MK Amit Halevi (bottom left) and Almog Cohen vote in the Likud primary at polling stations across the country, August 17, 2026. (Ofir Katz's office, Yariv Levin's office, Amit Halevi's office, Almog Cohen's office)

Likud primary underway in heated contest for few remaining slots on party’s Knesset list

By Sam Sokol and Michael Horovitz

Polling stations open till 9 p.m., with Netanyahu’s expanded control of slate leaving few open spots; candidates take to social media for last-minute appeals to 140,000 Likud members

Reporter's NotebookLikud touts ‘celebration of democracy’ despite party members’ reduced say on slate

Illustrative: Ballots are counted at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, March 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud threatens legal action against initiative to bring Israelis abroad back to vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara vote in Jerusalem in the Likud primary, August 17, 2026, as Likud members help determine the party’s Knesset slate ahead of Israel's October 27 general elections. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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August 17: Polls close in Likud primary, with turnout at a low 53%

Board of Peace weighing new disarmament framework, source tells ToI * Netanyahu agrees to set up working groups on Gaza demilitarization, humanitarian needs * New poll shows opposition bloc getting Knesset majority if new right-wing party runs

12:01 am

Iran condemns 'suspicious' drone attack on Iraqi Kurdistan PM's office
11:40 pm

Kushner predicts progress on Hamas disarmament in about 30 days, says deal is 'win-win' for Israel
11:24 pm

New poll shows opposition bloc getting Knesset majority if new right-wing party runs

Illustrative: A woman having shoulder and neck pain (kieferpix; iStock via Getty Images)

'Feeling pain does contribute to the healing process'

Feel the burn: 90% of people heal faster by focusing on their pain — Israeli study

By Diana Bletter

Bar-Ilan University scientists challenge assumptions about distraction from pain, paving the way for attention training to treat chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases

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Iran threatens escalation unless US honors MOU within weeks

Trump threatens to bomb Oman over its deal with Iran on Hormuz, as 60-day MOU expires

By Nava Freiberg, Jacob Magid and Agencies

US president says stopping Iran from building nuclear weapon is top priority for US, contradicting Vance; drones target office of Iraqi Kurdistan’s PM, home of top intel official

US President Donald Trump returns a salute as he walks from Marine One to his limousine upon his arrival at the Ellipse just outside of the White House, August 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

US President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One at Morristown Airport, August 16, 2026, in Morristown, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump cheers defense pact between Saudis, Turkey and Pakistan: ‘The Mideast is coming together’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

This combo image shows then-director of US National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (L) in a White House briefing on July 23, 2025, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Ahmad Vahidi im Tehran, Iran, July 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

US had secret backchannel with IRGC, learned it supports Iran’s negotiators – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a state ceremony reburying Shimon and Rivka Herzl, the grandparents of Theodor Herzl, on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, August 5, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

False Iranian nuke quote spread from Indian Twitter account to Netanyahu speech in 8 hours

Fabricated statement by IRGC chief seeming to confirm Iran’s nuclear ambitions first appeared on Indian account on X, was rapidly cited by Israeli and US leaders, media

Report: Iran has spent 60-day MOU window getting ready to ‘widen the war’

WSJ says Tehran has ramped up production of missiles and drones; IRGC reportedly sent advisers to proxies in Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon to lay plans for expanded regional conflcit

A man looks at a banner depicting US President Donald Trump displayed in front of the Zolfaghar and Zolghadr ballistic missiles exhibited at Azadi Square in Tehran, Iran's capital, on August 2, 2026. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Reuters)

US President Donald Trump (left) seen signing the Persian-language version of the memorandum of understanding with Iran, at the Palace of Versailles in France, June 17, 2026. (Screenshot/White House via X); Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signs the MOU in a photo released June 17, 2026, by the regime-run IRNA news agency. (IRNA via X)

ExplainerAs 60-day MOU expires, the US and Iran are even further apart than before

By AP

Left to right: White House adviser Jared Kushner, Board of Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP, Chaim Goldberg/ FLASH90)

Trump: We have relationship with Hamas; they're giving up guns

Meeting with Kushner, PM doubles down on IDF remaining in Gaza until Hamas disarmed

By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Kushner predicts progress in Hamas weapon handover within 30 days, reportedly cautions PM against interpreting ‘imminent threat’ too broadly when approving Gaza strikes

US envoy Jared Kushner (left) and Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya (right) in a photo montage. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP; AP/Khalil Hamra)

Kushner meets Hamas chief in Egypt in push for Gaza disarmament; IDF continues strikes

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Reporter's notebook

US synagogue volunteer guards learn mass casualty response from Israeli medics

Magen David Adom veterans teach Community Security Service members how to treat victims at large-scale trauma events, bringing lessons from Israel to Diaspora due to terror threats

Community Security Service (CSS) volunteers practice applying a tourniquet, in Westchester County, New York, August 13, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NY correspondent Luke Tress joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 17: NY Jews train for mass casualty event amid heightened threats

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Luke Tress

NYPD seen outside Manhattan’s Central Synagogue in the wake of a Friday night attack against worshipers, August 14, 2026. (Screenshots/CBS New York)

Jewish watchdog urges NYPD to increase officers in hot spots after synagogue attack

By Joseph Strauss

The male pelvis (L) returns energy while walking, while the female pelvis (R) disperses energy, according to a new study. (Tel Aviv University)

'Evolution made the male a perfect walking machine'

His pelvis was made for walking. Hers? Not so much, claims study of Neanderthal bones

New research posits Neanderthal pelvises were surprisingly similar to those of modern females; reproductive needs prevented them from evolutionary development that allows males to walk farther

Here’s how we drove a toxic propaganda channel off public screens

Our campaign got public institutions to replace Channel 14 broadcasts with neutral programming. It’s a tactic pro-democracy activists can use anywhere

Robert S. Miller

I invest in Portland. Must I pass a test on Israel?

A campaign to investigate Zionist ‘complicity’ could turn ordinary economic participation into a test of political loyalty

Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a ceremony marking the return to the former settlement of Ganim in the northern West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005 as part of Israel’s Disengagement Plan, August 13, 2026. (Hilel Ben Or/Flash90)

Katz touts bid to legalize illegal outposts

Katz: IDF has 2 weeks to draft plan to hand West Bank civilian enforcement to police

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister’s plan, seemingly aimed at washing military’s hands of settler violence, comes amid surge in incidents, siege on Palestinians in Qusra

Illustrative: Palestinian schoolgirls leave a UNRWA school in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on May 8, 2025, as Israeli security forces prepared to close the school. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

UNRWA alleges Israeli takeover of agency buildings in East Jerusalem

By Nurit Yohanan

US officials to reportedly tour West Bank town besieged by settler extremists

TV report says administration wants Israeli officials to join visit to Qusra; Shin Bet said working to compile sufficient evidence against suspects involved in the violence

Israeli forces stand in front of the entrance of a Palestinian house besieged by Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, on August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus noon prayer in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, August 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope calls to end violence against West Bank Palestinians as settler attacks surge

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Former captive Rom Braslavski asks to execute his own captor

Ben Gvir: We should kill ’30 to 40′ of Israel’s enemies in Gaza every night, ‘they’re not worthy of life’

By AP and ToI Staff

In comments made to ex-hostage and shared widely in Arab media, minister says IDF should even kill operatives that don’t pose immediate threat: ‘They shouldn’t live, they’re not even people’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Illustrative: An Israeli Jewish woman prostrates herself on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on July 23, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)

Jewish prayer books reportedly allowed onto Temple Mount for first time

Worshipers say police permitted them to ascend with siddurim; right-wing journalist Arnon Segal posts photo of men praying at site while reading from the prayer books

A smashed window at Jerusalem's Kol HaNeshama, a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem that was vandalized on August 14,2026. (Kol HaNeshama via X)

Jerusalem Reform synagogue vandalized over Shabbat: ‘Won’t dim our light’

By Noam Lehmann

Kol HaNeshama says no congregants were on the premises during attack; MK Gilad Kariv, a Reform rabbi, slams the vandals as ‘incited hooligans’

UK, US both said probing alleged ties between China and an anti-Israel protest group

By Ethan Rubinson

Telegraph report says Code Pink suspected of receiving funds from a Beijing-backed tech tycoon to stage pro-Palestinian demonstrations

Anti-Israel demonstrators take part in a 'Stand with Palestine' protest close to the embassy of Israel in west London on October 9, 2023. (Daniel LEAL/ AFP/ File)

A firefighting airplane drop water during a wildfire on the island of Salamina, west of Athens, Greece, August 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Israeli arrested in Greece for negligent arson after BBQ sparks wildfire

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Man accused of lighting grill in forested area of Crete despite islandwide burn ban; firefighters reportedly manage to bring blaze under control after several hours

A Mil Mi-8/Mi-17 helicopter flies over a forest during a wildfire on the Greek island of Skyros, in Aegean Sea on August 16, 2026. (Aris MESSINIS/AFP)

Two dead, hundreds evacuated from fires on island near Athens

By John Hadoulis and Hervé BAR

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The carcass of one of around 30 white storks killed by electrocution in the central Jordan Valley, Auagust 17, 2026 (Yuval Bashan, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Officials urge action as dozens of storks electrocuted on Jordan Valley power lines

US President Donald Trump yells to reporters after disembarking Air Force One, August 16, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Hours before start, Trump orders ‘substantial’ reduction of military drills with South Korea

A Wildberries emloyee looks at a plume of smoke rising during a fire at Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries’ logistics complex near the town of Podolsk, outside Moscow on August 16, 2026. (Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP)

Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks yet on Russia, killing at least 6

A teacher addresses students at a school in one of the floating villages of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake on June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)

In Cambodia, Iran war forcing families to choose between school for kids or survival

By AP

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