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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 22, 2026

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US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack speaks in a panel during the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, in Antalya, southern Turkey, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Riza Ozel)

Ambassador defies US policy by saying Israel occupying Golan

US envoy suggests Israeli strike in Syria sought to ‘bait’ Turkey ahead of elections

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Katz says claim ‘full of inaccuracies,’ Jerusalem made diplomatic effort to avoid recent bombing of base near Turkish border; Tom Barrack confirms Mossad chief spoke with Syrian FM ahead of strike

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, seen during a vote on the state budget in the Knesset, Jerusalem, March 29, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) during a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (unseen) at Dolmabahce Presidential Office, in Istanbul. (TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)

Turkey issues fresh ‘genocide’ arrest warrant for Netanyahu amid growing Syria tensions

By Agencies and Nava Freiberg

This picture taken from the E1 area northeast of Jerusalem shows vehicles moving along a highway near the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim on February 4, 2026. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Western countries blast IDF for closing probe into WCK strike

US stresses opposition to Israeli West Bank annexation but avoids condemning E1 plan

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Trump administration says it wants to see ‘a stable West Bank’ as top EU official, FMs of several Arab and Muslim nations denounce Jerusalem over controversial settlement project

Stellate puffer (Arothron stellatus) also known as a blowfish (Muhammad Arie via iStock)

Inside story'We need people to be on the lookout'

Israeli study fingers Red Sea fish most likely to invade Mediterranean next

By Diana Bletter

Pioneering research identifies which species may soonest join those who’ve made their way through Suez, allowing authorities to plan ahead before they begin posing a threat to the local ecosystem

Anti-government, pro-democracy protesters at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, August 22, 2026. (Yoav Loeff / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 22: Father of Oct. 7 victim says state has ‘unceasing and unforgivable debt’ to investigate failures

Report: Shin Bet denies Eisenkot’s request for armed security detail* At least 4 Palestinians said injured in settler attacks across West Bank * FM Sa’ar: Israel has no interest in escalation with Turkey

8:19 pm

Shas party puts out campaign video featuring IDF soldier coming home to ultra-Orthodox family, amid its efforts to enshrine Haredi draft exemption
8:14 pm

Bennett denounces Netanyahu as an 'anarchist' whose toxic campaigning could lead to violence against political rivals
6:35 pm

Airports authority reportedly seeking to fire union chief over Thursday's airport shutdown

A shopkeeper arranges nuts at his shop at Tajrish traditional bazaar in northern Tehran, Iran, August 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Inside story

Iranians struggle to afford the basics as US ratchets up economic warfare

By MEHDI FATTAHI and David Rising

Iranians say they are forced to work more hours, cut back on groceries and leisure to make ends meet; experts skeptical if Tehran can be pressured into making concessions

Menachem Rosensaft

Drawing numbers on Palestinian detainees? What were they thinking?

Whatever the soldiers’ intent, reducing anyone numbers is dehumanizing — and ‘lessons were learned’ is no longer an adequate response

Talyah Ginsberg

74 mitzvot, four men, one possible match

Parshat Ki Teitzei has plenty to say about relationships. CoronaCrush gives you seven minutes to figure one out

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations, speaks to the press after meeting with Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, February 8, 2024. (AP Photo)

Guyanese ex-FM Birkett leads UN chief race; Costa Rica’s Grynspan falls to 2nd place

By AFP and ToI Staff

Second straw poll favors Guyanese diplomat, while former Costa Rican VP, who would be first Jewish person to lead UN, trails narrowly; UN nuclear watchdog chief Grossi places 3rd

This image made from a video posted on September 18, 2013, shows a student wearing a gas mask and protective suit during a classroom session on how to respond to a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo, Syria. (photo credit: AP)

On anniversary of gas attack, Syria asks to join anti-chemical weapons partnership

By AFP

Bid announced at commemoration for Assad’s 2013 sarin attack on a Damascus suburb; France welcomes Syria’s commitment to strengthening accountability

Gold medalist Artem Dolgopyat of Israel poses during the medal ceremony for the floor exercise at the Men’s Individual Apparatus Finals, Part 1 on Day 3 of the 2026 Artistic Gymnastics European Championships at Arena Zagreb on August 21, 2026 in Zagreb, Croatia. (Marko Lukunic/PIXSELL/Sipa USA)

Israel’s Dolgopyat wins his third European gymnastics championship title

By Michael Horovitz

Olympic champion scores 14.466 points, to win the gold medal for the floor routine at championships in Croatia

View of the Supreme Court building in Buenos Aires, on May 15, 2022. (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

In historic first, Argentine judge defrocked over antisemitic social media posts

By Juan Melamed

Jury of Impeachment removes judge who called Jews ‘a brood of vipers,’ branded Israel a ‘fictitious state’ and used ‘Zionist’ and ‘gay’ as insults

Hezbollah scouts carry the coffins of a Hezbollah member Ali al-Haj Hassan, his wife and his four children, who were killed on Saturday by an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral procession in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah says new US sanctions ‘will not deter’ fight against Israel

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

Iran-backed terror group hails its ‘close and fraternal relationship’ with Tehran after being accused of operating in ‘service of the Iranian regime’

The Alexander Grass Campus for Jewish Life in Harissburg, Pennsylvania. (Google Streetview)

A US Jewish federation had big plans for a community campus. Then the money ran out

By Grace Gilson

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania community thrown into decline after spending millions on hub, now set to be sold, while educational programs are shut down and institutions are displaced

The 2026 Sandler family production 'Don't Say Good Luck' is this week's featured film on The Reel Schmooze. (Courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘Don’t Say Good Luck’: The Sunny (Sandler) side of life, with cancer

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the newest Sandler family production, starring daughter Sunny and a cast of actors forming a relatable family going through a too-common crisis

I.J. Singer's dispatches for the Yiddish Forward are collected in “Viaggi in America” (“Travels in America”), which was recently published in a new Italian translation .(Giuntina; Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Italy is having a Yiddish moment, fueled by translation of I.J. Singer’s writings

By Simone Somekh

‘Yiddish is alive and well — even in Italy,’ says publisher of unprecedented Italian version of ‘Travels in America,’ a collection of novelist’s dispatches for the ‘Forverts’

Members of a bomb disposal unit, Dieter Schwaetzler, left, and Rene Bennert sit next to 1.8 ton World War II bomb after defusing it in Frankfurt, Germany, September 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Amid European wildfires, buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII resurface

Fires, fueled by climate change, are uncovering, exposing, and in some cases exploding, long-buried munitions across the continent, posing a threat to crews responding to flames

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Britain’s Prince Harry arrives at London’s High Court to lead a group, including Elton John and Elizabeth Hurley, accusing the Daily Mail’s publisher of privacy invasion through unlawful tactics in a trial that is part of a wider phone hacking scandal in London, January 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Judge orders Prince Harry, Elton John and others to pay millions after failed privacy suit

By Michael Holden and William James

Rolled coils of steel sit in the yard at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ont. on August 20, 2026. (Nick Iwanyshyn/The Canadian Press via AP)

US imposes 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products as trade talks collapse

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