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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 23, 2026

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Former prime minister and B'Yachad party chief Naftali Bennett (left) speaks in an interview with Channel 12 broadcast on August 22, 2026. (Screenshot/Channel 12); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu votes in Jerusalem in the Likud primary, August 17, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Says he's willing to be in junior role to replace government

Bennett: ‘Anarchist’ Netanyahu’s toxic campaigning may lead to violence against his rivals

By Michael Bachner

In interview accompanying new book, B’Yachad party head recounts PM’s lack of orderly handover and threats to mark him as traitor, says his own actions as PM were key to recent successes against Iran

Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot, at a campaign conference of at the Darom HaSharon Regional Council building in central Israel, July 27, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief rejects armed security detail for election frontrunner Eisenkot — reports

Troops at the scene of a stabbing attack in al-Auja in the West Bank on August 23, 2026. (IDF)

14-year-old Palestinian said killed in IDF raid in Nablus

Israeli man injured in West Bank stabbing attack; IDF arrests suspect after manhunt

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

24-year-old Elhanan Hananya in moderate condition after being stabbed repeatedly during family trip; Palestinian man shot after allegedly trying to snatch soldier’s gun in West Bank

Soldiers seen inspecting a kite, flown from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, August 22, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF says 4 kites apparently flown from Gaza found in Nahal Oz; residents demand response

By Emanuel Fabian

Military said to believe kites were sent by Hamas to see if and how Israel would respond; community recalls incendiary kites from 2018 even as IDF says no danger to public

A Palestinian man walks past a burning truck following an Israeli strike, in the area of Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on August 23, 2026. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

IDF told to act forcefully against Gaza kites; 3 reported killed in Israeli strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and Nava Freiberg

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A Palestinian inspects one of the buildings at his home, reportedly set fire and defaced with graffiti by Israeli settlers south of Nablus in the West Bank, on August 23, 2026. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP)

Car, building torched in apparent settler attack in West Bank; no injuries reported

By Nurit Yohanan and Noam Lehmann

Police announce arrest of two Israeli teens over Saturday assault of Palestinian amputee near Hebron; IDF troops leave Qusra home blocked by settlers after clothes-tossing incident

Israeli security forces guard a group of Jewish Israelis as they tour the West Bank city of Hebron, August 22, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Four Palestinians said injured Saturday in separate settler attacks across West Bank

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israeli police patrol a street in East Jerusalem’s predominantly Arab neighbourhood of Silwan on August 23, 2026. (ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)

3 killed in East Jerusalem shootings, 2 by cops, amid apparent family dispute

Ra’am’s Abbas says Palestinian state ‘a reality,’ drawing outrage from Zionist parties

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Arab party chairman tells delegates he wants to be part of the opposition ‘change bloc,’ but immediately draws censure from that bloc’s leaders

Ra’am chairman MK Mansour Abbas addresses party delegates at their convention in Taibe, August 22, 2026. (Facebook)

Sharren Haskel, left, Jonathan Pollard, center and political strategist Roi Danino in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, in a picture distributed on August 23, 2026. (Courtesy Israel First)

2026 Knesset electionEx-spy Jonathan Pollard announces Knesset run on Haskel’s ‘Israel First’ slate

Analysis

Eisenkot lays groundwork for a minority government, if necessary, to oust Netanyahu

The Yashar party head is exploring the idea of a 58-seat coalition as an alternative to partnering with Ra’am, arguing a fragile government is preferable to another Netanyahu term

Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot visits Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza border, during his election campaign, August 5, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Shas launches election campaign with video aimed at courting soldiers, Zionist right

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Following ultra-Orthodox party’s relentless efforts to enshrine IDF exemptions in law, it bids to soften anti-draft image ahead of elections, showing soldier coming home to Haredi family

A screenshot from a Shas campaign video featuring an IDF soldier from a Haredi background that was ordered taken down by the Central Elections Committee on August 23, 2026. (Screenshot/Shas)

Interview

TOM PERRY and Feras Dalatey

Syrian FM urges Israel to seize ‘historic opportunity’ for bilateral relations

‘We do not trust Israel currently,’ top diplomat Asaad al-Shaibani says, but ‘Syria is extending its hand for understandings, peace, diplomacy’ with its neighbor

Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani speaks in the Syrian capital Damascus on July 25, 2026. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP)

A damaged vehicle is seen following a reported attack by an Israeli army unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the countryside of Quneitra, Syria, on August 22, 2026. (Huseyin Mesal / Anadolu)

IDF drone strike in south Syria targets operative ‘in final stages’ of planning attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Tankers and cargo vessels are seen in the Gulf of Oman, along shipping routes linking the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo)

Iran says any country cooperating with new US sanctions will be ‘considered an enemy’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US has presented new sanctions as ‘toughest in history,’ is urging China — one of Tehran’s top trading partners — to cooperate; oil traffic through Hormuz still near a standstill

Iranian protesters hold letters spelling out “Stop Execution” as they gather at the Ergife Palace Hotel to condemn the silence of Western governments in the face of the growing wave of Iranian political executions, in Rome, Italy, on July 16, 2026. (Andreas SOLARO/AFP)

Iran executes man accused of being an agent of Israel and US during January protests

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel’s largest ultra-Orthodox party? Likud

From draft exemptions to education and public funding, the party of Begin is increasingly embracing a worldview at odds with its Zionist roots

How Netanyahu taught Israel to give up on peace

Bibi didn’t create Palestinian rejectionism or October 7. But he spent years obstructing a two-state solution – and telling Israelis that hope itself was naive

The Israeli army demolishes buildings east of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF says Hamas tunnel commander and Oct. 7 hostage-holder killed in Gaza strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army also says 2 Palestinians cross Yellow Line in separate incidents, one shot and one detained; kites from Gaza land in southern Israel, without any objects attached

Wesam Hamada, the mother of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl who was killed in Gaza City in January 2024 after the car she was in with relatives came under Israeli fire, shows a picture of her late daughter during an interview with The Associated Press at an undisclosed location, August 21, 2026.

Mother of Gaza’s Hind Rajab demands independent probe after IDF opens criminal investigation

By AP and ToI Staff

IAA chair said looking to fire airport labor union chief over Thursday’s impromptu strike

Union chief Pinchas Idan reportedly tells labor court that the IAA has been breaching airport employees’ rights, including by routinely requiring 12-hour days, six days a week

Airport union chief and Likud party member Pinchas Idan at the Elections Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 5, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers said to ask AIPAC not to campaign on his behalf

By ToI Staff and Agencies

As pro-Israel lobby group becomes increasingly unpopular across US politics, Axios says aides for Rogers warned its involvement would be detrimental to defeating Abdul El-Sayed

Republican nominee for US Senate Mike Rogers speaks during a campaign event August 20, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Analysis

Israelis worry about weakening connection with young US Jews amid rising antisemitism

Poll finds only 4/10 religious and 2/10 secular Jewish Americans consider supporting Israel to be important, prompting concern they’ll stop viewing it as a safe place to turn to

An Image of the US and Israeli flags is projected on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Co-president of French center-left party Place Publique (PP) Raphael Glucksmann speaks with journalists in Jonquiere, southwestern France, on August 12, 2026. (Valentine CHAPUIS/AFP)

French moderate Raphael Glucksmann slated to enter crowded presidential race

By AFP

Center-left EU parliamentarian and son of renowned Jewish philosopher Andre Glucksmann is polling around 10-12%, likely not enough to progress to runoff vote to succeed Macron

Peoples of Israel'We'll disagree. That's the Jewish way'

Jeffrey Woolf, the story keeper of Jerusalem

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 historian who followed his grandmother’s stories home

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