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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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Ofer Winter at the launch of his new People of Israel party in Jerusalem, August 25, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Says only solution for Gaza is Palestinian emigration

Winter launches nationalist ‘People of Israel’ party; Netanyahu warns it could doom the right

Controversial ex-general says Israelis will no longer accept same political faces after Oct. 7; does not mention PM; unveils diverse slate including Arab-Israeli influencer Yosef Haddad

Reporter's notebook

Shalom Yerushalmi

Ofer Winter’s disciplined political launch threatens to upend the right-wing bloc

The former IDF general’s new People of Israel party unveiled a surprisingly diverse slate on Tuesday, openly challenging Netanyahu and refusing to back down under fire

Ofer Winter at the launch of his new People of Israel party in Jerusalem, August 25, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing on his request for a restraining order against Haaretz journalist Uri Misgav at the Jerusalem District Court in Jerusalem, July 15, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu was target of Iranian assassination plot in Florida — report

Newsmax says Tehran’s agents were ‘on the ground’ monitoring PM’s son last December; he reportedly left without packing, and has been in Israel since

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 26: Michigan AG says she fears candidate El-Sayed is rationalizing terrorism, Jewish voters are torn

By ToI Staff and Ethan Rubinson

Spyware reported to be found on phones of two senior Eisenkot campaign officials * Dozens killed, hundreds missing in Nepal flash floods, with Israeli man said to be unreachable

9:26 pm

Michigan AG says she fears candidate El-Sayed is rationalizing terrorism, Jewish voters are torn
8:14 pm

Meta agrees to pay US states $16.7B in landmark teen social media addiction case
7:33 pm

US Capitol Police arrest man with guillotine in the back of his pickup truck

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks alongside Paraguay’s Vice President Pedro Alliana (not pictured), in the Treaty Room at the US State Department, August 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tierney L. Cross)

Rubio says no new Iran offensive for now as US focuses on economic pressure — report

By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff

Washington also bent on restoring shipping through Hormuz; Iran and Oman discuss temporary corridor; oil firms begin avoiding vessels on Iranian blacklist of ships

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (C-L) and Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman (C-R) exchange folders as US President Donald Trump (L) and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) look on during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP)

White House presents Saudi nuke deal to Congress, but insists Riyadh recognize Israel

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

US President Donald Trump listens during a back to school event in the Rose Garden of the White House, August 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says Iran in ‘humanitarian crisis of epic proportions’ that ‘must be stopped’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Op-ed

Netanyahu feels the Winter chill

With two months until the election, the prime minister is facing a potent challenge within his own camp — from an ex-general determined to conscript the ultra-Orthodox and adamant that the political sphere has to change in the wake of the October 7 catastrophe

Ofer Winter (left) takes the applause at the launch of his People of Israel party, in Jerusalem, August 25, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote in the Knesset, July 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

An Israeli settler attacks a left-wing activist at an Israeli outpost in the Palestinian village of Jannatah, just south of the city of Bethlehem on August 25, 2026. (ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)

Settlers filmed attacking activists, reporters in front of IDF troops; none arrested

By Noam Lehmann, ToI Staff and Agencies

Left-wing Israeli activists say ‘Jewish terrorists’ attacked them while they were trying to set up fence around Palestinian village that has come under repeated settler harassment

Israeli forces stand guard during a raid on the UNRWA Vocational Training Center, located between the Kafr Aqab neighborhood and the Qalandiya refugee camp, in East Jerusalem, August 25, 2026. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

Israel launches operation to take over East Jerusalem UNRWA facility it says it controls

By Noam Lehmann, ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

Cash seized by Israeli forces during a a raid on East Jerusalem homes of Palestinian prisoners who were released in exchange for Hamas-held hostages, and who allegedly continued receiving so-called 'pay-to-slay' stipends from the Palestinian Authority, in a photo released August 26, 2026. (Israel Police)

Israel raids homes of Palestinians freed in Gaza deals, says they got ‘pay-to-slay’ stipends

By Noam Lehmann

Study: Genocide claims on US campuses largely grew out of preexisting BDS activism

Research by AMCHA Initiative links prior anti-Israel advocacy to genocide accusations, arguing that scholars gave political rhetoric academic legitimacy

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators protest the arrest of former Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil in Seattle, Washington, March 15, 2025. (Jason Redmond / AFP)

Producers Haim Saban, left, and Lawrence Bender are part of The Brigade, a Hollywood group that accused actor Mark Ruffalo of antisemitism over his August 20, 2026, social media post. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, Ran Mendelson/Green Productions, Bender Brown Productions, Keshet 12, the IEF; Paramount+)

Powerful Hollywood execs accuse Mark Ruffalo of antisemitism in Paramount attack

By Jessica Steinberg

From the Blogs

Reclaiming the right: Why I left Likud and found my home in Yisrael Beytenu

The current leadership protected cartels, stifled economic competition, allowed Haredi draft evasion, and did too little to truly win the war. That’s no way to run a country

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with troops in the Gaza Strip, August 25, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief pledges to continue pursuing Oct. 7 terrorists

In rare warning, Board of Peace tells Israel to limit Gaza fire to ‘genuine’ threats

By Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

IDF chief vows that ‘pursuit of the October 7 terrorists continues’; US-backed organization also calls for halt of ‘all militant activity’ in Gaza, including kites, after Israeli threats

Officers and civilians from the US, Israel and around 20 other countries work at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, Israel, November 19, 2025 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Sa’ar boots Dutch from US-backed Gaza coordination center over ‘anti-Israel measures’

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Festivalgoers pass the red carpet of the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, August 27, 2024. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Documentary about killing of civilians in Gaza to premiere at Venice Film Festival

‘I have chosen the way of faith’

As President Rivlin’s chief of staff, I came to understand Haredi resilience: Don’t think you can frighten or embarrass the community into abandoning its principles

I stood up to fight stigma. I didn’t expect it to follow me home

A year after going public as a methadone patient, I’ve learned that honesty doesn’t always come back to you the way you hoped it would

Nearly all US Senate Democrats write Netanyahu to demand action on ‘fatal’ settler violence

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Letter drafted by Schumer, Schiff and Booker, signed by all but 2 of 47-member caucus, calls for removing illegal outposts and stepping up probes of killings of US citizens

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, speaks at a news conference on anti-corruption, at the National Press Club, July 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham reacts as he meets with local business owners and guests during a visit to The Hub Cafe in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, August 11, 2026. (Toby Shepheard/Pool Photo via AP)

UK’s Burnham said poised to ban trade with settlements; critics fear ‘de facto boycott’ of Israel

Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks with Israeli troops in southern Syria, August 25, 2026. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Katz: Israel won’t leave Syria buffer zone so long as ‘jihadist threats’ remain

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Defense minister, visiting troops, tells Syrian president ‘when you wake up in Damascus and see IDF on Mount Hermon, know we’re here to defend our communities and border’

Mazloum Abdi, leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaks during a televised speech at the People’s Palace in Damascus on August 25, 2026. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)

Syrian Kurdish leader says armed force dissolved, capping integration with Damascus

By AFP

Israeli reserve soldiers seen during military training in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, October 30, 2023. (David Cohen/ Flash90)

Wartime reserve duty taking heavier toll on economy than expected, Treasury warns

By Sharon Wrobel

'Genetic codes alter the physical structure of DNA'

Breakthrough Israeli cancer study finds mutations break DNA when it doesn’t bend

By Diana Bletter

Weizmann Institute of Science and Rowan University researchers show that repair enzymes fail to fix gene structures of certain shapes, in discovery that may lead to new therapies

Dr. Ariel Afek, left, and doctoral student Noga Levy at Afek's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science. (Courtesy/Weizmann Institute of Science)

Christian Orthodox pilgrims hold up candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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Spending the night behind the locked doors of the Holy Sepulchre

By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO

With daytime crowds gone, pilgrims and clergy pray through the night at the traditional sites of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection

Darline Graham wins GOP primary runoff to replace her late brother in US Senate

By MEG KINNARD and Jeffrey Collins

Trump-endorsed candidate bests some of South Carolina’s top political names in special election spun up after Lindsey Graham’s sudden death last month; she’ll face Dem Andrews in November

Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., speaks at a news conference a day ahead of the special GOP Senate runoff to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., August 24, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

N'kiyla Jasmine Thomas, a Democratic US Senate candidate for Oklahoma, speaks with FOX23 on May 5, 2026. (Screen capture: Youtube/FOX23)

Progressive bolstered by anti-AIPAC messaging wins Democratic Senate primary in Oklahoma

By Sharon Udasin

Students and activists protest for an eighth day at an anti-Israel encampment on the campus of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on May 4, 2024. (Photo by Alexis Aubin / AFP)

Montreal city council walks back motion to cut ties with Israel

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Suspected car thief crashes and dies during cop chase in Jerusalem, police say

By Noam Lehmann

Sabah's Tellur Mutallimov (at rear, center) shoots home in the final seconds of stoppage time to force extra time in his team's home match against Hapoel Beersheba, on August 25, 2026. The Azerbaijani team eventually won the game by 5-2, for an aggregate 6-4 win, qualifiying at Hapoel's expense for the European Champions League. (Israel Sports Channel 5 screenshot)

Hapoel Beersheba, seconds from reaching UEFA Champions League, loses to Sabah in extra time

By AP and ToI Staff

This undated trial evidence image obtained December 8, 2021, from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York shows British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and US financier Jeffrey Epstein. (US District Court for the Southern District of New York / AFP)

Federal judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid for release from prison

By Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister

The family of missing girl Haymanut Kasau meet with President Isaac Herzog (center) in his office in Jerusalem on August 25, 2026. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Shin Bet confirms joining police probe into case of missing girl Haymanut Kasau

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

A Ukrainian FP-1 long-range attack drone is launched at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, August 16, 2026. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

UN and Red Cross step up call for restrictions on ‘killer robot’ weapons

By Jamey Keaten

Canadian Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne speaks at a news conference on Canada’s response to US tariffs, at a roofing company in Ottawa, on August 25, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada strikes back at US with retaliatory tariffs, amid escalating trade war

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