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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 27, 2026

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

IDF chief orders major bolstering of troops in West Bank due to escalated tensions

By Emanuel Fabian

Standing army division to be placed on standby for deployment; Zamir also slams treasury for ’empty coffers’ amid clash over pension for ousted top military lawyer Tomer-Yerushalmi

Far-right lawmaker Zvi Sukkot smashes a Palestinian monument to 'martyrs' in the West Bank village of Madama, August 25, 2026 (MK Zvi Sukkot's office)

IDF took MK Sukkot to West Bank monument he smashed only after he threatened to go alone – report

Settlers appear to steal belongings from a Palestinian home in the southern West Bank, August 26, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers filmed looting West Bank home as IDF nabs Palestinian allegedly planning attack

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The Board of Peace's High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov briefs the UN Security Council in New York on August 26, 2026. (Screen capture)

'If ceasefire collapses, it would be a point of no return'

Board of Peace envoy knocks Israel’s ‘unacceptable’ Gaza policy as disarmament plan stalls

Briefing UN Security Council, Mladenov pans Israeli restrictions on shelter supplies, argues that continued IDF strikes haven’t led to demilitarization, nor will they

Ex-hostage Evyatar David speaks to CNN, in an interview aired August 26, 2026. (Screenshot)

Ex-hostage Evyatar David says he still wakes with nightmares, almost a year after return

Israel weighs expelling UK officials from Gaza coordination center amid settlements row

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Reuters

Source says more extreme measures also under consideration; UK official says ‘payback’ expected as London hardens stance on Israel’s contentious E1 settlements plan

Personnel work at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), a command center in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, on November 19, 2025. (Ahikam Seri / AFP)

Police officers monitor protesters holding a banner during a protest in support of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, in Trafalgar Square, central London, on June 23, 2025. (Henry Nicholls / AFP)

Following UK’s lead, US designates Palestine Action as a terrorist organization

People demonstrate ahead of the Europa League soccer match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Birmingham, England, November 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Darren Staples)

UK police officers probed for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans from 2025 match

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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One ride that became 13: Changing children’s lives through Wheels of Love

After 13 rides in Israel and years volunteering at ALYN Hospital, Jeb Brownstein shares what keeps bringing him back to Wheels of Love.

Army says video went against policy, will be 'investigated'

IDF posts, deletes AI video telling Haredi draft dodgers how to evade ban on traveling abroad

By Emanuel Fabian

Personnel Directorate uploads AI-generated PSA explaining the initial step they can take toward enlistment in order to evade bar on leaving country; rabbis have reportedly advised followers to do just that, and not enlist

A video posted to social media by the IDF Personnel Directorate, then deleted, advises draft-dodgers on how to remedy their status and avoid being blocked from leaving the country, August 26, 2026. (Screenshot)

Ultra-Orthodox soldiers from the IDF's new Haredi Hasmonean Brigade take part in a beret march after completing seven months of basic and advanced training, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on August 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF says Gaza mission canceled after religious troops refuse to serve with female paramedic

By Emanuel Fabian

Former Mossad director David Barnea attends an event at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, June 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 27: Ex-Mossad chief Barnea says ‘no choice’ but to keep hitting Iran ‘until the regime falls’

Qatari PM visits Tehran as White House says it is not holding any Iran talks * Netanyahu urges Ben Gvir and Smotrich to unite their parties ahead of election

7:52 pm

Trump no longer interested in reviving June MOU with Iran, says mediating diplomat
7:37 pm

Iranian security chief denies potential plot to assassinate Trump's son
7:17 pm

IDF: 2 Hamas commanders killed in airstrikes on Gaza today

Analysis

With debutant Winter poised to cannibalize his bloc, Netanyahu has reason to sweat

New People of Israel party seen as most likely to draw votes away from PM’s coalition allies, as well as his own Likud, with rivals and other small right-wing factions already siphoning away support

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Negev Conference in the southern city of Dimona, southern Israel, July 17, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks at an agriculture-focused election campaign conference at the Drom HaSharon Regional Council building in central Israel on July 27, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Eisenkot says two-state solution ‘delusional’ post-Oct. 7, but E1 settlement plan a ‘mistake’

Katie Cunningham

Does it matter if kids learn about dead Jews?

Dara Horn is right that Holocaust education hasn’t reduced antisemitism. My research shows that it can

Elkana Bar Eitan

October 7 changed my mind about Israelis voting from abroad

Eligibility to cast an absentee ballot should depend on meaningful ties to Israel, not the ability to afford an Election Day plane ticket

Birthright is no longer just a gift. It’s a necessity

In a post-October 7 world that is pulling young Jews away from Israel and Judaism, research shows that firsthand experience gives them a story worth carrying forward

The King was in the field. So was my wife. And a lion

A lion in the Kenyan grass brought an Elul metaphor startlingly to life — but the Jewish community in Nairobi gave it deeper meaning

A nun seen with a bruise to the head (left) after a man allegedly attacked her near King David's Tomb in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 28, 2026. (Screenshot/Israel Police)

Citing mental illness, Jerusalem court acquits man who attacked nun, sends him to psychiatric facility

Judge determines Yona Schreiber was in psychotic state during assault in May, orders him hospitalized for six years

Rescuers use earthmovers to reach submerged houses after flash flooding along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, August 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

At least 168 killed in Nepal-Tibet flood disaster; Israeli among over 1,300 missing

By AFP

Videos of the tragedy show water and mud swallowing people as they tried to escape; USGS says disaster caused by glacial collapse

US approves use of landmark pancreatic cancer drug that’s shown to boost survival

By AP

Drug blocks key mutated protein driving over 90% of cases in deadly cancer; patients taking pill live median of 13.2 months compared with 6.7 months for patients on chemo

Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council, with German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1941. (German Federal Archive via Wikimedia Commons)

Historian’s book on Nazi World War II propaganda targeting Arab world to be republished

Jeffrey Herf says ‘Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World’ holds new relevance because it dispels ‘falsehoods’ about Hamas ideology; title to be distributed by Columbia University Press

PM: Doubtful deal can be made with 'those savages' in Iran

Netanyahu says he told Trump to ‘tighten the siege’ on Iran ahead of fresh sanctions

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

PM says he pushed for economic pressure during July meeting; Trump hails campaign, says ‘big victory’ coming soon; Tehran claims measures will fail, Hormuz still under its control

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office on July 28, 2026. (GPO)

Illustrative: A presenter for dissident Persian-language TV station Iran International prepares for a news broadcast at the network's studio in London on January 20, 2026. (Carlos Jasso / AFP)

Iran says it views Persian-language media outlets abroad as military targets

Motorcyclists pass a billboard depicting US President Donald Trump underwater amid explosions, with the words “Great Victory! Strait of Hormuz,” in Tehran, Iran, August 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ExplainerFrom nukes to Hormuz: The shift in Trump’s Iran war objectives

By AP

Yair Golan, chairman of The Democrats party, speaks during a party rally at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, July 25, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Erdan, Gantz meet to discuss possible merger, reports say

Democrats chair Yair Golan said to request security detail due to threats on his life

Request reportedly cites posts saying Golan should be hanged, shot, maimed; Eisenkot trades barbs with hawkish newcomer Winter as PM’s glumness on Likud’s chances is backed up by poll

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)

Spyware reportedly found on phones of 2 senior Eisenkot campaign officials

Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas (left) and former Yesh Atid MK Yoav Segalovitz in a handout photo released by the party on August 26, 2026. (Courtesy)

Abbas eyes Segalovitz pact amid backlash for saying he’s ‘compelled’ to accept Jewish state

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Op-ed

Amir Bar Shalom

Netanyahu ambushes IDF chief in effort to drag the military into his election campaign

A surprise summons by the PM of the IDF’s top brass for a situation assessment was designed to generate negative headlines against the military, after it warned him that the West Bank is boiling

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir at an IDF officers’ course graduation, October 30, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Gila Gamliel attends a Science and Technology Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud recount could push veteran minister out of Knesset as fraud claims roil party

Dolly Parton reading a children's book, in an undated photo. (The Dollywood Foundation)

Dolly Parton’s legacy includes Jewish literacy program that took page from her book

By Penny Schwartz

Philanthropist Harold Grinspoon, inspired by late singer’s children’s book scheme, formed PJ Library, which mails free texts to Jewish families to foster community’s culture

Yayoi Kusama, who splashed polka dots across art world, dies at 97

By YURI KAGEYAMA

This handout photo from the US Capitol Police taken on August 25, 2026, shows a guillotine in the back of a pickup truck on the 100 block of East Capitol Street in Washington, DC, near the US Capitol and Supreme Court. (Handout/US Capitol Police/AFP)

US Capitol Police arrest man with guillotine in back of pickup truck; judge releases him

By AFP and ToI Staff

Philan-Tam-Duy Le is charged with misdemeanor weapons charge after he was detained near Supreme Court; judge says suspect ‘didn’t even threaten anyone’

Michigan GOP Senate hopeful drawing in Jewish voters amid apparent aversion to AIPAC

By Andrew Lapin

Mike Rogers’ team signals lobby should stay out of race after it spent millions to prop up Haley Stevens, who lost Democratic nomination to Israeli critic Abdul El-Sayed

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

From left to right: Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Democratic candidate for US Senate, joins Maryland US Rep. Jamie Raskin and Michigan US Rep. Debbie Dingell for a town hall in Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 26, 2026. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)

Stumping in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed and Jamie Raskin dodge queries on Hasan Piker, Israel

By Andrew Lapin

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

Israel braces for ‘unprecedented’ summer rain, potential flooding this weekend

Meta agrees to pay US states $18b in landmark teen social media addiction case

By Barbara Ortutay, Kelvin Chan and KAITLYN HUAMANI

An Irish man is filmed after allegedly making an antisemitic remark, in a clip posted to social media August 11, 2026. (@ListentoLewko on X)

France arrests Irish man who allegedly told Jews he wished Hitler had ‘finished the job’

This March 1, 2003, file photo obtained by the Associated Press shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. (AP Photo)

US military sets 2028 trial date for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

By AP

Illustrative: The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on February 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

US says it disrupted Chinese hacking campaign that broke into top government bodies

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens

Screenshots from social media footage show women assaulting a motorist in Kfar Yona, August 23, 2026. (Channel 13 and X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Prison Service officer, three others suspected in violent assault over parking dispute

Mourners carry the casket of Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour during his funeral at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, in the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, in the West Bank, on August 26, 2026. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

‘An entire era has ended’: Palestinians mourn death of beloved artist Sliman Mansour

By AFP

A general view of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in Jerusalem on August 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Turkey’s antitrust watchdog launches probe of Teva over allegations of thwarting rivals

By Sharon Wrobel

Japanese Judge Tomoko Akane, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), delivers a speech during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 14, 2024. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP)

Sanctioned but defiant ICC head says Japan must counter US efforts to weaken court

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Firefighters work in a destroyed building of a research institute following an attack, which local Russian-installed officials called a Ukrainian strike, in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on August 26, 2026 (AFP)

Russia threatens to hit UK military targets in response to Ukrainian strikes using British missiles

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