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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 29, 2026

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Israeli settlers arrive at a Palestinian home under construction in the village of Qusra, south of the city of Nablus in the West Bank,on August 29, 2026. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 29: Footage shows settlers attacking Palestinian woman, NBC team in West Bank

Separate footage from Qusra shows settlers attacking Palestinian home as IDF troops stand by, don’t act * Police confirm settlers detained British activist in West Bank * Severe storms in region said to be causing flight delays

8:35 pm

Footage shows settlers attacking Palestinian woman, NBC team in West Bank
7:43 pm

US judge says Trump administration unconstitutionally silencing Israel critics
6:38 pm

Footage from Qusra shows settlers attacking Palestinian home as IDF troops stand by, don't act

'My biggest right as a citizen was just robbed from me'

‘My blood is boiling’: Israeli expats gear up to sue for voting rights in Oct. 27 election

By Natasha Mozgovaya

Some 120 citizens abroad challenge removal from voter registry without their knowledge, seek to take case to High Court

Dual Israeli-US citizen Ilana Mittman did not know that she was stripped of her right to vote, at an Israeli consulate abroad in 1986. (Courtesy of Mittman via JTA)

An IDF soldier walks in a fortified army post on the border between Jordan and the West Bank, July 27, 2026. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Inside story'Most people didn't even know these existed'

IDF dusts off decades-old posts along Jordan border to battle threats ‘from beyond’

By Emanuel Fabian

Drawing lessons from October 7, military massively bolsters defenses along mostly calm eastern frontier, stepping up fight against gunrunning, drones and other threats orchestrated by Iran

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'Witkoff got Netanyahu on board. We got Hamas on board'

Secret, direct channel between Israel and Hamas credited for enabling Jan. 2025 hostage deal

Israeli TV reveals further details about Netanyahu’s authorization of direct talks between Shin Bet and the terror group, which began after it executed six hostages in August 2024

Hamas official Ghazi Hamad and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar. (Collage/AP)

Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism ends with Bondi rabbi’s plea for action

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Set up after December’s Bondi Beach massacre to probe antisemitism in Australia, make recommendations on security, law enforcement and social cohesion, hearings end after more than 60 days, 340 witnesses; findings due in December

Officials can be seen outside the venue of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion in Sydney on May 25, 2026. (DAVID GRAY/AFP)

Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, Chabad Director of Bondi, who lost his son-in-law Rabbi Eli Schlanger in the December 14, 2025, Bondi Beach massacre, is the last to testify to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, August 26, 2026. (ABC News Screenshot)

Full Text: At closing of commission, rabbi urges an Australia where Jews can be safe

Rehan Khan, Judex Atshatshi, Saif Ali and Hamza Iqbal, who pleaded guilty on August 28, 2026, to an arson attackthat destroyed four ambulances owned by the Jewish charity Hatzola that were parked outside a synagogue in London on March 23, 2026. (London Met Police)

'A premeditated, targeted attack against the Jewish community'

Four plead guilty to burning four ambulances owned by London Jewish charity

By AFP and ToI Staff

Arson of Hatzola vehicles parked at synagogue caused a million pounds’ worth of damage, was one of a spate of attacks on Jewish communities early in the Iran war

The conflict has changed. We’re still asking yesterday’s questions

Instead of asking where the border should run, shouldn’t we ask how two peoples can govern a space they already share?

Menachem Rosensaft

Ratko Mladic is dead. The meaning of genocide must live on

When the general ordered the slaughter of Bosniaks at Srebernica, he aimed to destroy a people. That’s why it was genocide — and why Israel’s Gaza war was not

Haredim in Bnei Brak block cars from accessing secular neighborhood ahead of Sabbath

Volunteer cop reportedly removes dumpsters from the middle of the street, after local resident says she was told that the municipality was behind the barricades

Screenshots of video showing a group of Haredim surrounding a police cruiser on a street that was blocked off to prevent motorists from driving there over Shabbat, August 28, 2026, in Bnei Brak. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli soldiers remove the body of a Palestinian killed in an air strike from a house under construction, on the western outskirts of the northern city of Jenin, in the West Bank on August 28, 2026. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH/AFP)

In rare West Bank airstrike, IDF says it killed 3 Palestinian terror operatives

By Emanuel Fabian

Strike targets Qais Bitawi, who Shin Bet says was head of Hamas activity in Jenin, and two accomplices; PM and defense minister praise operation as success

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

The nightmare of the 1992 election is coming back to haunt Netanyahu

Allegations of stolen ballots in Likud’s primary highlight internal rot that, combined with the PM’s fear of right-wing splinter factions, mirrors the collapse of the party in 1992

Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a rally marking 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on November 1, 2025. Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by a Jewish extremist during a pro-peace rally. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Motorbikes drive past a billboard depicting Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, handing the country’s flag to his son and successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, right, as the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stands at left, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

6 months on, Iran’s leaders are defying the US and signaling no tolerance for dissent

By Lee Keath and David Rising

With hard-liners consolidating power, Tehran is preparing for a prolonged confrontation as economic pressure mounts and divisions linger

A woman waves an Iranian flag beneath a billboard showing a graphic calling for revenge on Imam Hussein, one of Shiite Islam’s most beloved saints, and the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, August 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran vows to stand firm against fresh sanctions and US-Israeli ‘conspiracies’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Congressional Space Medal of Honor presentation at NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on August 28, 2026. (Kent NISHIMURA/AFP)

US targets Egyptian bank in fresh sanction on Iran as war hits six-month mark

US diplomats, family members start returning to Mideast embassies after Iran war evacuations

All relatives of American government employees in Israel given the go-ahead to return, though tighter restrictions remain in place at diplomatic missions elsewhere in the region

Illustrative: A road sign shows the way toward the US embassy in Jerusalem on April 19, 2024. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

A US service member stands by as an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft lands on the flight deck aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford while operating in support of Operation Epic Fury in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, March 2, 2026. (US Navy)

US military families ride ‘roller coaster of emotions’ over six months of Iran war

A cleric in Iran chants a slogan as he holds a flag of Lebanon’s Hezbollah during a pro-government gathering in Tehran, August 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Hezbollah chief vows no ‘surrender’ as he again rejects Israel-Lebanon deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Naim Qassem slams US-backed framework agreement as ‘illegitimate, unlawful, humiliating,’ rails at ‘pilot zones’ where Lebanese army is supposed to dismantle terror infrastructure

Endalkew Yemani Tesma faces the possibility of deportation. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)

'Israel is sending thousands back to face serious peril'

Israel’s Ethiopian asylum seekers built a life in the country. Now they’re fighting to stay

By Theia Chatelle

145 years after its establishment to help Jews flee pogroms, HIAS is among groups trying to protect refugees from a system that virtually guarantees their eventual deportation

Analysis

How the sunken 1948 Altalena arms ship became an election battleground in Israel in 2026

Always a symbol of the battle between left and right, the re-discovery of the wreck has been seized on by nationalist parties seeking to appropriate the mantle of victimhood

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (R) are pictured either side of an image of the burning Altalena ship. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90, Hans Pinn/GPO, Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a destroyed warehouse after Russian drone attacks on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, August 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

37 killed in Ukraine after Russian attack sparks fire at warehouse near Kyiv

By Dan Peleschuk

Zelensky says criminal negligence investigation opened, ‘ammunition cannot be stored near homes’; two girls reported killed in 3rd straight night of drone strikes

Amy-Jill Levine, a scholar of Christian scripture, speaks with the local public radio of Nashville, Tennessee, in an interview published on August 17, 2026. (Screen capture: Youtube/Nashville Public Radio)

Jew tapped to lead US Catholic Biblical Association hit by antisemitic backlash

Academic group’s leaders say Amy-Jill Levine was ‘not elected because she is Jewish, but because she is an exceptional scholar’ who has contributed to interfaith dialogue

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Illustrative: Rain in Tel Aviv, on December 29, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rare August rain expected in Israel, but forecasters dampen projections of heavy downpours

US Vice President JD Vance speaks at CompoTech headquarters, August 24, 2026 in Brewer, Maine. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool Photo via AP)

Vance, who’s drawn ire of Jewish conservatives, will speak at Republican Jewish confab

By Joseph Strauss

Sen. Jon Ossoff poses for a portrait during an event at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, April 26, 2025, in Marietta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Jon Ossoff joins US Democrats distancing from Hasan Piker

By Joseph Strauss

The Cardon oil refinery operates in Punta Cardon, Venezuela, on January 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Trump announces Venezuela oil deal, as gas prices still high 6 months into Iran war

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump arrives at an event to present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II crew members, August 28, 2026, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

‘Space is the hot thing’: Trump signs order to create a US Space Academy

By Jacob Bogage, Nandita Bose and Joey Roulette

Giovanni Pimienta, arrested in Florida in August 2026 for alleged threats to "shoot up a mosque." (Florida Department of Law Enforcement)

ADL says it surfaced mosque threat linked to FBI arrest in Florida

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