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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 30, 2026

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IDF soldiers secure a building under construction as ambulances evacuate injured Palestinians following an attack by settlers in the West Bank village of Qusra, August 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians report being detained, beaten by IDF troops

Breaking silence, Netanyahu decries ‘criminal violence’ after settlers again raid besieged village

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

NBC journalists also attacked, by settlers brandishing wooden clubs; PM downplays takeover of Qusra home, his office puts out video blaming a ‘small group of rioters, many from broken homes’

Settlers enter Palestinian properties in the West Bank village of Qusra, August 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Settlers attack West Bank’s Qusra, take over home with Palestinian family inside

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A British activist after being detained following clashes with settlers in the southern West Bank, August 29, 2026. (Screenshot: X/That’s How It Works)

Settlers detain British activist for alleged ‘indecent act,’ hand him over to police

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

A handout photo of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir displaying an Israeli flag atop the Temple Mount alongside Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer during Jerusalem Day, May 14, 2026. (Otzma Yehudit)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 30: Shas spiritual leader blasts Ben Gvir, says those visiting Temple Mount may ‘die in excruciating agony’

Palestinians say 4 shot as soldiers and settlers raid West Bank village * Netanyahu backs push to expand Jewish settlement in Negev, Galilee, says legal obstacles can be ‘overcome’ * IDF filmed closing Palestinian shops in Hebron to secure settler march

8:56 pm

16 Givati soldiers sent to prison for refusing to enter APC with female paramedic
8:52 pm

Shas spiritual leader blasts Ben Gvir, says those visiting Temple Mount may 'die in excruciating agony'
8:36 pm

Eisenkot fires back at Netanyahu: 'You're terrified Israelis will discover the truth'

'It was clear that we had to try a different approach'

Shin Bet veteran confirms he held talks with Hamas’s Hamad; political echelon approved

Adi Rotem says resort to direct channel initiated because mediator Qatar was clearly acting in bad faith, talks were going in circles; Hamas captors killing 6 hostages in August 2024 was ‘the last straw’

Adi Rotem, a retired Shin Bet hostage negotiator, in a Channel 12 interview, August 29, 2026. (Screenshot)

Palestinian mourners carry the body of a man killed by the Israeli army, during his funeral at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF says strike on Gaza hospital compound killed Hamas commander

By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

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Nestled between Rechavia, Talbieh, and the German Colony, Theatron blends five-star hotel service with the comfort of a private residence.

Turkish vessels, aircraft, and rescue rafts are pictured off the port of Kyrenia in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) in the north of the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus on August 30, 2026 during search and rescue operations following a ferry capsizing. (Jewel SAMAD/AFP)

At least 6 dead after ferry carrying nearly 270 capsizes off Northern Cyprus

PM of Turkish-controlled area says 172 rescued after vessel began taking on water; videos shows people in life vests sitting on upturned hull

Inside story

Airport meltdown gives rise to worries that Ben Gurion overcrowding may be terminal

After years of political inertia, Israel’s main gateway may soon be regularly brought to its knees by inability to cope with growing passenger numbers; experts say a second airport is needed to avert crisis

Thousands of passengers wait at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv after operations shut down on August 20, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hegseth told prolonged Iran campaign invites risk elsewhere

In letter, Iran’s Khamenei urges Gulf rulers to confront ‘real enemy’ US, Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Supreme leader urges cooperation, mutual defense between Muslim nations, suggests lack of unity left Palestinians ‘helpless’; Turkey, Saudis, Pakistan to meet on new defense accord

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

Yair Netanyahu at 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)

Shin Bet confirms spiriting Yair Netanyahu back from Miami due to ‘significant threat’

Security agency doesn’t specify nature of threat to harm PM’s son or who was behind it, days after Netanyahu said Iran tried to ‘murder one of my sons’

Ultra-Orthodox men block buses from entering Jerusalem

Bnei Brak Municipality says it is behind blocking of neighborhood to traffic during Shabbat

Haredi city council claims most locals are interested in closure, accuses secular opponents of seeking ‘provocations,’ though police and local official say no formal decision passed

Dumpsters are placed on a road at the entrance to a neighborhood that has a significant secular population, in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, ahead of Shabbat on August 29, 2026. (Screenshots: X/Tuvya Yagelnik)

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

‘May God finish her’: Shas spiritual leader assails AG over electioneering ban

Female Palestinian security prisoners seen in a video published August 30, 2026 by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who visited them at the Damon security prison in northern Israel. (Itamar Ben Gvir)

Ben Gvir posts video mocking Palestinian female inmates’ complaints about conditions

By Noam Lehmann and AFP

As prisoner who says she is from Islamic Jihad laments poor access to water for bathing, medical supplies, national security minister says she and her colleagues have it better than Israeli hostages did in Gaza

Avidan Freedman

Don’t give Hamas this victory

At a protest against an illegal outpost near my home in Efrat, I saw how October 7 has warped Israelis’ moral compass. We must get back on track

The blessings hidden in a terrible disease

PSP has brought suffering I would never wish on anyone. But approaching the High Holy Days, I find myself looking at both sides of life’s ledger

A partisan bunker is seen in Rudninkai Forest. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)

'It’s becoming impossible to get there'

New German military base raises fears for Lithuania’s crumbling Jewish partisan memorial

By Shira Li Bartov

Troops set to deploy near Rudninkai Forest bunkers could further restrict access to only site commemorating local Jews’ wartime resistance against Nazis

An air strike targets a commander in Hamas's Nukhba Force, in the Gaza Strip, August 30, 2026. (IDF)

Weekend strikes kill several Hamas operatives, including Oct. 7 invaders, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military says terror group commander killed in Deir al-Balah; local officials say three-year-old among dead; another attack targets commander hiding adjacent to hospital

A view of the Ali Taher ridge from Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, July 7, 2026. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Hezbollah said to rebuff Lebanese overtures to withdraw from strategic ridge in south

Report links standoff over Ali Taher to delay in scheduling of further US-backed talks, suggests terror group’s intransigence could lead IDF to expand offensive in southern Lebanon

Reporter Diana Bletter joins hosts Gabriella Jacobs on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI photo)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 30 — Golan Druze rethink their ties to Syria

By Gabriella Jacobs and Diana Bletter

Reporter Diana Bletter explains why more Druze are becoming Israeli citizens, and explores the UV trend many worldwide are using to get a tan faster

US district court rules against deportations of anti-Israel college students

Federal judge argues that laws used to cancel visas, deport non-citizen students for their pro-Palestinian activism are unconstitutional

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate on the campus of DePaul University, April 30, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Michigan Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed addresses the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus during the party's nominating convention in Lansing, Michigan, August 29, 2026. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)

Abdul El-Sayed apologizes for past remark seen as justifying Temple Israel synagogue attack

By Andrew Lapin

Artyom Kirpichenok. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Russia appeals to UN over Israel’s ‘arbitrary’ detention of Russian-Israeli historian

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Israel-critical Artyom Kirpichenok has been missing since arriving in Tel Aviv on Aug. 4, with Moscow claiming he is being held by the Shin Bet over his ‘political views’

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Israeli singer Yehuda Poliker performs during a rally calling for the release of Gaza hostages outside the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 4, 2023. (Tomer Neubergr/Flash90)

Police call in musician Yehuda Poliker to talk a Tel Aviv man off a roof

Milo Yiannopoulos speaks during a rally outside of the Baltimore hotel where the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops are holding its Fall General Assembly meeting in Baltimore, November 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

US deports far-right provocateur and Kanye spokesman Milo Yiannopoulos

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Van Cleef and Arpels necklace stolen from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts, on August 27, 2026.(INTERPOL via X)

Vienna thieves steal diamond necklace Egyptian queen wore at daughter’s wedding to future Iran shah

By AFP

Scene of a fatal road crash on Highway 2, August 30, 2026. (MDA)

Woman killed, six injured in multicar pile up on coastal Route 2

The scene where a man was killed in Jaffa on August 30, 2026 (Magen David Adom)

Man killed, another seriously hurt in adjacent shootings minutes apart in Jaffa

An aircraft performs a low flyover over the DHL Stadium before the Rugby Union match between South Africa's Springboks and New Zealand's All Blacks, in Cape Town, South Africa, August 29, 2026, in this still image obtained from a social media video. (Jamie Rossouw/via REUTERS)

Low-flying planes almost hit South Africa rugby stadium during pregame flyover

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