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What Matters Most On Monday, August 31, 2026

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Aug. 31: ‘What a stupid question’: Trump rules out idea of nuking Iran

Security for judge heading elections panel said to be beefed up on police orders * 33,000 Israeli expats seeking to return for vote, nonprofit says as it offers flights * Nile Delta microalgae to blame for desalination shutdown, official tells ToI

8:24 pm

'What a stupid question': Trump rules out idea of nuking Iran
8:16 pm

Brad Lander, Jewish Mamdani ally, downplays being berated as a 'Zionist' at protest
7:52 pm

Gotliv lashes out at PM, says she'll weigh joining another party if it offers 'very important' role

A composite photo of People of Israel party leader Ofer Winter and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Channel 14)

Poll shows ongoing deadlock between rival blocs

Netanyahu warns Winter’s party could ‘bring down’ his bloc; Winter: Need new leaders, untainted by Oct. 7

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

After PM suggests a meeting, Winter says current government is ‘the real danger’ due to mishandling of war, failure to draft Haredim; PM claims Eisenkot would establish Palestinian state, Eisenkot derides ‘ridiculous lies’

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)

Professional committee recommends Shin Bet provide Eisenkot with armed security

Settlers who raided a Palestinian village gather on the balcony of a building under construction in the West Bank's Qusra, August 29, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Huckabee also pans attack but blames 'small group of thugs'

Still no arrests over settler attack on Qusra, though some suspects are identifiable

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

EU envoy visits scene of latest assault on Palestinian village, weeks after extremist settlers besieged it; Foreign Press Association slams attack on reporters, calls for action

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)

British activist who was detained by settlers to be deported after UK intervenes

By ToI Staff, AP and Noam Lehmann

A Greek Orthodox Christian priest walks along an alley in the old city of Jerusalem on August 4, 2026. (Ilia Yefimovich/AFP)

7 detained for spitting at church, vandalizing Muslim graves in Jerusalem Old City

By Noam Lehmann

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Illustrative: A view of ships in the Straight of Hormuz as seen from Larak Island (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US Treasury chief threatens Tehran with 'financial violence'

US hits Iranian launchers preparing to fire in Hormuz; IRGC targets Jordan, UAE in response

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Revolutionary Guards announce ‘the martyrdom and injury of several of our fighters and compatriots’ after American forces strike Iran for first time in a month; no injuries reported in retaliatory attack

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)

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

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Smoke rises from a building damaged in a strike in Lamerd, southern Iran, February 28, 2026. (Alireza Ameri/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

New US ‘pinpoint’ missile raises civilian risk concerns after deadly Iran strikes

By Julia Frankel

Almost all of Israel’s desalination plants shut due to weather; source denies cyberattack

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

5 of 6 facilities temporarily close due to ‘severe turbidity,’ prompting limits for agriculture use; incident follows recent hack on US water systems, allegedly by Iran

View of the Sorek Desalination Plant, on November 22, 2018. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Illustrative image of cybersecurity threats and data breaches. (iStock via Getty Images)

Top tech firms call for defensive measures against looming wave of AI-driven hacks

Finance Minister and head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich attends the party primary in Jerusalem, July 26, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich aims to cut Israel’s record gas prices, but his plan may be deemed illegal

Defense Ministry Director General Amir Baram (left) and his Greek counterpart, Ioannis Bouras, sign a sale of Israeli systems to Greece, August 31, 2026. (Defense Ministry)

Greece inks record $3.5 billion deal to buy comprehensive missile defense system from Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

‘Achilles Shield’ to see Israel build Greece a multi-tiered air defense array; separate deal will provide drone protection; Finland said to secretly extend defense MOU with Israel

Inside Story

With only days left to submit slates, small parties are still jockeying for position

Despite polling under the electoral threshold, newly established right-wing factions seen as unlikely to agree on any sort of joint run until right before September 8 deadline

Left to right: Former minister Gilad Erdan and MK Yuli Edelstein in Tel Aviv, August 6, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper in Jerusalem, August 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Political correspondent Sam Sokol appears on the Daily Briefing with host Jessica Steinberg (Flash 90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 31: Splinter parties jockey for position as election deadline looms

By Jessica Steinberg and Sam Sokol

Finance Minister and head of the Religious Zionist party Bezalel Smotrich attends the Religious Zionism party primary ahead of the upcoming general election, in Jerusalem, July 26, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid: 'I thought Iran was the enemy, not the inspiration'

Smotrich lambastes IDF for jailing soldiers who wouldn’t serve with female medic

Opposition leaders fume at far-right finance minister, accuse him of harming the IDF with claim the army is ‘antagonizing the public that serves and contributes the most’

Illustrative: IDF troops deployed along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip take position in their armored personnel carriers near the border fence on October 21, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

16 Givati soldiers sent to prison for refusing to enter APC with female paramedic

By Emanuel Fabian

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest the army draft outside Tel HaShomer army base in Ramat Gan, August 31, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Haredi anti-draft protesters block roads at IDF induction center for second day

Don’t talk about the sledgehammer. Talk about the monument

The outrage over Zvi Sukkot’s stunt obscured the question Israel should be pushing the world to ask: Why are terrorists being publicly commemorated?

25 years after Durban: The questions Israel must face

The 2001 UN racism conference descended into antisemitism, amplifying charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Can Israel still rebut them?

Protesters mark 2 years since recovery of 6 slain Gaza hostages, demand Oct. 7 probe

Activists outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home display banner reading, ‘We will not forget they could have returned alive,’ hold photos of hostages who were killed in captivity

Israeli protesters hold large photographs of the 'beautiful 6' six Israeli hostages who were killed in Hamas captivity, as well as a banner reading, 'We will not forget they could have returned alive,' at a demonstration outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, August 31, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Katerina (Katya) Sakovich (MFA, courtesy of the family)

Second Israeli confirmed missing as death toll continues to climb in Nepal floods

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

More than 900 people confirmed killed in natural disaster, with over 4,000 still missing, including Israeli-Belarusian Katya Sakovich and a second unidentified Israeli man

A resident looks at the swollen Trishuli river in Galchhi, Dhading District, Nepal, August 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation

Khaled Asiwat, a bus driver who was attacked in Beit Shemesh on August 30, 2026, speaks to the Kan public broadcaster about the assault. (Screenshot)

Arab bus driver beaten unconscious in Beit Shemesh after refusing to stop between stations

Khaled Asiwat is latest Arab bus driver assaulted in wave of attacks by racist youth; union calls for greater protection for drivers; police probe incident, but no arrests

Migrants cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)

Spanish PM accuses Israel, Russia of spreading disinformation on Ceuta migrant crisis

By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Pedro Sanchez claims EU research indicates nations encouraged breach of 70,000 migrants from Morocco into Spanish enclave; Israel slams Spanish leader for ‘brazen lie’

Sign of the times

Petah Tikva or Petah Tiqwa? Israel to spend NIS 250,000 settling the debate

Government working with Academy of the Hebrew Language to try end the linguistic muddle on Israel’s roads once and for all

A road sign showing the direction to Petah Tikva (iStock)

Actress Tovah Feldshuh in the 2026 documentary "Tovah." (Courtesy)

‘I have no shame about being Jewish’

From ‘Yentl’ to Netflix: 50 years into her career, actress Tovah Feldshuh gets a close-up

Jewish performer has played Golda Meir, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dr. Ruth. Now, with a new documentary exploring her ongoing work, she says she’s gearing up for her fourth act

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (left) and John Galliano attend Vogue’s Forces of Fashion Conference at Milk Studios on October 12, 2017, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images/AFP)

Met Gala may move date from Yom HaShoah as it honors Galliano, who once praised Hitler

NYT says some donors are threatening to pull their donations if the museum fetes the designer at 2027 event, after meetings with rabbis and prominent Jewish leaders fail to quell backlash

Jerusalem dance event struggles with boycott pressures, but moves ahead

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem Solo International Dance Festival will celebrate five years, hosting 17 artists from 11 countries

Dancer and choreographer Dor Pazuelo performing in the 2025 Jerusalem Solo International Dance Festival; this year's edition takes place September 15-19, 2026 (Liron Wiseman)

More Headlines

Rep. Randy Fine, a Florida Republican, speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual summit, August 30, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Joseph Strauss/JTA)

Rep. Randy Fine blasts ‘rise of Islam’ and Muslim politicians at Jewish GOP confab

By Joseph Strauss

US President Donald Trump speaks at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC, July 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump has long teased a third term. Now he’s contemplating ‘sitting home’

By Will Weissert

Police officers secure the area next to a poster advertising a rave where a shooting occurred, in Aarau, northern Switzerland, on 30 August 2026. (Harold Cunningham/AFP)

One killed, five injured in suspected terror shooting at rave in Switzerland

By Romina Amato and John Revill

Tourists lounge under umbrellas along Patong Beach in Phuket, Thailand, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Salinee Prab)

Protest in Thailand’s Phuket targets misbehaving Israelis

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a court hearing, August 26, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

High Court suggests Shin Bet chief ‘reconsider’ demand to reveal petitioners’ names

By Jeremy Sharon

People hold a banner reading “No” as they listen to speakers at an “Afram Island,” “Forward, Iceland,” rally opposing the resumption of European Union accession talks at Austurvollur in Reykjavik, Iceland, August 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Di Marco)

Icelanders vote no to restarting negotiations to join the European Union

By KWIYEON HA and brian melley

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