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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 3, 2026

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A photograph taken from the southern Lebanese area of Nabatieh shows smoke as it rises from the site of Israeli strikes that targeted the hilltops of the mountainous area of the strategic Ali Taher Ridge on August 14, 2026. (AFP)

Israel Katz: If Iran attacks us, IDF will bomb energy sites

Iran has warned US it will respond forcefully to any Israeli offensive on south Lebanon ridge

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Officials say over a dozen Revolutionary Guard members are holed up with Hezbollah men in besieged Ali Taher Ridge, where IDF says Lebanese terror group has key underground command center

US bureau chief Jacob Magid appears on the Times of Israel Daily Briefing with host Jessica Steinberg (AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 3: Will sanctions succeed against Iran where military force hasn’t?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

US President Donald Trump prepares to depart after speaking in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, August 31, 2026. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Trump: ‘Israel should not worry’ about latest Iran clashes, war will wind down soon

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Israeli settlers are seen inside a Palestinian building under construction in the West Bank village of Qusra, August 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel makes first arrest of settler involved in recent Qusra attack, police say

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

19-year-old suspect is from a settlement in the northern West Bank; Herzog tells CNN authorities working hard to curb extremist violence

Palestinians inspect burned-out cars after an attack by settlers, where they also spray-painted Hebrew graffiti on the walls of a house in Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, September 2, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

US issues harsher censure of ‘West Bank violence,’ without explicitly blaming Israel

By Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan and Noam Lehmann

Author Dara Horn in a promotional video for her Tell Institute. (screenshot)

Interview'I absolutely think the battle is winnable'

Dara Horn tackles enduring antisemitic lies head-on with optimistic ‘Final Solution’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Inundated by readers sharing painful personal experiences, author of ‘People Love Dead Jews’ parses the hateful phenomenon and proposes an innovative educational fix

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Shalom Yerushalmi

The horrific October 7 ‘betrayal’ libel is now central to Likud’s official election campaign

Instead of taking responsibility for the country’s greatest failure, Netanyahu and his colleagues are peddling a false and despicable conspiracy theory against the defense establishment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Two Arab parties hold the balance of power

Poll shows pro-Netanyahu bloc pulling even with opponents, in sharp shift

TV survey puts dueling blocs at 53 seats each, well shy of a majority, with PM appearing to benefit from Ofer Winter’s predicted entry to the Knesset and Religious Zionism-Zehut merger

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state ceremony on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, August 05, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90); (right) Head of the Yashar party Gadi Eisenkott attends a conference at the Peres center in Tel Aviv. July 12, 2026. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Supreme Court Justice Yael Willner presides over a hearing on a petition filed by the Likud party against the Central Elections Committee Chairman Noam Sohlberg's decision to prohibit the real-time transfer of information on voters who have cast their ballots during Israel’s general election, September 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In boon for Likud, High Court says election czar lacked authority to ban voter tracking

By Jeremy Sharon

Clockwise from top left: Yesh Atid MKs Meir Cohen, Mickey Levy, Debbie Biton and Tatiana Mazarsky, who resigned from the party ahead of the 2026 election. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Wave of Yesh Atid MKs quit election run as joint slate with Bennett falters in polls

By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

Analysis

One-hit wonders keep saving Netanyahu. This time, he might be played out

A constellation of center-right parties could unite to bolster the prime minister, as their now-defunct predecessors have done. But even if they do, it may not be enough to get him a majority

Ministers Gilad Erdan, left, and Moshe Kahlon, center, alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on May 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit speaks during a conference held by the Israel Bar Association, in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief blames public officials’ rhetoric for rise in attacks on judges, lawyers

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

PM's office later releases Oct. 7 schedule, confirming info

‘Unfathomable’: PM slammed over news he waited 3 hours to speak with IDF chief on Oct. 7

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

‘Our brothers and sisters were still alive,’ fumes October Council, after public broadcaster says Netanyahu didn’t talk to Herzi Halevi until 9:45 a.m., as massacres were unfolding

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a cadets graduation ceremony at the IDF's officers school in southern Israel, known as Bahad 1, March 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party and a former IDF chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Nordiya, August 31, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Amid Oct. 7 blame game, Eisenkot says PM was unreachable for 2 hours after Syria downed F-16 in 2018

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others watch, as seated from left, Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, counselor Dan Holler, and Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh, sign a framework agreement, June 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

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Sept. 3: US says its mediated talks led to Israeli handover of Lebanese detainees

Ben Gvir unveils ‘voluntary emigration’ plan aimed at removing 1.86 million Palestinians from Gaza * High Court annuls law banning arrest of Haredi draft-dodgers as unconstitutional injury to equality

7:15 pm

US House advances bill to withhold federal funds from universities that boycott Israel
6:50 pm

Vance: Washington will only resume talks with Iran when it stops targeting ships in Hormuz
6:23 pm

Vance rejects calls to cut ties with Tucker Carlson amid antisemitism allegations

You’re soldiers. She’s a paramedic. Get in the APC

The refusal to share space with a woman exposes a widening clash over religion, equality and the Israel we want to be

A new Palestinian politics could change Israel too

Choosing democracy, nonviolence and two states could show skeptical Israelis that there is indeed a partner for peace

Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks at a Ynet conference, September 2, 2026. (Screenshot)

Katz: Israel will facilitate emigration from Gaza ‘by any means’ as soon as Trump allows

By Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister claims 80% of Palestinians want to leave Gaza, but nobody will take them; PM visits IDF post in Strip, says Israel won’t withdraw from territory it currently holds

Boats belonging to the Global Sumud Flotilla depart for Gaza from the port of Marmaris, Turkey, May 14, 2026, in an attempt to break the Israeli naval blockade. (AP/Murat Kocabas)

New Gaza flotilla due to set sail in October in bid to break Israeli blockade

Op-ed

Gotliv’s leap into Ben Gvir’s arms is all about retaining her immunity from prosecution

Firebrand MK faces jail for alleged national security offense, and fears her No. 20 slot on Likud slate may not secure her a Knesset seat and ongoing immunity; her imminent defection also shows how similar the two parties have become

MK Tally Gotliv speaks to the media outside the Jerusalem District Court, August 6, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

'No one will bullshit us'

Winter says he’ll only join government if Haredi conscription law is passed first

People of Israel party head said to refuse call from Netanyahu with offer to get 5 guaranteed spots in Likud; Winter says he backs PM but won’t merge with politicians tainted by Oct. 7

People of Israel party chairman Ofer Winter speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri attends a vote in the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deri dismisses issue of ultra-Orthodox draft evasion, saying IDF ‘knows how to cope’

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a Knesset House committee meeting, Jerusalem, June 8, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG says Ovadia Yosef memorial event can be held before election if it is privately funded

New recruits to the IDF’s 401st Armored Brigade arrive at Ariel Sharon Park in central Israel on their enlistment day, August 2, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

IDF didn’t take DNA from 20,000 new recruits, including fighters, amid budget dispute

Military Rabbinate and Medical Corps can’t agree on whose budget should pay for equipment used to preserve DNA samples, collected by the army to identify soldiers killed in action

Winners of the 2026 ERC starting grants, from left to right, top row: Dr. Sharon Fleischer, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Leeat Keren, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Reuma Gadassi-Polack, Bar-Ilan University, Dr. Hagai Maron, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Dr. Nir Hananya, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; bottom row, from left to right: Dr. Ran Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University, Dr Amit Vinograd, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Michael Chapman, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Or Zamir, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Arnold Filtser, Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Dean Doron of the Institute for the Theory of Computing in the Stein Faculty of Computer and Information Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. (Photo of Keren, courtesy/Itai Belson; photo of Vinograd, courtesy/Yael Tzur; photo of Filtser, courtesy/Gabe Gomez; all other photos, courtesy)

Eleven Israeli researchers awarded prestigious EU starting grants

By Diana Bletter

Israel, under Olmert, had bombed the reactor a year before

In first, Olmert confirms Israel in 2008 killed top Assad adviser who oversaw nuke facility

In his new book, ex-PM recounts how Syria’s Muhammad Suleiman was shot in the back of the head by elite troops who emerged from the ocean to breach his beachfront property

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert seen in Paris, France, on June 9, 2025. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

Illustrative: A police car in Herzliya, August 15, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Three killed in two separate Nazareth shootings, as crime wave rocks Arab community

By Noam Lehmann

Two men in their 30s killed by shots fired at car; three hours later a 27-year-old is also shot dead; police searching for suspects

'May his memory be a revolution'

First-ever kosher community fridge in the US is dedicated to slain Hamas hostage

Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents attend Chicagoland ceremony, reflecting on how project embodies their late son’s values by providing food for those in need in a dignified manner

Jon and Rachel Goldberg-Polin speak at a dedication ceremony for a community fridge in memory of their son Hersh in Skokie, Illinois, on September 2, 2026. (Times of Israel staff)

Illustrative photo of a gas station in Jerusalem, August 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

AG gives Smotrich go-ahead to slash fuel tax, leading to lower prices at pump

Price per liter to fall to NIS 7.75 once the finance minister signs off on move, after speculation it could be blocked over electioneering concerns

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Itai Gafni (left) and Roy Weisfeld, co-founders of Israeli cybersecurity startup Huskeys in Tel Aviv. (Yair Glazer)

US giant Blackstone invests in Israeli cyber startup tackling malicious AI web traffic

By Sharon Wrobel

Jafar Farah (R) and his wife Asmahan Atwan Farah drink beer at the Libira Brewery pub in Haifa on February 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Arab party candidate under pressure to withdraw over sexual harassment allegations

Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrate against Cafe Basimta operating on Shabbat and clash with police, while secular protesters hold a counter-demonstration in support of the cafe in central Jerusalem, August 15, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

As weekly Haredi protests take a toll, Jerusalem cafe says it may close on Saturdays

Gloria Steinem, journalist and activist talks during the Forbes 30/50 Summit at the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 8, 2023. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

Gloria Steinem, potent voice of US feminism, co-founder of Ms. magazine, dies at 92

By Jocelyn Noveck

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