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What Matters Most On Friday, September 4, 2026

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Ultra-Orthodox protesters block a road and clash with police at the entrance to Jerusalem during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who evaded the draft, April 29, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

9 justices unanimous in striking down the legislation

High Court annuls Haredi draft-dodger arrest ban as unconstitutional violation of equality

By Jeremy Sharon

Law passed by the government in July ‘flagrantly violates state’s obligation to exercise coercive power equally,’ writes Judge Sohlberg

Haredi men protest outside the Basimta cafe for opening on Shabbat while secular counterprotesters stand in front of them, in Jerusalem on August 8, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Jerusalem cafe targeted by Haredi protesters says it will no longer open on Shabbat

Jewish wedding contracts seized during a police raid on the northern community of Yavne'el, in connection to underage marriages, September 3, 2026. (Israel Police screenshot)

Police say 16 detained in northern town in crackdown on underage marriages

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

How far-right outcast Moshe Feiglin resurrected his political career

After years on the political fringes, the fundamentalist whom Netanyahu once pushed out of Likud has secured spot No. 2 on Smotrich’s slate, putting a senior ministerial post well within his reach

Moshe Feiglin attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

MK Tally Gotliv (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attend a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on petitions challenging laws against UNRWA, August 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Likud arranges to have firebrand MK Tally Gotliv run with Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is welcomed by yeshiva students in the southern city of Sderot, September 2, 2026. (Michael Shemesh/X)

Netanyahu nods and smiles as yeshiva students sing of taking vengeance on Palestinians

Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot, right, and B'Yachad party chief Naftali Bennett meet at the Herzliya Conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, July 1, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 4: Eisenkot, Bennett reportedly met to discuss merger but decided against it for now

Child wounded in settler raid of West Bank village; IDF arrests Palestinian local upon arrival * Sen. Fetterman planned to write op-ed using talking points given to him by Israeli envoy

7:49 pm

Report claims it took PM at least 2 hours to leave home, head to IDF HQ, after October 7 onslaught began
7:03 pm

Trump again claims that US may soon hit Iran's Pickaxe mountain nuclear site
7:00 pm

Settlers filmed tearing down fence meant to keep them from raiding Palestinian village

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Inside story

US wanted Hamas to start disarming before Knesset election, but it’ll have to wait

Despite Kushner’s insistence to the contrary, Israeli buy-in is needed for Board of Peace to meaningfully advance the plan, and that’s not coming before Oct. 27 vote at the earliest

Illustrative: Palestinians gather around the burning wreckage of a car after an Israeli army strike in Gaza City, August 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Yousef Alzanoun)

Otzma Yehudit chair and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a supporters’ conference ahead of the upcoming general election, in Netanya, September 1, 2026. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Ben Gvir unveils ‘voluntary emigration’ plan to remove most Palestinians from Gaza

By Ariela Karmel

Indictment filed in Israel under strict gag order

Russian reports say dual citizen historian indicted by Israel for security offenses

By Emanuel Fabian

Reports on Artyom Kirpichenok, missing since arriving in Israel last month, come same day as indictment filed against unnamed Israeli civilian involved in foreign influence campaign

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

Netanyahu: Toppling Iranian regime is Israel’s ‘central mission,’ goal ‘within reach’

By Stav Levaton and Jacob Magid

Report says Iran, Hamas believed to be stepping up efforts to attack Israelis abroad ahead of Jewish holidays; Vance: US won’t negotiate with Iran until it stops striking ships in Hormuz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) during a Rosh Hashanah toast with the IDF General Staff Forum, September 3, 2026. (Haim Zach/GPO)

US President Donald Trump, left, greets Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House, February 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Repeatedly attacked by Iran, Jordan pays a price for its strong bond with the US

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

Underground site now emptied of Hezbollah operatives, IDF says

IDF says it entered, cleared Hezbollah’s Ali Taher Ridge tunnels ahead of demolition

By Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah operatives were killed or fled terror group’s ‘nerve center’ beneath hill in south Lebanon in recent weeks, army says, belying reports it was holding off offensive amid threats by Iran

A Red Cross convoy escorts four released prisoners who were held in Israeli prisons as they arrive in the southern village of Mansouri, Lebanon, September 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Red Cross hands four more civilians detained by Israel in security zone to Lebanon

By ToI Staff, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Illustrative: IDF troops operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo published on June 1, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel begins handing over 5 Lebanese detainees after Beirut helped find slain Jews’ remains

By Nava Freiberg, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Daphne Lazar Price

What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist

Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

To Michigan AG Nessel and liberal Jews everywhere: Jewish survival isn’t immoral

While right and left disagree about what a value even is, let alone which of them are important, we Jews remember our timeless Jewish covenant (Nitzavim)

In first, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa to open Jerusalem’s Oud Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

English guitarist slammed by BDS returns to Israel to perform with longtime musical collaborator at annual event

Dudu Tassa (left) and Jonny Greenwood in June 2024. (Shin Katan)

Illustrative: Triathletes enter the water to start the swim leg of the 2026 IRONMAN Canada-Ottawa on August 2, 2026 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images for Ironman/AFP)

Israeli triathletes barred from race in Northern Ireland after organizer objects

A souvenir sold in Jerusalem and an authentic animal-shaped vessel (Yoav Vaknin and Lisa Tauxe)

'Their magnetic signatures still speak to us today'

Ancient pottery’s ‘magnetic memory’ could help expose modern forgeries, researchers find

Israeli-led team develops new authentication technique based on magnetic signals acquired by clay over thousands of years

Illustrative: Palestinians inspect a house that was set on fire and spray-painted with graffiti during an attack by a group of extremist Jewish settlers in the village of Osarin, south of Nablus in the West Bank, August 23, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Four more arrested, including an IDF conscript, on suspicion of settler violence

By Noam Lehmann

Two teenagers arrested at airport en route to Uman pilgrimage, plus 29-year-old who violated court order, and army recruit; earlier, police arrested 19-year-old over Qusra violence

People walk through Damascus gate into the old city of Jerusalem on March 6, 2025, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (John Wessels/AFP)

East Jerusalem man tries to stab cops near Old City, is shot dead — police

33-year-old assailant reportedly first tried to attack civilians in overnight incident near Damascus Gate; no Israelis hurt

Rabbi Ralph Genende, left, at an solidarity event following the Bondi Beach terror attack, in Melbourne, December 2025. (Courtesy)

'The Jewish-Muslim dynamic is not in a really good space'

Australian Jews and Muslims still hang hopes on fragile dialogue after Bondi attack

By Nomi Kaltmann

Leaders say relations between communities at all-time low as antisemitism spike since Oct. 7 raises concern hatred is being normalized. A tenacious few refuse to let interfaith talks die

CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for this week's What Matters Now podcast. (courtesy/AP)

What Matters Now podcast

Jonathan Greenblatt: Surging antisemitism brings ADL to a moment of reckoning

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The 113-year-old organization was born out of a need to protect Jews, says its CEO. Now fighting petrol-funded heavyweights, it’s turning to AI for reinforcements

A Community Security Service (CSS) volunteer stands guard outside a synagogue during a security training drill, in Westchester County, New York, April 28, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US Jewish community security costs surpass $1 billion per year — study

On the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters march in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, on the Los Angeles campus of the University of Southern California, October 7, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG, via JTA)

US House advances bill to withhold federal funds from universities boycotting Israel

Israel Police officers operate in Nazareth amid raids targeting organized crime, September 2-4, 2026. (Israel Police)

Cops raid Nazareth after 4 murdered in 24 hours, arrest 30 over alleged gangland killings

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Police seize weapons, ammunition in two nights of operations against gang-linked compounds in northern city; Mahmoud Biatra, 30, is 172nd Arab Israeli homicide victim of 2026

An aerial photo of the land surrounding Kibbutz Ramat Rachel (Courtesy/Kibbutz Ramat Rachel)

'We're just trying to figure out the next decade'

100-year-old Ramat Rachel marks its evolution from frontier outpost to ‘bourgeois’ resort

Once a battle-scarred hilltop community essential to Israel’s defense efforts, the southern Jerusalem kibbutz now deals in real estate and tourism as members debate its future

Housing snapshot September 2026: Prices inch upward after sharp decline

Energy, Water and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen visits a water desalination facility near Rishon Lezion, September 2, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Officials seek to calm public after algicides dumped at sea in bid to reopen desalination plants

Fishing temporarily banned ‘as a precaution’ but water supplies back to normal, says Energy Ministry, after initially unannounced push to get rid of rogue algae crippling stations

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File: A PayPal sign is shown in San Jose, California, March 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

US payments giant PayPal set to slash about a quarter of its employees in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

People sit across from a poster depicting Syria's president Bashar al-Assad in a gas mask during an event in the rebel-held northern city of Afrin, on August 20, 2023, marking the 10-year anniversary of chemical attacks that killed over 1,400 people in Ghouta, near the capital. (Rami al Sayed/AFP)

Syria has started destroying Assad-era chemical weapon materials, UN envoy says

By AFP

The Department of Internal Police Investigations, in Jerusalem on November 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

High Court extends freeze on implementation of controversial police investigations unit law

By Jeremy Sharon

Daphna Carmon (L), murdered in 1982, and Danny Katz, murdered in 1983. (Courtesy)

Man convicted of murdering female soldier and teenage boy in 1980s dies in prison at 68

By Michael Horovitz

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