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Homes on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Jalud that were reportedly torched by settlers on September 29, 2026. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Herzog: Riot a 'moral stain,' contrary to values of Judaism

Over 100 settlers attack West Bank village, block Palestinian family’s return home

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

IDF accused of failing to coordinate with police, after rioters burn homes and cars, attack security forces in Jalud; Haredi men assault Arabs outside Jerusalem’s Old City

Israeli settlers and security forces are seen near a fire-damaged home in Jalud, south of Nablus in the West Bank, on September 29, 2026. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

PM blames ‘small number’ of West Bank rioters as mass settler attack draws wide condemnation

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of Israeli national identity cards in Jerusalem on January 22, 2008. (Anna Kaplan/Flash90)

Israel said to freeze immigration of 2 Jews involved in defending Palestinian rights

By Jeremy Sharon

Former Prime Minister and B'Yachad party leader Naftali Bennett speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, September 26, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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Sept. 29: After PM’s warning, Bennett says ‘mass draft evasion and IDF’s collapse’ are ‘the worst danger’

By Michael Horovitz, Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

IDF says troops ‘physically prevented harm’ to Palestinian family during West Bank settler riot * Despite report, Yashar says Shin Bet won’t provide security for Eisenkot * UK denies arms embargo widening

8:28 pm

UAE slams Ben Gvir's Temple Mount visit, days after hosting Netanyahu in Abu Dhabi
8:13 pm

Trump says he doesn't know if Iran will 'give up yet,' claims they're doing 'very poorly'
8:12 pm

Qatar's PM says he got heads up from US half an hour before Iran strikes on Feb. 28

Palestinian children watch as patients prepare to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment through the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after it was opened by Israel for a limited number of people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 8, 2026. (Bashar Taleb/ AFP)

'There is a lack of willingness to accept people from Gaza'

Gazans desperate to leave still struggling to do so, even as Israel claims door is open

By Nurit Yohanan

Trouble finding willing hosts, visa restrictions, onerous security checks and other bureaucratic hurdles mean exiting Gaza remains a lengthy, difficult task despite Jerusalem saying it wants the Strip’s residents to go

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Shin Bet demands action against Channel 12 over UAE report

Ex-Shin Bet chief says he’ll sue Netanyahu for claim he withheld pre-Oct. 7 warnings

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

After PM accused him of not informing him of impending Hamas attack, Ronen Bar says he warned of disaster but PM ignored him, calls for release of documents, demands PM’s staffers testify

L: President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP, Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Netanyahu flew to UAE to ask MBZ to deny giving him pre-Oct. 7 warning of Hamas attack – sources

By AP and Lazar Berman

L: Former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz at the Knesset, August 12, 2025. R: Itzik Bonzel speaks during a House committee meeting at the Knesset, June 15, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud candidate says he wishes he could ‘return’ ex-hostage Yocheved Lifshitz to Hamas

By Ariela Karmel

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Science Minister Gila Gamliel, Settlements Minister Orit Strock, and other dignitaries inaugurate two new settlements in the southern West Bank region, September 27, 2026. (Eitam Shalem)

Two new West Bank settlements inaugurated with cabinet ministers on hand

By Jeremy Sharon

Makeda and Karmei Yehudah in the southern West Bank are already populated, while residents of Meged and Maale Einav in the same region will move in soon

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on the second day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, northwest England, on September 28, 2026. (Oli SCARFF/AFP)

UK’s FM Miliband boasts that sanctions on settlers have spurred global action

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

View of the area of the planned E1 project between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim West Bank city, August 21, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Attorney general eases stance on E1 settlement plan, allowing submissions for tenders

By Jeremy Sharon

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Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel: ‘The Jewish people know better than many others how dangerous it becomes when a lie is repeated so often that it begins to be accepted as truth.’

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Board of Peace official: Extremist views in Israel impeding effort to deradicalize Gaza

Official from US-controlled panel overseeing Gaza rebuild expresses alarm over widespread support in Israel — trickling down from politicians to youth — for ‘encouraging migration’ of Palestinians

Right-wing activists attend a rally calling for the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hamas's Northern Gaza Brigade commander, Izz al-Din al-Bik, who was killed by Israel on September 29, 2026. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF kills commander of Hamas’s North Gaza Brigade in Gaza City airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 29: Board of Peace envisions transformation in Gaza, and Israel

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Trump denies willingness to give Iran sanctions relief in exchange for nuke concessions

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US and Iranian officials speak separately with Qatari mediators on amended Iranian proposal that includes end to hostilities in Israeli-occupied south Lebanon, after Trump nixed earlier version

US President Donald Trump winks as the members of the media depart the Oval Office of the White House as Essar Capital Director Prashant Ruia, from left, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, John Jovanovic, chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa., and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, look on, September 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard spokesman Gen. Hossein Mohebbi speaks during a news conference in Tehran, Iran, September 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran threatens to attack Mideast infrastructure after Trump dismisses Hormuz proposal

Police guard a road leading to RAF Fairford, in Fairford, England, a day after British counterterrorism police were probing “a major” incident near the base, September 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

5 British suspects in air base attack plot released on bail; Iran denies involvement

By AP and ToI Staff

US forces to exit Iraq after decades, leaving gap for Iran and fear of ISIS attacks

By Ahmed Rasheed

As Shiite groups celebrate withdrawal of American troops, Sunni tribal leader in Fallujah warns Iraq ‘not fully ready’ to secure itself, and ‘creating a vacuum is what all Iraqis fear’

An Iraqi man selling photographs sits at his stall on Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad’s Al-Maidan central district on September 28, 2026. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, shakes hands with Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at the State Department, September 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Lebanese PM meets Rubio, stresses need for IDF withdrawal, Hezbollah disarmament

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and AFP

Iranian shop owner Morteza Asaadi (L) attends to a customer at his shop in downtown Bur Dubai on September 3, 2026. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

AnalysisSoaring costs in Iran could spur more diplomacy between Tehran and Washington

By John DAVISON and Emily Giles

When the dog whistle becomes a shout

Holding scissors inches from my head, a London barber felt perfectly at ease telling me exactly what he thought of Jews

How a poem let Soviet Jews remember in public

Sixty-five years ago, Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s ‘Babi Yar’ put into print a history Jewish families had been forced to carry in private

Channel 13 reporter Raviv Drucker seen driving with one hand on the steering wheel and the other hand holding a phone, in a segment that aired on September 23, 2026. (Screenshot/Channel 13)

At behest of Likud lawyer, police probe journalist for talking on phone while driving in TV segment

Journalists’ union queries motive after Raviv Drucker questioned over clip from his Channel 13 investigative program in which he probed how heritage minister allocated state money

Homecoming procession held in Bnei Brak for 160 draft dodgers released from prison

News crews say they were attacked by participants, forced to leave the area; organizer ‘Color Black,’ a new political party, has made army exemptions for ultra-Orthodox its central aim

Screen captures from video of a homecoming event in Bnei Brak from ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers who were released from military prison, September 27, 2026. (Daniel Grovais via X)

President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal Herzog welcome members of the Israeli public to the President’s Residence sukkah in Jerusalem during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, September 29, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog calls leaders of Jerusalem Reform synagogue after attacks, follows up with police

By Deborah Danan

Yair Golan, chairman of the Democrats party, attends an election campaign event in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, September 28, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Citing death threats, Democrats petition High Court for Shin Bet to guard Golan

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Left-wing party claims the refusal so far to provide protection for party chair Yair Golan makes his campaigning opportunities unequal, and potentially deadly

United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf and MKs Ya'akov Tessler and Meir Porush arrive for a court hearing on a petition against the kosher cellphone reform, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Angry with PM, Haredi MKs said planning to allow formation of Eisenkot-led government

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Left: Bo French speaks at a rally on April 15, 2025, in Mansfield, Texas (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images via JTA); Center: Karl Rove on September 20, 2024, in Washington, DC (Paul Morigi/AFP); Right: Jon E. Rosenthal in Austin, Texas, August 18, 2025. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images via JTA)

'Antisemitism and religious bigotry have no place in Texas'

Karl Rove backs Jewish Democrat in Texas over opponent with track record of racist comments

By Andrew Lapin

Candidate for state railroad commissioner Bo French inspires rare show of bipartisanship as GOP stalwarts distance themselves over remarks on Jews, Muslims and people of color

A CNN sound technician walks at the White House, September 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

US news outlets ask court to restore White House access until legal dispute resolved

By Jocelyn Noveck

'There are multiple views of what it means to be pro-Israel'

More heavy hitters in US Jewish establishment joining J Street in sign of changing times

Liberal Zionist organization seeks to make case that putting pressure on Israel’s government and criticism of IDF should no longer be dealbreaker for mainstream Jewish groups

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the J Street National Conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, December 4, 2022. (AP Photo/ Carolyn Kaster)

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, September 10, 2026, in Sausalito, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill to create safe spaces around synagogues

By Sharon Udasin

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The scene of an 18-car pileup on Route 65 in the Lower Galilee, September 29, 2026. (Police Spokesperson's Unit)

18 lightly hurt in 8-car pileup on Route 6 in Lower Galilee, jamming holiday traffic

By Noam Lehmann

Raed Yousef in a September 2026 booking image. (Pinellas County Sheriff's Office)

Florida beauty store owner who wanted to behead Jews charged with funding Hamas

President of French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) Jordan Bardella arrives for an election night event for the French Senate, in La Seyne-sur-Mer, southern France, on 27 September 2026. (Thibaud MORITZ/AFP)

French far-right leader files suit over exposé purportedly revealing old antisemitic remarks

Protesters hold placards reading 'Deniz Goktas, Let him be released!' during a demonstration in support of Turkish comedian Deniz Goktas, as he went on trial for insulting Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other offenses, seen outside the Justice Palace courthouse in Istanbul on September 28, 2026. (YASIN AKGUL/AFP)

Court-jesting comedian convicted for Erdogan ‘insult,’ but freed pending appeal

By Fulya Ozerkan

Activists hold a picture of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni in a demonstration in front of Montecitorio, the Italian Parliament, in Rome on January 25, 2017. (ANDREAS SOLARO/AF/File)

Rome convicts 3 Egyptian security officers for 2016 murder of Italian student

By AFP

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar attends a session at the Hungarian parliament in Budapest on September 28, 2026, as the parliament lifted his parliamentary immunity, allowing criminal proceedings against him. (Attila KISBENEDEK/AFP)

Hungarian parliament suspends immunity for PM Magyar, two Orban-era ministers

By Justin Spike

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