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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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Yashar party leader and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot campaigns ahead of Israel’s upcoming general election, in Kiryat Malachi, August 17, 2026. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Interview'The choice is between a worthy leadership and a corrupt one'

Bereaved by war, determined to heal, protect and revive Israel: Gadi Eisenkot’s prime ministerial mission

By Tal Schneider and David Horovitz

In an impassioned interview with The Times of Israel, the opposition frontrunner explains why he stayed in politics after his son was killed in Gaza, how he would safeguard Israel and return it to the community of nations, and why Netanyahu, the PM of Oct. 7, must be sent home

Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky hosts an Israeli delegation led by Minister Ze'ev Elkin in Kyiv on October 6, 2026. (Screenshot/Presidential Office of Ukraine)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 6: Hosting Israelis in Kyiv, Zelensky calls for ‘strong relations’ between the countries

MKs told some 1,240 aircrew from countries that don’t recognize Israel entered country in past year * After halt, IDF says it resumed proactive arrests of Haredi draft dodgers in September

8:58 pm

Hosting Israeli delegation in Kyiv, Ukraine's Zelensky calls for 'strong relations' between the countries
8:41 pm

Trump says his 'biggest problem' is that 'nobody knows who the hell is running' Iran
8:00 pm

Islamic State claims attack that killed Iraqi policeman in Kirkuk

Bennett: Antisemite; Golan: The face of Netanyahu's government

Top Haredi rabbi denounces Israeli state, religious soldiers; opposition rebukes him, notes ties to Netanyahu

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Rabbi Dov Lando, an influential figure in the United Torah Judaism party, says Zionism ‘made Arabs hate us’ and Arab rule would have been preferable to establishment of state

Rabbi Dov Lando in Bnei Brak, August 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Ultra-Orthodox rioters gather to prevent the arrest of a military draft dodger in Modiin, October 6, 2026. (X screenshot/Josh Breiner)

Hundreds of Haredi protesters clash with police, thwart arrest of draft dodger in Modiin

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Promoted ContentZAKA

What October 7 means to those who answered the call

Through firsthand video testimonies, ZAKA volunteers revisit the day that changed Israel and share how they continue to serve and rebuild.

Israel was prepared to shoot down flydubai jet during attempted terror attack — report

By ToI Staff and Reuters

CBS says fighter jets were scrambled after cockpit went silent; passenger who handcuffed copilot terrorist says group who tackled him briefly considered whether they needed to kill him, fearing he still had a knife

A flydubai plane takes off from Ben Gurion airport on September 30, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Shin Bet agents participating in interrogation of flydubai terrorist in UAE

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 6 – Echoes of Oct. 7 in the failures exposed by flydubai near-disaster

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Most Arkia and Israir flights use planes and crews leased from foreign airlines, in arrangement okayed by PM

By Sharon Wrobel and Stav Levaton

‘Wet lease’ aircraft not subject to all of Israel’s stringent security protocols; Transportation Ministry sent security directives to foreign airlines day after flydubai attack, stressed that it is responsible for security of inbound flights

An Arkia plane takes off at Ben Gurion Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, May 5, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Passengers from flydubai flight FZ1073, who survived an attempted terror attack, walk with their family members through the arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, September 30, 2026, after returning home on another flydubai flight. (Flash90)

‘Bibiwood’: Flydubai attack spawns stream of online conspiracy theories

From the blogs

Daniel Chamovitz

Taking ownership of October 7

We need to ask not only who failed to prevent the catastrophe, but what our leaders did once it began — and whether they have taken responsibility since

Hamas terrorist Abd al-Rahman Maher Abd al-Karim Ziyada is seen by an IDF tank on October 7, 2023, in a photo published by the military on June 28, 2026, stating that he was eliminated. (Israel Defense Forces)

Katz: IDF has killed two-thirds of Oct. 7 perpetrators, will eliminate remaining 2,000

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister, citing military’s latest figures, says 4,000 of 6,000 terrorists who invaded Israel during Hamas-led attack have been killed

Protesters march during a pro-Palestine demonstration in London, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)

Hundreds of anti-Israel protests planned worldwide around October 7 anniversary

I wish

I want to rewind to a time before my son’s childhood friend was buried on Mount Herzl

Barry Finestone

What I want my non-Jewish friends to see this October 7

Protest Israel’s policies all you like. But when people mark a massacre of Jews by celebrating its perpetrators, something else is happening

Three years on, fare well

In war, we learned to carry one another despite our differences. Now I am trying to bring that way of being together home

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves

The government’s politics of vengeance and dehumanization will not bring my son-in-law back from the dead. It will only create another generation of hatred

IDF Lotar unit soldiers crying on October 10, 2023, at the sight of the Kibbutz Kfar Aza home that still had challah from the family's Shabbat eve meal on the table when it was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7. (Courtesy Ziv Koren/Polaris)

'Behind every call is a person grappling with pain'

Nearly 1 million Israelis called mental health hotline over three years of war

By Diana Bletter

ERAN service says it handled 21,829 calls involving suicidality since October 7, 2023; such calls from teenagers and young adults nearly doubled; loneliness also surging

Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, October 04, 2026. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

At Hostage Square, signs of October 7 fade but trauma endures

By Michele Chabin

Book review

‘You want to call Trump, Bibi?’: How incoming US president’s wrath was leveraged to close hostage deal

Top Biden aide’s new book reveals dramatic 11th-hour talks before January 2025 agreement as well as outgoing president’s desire to give final speech rebuking his party’s anti-Israel direction

US President Donald Trump, right, listens during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, September 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Book now for Wednesday's event in Jerusalem

ToI Presents: Israel’s most fateful election?

Join us in Jerusalem on Wednesday for an interactive live recording of our Daily Briefing podcast, hosted by ToI’s deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan

Shin Bet chief to far-right minister: The Palestinians do not burn the homes of Jews

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

After clashing with Settlements Minister Strock over extremist settlers’ West Bank attacks on Palestinian civilians, Zini warns he may reinstate administrative detention for Jewish suspects, reversing previous stance

Head of the Shin Bet David Zini on November 3, 2025. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90); Minister of National Missions Orit Strock in Jerusalem, August 6, 2026. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90, Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Britain’s leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski poses with supporters after speaking at a rally in a park in south London, on June 24, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/ AFP)

European Green Party condemns UK Greens for ‘Zionism is racism’ policy

By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Zev Stub

European group says resolution, which wants Israel replaced by a ‘democratic Palestinian state throughout historic Palestine,’ contradicts its two-state stance; German Greens call it ‘intolerable’; UK’s Amnesty International chair quits party

A view of the the British Consulate in east Jerusalem after Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced that Israel would close the facility in response to UK sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, September 8, 2026. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

UK threatens to expel 27 Israeli diplomats if Jerusalem consulate is shuttered – report

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Abdullah Albadri (UK Crown Prosecution Service)

Kuwaiti jailed for life in UK over attempted attack at Israeli embassy in 2025

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shin Bet reportedly declined to probe alleged terrorist professor, who sought to enlist right-wing figures

Indicted mathematician, who allegedly plotted to assemble terror militia and kill hundreds of Arabs, met with podcaster who apologizes for not informing police; densely written letter said to outline plans

A Bar-Ilan University professor's alleged letter (left) to Moshe Feiglin, made public on October 5, 2026, and a view of Bar Ilan University (right). (X/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law/Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

A B1 bomber prepares to take off as police officers man a checkpoint near RAF Fairford air base, in Fairford, England September 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

US removed bombers from British airbase due to potential Iran drone attack – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Citing officials, WSJ says B-1 bombers relocated from RAF Fairford due to intel on IRGC drone plot to target American troops; Trump downplays incident, Iran denies involvement

A police van is parked outside of a warehouse park housing offices of a the Persian-language TV station, Iran International, in Wembley, northwest London on April 16, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS/AFP)

British court tries 3 Iranians accused of spying on journalists

By AFP

Police guard a road leading to RAF Fairford, in Fairford, England, September 28, 2026. (Alastair Grant/AP)

ExplainerWhat to know about the suspected bomb plot against UK air base used by the US

Anti-Zionist protesters outside a school and synagogue in New York City, January 8, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US court dismisses federal case against New Jersey synagogue protesters

Judge grants dismissal for anti-Zionist protesters in case that had sought to make novel use of an abortion clinic law to protect houses of worship

Police at the scene of an apparent criminal assassination attempt in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem, October 6, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Mob boss said injured in Jerusalem car bombing, along with his 13-year-old son

Media names target of blast as criminal Itzik Bar Muha, 58; reports say he was taking his son to school when bomb went off in Armon Hanatziv neighborhood

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a fatal hit-and-run in Jerusalem, October 4, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man, 36, dies after being tased by cop in Haifa

By Noam Lehmann

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This handout photo taken on April 13, 2023, and released on October 6, 2026, shows Francis Halzen, UW–Madison Vilas Research Professor, speaking about the UW IceCube Neutrino Observatory Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Bryce RICHTER/University of Wisconsin/AFP)

Belgian-born physicist wins Nobel prize for work on neutrino ‘ghost particles’

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN and STEFANIE DAZIO

Irish players bow their heads during Israeli national anthem before the UEFA Nations League soccer match between the Republic of Ireland and Israel in Backa Topola, Serbia, October 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

UEFA probes claim Israeli soccer player spat at Ireland staff member during match

By AP and ToI Staff

August Hanning, president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), photographed on November 6, 2002, at the agency’s headquarters in Pullach, near Munich. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)

Former German spy chief arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason

By AP

Door attendants secure the doors of the transfer vans containing the remains of US Army Reserve soldiers Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien, Maj. Cody Khork, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, Master Sgt. Class Nicole Amor, Master Sgt. Class Noah Tietjens, Sgt. Declan Coady, during a casualty return, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, who were killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait after the US and Israel launched its military campaign against Iran. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Months after deadly Iranian attack, US soldiers’ families are struggling

By Russ Bynum and Jack Brook

Backdropped by an LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) tanker, a Yemeni soldier sails in waters north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in Mokha, Yemen, April 6, 2026 (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

Saudi-backed Yemeni forces expel Houthis from areas around key strait: officials

By Ahmed al-Haj and Samy Magdy

FILE: British author and former MP Jeffrey Archer leaves St Paul’s Cathedral at the end of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's ceremonial funeral in central London on April 17, 2013. (LEON NEAL/AFP)

Jeffrey Archer, bestselling novelist and scandal-ridden UK politician, dies at 86

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

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