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What Matters Most On Monday, October 12, 2026

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Defense Minister Israel Katz arrives at the Western Wall during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Jerusalem’s Old City, September 28, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 12: Katz: IDF presence in depopulated West Bank camps is ‘permanent’; not High Court’s business to intervene

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Defense minister rejects top court’s demand for timetable for eventual withdrawal * US, UK and 27 more countries warn Iran against further attacks on West, after British base plot

7:30 pm

Houthis claim attack targeting Riyadh airport with ballistic missile
6:32 pm

Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted ballistic missile fired by Houthis at Riyadh
5:58 pm

Netanyahu, Kisch visit victims from explosion in north

Herzog: I’ll work to set up ‘stable’ government, Israel must avoid repeat elections

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

President warns against having to return to the polls, at a time when ‘national challenges are enormous’; Lapid vows no partnership with Netanyahu, slams ‘fake’ unity governments of the past

Left: President Isaac Herzog speaks to the media during a visit to the Nova music festival memorial site near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, on October 7, 2026. Right: B'Yachad party #2 Yair Lapid speaks at the "Law and Lies" conference on October 12, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Former prime minister and B'Yachad party chairman Naftali Bennett speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv, October 11, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett suggests Netanyahu could sit in future government, backtracks, says he wasn’t serious

By Shira Silkoff and Ariela Karmel

Netanyahu demands criminal probe of soldiers who testified in ‘NAZA’ film on Gaza killings

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

PM calls on AG and heads of IDF, Shin Bet to identify soldiers who appeared anonymously in ‘NAZA’ and prosecute them for spreading ‘false’ libel, exposing secrets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, arrives for a hearing in his corruption trial at the Jerusalem District Court on October 11, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer attends an agriculture conference in Herzliya, September 23, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Otzma Yehudit MK to be questioned on suspicion of assaulting cop in West Bank riot

By Noam Lehmann

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Former Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit arrives to testify in the corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jerusalem District Court, October 11, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Netanyahu: 'The truth is coming out'

Ex-AG admits he didn’t approve all police action in criminal probe of Netanyahu or review full indictment

By Jeremy Sharon

During testimony in court, Mandelblit insists he formally greenlit the investigation of the PM as required, but says some police actions made him ‘furious.’ Likud ministers call for trial to be canceled

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, attends a Memorial Day ceremony commemorating fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror at Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery, in Tel Aviv, April 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police said to suspect PM’s top aide took 30 classified records to shape Oct. 7 narrative

By Nava Freiberg

Jonatan Urich is seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 30, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Purported WhatsApp correspondence of Netanyahu’s key aide Jonatan Urich leaks online

An aerial view of the Jerusalem Lower Aqueduct uncovered near Ramat Rachel. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority)

'An engineering marvel'

300-meter stretch of ancient aqueduct uncovered during planning for new Jerusalem neighborhood

Newly discovered section of the city’s ancient water system will be prominently displayed in development south of Ramat Rachel, highlighting its significant history

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

Stranded Israeli travelers in dire straits as Dubai flights remain grounded

By Sharon Wrobel

Efforts to resume flydubai and Israeli flights to the UAE stall over security issues, while stranded Israelis and Far East-bound travelers face steep fares

Samir 'Abu Hamza' Mohtadi appears on 'The Aydin Show' on YouTube, in an interview published April 14, 2020. (Screenshot)

Melbourne Islamic preacher linked to flydubai terrorist condemns ‘false accusations’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This image from CCTV video released by Saudi Arabia’s Media Ministry shows passengers taking cover as flames and smoke fill part of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during what authorities described as a strike at the airport on October 10, 2026. (Saudi Media Ministry via AP)

Security footage shows deadly Houthi missile attack on Riyadh airport over weekend

By AFP and ToI Staff

Saudi government’s release of Saturday video marks exception to kingdom’s quiet-keeping approach to ongoing strikes; many of the passengers appear to be pilgrims heading to Mecca

Saudi Arabia said low on interceptors to thwart mounting Houthi missile attacks

By ToI Staff and AFP

Netanyahu condemns ‘horrific’ attack on Riyadh airport that killed 12, injured hundreds

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 12 – How the Houthis’ multi-pronged strategy is unbalancing the Saudis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ksenia Svetlova

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jerusalem’s Old City: Never the same place twice

There are real tensions here. Real grievances, fears, and injustices. Moments of kindness don’t erase them, but the sunshine and rainbows and kumbaya are real too

What an ‘eruv’ taught me about fighting antisemitism

Getting to know your local leadership now means you can turn to them later (I know; I was the politician tapped to help a NJ Jewish community)

President Isaac Herzog visits the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division headquarters near the settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, September 30, 2026. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Herzog says Israel needs bigger police force to stop violent crime, settler attacks

President says officers doing their best, but can’t match scale of the problem, lamenting that Arab Israelis ‘live in terror’ amid crime wave, violence in West Bank a ‘moral stain’

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Illustrative image: cancer cells against a backdrop of DNA (Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen via iStock by Getty Images)

How cancer cells survive chemo: Israeli researchers find ‘guardian proteins’ protect tumors

By Diana Bletter

Ben-Gurion University scientists show that destroying such proteins forces cancer cells to self-destruct, in potential key to overcoming chemotherapy resistance

Shopping at a supermarket in Jerusalem a day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, September 10, 2026. (Rachel Alroey/Flash90)

Cost of living crisis

Supermarkets raised prices 5 times faster over last 4 years than previous 4 — study

Tel Aviv University researchers say chains took advantage of wartime conditions to drive up prices while the public and government were distracted

Kfar Saba Mayor Rafi Sa'ar in 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Police arrest Kfar Saba mayor, wife, suspected of receiving bribes to rig tenders

By Michael Horovitz

Report says Rafi Sa’ar’s wife was point person for bribes, known criminals received tenders, while couple used money to buy luxury items; 17 people arrested, 7 others questioned

Moni Moshonov, left, and Sandra Sade, right, play ex-hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel during a reading at Habima National Theater on October 6, 2026 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Captivating story

Captivity of Aviva and Keith Siegel told onstage with love, humor, fear

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Love at the Edge of the Tunnel’ performed in Tel Aviv by veteran actors and real-life couple Moni Moshonov and Sandra Sade

Female candidates take a rabbinical test administered by the Chief Rabbinate at the Religious Services Ministry in Jerusalem on April 27, 2026. (Chief Rabbinate)

Seven women set to take rabbinical exams after Rabbinate pledges equal conditions

Chief Rabbinate commits to equal testing conditions after the first-ever women’s sitting in April was delayed; interest in test is growing among women, religious rights group says

Illustrative: Police officers guard a bridge in Berlin, Germany, August 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Wheelchair-bound Berlin shop owner attacked after displaying posters against antisemitism

Attacks said to begin after Oct. 7 anniversary, when six youths twice came to store to allegedly insult and physically attack him; another group vandalized store Friday

Illustrative: Hapoel Beersheba at its match against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Toto Turner Stadium, Beersheba, July 16, 2026. (Danny Maron/Flash90)

Dutch city bans Israeli fans from soccer match; Foreign Ministry demands reversal

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

People look over a record book from 1836 that is displayed at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, on October 24, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)

How YIVO pivoted from studying a living Yiddish world to preserving a vanishing culture

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In a new book, ‘Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The YIVO Institute at 100,’ Kalman Weiser explores how the institute’s surviving caretakers adapted to a post-Holocaust world

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Students at Ben Gurion University, in Beer Sheba. November 04, 2025. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Amid AI shifts and war, Israel sees drop in math and computer science student enrollment

Jerry Seinfeld attends the “Hunt For Rolling Treasure” premiere showcase, executive produced and starring Chris Mazzilli, Greg Lotko, and Dave Weber, with Larry Hochberg and Bungalow Media and Entertainment at Katie Murphy Auditorium on September 30, 2026 in New York City. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Hunt for Rolling Treasure/AFP)

Seinfeld responds to anti-Israel heckler by vowing to send ticket proceeds to Israel

By Michael Horovitz

Yemanu Binyamin Zelka, who was stabbed and killed at his Pizza Hut job in the early hours of Independence Day. (Social media, undated; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Teen indicted for killing pizza worker admits to stabbing for first time

This combination of images shows Quentin Tarantino at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 27, 2023, left, and Sacha Baron Cohen at the premiere of 'Balls Up' in Los Angeles on April 14, 2026. (AP)

Once Upon a Time in LondonQuentin Tarantino casts Sacha Baron Cohen in his London stage debut

By AP and ToI Staff

Left to Right: President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he arrives on Air Force One, October 10, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon); Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the media after a German-Ukrainian business forum in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)

Trump says Russia and Ukraine reached ‘energy ceasefire’; Zelensky: ‘News to me’

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk looks on during the signing of agreements between Poland and France at the Main Town Hall in Gdansk, Poland, on April 20, 2026. (Ludovic MARIN/AFP)

Polish police arrest man suspected of planning attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk

By CLAUDIA CIOBANU

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