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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 13, 2026

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Israeli security and rescue forces evacuate injured people near the site where unexploded ordnance detonated during a school trip, near Kibbutz Yiftah in the Ramim Ridge area, close to the Israeli border with Lebanon, October 12, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Students made tourniquets out of belts, socks after ordnance exploded during hike

Father instructed his son over video call on how to stop bleeding after deadly blast on school trip near Lebanon border; MDA says 15-year-old provided CPR to wounded classmate

Elazar Yair Wilensky, killed in an explosion near the Lebanon border on October 12, 2026. (Courtesy)

Student killed in blast near Lebanon border ID’d as 9th grader Elazar Yair Wilensky

By ToI Staff and Diana Bletter

Israeli security and rescue forces evacuate injured people near the site of a deadly explosion of an unexploded Hezbollah ordnance during a school hike in the Ramim Ridge area in northern Israel, close to the border with Lebanon, October 12, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Teen killed, 24 injured by Hezbollah munition found on hike near Lebanon border

By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton and Lazar Berman

Inside story

Deadly blast on school trip exposes lurking explosive threat after years of war

Despite concerns around unexploded ordnance left across country after missiles stopped flying, questions remain over who’s responsible for clearance and whether public awareness has been sufficiently raised

Israeli security and rescue forces evacuate injured people near the site where suspected unexploded ordnance detonated during a school trip, killing a teenage student and injuring 19 others near Kibbutz Yiftah in the Ramim Ridge area, close to the Israeli border with Lebanon, October 12, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

US President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at the Covelli Centre, in Youngstown, Ohio, October 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 13: Trump says his administration to ‘make a decision on Iran very soon’

Report: Netanyahu pressed Trump to renew Iran fighting before election; PMO denies * Netanyahu calls for criminal investigation into those involved in his corruption prosecution

9:28 pm

Eisenkot: Netanyahu is 'a liar' and 'dangerous to Israel'
9:23 pm

Netanyahu: Security chiefs didn't wake me up on Oct. 7 because they feared 'miscalculation'
9:21 pm

PM: Iran working to orchestrate attack to influence election, maybe through Hamas and Hezbollah

Jonatan Urich arrives for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, January 14, 2026. (Jonathan Shaul/ Flash90)

Eisenkot slams 'psychological terror' campaign

PM’s aide Urich used ChatGPT to create pro-Qatar messaging campaign — report

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Channel 12 says police documents show key adviser and suspect in Qatargate affair asked AI chatbot to help create global image campaign for Gulf state in 2024

Former Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit arrives at the Jerusalem District Court to testify in the corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, October 12, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s lawyer keeps up pressure on Mandelblit, as tensions simmer in court

By Jeremy Sharon

Opposition leader Yair Lapid (right) speaking with Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz in Tel Aviv, October 12, 2026. (The Times of Israel)

At ToI event, Lapid warns president against meddling in post-election coalition talks

By Ariela Karmel

Candidates clash over possibility of unity with Likud, West Bank settlements and international isolation; People of Israel’s Eran Ben-Ari backs E1 building: ‘Do you want Jerusalem to be a border town?’

People of Israel party chairman Ofer Winter speaks at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, October 11, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Shooting us in the back’: Winter says Netanyahu to blame if his party fails to enter Knesset

By Stav Levaton and Ariela Karmel

Analysis

Threats to NYPD’s pro-Israel commissioner are an inflection point for New York Jews

If Jessica Tisch bows to pressure and leaves her job, it would mark the exit of an official seen by pro-Israel Jews as their bulwark in City Hall and raise questions about Mamdani’s response to antisemitism

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch holding a press conference on the annual Israel parade, May 29, 2026. (Screenshot/X/NYPDNEWS)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 13: Mamdani’s political balancing act backfires

By Gabriella Jacobs and Luke Tress

Anti-Zionist protesters hold signs against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in New York City, October 7, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Hasan Piker assails ‘opportunists’ who accused Mamdani of Gaza genocide

By Joseph Strauss

Palestinian says settlers posing as IDF beat him, wife, teen daughters in their home

By Nurit Yohanan and Noam Lehmann

Yusuf Abu Aisha reports 5 in civilian garb arrived at home during army operation in West Bank village of Talfit, claimed they were from military, then clubbed family, injuring 4

Screen capture from video purporting to show blood splattered on the floor of a home in the West Bank village of Talfit after an alleged settler attack, October 13, 2026. (X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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

Analysis

Reports of unheeded Oct. 7 warnings may be tenuous, but still are dangerous for Netanyahu

Much about claims around Gulf leaders alerting PM before attack leaves room for doubt, but that does not mean voters will dismiss serious questions about Netanyahu’s handling of the Hamas threat

This official government handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosting Egyptian spy chief Abbas Kamel at his official residence in Jerusalem, May 30, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Oct. 7 made it impossible to ignore what’s missing from Israel education

We need to help Diaspora Jews build a relationship with the country that can hold the weight of reality – even in difficult times

Yardena Bagantz

The Negev’s future cannot be secured by police cruisers alone

The Shin Bet warns of terrorist cells forming in the south — but tackling the threat means addressing the root causes that draw young Bedouins toward crime and extremism

Displaced Palestinians living in a cemetery in central Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after being unable to return to their homes, which were destroyed during the war between Israel and Hamas, October 10, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Inside story'There's anger at everyone'

One year into ceasefire, vexed Gazans say they’re still living like war never ended

By Nurit Yohanan

Strip has seen little rehabilitation or return to normalcy since Oct. 2025, with residents still in tents and fearing daily airstrikes. Blame, they say, goes beyond Hamas or Israel

An unidentified flying object that triggered sirens in the Lebanon border community of Arab al-Aramshe, October 10, 2026. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF: Unidentified object that triggered sirens in north was likely a balloon

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says it hasn’t determined origin or purpose of mysterious item, yet to be found and size unknown, that drifted across border, but has ruled out drone or UAV

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam meets with journalists working for foreign media and news agencies at the government palace in Beirut, December 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon vows probe after security forces seize truck packed with explosives

By AP and ToI Staff

More young Haredim leaving the fold than previously thought, study finds

Some 15.3% of ultra-Orthodox men and 11.9% of women secularize by age 30, according to a nonprofit helping Haredim integrate into broader society

A young Haredi man attends the opening of the United Torah Judaism party’s election campaign headquarters in Jerusalem, October 11, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

UK launches public inquiry into deaths during 2025 Yom Kippur Manchester synagogue attack

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells lawmakers that ‘what happened that day must be fully understood,’ and opening inquiry will ‘ensure that all evidence can be heard’

Britain's King Charles III looks at bouquets of flowers during a visit to Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 20, 2025. (Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP)

Members of the Jewish community comfort each other following a deadly terror attack during Yom Kippur services at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, northern England, October 2, 2025. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Anti-Jewish hate crimes rise 10% in England and Wales, according to government data

By Lianne Kolirin

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

UK’s Burnham says Iran’s IRGC likely behind airbase incident

By Reuters and Lazar Berman

Director General of MI5 Ken McCallum speaks at Thames House, the headquarters of the UK's Security Service in London, Oct. 13, 2026. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP, Pool)

MI5 chief says Iran is targeting military bases in UK, airbase plot ‘not unique’

By Jill Lawless

Ken McCallum: UK security agency has seen ‘major shift’ in Iran’s overseas attack ambitions, Tehran now looking to ‘come at harder targets, like military sites’

Ali Daamoush, head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, October 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah vows to compensate owners of Lebanese homes destroyed in war with Israel

By AP

Air crew members are seen at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, October 7, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Delta plane given all-clear at Ben Gurion Airport after anonymous bomb threat

By Sharon Wrobel

Airport back to normal after passengers from New York hurriedly disembark, aircraft checked; incident comes a day after Ethiopian cargo plane was turned away due to Indonesian pilot

Ethiopian Airlines planes are parked at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 11, 2019. (AP/Ben Curtis)

Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight denied landing in Israel, forced to turn around, due to Indonesian pilot

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Sofia Rosenfeld (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli sentenced to 3.5 years in Russia for giving $30 to anti-Putin politician

Sofia Rosenfeld donated to Alexei Navalny’s group in 2021 before such donations were outlawed, was arrested four years later; family holding out slim hopes

Zalman's founder Moshe Zalman Olive at one of his hot dog restaurants (Courtesy)

Beefing up

Zalman’s looks to take a big bite out of Israel’s kosher hot dog market

The chain, founded by an immigrant from Chicago, hopes a NIS 3.5 million deal will help it expand from 12 branches to as many as 40 in the coming year

The Arnovitz family in Koh Samui, Thailand, July 2026. (Courtesy)

Memory drive

Busy couple launches app to help parents record kids’ magic moments

With 300 days of reserve duty behind him, Gabi Arnovitz had little time to write down the funny things happening at home with his two young boys, so he made an app

More Headlines

US Rep. Ilhan Omar takes questions during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, January 13, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal agents raid home of Trump adversary and Israel critic Rep. Ilhan Omar

By AFP

Screen capture from video of a teenage girl, bottom right, allegedly throwing socks at a Druze woman on a Dan bus, August 6, 2026. (Dan Bus Company: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

15-year-old girl detained on suspicion of attacking Druze woman on bus — police

By Noam Lehmann

An illustrative file photo of an ambulance on August 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man shot dead in Umm al-Fahm, another in southern Bedouin town, in separate incidents

By ToI Staff and Noam Lehmann

General view of a water desalination facility in southern Israel, September 2, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

State pays over NIS 50 million to supply private desalination plants with equipment

Selma Blair speaks onstage during the ADL State of the Arts: An Evening at The Jewish Museum on October 1, 2026,, in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for ADL/AFP)

Actress Selma Blair arrested after allegedly assaulting crew aboard Delta flight

By AP and ToI Staff

Ofra Yitzhaki, on piano, is the artistic director of the Kol Hamusica festival, taking place October 29-November 1, 2026, in the Upper Galilee (Ofer Moskovitz)

Musical memoryUpper Galilee to remember its own at music festival

By Jessica Steinberg

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