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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 14, 2026

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Ruby and Hagit Chen (center), the parents of slain IDF soldier Itay Chen, attend an event at the State Department honoring the US citizens killed on October 7, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (right), October 14 2026. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 14: Families of Americans killed on Oct. 7 demand justice at State Dept. memorial in DC

Herzog meets Azerbaijani president, Bahraini FM in Baku * IDF chief warns of ‘potential for escalation’ across all fronts, decries settler violence

8:47 pm

Families of Americans killed on Oct. 7 demand justice at State Dept. memorial in DC
8:29 pm

IDF begins process to award decorations for heroism by troops during October 7 onslaught
8:11 pm

US says it destroyed Iranian-affiliated vessel conducting surveillance last week

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits for an interview on the pro-government Channel 14, October 13, 2026. (Screenshot)

Eisenkot calls premier 'a liar' who is in 'complete panic'

Netanyahu: Egyptian intel chief was in Israel before Oct. 7, didn’t meet with me

By Lazar Berman

PM claims during lengthy TV interview that Iran is working to orchestrate an attack to influence election, maybe through Hamas and Hezbollah; urges criminal probe of those involved in his corruption prosecution

Prof. Nechumi Yaffe joins host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan for this week's A Mandatory Listen. (ToI)

ToI podcast

A Mandatory Listen – Nechumi Yaffe: An insider’s dire prognosis for the Haredi world – and its cure

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In the fourth episode of our new podcast series, the ultra-Orthodox female prof running for Knesset discusses frankly the problems facing the community, and why she is swimming upstream

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian appears on the Daily Briefing podcast with host Jessica Steinberg (Courtesy)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 14 – IDF, police, Education Ministry spar over deadly school trip blast

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the and Religious Zionism party chairman, tours the Mahane Yehuda Market as part of the party’s election campaign in Jerusalem, October 9, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich: ‘Complete lie’ that IDF troops are burdened because of Haredi exemption

By Ariela Karmel

Far-right minister contradicts IDF assessments, claims some 50,000 reservists are willing to return to fight; Haredi youths tear down election signs for new ultra-Orthodox party

Ultra-Orthodox Jews wait at a bus stop in Arad on October 1, 2026. (JOHN WESSELS/AFP)

‘We can’t live together’: Elections heighten secular-Haredi tensions in southern desert city

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Op-ed: Two weeks to election

Unless the opposition steps up its game, Netanyahu, the PM of Oct. 7, could yet survive this election

It’s a combination of his own shameless efforts to rewrite history, his opponents’ inability to adequately hold him to account for that blackest of days and much more besides, and, perhaps, Israel’s changing demographics

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) interviewed on the pro-government Channel 14, October 13, 2026. (Screenshot); Left, from top: Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot at a youth conference in Jerusalem, October 11, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Former PM and B'Yachad party chairman Naftali Bennett in Herzliya, September 23, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman (Gili Yaari/Flash90))

Analysis

Small parties hovering around minimum vote threshold could determine Israel’s election

While neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot-led opposition has clear path to majority, veteran pollster predicts PM’s bloc will face ‘more difficult test’ in turning out enough supporters

Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk alongside a bus displaying a campaign poster featuring his chief rival, Gadi Eisenkot, at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, ahead of Israel’s general election, October 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Screen capture from video of Davidi Ben Zion, deputy mayor of the Samaria Regional Council. (YouTube)

Candidate leaves Ofer Winter’s party amid pressure, fear of wasting votes

Ofer Winter (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir rules out surplus-vote deal with Winter, calls him ‘Bennett 2’

By Ariela Karmel

An Israeli Air Force fighter jet prepares to take off from an airbase in Israel for strikes in Iran, February 28, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

PM: Attack on Iran ‘not convenient’ now, but signs show Israel’s enemies preparing assault

By Lazar Berman

Netanyahu says he’s against Israeli or US strike on Islamic Republic soon, hopes there won’t be an attack on Israel to disrupt elections; Katz warns Hezbollah not to launch conflict

US President Donald Trump listens as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Netanyahu reportedly pressed Trump to renew Iran fighting before Israeli and US elections

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Demonstrators wave Iranian flags during a pro-government gathering at a square in Tehran, Iran, October 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran said shoring up defenses at nuclear sites, warning it could invade neighbors if war resumes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Armed Hamas police officers patrol in Gaza City, October 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Hamas-run ministry says 1,488 killed since deal

On ceasefire anniversary, US claims ‘real progress’ made in demilitarizing Gaza

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Washington says building will be difficult but progress underway for Hamas-free rule and security for Israel; Kushner, Red Cross mark one year since return of last 20 living hostages

Book now for Sunday's event in Jerusalem

ToI Presents: What’s at stake in this election?

Join us IN PERSON in Jerusalem on Sunday as David Horovitz hosts Dr. Tal Becker, the legal and policy expert who memorably stood up in The Hague to debunk the allegation that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza

Netanyahu has changed the Middle East. Will Israel ensure it lasts?

After Oct. 7, the Jewish state dramatically weakened its enemies, but Israel’s leaders must have the resolve to protect those hard-won gains

Sarah Ansbacher

East of Eden and north of Jaffa: John Steinbeck’s hope

The author’s 19th century ancestors moved to the holy land to help teach the Jewish community to farm. I found traces of them in Tel Aviv – and on Netflix

Inside story

‘Have to be exterminated’: Series of violent plots take aim at AIPAC-linked targets in US

US law enforcement has thwarted at least three alleged planned attacks on the pro-Israel lobby or politicians who took donations from it, as political rhetoric against the group heats up

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from Israel via video link at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, on March 26, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP/File)

Illustrative: A protester from Somerville, Massachusetts front, joins with other pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators as they display signs outside the home of US Senator Elizabeth Warren, during a protest November 19, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, held to call for a cease fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Massachusetts city councilors hear petitions against Israel divestment ordinance

‘Torn’ documentary on battle over Israeli hostage posters wins New York Emmy award

By JTA and ToI Staff

Director Nim Shapira takes home prize for best documentary for film centered on post-Oct. 7 fight to put up, and tear down, posters of Israelis taken captive into Gaza by Hamas

Keffiyeh-clad individuals slash and rip down posters of October 7 hostages hung in New York, as seen in Nim Shapira's film 'TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on NYC Streets.' (Courtesy)

Dublin hotel canceled bookings for antisemitism conference, Jewish leader charges

The city’s Herbert Park Hotel nixed reservations for 70 guests after learning that the conference would focus on fighting Jew-hatred, official says

Protesters gather in front of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, on May 14, 2024. (Stringer/Anadolu)

Houthis building new longer-range missiles with Chinese-imported parts – report

WSJ cites arms-tracking group’s assessment of Yemeni rebels’ efforts to make a variant of Iran’s Kheibar Shekan ballistic missiles, which could have a 1,900-km range

This screen grab taken from video footage released on August 9, 2026, by Ansarullah Media Centre shows a missile being launched toward what the Houthi authorities said were Saudi troop concentrations and weapons depots at Mokha port in western Yemen. (ANSARULLAH MEDIA CENTRE/AFP)

Footage posted to social media shows an oil fire burning and smoke rising from an additional location after reported Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen on October 13, 2026. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Saudi Arabia strikes oil facility in Yemen capital Sanaa as Houthis up threats

Colombia opens embassy in Jerusalem, becoming tenth country to do so

By Nava Freiberg and AFP

Sa’ar hails move as start of ‘golden age in relations,’ following inauguration of new right-wing president Abelardo de la Espriella

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and his Colombian counterpart Omar Bula Escobar (center) open Colombia’s embassy in Jerusalem, alongside Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion (right), September 14, 2026. (Rafi Ben Hakoon/GPO)

An Israeli Air Force Apache helicopter, August 18, 2025. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israel inks deal to buy 12 Apache helicopters from US’s Boeing after government okay

By Emanuel Fabian

Ministers approve ‘urgent’ NIS 1 billion purchase, with most of the funds to come from slashing 5-year plan to improve Arab society, after US was said readying to drop deal

A fiber optic-guided FPV drone is seen in footage published by Hezbollah on May 7, 2026. (Hezbollah media office)

Katz announces ban on fiber optic drones in Israeli airspace amid lingering threat

By Emanuel Fabian

A rendered photo of the Tel Aviv Fashion Museum, planned to open in early 2027 (Courtesy)

If the shoe fits

A museum dressed to impress: Fashion finds a home in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

The Tel Aviv Fashion Museum will open in Sarona, a collaboration of the Azrieli Group and curator Ya’ara Keydar

Congregants meet at congregation Beth El to say farewell to “The White Flame of the Six Million," a sculpture by storied artist Louise Nevelson that functioned as a bimah, in Great Neck, N.Y., October 1, 2026. (Michelle Falkenstein/JTA)

New York synagogue bids ‘sacred farewell’ to Holocaust memorial by Louise Nevelson

By Michelle Falkenstein

As membership declines at Great Neck’s once-prominent Temple Beth-El, the congregation seeks funds to donate its 50-foot-long sculpture to a museum after more than five decades

More Headlines

A firefighter works the scene of an explosion at the Intel factory in Kiryat Gat on October 14, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)

Worker killed, 2 seriously hurt in apparent gas explosion at Intel plant in south

By Noam Lehmann

Security and rescue forces at the scene where a building under renovation collapsed in central Tel Aviv, October 14, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Building partially collapses on Tel Aviv’s Nahalat Binyamin Street; no injuries

Screen capture of the Halk TV YouTube channel after the network was taken offline by Turkish Authorities, October 14, 20126. (Halk TV/YouTube)

Turkish police shut down pro-opposition Halk TV, hold 11 in raid on station

By AFP and ToI Staff

Attendees gather at the OpenAI DevDay 2026 conference, September 29, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI employee accused of bugging company conference room

In this picture provided by Swedish Coast Guard, the gas leak in the Baltic Sea from Nord Stream photographed from the Coast Guard’s aircraft on September 27, 2022. (Swedish Coast Guard via AP)

Ukrainian ex-officer goes on trial in Germany over 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage

By Sebastian Bronst and bryn Stole

Pope Leo XIV arrives at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, October 13, 2026, where he was expected to be operated on to remove a lung nodule. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Surgery confirms Pope Leo has lung cancer, part of right lung’s lower lobe removed

By Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry

Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York, on February 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

AI models may soon be able to self-replicate across smart-home devices, Anthropic warns

Greek antiquities dating to the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. are displayed during a repatriation ceremony at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece, October 13, 2026, after 22 artifacts illegally removed from Greece were returned by Israel. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

In first, Israel returns artifacts to Greece amid push to secure return of antiquities

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and Derek Gatopoulos

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