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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 15, 2026

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Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ronen Kraus casts a ballot at the Israeli embassy in Baku as voting opens for diplomats abroad ahead of the October 27 election, on October 15, 2026. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

First Knesset election ballots cast as voting opens at Israel’s missions abroad

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

101 polling stations open at 99 diplomatic missions for around 4,800 eligible absentee voters; IDF to begin early voting next week for soldiers deployed on bases, overseas

A worker weighs newly printed ballot papers, at a printing factory, ahead of the October 27 Israeli legislative election in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, on October 8, 2026. (Jack Guez/AFP))

Israelis living abroad fly back to vote in what they believe is a pivotal election

By AFP

Protesters including former hostages and families of hostages demanding a state commission of inquiry march to Tel Aviv's Hostages Square during events marking the 1,000th day since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre, July 2, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll: Jewish Israelis want Oct. 7 commission of inquiry, ultra-Orthodox conscription

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a ceremony at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 15: Report says Netanyahu opted against targeting Hamas leaders weeks before Oct. 7

West Bank car-ramming was hit-and-run after settlers blocked road, officials assess * NYC comptroller says city’s relationship with Israel ‘deeply important’ after ditching Israel bonds * Police working to disperse riot in East Jerusalem following suspected murder in family feud

8:59 pm

'Desecration of God's name': Haredi MKs regret backing Ohana, a gay lawmaker, as Knesset speaker
8:27 pm

Rubio spoke with Lebanon's Aoun about confiscation of explosives from Hezbollah — US official
8:21 pm

West Bank car-ramming was hit-and-run after settlers blocked road, officials assess

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir visits the West Bank on October 14, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief warns of ‘potential for escalation’ across all fronts, decries settler violence

By Emanuel Fabian and Nava Freiberg

Zamir urges ‘readiness on every front’ during ‘sensitive period’ of West Bank olive harvest and run-up to Israeli election; PM says Iran’s regime ‘must go,’ doubts it will fall before Israelis vote on Oct. 27

In this May 2004 photo, a group gathers around a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) weapon, on display at the Air Force Armament Museum on Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Fla. (Mark Kulaw/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)

Report: US military has plan to deploy largest bomb against Iran if fighting resumes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A gull flies overhead as a boy stands with his bicycle on a beach overlooking commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, September 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran Guards say cargo ship sank in Hormuz after hitting mine

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An Iranian missile hit this Tel Aviv building. Its next chapter is remarkable

After a 2025 Iranian missile strike, Pinsker 6 is being rebuilt, now in pre-sale, preserving its historic Tel Aviv character while creating new luxury homes near the Mediterranean.

Illustrative: An Arab Israeli woman in the northern village of Maghar votes on November 1, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Likud, Smotrich say they’ll put 2,000 activists at Arab polling stations on election day

By Ariela Karmel, Stav Levaton and Jeremy Sharon

Joint List chief decries ‘racist campaign’ after PM’s party and Religious Zionism cite unsubstantiated fraud claims; Eisenkot vows to end Hamas rule in Gaza in 18 months if elected

Illustrative: An iPhone loaded with TikTok and other social media application icons. (Wachiwit/iStock)

Online antisemitism hits record high three years after October 7, study finds

No social network has dipped back to pre-Oct. 7 hate level, Australian Online Hate Prevention Institute says, adding the data refutes claim that legitimate criticism of Israel is mislabeled as Jew-hatred

FILE: US President Donald Trump listens as Leo Terrell speaks during a Black History Month event in the East Room of the White House, February 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Trump’s antisemitism czar visits Michigan synagogue ahead of contentious US midterms

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative: Police and community safety vehicles at a Jewish event in Brooklyn, New York City, May 19, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Bomb threat hoaxes called into 4 Jewish American day schools

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

Biased Wikipedia edits on Israel, Oct. 7 remain on site despite editor bans, ADL says

After coordinated efforts to inject anti-Israel bias into the online encyclopedia dropped 95% since last year’s report, a new group of editors is using quieter techniques, antisemitism watchdog says

Naftali Bennett, left, and Yair Lapid hold a joint press conference announcing they will run together in the upcoming elections, in Herzliya, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Bennett, Lapid pledge to strengthen Israel-Diaspora ties if they’re in next government

Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham waves goodbye to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky after their meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, October 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

British PM condemns Green Party for ‘Zionism is racism’ motion, rules out partnership

Hamas terrorists are seen near the Gama Junction in southern Israel, close to Re'im and Kissufim, amid the October 7, 2023, onslaught. (South First Responders/File)

Bar blasts 'campaign of incitement launched by the PM'

Ex-Shin Bet chief files defamation suit against Netanyahu, details warnings months before Oct. 7

By Jeremy Sharon

Ronen Bar says Netanyahu disregarded an ‘extraordinary series of warnings of impending disaster’; lawsuit comes in response to PM’s claim of ‘criminal’ acts by Bar for failing to wake him before Hamas attack

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel attends a meeting of Egyptian and Sudanese foreign ministers and heads of intelligence at Tahrir Palace, in Cairo, Egypt, February 8, 2018. (Khaled Elfiqi/Pool photo via AP)

Contradicting PM and reports, Egypt’s spy chief said not to have been in Israel days before Oct. 7

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s Macbeth complex: Ex-spy chief exposes a leader consumed by paranoia

Ronen Bar’s defamation suit reveals the gravity of the prime minister’s toxic rift with his security chiefs. Three years after Oct. 7, Netanyahu is still hunting for conspiracies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a reception marking the opening of the Colombian Embassy in Jerusalem, held at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, October 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Swashbuckling and self-assured, Ben Gvir bulldozes nuance in pitch to English speakers

Via translator, far-right Otzma Yehudit leader takes credit for bringing down car insurance rates and crows about legally dubious measures, but shrugs off responsibility for anything not going his way

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks at an election event hosted by the Tel Aviv International Salon on October 12, 2026. (Yael Ilinsky/Tel Aviv International Salon)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left), and Defense Minister Israel Katz (right), with ultra-Orthodox MKs Yitzchak Goldknopf, Moshe Gafni and Meir Porush behind them, seen in the Knesset shortly before the vote on a law banning arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers and legitimizing ongoing mass ultra-Orthodox non-enlistment, July 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu said worried Gur Hasidim won’t vote as allies push small parties to drop out

By ToI Staff, Nava Freiberg and Ariela Karmel

Yeshiva students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva in Jerusalem on August 19, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Funding Haredim and others threatens Israel’s status as advanced economy, researcher claims

Calling for single education system and funding transparency, Prof. Dan Ben-David reveals benefits for Haredim outstripped funds for hospitals and higher education combined in 2024

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri attends a vote in the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deri says Shas, like UTJ, won’t join next government without a draft exemption law

By Ariela Karmel

Police face off against ultra-Orthodox protesters outside an office building housing an IDF program in Bnei Brak, October 14, 2026. (Israel Police)

2 arrested in Bnei Brak amid rioting at building housing ultra-Orthodox IDF program

By Noam Lehmann

Elchanan Poupko

Religious Zionism’s dangerous euphoria

As Israelis leave, allies lose patience and the Jewish world faces mounting threats, too many members of the community insist they are living in a time of miracles

Aron Schoenfeld

It takes 10 minutes to return a gun

After five months of reserve duty, turning in my rifle was easy. Finding my place again in a life that had learned to carry on without me is another matter

Netanyahu insists Urich had no access to security briefings

Netanyahu aide Urich met senior Qatari official in Europe twice in 2024 — report

Bennett and Golan allege treason; Urich said to tell police he doesn’t remember content of meetings, which were not official government business, or where they took place; PM said to claim he was told nothing about it

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

Inside story

Rethinking defense ties with US, Israel eyes shift from patronage to partnership

With Washington turning against military aid, a new bilateral framework could take shape based on industrial output and tech integration, but politics will still shape Jerusalem’s access to arms

A handout picture released by Israel's Defense Ministry shows the launch of the Arrow-3 anti-ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in Alaska, July 28, 2019. (Israeli Ministry of Defense)

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 15 – Why are the Saudis so poor at war despite spending billions?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Bedouin man sentenced to 24.5 years for joining IDF to spy for Gazan terror group

By Noam Lehmann and Emanuel Fabian

Shehadeh Abu Alqian stole rifle from soldier he later passed to Mujahideen Brigades, which abducted Shiri Bibas and her two young sons on October 7, 2023; they were murdered in captivity

Shehadeh Abu Alqian, 25, who is charged with spying for a Gaza-based terror group, is seen wearing an Israeli military uniform in May 2022. (Courtesy)

IDF soldiers deploy during a military operation at the Jalazun camp for Palestinian refugees north of Ramallah in the West Bank on October 14, 2026. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

IDF, Shin Bet raid two West Bank charities they say were fronts for terror groups

By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan

Sally Rooney takes part in a panel during the Winter 2020 Television Critics Association Press Tour on January 17, 2020, in Pasadena, California. (Richard Shotwell/ Invision/ AP)

Sally Rooney’s publisher pulls books from UK over her support for outlawed anti-Israel group

Analysis

A record number of women are poised to enter the next Knesset

While the 2026 election largely ignores gender equality, structural changes in centrist parties and a grassroots ultra-Orthodox movement might be quietly shifting the political map

Women hold signs as they protest for women's equality, in Tel Aviv, on August 23, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah speaks during an interview with an AFP journalist at the Lebanese Parliament in Beirut on April 20, 2026. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Hezbollah claims confiscated truck of explosives, but denies assassination plans

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lawmaker for terror group says bomb-making material was intended for use against Israeli forces, asks for material seized by authorities to be returned, which Rubio tells Lebanese president is ‘out of the question’

This handout photograph released by the Lebanese Presidency press office on October 14, 2026, shows Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun (R) meeting with United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix (C), and Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major General Diodato Abagnara, at the presidential palace in Baabda. (Lebanese Presidency/AFP)

UN reaffirms push for Lebanon stability as Beirut asks to extend peacekeepers’ mandate

By AFP

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Illustrative: A man holds a flag of Somaliland in front of the Hargeisa War Memorial monument in Hargeisa on November 7, 2024. (Luis Tato/AFP)

Celebrations in Somaliland after Trump calls it ‘totally different country’ from Somalia

By AFP

Security and rescue forces at the Intel factory in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, following an explosion and fire that killed two workers and seriously injured a third, October 14, 2026. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Second worker dies of wounds sustained in Intel plant blast in southern Israel

By Sharon Wrobel and Noam Lehmann

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

Funeral held for teen boy, ‘full of life,’ who was killed in Hezbollah munitions blast

Israel’s Raz Hershko reacts after winning the women’s over 78 kg bronze medal bout at the World Judo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 10, 2026. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP)

Israel’s Raz Hershko looks to next challenge after Bronze win at Judo World Championships

By Tomer Almagor

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine speaks during the annual New York State Financial Control Board meeting, August 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

NYC’s comptroller walks back pledge to reinvest in Israel bonds

US Rep. Mike Collins, a Republican from Georgia, left, speaks to US Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, during an Atlanta Press Club general election senatorial debate, October 13, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Ossoff and Collins face off over white nationalism, Epstein, El-Sayed and Hasan Piker

By Sharon Udasin

A person wears a watermelon-style kippah, a symbol of solidarity with Palestinians. (Paul Frangipane / AFP / Getty Images via JTA)

Dozens of Jews meet in New York to further their vision of Jewish life without Zionism

By Joseph Strauss

An interior of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Courtesy of The Weitzman Museum via JTA)

Philadelphia’s American Jewish history museum moves closer to joining the Smithsonian

By Andrew Lapin

A man shows a social media promotional post for concerts by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on a mobile phone, in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Indonesia’s Muslim council urges cancellation of Andrea Bocelli shows over Israel ties

By AP

Immigrants arriving in Israel, as ANU Museum of the Jewish People and Nefesh b'Nefesh mark Aliyah Day on October 18, 2026 (Yonit Schiller)

Oleh, olehWhere schnitzel, pickles and alfajores sit on the same table

By Jessica Steinberg

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