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What Matters Most On Friday, October 16, 2026

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Left: 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. Right: Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on July 7, 2025. (Amir Cohen/Reuters, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman accuses Eisenkot of seeking to form unity government with Likud: ‘He’s Gantz 2’

By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

Yashar party chief calls on Israelis who want Netanyahu out to ‘ignore the spin,’ says he’s working to secure ‘more than 61 Zionist seats for change’ in October 27 election

United Torah Judaism election candidate Eliakim Stark speaks at an election event in Beit Shemesh, October 15, 2026. (Screenshot/X/Avi Moskoff)

Outrage as UTJ candidate likens situation of ultra-Orthodox in Israel to Jews in Holocaust

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

A screenshot of video showing Mordechai David and other right-wing protesters clashing with people at the Joint List's campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 15, 2026. (X screenshot)

Right-wing protesters storm Tel Aviv building housing Joint List campaign office

By Noam Lehmann

American photojournalist Heidi Levine lies on a gurney in the emergency room of the government hospital in the city of Ramallah, as she is treated after being attacked by Israeli settlers while photographing Palestinian farmers harvesting their olives in the Palestinian village of Abu Falah on October 16, 2026. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

PM says facts still unclear, incident 'disputed'

Settlers beat Palestinians, US journalist in West Bank attacks: ‘They kept kicking me and kicking me’

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Heidi Levine says she was saved by flak jacket, helmet in Abu Falah attack, as US embassy and Washington Post slam incident; olive trees and vehicles set on fire near Turmus Ayya; 70-year-old attacked near Birzeit

Analysis

3 experts on how you’re reading election polls wrong — and why they can’t predict the result

With several parties at risk of falling short, small shifts make a huge difference. Plus, Israel’s electorate is difficult to survey and methodology is often opaque. But even so, analysts say, polls are still worthwhile

Activists in Tel Aviv watch the exit polls on election night, on March 23, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) arriving for court in Jerusalem, and Yashar party chair Gadi Eisenkot visiting the Nova music festival site. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI poll: Eisenkot’s party opens up big lead on Netanyahu’s, but both blocs short of majority

Trump when asked whether he trusts Netanyahu: ‘In politics I don’t trust anybody’

US president says Israeli officials want him him to be involved in Netanyahu’s reelection campaign; says US won’t nuke Iran as he considers dropping ‘Mother of All Bombs’

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House during an event for first responders, October 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to staff at a Shin Bet facility, June 29, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO); Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the signing of an agreement for a regional energy project, in Damascus, Syria, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

In first, Netanyahu reveals he spoke with Syria’s Sharaa after 2025 strike in Damascus

By Lazar Berman

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A drawing said done by Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar's 10-year-old son Ibrahim at the start of the war, published by the IDF on October 16, 2026 (IDF)

In letter said written by Sinwar’s son, 10-year-old expresses desire to ‘shoot Jews’

By Emanuel Fabian

Publishing document to mark two years since troops killed Hamas chief, IDF says it demonstrates how Sinwar, architect of Oct. 7 massacre, imbued his children with ‘murderous ideology’

Former ICC judge Navi Pillay, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, poses for a photograph in The Hague, Netherlands, October 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Pillay decries US sanctions on ICC, where she is ‘confident’ Netanyahu will one day stand trial

By Richard Carter

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana addresses European parliamentary leaders in Rome, Italy, on October 15, 2026. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Knesset speaker rejects genocide charges in speech to European parliamentary leaders

By Ariela Karmel

A Palestinian uses a sling to hurl a stone as tear gas drifts among olive trees during clashes following an alleged settler attack on Palestinians harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, October 16, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 16: Israeli ambassador says PM has promised ’emphatically’ to curb settler violence

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Trump move to restart direct US flights with Lebanon said to hit roadblock * Iranian president says Tehran ‘ready for dialogue’ but will not ‘bow to coercion’

8:09 pm

Houthis claim attack on airport in Yemen's government-held Aden
7:41 pm

Trump move to restart direct US flights with Lebanon said to hit roadblock
6:58 pm

Israeli ambassador says PM has promised 'emphatically' to curb settler violence

Invest in love: An evening with Omer Shem Tov

When the former hostage sets rage aside, he teaches the rest of us to refocus on the best of humanity and to internalize expectations of goodness

When animals save people

Stand beside a donkey (or a sheep) and you’ll breathe differently – and that’s just one way structured time with animals helps heal soldiers’ trauma (Noah)

Ambushed when escorting researcher, 71, wearing IDF uniform

Citing IDF failures, family of soldier killed in Lebanon leaves Israel: ‘We can’t find solace here’

Gur Kehati’s mother says she told IDF chief ‘the country has given up on us’ before they moved to Crete; family furious at IDF’s response to incident, lack of consequences for those involved

Sgt. Gur Kehati. (Israel Defense Forces)

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

Israel cites Gazan merchants angered by Hamas taxes as commercial goods stop entering Strip

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Head of private truckers union disputes Israeli account but admits Hamas seeking NIS 10,000 per truck entering Strip, which terror group claims is a ‘voluntary community initiative’

A Palestinian vendor arranges fruit at a market in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, October 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli soldiers seen along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, September 6, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel said blocking US firm from breaking ground on Gaza base for international force

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian, AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: IDF soldier carries part of a memorial that was dedicated to Palestinians accused of killing Israelis or who died in clashes, 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 commandos nab alleged Palestinian arms dealer in raid on West Bank’s Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

Kandinsky painting, restituted to Jewish family after Nazi looting, sells for over $42 million

‘The Colorful Life’ exceeds upper limit of estimated price by almost $10 million after six-minute bidding war, becoming highest-valued lot of the night, Christie’s says

This undated image, provided by the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, shows the 1907 painting 'Das bunte Leben' (The Colorful Life) by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. (Lenbachhaus Museum via AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his chief of staff at the time, Yoav Horowitz, arrive for a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 16, 2018. (Abir Sultan/Pool via AP)

Likud says Netanyahu will sue ex-aide who said ‘it must be assumed he’s a Qatari agent’

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Party says PM will sue Yoav Horowitz, an Eisenkot ally, for half a million shekels for comments on report of Urich’s alleged meetings with senior Qatari official

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90, Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

PM says Ben Gvir can’t be defense or police minister after election, angering Otzma Yehudit

By Ariela Karmel

Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release as part of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel, February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Rights groups report ‘dangerous’ surge in use of rubber bullets on Palestinian inmates

From the Blogs

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Until four years ago, Israel met every criterion of a successful country. That’s no longer the case. But since the damage came from the top, the repair can come from the top, too. And it will

Lazar Focus podcast

Natasha Hausdorff: International law itself under attack by anti-Israel NGOs

By Lazar Berman

Legal expert says that Israel does more than anyone else to protect civilians, and that the manipulation of international law to vilify Israel is a threat to Western civilization

Ballot boxes are prepared for Israel’s upcoming general election at the Central Elections Committee’s logistics center near Shoham, October 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Taking stock

Tel Aviv market slide points to investors betting on election deadlock

By Sharon Wrobel

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange research shows stocks typically sag before votes that end in stalemate, unlike those that result in stable governments, but it all evens out within months anyway

Sally Rooney’s books are displayed for sale at a bookshop in London on October 15, 2026. (AP/Kin Cheung)

Explainer

Agencies and ToI Staff

Rooney has UK bookstores scrambling to see if they’re breaking terrorism law by selling her books

Anti-Israel author says her books can no longer be sold in UK because she helps finance the banned terror group Palestine Action

US rapper, singer, dancer and DJ, Benjamin Haggerty, known as Macklemore, performs at the Goldencoast Rap Festival in Corcelles-les-Monts, near Dijon, central-eastern France, on August 30, 2026. (ARNAUD FINISTRE/AFP)

Macklemore’s ‘Free Palestine’ concerts draw scrutiny over pledged proceeds for anti-Israel group

Mark Levine delivers remarks at an opening ceremony for the Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, June 8, 2023 in New York. (Jason DeCrow/AP Images for Mount Sinai Health System)

NYC comptroller hails city’s economic ties with Israel after ditching Israel Bonds

Mark Levine highlights city’s $285M of assets in Israeli companies to stress he’s not engaged in Israel boycott

Democratic US Senate candidate, Texas state Representative James Talarico, speaks during a campaign event in San Marcos, Texas, October 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Democratic Texas Senate candidate says he blames Netanyahu, not Israelis, for Gaza devastation

By Sharon Udasin

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Varonis Systems, Inc., a provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data, opens for trading on The NASDAQ Stock Market on February 28, 2014. (Globe Newswire)

Israeli cybersecurity firm Varonis Systems to be bought by Proofpoint in $6.3 billion deal

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) speaks during a press conference in Berlin, on October 5, 2026. (Tobias SCHWARZ/AFP)

Germany jails 2 for Iran-backed plots to attack Jewish and pro-Israel leaders, spying on Jews

By AFP

Illustrative: A secure laptop. (Anyaberkut, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli company used online ads to run vast spy operation, researchers say

By Raphael Satter

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

Supporters of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) hold South Yemen flags during a rally to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the October 14 Revolution against British colonial rule and respond to calls for mobilization against the Houthi rebels in Aden, Yemen, October 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

At least 4 killed as Houthis launch missiles at presidential palace in Yemen’s Aden

This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows suspected Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP/Bell County Sheriff's Department via The Temple Daily Telegram)

Trump nixes Hegseth’s plan to broadcast execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan

Supporters of the Houthi authorities brandish their weapons during a protest against Saudi intervention in Yemen, in Sanaa, on October 9, 2026. (Mohammed HUWAIS/AFP)

AnalysisHow the Houthis are helping Iran turn Saudi Arabia into a pressure point

By Samia Nakhoul

School buses are lined up outside Silver Rail Elementary school, where a deadly shooting took place, on October 15, 2026, in Bend, Oregon. (AP Photo/Joe Kline)

Three children, teacher killed in Oregon elementary school shooting

By Maggy DONALDSON

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