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What Matters Most On Monday, October 19, 2026

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a military conference at the Glilot Base, October 4, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Netanyahu warns Israel's enemies: 'Do not test us'

IDF chief puts military on highest alert, orders leave freeze, ahead of Oct. 27 vote

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Eyal Zamir instructs military to have more senior officers present in command centers; West Bank forces boosted, but seen unlikely to thwart settler violence

A Palestinian man carries metal sheets past the ruins of buildings destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza City, October 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF says it killed 3 Hamas operatives over weekend as it keeps up Gaza strikes

By Emanuel Fabian

Police arresting a suspect in a settler attack in the West Bank, October 19, 2026. (Israel Police video screenshot)

Police arrest 11 suspects after West Bank settler attacks on journalist, EU diplomats

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Rare police action against settlers follows days of international pressure over high-profile assaults; meanwhile, new attacks by Jewish extremists reported

US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Riley Barnes and US Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch visit the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh near Ramallah, a day after Israeli settlers attacked a French mayor and European diplomats during the olive harvest, in the West Bank, October 18, 2026. (Mohamad Torokman/ Reuters)

US officials visit Palestinian village after settler attacks on diplomats

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 19 – Operation Olive Leaf: Police make rare arrest of 10 extremist settlers

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

LiveUpdated 44min ago

LIVE: Blue and White’s Benny Gantz withdraws from election race, eight days ahead of vote

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

‘We have a job to finish’: Netanyahu invokes Iran in call with Trump after endorsement * Visiting airbase, Netanyahu tells Israel’s enemies: ‘Do not test us’ * Palestinian official warns settler violence risks ‘explosion’ in West Bank, urges ‘peaceful confrontation’

10:54 pm

IDF chief announces new round of senior military appointments, pending approval
10:49 pm

Police, Shin Bet confirm two arrested on Route 1 highway on suspicion of planning terror attack
10:38 pm

France imposes localized curfew in parts of Paris, Lille and Nice, as country reels from riots

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Analysis

Will an anti-Mizrahi slur upend Israel’s election again? Don’t expect history to repeat itself

A pro-Netanyahu pundit called Gadi Eisenkot a ‘monkey,’ recalling when an entertainer derided ‘hooligans’ on the right and helped Menachem Begin in 1981. Nowadays, Israel’s politics are far more fragmented, and news moves faster

Menachem Begin (left) and Gadi Eisenkot. (AP Photo, Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on July 28, 2026. (GPO)

Trump offers ‘warrior’ Netanyahu ‘complete and total endorsement’ for reelection

By Lazar Berman, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

US president says Israeli PM is only candidate who won’t leave Washington alone in fight against Iran; PM urges voters to heed president’s words and vote for him; Eisenkot and Bennett say only Israeli voters will decide

US President Donald Trump (R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands as they arrive to speak to journalists during a joint press conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP)

AnalysisWill Trump’s endorsement boost Netanyahu’s chances of winning the election?

'We are going to live by our sword for many years'

In pre-election briefing, Netanyahu vows to topple Iranian regime, downplays settler violence

By Nava Freiberg

In 1st such security briefing since Oct. 7 massacre, PM warns of existential stakes in next week’s ballot, pledges to complete war objectives, and outlines new offensive doctrine, which opposition slams as ‘hollow’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a security briefing for Israeli journalists, October 18, 2026. (Mayaan Toaf/GPO)

Inside story

Policing only deepfakes, Israel leaves chatbot-trusting voters exposed to real AI threat

While authorities keep eye on fake videos, experts warn electorate more vulnerable to chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, which can sway opinions, suppress turnout and be used to bolster claims against legitimacy of vote

A Likud campaign stop in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, September 29, 2026. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Illustrative: Assorted AI apps are seen on the screen of an iPhone (hapabapa; iStock by Getty Images)

Inside storyAI agents are only as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS

Israeli National Security Minister and Otzma Yehudit party chairman Itamar Ben Gvir attends a press conference ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections, in Jerusalem, October 18, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says Netanyahu has promised EU to exclude him from next government

By Noam Lehmann, Stav Levaton, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Former chief rabbi, a Shas religious leader, urges voters to shun Ben Gvir’s far-right Otzma Yehudit; new Haredi party said to reject pressure from PM to quit race; Ra’am denounces faked billboards

Vehicles at the site where Belgium's foreign minister says masked settlers attacked Western diplomats and officials near Taybeh, in the West Bank, on October 17, 2026. (Emad Diab/via REUTERS)

EU demands ‘full accountability’ after settler attack on diplomats in West Bank

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and Agencies

Rabbi Dov Lior attends a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem on November 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police examine complaint against rabbi’s ruling letting Jews harvest on Palestinian land

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Austrian Airlines planes stand at Vienna-Schwechat airport in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

Bomb threat forces Austrian Tel Aviv-Vienna flight to land in Bulgaria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

After search finds no danger, passengers reboard and aircraft continues to its destination; Bulgaria scrambled fighter jets to escort airliner after it issued emergency squawk code

What Washington expects from Israel’s next government

While in the US capital to honor my son’s memory, I heard a clear message: Israel must change course, rebuild regional trust, and restore American public support

Hamas celebrates a Nobel Peace Prize: Meet Navi Pillay

The former UN human rights chief built a career accusing Israel of atrocities while undermining the standards she was supposed to uphold

This photograph shows a television monitor broadcasting France’s President Emmanuel Macron giving a speech from the Elysee Presidential Palace the day after riots and looting on the sidelines of nationwide protests over the cost of living, in Paris, France, on October 18, 2026. (Ludovic MARIN/AFP)

Nearly 2,400 people arrested

Macron slams ‘unbridled’ riots in France, says ‘those who have destroyed must pay’

President blames ‘agitators from ultra-left groups,’ as Le Pen, far-right frontrunner in next year’s election, says incumbent is ‘running on fumes’; Trump: France ‘burning’ because of immigration

Footage posted to social media shows the vandalized "Ohalei Yaakov" synagogue in Paris, October 18, 2026. (Screenshots/social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

French rioters vandalize Paris synagogue, set Jewish-owned shops ablaze in Marseille

Analysis

A renewed Iran war is only a matter of time, Israeli experts warn

As Netanyahu and Trump threaten Tehran, analysts say that an escalation is inevitable without a diplomatic settlement, possibly even before imminent Israeli and US elections

A giant anti-Israel and anti-Netanyahu billboard is displayed at Enghelab Square in Tehran as tensions between Iran and the United States and Israel continue, on October 12, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. The billboard depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing an empty hall and carries Persian messages reading, 'More isolated with each passing day' and 'Al-Aqsa Flood is a definite defeat for the Zionist regime.' (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images, JTA)

People ride in a pickup truck during a funeral procession for a Houthi officer in Sanaa, Yemen, October 17, 2026. (AP Photo/ Osamah Abdulrahman)

Nine said killed in Saudi strike on Houthis as sides continue trading fire

Defense think tank: Gaza war, West Bank violence making life harder for Jews abroad

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Co-author of INSS report optimistic that elections will lead to a new government that will be more attentive to security concerns

Synagogues defaced with anti-Israel graffiti in, clockwise from top left, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Olney, Maryland; Barcelona, Spain; Wynnewood, Pennsylvania; and Los Angeles, California. (Lonny Goldsmith/TC Jewfolk; fbi.gov; Comunidad Judía de Barcelona; Jada Eldrich and Lisa Daftari/Twitter)

UCLA campus police cycle around the perimeter of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the UCLA campus April 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Most US grad students show little prejudice, but some are hostile to Jews, study finds

FILE: A protestor waves a Palestinian flag during a community gathering at the site of an antisemitic firebombing attack against people who were demonstrating on behalf of the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza, in Boulder, Colorado, on June 4, 2025. (Photo by Chet Strange / AFP)

Boulder, Colorado, may elect mayor who has refused to say if Israel should exist

By Sharon Udasin

College town rocked by deadly antisemitic firebombing to choose between incumbent or Taishya Adams, councilwoman who opted not to sign group statement condemning attack

FILE: The Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus on September 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

U of Pittsburgh publishes antisemitism report without consulting Jewish students

By Andrew Lapin

Turkish-Israeli woman mobbed by protesters, called a ‘terrorist,’ at Istanbul mall

Foreign Ministry condemns confrontation with the dual national as ‘disgraceful and unacceptable’; activists accuse the woman of bringing Israeli soldiers to Turkey on vacation

A Turkish-Israeli woman is seen being accosted in an Istanbul mall on October 18, 2026, in videos posted to social media (Screencapture/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A "Palestine Poppy" badge being sold in Britain ahead of Remembrance Day, October 2026. (Palestine Poppy website)

Anti-Israel activists accused of ‘hijacking’ UK’s Remembrance Day with ‘Palestine Poppy’

By Michael Bachner

Various public figures slam pro-Palestinian version of national remembrance symbol, saying the initiative is disrespectful to war victims and ‘designed to divide rather than unite’

Zuhdi Abou Shanab, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy who lost his entire right leg below the hip during the war in Gaza, undergoes rehabilitation treatment with his prosthetic at a medical center in Amman on October 13, 2026 as part of the 'Jordanian medical corridor' initiative. (George SAIF/AFP)

Getting prosthetic limbs from Jordan, Gazan teen amputees cling to their hopes

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jordan’s Restoring Hope Society is treating more than 450 Palestinian amputees, including 15-year-old Mahmoud Abou Nusair, who dreams of playing soccer again

This image released by A24 shows filmmaker Nathan Fielder, left, and Elizabeth Holmes, center, in a scene from 'You Can See Everything.' (A24 via AP)

Film Review

‘You Can See Everything’ shows Elizabeth Holmes through Nathan Fielder’s singular lens

By AP and ToI Staff

3-hour documentary by Jewish comedian about disgraced and imprisoned Theranos founder is wildly entertaining, confounding and may leave you questioning your perception of reality

More Headlines

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks about the incident at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Wainwright, at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on October 18, 2026. (Dave Chan/AFP)

Carney says 4 service members killed, dozens injured in fire at Alberta military base

Larry David arrives at a screening of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" during PaleyFest on April 18, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Curb your socialismLarry David takes aim at DSA’s anti-Israel agenda and far-left platform

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