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What Matters Most On Friday, October 23, 2026

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Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman (left) and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem (right), killed in a shooting attack near Hebron in the West Bank on October 23, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Ben Gvir, Smotrich call to 'dismantle' PA; no immediate link

2 soldiers killed in West Bank shooting; IDF believes Palestinian gunmen planned larger attack

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

3 injured; shooters killed by troops after 20-minute gunfight; PM calls for destroying shooters’ entire Hebron neighborhood, warns of looming ‘very broad’ IDF op in West Bank unlike anything since Six Day War

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (left) meets with officers at the scene of a shooting attack near Hebron in the West Bank, October 23, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

LIVE - Netanyahu: Israel will ‘destroy’ Hebron neighborhood of gunmen who carried out deadly attack

Iranian officials: Tehran has detailed plans to hit Gulf undersea cables if war resumes * German FM says Germany, France and UK ready to negotiate with Iran

8:43 pm

Trump says US 'may do another little Epic Fury' against Iran
8:07 pm

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan say 'Israeli occupation main source of regional instability'
7:43 pm

Iranian officials: Tehran has detailed plans to hit Gulf undersea cables if war resumes

Analysis

Israel is primed for unrest around election day. Is there a way out?

There’s already violence in the streets, candidates are receiving death threats and a specter of war looms over the country. And that’s before any ballots have been counted

People walk past a Likud party campaign billboard featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside opposition party leaders and bearing the Hebrew slogan “Right or Palestine,” ahead of Israel’s general election, in Bnei Brak, Israel, October 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

President Isaac Herzog speaks at a state memorial ceremony marking the 31st anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, October 22, 2026. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

‘Words kill’: At Rabin memorial ceremony, Herzog pleads for civility ahead of election

By Nava Freiberg, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

from our sponsorZ3 Project

The conference was never the point

What more than a decade of Z3® has taught us about Jewish agency, institutional change, and the future of Jewish Peoplehood.

Election campaign billboards featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot, right, and Likud party chairman Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside opposition leaders are displayed along a roadside in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections, October 17, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Shin Bet targets 'foreign influence campaign' online

Netanyahu and Eisenkot in dead heat five days before election, final ToI poll shows

By Tal Schneider, Ariela Karmel, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Most say they want Netanyahu to resign if he can’t form government; Eisenkot gets mixed reception at Western Wall; Kiryat Shmona mayor said to reluctantly appear in Netanyahu video

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ronnen presides over a court hearing, August 9, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rules polling station officials can’t transmit voter data to parties on election day

By Jeremy Sharon

A composite photo of People of Israel party leader Ofer Winter (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Channel 14)

Report: Netanyahu’s campaign against Winter rooted in anger over advice to Eli Feldstein

By Lazar Berman

Report: IDF chief says no operational need for strike on Iran before Israeli election

By ToI Staff and AP

According to Channel 13, Zamir says ‘no indications’ of need for military action, but army would act if necessary; tensions rise as Tehran reports fresh tanker attacks in Hormuz

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a ceremony marking three years since the October 7 Hamas-led onslaught, at Zikim Base in southern Israel on October 5, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

People take pictures of a billboard installation featuring an actor portraying US President Donald Trump behind bars in a mock prison cell in Tajrish Square in Tehran, October 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran puts ‘Trump’ behind bars in new Tehran propaganda installation

By AFP

Lazar Focus podcast

Tamir Hayman: We should be worried about Israel’s post-Oct. 7 security doctrine

By Lazar Berman

The head of the INSS and former military intelligence chief warns that the emerging concept doesn’t see peace as the goal, and is looking to replace the US alliance

Israel’s Jewish revival might not be good news for religious parties

Since October 7, Israelis have moved closer to Judaism, but many reject the idea that any political camp should define it for them

Ruthie Hollander

We are, after all, kin

I believed my only choices were enduring painful arguments or going no-contact with my parents. Abraham’s example taught me the value of a little distance (Lech Lecha)

Rifle-wielding settler extremists filmed dancing at wedding to anti-Zionist anthem

Separate video shows settlers stealing olives from trees belonging to Palestinians, while police detain foreign activists assisting with harvest for not coordinating their visit

Settler extremists hoists weapons up in the air while dancing at a wedding in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank in October 2026. (Screen capture/X)

Pinhas Shem Tov Ran, a civilian security coordinator accused of shooting and seriously wounding a Palestinian woman in the West Bank, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court following his indictment, October 23, 2026. (Flash90)

Settlement security chief charged with shooting Palestinian woman at pirate roadblock

By Noam Lehmann

UAE minister Lana Nusseibeh addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2025, at UN headquarters. (AP/Pamela Smith)

Nusseibeh used previous UN post to promote Abraham Accords

UAE nominates diplomat Lana Nusseibeh to be next UN chief, potentially breaking deadlock

Well-regarded Emirati official more likely to secure support from US after six inconclusive rounds of Security Council voting; she would be first female secretary-general and first of Palestinian heritage

Sacha Baron Cohen: Backlash to new Ali G film part of trend to silence Jews

British Jewish actor and comic says he’s ‘not surprised prominent Jews are being targeted’ amid calls to boycott his movie over iconic character’s appropriation of Black culture

Sacha Baron Cohen discusses the film 'Ali G: Who Iz I?' at The 92nd Street Y in New York on October 21, 2026. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Pipe bombs found in Skyler AJ Rose's bedroom after he threatened to blow up a synagogue, from an October 21, 2026 court filing. (US District Court for the District of Utah)

Utah man found with pipe bombs charged with threat to ‘blow up’ synagogue

Skyler AJ Rose allegedly searched for Jewish site in his area, posted ‘death to Israel’ and ‘heil Hitler’ on social media

Security footage shows a suspected antisemitic stabbing in New York City, October 21, 2026. (Screenshot)

NYPD investigating suspected antisemitic stabbing

Palestinians walk along a street lined with buildings destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza City October 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Report: Israel tells US Hamas doesn’t plan to disarm and is rebuilding its forces

Intel officials say the Palestinian terror group has up to 40,000 operatives, has strengthened its control in Gaza and restored much of its tunnel network amid stalled negotiations

Tel Aviv District Court holds preliminary hearing

October 7 victims’ families sue Meta for streaming footage of murders and abductions

Plaintiffs in class action suit demand social media giant pay over $1 billion, saying Facebook, Instagram served as ‘inseparable part of Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure’

Former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz holds a sign intended to stir voters on Election Day, stating, "My husband was killed in captivity, remember him in the voting booth!" (Courtesy)

At polling stations, Oct. 7 families will ask Israelis to vote with victims in mind

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Yocheved Lifshitz, Gil Dickmann and others affected by disaster plan to stand outside polling centers on Election Day, urging voters to remember those killed, abducted and lost

IDF reserve soldiers take part in a surprise military drill in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon and Syria, November 24, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Study: After 3 years of war, reservists face financial strain and stalled careers

By Sharon Wrobel

Damascus: Targeting civilians violates international law

Syrian man with disabilities shot dead by IDF during overnight raid in buffer zone

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

Army says troops opened fire after suspect kept approaching; residents say Muath Salama al-Baeer had Down syndrome and was unarmed; incident under military review

Mourners gather beside the grave of Muath Salama al-Baeer, a young man with a disability who state media said was killed during an early morning Israeli military incursion, during his funeral in Jamla, in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa province, Syria, October 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Illustration: British Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson speaks to the class during a visit to meet students at the All Saints School in Anfield, Liverpool, January 16, 2025. (Peter Byrne, Pool Photo via AP)

UK adopts sweeping plan against antisemitism in schools; teachers union pushes back

By JTA, Zev Stub and ToI Staff

Union accuses Israel of genocide; program includes training, education on Jewish life and improved incident reporting

Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar. (Courtesy)

After years studying Haredi Jews, Israeli researcher feels at home amid the Amish

By Michele Chabin

Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, an Orthodox Jewish woman from Jerusalem, makes regular trips to Pennsylvania to study parallels and divergences between the two highly traditional societies

More Headlines

Police officers look at evidences on a site of a petrol station where a man opened fire from his car, killing one person and injuring four others according to police sources, in Trappes, Paris’ suburb on October 23, 2026. (Dimitar DILKOFF/AFP)

Gunman kills one, wounds four near Paris; French prosecutors suspect terrorism

By AFP

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (Omar Havana/AP)

ICC wins EU’s top rights award as court faces sweeping US sanctions

By AFP and ToI Staff

The 'Bustan' (Orchard) at the Holon Design Museum's new exhibition, The Circle, September 9, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

In the loopExhibit tackles role of design in cutting waste, protecting planet

US President Donald Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner at a meeting between Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky during the United Nations General Assembly, September 22, 2026, at the UN headquarters. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Kushner had secret fund with billions from UAE, Saudis; PM helped – report: Kushner: Outrageous fabrications

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