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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 24, 2026

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Palestinians transport bags of semolina past a military gate closed to vehicles during an Israeli army operation in Hebron, in the West Bank, October 24, 2026, a day after two IDF soldiers were killed by Palestinian gunmen in the area. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Buildings razed near site of shooting; 10 suspects nabbed

IDF op in Hebron after soldiers’ killing displaces 2,000, Katz says; PM vows ‘big surprise’ for PA

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian officials declare state of emergency, say another 2,500 face evacuation; op comes day after two Palestinian gunmen from the area killed two IDF soldiers; settler attacks continue amid annual olive harvest

Israeli bulldozers demolish a Palestinian building in the West Bank city of Hebron on October 23, 2026. (HAZEM BADER/AFP)

IDF launches major op in Hebron after two soldiers killed in shooting attack

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, is surrounded by security personnel during a campaign appearance at a market in Tel Aviv, October 22, 2026, ahead of the Knesset election. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

Top official: Even talking about this idea can harm economy

Netanyahu: Israel should ready for global sanctions, use blockchain to circumvent them

PM insists threatening economic outlook is result of developments that don’t have to do with Israel, but rivals say his government’s policies are to blame

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) greets Argentinian President Javier Milei in Jerusalem, April 19, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Report says Netanyahu ordered change to Israel’s position on Falklands; FM denies shift

US embassy personnel inspect the damage caused by a bombing in Baghdad, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Smaller staffs at Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and UAE embassies

US intel warns Iran has ‘substantially increased’ efforts to kill American officials

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US State Department reduces staffing at four Middle East embassies due to threats from Tehran and Houthis; US agencies reportedly assess danger at highest level since war began

US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack listens during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office of the White House, September 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US envoy: We could strike Iran this weekend; Trump: I don’t know anything about that

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

An employee stands as he lays an undersea fiber optic cable at Arrietara beach near the Spanish Basque village of Sopelana on June 13, 2017. (Ander Gillenea/AFP)

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

Final polls before election show both blocs short of majority, small parties out of Knesset

Eisenkot’s Yashar is forecast to be largest faction in surveys aired by Israeli TV, followed by Netanyahu’s Likud; Hendel’s Reservists makes it into Knesset in one of the three polls; Winter falls short

Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaign for votes in the leadup to the October 2026 election. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90; Ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)

Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Abergel addresses supporters at the launch party for the Achi party, in the southern city of Netivot, July 14, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Netanyahu convinces Haredi party backed by rabbi accused of sex offenses to drop out

Thousands expected in Tel Aviv for Sat. night anti-government rally, 3 days before election

By Michael Horovitz and Jessica Steinberg

Organizers, including survivors, former hostages and bereaved families, demand independent Oct. 7 probe, warn police of pro-government elements seeking to disrupt protest

Protesters gather in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv at an anti-government demonstration, also demanding a state commission of inquiry into the October 7, 2023 Hamas invasion and massacre, on October 24, 2026, three days before Israel's elections. (Amos Gil / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

An election campaign billboard featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, and other politicians hangs in Kiryat Shmona, Israel’s largest northern city, near Lebanon’s border, ahead of the country’s general election, October 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Resident critical of PM: 'I don’t want the lies to continue'

In Netanyahu stronghold on northern border, signs of fraying loyalty emerge before election

By Melanie Lidman

Some voters in traditionally pro-Likud Kiryat Shmona quietly question loyalty amid frustration over the government’s handling of the war with Hezbollah, broken security promises

Former US ambassador to Austria Ronald S. Lauder (R) holds a present he received from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) as Netanyahu's wife Sarah looks on, September 22. Lauder and Netanyahu attended the groundbreaking ceremony at the Lauder Chabad School, which will be built by the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation.

Ex-Netanyahu confidant Lauder breaks years of silence, warns against PM’s reelection

What if the Israel I believed in is no longer the Israel Israelis want?

After nearly 50 years in Israel, I fear that even if Netanyahu is replaced, the country I came here to help build may be beyond restoration

Is it OK to watch ‘Nobody Wants This’ after Adam Brody said ’genocide’?

The Netflix rom-com about a rabbi and his non-Jewish girlfriend returns with new plotlines — and an off-screen uproar over Israel

Opposition party leaders Naftali Bennett of B'Yachad (left) and Gadi Eisenkot of Yashar (right) cross paths in the Channel 12 News on October 24, 2026, three days before elections. (Channel 12 Screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 24: Man detained after allegedly attacking Bennett’s security detail in Tel Aviv

Yashar: Shin Bet informed us that Eisenkot will receive security detail from Sunday morning * Katz says some 2,000 Palestinians displaced during military op in Hebron * Rioters clash with French police in Paris and other cities

8:19 pm

Saudi Arabia says Riyadh airport to resume flights on Sunday after two-week closure amid Houthi attacks
8:03 pm

Katz says some 2,000 Palestinians displaced during military op in Hebron
7:57 pm

Man detained after allegedly attacking Bennett's security detail in Tel Aviv

Italian police patrol the area around Milan’s Duomo Cathedral, Italy, October 24, 2026, ahead of a planned protest against the rising cost of living and deteriorating public services, one of several demonstrations organized across Italy by groups spanning the political spectrum. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Hundreds of soldiers sent to Milan as protests planned across Europe

By Colleen Barry

Italian police step up surveillance and security checks amid fears of renewed violence; protests spread across several European countries demanding education, pension and housing reforms

Police officers stand guard at the Place de la Bastille with The July Column in the background ahead of a demonstration in Paris on October 24, 2026 (Aris MESSINIS/AFP)

France deploys thousands of police, restricts Paris march as it braces for new demonstrations

By Thomas Adamson, Samuel Petrequin and Sylvie Corbet

Rabbi Mihaly Duschinszky sings a prayer at the reopening of the Rákospalota Synagogue in Budapest, September 17, 2026 (EMIH)

'We have a historical responsibility to reclaim them'

Hungary’s abandoned synagogues are finding new life — and attracting new congregants

After decades of secular use, two historic Budapest synagogues reopen as part of a Chabad-led effort to reconnect Hungarian Jews with their heritage

Seven killed in shooting at Jordan church; king vows ‘harshest retaliation’

By AFP and Agencies

Three gunmen open fire during funeral procession at Greek Orthodox church in Karak; authorities describe assailants as extremist group; manhunt after perpetrators ongoing

A man looks through a gap in a stone wall toward a Greek Orthodox church where gunmen opened fire during a funeral hours earlier in Hamoud village, in Jordan’s Karak governorate, October 23, 2026. (AP Photo)

Analysis

Fighting for her legacy, Environment Minister Silman responds to green groups’ criticism

Slammed for foot dragging, withholding funds from environmental NGOs and attacking them as subversives, Silman responds to Times of Israel: ‘Tell me if someone else did as much as me’

Outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman speaks at the annual Jerusalem conference of ‘Besheva,’ a weekly publication group for the national religious, Jerusalem, February 17, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Barbara Hines with one of her paintings in Jerusalem. (Courtesy/Tom DuBrock)

'I wasn't going to let Hitler decide my future'

Two Holocaust survivors kept their Jewish roots secret. Now their painter daughter draws on them

Barbara Hines explored eastern religions before learning that her German-born parents had hidden their Jewish heritage. Her new Jerusalem exhibition reflects her rediscovered people

Video grab taken from the webcam of the mountain guesthouse Kehlsteinhaus, known as the Eagle’s Nest, formerly Adolf Hitler’s mountain retreat, on early October 24, 2026, after a large fire had broken out at the site located at an altitude of 1,834 metres (6,000 feet) in the mountains over Berchtesgaden, in the southern German state of Bavaria. (Berchtesgaden/AFP)

Fire engulfes Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest mountain retreat in Germany, suspect arrested

200 firefighters battle blaze at difficult-to-access Kehlsteinhaus residence; authorities reportedly suspect arson; building ‘probably’ cannot be saved

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally outside AIPAC headquarters and the offices of Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, who've both been endorsed by the group, in New York City, February 22, 2024. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Analysis

While AIPAC’s critics rejoice as lobby shifts strategy, its defenders push back

Opponents see end of direct candidate backing as evidence pro-Israel lobby’s brand has become toxic; supporters say lobby is adapting its strategy without surrendering influence

The 1979 'The In-Laws' is featured on this week's The Reel Schmooze. (courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘The In-Laws’: How a shmendrik dentist and crazy CIA agent share a mid-life crisis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor agree to disagree — again — about the 1979 film starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk that was immensely foundational to Hoffman’s childhood

In this photo illustration, a Starlink system is shown on September 13, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (SCOTT OLSON/Getty Images via AFP)

Amid Ukraine uproar, sources say US had asked Musk to block Starlink for Hezbollah, Houthis

By Erin Banco and Joey Roulette

Former officials say that SpaceX CEO was also asked to activate the service in Iran after US smuggled in terminals in bid to provide internet access to population amid uprising

Rescuers work on the roof of a damaged building following Russia’s air attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Ukraine says ‘stable connection’ to Starlink returns after row with Washington

By AFP

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Antique clocks (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Israel moves clocks back overnight Saturday-Sunday as daylight saving time ends

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Iranian nationals Salam Ahmadyan, left, and Rahman Salehi, 34, who are charged with preparation for terrorist acts over an alleged bomb plot against the Jewish community in Manchester. (Elizabeth Cook/PA via AP)

Iranian men to go on trial next year over alleged plot to target UK Jewish community

Shmuel Cohen (left) takes a break from wrapping tefillin with passersby in New York City's Diamond District on October 23, 2026. (Joseph Strauss/JTA)

Chabad Jew returns to wrapping tefillin day after being stabbed in NYC

By Joseph Strauss

Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham, right, speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron during a bilateral meeting at 10 Downing Street, in London, September 3, 2026. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)

France, Britain stage first joint nuclear air strike simulation

By AFP

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