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What Matters Most On Friday, October 30, 2026

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Ballot papers of various political parties are displayed at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham, ahead of Israel’s upcoming general election, October 14, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli election 2026

With all votes counted, Netanyahu’s bloc has 53 seats, Eisenkot’s 48, Arab parties 19

Official turnout was 77.9%, with 5,716,665 total votes cast; Central Elections Committee reiterates that investigation into alleged voter fraud ‘will not affect final results’

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks at the B'Yachad party’s election headquarters in Tel Aviv on election night, October 28, 2026. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

‘A win is a win’: Lapid claims opposition victory, urges patience in coalition talks

Yashar party chair Gadi Eisenkot gives an address on October 29, 2026. (Gadi Eisenkot/X screenshot)

Eisenkot vows to advance draft law, Oct. 7 inquiry despite slim coalition prospects

By ToI Staff and AFP

Analysis

Netanyahu isn’t acting like he won the election. Here’s what that could mean

By claiming the election was ‘stolen,’ Netanyahu could be setting himself up for success in a repeat vote. But he might also recognize his days of majority government are ending

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to his supporters at Likud party headquarters in Jerusalem after the release of the first exit poll results in Israel’s election, October 28, 2026. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Op-ed: Two days after electionIsrael’s election yielded a stalemate. Which means Netanyahu won

By David Horovitz

A screen projects an image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his main rival, opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, during a campaign rally for Eisenkot ahead of Israel’s general election, October 25, 2026, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

AnalysisTo build new coalition amid deadlock, Eisenkot, Netanyahu and others may need to break key pledges

By Tomer Almagor

Certified results to be presented to Herzog on time - sources

Election panel director rejects claims of widespread voter fraud; Shin Bet: Foreign interference probe is ‘limited’

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

Shin Bet, whose chief had praised vote on election day, stresses suspicions remain unproven and do not implicate Arab voters as a whole; police say no basis for Likud’s claims of stolen election

Dean Livne, acting director general of the Central Elections Committee, delivers an update on voter turnout as of 8 p.m. on Israel's election day, October 27, 2026. (Central Elections Committee)

United Torah Judaism party chair MK Yaakov Asher in Bnei Brak, October 28, 2026, left, and Yashar party chair Gadi Eisenkot in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2026, at right. (Hilel Ben Or/Flash90, Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

In big, improbable shift, UTJ said to consider supporting an Eisenkot-led minority government

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, outside the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, October 29, 2026. (Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters clash with police, block roads over arrest of draft evader

By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Promoted LivestreamIsrael Democracy Institute

Special post-election briefing: understanding Israel’s election results

IDI and ToI experts analyze the most consequential election in Israel’s history on a 92NY panel, explaining which scenarios lie ahead, and what is at stake for Israel’s future

Lazar Focus podcast

How Trump could break Israel’s post-election deadlock

By Lazar Berman

Israelis voted for the first time since Oct. 7, but there is no clear winner. The US president could hold the key to the unity government needed to finish the job in Iran

Police officers stand behind the fence with a rosary hanging on it as protesters gather outside the headquarters of Poland’s Constitutional Court in Warsaw after police blocked access to the court building on October 30, 2026. (Wojtek RADWANSKI/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 30: Poland suspends chief justice of constitutional court, sparking protests

Pakistani military ‘cautiously optimistic’ on success of its Iran-US mediation

1:12 am

Polish president enters court blocked by police -- presidency
9:40 pm

Al Jazeera airs unseen Hamas video from meeting of top commanders, all of whom have since been killed by Israel
9:04 pm

Hasan Piker compares Michigan Jewish voters to Ku Klux Klan ahead of El-Sayed Senate race

Passenger Yaniv Hayun, with bloodstains on his shirt, one of the Israelis who helped subdue a flydubai copilot who sought to hijack and crash a plane full of Israelis, at Ben Gurion Airport, September 30, 2026. (AP/Tomer Appelbaum)

Month after thwarted flydubai attack, Israel issues stringent new rules for all airlines

By ToI Staff and Sharon Wrobel

Israeli and foreign airlines alike must submit crew information 48 hours before departure; non-Israeli crew and passengers required to fill out online form before entering country

Israel razes homes of gunmen who carried out deadly Hebron shooting attack

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Troops separately arrest four terror suspects in Jenin; police launch arson investigation afters settlers reportedly torch Palestinian home

Smoke, dust and debris rise as the Israeli army demolishes two houses with explosives in connection with an October 23 shooting attack that killed two Israeli soldiers, in the West Bank city of Hebron, October 30, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Activist-journalist Jasper Nathaniel arrested by Israeli police in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, overnight October 28, 2026, following a confrontation with settlers. (Adele Shoko/X)

Activists arrested after footage shows settlers beating them in West Bank

By Nurit Yohanan, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Klára Schneiderová, a 30-year-old Czech diplomat and head of the Czech Embassy's branch office in Jerusalem, was killed in a traffic accident in Jerusalem on October 29, 2026. (Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tel Aviv)

Czech diplomat, 30, killed after minibus mounts sidewalk, strikes her in Jerusalem

Klára Schneiderová, head of Czech Embassy’s office in Jerusalem, had reportedly arrived in Israel a month earlier; Israel Police detain driver and launch investigation into crash

A bus and tractor are seen after a crash on Route 25 in southern Israel on October 30, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

Bus driver killed in collision with tractor, over 20 passengers wounded, medics say

By Noam Lehmann

Ruthie Hollander

And salt she became

Maybe Mrs. Lot broke the rule and looked back at Sodom out of regret. Or curiosity. Or compassion. I’m sympathetic because I’d have looked back too (Vayera)

Debra Weiner-Solomont

Tuesday night at the ICC-Binyanei Hauma: More than counting votes

Hundreds of us, with different backgrounds and beliefs, processed election materials in the wee hours, committed to doing our part for democracy

A cleric waves an Iranian flag while leading demonstrators during a pro-government gathering in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Trump says Iran war will be wrapped up soon

Qatari mediators return to Tehran to push for US-Iran peace deal, official says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Talks coordinated with Washington, according to official; US said to believe hardline Iranian security council chief Mohsen Rezaei is best placed to head off hostilities

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One, October 28, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Top US commander briefs Trump on Iran military options as 10 US military transport planes land in Israel

By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

This photo provided by the US Army shows Maj. Gen. Brett Sylvia, at a 101st Airborne Division change of command ceremony at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, May 30, 2025. (Sgt. Timothy Jackson/U.S Army via AP)

Pentagon accuses fired general of leaking classified intel on Iran war to media

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN

Natalie Livingstone, author of 'The Nuremberg Women.' (Mary McCartney)

Interview'Guests ranged from Hitler’s champions to his victims'

Inside the bizarre Nuremberg trial ‘witness house’ shared by Nazis and Holocaust survivors

By Robert Philpot

80 years after conclusion of postwar tribunal, author Natalie Livingstone’s ‘The Nuremberg Women’ chronicles extraordinary cast of characters hosted by a Prussian countess during the trial

Berlin’s Die Linke leader Elif Eralp visits an installation displaying portraits of victims of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, marking the third anniversary of the attack, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin’s far-left mayoral candidate inadvertently admits fear of supporters who back Hamas

Elif Eralp accidentally acknowledges to Der Spiegel that she and her husband are ‘afraid of these people,’ referring to Die Linke supporters with ties to terror groups Hamas, PFLP

People take part in a demonstration as part of a nationwide day of strikes and protests, with school and university students demanding more funding for schools and support for housing in Rome on October 30, 2026. (Andreas SOLARO/AFP)

Thousands of students, workers protest across Italy amid heavy police presence

By Alexandria SAGE and Taimaz SZIRNIKS

This photograph shows containers at the Marseille-Fos port on October 30, 2026, in Fos-sur-Mer, southeastern France, as dockworkers stage a 24-hour strike to protest against the government’s budget. (Thibaud MORITZ/AFP)

International dock workers strike to protest arms shipments, including to Israel

An undated image of the restored Radin Yeshiva in Radun, Belarus. (A. Aizenbach via JTA)

Chofetz Chaim’s yeshiva reopens for students in Belarus for first time since WWII

By Shira Li Bartov

Radin Yeshiva, founded in 1869 by Lithuanian Rabbi Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan, had been converted into a theater after its history was obscured by the Holocaust and Soviet rule

Assailant pleads guilty to hate crimes in deadly antisemitic attack on US hostage rally

Mohamed Sabry Soliman said to plead guilty to 9 counts of hate-crime offenses, 3 explosives charges in federal court for 2025 firebombing in Colorado; already serving life for murder

Suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman is seen as he launched an attack on demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages, at an outdoor mall, June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. (Lisa Turnquist via AP)

Security camera footage shows a woman attacking a Jewish man in New York City on October 21, 2026. (US District Court for the Southern District of New York)

Suspect in NYC antisemitic stabbing attacked Jews in 2 other incidents, feds say

A heckler shouts at comedian Lucas Zelnick in footage Zelnick postd on October 28, 2026. (Screenshot/YouTube)

‘You guys are evil,’ antisemitic heckler shouts at US Jewish comedian

Illustrative: Graffiti reading 'From the river to the sea' on a building adjacent to an encampment at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, May 12, 2024. (Jason Redmond / AFP)

US license plate dispute drags the meaning of ‘from the river to the sea’ into court

California driver sues state’s department of motor vehicles for revoking her ‘RVRTSEA’ license plate, claiming a violation of 1st Amendment rights

(L-r) Michigan GOP US Senate candidate Mike Rogers, Jewish Republican strategist Jeff Miller and Texas GOP US Senator Ted Cruz appear at a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Birmingham, Michigan, October 28, 2026. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)

Event for Michigan Republican draws Jewish Democratic megadonor who rejects El-Sayed

By Andrew Lapin

Democratic nominee for US Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a campaign event October 14, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

El-Sayed distances himself from ad blaming high US grocery bills on Israel ‘killing Palestinians’

By JTA and ToI Staff

View of residential buildings under construction in Jerusalem, August 23, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Real Estate Israel'The demand here will always be greater than the supply'

Israel is building homes at a record pace. So why aren’t prices falling faster?

Record inventory of unsold homes and growing developer discounts point to a cooling market, but experts say data hides demographic realities

Housing snapshot October 2026: Prices continue downward trend

More Headlines

A crew member of the Liberian-flagged container ship Contship Jet, which was attacked by drones, is evacuated and transported to the port of Varna, Bulgaria, aboard the Bulgarian Navy rescue ship “Proteo”, late October 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Petko Momchilov)

ZIM vessel sinks in Black Sea after being hit by 3 suicide boat drones; no injuries

By Sharon Wrobel, ToI Staff and Agencies

A soldier soldier is seen outside the Beit Lid military base, May 17, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

IDF soldier charged with spying for Iran in exchange for cryptocurrency

By Emanuel Fabian

World’s largest crypto exchange confirms $6.3 billion hack; analysts blame North Koreans

By Thomas URBAIN

Andreas Malm attends the “How To Blow Up A Pipeline” premiere during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 10, 2022, in Toronto, Ontario. (Jeremy Chan/Getty Images/AFP)

UK bars ‘How to Blow up a Pipeline’ author from appearing with Palestine Action co-founder

By Yoruk Bahceli

Patrick Stewart attends the 84th Annual Peabody Awards on June 9, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

ObituaryPatrick Stewart, legendary actor of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86

By Mark Kennedy

Anti-semite word in old textured dictionary (goglik83//iStock via Getty images)

Argentine court ordered antisemitic dictionary entry on the word ‘Jewish’ removed. It’s still there

By Juan Melamed

Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates Lana Nusseibeh speaks during a news conference ind Limassol, Cyprus, on November 7, 2025. (AP/Petros Karadjias)

UAE diplomat running for UN chief faces scrutiny on country’s ties to Sudan rebels

Thailand's chief rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, in a screenshot of an undated video posted to his YouTube page. (Rabbi Yosef C Kantor/ YouTube)

Thai PM revokes chief rabbi’s citizenship over use of US passport – report

Illustrative: Eggs stacked on shelves at the Osher Ad supermarket in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Flour costs rise, egg prices to jump, with Israelis already short on dough

By Sharon Wrobel

Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Reem Alabali-Radovan, left, shakes hands with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun during their meeting in Lebanon, October 29, 2026. (Lebanese Presidency/X)

Lebanon’s Aoun says key issues with Israel remain unresolved after US-mediated talks

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

A fighter loyal to Yemen’s internationally-recognized government fires a machine gun balanced on a motorcycle at a position along the frontlines against the Houthis around Mount al-Midan in Yemen’s western Taiz province on October 26, 2026. (Ahmad AL-BASHA/AFP)

Saudis intercept Houthi missiles, blasts heard in Riyadh; 12 reported killed in Yemen

A man enters a building where independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has an office in Moscow, Russia, on April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Leading independent Russian newspaper shuts down, says Kremlin pressure ‘killed’ it

By AFP

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