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Election 2026

Israel votes on Tuesday, 27 October

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Jerusalem at sunset, the picture at the top of every Friday email.

What each email carries

The week's stories
Five stories that mattered, a line each, with a link to read the whole of any of them.
Shabbat
Candle lighting and the end of Shabbat in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, and the week's Torah portion.
In numbers
The Kinneret's latest level and the shekel against the dollar.
Coming up
The next Jewish holiday and the evening it begins.

And on Tuesday at noon, Israel time, a shorter email with the week's top stories so far.

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This week so far

The stories this Friday's email would lead with if it went out now.

  1. Illustration of a closed road with concrete barriers below terraced hills and limestone houses near Hebron at dawn

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  2. Benjamin Netanyahu in 2023

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  3. Illustration of an empty highway junction winding through terraced limestone hills with distant stone villages at dawn.

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  4. Illustration of concrete barriers and a boom gate across an empty road, with Hebron's limestone hillside houses in the hazy distance.

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