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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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Women walk past a ballistic missile launch vehicle in Tehran on February 11, 2026, during a rally marking the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution (AFP)

Pezeshkian says ready for 'verification' of nuclear program

As Iran marks revolution anniversary, official insists missile program nonnegotiable

Iranian president says Tehran won’t yield to ‘excessive demands’ from US; Tehran rally attendees chant ‘Death to America and Israel’; shouts of ‘Death to Khamenei!’ also heard

From R-L: This combination of pictures shows, a handout photograph provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei showing him addressing a meeting with the people in Tehran on January 17, 2026 and US President Donald Trump speaking in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 3, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / various sources / AFP)

Trump: Netanyahu ‘wants a good deal’ with Iran, nuclear talks this time ‘are different’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas terrorists guard an area where they are searching for the bodies of hostages with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza City on November 3, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 11: Senior Hamas official says group has yet to receive disarmament proposal

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Report says US prepping to send 2nd carrier strike group to Mideast * Vance: If the Iranian people want to overthrow the regime, that’s up to them

9:47 pm

Lebanon to decide on plan to control arms north of Litani next week, minister says
9:25 pm

Qatari and Turkish FMs discuss 'regional security' ahead of first Board of Peace meeting
9:00 pm

Iran's FM denies report of mass executions by 'Miriam Adelson’s mouthpiece'

Inside story

US aims to fundraise for Gaza reconstruction amid fog over Hamas disarmament

Most countries wary of Board of Peace, hesitant to share stage with Netanyahu, who himself hasn’t confirmed attendance at donor conference

Paraguay's President Santiago Pena (second from left), Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (fifth from left), Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani (center right), Argentina's President Javier Milei (sixth from right), Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (fourth from right), Bulgaria's former Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov (third from right), Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (second from right) and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev pose with US President Donald Trump (center) holding a signed founding charter at the 'Board of Peace' meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2026. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

Israeli police officers and Zaka rescue and recovery volunteers work inside and next to a destroyed bus at the scene of a double bombing in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, August. 31, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

IDF says it killed Hamas terrorist behind 2004 bus bombings that killed 16 civilians

By Emanuel Fabian

Family and friends attend a funeral at Kibbutz Nir Oz, in southern Israel, on October 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Red tape, lack of coordination, delaying Gaza border rehab, state comptroller finds

Palestinians walk down a road in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 10, 2026. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

Netanyahu set to tell Trump that phase 2 of Gaza peace plan ‘is not moving’

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and Noam Lehmann

Israel saying another operation needed in Gaza so that Hamas disarms and Trump’s vision fulfilled; IDF strikes in response to attack on troops; Islamic Jihad commander said killed

US President Donald Trump speaks during a special plenum session held in his honor, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trump formally invited to receive award at Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem

Nick Kolyohin (YouTube screenshot)

Shin Bet removes Russian-born Israeli journalist from PM’s plane at last minute

By Nava Freiberg and AFP

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Purpose and Pluralism: Lessons in Leadership with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue reflects on growing up in Tacoma with a strong sense of communal purpose, finding belonging and identity, and feeling like a stranger.

This image issued by the Defense Ministry on February 11, 2026, shows the David's Sling air defense system during a recent test. (Defense Ministry)

Eyeing future missile threats, Israel successfully completes ‘complex’ David’s Sling tests

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Ministry says drills were based on ‘operational lessons’ learned during the June 2025 war with Iran and included scenarios in line with existing and evolving dangers

An illustrative image of cyber crime, the dark net, dark web and compuer hackers (Tick-Tock; iStock by Getty Images)

Defense officials say hundreds of Iranian cyberattacks foiled in past months

By Emanuel Fabian

Op-ed

The despicable truth about the ‘pro-Palestinian’ protests against Herzog in Australia

If you dared to hope that the massacre on Bondi Beach would give the country’s anti-Israel activists pause, forget about it. As they are showing, theirs is a deadly antisemitic agenda

Top left and bottom right: Anti-Israel protesters at a police station in Surry Hills in Sydney on February 10, 2026 (Saeed KHAN / AFP). Top right: President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal visit Bondi Beach, Sydney, where two Islamic terrorists killed 15 people at a Hanukkah event on December 14, 2025 (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft). Bottom left: The 15 victims of the massacre (Composite: Times of Israel; Images: Courtesy/social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).

President Isaac Herzog, right, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, shake hands at the Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, Australia, February 10, 2026. (GPO/Maayan Toaf)

Herzog attends Bondi memorial ceremony with Australia’s Albanese, who doesn’t give speech

By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff

Likud minister says latest West Bank measures amount to ‘de facto sovereignty’

By AP, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

German envoys to Israel and Palestinian Authority join international condemnation of policies extending control over West Bank, insisting area key part of future Palestinian state

Energy Minister Eli Cohen speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, January 12, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

An Israeli soldier stands guard during the inauguration ceremony for the newly legalized Jewish settlement of Yatziv, near the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in the West Bank, January 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 11 – Is Israel closer than ever to annexing the West Bank?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

from the blogs

Human Rights Watch’s Frankenstein moment

The watchdog I once worked for rewarded divisive, aggressive tactics — especially when aimed at Israel. Now the forces it nurtured have turned on it

Armed police officers talk with members of the community near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025 (Paul Currie / AFP)

Antisemitic incidents in UK, led by Manchester attack, remained near record highs in 2025 — report

Community Security Trust says last year saw second-highest recorded number of incidents targeting Jews, following dip in 2024

Illustrative: A Young girl playing tennis (iStock by Getty Images)

Antisemitism alleged as South African school cancels tennis match with Jewish team

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Lebanon has a new Sunni terror front

The next northern-front threat isn’t a ’Hezbollah alternative’ – it’s an Islamist partner hiding in plain sight, built for legitimacy in peacetime and attack in war

What I learned serving alongside Haredi soldiers

When an ultra-Orthodox platoon joined my reserve unit, I discovered what truly drives them to enlist — and why coercion misses the point

An IDF soldier is seen beating a Palestinian man near Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, in footage published by Palestinian media on February 6, 2026. (Screenshots: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF dismisses soldiers filmed beating detained Palestinian in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Military Police launches probe into incident near Ramallah last week, in which footage showed troops hitting apparently handcuffed man

Settlers shine lights from an ATV in the West Bank hamlet of Fasai'il, February 9, 2026. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers appear to be filmed entering Palestinian village, harassing locals at night

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

Rafidia Surgical Hospital, Sept. 6, 2024, in the West Bank city of Nablus. (AP /Aref Tufaha)

Israel bars entry of 5-year-old from West Bank for cancer care, citing Gaza address

A document that was included in the US Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed on February 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Epstein files source who alleged Mossad links is identified as Holocaust denier

Confidential tipster who told FBI that sex offender was tied to Israeli intelligence is a scam artist, but the allegations gained widespread traction online and in news reports

This undated photo released by the US Justice Department on January 30, 2026, as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files shows the disgraced financier, left, with now-US President Donald Trump in an unidentified location. (HANDOUT / US Department of Justice / AFP)

Trump told police chief in 2006 that ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, FBI document says

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on February 10, 2026, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

US commerce chief Lutnick acknowledges ‘Epstein Island’ lunch but denies closer ties

Black and Jewish chef, writer, educator and food historian Michael W. Twitty sits at the head of the table at an interfaith seder attended by members of the Black and Jewish communities in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Sara Wolitzky)

'There was a commonality and mutual sympathy'

New PBS series examines bittersweet ties that have historically bound US Blacks and Jews

By Rich Tenorio

For Black History Month, docuseries ‘Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History’ parses what has unified and divided the communities, amid today’s renewed tensions

In first, Israel to revoke citizenship of 2 Israeli terror convicts and deport them

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Mahmoud Ahmad and Mohammed Ahmad Hussein al-Halsi reportedly to be sent to Gaza; Netanyahu vows ‘many more like them are on the way’

Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack in Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem on May 10, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The members of a Lebanon-directed West Bank terror cell foiled by the Shin Bet, as seen in a Shin Bet handout image published on February 10, 2026. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet busts Lebanon-directed West Bank terror cells; 5 Palestinian suspects indicted

By Emanuel Fabian

Alice Miller, CEO of Natan Worldwide Disaster Relief in The Times of Israel's Jerusalem office / Natan volunteers onsite in Morocco. (courtesy)

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Alice Miller: CEO of Israeli disaster org on aiding Gazans post-Oct. 7

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Known for opening the doors to female combat soldiers in the IDF, Miller is still fighting Israeli societal norms and is today helping facilitate medical treatment in the Strip

Left: Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz (from left to right): VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv); Google Cloud offices in Sunnyvale, California, on June 8, 2023. (JHVEPhoto/iStock)

EU okays Google’s $32 billion Wiz deal, in largest-ever buyout of Israeli-founded tech co

By Sharon Wrobel

Acquisition will make founders of cybersecurity company multibillionaires, while national coffers are set to benefit from a tax windfall

Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz from left to right: VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)

Wiz is sued for NIS 200 million over alleged ‘phantom’ acquisition of Israeli startup

By Sharon Wrobel

Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, left, and Prof. Uri Ben-David of the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)

'Most deaths are not caused by the tumor, but by metastases'

Israeli researchers uncover key to why breast cancer spreads to brain and turns deadly

By Diana Bletter

Tel Aviv University scientists say abnormal chromosomes help breast cancer to metastasize to the brain; study could help develop drugs and aid in early detection, treatment

Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students learn at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva, in Rishon Lezion on June 11, 2025. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

By 2050, almost one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox, study indicates

By Rossella Tercatin

Haredim constitute 23.5% of those eligible for military, which expected to rise to 40% by 2050, says Israel Democracy Institute; if Haredim don’t integrate, GDP could fall by 10%

More Headlines

The Corruption Perceptions Index global map 2025, released February 2026. The color coded scale moves from "highly corrupt" (dark red) to "very clean" (yellow). (Transparency International)

Israel slips to 35th place in corruption index amid ‘worrying’ trend in democracies

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Keven Rouleau patrols along the Canada-US border, near the border town of Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, on January 30, 2025. (Daphné LEMELIN / AFP)

Ten dead, including shooter, in attack on school and residence in western Canada

By AFP

The founder of private military company Blackwater, Erik Prince, speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 22, 2025. (Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP)

Israeli advisers said to have helped train Congo forces to retake city

By Jessica Donati and Clement Bonnerot

Activists block a road at the entrance to Jerusalem during a protest against violence in the Arab community, on February 10, 2026 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Protesters hold nationwide ‘day of disruption’ over soaring violent crime in Arab community

By Charlie Summers

Paramedics arrive at a refinery in Ashdod after two factory employees were exposed to hazardous material during their work on February 11, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

Two women die at Ashdod refinery, likely due to lack of oxygen

By Charlie Summers

Children arrive for the first day of school in Jerusalem, September 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Teachers union chief in talks with Finance Ministry to shorten school week to 5 days

By Ariela Karmel

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on February 5, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

US announces new sanctions targeting Hezbollah-linked gold exchange

By AFP

Tom Malinowski speaks during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, DC, September 16, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds / POOL / AFP)

AIPAC defends spending $2.3m to thwart ‘pro-Israel’ NJ congressional candidate

By Joseph Strauss

US Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance hold flowers as they walk towards the eternal flame at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, February 10, 2026. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

White House takes down Vance post calling WWI massacre of Armenians ‘genocide’

A new wooden deck at the Qasr al-Yahud baptism site on the banks of the Jordan River, in the West Bank. (Shay Isaacs/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Pilgrim's ProgressQasr al-Yahud baptismal site reopens after NIS 25 million facelift

Former hostage Alon Ohel performs with Israeli artists during a concert in Tel Aviv, on February 9, 2026. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Keys to freedomEx-hostage Alon Ohel gives Tel Aviv concert amid the stars

Lemon tree leaves nabbed by customs officials at Ben Gurion Airport showing signs of infection by greening disease, February 10, 2026. (Agriculture Ministry)

Rooted outCustoms agents nab infected lemon tree, averting ‘disaster’

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