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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 12, 2026

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets US President Donald Trump at the White House, February 11, 2026. (Avi Ohayon/ GPO)

Trump said to order second carrier group to Mideast

Trump says he ‘insisted’ to Netanyahu that Iran talks go on, as PM stresses security needs

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Two leaders end highly anticipated DC meeting, held amid negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, with no major announcements or statements to the press; pair also discuss Gaza

A member of the Revolutionary Guard flashes a victory sign while taking position as a man holds an Iranian flag under the Azadi, or freedom, monument tower during an annual rally marking 1979 Islamic Revolution at the Azadi square in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 12 – In DC, Trump appears to rein in Israel on Iran

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein, in Tehran on January 18, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s FM berates Israeli daily over report of secret mass executions

Two indicted for using classified info to place online bets on military operations

By Emanuel Fabian

Reservist and civilian charged with ‘severe offenses’ for actions on Polymarket; Kan had reported major bets were made on Israeli strike on Iran just before June 2025 war

The Polymarket prediction market website is seen on a computer screen, January 11, 2026, in New York. (AP/Wyatte Grantham-Philips)

6 Arab Israelis shot dead in 24 hours, as police chief warns of ‘national emergency’

By Charlie Summers

Druze sheikh, former mayor’s son among victims; man shot point-blank outside corner store, another killed in broad daylight on main street

Mukhtar Abu Mdeighim, 20 (top left); Hussein Abu Raqiq, 65 (top center); Mohammad Qassem, 40 (top right); Najib Abu Rish, 42 (bottom left); and Farid Abu Mubarak, 20 (bottom right), five Arab men killed in separate shootings overnight February 11-12, 2026. (Courtesy)

A bus driver walks to his vehicle outside Teddy Stadium during a game night for the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team in the Malha neighborhood of Jerusalem on January 31, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP)

‘No one to back us’: Arab bus drivers grapple with surge of racist attacks

By Alice CHANCELLOR

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Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas politburo member, speaks in an interview with Qatari outlet Al-Araby on September 18, 2025. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 12: Top Hamas official rejects PA’s new draft constitution as ‘tailored to the occupier’

Herzog stresses that ‘Israel is a sovereign state’ after Trump slams him for not pardoning Netanyahu * US president says without an Iran deal, it will be ‘very traumatic’

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Israel says it struck Hezbollah operative in southern Lebanon
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PA says Gazan man arrested in December 2024 has died in Israeli prison
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After Trump comments, Herzog says 'Israel is a sovereign state,' no decision made yet on pardon

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Unpersuaded by Netanyahu, Trump insists on going ‘jaw-to-jaw’ with Iran and Hamas

Meeting in Washington, prime minister seemingly makes little headway with argument that talks with terror group and Tehran are futile and more military force is needed to achieve goals

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) leave the State Dining Room of the White House after a press conference in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025, at which Trump set out a plan to end the war in Gaza. (Win McNamee / Getty Images via AFP)

The memorial site for the Nova music festival massacre in southern Israel, February 9, 2026. (David Cohen/Flash90)

‘Over my dead body’: PM’s office drops ‘massacre’ from Oct. 7 memorial bill, sparking outrage

By Ariela Karmel

Legal adviser in separate panel slams plans for politically appointed inquiry into attack, with critics saying both moves aim to rewrite the day’s narrative and shift responsibility

Stop romanticizing the return to the Gaza border

For decades, we lived in the line of fire and the state praised our resilience instead of ensuring our safety. If it wants us to go back, it has to provide a future beyond survival

Gabriela Khazanov

Armed, loaded, and ready for a threatening antisemite

In a world that feels increasingly unsafe, more and more American Jews own guns. But do the gains outstrip the risks?

Shanie Reichman

Liberal Zionists, take a lesson from the settler movement

I deplore the mission of the hilltop youth and their supporters, but I can’t help admiring their political savvy and dedication to shaping Israel’s future

Andrea Simantov

The day the dishwasher was a ‘kaparah’ against bad karma

I relish the opportunities to find silver linings in a cloudy sky, I do, but some days it’s harder to keep the petty grievances in perspective

President Isaac Herzog reacts during a Jewish community event in Melbourne on February 12, 2026. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP)

Herzog: Antisemitism in Australia ‘frightening’; graffiti at Melbourne U. urges his death

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President tells local news ‘silent majority’ want good relations with Jewish community; graffiti calling for his death scrawled at university ahead of visit

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (R) receives President Isaac Herzog at the Parliament House in Canberra on February 11, 2026. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Albanese presses Herzog on 2024 Gaza airstrike that killed Australian aid worker

By Zev Stub and AP

Israel’s generous burial policy will become unsustainable as population ages, study warns

With annual death toll expected to double by mid-2040s, report from Taub Center calls for rethinking approach to burials, including adopting higher-density practices to prevent ‘cities of the dead’

A view from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, with the Old City and Temple Mount in the background, November 17, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

US firm that secured aid sites talking with administration about new role in Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

UG Solutions says it has ‘provided information and proposals to US-led Board of Peace,’ after it was revealed to be looking for Arabic-speaking contractors with combat experience

Illustrative: Armed men stand guard at a checkpoint manned by US and Egyptian security at the Netzarim corridor as displaced Palestinians make their way from the south to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, on Salah al-Din road in central Gaza, on January 29, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

Children sort through waste at a trash mound at the Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on February 11, 2026. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

UN agency begins clearing huge Gaza City waste dump as health risks mount

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas

View of the settlement of Efrat, Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, July 31, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

US embassy denies reported plan to open consular service branch in West Bank settlement

By Nava Freiberg

White flat-bed trucks on the Egyptian side of the border with Israel, February 11, 2026. (Kan news screenshots)

IDF sends troops, aircraft to Egyptian border after pickup trucks approach

By Emanuel Fabian

Army says Israelis face no threat from ‘unarmed civilians in sovereign Egyptian territory,’ following most recent spotting of trucks near border

A Palestinian man carries a cardboard box as he stands on the rubble of a house that was reportedly demolished by Israeli settlers the previous day in Al-Duyuk Al-Tahta, a village on the outskirts of Jericho, in the West Bank, on February 11, 2026. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Settlers demolish 15 Palestinian homes, residents say, as West Bank attacks continue

By AFP, Noam Lehmann, Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinian water provider says workers were assaulted by settlers; prosecutors charge man suspected in attack last fall; IDF nabs Palestinians affiliated with Hamas, Islamic Jihad

Illustrative: Palestinian protesters hold pictures of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails during a rally in the center of the West Bank city of Nablus to mark Palestinian Prisoners' Day on April 16, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Despite High Court ruling, Palestinian security prisoners say they’re still going hungry

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Prof. Eran Elinav, left, of Weizmann Institute of Science and Prof. Hila Elinav, head of the Hadassah AIDS Center in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)

Israeli researchers find gut bacteria may boost immune system of HIV patients

By Diana Bletter

Groundbreaking study led by Weizmann Institute of Science and Hadassah AIDS Center scientists paves the way for new medical therapies that target the body’s bacterial ecosystem

Rabbi Dov Lando addresses a gathering in honor of two draft dodgers released from prison in Bnei Brak, January 4, 2026. (Shuki Lerner via Lando’s spokesman)

Top Haredi rabbi vows no yeshiva student will be drafted to IDF

Rabbi Dov Lando, spiritual leader of Degel Hatorah political faction, promises no conscription ‘whether authorities agree or not,’ denounces ‘terrible persecution’ of Torah world

Rabbanit Sarah Segal-Katz (center) one of the female Torah scholars who has petitioned the High Court of Justice to be allowed to take the rabbinical tests administered by the Chief Rabbinate. (Ayelet Landau/Gluya Magazine)

Following years of legal battles, Chief Rabbinate opens rabbinical tests to women

By Rossella Tercatin

Screen capture from video of UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, during an Al-Jazeera forum, February 8, 2026. (X)

France calls on UN rapporteur Albanese to resign over ‘common enemy’ Israel remarks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot condemns ‘outrageous’ comments made at Doha forum; Albanese rejects ‘manipulation’ of her sentiments on general foe of humanity

A photo of US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is displayed, as US Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during a US House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2026. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Rep. Jamie Raskin accuses Trump’s AG of ‘Epstein cover-up’ in stormy House hearing

By AFP and Luke Tress

Questioning of Pam Bondi over slow rollout of Epstein files comes after report that sex offender sought to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin via contact with former PM Ehud Barak

US Representative Becca Balint, a Vermont Democrat, questions US Attorney General Pam Bondi during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 11, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Vermont lawmaker storms out of Epstein hearing after AG raises her record on antisemitism

By Grace Gilson

Leslie Wexner, left, and Jeffrey Epstein were close for years. Epstein's scandal has dogged the billionaire Jewish philanthropist. (Laura E. Adkins/Getty Images via JTA)

Unredacted Epstein files and looming deposition thrust Les Wexner back into spotlight

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

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View of the departure hall in Terminal 1, at the Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv on December 1, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

In first, free bus line will run between Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport on Shabbat

Musab Rasoulizad (right) reporting from Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province during the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, February 11, 2026. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Supreme slipIran fires TV boss after reporter accidentally calls for Khamenei’s death

By AFP

A Hezbollah supporter holds a flag with a message that reads in Arabic: "We will not lay down the weapons" during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, February 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon says it will decide in coming weeks on 2nd phase of Hezbollah disarmament plan

A plastic bottle that a man allegedly used to pour gasoline on a 12-year-old boy in an arson attack on a bus heading to the Beitar Illit, due to a feud with the boy's family, February 1, 2026. (Israel Police)

Man to face charges for allegedly trying to set 12-year-old boy on fire on bus

By Charlie Summers

Carrie Prejean Boller speaks during the White House Religious Liberty Commission public hearing on February 9, 2026. (Screenshot via JTA)

Former Miss California ousted from White House commission following antisemitism row

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative: Hand holding AI agents' virtual interface with data analytics, automation, and machine learning icons. (iStock by Getty Images/Suchat longthara)

Dutch-based Nebius buys Israeli startup that connects AI agents to the web

By Sharon Wrobel

Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian women's rights campaigner imprisoned by Iran who won the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 6, 2023. (AFP/ Narges Mohammadi Foundation/ File)

Nobel committee calls on Iran to free Peace Prize laureate Mohammadi

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (L) pose after a signing ceremony following a meeting of Turkey/Greek High-Level Cooperation Council at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, on February 11, 2026. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Turkish and Greek leaders hold talks, voice desire to resolve maritime disputes

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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