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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 14, 2026

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US President Donald Trump delivers remarks to troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, February 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Ramey)

2nd round of US-Iran talks set to be held Tuesday in Geneva

Trump: Regime change in Iran ‘would be the best thing that could happen’

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president confirms sending second aircraft carrier to Middle East in case ‘difficult’ Islamic Republic doesn’t make a deal, says ‘fear’ is only thing that will get Tehran to sign agreement

Iran's former crown prince and now key opposition figure Reza Pahlavi attends a discussion during the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 13, 2026 in Munich, southern Germany. (Alexandra BEIER / AFP)

Exiled son of Iran’s last shah calls on Trump to help ‘bury’ the Islamic Republic

By AFP

In this handout photograph released by the US Navy on February 5, 2026, an F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14, launches from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on February 3, 2026. (Zoe Simpson/US Navy/AFP)

US readying for potential weeks-long military campaign against Iran — sources

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

Released hostages Ariel Cunio (L) and Arbel Yehoud speak in an interview with Channel 12 news broadcast on February 13, 2026 (Screencapture)

Yehoud says she suffered sexual assault on daily basis

Ex-hostage reveals she tried to kill herself in Gaza, says view of protests saved her

Arbel Yehoud and Ariel Cunio detail dire conditions in solitary captivity, decribe how terrorists passed letters between them, allowing for brief communication

Tel Aviv under heavy haze, February 14, 2026. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Severe dust storm pushes Jerusalem, Tel Aviv to top of global pollution index

Health Ministry urges people with heart or lung conditions, the elderly, children, or pregnant women to avoid going outside as high winds sweep Sahara sand into country

Israeli reserve soldiers kissing their wives goodbye in Jerusalem as they leave for their military service, May 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Valentine's Day'We just chose each other'

A match made in uniform: Couples forged in IDF find love is a battlefield

By Stav Levaton

Amid early mornings, long deployments and the rigid boundaries of military life, some soldiers discover something the army never intended to provide — romance

US President Donald Trump (center) walks with President Isaac Herzog (left), and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport, October 13, 2025, near Tel Aviv. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 14: Herzog reportedly inquiring if Netanyahu prodded Trump to lash out at him over pardon

PM’s office denies he pushed US president on matter * Government trying to ‘erase the truth’ of Oct. 7 massacre, bereaved sister says at Tel Aviv rally

9:43 pm

Netanyahu's office denies he pushed Trump to criticize Herzog over failure to issue pardon
8:56 pm

Man shot to death on highway in Negev, hours after separate killing in north
8:26 pm

Several IDF troops suspended from combat after filmed beating Palestinian suspect in West Bank

Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov speaks at the Munich Security Forum on February 13, 2026. (Screen capture/YouTube)

UAE official backs adding Palestinian rep. to Board of Peace

Board of Peace envoy: Technocrats can’t enter Gaza if ceasefire violations persist

In rare public comments since taking on role, Mladenov says Palestinian committee being set up for ’embarrassment’ if proper conditions aren’t in place before it begins operating

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 22, 2025. (AP/ Nasser Nasser, Pool)

Abbas accuses Israel of putting up ‘obstacles’ blocking phase 2 of Gaza ceasefire

By AFP and ToI Staff

Doctors Without Borders suspends activities at Gaza hospital due to presence of gunmen

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Aid group says incidents, including suspected weapons transfers, have increased since ceasefire; statement marks 1st time international group confirmed gunmen in Gaza hospitals

Palestinians walk past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on January 11, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Boys sit atop the fallen minaret of a destroyed mosque in Gaza City on February 7, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

After two years of war, Palestinians scramble to salvage Gaza’s history

By AP and ToI Staff

Shelly Steinwurtzel

On a ski lift, I chose Jewish visibility

When I opened up to a stranger and shared stories of October 7 and what came after, I found an unexpected reason for hope

Fida Nara Tabony

The gunshots I heard in Nazareth are the sound of injustice

Arab citizens are finally standing up to demand the government protect us from violent crime. Jews who care about Israel – and democracy – should join us

Walid Saadoui (left) and Amar Hussein were jailed on February 13, 2026, for planning a terror attack to kill hundreds of Jews in the United Kingdom. (Greater Manchester Police)

The 2 Islamic extremists are jailed for a total of 63 years

Two men jailed in UK for Islamic State-inspired plot to kill hundreds of Jews

Prosecutor says planned attack ‘would likely have been one of the deadliest ever carried out on British soil,’ could have been much worse than Bondi Beach massacre in Australia

Israel's 2026 Winter Olympics bobsled team, clockwise from back left: Omer Katz, Ward Fawarseh, Uri Zisman, AJ Edelman, Menachem Chen and coach Itamar Shprinz. (Courtesy)

InterviewLooking to redefine how Israel and Jews view role of sport

Israel’s bobsled team is chasing more than medals in its first Olympic outing in Milan

By jacob gurvis

When the crew in blue and white hits the ice next week, it will be making history with AJ Edelman, the first Orthodox winter Olympian

Israel demands event's cancellation

NYC public law school to host event on Hamas tunnels as ‘resistance to colonization’

Talk next month, led by Columbia University academic, advertised as describing Gaza’s underground terror infrastructure as ‘decolonial land use’

Israeli soldiers escort the media to an underground tunnel found underneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP/Victor R. Caivano)

Analysis

Inflammatory tweets by NYC political staffers point to growing normalization of anti-Zionism

New report exposing Mamdani campaigner’s posts supporting Hamas and propagating anti-Israel conspiracies is only the latest controversy surrounding political operatives in the city

People cheer while listening to speakers during a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, in New York, October 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Trump administration sues Harvard, accusing it of not cooperating on admissions probe

Students walk by graffiti saying 'Death to Israel' near the office of the President at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Mistrial in case of anti-Israel Stanford students who occupied school president’s office

By AP and ToI Staff

Men's Natural 1936 Berlin Games Olympic Heritage T-Shirt, as sold by the International Olympic Committee (Website screenshot)

Olympics defends selling shirts commemorating Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Games

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Shirts have sold out; Olympic committee acknowledges ‘Nazi propaganda’ at the games but says the ‘historical context is further explained’ at Switzerland museum

Members of the Iranian community wave flags as they march during a rally in Sydney on February 14, 2026, calling for stronger international action and urging the United States to intervene against the current Iranian regime. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Widespread arrests roil Iran weeks after security forces crushed protests

By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY

Reports emerging from Iran say authorities continue to examine surveillance footage from nationwide demonstrations, identifying those who took part and detaining thousands

Members of the Iranian Basij paramilitary force march as a domestically built missile is displayed during a parade in Tehran, Iran, January 10, 2025. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

ExplainerIran’s military degraded by 12-day war with Israel, but still has significant capabilities

By David Rising and SAM METZ

Merz calls to repair Europe’s rift with US, saying old world order ‘no longer exists’

Speaking at Munich Security Conference, German leader says he has begun talks with France on a European nuclear deterrent; Macron: ‘Europe has to become a geopolitical power’

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz prepares to address the audience during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Rubio says UN has ‘no role’ in solving wars, like Gaza; seeks to reassure Europe on Trump

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Promotional poster for Spike Lee's 2018 'Blackkklansman' (courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘BlacKkKlansman’ and ‘The Butcher’s Stain’: Evil racism at its most entertaining

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

After a listener’s cottage cheese insight, Jordan Hoffman and Amanda Borschel-Dan explore Spike Lee’s very Jewish 2018 hit and an Israeli short that’s up for an Oscar

(Top L) Nadav Argaman at the Knesset, November 6, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90) and (Top R) Ami Ayalon on March 27, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90) and (Bottom L) Yoram Cohen in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90) and (Bottom R) Carmi Gillon in Jerusalem, December 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Shin Bet chiefs, top brass decry ‘unprecedented attacks’ on agency by PM and allies

36 former officials accuse Netanyahu and his associates of attempting to absolve him of responsibility for Oct. 7 and convince his base there’s no need for state commission

Protesters and members of the Jewish Voice for Peace gather in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil outside the Federal Plaza, April 14, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

'We've made it a binary, but it's so much more complicated'

What to do with anti-Zionist Jews? Try talking to them, some US Jewish researchers say

By Andrew Lapin

A poll by a group that calls for ‘healthy arguments’ on Judaism and Israel finds that many Israel adversaries are knowledgeable, while casting them out is counterproductive

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A notice warning of measles is seen on a door in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, July 31, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Unvaccinated 9-year-old dies of measles, as outbreak mounts in Haredi communities

By Diana Bletter

Illustrative: Smoke rises from the site of a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of al-Katrani on December 18, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

IDF says Hezbollah operative rebuilding group’s infrastructure killed in strike

By Emanuel Fabian

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese looks on at the end of a press conference on the human rights situation in Gaza in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 15, 2025. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

UN rights office ‘worried’ after calls for anti-Israel rapporteur Albanese to resign

By Reuters and ToI Staff

UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese talks to The Associated Press at the Sarajevo airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Thursday, July 10, 2025, on her way to events commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Artists for Palestine sends letter backing UN’s anti-Israel rapporteur Albanese

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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