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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 17, 2026

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Iranians walk past an anti-US billboard installed on a building on Enqelab Square in Tehran on February 17, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Tehran shuts Strait of Hormuz as it fires missiles in drill

Iran’s FM says ‘guiding principles’ agreed on with US after 2nd round of nuclear talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

After Trump and Khamenei traded threats, Araghchi calls Geneva talks ‘constructive’; Iran insists dialogue will only cover nuclear program, sanctions, as it holds Gulf exercise

A huge banner showing hands firmly holding Iranian national flags as a sign of patriotism, in Tehran, Iran, January 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 17 – Will US sanctions bring Iran to heel in nuclear talks?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Huckabee: 'Miraculous' if military action can be avoided

Trump ally to ToI: Ayatollah staying in power would be ‘strategic victory for Iran’

By Lazar Berman, Ariela Karmel, Michael Bachner, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Visiting Israel day before fresh nuke talks, GOP Sen. Graham says US decision on striking Iran is ‘weeks, not months’ away; Trump: Iran doesn’t want consequences of not taking deal

US Senator Lindsey Graham speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 16, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 17, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In 2022, he vowed to 'restore governance' in Arab areas

Smotrich to Arab MKs: It’s not the government’s fault ‘you murder one another’

By Sam Sokol and Charlie Summers

‘Educate your public to stop murdering,’ far-right minister says; opposition lawmakers accuse him of racism, rail at government for failing to curb violent crime

The poker allegedly used to torture a man in Afula in an image released on February 17, 2026 (Israel Police)

Man indicted for kidnapping, torturing victim with burning poker over debt

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Supreme Court President Isaac Amit attend a Jerusalem Day state ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, May 26, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 17: Likud said advancing bill to raise salaries of PM, lawmakers and lower judges’ pay

Vance: Some progress made in nuclear talks, but Iran still unwilling to accept US red lines * US said to have moved dozens of fighter jets toward Middle East * Ramadan begins after new moon spotted

9:28 pm

Oscar-nominated Iranian screenwriter released from prison after 17 days
9:21 pm

18-year-old arrested after running toward US Capitol with loaded shotgun, say police
9:21 pm

Immigration judge rejects Trump effort to deport Palestinian student

Analysis

Bnei Brak riot shows that to integrate Haredim, Israel should expect strife

A recent study found that by 2050, nearly one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox; leaders have only started to grapple with how that will change the country

An ultra-Orthodox man is arrested by police during riots following an assault on two female Israeli soldiers in Bnei Brak, central Israel, February 15, 2026. (Flash90)

An ultra-Orthodox man is arrested by police during riots following an assault on two female Israeli soldiers in Bnei Brak, central Israel, February 15, 2026. (Flash90)

7 suspects held for Bnei Brak attack on female soldiers sent to house arrest; rest go free

By Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian and Sam Sokol

Analysis

Female troops are under assault, and not just in Bnei Brak

More and more young women, including religious ones, are choosing army service, proving their worth on the battlefield even as conservatives launch a new campaign to push them out

Israeli soldiers from the Oketz unit take part in a memorial ceremony on May 4, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

The Prime Minister's Office's Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman, seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Court extends restrictions on PM’s chief of staff, citing ‘strengthened’ suspicions

By Jeremy Sharon

Braverman, the designated ambassador to the UK, is still barred from leaving the country, contacting Netanyahu; judge strongly criticizes lower court decision over ‘legal error’

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin refuses to say he’d obey court order to convene Judicial Selection Committee

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Anti-Zionist protesters in Toronto, Canada, August 31, 2025. (Doron Horowitz/ Flash90)

Anti-Zionist groups in Canada target Jewish children’s summer camps

Activists accuse youth programs of supporting a ‘genocidal state’; campaign marks new front in global campaign targeting Israel

Israel's AJ Edelman salutes the public at the end of a two-man bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Swiss TV calls Israeli Olympic bobsleigh captain a ‘supporter of genocide’ in Gaza

By Ethan Rubinson and Amy Spiro

Commentator uses entire 2-minute run to slam AJ Edelman, complain that Israelis are allowed to compete while Russia is banned; Edelman: I refuse to lend ‘credence’ to ‘diatribe’

From the blogs

These government measures are not de facto annexation

Both the jubilation and the outrage over Israel’s recent changes in Judea and Samaria misconstrue what the recent administrative steps actually are — and are not

Route 90, Jordan Valley, October 18, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

IDF says Palestinian child killed in West Bank while playing with unexploded ordnance

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Palestinian Red Crescent says 13-year-old killed by ‘mine’; army says ammunition exploded as kids handled it in shooting range, troops treated two others hurt in incident

The global energy revolution cannot be stopped

By abandoning green energy, the US is ceding to China a vast global market and jeopardizing its economic future. Israel shouldn’t make the same mistake

Rachelli Prawer

Packing up the portacrib in our Room of Requirement

Our safe room is not magic – just a necessary part of life for our children, who are growing up quickly in a country where the threat of war is ever-present

Reverend Jesse Jackson waves as he steps to the podium during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)

Obituary

Rev. Jesse Jackson, US civil rights icon with rocky ties to Jews, dies at 84

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protégé of Martin Luther King, Jr. led Black causes for decades and broke barriers as a presidential candidate; he also had to apologize for referring to NYC as ‘Hymietown’

A boy celebrates his bar mitzvah on the egalitarian Ezrat Israel plaza near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel on June 19, 2023. (Courtesy of the Masorti Movement in Israel)

High Court to hold hearing on Western Wall egalitarian services for first time in years

By Rossella Tercatin

Liberal Jewish groups seek to ensure full rights for egalitarian prayers despite ultra-Orthodox opposition, long after government nixed compromise on the matter

Border Police officers visit the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2024. (Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Israeli police say they’ll deploy around Temple Mount compound during Ramadan

By AFP, Charlie Summers and Emanuel Fabian

Lapid warns ‘liberal bloc’ may lose next election if it doesn’t unite – behind him

By Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel

‘If we don’t come to our senses, we will lose,’ opposition leader says, argues his party is best situated to lead; prominent anti-government activist joins Golan’s The Democrats

Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Henrietta Szold at home in Jerusalem, circa 1922. (Wikimedia Commons)

Interview'She served everyone regardless of nation or religion'

Did the founder of Hadassah – Israel’s ‘mother’ – support a one-state solution?

By Rich Tenorio

In her biography, ‘Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream,’ author Francine Klagsbrun shows how the acclaimed activist fought against misogyny and for the rights of all children

Top Netanyahu aide: Hamas will have 60 days to disarm or IDF will ‘complete’ mission

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Cabinet secretary does not specify start date for 2-month period, echoes PM in saying Hamas must give up AK-47 rifles; IDF: Troops kill 6 more terrorists from Rafah tunnels

Members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, take part in a parade as they celebrate a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on January 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

People gather as Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam tours areas in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel that the Lebanese army says it has been cleared of the armed presence of the Hezbollah terror group. Feb. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanon says next phase of Hezbollah disarmament to take around 4 months

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

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A police officer speaks on his mobile phone at the scene as he and colleagues search for the male travelers who were pushed into the canal by three men accused of gang-raping two women, in Koppal district of southern state of Karnataka, India, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

India sentences 3 to death for rape of Israeli and Indian women, killing of Indian man

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and US Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey on board a C-17 cargo plane that transported Valar Atomics' Ward nuclear microreactor from March Air Force Base in California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah, at the Hill Air Force Base in Utah on February 15, 2026. (REUTERS/Valerie Volcovici)

US conducts 1st air transport of nuclear microreactor in bid to show tech’s viability

By Valerie Volcovici

Illustrative: Zim shipping containers. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Israel’s Zim shipping company inks $4.2 billion takeover deal by German giant

By Sharon Wrobel

The beach in Tel Aviv during a dust storm, February 14, 2026. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Climate change likely to bring more dust storms, earlier in the year, expert says

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a crime scene in Netanya, September 30, 2023. (Flash90/ File)

Off-duty cop stabs, seriously injures daughter’s ex-boyfriend in Netanya

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Spike Lee at the 2026 NBA All-Star Game held at the Intuit Dome on Feb. 15, 2026 in Los Angeles. (Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images via JTA)

Spike Lee wears pro-Palestinian outfit to NBA All-Star Game featuring 1st Israeli player

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Actor Robert Duvall arrives for the Oscars Nominees' Luncheon hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, February 2, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Robyn BECK / AFP)

‘Godfather’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ actor Robert Duvall dead at 95

By AFP

Japanese biblical Hebrew scholar Takamitsu Muraoka in Jerusalem on December 30, 2008. (Courtesy of Matthew Morgenstern)

ObituaryTakamitsu Muraoka, Japanese pioneer of Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew studies, dies at 88

By Rossella Tercatin

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