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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 22, 2026

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IDF escalates strikes on Hezbollah as fears grow of Iran-directed assault on Israel

Army steps up efforts to degrade terror group’s missile capabilities, no longer assessing proxy will stay out of fight should US strike Tehran, amid heavy Iranian pressure and $1 billion for rehab

A bulldozer clears debris near heavily damaged buildings in the village of Bednayel in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley region on February 21, 2026, following Israeli strikes. (AFP)

Hezbollah supporters hold portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally to show their solidarity with Iran, in the southern suburb of Beirut on January 26, 2026. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Report: IRGC running Hezbollah, preparing it for war with Israel if US strikes Iran

By Noam Lehmann

Hezbollah supporters chant slogans during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes, at Nasrallah's grave in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 22 — IDF ramps up Hezbollah strikes as Iran supports proxy group

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi looks on during a meeting with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, at Tahrir Palace in Cairo, September 9, 2025. (AP/Khaled Elfiqi, File)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 22: Iran’s FM says country’s missiles hit Israel in last war ‘and can do it again’

Iranian president says recent talks with US ‘yielded encouraging signals’ * Netanyahu says he is ‘worried’ about Trump on Iran

9:55 pm

High Court orders Justice Ministry legal adviser to end delay, advance Tomer-Yerushalmi case
8:50 pm

Coalition to renew work on bill barring High Court from intervening in ministerial appointments
8:07 pm

Iraq-based Kurdish Iranian parties unite to defy Islamic Republic

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff speaks during a meeting of the Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 29, 2026, in Washington, DC. (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Some Trump advisers said urging him to hold off on strikes

Witkoff says Trump ‘curious’ why Iran hasn’t ‘capitulated’ under US pressure

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Trump’s envoy says US president has ‘plenty of alternatives’ to a deal; Iranian official says sides aren’t on same page about sanctions relief, but talks could lead to interim agreement

A woman walks near a banner depicting Iran's late and current supreme leaders (R to L) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei along a main street in Tehran on February 21, 2026. (AFP)

Iran university students hold anti-regime rallies at campuses in Tehran, Mashhad

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Promoted Content

Voluntary disclosure in Israel: What U.S. citizens living in Israel should know

Many U.S. citizens in Israel still hold U.S. accounts, rentals, or family trusts. As transparency grows, voluntary disclosure may help close past reporting gaps before an audit begins

Israel's AJ Edelman, left, Menachem Chen, Uri Zisman and Omer Katz arrive at the finish during a four-man bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 21, 2026. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Edelman: Sorry this won't end for us in the way we had hoped

Israel disqualifies its own Olympic bobsleigh team for lying to officials

Team tried to let Ward Fawarseh, an alternate, compete by faking another member’s medical exam, Olympic Committee of Israel says, calling behavior ‘against fair and sportsmanlike conduct’

Israel's AJ Edelman (left) Menachem Chen, Uri Zisman and Omer Katz slide down the track during a four-man bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, February 21, 2026. (AP/Aijaz Rahi)

Italian broadcaster apologizes after commentator calls to ‘avoid’ Israeli bobsleigh team

L-R: Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, sports minister Hans von Tschammer und Osten and field marshal Werner von Blomberg observe the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany in August 1936. (AP Photo)

Germany still in running to host 2036 Olympics despite centennial of Nazi-era Games

By Alan Baldwin

Excavations at the prehistoric site of ‘Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley, south of the Sea of Galilee, in images shared in April 2024. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'We may need to rethink our assumptions'

New study puts hominins in Israel 1.9 million years ago, rewriting earliest human migration

By Rossella Tercatin

Team redates prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya in Jordan Valley to same age as oldest Georgian site, suggesting at least two distinct groups of human ancestors left Africa at roughly the same time

Attendees at the CTeen Shabbaton, in New York City, February 21, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

‘Everyone understands the pain’: Ex-hostages, Bondi Jews gather in NYC’s Times Square

More than 4,500 Jewish teens attend Chabad’s CTeen Shabbaton event led by former captives, highlighting Hasidic movement’s global reach and shared trauma

Arab and Muslim states fume after Huckabee says Israel has biblical right to much of Mideast

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Saudis, Jordan, PA, Arab League slam US envoy for saying it ‘would be fine’ if Israel took over lands promised in Bible during Carlson interview; he then clarified ‘hyperbolic’ statement

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Channel 12, in an interview that aired January 31, 2026. (Screenshot)

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian-American Nasrallah Muhammad Abu Siam, 19, February 19, 2026, who was allegedly shot by settlers, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Mukhmas, east of Ramallah. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

US avoids condemning settler killing of Palestinian-American in armed West Bank attack

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Emergency staff react as an ambulance pulls up at the Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus, in the northern West Bank, carrying a person reportedly wounded by IDF gunfire in the village of Beit Furik, February 21, 2026. (Screen capture: X/Quds News Network)

Red Crescent claims settlers raided West Bank compound, shot 2 Palestinians

By Noam Lehmann

Gary Rosenblatt

So much for the two-state solution: PA proves to be its own worst enemy

The Palestinian Authority’s new draft constitution for statehood ignores reconciliation – in fact, the document erases Israel and Jewish history

Miriam Awad Morad

Policing isn’t the only answer to Arab Israeli crime

Without civic education and opportunity for disengaged youth, despair will continue to fuel violence

Marc J. Rosenstein

On Jewish power, Zionism and racism

If excluding Arabs is the only way to pursue the vision of a Jewish state, what exactly have we built — Herzl’s dream, or something far darker?

Tucker Carlson’s campaign of lies against Israel

From fabricated Epstein smears to ideological warfare, the real story is the weaponization of lies against the Jewish state

Screengrab of a social media video showing right-wing provocateur Mordechai David being detained by police for protesting outside the home of news anchor Lucy Aharish, in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2026. (X)

Right-wing activist held for entering apartment complex of Arab Israeli anchor Lucy Aharish

Provocateur Mordechai David arrested on charges of trespassing, disturbing the peace; later freed and barred from approaching Aharish for 14 days

Hugh Laurie speaks at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on September 22, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Hugh Laurie, attacked for mourning ‘Tehran’ producer, rejects assumptions he’s ‘Zionist’

Denial comes after anti-Israel accounts disparaged British actor for grieving Dana Eden, who died last week; his response then drives backlash from pro-Israel accounts

Right-wing agitator detained outside Arab news anchor's home

Top aide to ex-PMs Bennett, Lapid: Unlike Netanyahu, they would’ve never denied Oct. 7 responsibility

By Charlie Summers, Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Former national security adviser Eyal Hulata slams premier at anti-government Tel Aviv rally; police use water cannon on protesters outside PM’s Jerusalem residence, at least 2 detained

Former national security adviser Eyal Hulata speaks at an anti-government protest demanding the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into Hamas's onslaught of October 7, 2023, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

AG ditches cabinet discussion on wiretapping after Ben Gvir bars senior cop

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Police chief Daniel Levy also decides not to show up to meeting, after national security minister won’t allow Boaz Blatt, who heads police intelligence unit, to attend

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (left) attends a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in Jerusalem, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, attends a hearing during the premier's graft trial at the Tel Aviv District Court on December 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Supreme Court refuses to allow PM’s chief of staff to appeal his release conditions

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance in Jerusalem on December 3, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

4 injured after drone-dropped grenade hits house amid gunfight in northern Arab town

By Charlie Summers

Videos show street shootout in an apparent feud between families in Kafr Kanna, as the crime wave in Israel’s Arab community continues at record levels

Parents walk a child to school, in Jerusalem, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir / Flash90)

'I don't understand how this hasn't taken off in New York'

With co-parenting on the rise in Israel, one advocate aims to export the model to US Jews

By Deborah Danan

Former MK Michal Biran says the increasingly mainstream idea of raising a child in a platonic partnership is even more appropriate as the Jewish community bands together amid rising antisemitism

An Arrow anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile during Israel's 12-day conflict with Iran, in am image cleared for publication on July 1, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

After two years of war, defense tech buoys Israel’s economic recovery

By Delphine Matthieussent

Though entire tech sector took serious hit from workers’ reserve duty, air traffic pauses and brain drain, demand is now high for technology that was honed and tested in wartime

FILES: Britain's then-prince Andrew, and King Charles III leave following a requiem mass, a Catholic funeral service, for the late Katharine, Duchess of Kent, at Westminster Cathedral in London on September 16, 2025. (Adrian Dennis / AFP)

Analysis

UK royals face worst crisis in generations as Epstein fallout leads to ex-prince’s arrest

Expert says family has ‘no clear route forward’ after Andrew becomes first senior royal to be arrested since the 1640s

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Police officers clash with people trying to enter Villa Park in Birmingham, central England, on November 6, 2025, for the UEFA Europa League league-stage football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv as anti-Israel demonstrators gather outside. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

UK government botched response to police ban on Maccabi fans, lawmakers’ report says

The flag of Somaliland seen at a fruit farm between the capital city of Hargeisa and Port city of Berbera, Somaliland, on February 19, 2026. (Tony KARUMBA / AFP)

Seeking recognition, Somaliland minister says US can access its minerals, military bases

By AFP and ToI Staff

Syrian-Palestinian director Abdullah Al-Khatib (L) and Algerian producer Taqiyeddine Issaad hold a Palestinian flag as they accept the GWFF Best Feature Film Debut Award for "Chronicles From the Siege" during the Award Ceremony of the 76th Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, in Berlin on February 21, 2026. (RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)

Palestinian Berlinale awardee to German government: ‘You are partners in the genocide’

By AFP and ToI Staff

FIFA President Gianni Infantino holds up a USA hat as he attends the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the Institute of Peace on February 19, 2026 in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

FIFA chief’s Board of Peace appearance doesn’t breach political neutrality rules — IOC

By Karolos Grohmann

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order after delivering remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled 'Make America Wealthy Again' at the White House in Washington, DC, April 2, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Bypassing court ruling, Trump imposes 15% US global tariff under alternative mechanism

By Andrea Shalal and Joseph Ax

Protesters hold portraits of far-right activist Quentin Deranque during a march in tribute to Quentin Deranque, who died after being attacked on the sidelines of a far-right protest against a La France Insoumise (LFI) event at Sciences Po Lyon, in Lyon on February 21, 2026. (OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP)

Thousands march in France for slain far-right activist, blame hard left for his death

By Emmanuel GIROUD

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