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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 24, 2026

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US President Donald Trump listens as Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine speaks at Mar-a-Lago on January 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump: Top general doesn’t oppose Iran war, thinks it would be ‘easily won’

By Stav Levaton, Diana Bletter, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

US president denies reports that Dan Caine said striking Iran could cause loss of forces, weapons stocks; Netanyahu holds security meeting, hospitals prep for conflict

US President Donald Trump arrives in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump said frustrated with limits of military leverage against Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

FILE: Chinese YJ-17 anti-ship hypersonic missiles are seen during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing, September 3, 2025. (GREG BAKER / AFP)

‘Complete game-changer’: Iran close to buying supersonic anti‑ship missiles from China

By Gavin Finch, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a second round of US-Iranian talks, with Washington pushing Tehran to make a deal to limit its nuclear program, in Geneva on February 17, 2026. (CYRIL ZINGARO / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 24: Iranian FM says nuclear deal with US ‘within reach’ if ‘diplomacy is given priority’

White House: Trump prefers diplomacy but willing to use ‘lethal force’ if necessary * Trump administration sues University of California system over alleged antisemitism at UCLA

10:30 pm

State of the Union could be Trump's best chance to sell US voters on his Iran plans
8:29 pm

US Speaker Johnson invites brother of slain Israeli embassy staffer to State of the Union Address
7:54 pm

Settlers said to set fire to vehicles, homes in Palestinian village of Susya

Analysis

Amir Bar Shalom

Decisive hours: Progress on a new nuclear deal, or countdown to a US strike?

As a condition for continuing talks, the US has demanded that Tehran set out the concessions it is willing to offer, but it’s unlikely that the emerging Iranian proposal will meet Trump’s threshold requirements. Will he then order a strike, and of what intensity?

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene where an Iranian ballistic missile impacted, causing damage at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, June 20, 2025. (Itai Ron/Pool via Flash90); US President Donald Trump after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on June 21, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP); Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a televised speech, June 13, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

American refueling planes are seen at Ben Gurion Airport, February 23, 2026. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US refuelers, cargo planes spotted at Ben Gurion Airport as Iran tensions ramp up

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

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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)

Israel said to warn Lebanon it’ll be hit hard if Hezbollah takes part in any US-Iran war

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Lebanese FM says ‘signs’ point to airport, key infrastructure as potential Israeli targets, says Beirut has appealed to Hezbollah not to join fight: ‘This war does not concern us’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on February 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: An attack on Israel would be ‘most serious mistake’ in Iranian history

By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman

The exhibition “A Voice from the Desert - The Great Isaiah Scroll” was inaugurated at the Israel Museum on February 23, 2026. In the image, people admire the seven-meter-long scroll in a special climate-controlled room. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Dead Sea Scrolls'A story written, passed down, generation upon generation'

Great Isaiah Scroll, oldest near-complete biblical book ever found, on show in entirety for 1st time since 1968

By Rossella Tercatin

The 2,100-year-old artifact, seven meters long, can be viewed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; only 25 people at a time allowed into climate-controlled room

Exclusive

Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

Hamas seen working to maintain control of Gaza via Trump-backed bodies

Documents show terror group moving armed-wing chiefs into civil roles that will let it hold power via technocratic administration, while also girding for fresh round against Israel

Hamas gunmen, wearing captured IDF uniforms and brandishing Israeli weapons, stand in formation in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 15, 2025. (AP Photo/ Abdel Kareem Hana)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich heads a Religious Zionist party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Smotrich: ‘In the end,’ Israel will occupy Gaza and establish settlements there

By Ethan Rubinson and ToI Staff

Palestinians shop at a market in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, January 30, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash9)

Board of Peace said looking into ‘stablecoin’ to boost economy of postwar Gaza

Evacuation of some towns began many hours after Hamas attack

‘Total disorder’: Comptroller accuses government, IDF of ‘systemic failure’ in post-Oct. 7 evacuations

By Stav Levaton

Report finds gaps in preparedness, lack of up-to-date plan, shirking of ministry responsibility for 210,000 evacuees; Defense Ministry says response was coordinated despite challenges

Illustrative: Israeli evacuees from the Gaza border area get temporary shelter at a hotel in Eilat, October 17, 2023. (Aris MESSINIS / AFP)

A video shows Hamas leaders managing a 2022 training exercise for the October 7, 2023, onslaught, aired on February 23, 2026. (Screenshot: Channel 13)

Footage from 2022 shows Hamas commanders overseeing dry run of October 7 attack

Video aired by Channel 13 shows terror group’s military brass, including its current leader, in ‘war room,’ planning assault by land and sea to secure release of security prisoners, saying Israel is ‘confused’

Hamas gunmen in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 24 – Is Hamas poised to infiltrate new Gaza police force?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Rossella Tercatin and Nava Freiberg

Illustrative: Lion dancers perform at Dongyue Temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Horse in Beijing on February 17, 2026. (Pedro PARDO / AFP)

Anti-Jewish tropes have moved into official media, academia

China pivoting toward antisemitism, driven by geopolitics, report finds; China rejects ‘unfounded’ claims

JPPI says Beijing’s escalating rivalry with the US, alignment with Muslim nations, and adoption of anti-Western narratives is changing its previously positive attitude to Jews

Mourners pay a floral tribute to Bondi Beach terror attack victims at the Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Australia begins probe of Bondi event targeted by terrorists, antisemitism in country

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Lawyer complains of insufficient response to Royal Commission’s requests for evidence from government, agencies; victims unable to share their accounts due to ongoing legal proceedings

Conservative/Masorti Movement leaders praying at the egalitarian plaza at the Western Wall in October 2025. (Courtesy MERCAZ Olami)

From the blogs

A declaration of war on world Jewry

Mandating jail for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall would shatter the fragile covenant between Israel and the Jewish communities that sustain it

A bold national plan to fix Israel’s teacher crisis

Give 25-year-olds housing, train them inside the schools they’ll commit to serve for 5 years — and reward those who stay with a fully funded master’s degree.

I was certain that in Israel, of all places, I would be seen as a person

As a Belgian jurist of Syrian birth, I flew to Tel Aviv in solidarity. Barred entry and 24 hours in duty-free left me wrestling with what security means in a democracy

Christopher Hyland

An evening at Niavaran: Meeting the Shah of Iran

The turn away from Islamism – a turn that is inevitable – must not erase religion from society, it must create the condition under which faith can breathe

Guila Benchimol

A Jewish moral reckoning on sexual violence

As high-profile scandals feed antisemitic conspiracies, it’s tempting to avoid talking about abuse in the Jewish community, but silence betrays survivors

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian-American Nasrallah Muhammad Abu Siam, 19, who was allegedly shot by settlers, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Mukhmas, east of Ramallah, February 19, 2026. (Flash90)

IDF stood by as settlers killed Palestinian teen, stole hundreds of sheep – report

By Ethan Rubinson and ToI Staff

Witnesses say troops prevented Palestinians from stopping theft of livestock, watched as Nasrallah Abu Siam, 19, was shot and subsequently beaten with clubs while unconscious

Jewish residents are seen on a rooftop in the West Bank city of Hebron after moving in, February 20, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Nearly 20 nations slam Israel’s West Bank moves as step toward ‘de facto annexation’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich heads a Religious Zionist party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Knesset revokes Smotrich’s tax exemption for online purchases from abroad of up to $150

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Tax-exempt cap lowered back to $75, reversing move that had been praised by consumers, decried by small businesses; finance minister lashes out at coalition colleagues who defied him, calls them leftists, vows to try again

Illustrative: A woman carries her shopping near Talpiot Market in Haifa on August 4, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Bank of Israel holds interest rates amid concerns over Iran escalation

By Sharon Wrobel

Officers in the Border Police's National Guard force approach a man on the street in Tarabin al-Sana on December 31, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Ben Gvir’s National Guard operating without directives or oversight, Knesset finds

By Charlie Summers

Force used around country despite government failing to OK operational guidelines; National Security Ministry refuses to provide MKs with basic information about guard’s functions

Illustrative: Police at the scene where two people were killed in Haifa, February 18, 2026. (Flash90)

Man shot and killed in northern Arab town as deadly crime keeps surging

By Charlie Summers and Lazar Berman

Jewish Ukrainians line up to receive aid distribution in Kyiv in the fall of 2025. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)

'This war has fractured our community'

After 4 years of war, Ukraine’s Jews face increasing sirens, shortages and uncertainty

By Theia Chatelle

On the grim anniversary of the Russian invasion, those in the Jewish community who haven’t fled meet in shelters to light Shabbat candles, while elderly rely on intermittent aid packages

Ukraine war exhibit opens at Berlin museum in former Nazi bunker

By Léa Pernelle

Op-ed

Ksenia Svetlova

Four years after invading Ukraine, Russia is isolated and broken – but not done

Despite a shattered economy, severe labor shortages and a failed pivot to Asia, Putin refuses to yield, dragging the entire region deeper into a bloody war of attrition

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near the Kremlin Wall during the national celebrations of the "Defender of the Fatherland Day" in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

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Anti-Zionist protesters outside a New York City synagogue, November 19, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Poll finds New Yorkers back protest buffer zones as both sides gear up for hearing

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, January 17, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Pool via AP)

UK premier visits Poland with family to trace wife’s Jewish roots

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit arrives for a hearing on petitions against the government’s dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief not invited to Knesset for Indian prime minister’s address

By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters take part in a banned demonstration at Berlin's Alexanderplatz on October 7, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Anti-Zionist group’s planned protest of keffiyeh ban at Buchenwald memorial sparks outrage

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance in Kiryat Yam on December 24, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Nine-month-old girl from Beit Shemesh dies after choking on small object

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists hold an encampment protest at Vanderbilt University on May 3, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, file)

Vanderbilt to probe instructor over math question accusing Israel of occupation

By Grace Gilson

Tova Kaplan, a student at Harvard University, testifies before the US Commission on Civil Rights briefing on antisemitism on college and university campuses on February 19, 2026. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)

Jewish students warn US Commission on Civil Rights against politicizing campus antisemitism

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Images of Ze’ev Jabotinsky's 1938 letter. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

Jabotinsky letter revealing plea for funds to save European Jews heads to auction

Former UK ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, is pictured as he leaves his residence in central London on February 21, 2026. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Ex-UK envoy to US Mandelson arrested over suspicions of ‘misconduct in public office’

By William James and Michael Holden

Nick Reiner arrives at the premiere of 'Spinal Tap II: The End Continues' on September 9, 2025, at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Rob Reiner’s son pleads not guilty to murder in the killing of his parents

By ANDREW DALTON

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