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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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US President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, February 24, 2026. (AP Photo/ Matt Rourke)

Iran is 'working to build missiles that can reach the USA'

Trump: US ‘wiped out’ Iran’s nuclear program ‘but they want to start all over again’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In State of the Union, US president vows to ‘never allow the world’s No. 1 sponsor of terror’ to acquire nukes; touts role in freeing Hamas hostages, says Gaza war ‘proceeding at very low level — it’s just about there’

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei during the weekly press conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital Tehran, on February 10, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran pushes back against Trump, says US and Israel using Goebbels-like propaganda

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Members of Congress hold photos during a memorial vigil hosted by US Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries outside of the US Capitol on June 10, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kayla Bartkowski / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Slain Israeli embassy worker’s brother, US hockey team attend Trump’s State of the Union

By Grace Gilson

Vehicles drive past an anti-Israel and anti-US billboard hanging from a building that reads 'The target is clear: Trump's 51st state' on Palestine Square in Tehran on February 25, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 25: New billboard in Tehran threatens to make Israel ‘hell,’ calls it ‘Trump’s 51st state’

US said to begin moving another six F-22 stealth fighters toward Middle East * Hezbollah official says will not intervene in event of ‘limited’ US strikes on Iran

8:27 pm

Far-right activists again rally outside home of Arab news anchor, threaten her
8:09 pm

Germany takes delivery of Israeli-made underwater drone
7:16 pm

Dutch airline KLM suspends flights to Tel Aviv as Iran tensions rise

Analysis

Tucker Carlson’s anti-Zionism shows horseshoe theory nearing a circle

Conservative US commentator borrows talking points from the left, highlighting how anti-Zionist discourse is finding a home on both sides of the spectrum

Tucker Carlson listens as then Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a Tucker Carlson Live Tour show in Glendale, Arizona, October 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Tucker Carlson speaks at a memorial for Charlie Kirk, September 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Laura Loomer, other Jewish conservatives sound alarm over Tucker Carlson’s access to Trump

By Andrew Lapin

FILE - California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a rally with Harris County Democrats at the IBEW local 716 union hall November 8, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Karen Warren, File)

Gavin Newsom declares he never has and ‘never will’ accept AIPAC funding

By Joseph Strauss

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US F-22 stealth fighter jets are seen before taking off from Royal Air Force Lakenheath in England, en route to Israel, February 24, 2026. (@TallGlenn85 on X)

Iran FM: Deal within reach, if diplomacy is given a priority

F-22 jets deploy at Israeli Air Force base as US builds up forces for Iran strike

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Israeli officials reportedly believe US attack is ‘unavoidable’; Iran said to okay counterproposal for next round of nuclear talks on Thursday as IRGC holds drills on Iran’s coast

US President Donald Trump exits the House Chamber after delivering the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, February 24, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 25: In State of the Union, Trump renews pledge to strike Iran if needed

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Screen capture from unverified video showing students protesting against the regime at the University of Tehran, Faculty of Engineering, February 24, 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Clashes reported as Iranian student protests persist for fourth consecutive day

By ToI Staff and AFP

Op-ed

Facing Trump, Hamas bet on survival and is being vindicated; Iran’s regime has the same game plan

In his State of the Union, Trump had good reason to claim success against both Gaza’s terror rulers and the Islamic Republic. But neither is finished. In fact, both intend to long outlast his presidency

US President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

A storefront that had been shot at during an evening spate of violence in the northern Arab town of Kafr Kanna, photo taken on February 22, 2026. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'In a normal country, we wouldn't have to negotiate peace'

Fueled by festering crime wave, Kafr Kanna family feud erupts into all-out war

By Charlie Summers

After Galilee town became a battle zone, locals restored calm by negotiating a clan truce, but fear violence will return unless police finally tackle criminal gangs flooding Arab communities with arms

‘Children are inside!’: Palestinian homes, vehicles set on fire in apparent settler attack

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Medics: 4 hurt from smoke inhalation; security forces arrive in Susya after fires put out, make no arrests; elsewhere, settlers start rebuilding dismantled illegal outpost Kol Mevaser

Flames pour out of a truck in a screenshot taken from footage of an apparent settler attack in the Palestinian village of Susya, in the southern West Bank, on February 24, 2026. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'Taking giant strides toward becoming Iran'

MKs approve preliminary bill cementing Orthodox control over entire Western Wall

Haredim praise bill giving Chief Rabbinate authority over prayer at Old City site, calling it victory over Reform Movement; progressives say Israel turning back on non-Orthodox, Diaspora

Conservative rabbis pray at the Ezrat Yisrael egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, December 12, 2024. (Courtesy/ File)

Shulamit S. Magnus

The Western Wall brouhaha can be solved easily

The court cases, to which I am a signatory, established the Kotel’s legal status: It’s a national holy site, regardless of who prays there or how

Modi at the Knesset: Beyond symbolism, trade deals are the thing to watch

US investment may have made Israeli tech what it is, but Israel isn’t putting all its eggs in one basket: India is a safe partner for new capital

Al-Sharaa brings jihadi populism to Syria

After replacing Assad’s dictatorship, the country’s new ruler built another family-led regime that blends sectarian rule, Islamist ideology and populist theatrics

Melissa Uchiyama

Japan’s lure for Israelis isn’t the wagyu

The Japan I know is a haven from antisemitism; I want to make sure it stays that way for Jewish and Israeli travelers

Azzam al-Ahmad gives a press conference at a hotel in Cairo, August 13, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Defying Trump, senior Palestinian official rejects demand for Hamas disarmament, PA reforms

By Noam Lehmann and Jacob Magid

PLO secretary general claims Hamas isn’t a terror group, should have a role in governing postwar Gaza; dismisses as ‘impossible’ expected reforms of Palestinian Authority

Palestinian Lubna Abu Sirya digs a small channel to drain rainwater that flooded her tent in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, February 24, 2026. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Aid groups petition High Court to let them keep working in Gaza after ban over new rules

By Jeremy Sharon, Agencies and ToI Staff

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

In first, US embassy to provide consular services at pop-ups in 2 West Bank settlements

By Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

Pop-ups to be held in Efrat, which has a large number of US citizens, and Haredi town of Beitar Illit; consular service events also to take place in Ramallah, several Israeli cities

'There’s a sense Poles in WWII were only victims or heroes'

Poland ‘investigates’ film about Jews killed after the Holocaust, may ban it

By Shira Li Bartov

California filmmaker Yoav Potash’s documentary ‘Among Neighbors’ follows the murders of five survivors who returned to their hometown — and it’s causing a far-right uproar

Director Yoav Potash (left) greets Yaacov Goldstein, one of the last Jewish survivors of Gniewoszów, Poland. (Courtesy of 8 Above via JTA)

A screen displays the voting results approving a draft resolution in support of lasting peace in Ukraine during the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Ukraine at UN Headquarters in New York, on February 24, 2026. (Leonardo Munoz / AFP)

Israel backs United Nations vote voicing support for Ukraine, as US abstains

By AFP and Lazar Berman

Israeli ambassador to UN says Jerusalem and Washington ‘each have their own calculations’; FM Sa’ar announces 117 power generators will be sent to Kyiv region

Defying Knesset, Smotrich ups tax exemption for online purchases from abroad to $130

By Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel

Hours after previous order was voted down by lawmakers, finance minister signs a new one, vows to free Israeli citizens from ‘monopolies,’ defeat ‘communists’ in Netanyahu’s Likud

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

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

AG tells High Court government failing to sanction ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers

The Department of Internal Police Investigations in Jerusalem, July 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

AG: Bill for justice minister to control internal police probes unit would ‘structurally’ politicize it

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: Police officers in Canberra, Australia, on February 18, 2026. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas/Reuters)

Police find no hate crime in Canberra bar’s posters of Netanyahu and others as Nazis

By AFP and ToI Staff

Officers determine ‘satirical’ art doesn’t violate new laws against Nazi symbols passed after Bondi terror attack; Palestinian flags were draped across the images of world leaders

Oscar nominee Meyer Levinson-Blount, director of film short 'Butcher's Stain' about life in an Israeli supermarket post October 7 (Courtesy)

What Matters Now podcast

Meyer Levinson-Blount: Oscar nominee’s film ‘Butcher’s Stain’ reveals life post-Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Tel Aviv film school student reflects on the themes of his movie and its connection to Israel’s Arab community

From 'Bau: Artist at War' about animator and Holocaust survivor Joseph Bau. (Courtesy)

Take a BauFilm about Israeli ‘Walt Disney’ lends urgency to save Joseph Bau museum

By Jessica Steinberg

Artem 'Alfred' Nakache (inset), a Jew who swam for France at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, is depicted in lane 4 in the animated short film 'Papillon.' (Wikimedia Commons; Sacrebleu Productions and XBO Films via JTA)

The real Holocaust history behind Oscar-nominated short animation ‘Papillon’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Graduates from a What's Mine is Yours class at Keshet in Chicago. (Courtesy Melton via JTA)

'I had people helping me, and I remembered everything'

New curriculum brings adults with intellectual disabilities into heart of Jewish learning

By Jackie Hajdenberg

An increasingly popular program from Melton and Matan adapts Torah, prayer and holiday study for learners around the world who’ve been long left out of formal adult education

More Headlines

Screen captures from videos of right-wing activist Ziv Barnes, in a white top, being detained by police after he demonstrated outside the apartment of Channel 13 Arab Israeli anchor Lucy Aharish, February 23, 2026. (X)

Right-wing activists again rally outside home of Arab Israeli anchor Lucy Aharish

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

This undated photo released by the US Justice Department on January 30, 2026, as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files shows the disgraced financier, left, with now-US President Donald Trump in an unidentified location. (HANDOUT / US Department of Justice / AFP)

US Justice Department withheld allegations against Trump from Epstein files, NPR finds

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (right) attend a World Health Organization roundtable with key donors and humanitarian partners in Amman, Jordan, on February 25, 2026. (PA via Reuters)

Prince Harry and Meghan to meet refugees from Gaza on two-day trip to Jordan

Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

US feds sue University of California for turning ‘blind eye’ to antisemitism at UCLA

California pop-rock band Smash Mouth in a surprise show at Tel Aviv's Barby on February 23, 2026. (Screenshot/YouTube)

All star performanceCalifornia band Smash Mouth surprises crowd at Tel Aviv club

By Jessica Steinberg

A picture obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on October 16, 2022 shows empty bunk beds inside the notorious Evin prison, northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi / Mizan / AFP)

Bureau chief of Japanese public broadcaster reportedly arrested in Iran

By AFP

Petitioners against the government's climate policy pose at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem on February 23, 2026. (Green Course)

Heeding green groups’ demand, High Court orders government to justify climate targets

People chant slogans while waving the Druze flag during a weekly rally in Sweida, southern Syria, on September 20, 2025. (AP/Fahd Kiwan)

US mediating prisoner exchange talks between Damascus and Druze — source

By AFP

A file photo of construction on the Red Line of the Tel Aviv Light Rail as part of the mass transit system for the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, some of which runs underground, September 13, 2021. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Bidding begins for $50 billion Tel Aviv metro project, with sights set on 2037

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rescue services on the scene of a fire in Netanya, Israel, on February 25, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

Two dead, at least 9 hurt in Netanya apartment building fire

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