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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 26, 2026

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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)

As talks resume, Rubio, Vance accuse Iran of trying to restart its nuclear program

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran’s president: Khamenei has banned weapons of mass destruction, so country not seeking nukes; Trump aides said to prefer Israel attack Iran first: ‘The politics are a lot better’

Iranians shop at Tehran's Grand Bazaar on February 24, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

Iranian FM arrives in Geneva for talks as US demands any nuclear deal last indefinitely

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies

A shop owner counts Iranian banknotes at a store in the capital Tehran on January 7, 2026. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 26: US proposes severing Swiss bank from financial system over alleged Iran links

IDF says it killed several ‘terrorists’ who crossed Gaza ceasefire line * Mamdani says Trump ordered release of Columbia University student arrested by ICE after ‘productive’ meeting at White House

9:25 pm

Family of UN rapporteur Albanese sues Trump over sanctions
8:44 pm

Jewish groups sue California for alleged antisemitism in schools
8:31 pm

Mamdani says he had 'productive' meeting with Trump at White House

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a special session of the Knesset, February 25, 2026 (Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO)

PM Modi: 'We are breaking the jihadist axis of evil'

In the Knesset, Modi says India stands firmly with Israel ‘in this moment and beyond’

By Nava Freiberg and Lazar Berman

Indian leader visits Israel in demonstration of strength of strategic ties, relationship with Netanyahu; in historic address calls Israel ‘a protective wall against barbarism’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, February 26, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Departing Israel, Modi says there’s ‘no place for terrorism,’ praises Gaza peace plan

By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and Lazar Berman

Opposition leader Yair Lapid greets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Knesset in Jerusalem during Modi’s official visit to Israel on February 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With Modi in Knesset, Opposition boycott PM’s speech over exclusion of High Court chief

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Demonstrators take part in an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally titled "Stop the genocide in Gaza! No weapons in war zones! Peace instead of arms race!" on September 13, 2025, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Berlin saw record 2,267 antisemitic crimes in 2025, report shows

The new figures in the city where the Holocaust was engineered are ‘shameful,’ MP Sebastian Schlüsselburg says

A protester speaks through a megaphone as he stands with others holding flags and banners outside Flinders Street station during the visit of Israel's President Isaac Herzog in Melbourne on February 12, 2026. (MARTIN KEEP / AFP)

Australian tribunal rules ‘All Zionists are terrorists’ chant is unlawful

Supporters of Palestine Action stage a protest outside the Royal Court of Justice in London, February 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Court allows UK government to appeal ruling that Palestine Action ban was unlawful

By Reuters and ToI Staff

From the blogs

Today, the war ended. Today, everything begins.

On the shloshim of Ran Gvili, the last of Israel’s hostages to come home, the nation stands at a historical hinge, mourning and rebuilding at once. We’ve been here before

Boys stand on a launcher of an Iranian domestically built missile during an annual rally marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution at Azadi (Freedom) Square in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Analysis

Iran would be outgunned in war with the US, but could still inflict considerable pain

Whether by using missiles to attack American military assets, getting support from its proxies, or closing the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran has potent options

A Valar Atomics microreactor is seen on a C-17 aircraft, without nuclear fuel, at March Air Reserve Base, California, February 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 26 – Nuke talks resume even as US F-22s crowd Israeli skies

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Measure removes a 'significant hurdle' for immigration

New US immigrants to Israel no longer need to double-pay social security, under new law

Legislation means that for their first 5 years in country, self-employed Americans can now avoid losing an extra 15% of their income by paying social security to both countries

Illustrative image of the American and Israeli flags. (3dmitry; iStock by Getty Images)

Illustrative: Amazon packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon warehouse facility in Goodyear, Arizona, December 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Ad hoc tax changes for overseas online orders cause confusion for Israelis about charges

By Sharon Wrobel

Activists protest against New York City legislation meant to protect houses of worship, at City Hall in New York City, February 25, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel

NYC Council sees showdown over watered-down buffer zone bill for houses of worship

Activists protest against legislation crafted in response to synagogue demonstrations as ‘prioritizing Zionist interests’; NYPD explains legal concerns surrounding protected areas

Skiboky Stora speaks to Fox 5 New York after being charged in court with hate crimes, May 29, 2024. (Screenshot via Fox 5 New York)

‘Die, Jews, die!’: NYC man convicted for harassing couple who saw him rip hostage posters

By AP and ToI Staff

From left to right: Meghan Leathers, Jon Bass, Theo Taplitz, Kyra Sedgwick, Method Man, Milana Vayntrub, Adam Mitchell, and Daniel Robbins speak onstage during the 25th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 'Bad Shabbos' opening night premiere at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on February 19, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Derek White/ AFP)

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologizes over anti-Zionist juror judging human rights films

By Jackie Hajdenberg

As a proud Orthodox rabbi, I say the Kotel bill is an act of spiritual homicide

5 reasons this legislation is an enormous mistake — and why I have faith that the Torah can handle a little diversity

Aviram Bellaishe

Trump broke the aid machine. Good.

The establishment was horrified, but the US president had a point: Aid should not finance the wars it’s supposed to help stop

A Hezbollah flag flutters above the rubble of a building that was hit in January by an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Qannarit, on February 16, 2026. (Joseph EID / AFP)

Hezbollah official: We will not intervene in event of ‘limited’ US strikes on Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Passengers consult the departures board at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on June 25, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Australia tells families of diplomats in Israel, Lebanon to leave amid Iran tensions

By ToI Staff and Reuters

US President Donald Trump delivers his 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/Alex Brandon)

Poll: Most Americans worry about Iran’s nukes — and about Trump’s military judgment

By Linley Sanders and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN

Oct. 7 bereaved families fume as ex-Shin Bet chief said co-founding leadership project

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Ronen Bar reportedly on managing board of new program with Reichman University; victims’ relatives insist anyone responsible for failures that enabled Hamas attack can’t teach leadership

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security service, attends a ceremony on May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A document that was included in the US Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed on February 10, 2026, shows a photo of Epstein on a inmate report from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

US Justice Department reviewing whether any Epstein files were mistakenly withheld

Review follows reports that records, involving uncorroborated accusations from a woman who claimed Trump and Epstein sexually assaulted her as a minor, weren’t released to public

Former US treasury secretary Larry Summers attends a conference on July 9, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

Former US Treasury chief Larry Summers quits Harvard over Epstein ties

Bill Gates attends a dinner with US President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, September 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Bill Gates admits affairs with two Russian women, denies involvement in Epstein’s crimes

By AFP

A building under construction is pictured in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze'ev on October 24, 2025. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

2025 was record year for settlement expansion, construction and planning, NGO finds

By Jeremy Sharon

Records for number of new settlements, illegal outposts and housing unit plans broken in 2025. Local leader says government making settlements ‘inseparable part of country’

Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a contractor for Reuters who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital on August 25, 2025, stands next to his camera as he works at the hospital in this undated picture. (REUTERS / Mohammed Salem)

129 journalists killed worldwide in 2025, mostly by Israel, press group claims; IDF rejects findings

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Explainer

The way the kurkar crumbles? As deteriorating cliffs pose a danger, politics bogs down repairs

After part of a coastal rock face collapses in Herzliya, those tasked with protecting these ridges call for cash – and a single coordinating body to help them get the job done

Cliff collapse at Sidna Ali Beach in Herzliya, February 21, 2026. (Assaf Nissenbaum/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Aid trucks drive along a dusty road after entering through the Kissufim Crossing in southern Israel, towards Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on October 27, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Shin Bet employee indicted for smuggling goods into Gaza, reportedly earning millions

Several others, including a Palestinian, also charged in case, which is under a gag order, according to joint statement from police and Shin Bet

Illustrative: IDF troops are seen in southern Gaza's Rafah, November 23, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Gazan firm to build UAE-funded housing complex in Israel-controlled south — sources

By Reuters and ToI Staff

In this handout photo released by the World Health Organization, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visit the Specialty Hospital to meet with recent medical evacuees from Gaza in Amman, Jordan, on February 25, 2026. (World Health Organization via AP)

Harry and Meghan meet with hospitalized Gazan children during visit to Jordan

Screengrab of a video showing right-wing activists rally outside the Tel Aviv apartment of Channel 13 Arab Israeli anchor Lucy Aharish, February 25, 2026, (X)

Far-right activists threaten Arab news anchor at latest rally outside her home

Agitators show up at Lucy Aharish’s residence to harass her for fourth time in past week, vow to continue doing so: ‘It won’t stop here’; one activist reportedly detained by cops

Khaled Odeh, the victim of a lethal shooting in Reineh, an Arab town north of Nazareth, on February 26, 2026. (Facebook)

Man shot and killed in Galilee in latest homicide to hit Arab community

By Charlie Summers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

AG lets police summon Netanyahu to testify on claims against chief of staff – reports

PM not expected to be questioned as a suspect, but senior law enforcement source tells Channel 12 ‘there was no escape’ from him having to testify about Tzachi Braverman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, at the funeral of Asher Hayon, a former chief of staff and adviser to the premier, at a cemetery in Modiin, February 17, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

PM’s chief of staff accepts temporary extension of release restrictions until court ruling

By Jeremy Sharon

More Headlines

The scene of a traffic accident on February 26, 2026, in which a bus carrying IDF soldiers crashed, injuring 17 people. (Magen David Adom)

At least 29, mostly IDF soldiers, injured in 2 separate bus accidents in Negev

David Shuker in a 2022 interview with Chanel 13 (Screnshot)

ObituaryDavid Shuker, ‘Last Jew of Saudi Arabia,’ dies at 82

Demonstrators gather on the Galata Bridge holding Palestinian and Turkish flags during a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2026. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Israeli woman arrested in Turkey for serving in IDF, released after US intervention

Family members and friends of Haymanut Kasau attend Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on February 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two years after Haymanut Kasau’s disappearance, Shin Bet approved to join search

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

An undated handout photo of an autonomous unmanned BlueWhale submarine. (Israel Aerospace Industries)

Israel delivers unmanned spy submarine to German military

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

President Isaac Herzog (left) meets with Ethiopian President Taye Atske Selassie in Addis Ababa on February 25, 2026. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Visiting Ethiopia, Herzog touts Israel’s ‘strong’ relationships across Africa

By Lazar Berman

Israeli spyware maker sentenced to 8 years in Greece’s Predator case

By AFP and ToI Staff

Security personnel and officials gather next to buses with prisoners on board during an exchange of prisoners ceremony between Syrian authorities and Druze fighters, on the outskirts of Sweida on February 26, 2026. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Syrian government forces and Druze factions exchange prisoners in Sweida

By Feras Dalatey

Irish players applaud fans following the UEFA Nations League match between England and the Republic of Ireland at Wembley Stadium in London on November 17, 2024. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)

Irish soccer chief says country has ‘no choice’ but to play matches against Israel

By AFP

A Clalit medical health center in Beit Shemesh, May 21, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Iran-linked hacker group claims to breach data of Israel’s largest healthcare network

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