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What Matters Most On Friday, March 6, 2026

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US President Donald Trump speaks during an event to honor the 2025 Major League Soccer champions Inter Miami in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Live updates (closed)

March 6: White House says US needs 4-6 weeks to meet war objectives; Iran’s navy ‘combat ineffective’

IDF: Air Force has dropped over 6,500 bombs in Iran; strikes to increase on regime sites, missile factories * Just 37 of 11,776 Israeli public shelters are located in Arab towns — coexistence group

9:49 pm

Putin voices support for ceasefire in call with Iran's Pezeshkian — Kremlin
9:49 pm

Qatar targeted by 10 Iranian drones
9:46 pm

Macron condemns 'unacceptable attack' on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon; Aoun blames Israel

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UN: 'Massive displacement orders' spark legal concern

Five soldiers seriously wounded by Hezbollah rocket as Air Force pounds Beirut

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

3 more, including minister’s son, lightly hurt as projectile hits near border; dozens of IRGC officers said to flee Lebanese capital; campaign set to last after Iran war ends, officials say

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Beirut's southern suburbs on March 5, 2026. (Ibrahim Amro / AFP)

Officer seriously wounded in Lebanon as strikes pound Hezbollah bastion near Beirut

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Displaced people who had taken refuge on Beirut's Ramlet al-Baida beach, gather their belongings after receiving orders from the Lebanese Internal Security Forces to dismantle the temporary encampment and to move to proper shelters in the capital, on October 31, 2024. (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

Afraid and angry, Lebanese gather on a Beirut beach after fleeing suburbs en masse

By AFP and ToI Staff

Trump: Herzog is a ‘disgrace,’ must pardon Netanyahu now so PM can focus on Iran war

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Herzog’s office: Israel a ‘sovereign state governed by the rule of law,’ pardon decision will be made sans external input; Trump says he won’t meet with president until he issues pardon

US President Donald Trump (right) poses for a photo with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before he boards Air Force One at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 13, 2025, near Tel Aviv, as President Isaac Herzog (left) watches. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara (not pictured) cast their vote during the elections for the Likud Central Committee, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, November 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll: Netanyahu’s Likud enjoys boost amid Iran war, but bloc he leads is no closer to majority

By Tal Schneider and Ariela Karmel

Left: US Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) speaks to reporters outside the US Capitol Building on March 5, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP); Right: Outgoing US secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem prepares to testify during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Heather Diehl / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump fires homeland security chief Kristi Noem, taps Oklahoma senator for job

By Chris Lefkow

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This screen grab obtained from undated and unlocated video released by the US Central Command on their X account @CENTCOM on March 5, 2026 shows a vessel before a strike as part of "Operation Epic Fury." (AFP)

'Threat not yet been removed,' IDF chief cautions

US, Israel say Iran missile fire down, most launchers taken out as offensive ramps up

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Hegseth says US firepower to surge as B-2s start dropping heavy bombs on missile sites deep underground; Zamir says new phase will target regime’s foundations; cluster warhead fired at central Israel in late night attack

Israelis take cover at an underground parking lot in Tel Aviv as a siren sounds warning of incoming ballistic missiles fired from Iran toward Israel, March 5, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Iran fires eight missile salvos at Israel on war’s sixth day as IAF jets pound Tehran

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Illustrative: A prison van under police escort arrives to the Old Bailey criminal court in London on May 30, 2025. (Benjamin Cremel / AFP)

UK arrests four Iranian nationals on suspicion of spying on London Jews for Tehran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

'I’d be all for' Kurdish offensive against Iran, Trump says

Trump: ‘I have to be involved’ in picking Iran’s next leader, Khamenei’s son ‘unacceptable’

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

US president says he’ll have ‘big impact’ on Iran’s future leadership, compares situation to aftermath of Maduro’s capture, brushes off reports Mojtaba Khamenei will succeed father

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable on Ratepayer Protection Pledge in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, DC on March 4, 2026. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a conference of the Ofek pre-military academies is held at Binyanei HaUma (Jerusalem International Convention Center) in Jerusalem, on February 5, 2026. (Flash90)

Katz: Netanyahu set goal in November to kill Khamenei; Iran protests moved up war plans

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

FILE: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

ExplainerWho is Mojtaba Khamenei, chosen to replace father as Iran’s supreme leader?

By Jon Gambrell

Voices from Iran

Iranians tell ToI they praise Israel, US for Khamenei’s end, but fear what’s next

Speaking via activist, residents thank Netanyahu and Trump, recounting street celebrations after ayatollah killed, while describing unease over Iran’s future amid ongoing bombardment

People watch as smoke rises on the horizon after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, February 28, 2026. (AP)

Image grab from Iranian state television broadcast on February 28, 2026, shows what it says is the site of deadly US and Israeli strikes that hit a girls' elementary school in Minab, in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan near the strategic sea route of the Strait of Hormuz. (IRIB TV/AFP)

US probe said to indicate American forces likely launched strike that hit Iran girls school

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attends a session of parliament in Madrid, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

AnalysisWith Iran war as the backdrop, Spain’s Pedro Sanchez emerges as Europe’s top Trump critic

By Joseph Wilson

Activists stage a blood libel performance in Washington, DC, in video posted on March 5, 2026. (Instagram; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-Zionist activists stage blood libel display near White House

Actors dressed as Netanyahu, Trump and Epstein dismember and devour fake dead baby, rehashing trope that has caused mass violence against Jews for centuries

Tucker Carlson attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump and oil executives in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, DC, January 9, 2026. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Tucker Carlson’s latest baseless conspiracy blames Iran war on Chabad movement

Brian McGinnis, a protester dressed in a military uniform, is removed from a US Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing by GOP Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana (R) and US Capitol Police officers, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 4, 2026. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP)

GOP senator helps forcibly remove protester shouting ‘no one wants to fight for Israel’

By Grace Gilson

Aviram Bellaishe

The window is open. Israel must lock in a new regional architecture now.

The IDF’s military prowess has changed how power is perceived across the region — but can Jerusalem translate these gains into lasting political advantage?

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Dragged in: America’s alibi politics

When US political figures blame Israel for Trump’s coordination with the Jewish state, the real question is whether they can get that accusation to stick

ToI podcast

Micah Goodman: How Israel and the US may prevent World War III

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

At this historic junction, the author and public intellectual explains how the stakes couldn’t be any higher as the two allies attempt to take down Iran’s Islamist regime

Dr. Micah Goodman/ A billboard showing a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Illustrative: An intercepted projectile falls into the sea near Dubai's Palm Jumeirah archipelago on March 1, 2026. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Analysis

Iran’s strikes on Arab states open door to new Gulf approach toward Israel

As Israel reportedly aids defense of US allies in region, pathways to new alliances could emerge. But shared threat of Iran hasn’t pushed Gulf states into Israel’s arms yet

This image provided by US Central Command shows a F/A-18E Super Hornet making an arrested landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in support of Operation Epic Fury on March 2, 2026. (US Navy via AP)

White House to press defense firms to boost production as Iran strikes drain stockpiles

Analysis

They won’t specify it in their war aims, but both Israel and US want Iran regime change

Netanyahu has been more consistent in defining goals of campaign than the White House, but Israel might once again dazzle on the battlefield while disappointing strategically

US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, March 1, 2026, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/ Matt Rourke)

Lazar Berman (courtesy)

Lazar Focus podcastCan the Iranian regime be toppled from the air?

By Lazar Berman

Israelis arrive at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on first repatriation flights on March 5, 2026. (Courtesy of the Israel Airports Authority)

On first day of repatriation flights, 3,500 Israelis fly home amid Iran missile alerts

By Sharon Wrobel

Plane from Tibilisi forced to abort landing due to missile salvo; more flights to be added Friday to help bring home 120,000 stranded abroad; some outbound flights to start Sunday

People wait in a bomb shelter during a siren alert for a reported incoming Iranian missile strike near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on March 5, 2026. (Olympia de Maismont/AFP)

Schools remain closed as workplaces reopen, prompting frustration from working parents

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Israeli high school students at a Holocaust memorial site in Poland, March 2026. (Courtesy/Roni Hazon Weiss)

Stuck in Poland as war broke out, 90 Jerusalem-area students brought home via Egypt’s Taba

Muslim worshipers performing the first Friday noon prayers of the month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque atop the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on February 20, 2026. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

In safety precaution, Israel bars Friday Ramadan prayers at Temple Mount amid Iran war

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israeli authorities stress that all holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City are closed to worshippers, as gatherings remain capped at 50 people despite easing of restrictions

Screenshots of apparent extremist settler activists harassing Palestinian residents of dwellings in the Duma area of the West Bank, March 5, 2026. (Courtesy Torat Tzedek)

Extremist settlers driving Palestinians away from Duma area, locals and activists say

By Jeremy Sharon

A settler looks on as Israeli forces dismantled structures in the illegal outpost of Nof HaMishkan, in the northern West Bank, overnight between March 4 and March 5, 2026. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli forces dismantle West Bank outpost near where 2 Palestinians said shot dead

By Noam Lehmann

Israelis take cover in a public shelter in Tel Aviv as a siren sounds warning of incoming ballistic missiles fired from Iran toward Israel, on February 28, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Interview'Mental health is also connected with a person's culture'

With Israelis under fire, a rabbi offers guidance where Jewish law meets mental health

By Rossella Tercatin

Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig says that for observant Jews, it can be challenging to observe laws like Shabbat while dealing with the anxiety and stress of missiles flying overhead

Beit Shemesh family clings to God after 3 kids killed by Iran: ‘Faith isn’t built in a day’

By AP and ToI Staff

Sitting shiva in a Jerusalem hotel after her home was destroyed, Tamar Biton lights up as she describes Yaakov, Avigail and Sarah, among 9 killed in deadliest Iranian strike

A relative shows photos of three siblings, Yaakov, Avigail and Sarah Biton, who were killed in a March 1 Iranian missile strike that hit their home in the city of Beit Shemesh, in Jerusalem on March 5, 2026. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Team Israel's Justin Alinoff pitches during the team's exhibition game against the Miami Marlins, March 3, 2026 (Courtesy Jared Polin)

'Hopefully they can steal a game, but it won't be easy'

Novelty no more, Team Israel goes to bat for local game with return to World Baseball Classic

Built mainly around American Jewish players, the team returning to the global tourney this week has become a symbol of Jewish identity and a driver for the sport’s growth at home

'This portends enormous public health significance'

Israeli researchers find cannabis compounds could lead to 1st drug for fatty liver disease

By Diana Bletter

As 1 out of every 3 adults worldwide suffers from the condition, Hebrew University scientists use non-psychoactive substances to change how the organ manages energy and cleans itself

Prof. Joseph (Yossi) Tam of the Tam Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Pharmacy in the Faculty of Medicine. (Courtesy/Tom Barnea)

Israel's Sheina Vaspi is pictured after competing at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Center in Yanqing during the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games on March 11, 2022. (Wang Zhao / AFP)

Olympics 2026

In shadow of war, Israel’s Winter Paralympian is ready to ski – but not on Shabbat

Sheina Vaspi to skip two events at 2026 Milano Cortina Games due to Shabbat observance, but vows to ensure Israeli flag flies at Paralympic Games

More Headlines

Noam Bettan in the music video for 'Michelle,' Israel's 2026 Eurovision song. (Screenshot/Kan)

Despite war, Israel releases ‘Michelle,’ its 2026 Eurovision song

Egypt's President Abdel-Fatteh el-Sissi delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Sissi says Egypt in ‘state of near-emergency’ as Iran war threatens economy

By AFP

President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto (C) takes a seat between Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (L) and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, February 19, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Indonesian president says he’ll bolt Board of Peace if it doesn’t help Palestinians

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a press conference following talks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 28, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

US asks Ukraine for assistance in shooting down Iranian Shahed drones in Middle East

Armed men guard trucks carrying aid as they drive through Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, November 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Four charged in fresh Gaza smuggling scandal, said aided by IDF officer

By Charlie Summers

Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri, right, speaks with United Torah Judaism No. 2 MK Moshe Gafni during a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In midst of war with Iran, Haredim continue to push for sweeping draft exemptions

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