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What Matters Most On Monday, March 9, 2026

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First responders at the scene of a deadly missile impact at a construction site in Yehud on March 9, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

Iran hails 'first wave of missiles' under Mojtaba Khamenei

1 man killed, 2 seriously wounded as Iranian cluster bomb warhead hits central Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

Iran fires 8 missile salvos at Israel since midnight, woman moderately injured by flying debris in Rishon Letzion; Bahrain’s only oil refinery burns as attacks continue against Gulf infrastructure

Illustrative: A thick plume of smoke rises from an oil storage facility in Tehran, Iran, after it was hit by an airstrike amid the US-Israeli bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

IDF chief warns ‘no safe place’ for Iranian regime as fighting enters second week

By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton, Agencies and ToI Staff

A female Kurdish fighter from the Iranian Kurdish armed faction Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) passes a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), at a site near the Iraqi border with Iran in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on March 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

Kurdish rebels say they’re prepared to ‘resist’ Iran, while awaiting uprising

By AFP

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Trump to Times of Israel: It’ll be a ‘mutual’ decision with Netanyahu regarding when Iran war ends

US president, in phone interview, clarifies that he’ll make final call to end operation ‘at right time’; says he and PM ‘worked together’ against Islamic Republic: ‘We’ve destroyed a country that would have destroyed Israel’

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

A thick plume of smoke from a U.S.-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility late Saturday lingers in the cloudy sky over Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 9 – Did Israeli strikes on Iranian oil sites ignite schism with US?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

US President Donald Trump speaks with the media aboard Air Force One during a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, on March 7, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump: Next Iranian supreme leader ‘not going to last long’ without US approval

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a demonstration to mark al-Quds Day in Tehran, Iran, May 31, 2019. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/Reuters)

Unconfirmed video shows Iranians shouting 'Death to Mojtaba'

Iran names Khamenei’s shadowy, hardline son Mojtaba as new supreme leader

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IRGC ally’s appointment comes after Trump dismissed him as an unacceptable ‘lightweight,’ and Israel threatened to kill anyone picked by regime to succeed slain leader

FILE: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends the annual anti-Israeli Al-Quds, Jerusalem, Day rally in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisMore hardline than his father, Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment signals defiance and revenge

By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi

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US President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference, Monday, March 9, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Ben Gvir seeks to appoint ally David Bavli as police's legal adviser

Troops of the 300th "Baram" Regional Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued by the military on March 9, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Katz: Over a million people evacuated south Lebanon, Beirut

IDF pushes deeper into south Lebanon amid incessant Hezbollah rocket fire on Israeli towns

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

No reports of Israeli injuries; after issuing warning, IDF strikes US-sanctioned financial firm linked to terror group; Lebanon PM: Israel won’t achieve its goals through strikes

Sgt. First Class Maher Khatar (left), and Staff Sgt. Or Demry, both killed in Lebanon on March 8, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF names second soldier killed in Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon on Sunday

By Emanuel Fabian

Synagogue in Belgium damaged in blast, no injuries; mayor: ‘Violent act of antisemitism’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Counter-terror police investigating Liege explosion; mayor says ‘there can be no question of importing external conflicts’; house of worship also serves as Jewish community museum

Belgian police conduct their investigation outside a synagogue that was his by a blast overnight in Liege, Belgium, March 9, 2026. (John Thys/AFP)

Passengers check-in for the first outbound flights since the closure of Israel's airspace on February 28, at Ben Gurion Airport on March 8, 2026. (Courtesy of Israel Airports Authority)

Israeli airlines launch first outbound flights from Ben Gurion since start of Iran war

By Sharon Wrobel

Efforts to repatriate thousands of Israelis stranded in the UAE to resume as more than 15,000 return to country on 90 flights since the partial reopening of the airspace

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A picture taken from the Turkish Navy drone-carrying amphibious assault ship, TCG ANADOLU (L-400) shows a helicopter flying over the USS destroyer Roosevelt (L) and the USS command and control ship Mount Whitney during NATO's premier enhanced Vigilance Activity (eVA) Neptune Strike 2025-3 in the Adriatic Sea on September 24, 2025. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)

NATO downs second Iranian missile over Turkey; Erdogan says Iran has been warned

By Tuvan Gumrukcu

Missile falls in empty fields in Gaziantep, between airbase used by the US and NATO radar base

Schools to stay closed, gathering restrictions remain unchanged until end of week

By Rossella Tercatin, Emanuel Fabian and Ariela Karmel

Home Front Command says tighter restrictions to remain hours, forcing education minister to walk back announcement that schools could resume operating in certain areas

People take shelter as sirens warning of incoming Iranian missiles sound in Tel Aviv, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Soldiers take cover from Iranian missiles in a trench, unknown date. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Soldiers claim lack of proper shelters leaves them exposed to missile attacks

By Stav Levaton

Students at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba. November 4, 2025. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Universities say they may start upcoming semester with online classes

By Rossella Tercatin

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a demonstration to mark Jerusalem Day in Tehran, May 31, 2019. (Saeid Zareian/DPA/Reuters); Israel’s UK Embassy in Kensington, west London, March 23, 2010. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly owns two London properties overlooking the Israeli Embassy

UK newspapers say new Iranian leader’s vast global property holdings include two apartments on same street as embassy, 50 yards away, enabling ‘permanent surveillance’ and constituing a ‘serious security breach’

A man walks past an electronic quotation board displaying numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on March 9, 2026. (Philip FONG / AFP)

Stock markets worldwide quake after oil prices briefly spike to almost $120 a barrel

A thick plume of smoke rises from an oil storage facility hit by a strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Crude oil prices spike above $115 a barrel as Iran conflict disrupts production, shipping

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Doctors Without Borders and the collapse of medical neutrality

Hamas operatives in Gaza hospitals, failure to screen out terrorists, and politicized leadership erode the Nobel Prize-winning aid group’s claim to neutrality

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Backing strikes on Iran, Ukraine’s ex-defense chief says Kyiv can help defeat common foe

Oleksii Reznikov, who guided country during 2022 invasion, tells ToI that Israel and Ukraine can boost cooperation against Russia-Iran axis, and Europe should support Jerusalem, too

Ukraine's former defense minister Oleksii Reznikov speaks to The Times of Israel in Tel Aviv, February 26, 2026 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

An image of an apparent American Tomahawk cruise missile about to strike a girls' school in Iran's Minab during opening strikes of the Iran war on February 28, 2026. (Screenshot: Mehr News/X)

New clip further implicates US in deadly strike on Iran girls’ school

By Julia Frankel

Smoke rises from a high-rise building following a drone attack in Kuwait City on March 8, 2026 (AFP)

4 killed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait as Iran says it’s attacking Gulf because it can’t reach US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Riyadh says projectiles hit residential area, killing an Indian and a Bangladeshi; 2 Kuwaiti border guards killed

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech next to the submarine 'Le Temeraire' at the nuclear submarines' Navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, March 2, 2026. (Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP)

Macron heads to Cyprus as Europe rallies around island after drone attack

By Sylvie Corbet and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

Iran's players salute during the national anthem before the AFC Women's Asian Cup Australia 2026 football match between Iran and Philippines in Gold Coast on March 8, 2026. (AFP)

Calls grow for Australia to give Iran’s women’s soccer team asylum after anthem protest

By AFP

Reza Pahlavi and J.K. Rowling join growing chorus urging Canberra to protect the players after Iranian state TV brands them ‘wartime traitors’

A sketch by artist Rocco Fazzari shows accused Bondi shooter Naveed Akram appearing via video link at Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on February 16, 2026. (Rocco Fazzari / AFP)

Lawyers for accused Bondi Beach shooter seek to suppress his family’s names in court

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Extremist settlers threaten Palestinian Bedouin and Israeli human rights activists in Bedouin hamlets in the Mukhmas area in the West Bank, March 8, 2026. (Courtesy Torat Tzedek)

Wave of settler attacks against Palestinian herders reported in central West Bank

By Jeremy Sharon

Bedouin residents and human rights accuse extremists of arson and pepper spray attacks in Mukhmas area, goat killings in Jabba and harassment in Rammun

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends an event to deliver weapons to local volunteer security group members in Ashkelon, October 27, 2023. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Ben Gvir significantly widens gun license eligibility for Jewish Jerusalemites

By Charlie Summers

Over 300,000 residents now able to obtain gun permit based solely on home address, as far-right minister touts expanded eligibility during Iran war, Ramadan

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) speaks at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, January 7, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Citing conflict of interest concerns, Justice Ministry won’t hand Sde Teiman leak probe to AG

By Charlie Summers

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A masked man points his gun at Arraba mayor Ahmad Nassar and his deputy, Anwar Yassin (left), who are dining with others at a restaurant, and then opens fire, moderately injuring Nassar (in right photo) and Yassin on March 8, 2026. (Screenshot/X; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Arraba mayor and his deputy shot and injured amid unrelenting crime wave

By Charlie Summers

Illustrative: Workers tend to daily tasks on a farm in the Galilee. (Yossi Zamir /Flash90)

Nature society calls to freeze ‘land grab’ retroactively legalizing Galilee farm buildings

A man holds a homemade explosive device before throwing it towards police during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang against alleged 'Islamification' in New York, in front of Gracie Mansion, March 7, 2026. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

NYPD confirms explosive thrown against anti-Muslim protest near Mamdani residence

Country singer Joe McDonald plays during the Heros of Woodstock concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, New York, August 15, 2009, marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1969 Woodstock concert. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

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