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What Matters Most On Monday, March 16, 2026

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First responders at the site of a blaze sparked by a Hezbollah rocket impact in Nahariya on March 16, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

6 wounded after Hezbollah rocket impact sparks fire in northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF begins ‘targeted ground op’ to expand south Lebanon buffer against Hezbollah; Katz says displaced Lebanese will not return to area until residents of Israel’s north are safe

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks at the site of an Iranian missile impact in the northern Bedouin town of Zarzir, on March 15, 2026. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Sa’ar denies reports of talks with Lebanon as Hezbollah keeps up fire on Israel

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

EU High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas addresses the media as she arrives for a Foreign Affairs Council to discuss Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East, in Brussels, Belgium, on March 16, 2026. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP)

Europeans mull US request to help open Hormuz Strait, seek clarity on war goals

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says bloc could expand existing Red Sea naval operation into Persian Gulf as countries aim to secure vital shipping route closed by Tehran

A smoke plume rises from a fire sparked by an Iranian drone attack at Dubai International Airport in Dubai on March 16, 2026. (AFP)

Iran hits Gulf neighbors, keeps stranglehold on oil shipping, fueling energy crisis fears

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump gestures to the media as he walks on the South Lawn upon his arrival to the White House, March 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Lauding Israeli help, Trump intensifies pressure on China, others to help secure Hormuz Strait

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

March 16: IDF chief says Hezbollah feeling ‘shockwaves’ of Israel’s strikes in Iran

Israel reportedly preparing for at least another month of war * European leaders warn against major Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon

9:56 pm

IDF says killed a Hamas commander in Gaza after ceasefire violation
9:48 pm

Canada, France, Germany, UK warn against major Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon
9:47 pm

Knesset to vote on raising deficit, increasing defense spending amid Iran war

The scene where a missile fired from Iran at Israel caused damage to a house in Rishon Lezion, March 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF says it blew up Ali Khamenei's jet at Tehran airport

Injuries and heavy damage to homes as Iran fires multiple missile salvos at Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Diana Bletter and Agencies

Five missile attacks target north, center, south and Jerusalem; woman lightly injured after impact on home in Rishon Lezion; fragments land near Knesset, Church of Holy Sepulchre

An Israeli Air Force F-16I takes off for strikes in Iran, in an image published by the military on March 12, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF planning 3 more weeks of operations to systematically degrade Iran’s defense industry

By Emanuel Fabian

A schoolgirl holds up a poster of Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei during an anti-US and Israel demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 12, 2026. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Trump said briefed on US intel showing Ali Khamenei thought his son ‘not very bright,’ unfit to lead

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

First person

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel’s military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

Left: The Times of Israel's military correspondent, Emanuel Fabian, in southern Lebanon on November 21, 2024; Right: This photo taken on March 16, 2026, shows a bet on the Polymarket site titled 'Iran strikes Israel on...?' (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90; Emanuel Fabian/ Times of Israel)

This handout satellite picture, provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on June 22, 2025, shows damage after US strikes on the Isfahan nuclear enrichment facility in central Iran. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

Seizing Iran’s uranium could take ‘largest special forces operation in history’ – WSJ

Upward of 1,000 personnel could be required on-site to secure Isfahan facility, dig through rubble for near-weapons grade nuclear material, amid Iranian missile and drone fire

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during an interview on CBS on March 15, 2026. (Screenshot/CBS)

Iran FM claims Tehran never sought ceasefire or talks with US amid war

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, March 15, 2026, en route from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

AnalysisTwo weeks into Iran war, Trump knocked back on his political heels as midterms loom

By Will Weissert

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens (YouTube screenshot), against a backdrop of Beirut, Lebanon, on March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar)

ToI podcast

Bret Stephens: America and Israel are engaged in a common fight for civilization

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Bret Stephens

As the New York Times columnist voices an outlier opinion in support of the war against Iran’s Islamist regime, we learn why he views this period as an echo of the 1930s

We can solve Hezbollah with just $420 million

Why do we keep spending billions on strikes, operations and wars when the problem is not essentially a military one?

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

Rabbi Saul Berman, Smol Emuni, and the silencing of traditional Jewish debate

When a pillar of civil rights speaks his mind, disagree with him, but don’t rebuke him from the stage. He, the Torah he represents, and truth itself deserve better

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses conspiracy theories claiming he is dead, in a video posted on March 15, 2026. (@netanyahu via X)

Deadpan

In video, Netanyahu mocks conspiracy theories about his death

Visiting a Jerusalem Hills cafe, premier debunks claim his recent live press conference was AI-generated, quips that he is ‘dying’ for coffee

Illustrative: An empty classroom at a school in Safed, northern Israel, on August 31, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Several cities keep schools shut despite revised guidelines allowing them to reopen

By Rossella Tercatin

Ofer Moskovitz stands in his avocado grove on March 12, 2026, overlooking the border with Lebanon. (Courtesy)

'Hezbollah sees us and we see them'

As Hezbollah strongholds crop back up, northern farmers regrow destroyed fields

By Jessica Steinberg

While there are plans to help rejuvenate Upper Galilee agriculture decimated during the 2023-2024 war, locals duck incoming rockets and missiles amid another conflict with Iran

Daily Briefing Mar. 16: MKs on both sides contest cuts for northern recovery to bolster defense

By Jessica Steinberg and Ariela Karmel

New Iran-linked terror org behind attacks on European Jewish institutions, Diaspora Ministry warns

Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia targeted sites in Belgium, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam last week as part of a psychological warfare campaign, the report says

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

Law enforcement vehicles are seen parked outside Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 13, 2026, a day after a ramming and shooting attack on the Jewish house of worship; inset, suspect Ayman Ghazali. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP; X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

IDF says slain brother of Michigan synagogue attacker was a Hezbollah commander

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: French law enforcement officers stand in front of a synagogue after two cars, one containing a gas bottle, were set alight in the area that morning, causing an explosion that injured a local policeman, La Grande-Motte, south of France, on August 24, 2024. (Pascal GUYOT / AFP)

Two brothers investigated in France on suspicion of planning antisemitic attack

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Students gather around tents at an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest camp at Kings College at Cambridge University in Cambridge, eastern England on May 7, 2024 (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

1 in 5 UK university students ‘reluctant’ to share house with Jewish student — poll

In poll covering 170 institutions, about half of students report seeing glorification of proscribed terror groups; large majority (82%) say ‘globalize the intifada’ is antisemitic

Demonstrators supporting the Iranian regime hold flags and placards during an anti-Israel al-Quds Day rally in London, England, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

12 arrested at banned annual al-Quds Day protest in central London

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘One Battle After Another’ wins best picture at 98th Oscars; 3 films about Gaza war fall short

By AP and ToI Staff

Paul Thomas Anderson’s film also takes home 5 other prizes, as ‘Sinners’ wins 4 awards; Javier Bardem declares onstage: ‘No to war and Free Palestine’

Paul Thomas Anderson accepts the award for directing for "One Battle After Another" during the Oscars on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Javier Bardem arrives at the Oscars wearing 'No to war' and Handala pins on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

At Oscars, stars pin their hopes on ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘ICE OUT’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jonatan Urich (right) embraces lawyer Amit Hadad (left) at a court hearing in the Qatargate investigation at the court in Lod, January 6, 2026. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Netanyahu aides under investigation are free to work with PM after release conditions end

By Jeremy Sharon

Court deal removes almost all restrictions on PM’s senior adviser Urich, a Qatargate suspect; police decline to appeal ruling allowing ex-chief of staff Braverman to contact premier

Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli elections, at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations, October 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over Netanyahu’s objections, Central Elections Committee chooses new legal adviser

Bezalel Zini, accused of smuggling cigarettes into the Gaza Strip, is seen on a screen at the District Court in Beer Sheva, ahead of the filing of an indictment against him, on February 5, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief’s brother, 4 others released to house arrest in Gaza smuggling case

By Charlie Summers

A view of the Palestinian hamlet of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank with the Israeli settlement of Carmel visible in the background, August 4, 2025. (AP/ Julia Frankel)

Palestinian child struck by settler car, Jewish American witness deported

By Jeremy Sharon

After a Palestinian 5-year old was hit by a settler and taken to the hospital, police detained 3 US-Jewish civil rights activists on political grounds, one of whom was expelled

Palestinians who traveled to South Africa via a charter flight organized by an Israeli group stand in their temporary flat in Johannesburg, South Africa, February 4, 2026. (AP/Jerome Delay)

Israeli group was behind mysterious flights of Gazans to South Africa, report claims

By SAM MEDNICK, Julia Frankel, TOQA EZZIDIN and JAMES POLLARD

Paramedics arrive at the scene of a lethal shooting in Tira, a central Arab city, the morning of March 16, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

Man shot dead in central Israel town amid crime wave plaguing Arab community

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Victim, a landscaper in his 30s, killed in reported ambush that police say may be related to blood feud; marks 68th homicide in Arab society this year

A 2,100-year-old sling bullet bearing a Greek inscription reading 'Learn' found at Hippos/Sussita in a discovery announced on March 15, 2026. (Michael Eisenberg, University of Haifa)

'Whether a person or a rock, the bullet hit something'

‘Learn your lesson’: Inscribed 2,100-year-old sling bullet found in the Golan

By Rossella Tercatin

Artifact was possibly used by the Greek defenders of the city of Hippos against the Hasmonean army of King Alexander Jannaeus in 101 BCE

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

Knesset committee advances bill expanding Orthodox control over Western Wall Plaza

Knesset Finance Committee chair MK Hanoch Milwidsky leads a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset advances bill to grant R&D tax credit in bid to keep tech firms in Israel

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Members of Iran's women's football team arrive at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on March 16, 2026 (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)

Another Iranian soccer player backs down from Australia asylum, leaving just two

By Rod McGuirk and EILEEN NG

Illustrative: Containers of Sabra Classic Hummus are viewed on the shelf of a grocery store on April 9, 2015 (SPENCER PLATT / Getty Images via AFP)

Dip in pricesCost of hummus added to Britain’s inflation calculator

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