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What Matters Most On Monday, March 23, 2026

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March 23: Iran targets northern Israel in missile attack as IDF strikes Hezbollah in Beirut

Iran parliament speaker: Trump’s ‘fake news’ about talks designed to manipulate markets * Army diverts battalion from Lebanon to West Bank amid uncurbed settler attacks

9:53 pm

9 days on, authorities yet to probe officers in deadly shooting of Palestinian family
9:40 pm

Direct talks between US and Iran could be held in Islamabad as soon as this week — sources
8:50 pm

Pro-Iranian group in Iraq fires rockets into northeastern Syria

Analysis

As Trump steers away from war with Iran, Israel rediscovers cost of riding with him

For third time in a year, the president wants to cut a deal that ends fighting before Israel is ready. Now Netanyahu has to make sure regime truly cannot get to the bomb, and that Hezbollah doesn’t get off the hook as well

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, Monday, March 23, 2026, at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

A cargo ship carrying vehicles sails through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz in the United Arab Emirates, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 23 – All eyes on the Strait of Hormuz as world awaits next move

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

A cargo ship carrying vehicles sails through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz in the United Arab Emirates, March 22, 2026. (AP)

Analysis

Trump’s shifting Strait of Hormuz strategies raise questions about US war preparation

After failing to assemble coalition to secure critical oil shipping route, president has resorted to a threat to hit Iran’s power plants that critics warn is illegal, may backfire

Iranians attend the funeral ceremony of Iran's Revolutionary Guards spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran on March 21, 2026. (AFP)

Netanyahu said frustrated that Mossad promise it could instigate Iran uprising has fallen short

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A woman walks next to damaged and burnt out ambulances (R) in the Golders Green area of north London on March 23, 2026, after volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organization were set on fire overnight. (Photo by Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)

Starmer: 'Deeply shocking antisemitic arson attack'

Four London Jewish community ambulances set ablaze outside synagogue in hate crime

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police looking for three suspects seen in footage pouring gasoline on Hatzola emergency vehicles parked at Golders Green’s Machzike Hadath Synagogue, setting them on fire; no injuries reported

An anti-Israel drawing, part of the 'Drawings against Genocide' exhibit in Margate, UK, seen on March 21, 2026. (X/Zoe Strimpel: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli diplomat slams UK anti-Israel art exhibit featuring swastika as antisemitic

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Aerial view of the Orot Rabin power station in Hadera, on January 29, 2026. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)

Iran warns it will hit Israeli, Gulf power plants if US targets Iranian electric stations

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

‘If you hit electricity, we hit electricity,’ IRGC says, warns will also mine Gulf waters if invaded; Israel launches extensive strikes on Tehran as Iran continues missile attacks

Analysis

Israel and US have tried to take down Iran from the air. History shows the idea lacks legs

Since the 19th century, airpower has enticed military planners with dreams of a clean, short victory using cutting-edge technology. That has proven elusive without ground troops

Israeli Air Force F-35I fighter jets head to carry out strikes in Iran, in a photo published by the military on March 15, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent addresses journalists in Paris, France, on March 16, 2026. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

US Treasury chief: Washington may have to ‘escalate to de-escalate’ against Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This handout photo taken on March 11, 2026, and released by the Royal Thai Navy, shows smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier 'Mayuree Naree' near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack. (Handout / Royal Thai Navy/AFP)

US said planning weeks-long operation to reopen Hormuz Strait; IDF strikes Tehran overnight

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and AFP

Fresh flight restrictions thwart Israelis’ Passover plans, send carriers scrambling

By Sharon Wrobel

Arkia shifts some activity to Egypt and Jordan, El Al and Israir limit flight routes, after authorities tighten passenger quotas, halve takeoffs and landings amid Iranian attacks

View of Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, July 8, 2025. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Ofer Moskovitz, 60, an avocado farmer in Kibbutz Misgav Am, who was killed by an errant IDF shell, seen in a photo from November 1, 2021. (Ayal Margolin/FLASH90)

IDF probe finds farmer killed in north was hit by Israeli shelling, not Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Artillery unit supporting troops in Lebanon fired shells at wrong angle, hitting Israeli territory, killing Ofer Moskovitz, military says; brother says no hard feelings toward army

A fireball rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Qasmiya Bridge, located on a main highway linking villages in the Tyre district with others further north, in southern Lebanon on March 22, 2026. (Kawnat HAJU / AFP)

Israel blows up bridge allegedly used by Hezbollah to move troops into south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

A man walks near where an overnight Iranian missile strike hit Arad, in southern Israel, on March 22, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'We see here the manifestation of the Iranian threat'

After a night of destruction, residents of Arad and Dimona begin picking up the pieces

By Stav Levaton

Nearly 200 wounded as two Iranian missiles hit homes; locals voice fear, faith and resilience in face of attacks

Jerusalem train line restarts after repairs to Tel Aviv station hit in Iranian attack

Inside story

Gulf states opposed war with Iran. Most are now pushing to keep the fight going

Officials tell ToI that after being attacked, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain believe Iran’s military must be cut down before a ceasefire can be called, with some considering joining the offensive

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, right, and his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani attend the consultative ministerial meeting in Riyadh, on March 19, 2026. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

The NISSOS CHRISTIANA crude oil tanker was spotted off Israel's Mediterranean coast on the shipping site MarineTraffic on March 22, 2026. (Screenshot/Youtube)

Israel has sufficient oil and petroleum reserves, for now — energy expert

But with costs rising, gasoline prices could go up by NIS 1 per liter, or $1.21 per gallon, next month unless Finance Ministry cuts fuel tax to soften the pinch

International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia, Monday, March 23, 2026. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

IEA chief: Energy crisis due to Iran war a ‘major, major threat’ to global economy

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY

Ambulances were burned. What are we waiting for?

The torching of emergency vehicles run by Jewish volunteers outside a London synagogue crossed a line. Saying ’enough is enough’ is just not enough

Tammy G. Pectold

The West’s most expensive cognitive bias

Fifty years of evidence, zero accountability. Behavioral science helps explain why Western leaders keep falling for Iran’s oldest trick

Anna Hershkowitz

I’m tired of being told I’m resilient

My kids, who have built their Barbies a safe room, complete with siren sound effects, absorb more stress than we think. We all do

Settler violence is the symptom, not the disease

As rabbis and generals rush to denounce West Bank attacks, we must ask: what kind of political system makes such brutality not just possible, but predictable?

Flames and smoke rise from burning houses and vehicles amid reports of an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank, on March 22, 2026 (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

PM said to hold call under US pressure to discuss attacks

10 reported injured as settlers torch cars, property in West Bank Palestinian town

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Security forces responding to attack seize weapons, arrest 5 Israelis; policeman hurt in attack by settlers; attacks follow Saturday death of 18-year-old settler in crash probed as terror

Yehoshua and Sima Sherman mourn the killing of their son Yehuda in the at his funeral in Elon Moreh, March 22, 2026. (Jeremy Sharon / The Times of Israel)

Father of settler teen killed by Palestinian says son was ‘sacrifice’ for settlements cause

By Jeremy Sharon

German Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert speaks during a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Sa’ar slams German envoy for condemning settler violence in post on Israeli war casualties

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Ilan Hadad from the Israel Antiquities Authority holds a silver shekel coin seized during an inspection at the Hizma Checkpoint north of Jerusalem in the West Bank on February 20, 2026. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Ancient coins from Hasmonean kingdoms, Jewish revolts seized after suspected smuggling

By Rossella Tercatin

Police say they found the artifacts last month as they inspected a vehicle belonging to a Palestinian doctor as he crossed the Hizma checkpoint north of Jerusalem into Israel

Tel Aviv University Prof. Ran Barkai (left) and Sakhnin resident Muataz Shalata hold 500,000-year-old stone hand axes crafted with special materials featuring unique geological characteristics, in a discovery announced in March 2026. (Tel Aviv University)

'A connection to earlier entities or the cosmos'

Paleolithic chic: 500,000 years ago, Israel’s ancient toolmakers had a taste for sparkle

By Rossella Tercatin

Rare hand axes from the Sakhnin Valley show Homo erectus picked fossil- and crystal-rich stones for visual appeal, hinting at early symbolic thinking, new study suggests

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Slovenia's Prime Minister Robert Golob addresses the supporters of Gibanje Svoboda (The Freedom Movement) after the General Elections results are released in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on March 22, 2026. (Jure Makovec / AFP)

Slovenian PM beats pro-Israel rival, despite alleged election interference by Israeli firm

By Bojan KAVCIC

President of the Rassemblement National (RN) parliamentary group Marine Le Pen reacts as she visits to support a local candidate for the municipal elections in Oignies, northern France, on March 18, 2026. (Elise HOUBEN / AFP)

French far-right National Rally fails to win major cities in boost to mainstream rivals

By michel rose, Juliette Jabkhiro and Ingrid Melander

An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 sits on the runway after colliding with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York, on March 23, 2026 (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Two pilots killed after passenger jet hits fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia airport

French politician Lionel Jospin attends a national tribute to late French historian and former Permanent Secretary of the Academie Francaise Helene Carrere d'Encausse at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, France, October 3, 2023. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via AP)

ObituaryLionel Jospin, former French prime minister defeated by the far right, dies at 88

By Sam Tabahriti

Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, while waiting for former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to appear via video link before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/ Peter Dejong, Pool/ File)

ICC chief sexual misconduct claims still under review, despite report he was cleared

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A Muslim woman holds a sign as Syrians hold a silent sit-in, called for by civil society, Christians, and shop owners affected by an official decision banning the sale of alcoholic beverages except in specific locations, in Bab Touma in Damascus on March 22, 2026. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Syrians rally against new law restricting sale of alcohol in Damascus

By OMAR SANADIKI

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