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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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Security and rescue forces respond at the site of an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

4 people lightly hurt, buildings mangled as Iranian missile attack hits Tel Aviv

By Emanuel Fabian, Charlie Summers and Agencies

Wounded did not require hospital; IDF says it struck Islamic Guards HQ in Tehran; UN Security Council negotiating draft resolution demanding Iran halt Hormuz attacks

The Dubai skyline with the landmark Burj Khalifa skyscraper (R) is pictured as a smoke plume rises from an ongoing fire near Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates, on March 16, 2026. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia and UAE ‘inching toward’ joining fighting against Iran — report

Members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces take part in a funeral of one of the people killed in a strike attributed to the US, in Baghdad on March 24, 2026. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Airstrikes kill 15 Iran-backed troops in Iraq, targeting HQ and leader

US President Donald Trump speaks with the media before boarding Air Force One, March 23, 2026, at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump: Maybe I'll run Hormuz with the ayatollah, whoever he is

Trump: Deal with Iran to end war close; Israel will be happy; strikes on energy sites postponed

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

US president claims Iran will hand over enriched uranium, refrain from seeking nukes; Iran denies talks; parliament speaker Qalibaf, said leading Tehran’s side, derides ‘fake news’; Netanyahu says Trump told him of chance to achieve war goals through a deal

US President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order on fraud in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2026 as Vice President JD Vance (C) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson (R) look on. (Annabelle Gordon/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 24: Trump shocks, and dismays, with news of Iran talks

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, dressed in an IRGC uniform, chairs a session in Tehran, Iran, on February 1, 2026. (Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA)/AFP)

Iran’s hardline parliament speaker Mohammed Qalibaf enters spotlight amid reported US talks

By Parisa Hafezi

Netanyahu: Trump sees chance for deal with Iran to achieve war goals, protect Israel’s ‘vital interests’

By Stav Levaton, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israel will continue to strike Iran while talks are ongoing, PM says; Tehran said to seek control over Hormuz Strait, may be willing to pause ballistic missile program, reduce enrichment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video statement on March 23, 2026. (Screen capture/X)

Iran's Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr in 2023 (YouTube screenshot/CCTV)

Iran names ex-IRGC commander Zolghadr to succeed Larijani as security chief

By AFP

Palestinians surround debris from a ballistic missile fired from Iran toward Israel that fell outside the Palestinian village of Haris in the West Bank, on March 24, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 24: Israeli ambassador to UN says Israel not part of any reported Iran talks

Trump says US ‘talking to the right people’ in Iran, who ‘badly’ want to make a deal * Pakistani PM says Islamabad ‘ready’ to host talks to end the war

9:57 pm

Israeli ambassador to UN says Israel not part of any reported Iran talks
9:45 pm

IDF detects Iranian missile launch targeting Jerusalem and central Israel
9:44 pm

No injuries reported in Iranian missile attack on Eilat, 13th of the day

Ambassador Mohammad Reza Shibani (left), shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on February 25, 2026. (Iranian embassy in Beirut)

‘Persona non grata’: Lebanon boots Iran’s ambassador amid Hezbollah-Israel war

By Agencies, Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

Israeli FM Sa’ar praises move by Beirut, urges it to take ‘meaningful steps’ against Hezbollah, which condemns envoy’s expulsion; hours later, Iranian missile intercepted over Lebanon

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a missile fired from Lebanon toward Israel caused damage in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, March 23, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Four wounded as Hezbollah pounds north with rockets, IDF strikes in Beirut

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF: 8 Hezbollah members killed by ground troops last week

Katz says Israel will hold ‘security zone’ in Lebanon until Hezbollah threat removed

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Defense minister says Israel to maintain control up to Litani River, Lebanese residents won’t return until security ensured; France criticizes plan, Hezbollah vows to fight it

This photograph taken from the southern city of Tyre, shows rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel on March 24, 2026. (KAWANT HAJU / AFP)

Finance Minister and head of the Religious Zionist party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich says Litani River should be Israel’s new border with Lebanon

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A bride and her family sit in a bomb shelter after an alert warning of missiles fired from Iran at central Israel interrupted their wedding photo shoot in a nearby park in Ramat Gan, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Photo essay

Weddings, yoga, medical care: Life goes on, somehow, in Israel’s underground shelters during war

By Oded Balilty and Melanie Lidman

Surreal images show country’s resilience; Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station has become an impromptu home for a migrant community, while other shelters host kids’ play zones, prayer groups

The Semites who sheltered Jews during the Detroit terror attack

The deep-rooted Chaldean-Jewish relationship was built through decades of grassroots engagement and personal relationships. On March 12, it stood the test

David Nekrutman

Carrie Prejean’s theological hit job on Jewish students

At a federal hearing on campus antisemitism, one commissioner tried to use faith as an alibi for harassment. Fortunately, it didn’t work

This aerial image shows burnt-out ambulances in a parking area along a street in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London on March 23, 2026, after the ambulances run by a Jewish volunteer organization were set on fire overnight. (Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)

Israeli embassy in London decries 'climate of intimidation'

‘We are scared, terrified’: London Jews on edge after antisemitic arson attack

No arrests yet, as new Iran-linked terror group claims responsibility for burning of four community ambulances next to Golders Green synagogue; counterterror police investigating

Belgian military personnel stand guard outside a synagogue in central Antwerp as part of Belgium's reinforced security measures established at Jewish schools and synagogues, on March 23, 2026. (John Thys/AFP)

Car torched in suspected antisemitic attack in Belgium

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Interview'They realized that what was necessary was heroic action'

Certain death, small chance of success: The pre-state parachuters who jumped into Nazi Europe

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Matti Friedman’s new book, ‘Out of the Sky,’ breathes life into British intelligence operatives who became Zionist heroes despite — or because of — failing at their real mission

Inside story

Deadly missile strike in West Bank highlights lack of protection for Palestinians

Threatened by Iranian fire and falling debris, Palestinians hear air raid sirens from settlements, but most have nowhere to go for cover, and few know how to deal with danger

Palestinians inspect the damage at a beauty salon after a deadly Iranian strike in the West Bank village of Beit Awwa, near Hebron, March 19, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Yehuda Sherman. (Courtesy Samaria District Council)

Police said to suspect terror motive in fatal ramming of settler teen

The Dymshits family at Kibbutz Be'erot Yitzhak in central Israel. From left: Lavi on Anat's lap, Michael hugging Gefen, Ofek, and Shani. (Courtesy)

Slice of life'Every siren makes the children jump'

Families uprooted from the Gaza border now find themselves in Iranian crosshairs

As many members of communities affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities are still in temporary living situations, constant missile fire from the Iran war compounds trauma

Cameras to crosshairs

Dake Kang and SAM MEDNICK

Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool

Cybersurveillance emerges as key weapon of war after Israel used Tehran’s street cameras to assassinate Khamenei, though regime’s leaders were long aware of potential threat

An Iranian security force officer stands guard next to a huge billboard of Iran's newly nominated supreme leader Ayatollah Mojataba Khamenei during Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally in Tehran on March 13, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

FILE - Advertisements by the American company Polymarket predict a victory for Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election, Nov. 4, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova, File)

Polymarket bets on US-Iran ceasefire appear to suggest insider trading

By ToI Staff and AP

A clay bead from the Final Natufian period in Eynan-Mallaha (northern Israel), colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of a child (roughly 10 years old) who modeled it 12,000 years ago. (Laurent Davin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Paleolithic arts & crafts

Largest prehistoric bead cache, found in northern Israel, is a window into early artisans

By Rossella Tercatin

A new study shows that Natufian adults and children crafted jewelry 12,000 years ago shaped like the plants they ate, in one of the earliest documented symbolic uses of clay

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu, pictured in the Knesset plenum, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Minister reportedly backs Netanyahu pardon in position paper submitted to president

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Amichay Eliyahu, acting on behalf of justice minister, said to argue pardon would allow nation’s rifts to heal; Herzog adviser to write own paper before president’s final decision

Police Supt. Rinat Saban arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem, January 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police detective involved in Netanyahu trial promoted despite Ben Gvir’s objection

By Charlie Summers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu, pictured in the Knesset plenum, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Legal watchdog group urges minister not to recommend pardon for Netanyahu

By Jeremy Sharon

Activists protest against a bill that would give more authority to the rabbinical courts outside the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, December 11, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

New law lets rabbinical courts arbitrate civil disputes; opposition head says Israel now a theocracy

Yair Lapid warns that the controversial government-backed legislation, which significantly expands religious courts’ authority, means country governed by Jewish law

US President Donald Trump, right, speaks to reporters as he greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the president's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Critics decry ‘foreign intervention’ after PM said to alter media bill at Trump’s behest

By Ariela Karmel

Two falcons at the entrance to their nest, May 30, 2007. (Haim Shohat/Flash90)

Road racket killing the mood for birds breeding in half of Israel’s open spaces – study

First-of-its-kind soundscape also suggests that traffic sounds may negatively impact 23% of environmentally protected areas

Texas state Rep. James Talarico speaks during a rally to protest against redistricting hearings at the Texas Capitol, July 24, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Analysis

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Can James Talarico’s faith-forward politics invigorate the US Jewish religious left?

Texas Democrat brings the language of religion, and a sharp critique of Israel, to his battle for the Senate and against the Christian right

Iranians shop at the Tajrish Bazaar in northern Tehran on March 19, 2026, on the eve of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. (AFP)

Recipe inside'There's a lot of hope that the darkness will be overcome'

Iranian Israelis mark Nowruz, the Persian New Year, as an act of solidarity and resistance

By Jessica Steinberg

Their ‘Haft-sin’ tables set with symbolic items and Persian dishes, those with roots in Iran focus on brethren back home as the Islamic regime clamps down amid war with the US and Israel

More Headlines

Participants on a Birthright Israel program (Courtesy of Birthright Israel via JTA)

Study: Birthright travelers look different after Oct. 7 — but the effect remains the same

By Andrew Lapin

Protestors gather outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse, where Harvard University appeared to challenge $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration, July 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

US launches more probes into Harvard for using race-based preferences in admissions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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