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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 26, 2026

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IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin issues a video statement, February 27, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

March 26: IDF spokesman says targeted assassinations of Iranian leaders will continue

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Trump pushes off ultimatum on striking Iranian energy plants until April 6 * Nahariya resident killed by Hezbollah rocket named as Uri Peretz, as terror group continues to bombard north

9:52 pm

Iranian ballistic missile attack targeting southern Israel detected by IDF
9:38 pm

Court: IDF reservist accused of using classified info to bet on Polymarket is Air Force major
9:28 pm

IDF confirms settler shot and killed Palestinian man at illegal settlement outpost earlier today

A map of the Gulf locating Strait of Hormuz and the ports of Jask and Kharg Island in Iran. (Laurence SAUBADU/AFP)

Trump warns Iranians to 'get serious' on talks

US said mulling ‘final blow’ options if Iran talks fail, including sending troops to seize key assets

By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

Axios says possibilities include seizing islands in Strait of Hormuz, blockading ships carrying Iranian oil, sending troops to take regime’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium

People gather with Iranian flags along Enghelab (Revolution) Square in central Tehran on March 25, 2026. (AFP)

Iran officials reply coldly to truce offer, as US warns of harsher strikes if rejected

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

Vehicles move along Revolution Square in central Tehran, Iran, on March 25, 2026. (AFP) /

Trump: Iran wants deal ‘so badly’; White House says campaign ‘very close’ to meeting goals

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Trump, fearing slaughter, said to have rejected Netanyahu proposal to jointly call for Iranian uprising

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

PM reportedly asked US president last week to issue the call after Israel killed Larijani and Basij chief, but Trump worried protesters would ‘get mowed down’; Netanyahu then issued his own, less clearcut, call, and no protests materialized

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Trump listens to a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, on December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)

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

ExclusiveIran ‘present’ touted by Trump was passage of several fuel tankers through Hormuz

Pro-government supporters wave Iranian flags during a rally in a square in western Tehran, Iran, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 26 – Premature ceasefire will not neutralize Iran’s potent threat

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

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Israeli security forces gather at the site of a Hezbollah missile strike that targeted a bus in the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona on March 23, 2026. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Anger mounts in northern communities as Netanyahu urges residents stay put

Northern municipal leaders lambaste state’s response to relentless Hezbollah rockets that are sending inhabitants fleeing; Netanyahu tells city chiefs to prevent the migration

Staff Sgt. Ori Greenberg, who was killed in southern Lebanon on March 26, 2026. (Courtesy)

Soldier's sister: 'My mom screamed, our world was destroyed'

IDF soldier killed in Hezbollah gunfight; terror group fires rockets, drones at north

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

2 lightly injured in drone attack; soldier wounded in south Lebanon ‘friendly fire’; 15 troops taken to hospital with suspected hypothermia; girl, 11, in serious condition after suffering heart failure during rocket attack

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem gives a televised address in Lebabon, March 13, 2026. (Screenshot)

Hezbollah chief rejects Israel talks as ‘surrender’ amid continued IDF strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israeli security and rescue forces inspect the damage at the scene where a missile carrying a cluster bomb warhead fired from Iran toward Israel caused damage in the Arab town of Kafr Qasim, March 26, 2026 (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

US says it has hit over 10,000 targets inside Iran

9 injured as Iran fires 7 missile salvos at Israel within hours, many with cluster warheads

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

2 killed by intercepted missile in Abu Dhabi; homes, vehicles damaged in central, north Israel; Israeli Air Force carries out ‘extensive’ strikes targeting Iranian regime infrastructure

A banner bearing the image of Hassan Nasrallah, the assassinated leader of the Lebanese Shia terror movement Hezbollah, hangs from a building along a street littered debris after an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on March 25, 2026. (AFP)

Hezbollah fires missiles at central Israel; 2 soldiers seriously hurt in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Israel says IRGC Navy’s commander, other chiefs killed; Qalibaf said removed from hit list

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Navy chief Alireza Tangsiri said responsible for efforts to close Hormuz; FM Araghchi, parliament speaker Qalibaf reportedly not hunted, at Pakistan’s request, to allow them to conduct talks

This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website Sepah News on February 1, 2025, shows IRGC navy commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri talking to a reporter during the unveiling of the Qadr-380 naval cruise missile in an undisclosed location in Iran. (SEPAH NEWS / AFP)

Royal Saudi Air Force F-15s provide an honorary escort for Air Force One, with US President Donald Trump aboard, as it arrives in Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

AnalysisSaudi Arabia stoic amid Iran war, but attacks on Red Sea ports could change that

By David Stout and Sofiane Alsaar

Resilience can’t survive on slogans alone

Israelis are exhausted by continuous conflict, and unless our leaders give us a true account of the war’s challenges, our endurance will crack

Passover and the reservist who doesn’t know how to ask

Just like the child in the Haggadah, many IDF veterans with battlefield trauma don’t have the language to express their needs. I know how hard it is to ask. I was one of them.

Lawyer Samy Faisal, who cannot represent clients because the courts are not hearing cases until April 14, buys a cellphone for his mother in the northern city of Haifa, March 24, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We citizens are the ones paying for this war'

In mixed Haifa, weary residents face near-constant Iranian and Hezbollah missile fire

Christian, Muslim and Jewish businesses suffer alike as customers stay away, leaving many gasping for air — and grasping for their next paychecks

Analysis

Iran’s regime was teetering. This war could be keeping it from collapse

Rather than accelerate a change of leadership, Israeli and US strikes may have helped harden the resolve of those whose defection would be key to bringing down the Islamic Republic, experts say

A man walks past a motorist on a motorcycle near a banner displayed at Valiasr Square in central Tehran on March 10, 2026, depicting Iran's late supreme leader ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) watching as his successor the late ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) hands over a national flag to his son and new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei (R). (AFP)

The main gate of Britain's RAF Akrotiri base is seen after it was hit by a suspected drone strike early morning near Limassol, Cyprus, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus begins talks with UK over future of British bases after Iranian drone strike

Burnt ambulances in a parking lot at Golders Green in London, March 23, 2026, after an arson attack on the four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service. (AP/Alberto Pezzali)

2 men released on bail after arson attack on London Jewish community ambulances

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police say they were set free under strict conditions and will be closely monitored; attack being investigated as antisemitic hate crime

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, March 23, 2026. (John Thys/AFP)

Group behind European antisemitic attacks may be only a facade, warn experts

By AFP

Israeli authorities remove property from a Palestinian home in Silwan during the eviction of 11 families on March 25, 2026. (Peace Now)

11 Palestinian families evicted after court found Jews owned E. Jerusalem land their homes were built on before 1948

By ToI Staff, AFP and Nurit Yohanan

1970 law allowing Jews to reclaim property lost before establishment of Israel leads to families being forced from Silwan homes where they have lived for decades

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)

Government allocates NIS 50 million for illegal, often violent settlement outposts

By Jeremy Sharon

Maritime archaeologists working at the Dor/Tantura Lagoon off the Carmel Coast in northern Israel in an undated picture. (Marko Runjajić/Tantura Underwater Excavation)

Iron from a 2,600-year-old shipwreck off Israeli coast may rewrite the history of war

By Rossella Tercatin

The first evidence that iron was traded as a semifinished product has been found off the coast of northern Israel. It may have been intended for weaponry among rival empires in an era of upheaval

Ziv Agmon, acting chief of staff and spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, walks outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 23, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu spokesman quits, admits to racist remarks on Mizrahi Jews, attacks on PM

By Lazar Berman

Ziv Agmon says leaked comments were made before he worked for PM’s office, were taken out of context; says allegations of racism ‘ridiculous’ due to family’s Moroccan roots

A gallery of young Argentinian Jews 'disappeared' under the military junta beginning in 1976 is featured on the website of Eduiot, an educational memorial project. Fernando Brodsky is at top right (Eduiot via JTA)

50 years after the Dirty War, Argentine Jews remember the ‘disappeared’ from their community

By Juan Melamed

Educational initiatives highlight the disproportionate number of Jews who were abducted, tortured and murdered by the military junta amid antisemitism from government forces

Federal Minister Karin Prien wears a Star of David in her official government portrait. (Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA)

'Some see the German-Jewish friendship today as a miracle'

Meet Karin Prien, who could become Germany’s first president of Jewish descent

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, the highly popular federal minister wears a Star of David necklace and says her ‘Jewish biography’ shapes her politics and public identity

A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Israelis lose even more sleep as clocks move forward for daylight saving

2 a.m. became 3 a.m. in the early hours of Friday; daylight saving time to end on October 25

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US Attorney General Pam Bondi listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch in the East Room of the White House on March 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. (ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

US Justice Department’s Oct. 7 task force said to be unraveling

By Andrew Lapin

Israeli spyware maker to appeal conviction in Greece’s Predator case

Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on January 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (Screenshot via JTA)

Supporters of Jewish charter school file lawsuit challenging ban in Oklahoma

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Fans cheer on their favorite team competing in The Fortnite Global Championship on September 7, 2025 in the Decines-Charpieu LDLC Arena. (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)

Fortnite tops ADL’s ‘leaderboard’ ranking video games on efforts to curb antisemitism

By Grace Gilson

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