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What Matters Most On Friday, March 27, 2026

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, March 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Israel said to assess Iran can keep firing missiles for weeks

Trump delays strikes on Iran’s power plants by 10 days, says talks ‘going very well’

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Reuters

Official tells ToI president thinks ground troops could press Tehran toward accepting US terms; Israel expects limited sway over Trump’s decision; Iran calls US proposal ‘one-sided, unfair’

A first responder inspects the damaged structure of a residential building hit in an earlier US-Israeli strike in Tehran, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Katz warns strikes on Iran to intensify as regime keeps up missile fire at Israeli civilian areas

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

US President Donald Trump, left, listens as Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks during a summit on Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP/Evan Vucci)

ExplainerWhy Pakistan has emerged as a key mediator between US and Iran

By Munir Ahmed and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks alongside US Vice President JD Vance at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 22, 2025 (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

March 27: US reportedly acknowledges Iran war may extend past initial 4 to 6 week timeline

Rubio said to tell G7 ministers at war’s 4-week mark that another 2 to 4 weeks needed, insists ground troops not necessary * Six Iranian missile salvos fired at Israel on Friday

8:48 pm

Man shot dead in Jaffa, 10-year-old son injured — police
8:34 pm

New Iranian missile attack detected, sirens set to sound in central Israel
8:30 pm

Missile attack from Iran on southern Israel intercepted; no injuries reported

Analysis

Taking Kharg Island is seen as key to opening Hormuz. There are better options

US Marines are heading to region as Trump looks for a way to open Hormuz. Taking Iran’s energy hub might seem enticing, but it’s a costly, uncertain way to pressure Tehran

US President Donald Trump (center) walks to board Air Force One, March 20, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Raz Zimmt, Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies. (courtesy)

Lazar Focus podcastRaz Zimmt: Iran’s new leadership and the coming escalation

By Lazar Berman

IDF chief to ministers: I am raising 10 red flags

Zamir said to warn cabinet that IDF will ‘collapse in on itself’ amid manpower shortage

By Stav Levaton and Ariela Karmel

Report says IDF chief called for laws to enlist Haredim and extend military service, while Central Command head told ministers their policies in West Bank are further taxing forces

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks in a video statement March 21, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during an interview with Channel 12, March 26, 2026. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Bennett says Netanyahu ‘tearing the State of Israel apart,’ vows to replace him

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Sgt. Aviaad Elchanan Volansky (IDF)

Israeli soldier killed, 4 wounded in southern Lebanon by Hezbollah anti-tank missile

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Sgt. Aviaad Elchanan Volansky is 4th IDF soldier to be killed in current Lebanon op, after another fatality overnight; Lebanon to appeal to UN Security Council over Israeli attacks

Security and rescue forces are seen at the scene where a rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern city of Nahariya, March 26, 2026. (David Cohen/Flash90); Inset: Victim Uri Peretz (Courtesy)

Father-of-four killed, another man seriously hurt in Hezbollah rocket attack on Nahariya

By Emanuel Fabian

First person

What my madcap journey across the Middle East and to NYC taught me about the war

I was one of the many in Israel to have a flight canceled, leading me on a trip by plane, train and automobile — literally — from Tel Aviv to Amman to Abu Dhabi to New York. It was anything but smooth

An Etihad Airways flight headed to Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on March 20, 2026. (Grant Baldwin / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)

An Arkia flight at Ben Gurion International Airport, February 25, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Mass cancellations as Arkia changes course, says long-haul flights to depart from Israel, not Jordan

Illustrative: Domestically built Iranian missiles are displayed as part of a permanent exhibition in a recreational area of northern Tehran, Iran, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Amid war, Iranian hardliners ramp up once-taboo calls to seek nuclear bomb

Houthi supporters brandish rifles and hold portraits of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on March 6, 2026. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Houthis threaten to join Mideast war, raising specter of renewed Red Sea attacks

Iranian security forces stand guard on top of an armored vehicle during 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)

Iran recruiting children as young as 12 to man Tehran checkpoints

By AFP

A Palestinian man inspects a torched vehicle next to Hebrew graffiti on a wall that reads "revenge," following a settler rampage through nearby Nablus-area villages, in West Bank village of Deir al-Hatab, March 23, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Over 1,000 Diaspora leaders urge action against ‘Jewish-extremist terror in West Bank’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Letter to Herzog condemns settler violence as ‘not only morally shameful but a strategic threat’ to Israel’s future, laments lack of gov’t action while calling on president to intervene

Palestinians inspect a torched vehicle following Israeli settlers' rampage through nearby Nablus-area villages on Sunday night, in West Bank village of Deir al-Hatab, Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

‘National security threat’: Pro-Israel US Democrats condemn West Bank settler violence

The scene where vehicles and homes were set on fire following an attack by settlers on the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank, March 23, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

NGO counts over 10 settler attacks a day amid Iran war; 14 said hurt in latest violence

By Jeremy Sharon and Nurit Yohanan

Analysis

Trump’s turn to Iran talks could mean he wants out — or he might have a surprise in store

Amid reports US is weighing ‘final blow’ battle options, with troops on the way, Washington’s rush to diplomacy may be yet another cover for planned escalation

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, in Washington, January 14, 2026. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Attendees wait in line to enter the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, as the annual gathering of thousands of conservatives from around the country and overseas begins. (AP/Thomas Beaumont)

Trump’s Iran war tests MAGA movement’s ‘America First’ creed

By Frankie TAGGART

The universal wrong of burning those UK Hatzola ambulances

Passover is proof of context: The Israelites in Egypt weren’t trying to set an example for the world, but when they stuck to their values, their influence was vast

Talyah Ginsberg

Morning has broken and the bus still runs

I take heart as the siren wails and we disembark, for I have spotted acts of faith in a future in the simple packages of my fellow commuters

The prophet at the door

The biblical Elijah gave up on the Jews, but God knew better. He told him, sent him back, and made him witness to Jewish stamina and resolve forever (Passover)

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

The woman, her children, and the 10 plagues of Egypt

I hold my kids close during the booms and take strength thinking of how the mothers of the Exodus surely comforted their own in the scary times

Ambulances belonging to the Jewish Hatzola organization go up in flames in Golders Green, London, March 23, 2026. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Reporter's notebook'I’m speechless that people could stoop so low'

UK Jews ‘anxious but resilient’ after ambulance attack highlights rising antisemitism

By Lianne Kolirin

This week’s arson against Hatzola medical vehicles in London has shocked but not surprised a community that continues to lobby the British government for help in the wake of Oct. 7

Pilgrims gather at the shrine of Imam Reza in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

'Fortunately, this tragedy has a happy ending in Israel'

187 years after deadly Iran pogrom, Mashhad crypto-Jews are focus of Jerusalem exhibit

Now at Israel’s National Library, display shows how the Jewish community of Iranian city outwardly acted as Muslims for over a century after a massacre on March 26, 1839

Inside story

Cheap and elusive, drones put incessant pressure on Israel’s evolving air defenses

As Iran and Hezbollah deploy waves of low-cost UAVs, Jerusalem turns to layered defenses, lessons from Ukraine and emerging technologies to meet the threat

In this photo released by the Iranian Army on August 25, 2022, a drone is launched in a military drone drill in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

In this photo released by the US Navy, unmanned surveillance ships known as Saildrone Explorers take part in a joint US and UK naval drill in the Persian Gulf on October 7, 2022. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist Roland Franklin/U.S. Navy via AP)

US Navy deploying unmanned drone boats for surveillance in operations against Iran

An underground ward at Haifa's Rambam Health Care Campus, which serves as a parking lot in peacetime, used during Operation Roaring Lion in March 2026. (Courtesy/Spokesperson's office)

Inside story'We have to be able to treat people, but lives are at risk'

As Iranian missiles rain down, hospitals scramble to raise funds for underground shelters

By Diana Bletter

With the Health Ministry’s budget recently slashed, medical centers around the country are using storage spaces and parking lots while seeking donations for more protected buildings

Reporter's notebook

As Hezbollah rockets fall, emergency medics in the north work double shifts

Working together around the clock, Druze, Christian and Jewish volunteers of Magen David Adom tend to the wounded near the Lebanese border, praying this war will be the last

People injured in a Hezbollah missile strike on Kiryat Shmona arrive at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, northern Israel, March 23, 2026. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Illustrative: Armed members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad greet people gathering for Eid al-Fitr prayers in Gaza City, March 20, 2026. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Text of Board of Peace Gaza plan calls for Hamas to disarm over period of eight months

Plan calls for terror group to also agree to destruction of its tunnels; IDF would only fully withdraw upon ‘verification that Gaza is free of weaponry’

Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 27, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

What Matters Now podcast

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas triggered the Iran war. Now it may outlast the Islamic Republic

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

The head of Realign for Palestine weighs in on the Board of Peace’s principles of disarmament

Hasan Piker attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Mark Guiducci at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 15, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Vanity Fair/AFP)

'All should seek to push him to the fringe where he belongs'

Who is Hasan Piker, the US left-wing streamer critics say the Democrats should reject?

By Grace Gilson

Politicians are sitting down with the popular Twitch host, who has drawn allegations of antisemitism, as some warn that this centers bigotry, anti-Western ideology and misogyny

More Headlines

Yehuda Sherman. (Courtesy Samaria District Council)

Police, Shin Bet: ‘Suspicion growing’ that settler activist killed in terror ramming

By Jeremy Sharon

Israeli Air Force major charged with using classified info to place bets on Polymarket

By Charlie Summers and Emanuel Fabian

Syrian government security forces block Bedouin fighters, foreground, from entering Sweida province, in Busra al-Harir village, southern Syria, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Scathing UN report demands Syria probe abuses during clashes with Druze; 1,700 were killed

By Kareem Chehayeb

Anti-Zionist protesters outside a synagogue in New York City, January 8, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC Council passes bill to protect houses of worship by veto-proof majority

The main headquarters in Jerusalem of the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation, known as Kan, seen on January 31, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Unable to shut down Kan, coalition maneuvers to control public broadcaster’s budget

By Ariela Karmel

An advertisement for Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed on a street in Hong Kong, on Feb. 17, 2022. (AP/Kin Cheung)

Iranian regime, civilians turn to cryptocurrency for financial security amid war

By Lucie Lequier

View of the Soroka Hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. May 12, 2015 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Dimona parents arrested on suspicion of causing death of their weeks-old baby

By Charlie Summers

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

Iran bars its sports teams from traveling to ‘hostile’ countries

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