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What Matters Most On Monday, March 30, 2026

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir hoists a bottle of bubbly wine in celebration after lawmakers approved legislation mandating the death penalty for West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorist acts, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

March 30: Rights group petitions against ‘unconstitutional, discriminatory’ death penalty law

7 Iranian missile salvos fired at Israel Monday * FBI says armed man who rammed his pickup into Michigan synagogue was inspired by Hezbollah * Two more UNIFIL peacekeepers killed in south Lebanon

8:59 pm

Iran's foreign minister says it's 'high time' for Saudi Arabia to eject US forces
8:45 pm

Authorities in UAE's Sharjah say building of telecom company targeted by Iranian drone
8:42 pm

Bismuth says he will advance draft exemption bill that was taken off Knesset agenda

CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond reports as soldiers approach his crew and locals from the northern West Bank village of Tayasir on March 26, 2026. (Screen capture: CNN)

Unprecedented move ordered by IDF Chief Zamir

IDF pulls entire battalion from West Bank action after alleged assault of CNN crew

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Netzah Israel Battalion to remain in reserve duty and will undergo training ‘strengthening its professional and ethical foundations,’ military says following investigation

A masked soldier, identified as Meir, looks at the camera as he opens the door of the car where CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond, left, sits detained in the northern West Bank village of Tayasir, March 26, 2026. (Screen capture: CNN)

IDF chief: Detention, alleged assault of CNN crew in West Bank ‘grave ethical incident’

By Emanuel Fabian

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, sits in the Church of All Nations on the day of a prayer service to mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (Ammar Awad/Pool Photo via AP)

Holy Sepulchre Easter services to go ahead as Church leaders reach deal with police

By Lazar Berman

After meeting with authorities, church officials say arrangements made for Holy Week ceremonies to take place with live broadcast, amid Iran missile danger

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, greeting Christians gathered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for a mass honoring Pope Francis on April 23, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Police, Catholic patriarchate reach agreement on prayer at Holy Sepulchre after cardinal blocked

By Lazar Berman

Promoted ContentNefesh B'Nefesh

Israel’s new immigrants find purpose in volunteering as war continues

Recent olim are integrating into society not only by building lives, but by helping rebuild communities under fire.

Sgt. Liran Ben Zion, 19. (Courtesy)

IDF says it struck Hezbollah operatives dressed as paramedics

IDF soldier killed in Lebanon; blaze at Haifa refinery after Iran, Hezbollah missile attack

By Emanuel Fabian, Sue Surkes, Agencies and ToI Staff

Sgt. Liran Ben Zion, 19, killed by anti-tank missile; 4 soldiers seriously wounded; 2 injured, one seriously in missile attack on north; Lebanese soldier said killed in IDF strike

Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze caused by an Iranian missile at the Neot Hovav industrial zone, near Beersheba, March 26, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)

Iranian missile attack sparks blaze in chemical plant, fears of hazardous leak

By Emanuel Fabian, Sue Surkes and Agencies

Ofer Moskovitz, the Kibbutz Misgav Am spokesperson, stands in the kibbutz's observation center destroyed by Hezbollah rockets during the early weeks of the Israel-Hezbollah war, on October 23, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

IDF probe finds ‘no negligence’ by troops in accidental killing of farmer in north

By Emanuel Fabian

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (center) and other coalition ministers and MKs celebrate the approval of the state budget in the fortified auditorium in the Knesset in Jerusalem, during the war against Iran, early on March 30, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich: Budget 'takes care of all'; Lapid decries 'theft'

Knesset approves 2026 budget, Israel’s largest ever, sending billions to Haredi institutions

By Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol

Coalition averts early elections under the wire as $271 billion wartime budget passes amid missile sirens, with opposition MKs mistakenly backing last-minute transfer to yeshivas

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, March 29, 2026. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

'Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. Lot of options'

Trump insists killing of Iran’s leaders ‘truly is regime change,’ deal to end war ‘could be soon’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

US president says wiping out top officials put country in hands of others who are ‘very reasonable,’ talks going well, but indicates openness to ground op to seize Kharg Island, Iranian oil assets

A member of the Basij paramilitary force stands at a checkpoint in Tehran, Iran, March 29, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

IDF hammers Iranian weapons production sites; Iran fires salvos of missiles at south

By Emanuel Fabian and Diana Bletter

A plume of smoke rises from the site of a strike in Tehran, Iran, March 29, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Blackouts hit parts of Tehran as Israel conducts strikes in Iran amid peace talks

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Northern mayors after meeting PM: A 'waste of time'

PM says Israel to expand south Lebanon buffer zone as IDF pushes deeper into territory

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

In visit to Northern Command, Netanyahu promises to ‘definitively thwart’ Hezbollah threat on border; terror group continues to launch rockets as IDF carries out strikes

IDF troops of the 769th 'Hiram' Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued by the military on March 29, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

French UN peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese-Israeli border in the village of Houla, southern Lebanon, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Indonesian peacekeeper killed in Lebanon explosion, 2nd critically injured

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A poster shows former Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, at the site of a destroyed house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Sarafand village, south Lebanon, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 30 – IDF set to vastly expand buffer zone in Lebanon

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

To all my ‘friends’ who saw the news but didn’t check if I was alive

Getting in touch privately to see how I’m doing when ballistic missiles being are fired at my home should not be controversial

When it was not ‘enough for us,’ but much too much

Women’s midrashim for the third seder since October 7th: From nullifying the leaven in our hearts to the Dayenu poem

Israelis gather in a dual-purpose bomb shelter in Arad, also used as a Haredi synagogue, during an alert for an Iranian missile attack on southern Israel on March 25, 2026. (Courtesy/Lilach Inbar Haviv)

Inside story

In Arad, missile blast adds fuel to feud over shelters being used as synagogues

By Charlie Summers

Residents of increasingly Haredi city say many public safe spaces are either decrepit or unusable due to renovations for dual-use, as war becomes latest battleground over religious influence

Illustrative: Israeli resort city Eilat, southern Israel, November 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

'It's been a difficult time for Jews everywhere'

Passover hotel programs see mass exodus as war disrupts holiday travel plans

Flight cancellations and security concerns make the journey in and out of Israel nonviable for tens of thousands, dealing a blow to the growing kosher for Passover hospitality industry

Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles waits for the start of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, October 15, 2025. (Omar Havana/AP)

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war

Defense minister says aircraft will have to bypass the NATO-member country, as government refuses to participate in war that is ‘against international law’

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

Iran’s envoy to remain in Lebanon in defiance of expulsion by Beirut — diplomatic source

By AFP and ToI Staff

A mourner holds a poster depicting Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, right, the successor to his late father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, as supreme leader, during the funeral procession for senior Iranian military officials and civilians killed during the U.S.-Israel campaign in Tehran, Iran, March 11, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Latest message purportedly from Iran’s new supreme leader thanks Iraq for war support

By AFP

Illustrative: Israelis at the Azrieli shopping mall in Givatayim near Tel Aviv, where stores reopened after staying closed for a few days following the outbreak of the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran, March 6, 2026. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

As Knesset moves to pay workers furloughed by war, some who returned under fire are passed over

By Sharon Wrobel

Plan offers clarity on partial compensation offered, but is criticized for leaving out earners who clocked in when restrictions were eased, while state workers will all get full wages

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) and police chief Danny Levy attend a ceremony at the Israel Police headquarters in Jerusalem, November 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police chief halts incitement department’s operations, complying with High Court

By Charlie Summers

Danny Levy accedes to decision ordering a temporarily halt to ‘proactive’ social media monitoring by fledgling body founded by Ben Gvir, despite minister’s fierce objection

President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal, at the scene where a missile fired from Iran at Israel caused damage to a house in Rishon Lezion, March 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Herzog’s office requests additional materials from Justice Ministry on PM’s pardon request

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

President’s legal adviser seeks precedents of individuals pardoned prior to conviction, as Trump and Netanyahu allies push to end PM’s criminal trial

Tal Gilboa speaks during a committee meeting at the Knesset on February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s office said to backtrack after tapping controversial Likud activist for key role

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

A family seen during the Passover Seder on the first night of the 8-day long Jewish holiday, in Moshav Yashresh on March 27, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Recipes inside'I'll take a hostage-free seder over anything'

Three top Israeli chefs share their winning wartime Passover shortcuts

By Jessica Steinberg

Ruhama Shitrit, Adeena Sussman and Shalom Simcha Elbert say goals for this holiday under fire should be ‘tasty food that’s also simple, and to keep our traditions’

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Green Party leader Zack Polanski, center, and former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn (far left) join protesters holding placards and waving flags as they take part in a march against the far right in central London on March 28, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

UK’s Green Party fails to pass ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion after infighting, tech issues

Lions rest after arriving at the Louis Ariel Goldschmidt Haifa Educational Zoo on March 26, 2026 (Courtesy)

Operation Roaring Lion4 lions arrive at Haifa zoo amid species conservation efforts

By Diana Bletter

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