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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 2, 2026

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US President Donald Trump arrives from the Blue Room to speak about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Address to the nationPezeshkian asks Americans why US is fighting 'Israel’s war'

Trump declares US ‘nearing completion’ of ‘core strategic objectives’ in Iran war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President says US to hit Iran ‘extremely hard’ over next 2-3 weeks, appearing to line up with timeline for ending war he recently gave; US intel agencies assess Tehran not serious about talks

President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

TranscriptTrump’s address to the nation: We are on the cusp of ending Iran’s sinister threat to America, the world

By AP

US President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, March 31, 2026. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump claims Iran wants truce, but set to say war will last 2-3 more weeks

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel comes under repeated missile fire on Passover as Tehran vows ‘crushing’ blows

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Attacks launched by Iran, Houthis and Hezbollah cause few injuries; major Iranian bridge hit in American strikes as US president threatens to bomb Iran ‘back to Stone Ages’

Rescue forces inspect the impact site where an Iranian missile struck in a residential neighborhood of Petah Tikva on April 2, 2026. (Jack Guez/AFP)

In this photo obtained by The Associated Press, Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)

Iran executes man accused of attacking military site on Israel’s behalf during protests

Names of those killed in the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center, which left 85 dead and 300 injured, mark the front of the AMIA Center in Argentina. (Juan Melamed)

Argentina declares IRGC a terrorist organization amid probes into embassy, AMIA bombings

By Juan Melamed

Fishing boats dot the sea as cargo ships, in the background, sail through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz off the United Arab Emirates, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo)

Live updates (closed)

April 2: Gulf nations back UN resolution authorizing ‘all necessary measures’ to reopen Hormuz

After US strikes bridge, Trump calls on Iran to make a deal ‘before it’s too late’ * IDF says it killed senior general in charge of Islamic Republic’s ‘oil HQ,’ commander of missile forces in Kermanshah

8:48 pm

NASA authorizes Artemis astronauts to head toward the Moon
8:48 pm

France bars planned gathering of Muslims in Paris area, citing 'heightened tensions and increased level of terror alert'
7:10 pm

Gulf nations back UN resolution authorizing 'all necessary measures' to reopen Hormuz

Iran, Hezbollah launch attacks as Israelis host Passover Seders, sending millions to shelters

By Emanuel Fabian, Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff

Four lightly hurt, including two babies, by bomblet from Iranian cluster warhead that struck Bnei Bnei overnight as Israel comes under attack before and during holiday’s first night

A policeman looks at damage from a rocket impact in Kiryat Shmona, April 2, 2026. (Israel Police)

Hezbollah fires some 130 rockets at north on Passover; 4 lightly injured

By Emanuel Fabian

Rescue workers battle flames engulfing vehicles at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Top Hezbollah commander killed in Beirut as IDF presses deeper into Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

The plowshare in the bomb shelter

The ancient hope that conflict can be transformed — not just survived has, for now, been put on hold

Andrew Silow-Carroll

AI is already coming for your jobs. Your Passover song parodies are next

AI can produce rhymes on demand — but can it capture the lived Jewish experience behind them?

Israelis wait in line to pass through Taba land border crossing with Egypt, near the southern city of Eilat, March 25, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israelis seeking to fly abroad for Passover make a reverse Exodus path through Egypt

By Jackie Hajdenberg

As war leads to flight cancellations from Ben Gurion Airport, Israelis and Jews observe the irony of people rushing to get into Egypt, with some noting lines are ’40 years long’

Democrats to weigh resolution against AIPAC, fueling concerns about ‘undercurrent of antisemitism’

By Joseph Strauss

Amendment to be considered by DNC ‘condemns the growing influence’ of the pro-Israel US lobby and also decries role of ‘dark money’ in elections, without naming any other groups

Illustrative :Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington on March 6, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, speaks at the NYCLU's May Day rally for worker's and immigrants rights at Foley Square, May 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

AOC signals opposition to all Israel aid, including defensive spending

By JTA and Luke Tress

This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor shows an overview of the Pickaxe Mountain tunnel complex adjacent to the Natanz Nuclear Facility near Natanz, Isfahan province, in central Iran on March 7, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor / AFP)

US op to seize Iran’s uranium would take weeks, require building a runway — report

By Michael Horovitz

Trump reportedly briefed on risky plan, which could require airlift of thousands of troops and heavy equipment to extract buried material, all while forces would be exposed to fire

The Liberia-flagged tanker Shenlong Suezmax, carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia, that arrived clearing the Strait of Hormuz, is seen at the Mumbai Port in Mumbai, India, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Oil prices jump over 7% after Trump vows to continue strikes on Iran

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A supporter of Yemen's Houthis holds a picture of their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi as others brandish their weapons while rallying in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on March 27, 2026. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Yemen’s Houthis threaten potential closure of key Red Sea strait if Gulf states join war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

As Iranian proxies keep up attacks, senior official says the Yemeni rebels could also move to close Bab el-Mandeb ‘should the aggression against Iran and Lebanon escalate savagely’

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at Downing Street in London, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK to gather more than 30 countries to discuss methods of reopening Strait of Hormuz

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: New York police secure a Jewish community event in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn, neighborhood of New York City, May 19, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NY suspect indicted for ‘brutally assaulting’ Jewish man on subway

Neil Hurlock allegedly shouted antisemitic epithet at victim last month while punching and manhandling him on a Brooklyn train

'There is no Palestinian family without a prisoner'

West Bank Palestinians protest, go on strike against new death penalty law

By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Strike called by PA sees shops shut, universities closed as critics decry law mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorism as unjust

Palestinians demonstrate against Israel's new death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terror in Nablus, West Bank, March 31, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Illustrative image from an Israeli prison, January 21, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

‘Entrenches apartheid’: UAE, 7 other Muslim countries blast Israeli death penalty law

By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Yael Ben Cnaan helps a customer with a bouquet on the morning before Passover at her store Bishvil Flowers in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2026. (Theia Chatelle via JTA)

'Some of the damage will only emerge at the end'

Israelis spend Passover under shadow of Iran war, as businesses cling to survival

By Theia Chatelle

Yael Ben Cnaan struggles to keep Tel Aviv flower store afloat during what is meant to be peak period; Finance Ministry says economy losing at least 4.3 billion shekels per week

A dust storm as seen from the Tel Aviv suburb of Givatayim, April 2, 2026. (Michael Horovitz/The Times of Israel)

Dust storm turns Israel’s skies gray on Passover, drives up pollution

By Michael Horovitz and Reuters

Environmental Protection Ministry warns sensitive populations to reduce physical activity

TOI’s Rossella Tercatin and Jessica Steinberg, superimposed over Andy Warhol’s Mao Zedong painting series at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on display in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing April 2: Picassos and other veiled masterpieces in Iran

By Jessica Steinberg and Rossella Tercatin

Archaeology and religions reporter Rossella Tercatin reports on art collection amassed by Queen Farah Pahlavi and a Passover Haggadah that examines influence of Egyptian culture

An Iranian woman passes by Georges Rouault painting "Trio-Cirque" (1928) displayed at the Modern Art Movement exhibition at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, September 1, 2005. (BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP)

Inside StoryOne of the most inaccessible art collections in the world awaits liberation in Tehran

By Rossella Tercatin

Weaver ants in the northern Australian rainforests link their bodies to pull leaves together. (Feinerman lab)

Joint venture

Israeli lab decodes the building talents of a tropical ant

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute use time-lapse tech and geometry to probe the collective cognitive unit of weaver ants

Amy Hack as Yentl in a scene from 'Yentl' by the Kadimah Yiddish Theatre. (Courtesy of Kadimah)

Interview'Our take is a much darker, more morally ambiguous work'

A 19th-century drama hit with post-Oct. 7 fallout: Award-winning ‘Yentl’ goes to London

By Lianne Kolirin

Running through April 12, an acclaimed Australian adaptation of the classic Isaac Bashevis Singer story travels abroad, despite what its writer describes as a global aversion to Jewish art

NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

NASA Artemis II astronauts blast off to moon, the first crewed lunar mission in decades

‘We have a beautiful moonrise, we’re headed right at it,’ says mission commander as rocket soars toward space, where the astronauts will travel 4,000 miles past moon before returning to Earth

Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Rourke, File)

SpaceX files for IPO, offering investors stake in Musk’s moon, Mars ambitions

By Echo Wang and Manya Saini

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is seen in southern Lebanon, March 27, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

In latest warning, Zamir says IDF faces ‘severe harm’ if manpower crunch isn’t solved

By Emanuel Fabian

Soldiers carry the casket of Staff Sgt. Gilad Harel during his funeral at the Modiin Military Cemetery, April 1, 2026. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Fourth soldier killed in southern Lebanon clash on Monday laid to rest in Modiin

Myron Gaines, left, speaks on Ohio University's campus on March 26, 2026. (Screenshot)

Influencer performs Nazi salute, mocks Holocaust victims at Ohio University event

By Grace Gilson

Gunman Naveed Akram in the course of a deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025. (Screengrab used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Bondi massacre terrorist loses bid to prevent media from reporting on his family

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Rabbi Josh Bennett of Temple Israel in Detroit holds Lego blocks, urging families to add the children’s toy to their Seder plates in the wake of a recent attack on the synagogue. (Facebook via JTA)

Brick by brickAfter attack, Michigan synagogue calls to add Lego to Seder plate

By Grace Gilson

Police stand outside the scene of an antisemitic arson attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London, on March 24, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)

UK police arrest three more suspects in arson attack on Jewish community ambulances

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris, March 28, 2026. (AP/Nicolas Garriga)

US banks in Paris ramp up security after cops thwart suspected Iran-linked attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former Phoenix Suns player Amare Stoudemire addresses the crowd during his Ring of Honor ceremony at halftime of an NBA basketball game in Phoenix, March 2, 2024. (AP/Darryl Webb)

Standing tallJewish ex-NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire set for Hall of Fame

By jacob gurvis

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