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What Matters Most On Friday, April 3, 2026

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Hooded people approach ambulances belonging to the Jewish Hatzola organization before torching them, in Golders Green, London, March 23, 2026. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

April 3: UK charges 3 men in connection with London arson attack on Jewish community ambulances

Qatar said resisting requests to serve as key mediator in negotiations * Islamic Republic fires ballistic missiles at Israel for 7th time today, while Hezbollah also keeps up attacks

10:54 pm

Iranian ballistic missile attack detected targeting central Israel
10:44 pm

Rescue forces heading to impact site in south after Iranian attack, no injuries
10:28 pm

New Iranian ballistic missile attack detected targeting southern Israel

People inspect a house damaged by an Iranian cluster bomb in Ramat Gan, Israel, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

Iran fires multiple cluster munitions at Israel, wounding 1; Tehran claims to down US jet

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Missile salvos rain munitions on central Israel, Haifa area causing damage; 2 American air crew members said missing, with rescue operation underway; UN to debate Strait of Hormuz plan

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)

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

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustration image of handcuffs on the hands of an arrested man, in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Ex-police interpreter indicted for sharing missile impact info with foreign agent

By Charlie Summers

Community Security Service members during a recent patrol in Manhattan, March 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Exclusive ride along'Everybody is here because they have the same mission'

‘Detect, deploy, reassure’: Jewish security group launches NYC patrols as threats abound

New initiative by the Community Security Service roves city’s streets, providing a ‘subtle additional layer of security’ to detect dangers and reassure Jews

Promoted ContentBinyan Ha'Ir

Wake up to the Mediterranean: Tel Aviv apartments steps from the sea

Gain pre-sale access to luxury apartments with Mediterranean views and minutes from Tel Aviv’s cultural hotspots — with complimentary support every step of the way.

US intelligence said to assess around half of Iran’s missile launchers still intact

Israel a ‘team player’ on Iran, ‘will stop when I stop,’ Trump tells Time; report also says president, facing leaks, told Feb. 27 meeting he’d called off op, then phoned key officials to prepare first strikes

A man inspects the wreckage of an Iranian missile that landed near the West Bank village of Marda, March 31, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

ToI's diplomatic team on this week's Lazar Focus, Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg. (Times of Israel)

Lazar Focus podcastLazar Berman: What does the history of airpower tell us about Iran war?

By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, second right, attends a virtual summit at the Foreign Office in London on Thursday April 2, 2026. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)

40 nations attend UK-led talks on stopping Iran from holding world ‘hostage’ in Hormuz

IDF troops of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued by the military on April 3, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Katz insists disarming Hezbollah remains ‘top objective’

IDF official says disarming Hezbollah unrealistic, not a goal of Lebanon operation

By Emanuel Fabian

Military to present its buffer zone plan to political leadership; will involve razing border villages, setting up army posts in south Lebanon

A family who fled Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon warm themselves by a bonfire next to tents used as shelters in Beirut, Lebanon, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Rights group head warns of ‘alarming’ risk of long-term mass displacement in Lebanon

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Passover’s call to action

The Children of Israel left Egypt unified as one chaotic family, and, knowing slavery, are charged to love the stranger. We can do better

Moses vs. Pharaoh: The binds of leadership

A king’s pardon is possible when he rules by fiat, but a Jewish ruler is subject to the law

Analysis

Gram Slattery, Andrea Shalal, Andrew Gray and John Irish

Trump’s ire at NATO leaves European partners bracing for potential US exit

American president stopped short of condemning alliance in recent speech, but tensions over potential Strait of Hormuz operations have officials fearing gap no longer bridgeable

US President Donald Trump pauses as he finishes speaking about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, and US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George review troops during the POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, September 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Hegseth fires US Army chief of staff, shaking up Pentagon amid Iran war

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart

US Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives before US President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war at the White House in Washington, April 1, 2026. (Alex Brandon/Pool via AP)

Trump fires AG Pam Bondi, appoints own ex-lawyer to temporarily head justice department

By AFP

Op-ed

The death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terror is unconstitutional

Racist and legally flawed, this legislation undermines Israel’s core values as a Jewish and democratic state. The High Court has a moral imperative to strike it down

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for terrorists in the Knesset, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

German police search an elderly Jewish man at gunpoint in Kolo, Poland, circa 1941. (Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Instytut Pamieci Narodowej)

Exhibit'We don't really have those voices of elderly survivors'

The elderly were among the most vulnerable in the Holocaust – and the most overlooked

By Robert Philpot

‘Eldercide,’ on display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library through April 30, explores how older Jews were especially unlikely to survive the Nazis, while those who did faced enormous challenges

Obituary

Tzruya ‘Suki’ Lahav, writer, poet and briefly Springsteen’s violinist, dies at 74

In her early 20s, before her long career as a Hebrew lyricist and author, Lahav played and sang with the E Street Band: ‘I went from kibbutz harvest music to rocking with Bruce’

Tzruya "Suki" Lahav, pictured in Jerusalem, July 31, 2008. (Yossi Zamir / Flash90)

The rectangular marble block with three hemispheric cavities for oils unearthed in the southern hall of the cathedral at Hippos, east of the Sea of Galilee, in a discovery announced in March 2026. (Michael Eisenberg/University of Haifa)

'This opens up many questions about local customs'

Marble bowl buried 1,300 years ago in Golan church sheds light on ancient baptisms

By Rossella Tercatin

Found in a cathedral destroyed by an earthquake in 749, a unique liturgical object suggests the ceremony there featured three moments of anointment, a ritual never documented before

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, holds a prayer service to mark Holy Thursday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, April 2, 2026. (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)

Latin Patriarch holds limited prayers at Holy Sepulchre after Palm Sunday uproar

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jerusalem church akin to ‘womb of peace’ in a world ‘being torn apart,’ Cardinal Pizzaballa tells clergymen and staff permitted to attend Holy Thursday rites amid Iran war

'This parasite is sort of a genius - it's only one cell'

Groundbreaking Israeli study finds malarial parasites hack RNA to deceive immune system

By Diana Bletter

Paving way for new therapies, researchers decode how parasites that spread one of the world’s deadliest diseases use trickery to trigger confusion inside cells and evade defenses

This file photo provided by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female mosquito in the process of obtaining its blood meal through its sharp, needle-like labrum. (James Gathany/CDC via AP)

New immigrants arrive on the Nefesh B'Nefesh charter flight, August 20, 2025 (Yonit Schiller)

'Bringing Anglos into a community is a blessing'

As Anglo immigration grows, developers rethink ways to cultivate communal roots

From rabbi-led neighborhoods to group purchases, new approaches aim to ease immigrants’ transition as a post-Oct. 7 wave of newcomers seeks to blend American comforts with the Zionist dream

Housing snapshot March 2026: Prices dip again after two-month rise

This 2025 photo provided by the Islamic Society of Milwaukee shows Salah Sarsour in Franklin, Wisconsin. (Islamic Society of Milwaukee via AP)

ICE arrests West Bank-born Wisconsin mosque president over terror funding suspicions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Salah Sarsour was convicted by Israel of rock-throwing as a teenager, moved to the US in 1993; his lawyers and community claim arrest is an attempt to stifle pro-Palestinian voices

Friedrich Torberg signs a book on April 19, 1951, in Vienna. (Public domain)

'He saw the logical end of where the Nazis were going'

A lost 1943 novel envisioned the still-unfolding Holocaust. Now, it has been recovered

By Shira Li Bartov

In ‘Vengeance is Mine,’ Austrian refugee Friedrich Torberg painted an accurate picture of Nazi camps, though he’d never been in one. His portrayal is being translated for the first time

More Headlines

Visitors queue at the main gate of the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial site, on April 3, 2025. (Jens Schlueter/ AFP)

Germany bans planned rally against Israel’s ‘genocide’ at Buchenwald former Nazi camp

By Shira Li Bartov

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

French police ban Muslim gathering near Paris over fears far-right groups could target it

By AFP

People walk past the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires on June 20, 2025. (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

Argentina declares Iranian envoy persona non grata, gives him 48 hours to leave

By Cecilia Lazzaro Blasbalg and Agencies

French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and his wife Brigitte Macron arrive at the Seoul airport in Seongnam, South Korea,, April 2, 2026. (Lee Jin-man/AP); US President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on April 1, 2026, in Washington. (Alex Brandon, Pool/AP)

Macron scoffs at Trump’s mockery of his marriage, says it ‘doesn’t merit a response’

By AFP

Scene of a fatal shooting in the coastal city of Herzliya, April 2, 2026. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in Herzliya, another in Rahat, in third killing in town in a week

Smoke rises from the site of Israeli airstrikes that targeted Beirut's southern suburbs amid the ongoing war between Israel and terror group Hezbollah, on November 25, 2024. (Ibrahim Amro /AFP)

Man files war crimes complaint in France over deadly 2024 IDF strike in Beirut

By AP and ToI Staff

Donald Trump Jr., left, and Eric Trump listen to US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, February 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Drone maker backed by Trump’s sons looks to sell to Gulf states attacked by Iran

By Bernard Condon

Israeli director Nadav Lapid poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, California on March 30, 2026. (Valerie Macon / AFP)

Interview‘Dancing with the devil’: Nadav Lapid wants his satire film ‘Yes’ to ‘shake souls’

By AFP and ToI Staff

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