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What Matters Most On Monday, April 6, 2026

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A woman walks past mockups of Iranian missiles along Valiasr Square in Tehran on April 6, 2026.(Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran says won’t open Hormuz for temporary truce after Pakistan proposes 45-day ceasefire

Sources say draft proposal suggests immediate ceasefire, reopening of crucial waterway, followed by talks; White House official says it’s one of many ideas and Trump has not signed off on it

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

‘Open the F***in’ Strait’: Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s power plants, starting Tuesday

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

PM says slain officers targeted Israelis and Jews globally

Israel kills Islamic Guards intel chief, bombs largest Iranian petrochemical plant

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and Nava Freiberg

Military also kills head of Quds Force’s clandestine Unit 840; Katz vows that Israel will ‘hunt down’ Iran’s leaders until the end; strikes hit airports used by IRGC

In this photo released on Feb. 18, 2026, by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, the head of intelligence for Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi speaks in an interview in Tehran, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

US President Donald Trump, alongside CIA Director John Ratcliffe (L), US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (2R) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (R), speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 6: Trump warns: All of Iran ‘can be taken out in one night… might be tomorrow night’

With deadline looming, US president says reopening Hormuz ‘a priority,’ or Iran may be ‘taken out’ entirely in a single night * Wants Iranians to rise up, but knows that could be ‘a death sentence’ * Describes high-stakes rescue of 2 airmen: ‘We could have ended up with 100 dead, as opposed to one or two’ * Netanyahu said to have warned Trump against ceasefire

9:49 pm

Iran army dismisses 'delusional' Trump's 'rude, arrogant rhetoric'
9:00 pm

Rocket siren in north ends three-hour lull
8:59 pm

UK reviewing entry for antisemitic rapper Kanye West after outcry

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Haifa, June 20, 2025. (Flash90)

Promoted ContentOgen

Israel’s Financial First Responders: Supporting Families and Business

As Operation Roaring Lion continues, thousands of Israeli families, reservists, and small businesses are facing a parallel crisis, one that unfolds not on the battlefield, but at home.

Home Front Command search and rescue forces work amid the rubble of a residential building struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, April 6, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Woman badly hurt in cluster bomb attack on central Israel

4 bodies found in wreckage of Haifa residential building hit by Iranian missile

By Emanuel Fabian

Victims extricated in 18 hour-long search-and-rescue operation, complicated by presence of unexploded warhead, which would have caused far greater devastation; 4 lightly hurt as area targeted again overnight

This image released by the Defense Ministry on July 17, 2025, shows an Arrow air defense system launching a missile during the Israel-Iran war in June. (Defense Ministry)

Israel ramps up Arrow interceptor production amid reports of depleted stockpile

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Israeli security forces and rescue teams work amid the rubble of a residential building struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

4 injured, 4 feared trapped under rubble in Iranian missile strike on Haifa building

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israel said to provide intel, strike cover for commandos

Downed US airman said to have directed strikes on Iranian positions from hiding place

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Official: Rescue planes’ wheels got stuck in ‘holy shit’ moment; reporter checked US hospital due to Trump’s uncharacteristic silence during op; officer finally made contact after 14 hours

This handout photo, provided by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official website Sepah News on April 5, 2026, shows smoke billowing reportedly from the site of a smashed US aircraft in central Iran. (Sepah)

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

As rescue details emerge, Trump reveals: We feared downed US airman had been captured

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Adam Lee Goldstein

A trauma surgeon’s prescription for peace

If Israeli and Palestinian doctors can train together even as the missiles fall, our leaders can find a way to sit together and work it out

Those trad Catholic bros who hate Israel

They don’t hate the Jewish state because of theology. They hate it because Israel embodies everything they thought they’d find in the Church

Politics at the Seder table

A Passover debate about Palestinian suffering overlooks a harder task: understanding what drives Jewish ultranationalists in the first place

Another political pope

The Vatican’s antiwar message falters against a reality in which fanatics are bent on oppressing – or destroying – much of the world

El Al nixes regular flights through mid-April; United cancels Tel Aviv route until Sept 7

By Sharon Wrobel

Slight increase in number of passengers allowed on departing flights, now up to 100 people

An El Al plane takes off at Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, March 5, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

A view of the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem's Old City, which is empty due to attendance restrictions amid the ongoing Iran war, April 5, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

High Court raises wartime limit on Western Wall, Temple Mount access from 50 to 100

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Following petitions filed by religious leaders angry that the court allowed hundreds at a protest, court says it’s ‘balancing security’ with the ‘right to freedom of religion and worship’

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin says government should ignore High Court ruling allowing wartime protests

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Around 1,000 ultra-Orthodox men gather in Bnei Brak for a Passover holiday event, despite Home Front Command restrictions on gatherings during wartime, on April 5, 2026. (Daniel Nafusi)

Flouting wartime restrictions, over 1,000 men gather for address by top Haredi rabbi

Spokesperson for rabbi insists gathering held in protective space in Bnei Brak; police say it refused permit for event and requested its dispersal after learning of it

Israelis attending anti-war protest take shelter in Tel Aviv's Habima parking lot as alert for Iranian missile sounds on April 4, 2026 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 6: Court, MKs battle over wartime restrictions on protests vs. prayers

By Jessica Steinberg and Sam Sokol

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, leaves federal court during the trial of Sean 'Diddy' Combs in New York, June 13, 2025. (AP/Michael R. Sisak)

Kanye to headline London festival; major sponsors drop support, Starmer raises concerns

By AFP and ToI Staff

Drinks giants Pepsi, Diageo pull Wireless Festival sponsorship; British PM: Booking of rapper with history of antisemitism ‘deeply concerning’; Jewish group calls for West to be banned

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with his spokesman Ziv Agmon (right) before boarding a plane in Washington on February 12, 2026. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

After Likud backlash, PM U-turns, says aide who made racist comments to be replaced

By Lazar Berman

Following leaked comments by Netanyahu’s chief of staff Ziv Agmon against Mizrahi Jews, premier initially says Agmon apologized, will stay on staff, later reverses course

Palestinians stand near a vehicle that was destroyed following a settler attack on the outskirts of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus in the West Bank, on April 6, 2026. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

At least 3 Palestinians hospitalized in multiple settler attacks on West Bank villages

By Nurit Yohanan, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Tents, vehicles burned in an arson, ‘Price Tag’ attack in village near Nablus; in separate attacks, settlers said to beat 70-year old man, others reportedly filmed attacking family

Paramedics and police at the scene of a Palestinian suicide-bombing that killed 19 and injuring 74 on a bus in Jerusalem, June 18, 2002. (Flash90)

US appeals court reinstates ruling allowing American terror victims to sue PA, PLO

By AP

Los Angeles arrest shines light on lavish life of slain IRGC general Soleimani’s niece

By ToI Staff and Agencies

While publishing content backing Tehran and celebrating attacks on US soldiers, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar also showed off her luxurious, Western lifestyle

Screen captures from an undated video of Hamideh Soleimani Afshar. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran executes man over alleged attack on military site during January protests

By Reuters and Agencies

Former hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal will host a program about his favorite music on radio station Kan 88 on April 5, 2026. (Yuval Ofer)

Free choice

Ex-hostages host radio shows on songs of strength in captivity

By Jessica Steinberg

Yarden Bibas, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Amit Soussana to appear on Kan 88 Passover series

Palestinians inspect a vehicle struck by an Israeli airstrike in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, April 4, 2026. (Kareem Hana/AP)

Army says it killed Hamas gunmen approaching troops in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Jewish thinkers, giants in their fields. From left to right: Moshe Davis, Mordecai Kaplan (center) and Hillel Bavli (Inset from an image courtesy of the Mordecai Kaplan Center)

InterviewOmitted the Ten Plagues, but brought in Moses

How an upstart rabbi was excommunicated over his prayer book for a ‘new US Judaism’

By Rich Tenorio

Mordecai Kaplan’s vision of a unified, reconstructed religion for American Jews was plagued by backlash but launched a new denomination. Now he’s the subject of a new biography

Artemis II approaches historic lunar loop for first Moon flyby since 1972

By Maggy DONALDSON

NASA crew enters the Moon’s gravitational influence as team expected to break the record for the farthest distance from Earth

Astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows on Thursday, April 2, 2026. (NASA/AP)

More Headlines

Maj. (res.) Asaf Dagan, an air force reservist combat navigator. (Courtesy)

Reservist airman who died by suicide in 2024 recognized as fallen soldier, family says

Ra'am MK Mansour Abbas speaks during a 40 signatures debate at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 19, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Arab parties clash over delayed Joint List agreement, but deny breakdown in talks

By Ariela Karmel

A young visitors at the Tel Aviv Art Museum. July 31, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Framed for successAgainst the odds, Tel Aviv Museum of Art makes world’s top 100 for visits

By Jessica Steinberg

Smoke rises from the site of a strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, on April 5, 2026. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)

Strike kills 4 near Beirut hospital, as President Aoun pushes for talks with Israel

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before a meeting at the People's Palace in Damascus, Syria, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Ukraine and Syria agree to increase security ties as Zelensky tours Mideast

Illustrative: Police carry out searches in Jaffa for the suspected perpetrator of a deadly shooting in the area on November 8, 2025. (Israel Police)

Man from Bedouin town Segev Shalom stabbed to death in nearby Ofakim; 5 arrested

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Lebanese Maronite Christian worshippers pray during the Easter Sunday service at the Saint Antoine Church in Beirut on April 5, 2026. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP)

Lebanon’s Christians mark Easter by praying for southern villages hit by war

By AFP

Lebanese women enjoy the sea at a public beach in Tyre, southern Lebanon, on March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

4.7-magnitude earthquake off Lebanon coast felt in northern Israel

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