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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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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)

'They have until tomorrow. Now we'll see what happens'

Trump: US has plan to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran Tuesday night if no deal

All of Iran ‘can be taken out in one night… might be tomorrow night,’ president warns, calling Tehran’s truce offer ‘significant’ yet insufficient; Iran: ‘Baseless threats’ by a ‘delusional US president’

A tall plume of smoke billows from a fire next to Azadi Tower (C) following strikes near Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran on March 7, 2026 (Atta Kenare/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 7: Crunch time for talks with Iran as Trump threatens Tuesday night strikes

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Live updates (closed)

April 7: Before war, top US officials reportedly told Trump that Netanyahu’s regime change plan was ‘BS, farcical’

Mediator calls for Tehran to open strait amid diplomatic efforts * White House says will respond soon * Iran fires missiles as Trump’s 8 p.m. EST ultimatum nears * Regional source to CNN: ‘Some good news expected from both sides soon’

10:13 pm

Trump blasts Tucker Carlson as a 'low IQ person' over Iran war claims
10:02 pm

As Trump deadline nears, IDF says it doesn't have 'concrete intelligence' that Iran is planning larger attack
9:46 pm

2 lightly injured in earlier Iranian ballistic missile attack on southern Israel

Op-ed

Trump’s ‘new, reasonable’ Iran is neither new nor reasonable, and he knows it

‘We won, okay,’ the US president declared. Not so long as the regime retains power, its nuclear ambitions undimmed * Also, Netanyahu’s empathy deficit

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

This handout picture taken in Tehran on October 30, 2024, shows Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Office of Supreme Leader / AFP)

Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly in ‘severe’ condition, unable to govern Iran

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.

IRGC encourages children to man targeted checkpoints

US, IDF strikes hit Iranian rail and Kharg Island; Israel faces ongoing missile attacks

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

2 lightly hurt in Hezbollah rocket attacks on north, while Iran’s cluster munitions cause damage in the country’s center; Israel checking reports Tehran synagogue hit by strike

Smoke rises following strikes on Tehran on April 7, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Smoke rises from Israeli bombardment at an area on the outskirts of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon on April 6, 2026. (Abbas Fakih / AFP)

Israel launches fresh strikes in Beirut as Hezbollah faces homegrown anger over new war

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Firemen and first responders work at the site of a strike that, according to a security official at the scene, destroyed half of a synagogue and nearby residential buildings in Tehran, Iran, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

IDF admits Tehran synagogue was ‘collateral damage’ in strike on Iran commander

By Emanuel Fabian and Zev Stub

Army says it regrets damage to Rafi Niya synagogue; video from site shows rescuers handling what looks like book of Hebrew scripture found in the rubble

Inside story

Hamas given until week’s end to accept disarmament proposal — sources

Board of Peace’s Gaza envoy Mladenov determined to advance Trump plan’s reconstruction phase, but Hamas and Israel unlikely to cooperate, diplomat from mediating country tells ToI

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)

Police officials gather outside the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 7, 2026, following a shootout between gunmen and police. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

1 attacker killed, two hurt in gun battle with police outside unstaffed Israeli consulate in Istanbul

Netanyahu said to ask Trump not to move forward with Iran ceasefire at this stage

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Premier reported to raise issue while congratulating president on rescue of downed US airman; cabinet said told a truce with Iran wouldn’t stop Israel from continuing Lebanon ground op

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, on December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A map of the Gulf locating Strait of Hormuz and the ports of Jask and Kharg Island in Iran. (Laurence SAUBADU/AFP)

UN expected to vote on watered-down Hormuz resolution that omits military action

The four fatalities of an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Haifa, April 5, 2026: (From left): Vladimir Gershovich, 73, his wife Lena Ostrovsky Gershovich, 68, their son Dima, 42, and his wife Lucille Jean, 29. (via Facebook)

Four members of the Gershovitz family identified as victims of Haifa missile attack

Tributes pour in for Lena Ostrovsky Gershovitz, a veteran acting teacher and doyenne of the theater community, killed alongside husband Vladimir, son Dimitri, and his wife Lucille Jane

‘I’m very upset’: Trump says US tried to arm Iranian protesters, but guns were diverted

By Jacob Magid, AFP and ToI Staff

After earlier blaming the Kurds for taking the guns for themselves, US president says ‘certain group of people’ will ‘pay a big price for that’

US President Donald Trump gestures while speaking with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A government supporter waves a flag honoring the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, a revered figure in Shiite Islam, across from the Foreign Ministry in Tehran, Iran, April 5, 2026. (AP

Inside storyA 12-hour drive through Iran offers glimpses of destruction, defiance and daily life

By BASSEM MROUE

The most memorable Seder — and we weren’t even there

When we couldn’t be home to host 150 college students, the next generation, ages 21, 18 and 13, made it happen. That’s Jewish continuity

Oslo’s blind spot: Making Jewish heritage negotiable

In the pursuit of peace, Israel treated elements of its past as peripheral, leaving essential sites and stories vulnerable to neglect and reinterpretation

Settlers erect outpost in East Jerusalem, attack Palestinian locals

By Nurit Yohanan and Charlie Summers

Four injured, 4 arrested after extremist youths descend on Palestinian hamlet; IDF nabs, then releases Israeli pair suspected of beating Palestinian family in West Bank

Palestinian residents from Nuaman, a small village on the southeastern outskirts of Jerusalem, carry a man who was lightly injured by pepper spray during clashes with settlers on April 5, 2026. (Courtesy)

Parents pick up their children at the end of the school day at an elementary school in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council after the army and Education Ministry approved the partial resumption of studies in areas where the risk of missile fire is relatively low and schools have protected spaces, March 16, 2026.(Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Schools set to partially reopen Sunday, subject to IDF guidelines

By ToI Staff and Rossella Tercatin

Lower-risk areas to alternate between in-person and remote learning, with 30 to 50 percent of the students attending classes in person at a time, if there’s shelter nearby

Rights groups fear hundreds to be put to death in coming days

Iran hangs another young man as regime steps up executions of protesters under cover of war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ali Fahim, 23, is hanged for alleged attack on Basij base during January protests, in what is said to be the regime’s 10th execution of political prisoners in 8 days

Glenn Torshizi, whose brothers were executed by the Iranian government, joins others in a picket line at the US State Department to highlight the executions in Karaj, Iran, of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran members, March 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

A man carries an anti-Israel placard in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, during a funeral procession for Alireza Tangsiri, head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, and others killed in Israeli strikes in late March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Jerusalem man arrested, to be charged with spying for Iran

By Charlie Summers

The moon, as seen in the window of the Orion spacecraft, at the end of day 5 of the journey to the moon, on April 6, 2026. (Artemis II crew, via NASA via AP)

Artemis II astronauts reach farther from Earth than any humans in history

While looping around the moon, the four astronauts aboard the Orion capsule surpass Apollo 13’s record, journeying over 250,000 miles away from home

Weizmann Institute helps map Moon’s shadowy sources of ice

As Artemis II loops around Earth’s satellite and NASA prioritizes ice sampling for a lunar water supply, Israeli and US scientists are examining poles’ ancient ice traps

This image provided by NASA Monday, April 6, 2026, shows the Moon as seen from the Orion Spacecraft (NASA via AP)

Students and their teachers from Berlin’s Refik Veseli School and Tirana’s Gjimnazi Sami Frashëri pose for a group shot in front of Albania’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2026. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)

'Helping the Jews wasn’t only a custom, but a moral choice'

In Albania, teens at German school discover tribal code of honor that saved Jews in WWII

By Larry Luxner

Students at Refik Veseli Schule, named for an Albanian honored as Righteous Among the Nations, learn about ‘besa,’ a precept that mandates the protection of strangers fleeing persecution

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Government hostage point man Gal Hirsch attends the funeral of Staff Sgt. Daniel Oz at the military cemetery in Kfar Saba, November 6, 2025. (Tal Gal/ Flash90)

Ex-captives slam choice of hostage point man Gal Hirsch to light Independence Day torch

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaks during an assembly of European far-right parties with Orbán’s Patriots for Europe group, in Budapest, Hungary, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

AnalysisHungary’s Orbán has long annoyed the European Union. Now some hope he faces defeat

By Sam McNeil and Justin Spike

Times of Israel Arabic homepage, April 6, 2026.

ToI closes its Arabic- and Persian-language sites

Noga Erez poses on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Czech Republic March 2026 issue (Courtesy)

Stuck in heavenNoga Erez to play Coachella, despite haters, war and canceled flights

By Jessica Steinberg

Associated Press pivots from newspaper journalism, offers buyouts to its US journalists

By David Bauder

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference on August 12, 2025, in Tampa, Florida. (AP/Chris O'Meara, File)

Florida governor signs law letting state officials blacklist groups as terror organizations

By Kanishka Singh

A woman sits alone in a Frankfurt, Germany, cinema in November 2021. (Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

Frankfurt cinema declines to participate in Jewish film festival, drawing backlash

By Toby Axelrod

A Passover ad placed by the Georgia state senate campaign of Nathalie Kanani in the Atlanta Jewish Times drew criticism for showing a challah. (Screenshot via JTA)

Breaking breadGeorgia political candidate sorry for fluffy challah in a Passover ad

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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