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What Matters Most On Friday, April 10, 2026

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US Vice President JD Vance speaks to the press before boarding Air Force Two, Friday, April 10, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., for expected departure to Pakistan, for talks on Iran. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool)

VP says Trump gave negotiators 'pretty clear guidelines'

Vance warns Iran not to ‘play’ the US as he departs for peace talks in Pakistan

By Michelle L. Price and AAMER MADHANI

Iranian delegations said to have arrived in Islamabad, city under lockdown ahead of high-stakes negotiations aimed at ending conflict; Israel not represented

Government supporters gather ahead of the funeral procession for Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, head of intelligence for Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, in Tehran, Iran, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

IDF tells Knesset panel new Iranian regime even more extreme

By Ariela Karmel

Government supporters gather to mark the 40th day since the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says massive Israeli strikes in Lebanon render peace talks with US ‘meaningless’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

FILE - In this April 2, 2018, file photo, Pakistan's then-Foreign Minister Asif listens to a reporter at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan’s defense minister calls Israel ‘cancerous’ ahead of US-Iran talks in Islamabad

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Netanyahu, Sa’ar denounce since-deleted post by Khawaja Asif against ‘state created on Palestinian land to get rid of European Jews,’ days into Pakistan-brokered ceasefire

A police officer standing guard ahead of possible negotiations between the United States and Iran, Islamabad, Pakistan, April 10, 2026. (Anjum Naveed/AP)

ExplainerPakistan emerges as a key international player as it mediates between US and Iran

By Munir Ahmed and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO

Inside storyPakistan bridging proposal salvaged Iran talks before US deadline expired — officials

Rescuers carry an injured man from a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates (closed)

April 10: IDF says it’s probing strike that Lebanon says killed 8 security personnel

Israeli envoy holds first-of-its-kind phone call with Lebanese counterpart ahead of in-person meet * Shin Bet unit tasked with combating Jewish terror said in crisis as agency chief deprioritizes issue

9:13 pm

Israel pans South Korean leader who appears to liken IDF conduct to previous crimes against Jews
8:48 pm

Settlers from illegal outpost filmed hurling stones at Palestinian village below
8:45 pm

In latest effort to tip scale in Orban's favor, Trump says he's ready to use US economy to boost Hungary

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Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026. (Shalev Shalom/POOL); Right: Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at the Government Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Trump confirms he told PM to scale down attacks on Hezbollah

Israel says direct peace talks with Lebanon to begin ASAP, rejects calls for truce first

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and Stav Levaton

Under international pressure to engage in diplomacy after deadly strikes, Netanyahu says disarming Hezbollah will be focus of talks, said set to kick off next week in DC

Interceptors are fired at a Hezbollah missile launched from Lebanon at the southern port city of Ashdon, April 10, 2026. (X screenshot)

Hezbollah fires missile at southern port of Ashdod as IDF strikes launchers in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Lebanese civil defense workers and army soldiers work on the search for victims in the rubble at the site of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in central Beirut, Lebanon, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Commercial areas, tony seafront neighborhoods of Beirut hit in IDF strikes Wednesday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Sam Sokol and Joshua Davidovich

As ceasefire halts fighting, Iran war becomes a battlefield for votes

Another military campaign halts with questionable success, as Netanyahu may find his standing less improved than he’d hoped. With elections looming, his rivals won’t wait to take advantage

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a press conference in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (Ronen Zvulun via AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video statement, March 31, 2026. (GPO screenshot)

Netanyahu’s Likud takes hit in polls, which show most Israelis oppose Iran ceasefire

Illustrative: Anti-Israel protesters rally in New York's Times Square, September 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Poll finds 60% of Americans have unfavorable view of Israel, up sharply since 2022

By JTA

Ilai Z. Saltzman

Israelis who spy for Iran: All you need is a smartphone

Citizens providing intel to Iran during wartime was once unthinkable, but in today’s gig-economy, simple tasks for small sums seem harmless

What NASA’s astronauts saw and what we can learn from it

The hidden face of the moon was palpably unfamiliar to those who saw it live, but that disorientation is worthwhile. It reminds us what we don’t know

Constant tension and the sudden loss of Aaron’s sons

The high priest is silent, while his wife, Elisheva, mourns: In a world filled with suffering and moral ambiguity, how we respond to tragedy reveals who we are.

Visiting the sick – this patient’s perspective

If you show up to offer support and offer platitudes instead, please don’t bother. But if you have a chess set and a willing ear, that works for me

40-day Iran war explainer

The war in numbers: 650 Iranian missiles fired; 24 killed in Israel, West Bank; 10,800 Israeli strikes

All 20 fatalities in Israel and 4 Palestinians were civilians, most of whom were outside bomb shelters; 16 conventional missiles, hundreds of cluster bomblets hit populated areas

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a missile fired from Iran toward Israel caused damage to residential buildings in the southern city of Arad, March 22, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

AnalysisWith all quiet, for now, on the Iran front, Israel turns its sights on Hezbollah

By Stav Levaton

US military expert John Spencer. (courtesy)

Lazar Focus podcast

John Spencer: US can force open Strait of Hormuz if it decides to

By Lazar Berman

As ceasefire with Iran takes effect, host Lazar Berman sits with a leading US military expert to discuss what the joint campaign achieved, and how questions of victory should be approached

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, and fellow Republicans depart a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, March 25, 2026. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US Republicans block attempt to rein in Trump’s war powers over Iran campaign

By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan

Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane departs from Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport, on April 7, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Ben Gurion airport reopens but airfares again skyrocket as foreign carriers stay away

By Sharon Wrobel

Summer travel costs for Israelis expected to be even higher than last year, due to limited flight sales largely dominated by local airlines and soaring jet fuel prices due to war

From left to right, Rajesh Pallava, Pallab Karjee, lab manager Guy Kamnesky, and Ashok Donthoju at the Ashraf Brik lab in the Shulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology on March 24, 2026. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'Despite the war, we’ve never stopped going to the lab'

Undeterred by war, foreign students at universities learned what it means to be Israeli

By Diana Bletter

As many international students stayed put despite constant missile fire, Israeli resilience became second nature – as did the routine of running from lab to safe room and back again

Illustrative: Research assistant Katie McCullough holds a mouse in a Washington University lab where doctors study a rare form of autism, December 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

World-first process uses junk DNA to shift sex determination

With a switch of a letter in DNA ‘dark matter,’ Israeli scientists change sex of mouse

By Diana Bletter

Bar-Ilan University researchers use CRISPR tool to alter Enh13 switch controlling Sox9 gene, causing XX mice to develop as males; study may help explain other genetic mutations

Independence Day torchlighters

Reservist rabbi who called to ‘flatten’ Gaza will light torch at state Independence Day event

Minister says selection of rabbinic judge and bulldozer operator Avraham Zarbiv is a salute to national religious community; amputee soldier, Argentina’s president, mother of last returned slain hostage among other torchlighters

This undated photo shows Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv posing seated at a desk in a building in Gaza with the words 'Rabbinical Court of Khan Younis' written on a whiteboard behind him. (X/Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

View of the Israeli settlement of Kedumim in the West Bank, February 12, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Government approves a record 34 new settlements, as it acts to deepen hold on West Bank

By Jeremy Sharon

Security cabinet decision constitutes largest number of settlements okayed by any government at one time, brings total number approved by current government to 103

Yotam Haim, left, and his mother, Iris Haim, in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Judge rules slain hostage’s family may use his sperm with a surrogate

Beersheba family court says Yotam Haim, who was abducted to Gaza and mistakenly killed by troops after escaping Hamas captivity, expressed ‘unequivocal’ desire to have children

Illustrative: 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)

Hamas not expected to okay disarmament offer by Saturday deadline, but talks ongoing

Sources involved in the negotiations insist progress being made and response from terror group could come in days, even if it’s shortly after deadline set by Board of Peace

Trucks transporting humanitarian aid wait to enter through the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 19, 2026.(Amr Adel/AFP)

Charges filed against Rahat man for smuggling goods into Gaza during war

Inside story

Nurit Yohanan and Charlie Summers

Evictions in East Jerusalem surge as Palestinians lose court fight against far-right group

Dozens of families in Silwan already removed from their homes, and several more expected to follow, as Ateret Cohanim takes over houses by claiming trusteeship over land of pre-state Jewish owners

Zuhair Rajabi on the balcony of his home in Silwan, March 31, 2026. (Nurit Yohanan/Times of Israel)

Muslim worshipers gather on the Temple Mount for the dawn prayer in Jerusalem on April 9, 2026. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Holy sites reopen in Jerusalem’s Old City after over a month of closure

By Charlie Summers

Ruhama Cohen (left) and Simha Shimoni at a Mimouna celebration held at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel in the northern city of Haifa on April 8, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'Grandparents live with only 15 seconds to reach a shelter'

‘I live alone and I can’t run’: Elderly from the north become social welfare hot potato

The Tzalir Fund has evacuated and is looking after 1,200 frontline residents, most of them 75 and over, in five hotels. Its funding will end on April 15. Will the ceasefire outlast their respite?

Gaza border kibbutz redirects donations to help war-torn north

A still from AZAPAC's launch video, during which its founder, Michael Rectenwald, called pro-Israel politicians "puppets" whose "strings are pulled by donors loyal to the modern nation state of Israel." (Screenshot via YouTube)

'Every Zionist in government should be tried for treason'

A new US anti-Zionist PAC endorses candidates who believe Jews were behind 9/11

By Joseph Strauss

Founded by a self-described libertarian who recently called Israel the ‘synagogue of Satan,’ AZAPAC distances itself from a cadre of left-wing pro-Palestinian PACS that largely share its goal

FILE - DNC chair candidate Ken Martin speaks at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, February 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Democratic National Committee panel rejects measure singling out AIPAC for criticism

By Joseph Strauss

More Headlines

First lady Melania Trump speaking to reporters April 9, 2026, in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Melania Trump denies connection to Epstein case, calls accusations ‘baseless lies’

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky listens to a journalist's question during a joint press conference with Bulgaria's Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov (not pictured) in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian forces shot down Shahed drones in Mideast amid Iran war, Zelensky says

By VOLODYMYR YURCHUK and HANNA ARHIROVA

Government supporters chanting slogans ahead of the funeral procession for Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, head of intelligence for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, in Tehran, Iran, April 8, 2026. (Francisco Seco/AP)

Jerusalem man indicted for passing information to Iranian agent

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

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)

Jewish leader of UK’s Green Party calls to end trade, diplomatic ties with Israel

By Shira Li Bartov

An Israeli artist couple (Efrat Dor and Ariel Bronz) sell their souls to the ruling elite in the provocative film 'Yes!' from director Nadav Lapid. (Courtesy of Kino Lorber via JTA)

In ‘Yes!,’ Israeli director Nadav Lapid skewers the country’s ‘moral abyss’ after Oct. 7

By Andrew Lapin

Hasan Piker, left, and Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan, center right, take a selfie with young fans following a campaign event, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Reporter's notebookSlamming Israel at Michigan rallies, Hasan Piker boosts Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed

By Andrew Lapin

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