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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 12, 2026

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Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, meets with US Vice President JD Vance, not pictured, about Iran, April 11, 2026, in Islamabad. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Live updates (closed)

April 12: Pakistan said trying to get US, Iran back to negotiating table as Washington lays out ‘red lines’

IRGC warn enemy vessels could end up trapped in ‘deadly vortex’ in Strait of Hormuz * PM’s military secretary Roman Gofman approved as next Mossad chief * Hungary’s strongman Orban concedes election, ending 16 years in power

9:16 pm

Ex-hostage says he was flooded with hate messages from fellow Israelis after post calling for treating Arabs with respect
8:58 pm

US military says naval blockade around Iran will begin tomorrow on Trump's orders
8:21 pm

Lapid congratulates Peter Magyar on victory over Orban in Hungary's election

US Vice President JD Vance, right, speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran as Jared Kushner, left, and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions listen, on April 12, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US-Iran talks in Pakistan end after 21 hours with no deal; US negotiators head home

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Vance says Iranians refused to disavow nuclear program that would let them build bomb; he makes no mention of Strait of Hormuz, cited in Iran as other key point of disagreement; Iran’s Ghalibaf: US side failed to gain our trust

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about the war with Iran in a video statement released on April 11, 2026. (X screenshot)

Netanyahu says campaign against Iran ‘not over,’ touts ‘historic achievements’

By Lazar Berman and Jeremy Sharon

US President Donald Trump talks to the media on the South Lawn before departing on Marine One at the White House, April 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

US-Iran talks extend into the night as Trump claims ‘no difference’ to him if deal reached

File: US Navy destroyers including the USS Michael Murphy in the western Pacific Ocean in 2017. (Spc. 2nd Class Sean M. Castellano/US Navy via AP)

US says Navy destroyers working to de-mine Strait of Hormuz

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

CENTCOM says additional forces to join efforts in coming days; Iranian outlets dismiss ‘fake news’ after Trump says all of Iran’s mining boats are ‘lying at the bottom of the sea’

Released by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)'s official website Sepah News on February 17, 2026, showing a rocket being fired from a boat during a military exercise by members of the IRGC and navy in the Strait of Hormuz. (Sepah News/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 12 – As US de-mines Strait of Hormuz, traffic status still murky

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

CIA reportedly used Pegasus software for deception op during rescue of airman in Iran

Settlement council reports several attacks on residents

Reservist soldier fatally shoots Palestinian amid alleged rock-throwing near Ramallah

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Footage shows settlers stealing sheep, macing Palestinians in South Hebron Hills; mayor of Duma village accuses settlers of hurling Molotov cocktail into kids’ bedroom

A person is seen throwing rocks in a video shared by Hebrew media on April 11, 2026, ostensibly showing the lead-up to a clash that day in which a reservist soldier shot and killed a Palestinian. (Screenshot via Ynet)

Shin Bet director David Zini attends the funeral of an Israeli at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, March 27, 2026, (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief said to downplay Jewish terrorism in West Bank as ‘friction’

Analysis

Post-Orban Hungary will not expose Israel to more EU pain, though support may ebb

Longtime premier’s backing has helped blunt Europe’s ire, sparking concerns ahead of center-right rival’s win, but his replacement is unlikely to significantly curtail ties with Jerusalem

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after a press statement at the Carmelite Monastery in the Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025. (AP/Denes Erdos)

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters during the electoral campaign closing rally of the governing Fidesz party in Budapest, Hungary, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Hungarians vote in landmark election closely watched by EU, Russia, US, Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Why China and Russia left Iran to face the music alone

The once-feared anti-American axis looks far less united today — replaced by colder, more calculating interests

The Shoah, the Farhud and October 7: One inherited wound

My Sephardi husband and I are part of the same people, but our families’ traumas taught us very different lessons about Jewish survival

Analysis

Easter prayer fiasco, resolved too late, shows Christians still treated as afterthought

Netanyahu boasted about protecting worshipers once row over Holy Sepulchre access was fixed; without serious attention to policy, he’ll continue rushing to clean up scandals after the harm has been done

Worshippers conducting services on Easter Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, April 5, 2026. (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)

Orthodox Christian pilgrims hold up candles during the Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Orthodox Christian pilgrims flock to Jerusalem for Holy Fire ceremony

By ToI Staff and AP

Pope Leo XIV delivers his message as he leads a vigil for peace inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope rails at ‘delusion of omnipotence,’ use of Christian language to justify war

Israelis attend a protest against the government in Tel Aviv, April 11, 2026. (Flash90/Flash90)

2,000 protest government and Iran war in Tel Aviv, exceeding court-ordered limit

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Rally at Habima Square rally estimated at double the permitted number; heavy police presence, but no violence or arrests; protests also take place in Jerusalem, Haifa

Former premier and 2026 Knesset candidate Naftali Bennett (center) poses with Liran Avisar Ben-Horin (left) and Keren Terner (right), candidates on his 'Bennett 2026' slate, April 12, 2026. (Naftali Bennett on X)

Bennett names 2 female ex-senior officials as 1st members of party’s electoral slate

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Former PM praises former Finance Ministry head Keren Terner and ex-Communications Ministry chief Liran Avisar Ben-Horin, rejects Likud accusations of terrorist affiliation

An effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before and after being exploded in El Burgo, Spain on April 5, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu effigy blown up in Spanish town festival; Israel summons envoy

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel accuses Spain’s prime minister of incitement for the ‘antisemitic hatred on display’ during Easter event often referred to as the ‘Burning of Judas’

Syria arrested an alleged Hezbollah cell of 5 operatives who attempted to plant a bomb outside the home of Rabbi Michael Khoury in Damascus's Old City, according to reports on April 11, 2026. (SANA via X)

Five arrested as Syria says it foiled Hezbollah-linked plot to kill Damascus rabbi

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ministry says suspects tried to plant bomb next to target’s home, adds they ‘received specialized military training abroad’; Syria source: Act shows Jewish community being protected

Smoke rises from southern Lebanon following Israeli airstrikes, April 11, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF and Hezbollah trade strikes, rockets as Israel and Lebanon gear up for direct talks

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, April 9, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Nine foreign airlines plan to resume Tel Aviv routes this week, amid US-Iran truce

By Sharon Wrobel

Bluebird, TUS, Etihad, Ethiopian, Smartwings, Hainan, Red Wings, Georgian and FlyOne to restart operations to and from Ben Gurion Airport, airport authority says

PM calls petitions for Ben Gvir’s ouster ‘unconstitutional,’ as minister prays on Temple Mt.

By Charlie Summers and Ariela Karmel

Ahead of High Court hearing, Netanyahu defends Ben Gvir’s influence over police decision-making, demands court reject calls to fire far-right minister, who again breaches Temple Mt. status quo

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a vote on the state budget, March 29, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative: Israeli tanks stationed inside the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, April 10, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Several Gazans said killed in IDF strikes; soldier seriously hurt in operational accident

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military says it struck operatives planning attacks against troops; soldier hospitalized following mishap

Participants with Israel's flag walk along a rail track leading to the gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland, during the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

Despite war cancellations, Holocaust survivors from Israel to join March of the Living

By Stuart Winer

Around a dozen survivors, aged 90-100, will travel to Poland though most Israeli delegates forced to cancel; march to be led by survivors of attacks on Jews; former hostages to light torch

Portrait of Dov Landau, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, in his home in Tel Aviv, October 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, 111,000 survivors living in Israel

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, seen during a vote on the state budget in the Knesset, Jerusalem, March 29, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); this handout photograph taken and released by the Turkish presidential press service on April 4, 2026, shows Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) during a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (unseen) at Dolmabahce Presidential Office, in Istanbul. (TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)

As Turkey reportedly seeks to jail them, Israeli leaders blast Erdogan for ‘massacring Kurds’

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and AFP

Netanyahu accuses Turkish president of accommodating Iran’s terror proxies; Katz calls him a ‘paper tiger’; Ben Gvir tells him: ‘F*** you’

An elderly man is escorted away by police as protesters gather to call for the lifting of the ban on the anti-Israel group Palestine Action during a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in central London on April 11, 2026. (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

UK police arrest over 500 at London demonstration for Palestine Action support

Metropolitan Police return to mass arrest policy as government appeals court ruling against group’s ban; protesters defy order, say legal ‘flip-flop’ does not affect ‘morals’

Harrison Hochberg, the first Jewish member of the University of Michigan basketball team to win a National Championship. (Courtesy Hochberg via JTA)

Interview'It’s a small community, but we stick together'

On the record and off the court: Meet the only Jewish player on the NCAA championship team

Harrison Hochberg reflects on being a member of Michigan’s winning squad, celebrating Passover during the Final Four, confronting antisemitism, and doing his well-known grandfather proud

More Headlines

Israel's Artem Dolgopyat at the floor gymnastics final at the Osijek World Cup in Croatia, on April 11, 2026. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Israeli floor gymnasts share podium with gold and bronze at Croatia World Cup

Eviatar Azarzar (Courtesy)

Arrest made over 2019 shooting death of 18-year-old whose body was found in pit

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

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