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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh and Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter. (Collage/Lebanese Embassy in Washington, AP)

Curtain raiser'We're not about to release the peace doves'

Officials seek to temper expectations as Israel, Lebanon envoys set to hold historic meeting

Beirut looks to use most senior level engagement to date with Jerusalem to secure ceasefire, though Israeli government has shown no interest in a truce until Hezbollah is defanged

IMAGE: An IDF Merkava tank in southern Lebanon by the border with northern Israel on March 27, 2026 (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 14 – Lebanon and Israel get talking, with shared goal to disarm Hezbollah

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem gives a televised address in Lebabon, April 13, 2026. (Screenshot/Al Mayadeen via X)

Hezbollah chief demands Lebanon back out of ‘futile’ planned talks with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, April 12, 2026, in Islamabad. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Vance: Lot of progress made in talks toward ‘grand deal,’ but ball in Iran’s court

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Trump’s VP says he wants Iran to be ‘normal country,’ but can’t have nukes; US said to ask for 20-year enrichment freeze, but Iran reportedly offered 5-10, which Trump rejected

FILE - In this photo provided by the US Navy, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) conducts routine underway operations while transiting through the Taiwan Strait, May 8, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd class Ismael Martinez/US Navy via AP, File)

US positions warships in region as it moves to enforce naval blockade of Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President Donald Trump speaks outside the Oval Office of the White House, on April 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon)

Trump claims Iran again expressed interest in deal after US naval blockade begins

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A memorial banner is displayed in Tel Aviv to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 14, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With memorial siren wailing, Israel remembers Holocaust victims in shadow of war tensions

State ceremony at Yad Vashem takes place without audience amid fighting with Hezbollah, ceasefire with Iran; March of the Living held in Poland, with most Israelis unable to attend

(L-R) Paul Giniewski, Shoshana Jansje Litten Serlui, Simha Kazik Rotem, and Ellen-Ellie Waterman (Photos courtesy of the families)

Jerusalem ceremony recognizes four Jews who rescued other Jews during Holocaust

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At Auschwitz, Diaspora Jews who lived through terror march alongside Holocaust survivors

In the deadliest year for Diaspora Jews in three decades, the March of the Living becomes a meeting place for those who experienced antisemitic persecution on three continents

Catherine Szkop (left) and Abbie Talmoud, survivors of the terror attack at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, stands at the gate to Auschwitz on April 13, 2026. (Yossi Zeliger)

Live updates (closed)

April 14: Armored battalion commander seriously hurt in southern Lebanon, says IDF

Three Hezbollah operatives surrender to Israeli troops * Trump says resumption of US-Iran talks ‘could be happening’ soon * WSJ: Over 20 commercial ships pass through Strait of Hormuz in past 24 hours

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Israeli legal org files ICC suit against Spanish PM over Iran exports
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WSJ: Over 20 commercial ships pass through Strait of Hormuz in past 24 hours
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Reports: Settlers pepper-spray Palestinians, activists in several West Bank locations

From the blogs

Between vulnerability and power: Four lessons for Yom HaShoah, 2026

This moment, when history feels close again, demands not just memory, but responsibility, courage, and clarity about who choose to be

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni addresses the lower chamber of parliament in Rome, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy halts defense agreement with Israel amid Mideast conflict, PM Meloni says

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol, Agencies and ToI Staff

Jerusalem downplays Rome’s decision not to renew MOU, which expired Monday, insists it won’t impact security; petition to reassess EU ties with Israel gets over million signatures

Smotrich to Germany: You won't 'force us into ghettos again’

Netanyahu rebukes Europe as Israel commemorates Holocaust in shadow of Iran war

By Lazar Berman, Zev Stub and ToI Staff

PM says continent ‘afflicted by deep moral weakness,’ Israel now defending it; Herzog urges national unity, eulogizing fallen soldier whose grandmother survived Bergen-Belsen

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum, at Israel's pre-recorded state Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, April 13, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO)

L-R: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of final votes on the 2026 state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor addresses the Conference of Minister-Presidents, March 12, 2025 (Media Service Saxony); German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks to the media at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Israel’s ambassador to Germany assails Smotrich for attack on chancellor

Vladka Meed’s false identification card, issued in the name of Stanisława Wąchalska, 1943. (Courtesy, Benjamin Meed/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

'Resistance? Yes! But I have never held a gun or faced one'

Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Updated English translation of Vladka Meed’s 1948 Yiddish memoir, ‘On Both Sides of the Wall,’ breathes new life into her experiences with the Jewish resistance against the Nazis

IDF soldier killed as vehicle crashes in south Lebanon; 10 hurt in clash with Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. Maj (res.) Ayal Uriel Bianco, 30, named as deceased, three others injured in apparent accident; separately, battalion commander seriously hurt; terror group keeps up rocket fire on Israel’s north

Sgt. Maj (Res.) Ayal Uriel Bianco (IDF)

Soldiers of the Commando Brigade operate in the southern Lebanon town of Bint Jbeil, in a handout photo issued by the military on April 13, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Jewish Israelis, by large margin, support continued fighting Hezbollah; Arabs don’t

Yishai Jusidman

On showing my paintings in Auschwitz

Supporters of a longstanding ban on Holocaust representation in art are high-minded and well-meaning, but they misconstrue the object of its representation

I thought I was safe here

What I saw when I flipped over a box of matzah in Whole Foods has shaken me in a way I can’t fully explain

Shifra Malina Waxman

My grandmother’s courage — and mine

I used to admire the fierce grit she learned in her pre-war Polish girlhood. Now, in the safe room with my own granddaughters, I hope I have inherited some of it

The dashboard from hell

It’s not just 6 million. A murder rate that reached 14,700 per day is only one data point that lays bare the unique evil of the Holocaust

Holocaust survivor Penina Zeitchik (center) made aliyah at age 86 on February 18, 2026, welcomed by her son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. (Courtesy)

Holocaust Remembrance Day'This country is the greatest revenge we could have taken'

Over 80 years after fleeing the Nazis, a survivor moves to Israel, finally home

By Rossella Tercatin

On her first Holocaust Remembrance Day since realizing her dream of immigrating, Penina Zeitchik aims to gather with grandchildren also living in Israel to share what her family experienced in the war

Peter Magyar gestures as he speaks to the media in Budapest, Hungary, on April 13, 2026, after defeating Prime Minister Viktor Orban's party in the country's parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Netanyahu hails Orban's support in war against brutal terror

Hungary’s PM-elect vows return to ICC, but stresses ‘special relationship’ with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After defeating Orban, a close Netanyahu ally, Peter Magyar says he’ll reverse Budapest’s withdrawal from International Criminal Court, vows continued ‘zero tolerance’ for antisemitism

Liesbeth Heenk at a Holocaust Survivor Conference in Paris, October 2025 (Courtesy)

Interview'The closer to the original voice, the stronger the impact'

Who still reads Holocaust stories? A publisher sees shifting trends after October 7

Demand for Holocaust memoirs is falling amid rising antisemitism and changing consumer patterns. A non-Jewish Dutch woman has made it her mission to keep survivors’ voices on shelves

Trump deletes meme depicting him as Jesus, refuses to apologize amid feud with pope over Iran war

By Will Weissert, Josh Boak and Nicole Winfield

‘I thought it was me as a doctor and it had to do with the Red Cross,’ US president claims about image, which Vance says was taken down because ‘a lot of people weren’t understanding his humor’

This photo illustration created on April 13, 2026, includes a photo of US President Donald Trump and a picture of a screen with an AI-generated image he posted on his Truth Social platform depicting himself as Jesus after criticizing Pope Leo XIV. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Tufts University student from Turkey, Rumeysa Ozturk, left, who was arrested by immigration agents while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, talks to reporters on arriving back in Boston, May 10, 2025, a day after she was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center on the orders of a federal judge. (Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via AP)

Trump admin fires judges who blocked deportations of pro-Palestinian activists

By Grace Gilson

Krystyna and Pawel Chiger (courtesy: Doron Keren)

Holocaust Remembrance DayEyewitness probes enduring controversial Holocaust sagas

How the sewers under Nazi-occupied Ukraine gave rise to unexpected Holocaust heroes

By Matt Lebovic

Ignacy Chiger died half a century ago, but his newly published war memoir raises complicated questions of Judenrat’s Jewish communal responsibility versus allegations of complicity

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Aron Heller: 1.5 million-strong Jewish band of brothers

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Aron Heller

On Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, the author of ‘Zaidy’s Band’ speaks about the little-known brave Jewish servicemen who faced down the Nazis, fighting for their brethren

Author Aron Heller (courtesy) / Background: Mickey Heller (far left), Ralph Oren (second from right), and friends in front of a bomber plane. (Courtesy of the Heller family)

A public bomb shelter at the side of the road in northern Israel, March 14, 2026 (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

IDF eases home front limits in parts of north, tightens rules elsewhere amid Iran truce

By Emanuel Fabian

Educational activities allowed in bomb shelters only along Lebanese border; cap of 5,000 at gatherings reintroduced in Jerusalem area and south

Israeli actress Hana Laszlo at the Israel Artists Association lifetime achievement awards ceremony, held at the culture center in Petah Tikva on November 22, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Actress Hana Laszlo backs out of lighting torch at Independence Day ceremony

People attend the commemoration to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp at the camp's memorial site in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany, on April 6, 2025. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP / File)

How an oath by Buchenwald survivors is being used to fuel anti-Israel protests

By Shira Li Bartov

As the pro-Palestinian group ‘Kufiyas in Buchenwald’ is blocked from demonstrating outside the notorious Nazi concentration camp ahead of Yom Hashoah, a debate about the site’s history resurfaces

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Protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace get arrested after blocking traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, calling for an end to the US-Israel war with Iran and opposing US weapons support on Monday, April 13, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Dozens arrested at anti-Israel protest in NYC calling to block sale of US bombs

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland. (Noel Bennett via JTA)

Dublin’s National Concert Hall scraps fundraiser for Israel’s MDA, sparking outcry

By Grace Gilson

Female soldiers operate a tank in the Negev Desert, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

High Court orders IDF to allow women in Armored Corps tanks by November 2026

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, October 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Prosecutors demand copy of Shin Bet head’s letter on PM’s inability to testify

By Jeremy Sharon

Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja holds a sign reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action" on April 11, 2026, in solidarity with the anti-Israel group, which was proscribed as a terror organization after breaking into defense plants and a Royal Air Force base, causing millions of pounds of damage and assaulting a police officer. (Screenshot via La Jornada on YouTube)

Massive Attack frontman arrested in London for backing banned anti-Israel group

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attending a consultative meeting of foreign ministers from a group of Arab and Islamic countries in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on March 19, 2026. (Baraa Anwer/AP)

Turkish FM: Israel trying to ‘declare Turkey the new enemy’ after Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

Incoming Mossad director Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Petition filed against incoming Mossad director over lack of ‘trustworthiness’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

This March 29, 2019, photo provided by the New Market Fire and Rescue Team shows a fire at the main offices of the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn. (Sammy Solomon/New Market Fire and Rescue Team/AP)

Neo-Nazi pleads guilty to trying to give Hezbollah intel on Israeli officials in US

By AP and ToI Staff

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, April 13, 2026. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel slams South Korean leader for comparing IDF activity to the Holocaust

By Grace Gilson

Former CEO of Lafarge Bruno Lafont (C) arrives on the day of the verdict in the trial of the French cement group Lafarge accused of financing terrorism in Syria, at the Paris courthouse, April 13, 2026. (Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)

French company Lafarge found guilty of paying $6.54 million to jihadists in Syria

By Juliette Jabkhiro

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