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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk from the White House to greet King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, April 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Pakistani PM to visit Mideast as part of diplomatic blitz

Trump says no need to extend Iran ceasefire, as talks to end war continue

By Agencies and ToI Staff

CENTCOM chief says blockade on Iran ‘fully implemented’ after 36 hours; IAEA head says any deal with Tehran needs ‘very detailed’ oversight of nuclear program

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

Trump: Iran talks may renew in 2 days; Mossad chief: Our mission isn’t over until regime falls

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Reuters

Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, March 11, 2026. (AP/Altaf Qadri,File)

US says it won’t renew temporary ease on Iran oil sanctions that expires Sunday

From left: Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, and Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad at the State Department in Washington, April 14, 2026. (Shmulik Almany / Israeli embassy, Washington)

Israeli envoy: Treaty will create 'harmonious relationship'

Israeli, Lebanese envoys hold historic summit in Washington to discuss peace deal

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Hezbollah bombarded Israel as two-hour meeting began; joint statement recognizes ‘urgent need’ to restore Nov. 2024 ceasefire, as Israel commits to working for ‘durable peace’

Large billboards near the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv showing support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Trump declare: 'Pundits talk, leaders lead,' April 13, 2026 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

April 15: PM says ready for possible Iran war resumption, as US mulls new talks in Pakistan

High Court adjourns hearing on Ben Gvir’s dismissal without issuing immediate decision * Security cabinet said to end meeting on potential Lebanon ceasefire ends without a decision

9:48 pm

Security cabinet meeting on potential Lebanon ceasefire ends without a decision — report
8:40 pm

US: We didn't ask Israel to hold fire at Hezbollah, but would welcome truce as part of Lebanon talks
8:19 pm

Video: Extremist settlers break into Palestinian homes, sheep pens, residents say in an effort to steal livestock

Op-ed

Netanyahu claims to have prevented an Iranian-wrought second Holocaust. If only we could be so sure

In his Holocaust Day address, the PM asserted that his pledge to ensure the regime in Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons had been fulfilled. He of all people should be more circumspect

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Inside story

Israel boxes Paris out of Lebanon talks, halts arms buys as French disconnect grows

Reacting to criticism of fighting against Iran and Hezbollah, Jerusalem calls France irrelevant and accuses it of harming security, though French official says claim ‘total BS’

France's President Emmanuel Macron (L), flanked by France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (R), speaks during a statement to the press with members of the Government and of the French Army, following a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on November 25, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA / POOL / AFP)

One hurt as Hezbollah fires over 40 rockets at northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton

IDF says it hit over 200 targets in Lebanon over past day; foreign press group urges vigilance after IDF posts altered image of slain Hezbollah-linked reporter

Israelis next to a small public shelter in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya. April 13, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Ora Hatan’s family restaurant, Hemdat HaGalil, in Shtula, destroyed by Hezbollah rockets in 2024, on April 12, 2026. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 15 — Hezbollah rockets continue to pummel Israel’s north

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Diana Bletter

Analysis

Israel-Lebanon talks unlikely to yield much until Iran undergoes fundamental change

Beirut wants a ceasefire and Jerusalem wants to disarm Hezbollah. But as long as Tehran is able to keep backing its Lebanese proxy, both seem improbable

(L to R) US State Department Counselor Michael Needham, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad, and Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter stand together before meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2026. (Oliver Contreras / AFP)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir outside the High Court in Jerusalem, April 15, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesters gather outside court to support far-right minister

Justice minister vows to defy High Court if it rules ‘my friend’ Ben Gvir must be fired

By Jeremy Sharon, Charlie Summers, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Court hears petitions seeking to fire national security minister, which Netanyahu slammed as unconstitutional; AG backs ouster of far-right minister, saying he overstepped his powers

Channel 14 host Shimon Riklin discusses the mandatory integration of women into IDF combat roles as ordered by the Israeli High Court of Justice, April 13, 2026. (Screenshot/Channel 14)

Petition seeks probe of Channel 14, calling it ‘pure poison capsule’ undermining court

By Jeremy Sharon

Soldiers show activists a closed military zone order in the Duma area in the northern West Bank, March 2026. (courtesy)

Inside story'There's an immense and terrible fear among residents'

Year-long IDF closure said to bolster settler violence by only barring Palestinians’ allies

By Nurit Yohanan

Closed military zone imposed near Duma for a full year, a longer-than-normal move that critics say is not being enforced against settlers, letting them assault villagers while activists are kept away

Deni Avdija of the Portland Trail Blazers reacts after scoring and drawing a foul against the Phoenix Suns during the first half of an NBA play-in tournament game at Mortgage Matchup Center on April 14, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images/AFP)

In first for an Israeli, Avdija leads Portland to NBA playoffs with 41 points

By DAVID BRANDT

Lead changes several times throughout game with Phoenix; Trail Blazers to face San Antonio in first round of Western Conference playoffs

The war between: A dispatch from Lebanon

At an empty villa near Bint Jbeil, my team is admiring the new BMW in the driveway, but I’m focused on the black jihadist headband left on the dashboard

Steven Bernstein

Why the destruction of Nagasaki doesn’t work as a warning for Iran

The idea of ’mutually assured destruction’ deters rational nuclear powers because they prioritize self-preservation; the Islamic Republic doesn’t care

A small Appalachian theatre stages a Jewish classic

Local actors and audiences relate to ’Fiddler’s’ focus on family and hard choices; in the similarities, they also find empathy for unfamiliar traditions

The lesson of Hungary’s vote: Even a populist leader can lose an election

Victor Orban rigged the system to stay in power; his defeat at the polls shows how exceptional conditions — not fair, democratic ones — made change possible

Illustrative: A rocket carrying two satellites lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gansu province on July 25, 2019. (CN-STR / AFP)

Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US military bases in Middle East – report

By Reuters and ToI Staff

IRGC bought satellite in late 2024 after it was launched into space, and directed it to monitor bases before and after missile and drone strikes on them, Financial Times says

View of the Nazareth District Court in northern Israel, March 25, 2024. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Nazareth woman charged with spying for Iran

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Beijing, China, April 14, 2026. (AP/Ng Han Guan)

Israeli legal advocacy group files ICC case against Spanish PM over exports to Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

People take part in the annual "March of the Living" between the former Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau to commemorate the Holocaust, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzel)

‘Echoes the dark times’: Recent deadly antisemitism features heavily at March of the Living

By AP and ToI Staff

‘My father didn’t make it because he was a Jew,’ says daughter of man killed in Bondi Beach attack, as survivors of contemporary massacres join those who survived the WWII genocide by Nazi Germany

Screen captures from video of far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika in the Polish parliament, April 14, 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In parliament, Polish MP calls Israel ‘new Third Reich,’ waves Israeli flag with swastika

By Zev Stub and AFP

Shoes are displayed in Amsterdam's Dam Square in a pro-Palestinian exhibition, April 12, 2026. (Screenshot/YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gaza shoe display in Amsterdam appears to appropriate Holocaust imagery ahead of Yom Hashoah

Historian Johannes Spohr's grandfather, Rudolf Spohr, as an ordnance officer of the German Army High Command shortly before his trip to Crimea, August 1942. (Courtesy/ family collection)

Interview'People really want to know why their ancestors did it'

My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes

By Robert Philpot

After discovering his own patriarch’s role in the Holocaust, scholar Johannes Spohr offers workshops that confront uncomfortably specific truths amid a wider culture of remembrance

Ukraine says Russian ship carrying stolen grain docked at Haifa, asks Israel to detain it

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Ambassador said to have initially asked Israel to prevent the vessel from docking; Ukraine’s FM tells Sa’ar ‘illegal trade with stolen goods must not be allowed’

View of the Haifa port, March 15, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Police officers arrest Palestinians hiding in a garbage truck as they try to illegally enter Israel through a West Bank checkpoint, April 13, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Cops detain 70 Palestinians hiding in garbage truck while trying to enter Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police arrest Israeli driver of vehicle used in attempt to smuggle dozens of apparent Palestinian laborers through West Bank checkpoint

Israeli flags on graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem ahead of Israeli Memorial Day, April 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

100 bereaved families ask coalition MKs to skip cemetery speeches on upcoming Memorial Day

Relatives reportedly urge lawmakers not to turn their loved ones’ final resting place into a political platform, pan government policies as creating more bereavement

Renee Albersheim was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years. (Courtesy Susan Bell via JTA)

'It takes a toll when you learn what happened to these kids'

With no one to say Kaddish for many children killed in the Holocaust, a US synagogue steps up

Dozens of families at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach have ‘adopted’ child victims to memorialize as their own, in a form of remembrance some laud for its continuity

Small groups touring through the basement rooms of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, seeing works from 'End of the Day: One Hundred Years of the New Objectivity Movement' during April 2026. (Daniel Hanoch)

High art in low places

Underground art, literally: War takes Tel Aviv museum’s tours to the basement

By Jessica Steinberg

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s curators guide visitors through the New Objectivity exhibit, rehung in its dressing rooms

A judge ruled in 2026 that Amedeo Modigliani's "Seated Man with a Cane," shown here in part, must be returned to the family of the man who owned it before the Holocaust. (Courtesy Sotheby's)

US scraps deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, paving way for new restitution efforts

By Jackie Hajdenberg

More Headlines

Illustrative: The Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia in Skopje, Macedonia. (Wikimedia Commons)

North Macedonian synagogue hit by arson in country’s 1st antisemitic attack since Holocaust

Jewish worshippers attend the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba, on May 8, 2023. (Yassine Mahjoub / AFP)

Tunisia broadens access to annual Jewish pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue

By AFP

Illustrative: A Haredi school in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, August 27, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Knesset finance panel approves nearly NIS 100m in additional funds for Haredi schools

Passengers wait at the largely empty Ben Gurion airport on April 9, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Comptroller pans government for failing to plan for air travel turbulence during war

By Sharon Wrobel

Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen speaks during an interview about his Free the Cone Day campaign in Burlington, Vermont, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)

Ben and Jerry’s founder wants Magnum to sell brand; conglomerate says it’s not for sale

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This undated photo shows Hampshire College campus in autumn, in Amherst, Massachusetts. (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)

US college that pioneered Holocaust studies set to close

By Andrew Lapin

Illustration: A CMOS silicon photonics chip. (Courtesy: IBM Research/AP)

US-based Credo Tech buys Israeli maker of silicon chips for up to $1.3 billion

By Sharon Wrobel

Kanye West attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/ Getty Images via AFP)

Kanye West postpones Marseille concert after French authorities say they’ll seek ban

By AP and ToI Staff

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