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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 16, 2026

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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Collage/AP)

IDF said to hit last bridge linking south to rest of Lebanon

Beirut said to balk as Trump pushes for 1st-ever call between leaders of Lebanon and Israel

By Stav Levaton, Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

President Aoun reportedly tells Rubio he won’t speak to PM Netanyahu, with Lebanon pressing for a ceasefire before any talks while cross-border fighting continues in full force

Security cabinet said to consider one-week Lebanon ceasefire amid US pressure

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Conflicting reactions to direct talks with Israel underscore Lebanon’s deep internal rift

By Nurit Yohanan and AFP

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 16 – Did Trump trigger direct talks for Israel’s and Lebanon’s leaders?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Israel Defense Forces vehicles and bulldozers operate in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, April 15, 2026. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)

April 16: PM said to tell ministers, shocked to learn of truce from media, that he agreed to it at Trump’s request

Netanyahu says Israel has ‘historic’ opportunity for peace * Opposition MKs decry pattern of imposed ceasefires * Court orders AG, Ben Gvir to reach agreement safeguarding police independence

8:59 pm

Germany hails Israel-Lebanon truce, hopes for future as 'good neighbors'
8:42 pm

Magen David Adom now says 3 people hurt by rockets, two seriously
8:31 pm

Polls show coalition remains far below votes needed for Knesset majority

US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during an address marking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first 100 days in office at the Knockdown Center, in New York, April 12, 2026. (Andres Kudacki/AP)

US Senate foils effort to nix Israel arms sales, but record 85% of Democrats support the move

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Sanders’ resolutions to stop bulldozer, bomb deliveries gain unprecedented Democratic support, demonstrating major shift in party’s approach toward Israel over wars in Gaza, Lebanon

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez hold a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Why US funding for Israel’s Iron Dome is losing support on both sides of the aisle

By Andrew Lapin

Promoted ContentWorld Zionist Organization

Live on Sunday: Declaration of Independence at the Kotel

At the egalitarian Kotel, Jews from Israel and around the world gather to read the Declaration of Independence, affirming shared values and Jewish peoplehood.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a recorded statement on the ongoing fighting with Hezbollah and the US ceasefire with Iran, on April 15, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO)

White House: 'We feel good about the prospects of a deal'

PM says Israel ready for Iran war resumption, while US gears for another round of talks

By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

White House says 2nd meeting, if one takes place, will again likely be in Islamabad; senior Iranian official says some progress has been made, but ‘fundamental disagreements remain’

A cargo ship carrying vehicles sails through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz in the United Arab Emirates, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo)

Hormuz traffic remains at a trickle as US blockade of Iranian ports appears to hold

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

Iranian proposal offers ships safe passage on Omani side of Hormuz, source says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

In Iran, the conflict is unresolved. But in the US, Israel is losing the war

Many Israelis see the war as a shared fight against an existential threat, but Americans take a poor view of both the conflict and Israel; amid it all, Netanyahu is relying on Trump’s fickle goodwill

Protesters with the anti-Israel organization Jewish Voice for Peace block traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of US 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)

The site of Tel Hazor (Upper Galilee) in the area of the Lower City in July 2023. (Courtesy Ben Siegel/Ohio University and the Hazor Lower City Excavations)

Archaeology'We wanted to see how the conflict affected common people'

Shepherds without borders: In biblical Israel’s war zone, flocks traversed contested lands

By Rossella Tercatin

Study of 3,000-year-old animal teeth from Tel Hazor in the Upper Galilee shows herds moved between warring Israel and Aram, shedding light on ancient boundaries’ permeability

Settlers approach a Palestinian livestock pen in Al-Mirkaz in the South Hebron Hills on April 15, 2026. (Screenshots/X used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Settlers try to steal Palestinian-owned sheep in Hebron Hills as West Bank violence soars

By Jeremy Sharon, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

2 Palestinians reportedly wounded in separate stone-throwing incident near Bethlehem; rights group says 378 attacks carried out during 40 days of Iran war

Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot (right) together with Samaria District Council Chairman Yossi Dagan during a tour by Eisenkot of settlements in the Samaria district of the northern West Bank, April 15, 2026. (Arik Mirmour)

Eisenkot visits illegal settlement outpost, site of severe assault against Israeli lawyer

By Jeremy Sharon

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett (right) with activist Yonatan Shalev in a photo released on April 15, 2026 (Courtesy Bennett 2026)

2026 Knesset electionsBennett names 23-year-old reservist activist Yonatan Shalev to party slate

Analysis

Experts say death penalty law discriminatory and drastic, but not necessarily doomed

Despite constitutional flaws, judges may opt not to strike down entire measure, especially as some surmise its extreme language aims to provoke a fight with the court for political gain

Activists protest against a law passed by the Knesset imposing the death penalty outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 31, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

US, Hamas reportedly hold direct talks, as Board of Peace disarmament plan stalls

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Senior Trump official Lightstone meets with Hayya, as Hamas bucks ceasefire’s 2nd phase requirement that it give up weapons, arguing that Israel violating truce’s first phase

Top Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya delivers a speech marking the 38th anniversary of the terror group's establishment, December 14, 2025. (Screen capture: X/Al Jazeera)

US Vice President JD Vance speaks at a Turning Point USA tour stop at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)

‘You’re bombing children’: JD Vance heckled over Gaza, Iran at Turning Point event

By JTA and AP

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Respondents at stormy hearing say court thwarting voters' will

High Court weighs petitions urging Ben Gvir’s ouster, but seems hesitant to back them

By Charlie Summers

Judges indicate preference for reviving compromise deal to curb national security minister’s interference in law enforcement, but AG warns that strategy was tried and failed

AnalysisWhy is Ben Gvir rising in the polls while Smotrich can’t keep his head above water?

MK Galit Distel-Atbaryan leads the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, March 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset legal adviser blasts media bill’s legislative process, urges committee change

By Ariela Karmel

Between two days of memory

My relatives’ vibrant Jewish life was snuffed out by the Nazis. My son fell defending Israel on Oct. 7. Speaking about them is not just a personal need, it’s a duty

Jonathan Dekel-Chen

These wars will not bring true victory

With our hostages home and our enemies battered, Israel still faces its deepest reckoning within

Sarah Ansbacher

A pocket guide to defiance

Hidden in the pages of a World War II air-raid manual lies a mystery — and a daring testimony about brutality and betrayal on the shores of the Holy Land

The Jewish man after October 7

With rising antisemitic threats, security is necessary — but when rage turns into identity, something essential in Jewish life begins to erode

A worker works to prepare military graves for Israel's Memorial Day, in a photo published April 16, 2026. (Defense Ministry)

170 soldiers added to list of Israel’s fallen since last Memorial Day

By Stav Levaton

In addition, 54 veterans died due to injuries sustained during service, taking total since 1860 to 25,644; ceremonies may be pre-recorded due to wartime guidelines

Illustrative: New Israeli shekel bills, September 24, 2023. (Hadar Youavian/ Flash90)

Shekel breaks below 3 to the dollar in first since 1995; exporters warn of economy risk

By Sharon Wrobel

Currency’s strength reflects optimism over an Iran deal and Lebanon truce; Bank of Israel not seen intervening in the market, hurting exports

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves enters to participate in a G7 Finance Ministers video call at Downing Street in London, Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)

11 finance ministers, stung by Iran war’s economic damage, call for full ceasefire

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lee Zeitouni (Courtesy)

Frenchman who killed woman in Tel Aviv hit-and-run in 2011 shot dead in Paris

Two men on motor scooters shoot Eric Robic to death in a Parisian suburb; Robic and Claude Khayat fled to France after hitting 25-year-old Pilates instructor Lee Zeitouni

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

Hungary’s youth-led revolution is a wake-up call for Israel’s opposition

As Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule crumbles under economic collapse, Israelis in Budapest see a blueprint for change – but the path in Israel remains far more complex

Peter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza party, waves a national flag after a parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, on April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka in Jerusalem, April 14, 2026 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Interview

After Hungary’s Orban loses, Czech FM says Prague will remain ‘advocate’ for Israel

By Lazar Berman

Petr Macinka says he is reopening discussion of moving embassy to Jerusalem, no matter what EU thinks; says leftist anti-Israel feeling ‘almost a religion’ among many Europeans

Israeli ambassador said to meet discreetly with French far right’s Marine Le Pen

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

A police forensics officer works during an investigation into an attack in the early hours of the morning, at the Finchley Reform Synagogue, in the North Finchley area of north London, on April 15, 2026. (Toby Shepheard / AFP)

2 arrested for trying to torch London synagogue in what cops call an antisemitic attack

47-year-old woman and 46-year-old man detained hours after targeting Reform temple, throwing two bottles of suspected flammable material that did not end up igniting

Josh Lees (R), from the Palestine Action Group, speaking in front of representatives of nine civil society organisations as he announces a constitutional challenge regarding protesting laws at the Supreme Court of NSW in central Sydney on March 17, 2025. (David Gray/AFP)

Australian court overturns law clamping down on protests in wake of Bondi massacre protest law

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference in Rome, April 15, 2026. (AP/ Alessandra Tarantino)

On Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Zelensky criminalizes antisemitism in Ukraine

Jewish food writer Joan Nathan (center left) and researcher Moriah Amit learned about the Holocaust histories of Nathan's relatives, Wolfgang Bernheim (far left) and his grandmother, Marie Bernheim. (Images courtesy Center for Jewish History via JTA)

'Every name recovered is an act of remembrance'

Joan Nathan knew her Catholic relative died in the Holocaust. A new project added detail

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The renowned Jewish cookbook author’s family history is uncovered in Histories and Mysteries, an initiative of the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute in Manhattan

More Headlines

Workers are seen at a construction site in Katzrin, in the Golan Heights, January 6, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Government approves 5-year, billion-shekel plan to develop Golan, give it its 1st city

By Diana Bletter and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026. (Shalev Shalom/POOL via Flash90)

The 5th TimeNetanyahu included on Time’s annual list of 100 most influential people

Illustrative: A video on Instagram shows Jews trying to steal things by claiming they were promised 3,000 years ago (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Moderation cuts leave most extremist, antisemitic content on Instagram unchecked, ADL finds

By Grace Gilson

Curator Amitai Mendelsohn, left, and artist Yudith Levin, right, at the Israel Museum for a February 26, 2026 press tour for "Yudith Levin: Break of Dawn," through July 2026 (Courtesy)

Art imitates lifeIsraeli artist adopts classical motifs to frame contemporary trauma in new exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Undated image of Ruth Abramov. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Body found in Jerusalem identified as woman who went missing 17 years ago

FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaking during the 2026 Semafor World Economy conference in Washington, DC, on April 15, 2026. (Kent Nishimura/AFP)

FIFA head says Iran will ‘for sure’ participate in soccer World Cup in US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hashem Abderaman sits in his bed next to his mother while receiving treatment at the paediatric hospital stabilization center in Port Sudan, Sudan, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Sudan enters 4th year of civil war as UN official says ‘world has failed’ to meet crisis

By Samy Magdy and SAM MEDNICK

The US Supreme Court, February 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jewish groups ask US Supreme Court to rule on Ohio man barred from hosting home prayers

By Grace Gilson

A view of Immanuel College in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Top British private Jewish school closing amid funding challenges

By Grace Gilson

The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 2019. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)

New rabbinical school arises in Cincinnati as Hebrew Union College sued over closure

By Andrew Lapin and ToI Staff

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