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What Matters Most On Friday, April 17, 2026

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This photograph taken from the northern Israel shows Israeli military vehicles driving along the road in the southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, on April 17, 2026. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 17: US official stresses Israel ‘preserves right to self-defense’ after Trump said it was barred from striking in Lebanon

Lebanon president: Talks with Israel not sign of weakness, won’t lead to ceding of territory * Settlers said to torch vehicle, attempt to set warehouse ablaze in yet another West Bank attack

8:16 pm

S&P 500 and Nasdaq close day at new highs as oil prices tumble
8:03 pm

Iran protests continued US blockade at same time Iranian navy chief claims it's 'empty words'
7:37 pm

US official stresses Israel 'preserves right to self-defense' after Trump said it was barred from striking in Lebanon

The scene of a rocket strike near Karmiel in northern Israel, April 16, 2026 (MDA)

Facing domestic anger, PM calls deal a historic opportunity

Trump-imposed truce between Israel and Hezbollah takes effect; 2 badly hurt by rocket fire hours before

By Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

US president says Netanyahu and Lebanese president will discuss permanent peace deal at White House, after US got sides to agree on 10-day ceasefire amid US-Israel truce with Iran; Israel retains right to self-defense

Smoke rises from the northern city of Kiryat Shmona after a rocket fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon struck the city, April 16, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Opposition, northern mayors decry imposed ceasefires as Lebanon truce declared

By Michael Horovitz and Stav Levaton

Workers search amongst the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit a week ago in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Full text of Israel-Lebanon 10-day ceasefire, sides aim for ‘lasting peace’

Reporter's notebook

No rockets but no relief: Nahariya residents see no end to war despite Lebanon ceasefire

After six weeks of relentless Hezbollah attacks, residents of northern Israeli city feel bewildered and betrayed by the government’s seemingly sudden decision to stop fighting

The northern city of Nahariya, April 13, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

As ceasefire holds, displaced Lebanese trickle home to find out what remains

Promoted Content/ MasaMasa

“Together, We Remember”

Hundreds of thousands of Jews from approximately 60 countries around the world, as well as Israel, are expected to watch Masa Israel Journey’s International Yom HaZikaron Ceremony.

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

'If a deal is signed in Islamabad, I may go; they want me'

Trump says 2nd round of Iran talks could be this weekend, war ‘should’ end soon

By Jacob Magid and AFP

US president repeats claim that Tehran has agreed to surrender its ‘nuclear dust,’ says blockade of Hormuz has been effective; Iran’s UN envoy ‘cautiously optimistic’ about talks

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Hegseth warns US ready to resume fighting ‘with more power than ever’ if Tehran spurns deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this photo released by the Pakistan Foreign Ministry, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, center right, and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, center left, are greeted by Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, right, and Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir, left, upon their arrival at Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, April 11, 2026. (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Iran negotiators were escorted home from talks by Pakistani air force, fearing Israeli hit

Syria’s Sharaa: Israel has acted with ‘brutality,’ but talks not at dead end

By ToI Staff, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Leader says talks now focused on restoring UN buffer zone, will later shift to future of Golan; all bases in Syria that hosted US troops now under state control, Damascus says

Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa, center, arrives to attend the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, in Antalya, southern Turkey, on April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Riza Ozel)

Soldiers from the IDF's Unit 669 rappelling from a helicopter. (Amit Agronov)

Inside story'It's a race against time'

After US rescues airmen in Iran, commando opens up about IDF’s own daring extractions

By Stav Levaton

Reservist combat medic in vaunted chopper rescue unit 669, who chronicled his service in two books, describes rapid-response missions, battlefield chaos and mental toll behind life-saving operations

Navy says commandos conducted unprecedented op amid war, thousands of kilometers away

By Emanuel Fabian

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (left) attends a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in Jerusalem, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court orders AG and Ben Gvir to reach deal on safeguarding police independence

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Injunction rejects bulk of demands by petitioners demanding Ben Gvir’s ouster; far-right minister threatens to ‘blow up’ talks if Baharav-Miara challenges his personnel decisions

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin says judge selection panel to meet, but no Supreme Court picks until his nominees okayed

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Ch. Supt. Ruti Hauslich arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem, April 16, 2026, after filing a lawsuit against Itamar Ben Gvir over his refusal to promote her, despite the opinion of police's senior command. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

At court’s behest, Ben Gvir agrees to reevaluate refusal to promote police detective

By Charlie Summers

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Resilience isn’t always a good thing

Israelis have been moving away in record numbers – which is just one of the ways the population is coping with too much adversity

Boundaries, bodies, and the rot within

The Torah portions on skin wounds and the grueling process of healing feel especially personal: My late husband suffered from basal cell carcinoma (Tazria/Metzora)

People shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on April 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'We have the jitters. We need time to process the insanity'

A week into Iran ceasefire, Israelis try to snap back as expected, but fear return to war

By Deborah Danan

Sent back to work as usual after weeks in bomb shelters, locals see their resilience tested amid questions about the conflict’s success and a seemingly inevitable resumption of hostilities

Israelis upset by Iran ceasefire, pessimistic about war’s outcome, poll shows

A banner shows a portrait of the slain Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a memorial for him and others who were killed in the US and Israel strikes, at Yousefabad Synagogue, in Tehran, Iran, on April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Reeling from war after synagogue wrecked, Iran’s Jews staying loyal to regime

Tehran synagogue said holding event Friday in honor of slain Iranians, as homes of some in small community suffer damage during weeks of US-Israeli strikes; Torah scrolls unharmed

Police tape is pictured in front of satellite dishes inside a warehouse park housing offices of the Iran International television station in Wembley, northwest London on April 16, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)

Three arrested after attempted arson at dissident Iranian news station in London

By Sam Tabahriti and Sam Tobin

US House rejects effort to pull forces from Iran war as Republicans stick with Trump

By KEVIN FREKING

Democratic rep. warns of conflict with ‘no exit ramps,’ while GOP member accuses rivals of hypocrisy for not giving Congressional approval to Biden’s bombardment of Houthis in 2024

This US Navy handout photo released on March 18, 2026 by US Central Command public affairs, shows US sailors observing as an F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 31, approaches the flight deck of the world's largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), during Operation Epic Fury, on March 8, 2026 (NAVCENT Public Affairs / DVIDS / AFP)

Moran Zaga, expert on the Gulf states at the University of Haifa and at MIND Israel. (Courtesy)

Lazar Focus podcastMoran Zaga: The Gulf states react to humiliation by Iran

By Lazar Berman

Police officers work in the closed Kensington Palace Gardens, west London, as they investigate if the nearby Israeli Embassy was targeted by drones carrying dangerous substances, April 17, 2026. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

Nothing suspicious found after ‘dangerous substances’ threat to Israel’s London Embassy

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Officers in protective gear searched surrounding area after pro-Iran terror group posted video claiming to target the premises with drones; police later announce no hazardous materials found

Illustrative: Meat and vegetables are seen on a grill during an Israeli Independence Day barbecue in the Golan Heights town of Katzrin, May 1, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Border Police officers sent to jail for barbecuing on base over Shabbat

Punishment of four medics for ‘harming religion and Judaism’ reportedly reduced from two weeks to one following uproar from parents and politicians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, April 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Polls find PM’s bloc far from majority, but most say Zionist opposition also falls short

By Sam Sokol, Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

ToI poll: Eisenkot-Bennett-Lapid merger yields biggest party, but doesn’t alter bloc sizes; Channel 12 poll: Even coalition voters say not enough done to help those hurt financially by war

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett at an event to introduce his new plan for disabled citizens in Bnei Brak, April 16, 2026. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel.)

Bennett unveils plan for increasing disability access across Israel

Illustrative: A pro-Israel counter-protester at an anti-Israel demonstration in Times Square, New York City, January 1, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Younger Americans, those informed by social media more antisemitic — poll

Half of Democrats agree with white supremacist Nick Fuentes’s statement that US ‘should end the slavish surrender to Israel’

: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference on the Air Canada Express crash at Terminal B in LaGuardia Airport on March 23, 2026, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

NY governor pushes to double funding for protection against hate crimes

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, and his wife Rama Duwaji wave at members of media after a news conference at Gracie Mansion, January 12, 2026, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)

Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji apologizes for using slurs online as a teenager

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE

The Pee Dee Rosenwald School, Marion County, South Carolina, c. 1935. (Public Domain image from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History via JTA)

'There needs to be a national park to honor him'

With DEI out of favor, some push to honor Jewish philanthropist behind 5,000 Black schools

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Lawmakers, archivists and activists seek recognition for Julius Rosenwald, the Sears exec who partnered with Booker T. Washington to fund education across the Jim Crow South in 1917-1932

Photo essay

War-delayed marathon-less Jerusalem Marathon takes over capital amid ceasefire

Freed hostage Rom Braslavski helps kick off 10km race, after full marathon scrapped due to sweltering weather conditions

More Headlines

Smoke rises from the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, following missile attacks from Iran and Lebanon, March 30, 2026. (Anthony Hershko/Flash90)

In turnaround, Energy Ministry calls to relocate, not close, Haifa’s Iran-targeted Bazan oil refinery

Police officers and others run in front of Jo Goldenberg, a Jewish restaurant and deli, in Paris, after it was attacked by terrorists on August 9, 1982. (AP Photo/ Aulnay)

PA said to extradite to France key suspect in 1982 Paris antisemitic terror attack

By Nurit Yohanan and AFP

View of the port in the northern city of Haifa, April 10, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Israel tells Ukraine too late to seize Russian grain ship as it left Haifa — report

By Stav Levaton

(L-r) Andrea Lucas, chair of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, speaks with Brandeis Center founder Kenneth Marcus at an antisemitism conference held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 16, 2026. (Courtesy of the Brandeis Center via JTA)

Trump official defends seeking identities of Jews at Penn for campus antisemitism probe

By Andrew Lapin

Italian opposition Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein delivers her speech after Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni addressed the lower chamber of parliament in Rome, April 9, 2026. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy’s opposition leader, whose father is Jewish, backs PM in split with Trump over Israel and pope

By Grace Gilson

In this photo supplied by Australia's Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke's office, the Minister Tony Burke, center, poses in an undisclosed location with five Iranian soccer players who were granted asylum in Australia on March 10, 2026. (Australia Ministry of Home Affairs via AP)

‘Safe haven’: Iranian soccer players who sought asylum in Australia thank supporters

Pinchas Cohen speaks at the USC Asian Health and Longevity Symposium on February 27, 2026. (Courtesy via JTA)

Peptides shmeptidesMany peptides are named to sound like Yiddish words. Here’s why

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The new pygmy hippo at the Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin, northern Israel, on April 16, 2026 (Saguy Peretz)

Small arrivalRare pygmy hippo arrives in Israel to launch breeding program

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