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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 19, 2026

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In this handout picture provided by Iranian presidency, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses cabinet members, as they visit of the tomb of the late Iranian revolutionary leader ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in Tehran on January 31, 2026. (Handout/Iranian Presidency/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 19: Iran’s president said to have told Pakistan the US is likely to ‘betray diplomacy’

Iran reportedly undecided on sending delegation to Pakistan as Vance, Witkoff and Kushner set to head for Islamabad * Alongside Milei, Netanyahu says war is ‘not over yet’

9:14 pm

Iran's president said to have told Pakistan the US is likely to 'betray diplomacy'
8:40 pm

French shipping company says one of its ships was targeted in Strait of Hormuz
8:00 pm

Iran says it currently has 'no plans' to attend next round of talks with US: state media

Sgt. First Class (res.) Lidor Porat. (Israel Defense Forces)

Northern residents strike, head to Jerusalem to protest

IDF reservist killed, nine wounded by explosive in southern Lebanon amid truce

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Sgt. First Class (res.) Lidor Porat, 31, dies as engineering vehicle rolls over bomb; military carries out strikes after incident; Lebanon reports repair work on bombed bridges

Warrant Officer (res.) Barak Kalfon.(Courtesy)

Army reservist killed by Hezbollah explosive in Lebanon amid truce, 3 troops hurt

By Emanuel Fabian

Smoke rises from southern Lebanon during an IDF operation, April 17, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF confirms strikes on Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, in first since ceasefire

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

A police forensic officer works inside a cordon set up near Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, northwest London, on April 19, 2026, the scene of an overnight arson attack. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Starmer 'appalled' at antisemitic attacks

Arson attempt hits London synagogue; Iran-linked group claims attack

By ToI Staff and Zev Stub

UK Chief Rabbi Mirvis: A ‘sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community’; no injuries reported; counter-terror police investigating

Forensic police officers outside an office formerly used by the Jewish Futures organization in Hendon, northwest London, April 18, 2026. (Justin Tallis / AFP)

London police probe arson attack on building tied to Jewish organization

By AFP

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.

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, left, shakes hand with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif prior to their meeting, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 11, 2026. (Pakistan Prime Minister Office via AP)

Kamala Harris accuses Netanyahu of dragging US into war

Iran parliament speaker touts ‘progress’ in US talks, but Strait of Hormuz still shut

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ghalibaf says ‘big distance’ remains and sides are ‘far’ from final discussions; confusion remains over vital waterway; Trump heaps praise on Israel as ‘great ally’ of US

A bulk carrier ship anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo)

Trump: Iran ‘got a little cute’ by blocking Hormuz again, but talks going ‘really well’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 19 – Five points of apparent failure in the Iran war

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Trump managing Iran war based on conflicting caprices that blindside his aides — report

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

WSJ says advisers have urged US president to curb his improvised social media posts and media interviews; Trump yelled at aides ‘for hours’ when US jet was downed, was kept from situation room

US President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 18, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/ AP)

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive before a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Former US vice president Harris accuses Netanyahu of dragging Trump into Iran war

By AP and ToI Staff

Analilia Mejia speaks to supporters after winning New Jersey's 11th Congressional District special election, April 16, 2026, in Montclair, NJ. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Harsh Israel critic Analilia Mejía wins US House seat in New Jersey special election

By AP and ToI Staff

Babies and medical staff with Israeli flags at the Nahariya Medical Center, ahead of Independence Day, April 13, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

As Israel approaches 78th Independence Day, its population stands at 10.244 million

76% are Jews and ‘others,’ 21.1% Arabs; over past year, 177,000 Israelis were born, 48,000 died, 21,000 immigrated; population has grown over a dozen-fold since state’s founding

Bereaved families lay flowers in memory of their loved ones during a protest and memorial ceremony at Tel Aviv's Habima Square, April 18, 2026. (Naama Zeevi Rivlin / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

‘We won’t let them forget’: Ahead of Memorial Day, Tel Aviv protest demands Oct. 7 inquiry

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Footage shows a car burning, and graffiti reading Revenge on a wall, following a reported settler attack in the Palestinian West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, April 18, 2026. (Screenshots/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers reportedly beat Palestinian woman, raid several West Bank towns

By ToI Staff, Nurit Yohanan and Jeremy Sharon

Woman taken for medical treatment, her sons said detained by IDF; Turmus Ayya, home to large population of Palestinian Americans, raided twice in one day; no arrests reported

Abandoned on Israel’s northern frontier

Residents can repair the homes battered by war — but as safe rooms remain unbuilt and ministers stay away, their faith in the state won’t return so easily

Steven Bernstein

What McDonald’s gets right about war and peace

43 years after the US embassy bombing in Beirut, economic integration may finally succeed in delivering peace where decades of armed conflict did not

Illustrative: Palestinians collect water from a UNICEF tanker in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 9, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Two water delivery contractors killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, UN says

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Military says troops opened fire after ‘armed terrorists’ were seen approaching the ceasefire line in north Gaza; two others killed in separate incidents after crossing Yellow Line

An IDF Combat Engineering truck-mounted drill rig is seen at Palestine Square in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood, December 19, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Anti-Israel group files formal complaint against released IDF soldier in Sri Lanka

US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack speaks during the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 17, 2026. (Screen capture/ YouTube)

US envoy argues Israeli policy on Syria and Turkey strategically counterproductive

Tom Barrack, Trump’s special envoy on Syria and ambassador to Turkey, asserts Ankara plays productive role in Gaza, hails Syrian restraint in face of repeated IDF incursions

A French contingent of UNIFIL peacekeepers patrols the area as displaced residents waving Hezbollah flags make their way back to their homes on a makeshift road, built at the site where the Qasmieh bridge was destroyed in Israeli strikes, in the southern Lebanese area of al-Qasmiyeh on April 18, 2026. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Macron, UNIFIL blame Hezbollah for killing of French peacekeeper in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Dried up fishponds in Emek Maayanot, April 2026 (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

Green in the valley: Israel’s abandoned fishponds are turning into a solar goldmine

In a pathbreaking deal, a project in northern Israel will generate clean energy, restore natural habitats, and share profits between local kibbutzim and the city of Beit She’an

Justice Isaac Amit, the High Court's president, at the court in Jerusalem, April 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court justices accuse Levin of abusing power to block judicial appointments

By Jeremy Sharon

Justice minister rapped for refusing to convene selection committee, ‘crassly ignoring’ need for district, magistrate court judges

L-R: Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot seen during a visit to Kibbutz Yiftah near the Israeli border with Lebanon, March 9, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90); opposition leader and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid in the Knesset, March 30, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90); former prime minister Naftali Bennett attends a funeral at the Military Cemetery in Beit She'an on April 9, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Bennett, Eisenkot and Lapid said holding contacts on forming joint ‘New Israel’ party

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Granulated yeast . (Zarina Lukash, iStock by Getty Images)

‘Test tube orgy’: Israeli scientists use yeast to assess humans’ mating preferences

Weizmann Institute researchers find that yeast born to preferred partners are fitter than those from one-night stands, showing how we choose mates who will produce healthiest offspring

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)

On 1st day, Shin Bet chief changed background pic on all agency PCs to Temple Mount – report

Source says move showed ‘messianic’ direction David Zini wants for intelligence agency; after uproar, picture was changed back to agency logo, agents told initial change was accidental

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves after the multinational virtual summit and press conference at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, April 17, 2026 (Tom Nicholson/Pool Photo via AP)

Allies back Starmer as Mandelson’s Epstein link leaves UK PM fighting for his job

By Jill Lawless

Roiling scandal threatens tenure of Labour leader; senior allies say premier is ‘man of integrity,’ as he is set to face lawmakers’ questions in parliament

Roy Peled, boyfriend of Lee Zeitouni, 25, who was killed in a hit-and-run accident by French driver Eric Robic two months earlier, holds Robic's picture as he calls for justice during a memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv on December 8, 2011. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Eric Robic, Tel Aviv hit-and-run perpetrator shot in Paris, had long history of financial crime

By Charlie Summers

Jewish Frenchman who fatally struck Lee Zeitouni was convicted a dozen times since 1994, probed with PM’s associate in prison bribery scheme, but friends insist he cleaned up act before death

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Pope Leo XIV arrives at the Presidential Palace for his meeting with Angola's President Joao Lourenco in Luanda, Angola, April 18, 2026. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope Leo XIV downplays feud with Trump: ‘Not in my interest’ to debate him

By Nicole Winfield

A Red Sea Picasso triggerfish approaches the live camera placed on a reef by Prof Maoz Fine. (Screen capture)

Deep diveNew site offers travel by armchair to Eilat’s magnificent coral reefs

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