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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight aboard Air Force One, April 17, 2026, while in route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates (closed)

April 21: Report says Israel doubts prospects of Iran deal, is coordinating potential attack plans with US

Trump says he’s awaiting a clear position from Tehran as Iranians indicate they won’t attend Islamabad talks * IDF says Hezbollah breached truce by launching rockets at troops, drone at Israel

8:47 pm

WATCH: Trump speaks at White House event, expected to address stalled Iran talks
8:37 pm

US envoy to Israel reportedly called back to Washington amid Iran developments
8:28 pm

Trump announces he is extending Iran ceasefire until Tehran offers clear position

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state Memorial Day ceremony commemorating fallen soldiers, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, April 21, 2026. (Ilia Yefimovich/Pool Photo via AP)

In bellicose Memorial Day speeches, leaders vow to keep fighting; Netanyahu heckled

By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Defense minister says Hezbollah leader will ‘pay with his head’; protester interrupts PM when he says he brought back all the hostages from Gaza; Gantz warns of ‘deceptive calm’

Varda Morrell lays a photo at the gravesite of her son, IDF Staff Sgt. Maoz Morell, in 2025. (Courtesy Varda Morell via JTA)

‘Another row of graves’: Families of slain soldiers mark Memorial Day in war’s shadow

By Deborah Danan

President Isaac Herzog and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir at a Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall, April 20, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

At Memorial Day ceremony, leaders warn of division, IDF chief says ‘all parts of nation’ must defend it

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

A 2015 image of Rachel Goldberg-Polin and her son, Hersh. (Courtesy)

Book reviewA transformation from a 'warm beige' life to a global voice

Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s new memoir piercingly articulates the ordeal of losing a son

By Jessica Steinberg

‘When We See You Again’ is a dive into ‘The Before’ and ‘The After’ of life as mother to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old taken hostage by Hamas terrorists and murdered in captivity

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Yotam Haim, left, and his mother, Iris Haim, in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

InterviewCreating new life helps deal with otherwise unbearable events

Slain hostage’s mother aims to perpetuate life with son’s posthumously retrieved sperm

By Diana Bletter

‘Hamas and Hitler wanted to destroy us; technology can help us create new life,’ says Iris Haim, mother of Yotam, mistakenly killed by IDF troops after escaping his Gaza captors; a court has ruled that the family can use his sperm for conception

US Vice President JD Vance steps off while arriving on Air Force Two at Athens-Ben Epps Airport on April 14, 2026 in Athens, Georgia. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP)

Trump: Extracting Iran's uranium to be 'long and difficult'

Vance reportedly set to depart for Pakistan, but still unclear if Iran will join talks

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Iran said to get OK from Mojtaba Khamenei to negotiate, but state media says delegation yet to depart; US officials to CNN: Trump undermining talks with constant public commentary

US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn upon his arrival to the White House, April 17, 2026, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump says he has ‘no problem’ meeting Iran’s leaders as future of peace talks in doubt

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this picture courtesy of Captain Rahman Al-Jubouri, he, right, supervises sailors on the deck of the Sea Moon oil tanker on the waters the Gulf of Oman, April 15, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Capt. Rahman Al-Jubouri via AP)

‘Sailing over a ball of fire’: Iraqi captain keeps traversing Mideast waters amid threat of attack

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Anonymous: A Memorial Day conversation

‘Who are you?’ I ask the nameless soldier who gave his life in Israel’s War of Independence so that I might have the freedom to stand here

The Bible scholar I never met

Seeing the work of Eitan Rosenzweig, killed in Gaza at age 21, I thought: I would have sought this person out. Not as a student — as a colleague

Adena Mark Kapon

A bereaved daughter’s guide to new families on Memorial Day

I remember when my grief made it impossible to get out of bed and I know that, one day, they too will learn to live with loss

‘But even so’: Memorial Day and the sacred canopy of Israeli life

As we mourn all who sacrificed to make our lives possible, we center this holy day, which may yet help us transcend that which divides us

In a photo taken on February 21, 2024, Revital Shamir with her 4-year-old son Lavi and newborn girl Ori are at their home in Havat Yair (Yair's Farm). Revital's husband Mordechai was killed in military service while fighting Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Re'im on October 7, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Interviews'This is the price we reservists pay, time and again'

‘He didn’t fall in vain’: On Memorial Day, two young IDF widows discuss life after death

By Jessica Steinberg

Alma Levin Fridman and Revital Shamir talk about their husbands, families and communities, sharing their grief – and their stories – with the compatriots their partners fought for

Inside story

‘Blood only begets blood’: Why these bereaved Oct. 7 families still choose coexistence

Despite facing a hostile public atmosphere, some relatives of Hamas victims battle alongside Palestinian peace activists for political change, finding solace in dialogue

A joint memorial ceremony for bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families held in Tel Aviv in 2025, with the inscription saying both in Hebrew and in Arabic: 'We, who lost our dearest of all, choose to stand, mourn and remember together. And as we do every year, we call for the end of violence and the search for a diplomatic solution that will secure freedom, justice and safety for all.' (Gilli Getz)

Liora Eilon speaks at a joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony in Tel Aviv, April 20, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day event held in secret amid far-right threats

By Ariela Karmel

Police arrest a man suspected of disrupting a Memorial Day event in Lod, April 20, 2026. (Israel Police)

Seven arrested for disrupting ceremonies, tearing down flags during Memorial Day

New round of Israel-Lebanon talks set for Thursday as US said trying to extend truce

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Talks to take place in Washington with envoy Yechiel Leiter leading Israeli side; Hezbollah lawmaker says terror group to remain armed; Lebanese PM: Aim is for Israel to withdraw

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)

The scene after a car crashed into an electric bike near Hebron in the West Bank, killing a Palestinian teen, April 21, 2026. (MDA)

Car said to belong to minister’s security detail strikes and kills Palestinian teen

Mohammad Majdi al-Ja’abari, 16, dies after car hit his bike near Hebron in West Bank; Ben Gvir’s office says it was not his vehicle and he wasn’t at scene, claims teen ‘burst into road’ at red light

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Trump listens to a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, on December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)

Raging at ‘fake news,’ Trump denies Israel ‘talked me into the war with Iran’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

US president insists decision to launch strikes on Islamic Republic was due to conviction it can’t have nuclear weapons, his view reinforced by Hamas Oct.7 attack on Israel

A tanker sits anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Asghar Besharati)

Iran war creating worst energy crisis ‘in history,’ says International Energy Agency

From left, High Representative for Gaza Nikolay Mladenov, Belgium's Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, and Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, during a meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution in Brussels, Belgium, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/ Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

‘They’re not easy’: Board of Peace envoy admits Hamas disarmament talks stalled

By Jacob Magid, Reuters, Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

After terror group ignored his first ultimatum, Nickolay Mladenov says an agreement must be reached within two weeks or loss of momentum will be too difficult to overcome

Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski gives a speech at the parliament, in Warsaw, Poland, April 23, 2025. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Polish FM says IDF soldiers ‘admit to war crimes,’ setting up clash with Sa’ar

By Lazar Berman

Peter Magyar speaks to the media in Budapest, Hungary, after winning national elections, April 13, 2026. (Denes Erdos/AP)

Hungary’s Magyar says ICC-wanted leaders will be detained, despite invite to Netanyahu

By Nava Freiberg

People outside a shop selling Israeli flags and other regalia, ahead of Israel's Independence Day, Shuk Levinsky in Tel Aviv, April 19, 2026. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

'I don't want to celebrate -- I want quiet'

Restrictions lifted, but war clouds put damper on Independence Day plans

By Stav Levaton

Cities move ahead with events amid fragile Lebanon and Iran ceasefires, though some opt for scaled-down, community-based celebrations, as war-weary Israelis voice caution and fatigue

Sabrin al-Ataiqah (left) and Ahmad Issa (right), Arab citizens of Israel who were shot and killed, amid a surging crime wave in Arab society, on April 20, 2026. (Facebook)

Two Arab citizens, including young mother, killed in separate shootings

By Charlie Summers

Police nab brother of 27-year-old woman in south after paramedics find her with gunshot wound to the head; hours later, man killed in Kafr Qasim in suspected ‘blood feud’

Inside Story

Israeli airlines accused of reselling stranded customers’ seats for wartime windfall

Some carriers refunded travelers rather than offering to rebook them, seemingly breaking law but freeing up spots commanding sky-high prices

Illustrative: Travelers at Ben Gurion Airport during a ceasefire in the US-Israeli war with Iran, April 9, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Tech editor Sharon Wrobel joins host Jessica Steinberg on today's Daily Briefing. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 21 – The shekel’s remarkable strength

By Jessica Steinberg and Sharon Wrobel

Over 40% of European Jews experienced antisemitism last year, survey finds

Nearly half of European Jews feel unsafe in their countries, but feel more connected to their Jewish communities than do North American Jews, Jewish Agency says

Belgian military personnel stand guard outside a synagogue in central Antwerp as part of Belgium's reinforced security measures established at Jewish schools and synagogues, March 23, 2026. (John Thys/AFP)

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Luxembourg, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Germany and Italy reject push by EU allies to end association deal with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

View of a FedEx Corp airline flight. July 22, 2019. (Moshe Shai FLASH90)

Jewish anti-Zionist group files ‘genocide’ claim against FedEx over Israel deliveries

By AFP and ToI Staff

'We wanted to try and hold this huge loss, to offer solace'

In Jerusalem, young composers partner with bereaved families to create musical memories

By Jessica Steinberg

The Tarbut Movement pairs families who lost loved ones on or after Oct. 7, 2023, with local school musical programs to create and record songs commemorating them in the styles they loved

Rahm Emanuel speaks to voters as he participates in the South Carolina Democratic Party's "On the Road" series on April 2, 2026, in Newberry, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Rahm Emanuel joins calls to end US ‘financial aid’ as Democratic support for Israel hits new lows

By JTA and ToI Staff

Former Chicago mayor says ‘US should never spill any blood for Israel’s security,’ asserts Jerusalem dragged US into the conflict in ‘violation of a rule it had for 78 years’

Amir Makled, a pro-Palestinian candidate for University of Michigan Board of Regents, addresses the crowd at a rally for US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 7, 2026. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)

Michigan Democrats back pro-Palestinian candidate for university board

By Andrew Lapin

More Headlines

Mossad chief David Barnea attends a Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 20, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Mossad agent ‘Mem,’ who died in 2023, contributed to Iran war success, spy chief reveals

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Left to right: Macky Sall in Dakar, Senegal, February 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui); Rafael Grossi in Seoul, South Korea, April 15, 2026. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP); Michelle Bachelet on March 8, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly); Rebeca Grynspan in San Jose, Costa Rica, October 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)

Four contenders for UN secretary-general face live hearings; others may join race

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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)

UK police say 17-year-old boy charged over arson attack on London synagogue

By Reuters and ToI Staff

General view of Domodedovo airport near Moscow on January 26, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev/AP)

40 Israelis detained at Moscow airport, reportedly over war with Iran

By Nava Freiberg

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, April 20, 2026 to face a showdown in Parliament over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

UK’s Starmer says he’s sorry but won’t resign after facing MPs on Mandelson-Epstein scandal

By Jill Lawless

Palestinians look on as trucks carrying humanitarian aid arrive in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 1, 2026. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Several military and police officers charged with corruption in multiple cases

By Emanuel Fabian and Jeremy Sharon

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on February 9, 2020. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Kanye West shows nixed in Poland, Switzerland amid backlash over past antisemitism

By Grace Gilson

Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on April 17, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, Pool)

Jurors set to hear opening statements in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial in New York

By Jennifer Peltz

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