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What Matters Most On Monday, April 27, 2026

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Smoke rises following an Israeli explosion in southern Lebanon near the border as seen from the Upper Galilee in northern Israel on April 27, 2026. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

IDF strikes Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley for first time in 3 weeks as some towns in north cancel school

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Stav Levaton and Agencies

Strikes follow continued Hezbollah fire; Netanyahu asserts Israel’s right to attack, asserts it will advance ceasefire talks; Lebanese president pans terror group for waging war serving ‘foreign interests’

Sgt. Idan Fooks, 19, killed in a Hezbollah drone attack in southern Lebanon, April 26, 2026 (Courtesy)

IDF soldier killed in south Lebanon drone attack as Israel, Hezbollah trade fire and blame

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

The crowd during Lag B'Omer celebrations on Mount Meron, May 15, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel restores some restrictions in north amid Hezbollah fire, nixes major pilgrimage

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Analysis

Bennett-Lapid reunion jolts electoral race, but path to unseating Netanyahu elusive as ever

Alliance revives 2021 playbook, but returning to power may hinge on whether Gadi Eisenkot joins or runs solo and whether a breakaway ‘Likud B’ faction reshapes coalition math

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speak during a press conference announcing their joint slate named 'Together' ahead of upcoming elections, in Herzliya, April 26, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Political correspondents Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol join host Jessica Steinberg on today's Daily Briefing. (ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 27: Success of Bennett-Lapid merger hinges on Eisenkot role in race

By Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel

Op-ed‘This feeling is called hope’: Old-new partners Bennett and Lapid try to oust Netanyahu again

By David Horovitz

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, right, and former prime minister Naftali Bennett appear at a press conference announcing their joint slate, called Together, in Herzliya, central Israel, April 26, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid announce united run under Bennett in 2026 elections

Bennett invites Gadi Eisenkot to join their ‘Together’ slate, declares that ‘the era of division is over’; Lapid calls on entire nation to rally behind new leader

Elections 2026: A unionLaunching joint slate, Bennett and Lapid promise ‘the era of division is over’

Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks during the launch of a book by Yoav Limor and Oren Nahari in Herzliya, central Israel, April 26, 2026 (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Eisenkot welcomes Bennett-Lapid union but says: To win, we need to bring in more votes

By Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

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US President Donald Trump gestures during a press conference after a shooting incident outside the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, April 25, 2026, as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI director Kash Patel listen. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Live updates (closed)

April 27: White House says Trump reviewing latest Iran proposal on reopening Hormuz

Ukraine summons Israeli envoy over Russian vessel carrying alleged stolen cargo to Haifa * Putin tells visiting Iranian FM Moscow will do ‘everything’ to secure Mideast peace

8:42 pm

Lebanon's health ministry says Israeli strikes kill 4 in south
8:23 pm

Hailstones blanket hills in southern Israel as weather volatility continues
8:02 pm

Police arrest 2 minors for beating 12-year-old girl in Tel Aviv 2 months ago

In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency on April 24, 2026, an Iranian man rides his motorcycle past a boat at Suru Beach in Bandar Abbas along the Strait of Hormuz. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA/AFP)

Araghchi lands in Russia after visits to Pakistan, Oman

Iran said to offer US deal to reopen Hormuz, end war and put off nuclear talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump to meet with national security, foreign policy teams to discuss proposal, report says, as oil prices rise after failed attempt to restart negotiations over the weekend

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, shaking hands with Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq during their meeting, in Muscat, Oman, April 26, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran diplomacy stalls as Hormuz becomes focal point of mediation efforts

A farmer carries wheat after harvesting it on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on April 25, 2026.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)

AnalysisIran war fertilizer squeeze could spell trouble for next year’s grain harvests

By Gus Trompiz and Naveen Thukral

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with army recruitment orders in the Mea She’arim neighborhood of Jerusalem, October 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

High Court orders government to impose financial sanctions on Haredi draft evaders

By Jeremy Sharon

In unanimous decision, court says government has failed to implement previous rulings, calls police refusal to arrest ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers an ‘unacceptable mass violation of law’

Analysis

Pushing a plea deal for Netanyahu, Herzog takes a risky bet on his pareve approach

The president is known for preferring quiet consensus building over bellicose bombast. That style just might resolve the festering issue of the PM’s trial — but it will likely fail, damaging public faith in him

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, and Israel's President Isaac Herzog, second left, attend a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Israel Hayom via AP, Pool)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror at Yad Labanim in Jerusalem, April 20, 2026. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu testimony, set to resume after monthslong break, canceled at last minute

South Africa’s 1994 lesson in leadership for Israel

Mandela and especially de Klerk showed how a visionary leader can reshape history simply by knowing when to step aside

Aaron Leibowitz

Bennett’s support for civil marriage may finally align policy with practice

You can already circumvent the chief rabbinate’s monopoly, but no couple should have to

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

How we forced Britain to face the IRGC

Proscribing this armed clerical militia is no eccentric Zionist priority; it’s a basic requirement of a state that takes its own security – and values – seriously

The Hormuz chokepoint exposes the AI chokepoint

The crisis in the Strait has made clear that the center of gravity of AI is not purely digital — it is physical

Palestinians vote during municipal elections, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on April 25, 2026. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

PA leader Abbas’s loyalists win local elections, including in Gaza’s Deir al‑Balah

By Agencies and Nurit Yohanan

First election of any kind in Strip in over 2 decades is cast by Ramallah as a success and ‘another step on the path to full independence’

An Israeli soldier walks outside a home attacked by Palestinian terrorists on October 7, in Kibbutz Holit on October 26, 2023. (YURI CORTEZ / AFP)

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Kibbutz Holit was left to fight Hamas alone for hours on October 7 — IDF probe

Military investigation finds 60 terrorists attacked border community, killing 16 and abducting 9 to Gaza; troops left to fight elsewhere, backup arrived only in the afternoon

Inside story

As Hamas prepares to choose 1st leader since Sinwar, postwar Gaza’s fate hangs in the balance

Two leading contenders would pull terror group in different directions: prioritizing fighting to keep a grip on the Strip or conceding the battlefield in exchange for survival

Armed members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad greet people gathering for Eid al-Fitr prayers in Gaza City, March 20, 2026. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

An aerial view of the Kaye Academic College of Education in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, January 7, 2026. (Danny Maron/Flash90)

Beersheba college ordered to compensate educator fired over Oct. 7 social media posts

Kaye College to appeal decision after court finds that it didn’t respect Dr. Warda Sada’s academic freedoms, failed to pursue less drastic measures before firing her

US President Donald Trump gestures during a press conference after a shooting incident outside the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, April 25, 2026, as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI director Kash Patel listen. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump, cabinet officials were likely targets of Washington shooting, acting AG says

By Bo Erickson, Nandita Bose, Jana Winter and Steve Holland

US president says officials believe suspect was ‘lone wolf,’ injured Secret Service member in ‘good shape’ after being shot outside White House correspondents’ dinner

This image released by US President Donald Trump via his Truth Social account shows a person he claims to be the suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner on the ground after being apprehended on April 25, 2026 (@REALDONALDTRUMP / TRUTH SOCIAL)

Washington shooting suspect sent anti-Trump writings to family before attack

By Eric Tucker, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Tensions occur between those gathering under the banners of the Jewish Brigade and other demonstrators during the parade for the anniversary of Liberation Day of Italy as part of the April 25 celebrations in Milan, Italy, on April 25, 2026. (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto)

‘You’re lucky you’re not soap bars’: Jews forced to leave rally marking WWII end in Italy

By Rossella Tercatin

Members joining march under banners of British Army’s Nazi-fighting Jewish Brigade and other Jewish organizations are insulted and prevented from continuing

Police stand outside the scene of an antisemitic arson attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London, on March 24, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)

UK police arrest man for terror plot in probe of antisemitic attacks

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Light pollution makes 'time almost meaningless' — researcher

Night light disrupts antibody production rhythms, may raise risk of death, Israeli study finds

Tel Aviv University research on mice, with implications for humans, finds artificial lighting from sources as common as streetlights disrupts mammalian immune system’s natural sense of time

A golden spiny mouse. (Mickey Samuni-Blank, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

The Jewish cemetery in Sint Eustatius had its first burials in 1720. (CC BY-SA 4.0/Jrryjude)

'Jewish merchants were central to early America's story'

Did this tiny Caribbean island’s Jewish community help win the US Revolutionary War?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A new exhibition opens at the Weitzman Museum in Philadelphia about a small group of Sephardic merchants on Sint Eustatius and the outsized impact they had in the fight for America’s freedom

More Headlines

Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy at the 2025 Jerusalem International Writers Festival (Courtesy)

Booking issuesDara Horn, Joseph Finder among visiting authors at annual writer’s festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Iranian women walk along a busy street in Tehran on April 25, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

As some hijabs come off in Iran and enforcement eases, locals fear it’s temporary

By AFP

Rabbi Zevadia Cohen (Religious Services Ministry)

Shas-backed candidate Zevadia Cohen appointed new chief rabbi of Tel Aviv

By Rossella Tercatin

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla attending a presentation on the final design for the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II at the British Museum, in London, April 21, 2026. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP)

UK’s King Charles heads to Washington to help mend frayed ties with US

By AP

Akiva Shrier wins second place at the International Bible Quiz on April 19 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Screenshot via JTA)

Strong showingUS teens place high in Israel’s annual Bible Quiz

By Grace Gilson

A Nio battery-switching station. (Youtube screen shot)

Chinese EV firm Nio accused of exploiting Better Place patents in $250 million suit

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

Environmental activists threaten High Court petition over data wipe

Atef Najib, former head of the Political Security Branch in the Daraa area during Bashar al-Assad's rule, sits in the defendants' cage during a trial session at the Palace of Justice in Damascus, Syria, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syria’s first public trial of Assad-era officials begins in Damascus

By GHAITH ALSAYED

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