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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a military conference at the Ramat David Airbase, April 27, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Again pleads for more troops amid growing burden of missions

IDF chief slams ‘unethical’ conduct by soldiers; cites smashing of Jesus statue, inciteful insignia

By Emanuel Fabian

Zamir says discipline eroded in recent wars, warns ‘IDF must not compromise our values’; also raises alleged looting, social media misdeeds; promises ‘no exclusion of women’

Former head of the Mossad Tamir Pardo (center) speaks to Channel 13 while touring in the West Bank (left and right), including Palestinian villages that have come under settler attack in recent months, in a story aired on April 27, 2026. (Channel 13 screenshots)

Ex-Mossad chief: Settler violence an existential threat, curbing it could spark civil war

IDF soldiers operate during a raid on a cafe in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 23, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

IDF, police arrest Israeli civilian suspected of settler attack that injured teen

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

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

White House said likely to make counterproposal

Trump reportedly unhappy with Iran’s proposal to reopen Hormuz but shelve nuclear issue

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Vance said to express concern war depleting US arms stockpiles; Iran reportedly resorting to ‘junk storage’ for oil amid US blockade on exports, will soon run out of space for crude

An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boat allegedly takes part in an operation to seize ships attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, on April 21, 2026. (MIRZADEH via the Iranian news agency TASNIM NEWS, via AFP)

Rubio rejects new Iranian proposal to reopen Strait of Hormuz, with future of talks in limbo

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

People and media gather at the entrance of the building of the Organization Of The Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, in Vienna, Austria, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Philipp-Moritz Jenne)

UAE says it will withdraw from OPEC and OPEC+, in historic blow to global oil cartel

Ultra-Orthodox men block a road during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who dodge the military draft, near Bnei Brak, April 28, 2026. (Flash90)

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April 28: Haredi extremists call ‘protest of rage’ for Thursday over arrests of draft dodgers

By Michael Bachner, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Leaders, officials condemn Haredi extremists for breaking into Military Police chief’s backyard * Netanyahu blasts ICC after Qatar alleged to have made offer to chief prosecutor

8:47 pm

IDF says it downed Hezbollah drone before it crossed from Lebanon
8:46 pm

Former FBI chief charged with threatening Trump's life
8:45 pm

Victim of Hezbollah drone attack in southern Lebanon named as Amer Hujirat

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Analysis

Fatal Hezbollah attack exposes gaps in IDF preparedness for first-person view drones

No proper defense exists yet for explosive drones guided by fiber optic cable, which can’t be jammed electronically; Israel only began looking into solutions during current war

Left: Hezbollah FPV drones captured by Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo published April 3, 2026; Right: A Hezbollah drone slams into an Israeli tank in the southern Lebanon town of Mays al-Jabal on April 11, 2026, in footage published by the terror group on April 27, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces; Hezbollah media office)

Family and friends of IDF soldier Sgt. Idan Fooks attend his funeral at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva, on April 27, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Slain soldier’s girlfriend says at funeral that she saw his death in Lebanon in real time

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

IDF troops of the Bislamach Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on April 28, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier severely wounded as Hezbollah drones target troops in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Northern officials, residents denounce Lebanon truce: ‘Stop using our kids as sitting ducks’

Council head says decision-makers should move north with their families to see the reality; security cabinet member Regev concedes situation is more of a ‘porous ceasefire’

Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avichai Stern, center front, holds a sign that reads 'Ceasefire = emboldening of Hezbollah,' as he and other residents of the northern city protest outside the US embassy building in Jerusalem on April 19, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analyst Ksenia Svetlova, a former MK, joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (Courtesy/ToI)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 28 – Untangling the Iran-Russia-Hezbollah web

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ksenia Svetlova

'Like many Jews in the arts since Oct. 7, we've been canceled'

Sydney concert to benefit Bondi terror victims canceled after choir opposes singing with Jewish group

By Stuart Winer

Over half of Australian Hellenic Choir votes against joining Sydney Jewish Choral Society on stage; choir head: ‘Didn’t realize the extent of antisemitism in the local Greek community’

Screen capture from video of the Australian Hellenic Choir during a concert in Sydney, 2025. (YouTube)

A man running in front of a sign for the Venice Biennale in Italy in an undated photo. (Stefano Mazzola via Getty Images via JTA)

Venice Biennale judges won’t consider Israel due to Netanyahu’s ICC arrest warrant

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The family of Yemanu Zelka speaks to the press outside the pizzeria where he worked, close to the site where numerous youths murdered him after his shift on Independence Day, in Petah Tikva, April 27, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

‘A truly good kid’: Independence Day murder victim’s family prays for justice

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Teens who killed Yemanu Zelka for asking them not to use party spray in pizzeria are ‘professional criminals’ aided by parents, says victim’s sister; main suspect reportedly not talking

People gather outside a Pizza Hut branch in Petah Tikva, lighting candles and placing flowers in memory of employee Yemanu Binyamin Zelka, who was killed at the site days earlier, April 25, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police launch major operation to combat youth violence after deadly stabbings

By Charlie Summers

A girl carrying a backpack is beat up in south Tel Aviv's Shapira neighborhood in February 2026. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 minors arrested for beating girl in south Tel Aviv after assault footage goes viral

By Charlie Summers

Inside story

Independence Day killing puts spotlight on youth violence wracking Petah Tikva’s streets

By Charlie Summers

Murder of Pizza Hut employee by gang of teens seen as part of larger trend of delinquent adolescents roving sidewalks and starting fights in central Israel city and beyond

People gather outside a Pizza Hut branch in Petah Tikva, lighting candles and placing flowers in memory of employee Yemanu Binyamin Zelka, who was stabbed and later died of his wounds on the eve of Independence Day, April 27, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Wendy Sherman: Israeli PM destabilized the Middle East

Biden’s deputy secretary of state: Netanyahu helped ‘create a genocide in Gaza’

Veteran Jewish diplomat Wendy Sherman says US also responsible for what unfolded in the Strip, then clarifies that she can’t make legal analysis whether genocide ‘literally’ occurred

File: US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in Seoul, South Korea, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Rabbi Charley Baginsky (right) and Rabbi Josh Levy on stage at a march for the release of hostages held in Gaza, in London, August 10, 2025. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK’s top 2 Progressive rabbis: Israel’s direction risks it becoming ‘incompatible with Jewish values’

Justices hear petitions demanding the formation of a state commission of inquiry into security failures surrounding the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, at the High Court in Jerusalem on April 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Court doesn’t order state inquiry into Oct. 7, gives government 2 months to decide on probe

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Mossad chief David Barnea speaks at a ceremony recognizing the agency’s 2025 achievements, April 27, 2026. (Courtesy)

Mossad chief says agency’s operations penetrated ‘core’ of Iran, Lebanon secrets

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Barnea commends 10 operations and projects for outstanding achievements in 2025, notes that cooperation with the military had ‘changed Israel’s strategic posture’

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot speaks during the 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 27, 2026. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Iran selected for a vice presidency post at UN’s nuclear non-proliferation confab

By David Brunnstrom

The sun rising behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, April 18, 2026. (Asghar Besharati/AP)

20,000 seafarers stranded in Persian Gulf as Strait of Hormuz stays shut despite ceasefire

By CHAN HO-HIM, SHEIKH SAALIQ and Niniek Karmini

From the blogs

Dignity and perseverance: How 3 women finally took the Chief Rabbinate exam

After a 4-hour delay – including notice that the test was canceled, triggering an emergency High Court injunction – these inspiring women made history. It’s only the beginning

Female candidates take a rabbinical test administered by the Chief Rabbinate at the Religious Services Ministry in Jerusalem on April 27, 2026. (Chief Rabbinate)

3 women take Chief Rabbinate exam for first time in history, after delay ended by court order

By Rossella Tercatin

Women take test on laws of mourning in separate location from men thanks to emergency injunction, following years of legal battles to sit for rabbinical exams

Trump’s reckless rhetoric endangers Iranian Kurds

By accusing us of stealing guns meant for Iranian protestors, the US has abandoned the Kurdish people and turned us into potential cannon fodder – again

Vitalii Portnikov

Stolen grain on the Jerusalem tram

Israel will be sorely disappointed if it expects better treatment from Russia in return for ignoring Ukraine’s claims about looted grain shipments

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)

Lapid said willing to drop to third spot on ticket with Bennett if Eisenkot joins

By Sam Sokol, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Eisenkot resists invitation, welcomes economist Shaul Meridor into his own Yashar party’s electoral slate; low-polling Gantz says Bennett-Lapid merger doesn’t serve Israel’s interests

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

Poll shows new Lapid-Bennett union edging out Likud as largest party

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot during a visit to Kibbutz Yiftah near the Israeli border with Lebanon, March 9, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Eisenkot invites most opposition chiefs to meet, coordinate path to ‘Zionist majority’ victory

By Ariela Karmel

A protester is detained by police after jumping a barricade as demonstrators rally on opposite sides of the street in front of the Roy Thomson Hall, where the documentary 'The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue' premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, on September 10, 2025. (Photo by Cole BURSTON / AFP)

Canadian antisemitism ‘metastasized’ in 2025 with record 6,800 incidents, mostly online

B’nai Brith Canada’s annual report, tallying 10 violent incidents and hundreds of cases of vandalism, says Jew-hatred is ‘national crisis’ that’s become ‘normalized in our society’

Aleph Bet Judaica, seen after a rock was thrown at its window in Toronto, April 26, 2026. (Courtesy via JTA)

Targeting of synagogue, Judaica shop window ratchet up Toronto Jews’ concerns

By Joseph Strauss

Supporters of Palestine Action stage a protest outside the Royal Court of Justice in London, the United Kingdom, April 28, 2026. (AP/Kin Cheung)

UK appeals ‘overstated and wrong’ court ruling that Palestine Action ban is unlawful

Anti-Israel group co-founder laments ‘severe restrictions’ on freedom of speech caused by terror designation, imposed in 2025 after activists broke into air force base, damaged two planes; separately attacked a policewoman with a sledgehammer

Suspects in the Palestine Action Germany attack on an Israeli defense firm in Ulm enter the courtroom in Stuttgart, Germany, on April 27, 2026. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

5 Palestine Action members appear in German court on charges of smashing Elbit site

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Police officers stand on duty at a cordon near the Finchley Reform Synagogue, in the North Finchley area of north London, on April 15, 2026, following an attack on the synagogue in the early hours of the morning. (Toby Shepheard / AFP)

London memorial for victims of Iran regime, Oct. 7 targeted in suspected arson attack

By Stav Levaton and Agencies

This courtroom sketch depicts Cole Tomas Allen, left, the California man arrested in the shooting incident at the correspondents dinner in Washington, seen appearing before Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh, in federal court, Monday, April 27, 2026 in Washington. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Suspect ordered to remain jailed pending additional hearings

Man charged with attempted assassination of Trump for correspondents’ dinner shooting

By Eric Tucker, Michael Kunzelman and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Authorities say Cole Thomas Allen reserved room weeks in advance at hotel where event would be held; 31-year-old faces up to life in jail if convicted of assassination count alone

Journalists that were in attendance for the White House Correspondents Dinner prepare for a press briefing at the Washington Hilton following an incident that disrupted the event, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

AnalysisReporters covered correspondents’ dinner shooting in real time. Conspiracies still spread

By Melissa Goldin

More Headlines

Workers load grain at a grain port in Izmail, Ukraine, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Kyiv summons Israeli envoy, EU warns of sanctions after 2nd ‘stolen’ grain ship incident

By Reuters and Nava Freiberg

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

Outgoing Mossad chief reportedly says Qatargate affair didn’t seem to harm state security

By Nava Freiberg

A view of the Palestinian hamlet of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank with the Israeli settlement of Carmel visible in the background, August 4, 2025. (AP/ Julia Frankel)

Residents of Palestinian hamlet to argue for zoning plan, despite dubious chance of success

By Jeremy Sharon

People conduct their businesses around the traditional grand bazaar of Tehran, Iran, March 29, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran eases internet curbs for businesses as blackout enters third month

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich confirms Finance Ministry hasn’t transferred any tax revenues to PA for past year

By Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid

Visitors tour Chinese automaker BYD's booth with a screen showing its battery charging station under sub-zero temperatures, at the Auto China 2026 show in Beijing, April 25, 2026. (AP/Andy Wong)

Chinese automaker BYD’s new-generation fast chargers to hit Israel later this year

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Northern council head, five others arrested on suspicion of bribery

By Charlie Summers

The Gagon shelter in Jaffa, open for tours during Batim Mibifnim 2026, the annual Tel Aviv Open Houses event. (Courtesy)

Behind closed doorsTel Aviv’s ‘Open Houses’ offers fresh peek at private and public spaces

By Jessica Steinberg

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