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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 3, 2026

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June 3: IDF chief says ‘no ceasefire for our forces’ in Lebanon as Netanyahu defends heated Trump call

Trump says he wants to separate Lebanon, Iran talks * Iranian FM: Any hostile act will be met with an immediate, decisive response * Hamas postpones talks with Gaza mediators in Egypt

8:48 pm

IDF probing Hezbollah use of drones with possible night-vision cameras
8:29 pm

Trump suggests Iran talks could yield result this weekend
8:07 pm

Bennett: Netanyahu made his 'consiglieri' state comptroller to shield himself from Oct. 7 scrutiny

Trump: 'If there wasn't me, there would be no Israel'

Trump confirms calling Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ during their recent phone call

By Nava Freiberg

In interview, US president says he was ‘perturbed’ by ‘constant fighting with Lebanon,’ but he likes Israeli leader; asserts he would like to meet Iran’s new supreme leader

US President Donald Trump, left, with 'Pod Force One' host Miranda Devine, during an interview published June 3, 2026, in which he confirmed cursing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call. (Screenshots/Pod Force One)

Illustrative: Passengers arrive at Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City on June 1, 2026, as the airport resumes operations following a phased reopening plan. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)

1 killed in Iranian drone attack on Kuwaiti airport; flights suspended

By Jon Gambrell and Samy Magdy

Several injured and severe damage reported as fresh missile exchanges in the Gulf test ceasefire and efforts to reach a long-term deal

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio says Iran opening up on nuclear issue, as Trump insists talks ‘continuous’

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

FILE: A handout picture of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant on February 13, 2020 (Barakah Nuclear Power Plant / AFP)

IAEA offers UAE support after recent ‘carefully targeted’ drone attack on nuclear plant

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Lebanese soldiers and first responders inspect the site of an Israeli drone strike that reportedly killed the passengers of a vehicle on the Khalde highway at the southern entrance to Beirut on June 3, 2026. (FADEL itani / AFP)

IDF strike reported near Beirut, sirens blare in north after peace talks in DC

By Emanuel Fabian, Diana Bletter, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Two rockets, suspected Hezbollah drone shot down over Galilee Panhandle, morning after Home Front Command eases restrictions

Yechiel Leiter (far L), Israeli Ambassador to the US, and Nada Hamadeh (far R), Lebanese ambassador to the US, attend a meeting hosted by the United States at the State Department in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2026. Leading the US delegation are Deputy National Security Adviser Mike Needham (C), State Department Chief of Staff Daniel Holler (L of Needham), and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (L of Holler). (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP)

Israel and Lebanon hold talks in DC, as IDF eases safety restrictions in northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies

A resident takes a picture of shrapnel from Iron Dome following a Hezbollah attack, in one of the towns bordering Lebanon on June 1, 2026. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

PM announces $4.5 billion for war-battered north at ‘special meeting’ few ministers attend

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Op-ed

Put aside the cursing, and focus on defeating Iran

What’s needed is a civil version of “What the fuck are you doing?” — not from Trump to Netanyahu but from Netanyahu to Trump. To be followed by a joint effort to assess why this war has so signally failed, avoid exacerbating the failure with a dreadful deal, and resolutely turn the tide

US President Donald Trump, right, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a special plenum session in honor of Trump at the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Between Beaufort and Beirut, Israel faces narrowing options against Hezbollah

Renewed rocket and drone fire has exposed limits of Israel’s battlefield gains — but with Trump blocking escalation and Lebanon unable to disarm the terror group, there’s no straightforward path ahead

This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel shows destroyed buildings in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila and the medieval Beaufort Castle, in the background following an Israeli airstrike on May 31, 2026. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

A Middle East Airlines plane takes off from Rafik Hariri International Airport as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, March 17, 2026. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Lebanon launches safety audit of Middle East Airlines as pilots point to wartime danger

By Allison Lampert

An Israir flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Slovenia turns away Israeli passenger jet, forcing it to land in neighboring Croatia

Israir plane denied permission to touch down in Ljubljana due to government’s opposition to Israel; Foreign Ministry pans ‘unacceptable’ incident and anticipates better ties with incoming PM

‘Sorry, there are no Jews allowed’: Israelis denied booking at German hotel

‘Are we back in the 1930s?’ asks Israeli consul general, sharing message sent by Hotel zum Hirschen in Lam, Bavaria; booking site removes hotel from listings after complaint filed

A composite image showing the antisemitic message reportedly sent to Israeli tourists by Hotel zum Hirschen in Lam, Germany, posted by Israel's consul general Talya Lador on June 2, 2026, overlaid on the booking.com website. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law/Booking.com illustrative screenshot)

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)

Jewish apartment building in London’s Golders Green targeted in suspected arson, no injuries

Op-ed

Google’s Gemini AI admits it is unfit for purpose: ‘You should not trust a single thing I say’

Using Google is increasingly unsatisfactory. And its AI tool is utterly unreliable. ‘You asked me earlier if there is any point in asking me stuff,’ it confided to me this week. ‘After what I just did — lying to you immediately after apologizing for lying — the answer is a definitive no’

Rubio says Netanyahu’s pledge to seize 70% of Gaza contradicts Trump plan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘We have a plan — it doesn’t call for that,’ top US diplomat tells Congress, in apparent criticism of PM’s vow to expand Israeli control over Strip

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the House Appropriations Committee, June 2, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Workers keep flat the restored floor of the ancient theater built by Herod the Great between 23-15 BCE in the Judaean desert, southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank, on December 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Netanyahu said to halt progress of controversial West Bank and Gaza antiquities bill

By Rossella Tercatin

ToI podcast

Matti Friedman: As Israel plays king of the castle in Lebanon, what’s its endgame?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Matti Friedman

In a week in which the country marks the fallen in the first Lebanon War and announces the recapture of Beaufort Castle, the journalist and author draws on the past to understand the present

From the Blogs

Get off the Trumpoline

Israel is the ’bestie’ of the king of the world. For now. But that comes at a price, and the Jewish state must put itself first for the long-term

Easy to enter, hard to leave: Israel’s return to Lebanon

With Israelis divided sharply for decades over an IDF presence in Lebanon, leaders must explain the war’s objectives to win the people’s necessary support

Northern Israelis are paying the price for their resilience

The longer residents showed their ability to cope with life under fire, the more politicians felt free to abandon them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, shakes hands with new Mossad chief Roman Gofman at a welcoming ceremony, June 2, 2026. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Gofman sworn in as Mossad chief; Netanyahu tells him to help bring down Iran regime

By Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

At Jerusalem ceremony, PM says his former military secretary’s new mission is to ensure Iran can no longer pose a threat, vows the ‘regime of terror will pass from this world’

The Emirati and Israeli flags fly in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Israel to send 2 delegations to UAE next week as ties strengthen amid Iran war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hamas terrorist Youssef Ayesh Awad Ramadan is seen during the October 7, 2023, onslaught, in footage published by the IDF on June 2, 2026, retouched to include the word "eliminated." (Israel Defense Forces)

Alon Ohel rejoices as IDF kills Hamas terrorist who took him and friends hostage on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton, Reuters and ToI Staff

Youssef Ayesh Awad Ramadan among those who abducted Ohel, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eliya Cohen and Or Levy from a roadside bomb shelter after killing others seeking shelter

Hamas Nukhba Battalion terrorists captured during the October 7 massacre are seen in a jail cell at a prison in central Israel, where high-risk Hamas prisoners captured during the recent war are being held, February 17, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel allocates $350 million for special military tribunal to try Oct. 7 terrorists

By Jeremy Sharon

Almog Cohen, of the Otzma Yehudit party, disrupts an event about settler violence, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition MKs disrupt Knesset event on violence against Palestinians, threaten attendees

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Lawmakers steal food, assail slain hostage’s daughter-in-law, amid discussion of unchecked settler attacks; MK tells ‘terrorist’ colleagues they’ll be expelled from country

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara cast their vote during the elections for the Likud Central Committee, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, November 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Likud to hold primaries for its electoral slate by July 28; Netanyahu guaranteed top spot

By Ariela Karmel

Political correspondent Ariela Karmel joins host Jessica Steinberg on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI / Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 3: Coalition MKs boast on X after screaming at Arab lawmakers

By Jessica Steinberg and Ariela Karmel

Over 2,100 West Bank settlement housing units advance in planning process

By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies

Smotrich says construction of the homes ‘solidifies our hold on the territory’; Abbas urges US to stop Israeli ‘madness’

Illustrative: Bulldozers work in the settlement of Sa-Nur in the West Bank, April 19, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

A teenage settler arrested for beating a dog in the West Bank village of Atara being brought into the police station on June 3, 2026.

Police arrest settler teen suspected of clubbing dog during West Bank raid

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

An Iraqi mob threatens Baghdad's Jews during the massacre known as the Farhud, June 1-2, 1941 (Yad Ben Zvi Photo Archive)

Reporter's notebook

85 years after Baghdad’s Farhud massacre, last survivors fear story is being forgotten

Inaugural commemoration Monday sees Iraqi Jews remember the June 1, 1941, pogrom that killed about 180 Jews and marked the decline of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities

More Headlines

A delegation of Chicago faith leaders meet with Pope Leo XIV on May 28, 2026. (Courtesy of Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media)

Gifting Pope Leo a White Sox kippa, Chicago rabbi thanks him for words on Gaza war

By Grace Gilson

Brig. Gen. Yisrael Shomer, the chief of the Operations Division in the IDF arrives to a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 10, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Senior IDF officer retires from military after being questioned for ‘moral offenses’

By Emanuel Fabian

Albanian protestors take part in a demonstration in front of the prime minister's office, against the construction of a luxury resort near a protected natural area, in Tirana on June 2, 2026. (AFP)

Thousands protest in Albania against Jared Kushner-linked resort project

By AFP

Illustrative: Indian army display drones during an operational drill in Pathankot, India, February 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Motorola Solutions buys Israeli drone defense startup D-Fend for $1.5 billion

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Director of the US Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte speaks with reporters at the White House, September 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump taps inexperienced housing finance director as new acting US intelligence chief

A police van waits outside the Iranian Embassy, flying the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran, central London, January 12, 2026. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Norwegian teen who planned UK murder was recruited by Iran-linked Swedish crime group

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Thai police escort a suspect into a van, Bangkok, Thailand, January 13, 2025. (Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)

10 Israelis deported from Thailand amid crackdown on foreign-linked crime — report

Members of an Iraqi Shiite group attend a funeral of a fighter with the Kataeb Hezbollah, who was killed in a US airstrike in Basra province south of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Powerful Iran-backed militias claim they’ll start handing in weapons to Iraqi authorities

By Stella Martany

A undated handout picture released by the family of Craig and Lindsay Foreman through Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in London on February 15, 2025, shows Craig and Lindsay Foreman posing for a selfie photograph at an unknown location. (Photo by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office/AFP)

British couple held in Iran lose appeal against 10-year prison sentence

People hold images of victim Henry Nowak, and blood-covered handcuffs as they take part in a protest outside of Southampton Central Police Station in Southampton, southern England, on June 2, 2026, following his murder by Vickrum Digwa. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

‘I can’t breathe’: Outrage, violent far-right protests after UK police handcuff dying student

By Marie Heuclin and Anna MALPAS

US President Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House after a security threat at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, April 25, 2026, as FBI director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin listen. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump to attend new White House press gala on July 24, after shooting at April event

Illustrative: The symbols of bitcoin and the stablecoin Tether (USDT) are displayed at a cryptocurrency store in Hong Kong on July 29, 2025. (Peter PARKS / AFP)

US blacklists Iran’s largest crypto exchange for helping Islamic Republic skirt sanctions

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