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What Matters Most On Monday, June 8, 2026

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People take cover in a public shelter during a missile attack alert in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2026 (Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP)

Israel and Iran say they’re halting attacks on each other, after Trump pressure

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Israeli official says ‘the sense is that this round of fighting is behind us,’ stresses IDF operations against Hezbollah to continue; PM to hold full security cabinet meeting tonight

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 8 – Iran fires on Israel, reigniting smoldering war

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

A man looks at the wreckage of an Iranian missile that landed near the West Bank city of Jericho, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Houthis announce 'total ban' on Israeli shipping in Red Sea

Defying Trump, Israel strikes Iranian military, fuel targets; Iran, Houthis fire missiles at Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

No injuries; settlement homes damaged by missile fragment; strike targets include Iranian air defenses; report: Netanyahu ‘pseudo-agreed’ to Trump’s demand not to retaliate to initial fire

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept incoming ballistic missiles launched from Iran, as seen over northern Israel, June 7, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Iran fires missiles at Israel for first time in two months; Trump tells Netanyahu not to retaliate

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies

This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel shows an Israeli Iron Dome missile streaking across the sky to intercept incoming projectiles on June 8, 2026 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

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June 8: IDF issues evacuation order for area near Lebanon’s Tyre as it strikes Hezbollah

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Trump says he had warned Netanyahu Israel could be left alone if it escalated Iran fight * PM says Iran attacks halted ‘for now,’ Israel will strike Tehran and Hezbollah if attacked again, as Katz says Beirut will be hit if terror group targets Israel

7:15 pm

'Why should we pick a fight with him?': Netanyahu said to have resisted far-right pressure to defy Trump on Iran strikes
6:55 pm

Ben Gvir says he's 'undeterred' by Italy investigation over flotilla video
6:40 pm

Knesset passes law to deduct compensation for terror victims from PA tax revenues over pay-for-slay stipends

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Plane diverts to Cyprus as crew refuses to land in Tel Aviv

Wizz Air halts flights to Israel, but most other carriers unaffected by renewed fighting

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel keeps airspace open, with only Hungarian low-cost operator and Austrian Airlines canceling service; Transportation Ministry huddles over possible demand to limit airport passenger numbers

Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on June 8, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Patients and medical staff are seen in an underground parking area converted into a treatment ward at Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv, after Iran fired missiles at Israel, June 8, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hospitals move operations underground as Iran fires missiles at Israel

Hebrew Book Week at Tel Aviv's Sarona in 2025 (Courtesy)

Cancel cultureCulture events called off in wake of Iranian missile attacks

By Jessica Steinberg

A view of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Tel Aviv shares drop, shekel recedes against dollar as fighting with Iran resumes

By Sharon Wrobel and Agencies

Crude prices jump over 4%, compounding dips in European and Asian markets, as financial and insurance indices lead losses on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Illustrative: Israeli children, parents and staff clean at "Gan Nitzan" in Givatayim, as schools and kindergartens are due to re-open after being closed for more than a month due to the war with Iran, April 08, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Schools to reopen Tuesday, after students kept home for a day due to missile fire

By Rossella Tercatin and Emanuel Fabian

People ride bicycles past a digital board displaying fuel prices near a gas station in Sofia, Bulgaria, on May 6, 2026. (Nikolay DOYCHINOV/AFP)

Oil prices surge amid Israel-Iran escalation, tech stocks dive

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed

Trump seeks to tie Netanyahu’s hands, as the partnership that went to war 100 days ago collapses

Telling Israel it had better not respond to an Iranian missile attack, the US president — desperate for a deal with the devilish Tehran regime — presented the PM with a stark dilemma

Iranians stand on posters depicting images of the US president Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they take part in the Quds Day rally in Tehran on March 13, 2026. (AFP)

Pro-government demonstrators wave Iranian and Hezbollah flags in Tehran, Iran, on June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Pro-government Iranians rally in Tehran after renewed missile attacks on Israel

US President Donald Trump in an interview with NBC's 'Meet the Press,' aired on June 7, 2026. (NBC screenshot)

Trump: US ‘very close’ to deal with Iran, but demanding stricter nuclear terms

By Nava Freiberg, Reuters and ToI Staff

First responders inspect damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building on the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, June 7, 2026. (AFP)

Iran threatens Israel: 'Watch the sky tonight'

IDF strikes Beirut’s Dahiyeh after Hezbollah fires rockets at northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Lebanese media says 2 killed, 11 wounded; strike was reportedly coordinated with US; Netanyahu says Hezbollah is ‘in retreat’ amid IDF offensive in south

Hezbollah operatives are seen in a major tunnel system near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, in footage published by the IDF on June 7, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reveals key Hezbollah command tunnel network near south Lebanon’s Beaufort

By Emanuel Fabian

People participate in the Walk with Israel in Toronto, June 7, 2026. (Sharon Aschaiek)

Reporter's notebook'We’re not going to back down in the face of hatred'

Record turnout for Toronto pro-Israel march as violent antisemitism spikes across Canada

By Sharon Aschaiek

60,000 from diverse communities join annual Walk with Israel as Jewish groups fault government for weak response to the highest levels of Jew-hatred since World War II

Another soldier fell in Lebanon. I know his loving mother

Stopped in my tracks by the pain of a woman who knows she’ll never hug her son again, I try to do my best for my own boy, even as we argue about his shoes

Matthew Kaufman

The case against Reform anti-Zionism

The claim that Zionism staged a ’slow-moving coup’ collapses under scrutiny, and ignores why the movement embraced Israel in the first place

Updated bill on Oct. 7 probe allows new comptroller to fill spots boycotted by opposition

Michael Rabello, Netanyahu’s former lawyer who argued before High Court against a state commission of inquiry, set to shape politically appointed investigation into massacre – if he keeps the job

Attorney Michael Rabello, elected by MKs as state comptroller on June 3, 2026, seen at the Knesset on June 1, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Nine reported killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza as Egypt hosts new round of talks

By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Judges: Levin hypocritical for recognizing deputy president

In scathing rebuke, High Court rules Levin must cooperate with Court President Amit

By Jeremy Sharon

Justices call justice minister’s arguments against legitimacy of Amit’s appointments ‘spurious’; Levin sarcastically responds he’ll work with court president ‘when there is one’

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (left) speaks to Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 10, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A screenshot of a speech made by Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi at a AKP Party conference in Çorum, Turkey, June 6, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Turkey’s interior minister vows to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem, return it to Turkish hands

‘Wake up,’ Israel’s Foreign Ministry tells Mustafa Çiftçi, ‘Ottoman Empire is gone’; in Turkish-language rebuke, Katz says Jerusalem ‘will remain Israel’s capital forever’

An IDF soldier, alongside settlers, beat two Palestinians in the West Bank town of Huwara, June 6, 2026. (X)

Police nab 2 suspects in Huwara settler rampage; IDF yet to identify uniformed assailant

By Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Cops say suspects both in their 30s, more arrests expected; IDF probing possibility man seen in full army fatigues beating a Palestinian was not a soldier

Fahd Abou Haikal, 41, shows a picture of his slain 7-month-old son Sam, at a hospital in Hebron on June 6, 2026, a day after the baby boy was shot dead by the IDF in the southern West Bank city. The IDF expressed 'deep sorrow' over the incident. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

Military Police probing killing of Palestinian infant by soldier in the West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Decision to open investigation comes after preliminary examination of the killing of 7-month-old Sam Fahd Abou Haikal in Hebron on Friday evening

Illustrative: A police car is seen in Jaffa on November 8, 2025. (Israel Police)

2 Umm al-Fahm men shot and killed in apparently separate incidents in northern Arab towns

Ibrahim Agbaria killed in his own bakery in Kafr Qara during sirens warning of Iranian missle fire, 4 years after brother was shot dead; Wissam Jabareen killed in Musheirifia

John Lithgow accepts the award for best performance by a leading actor in a play for "Giant" during the 79th Tony Awards, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

John Lithgow wins Tony for portraying antisemitic author Roald Dahl in ‘Giant’

By AP

Actor takes his third Tony; ‘Schmigadoon,’ a parody of Broadway classics, wins best new musical; Shoshana Bean takes best featured actress in a musical for ‘The Lost Boys’

A Great White shark spotted in the Strait of Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea, in late May. (Healthy Seas/SDSS/GhostDiving screenshot)

Jaw-some!

Diver has rare encounter with Great White shark in Mediterranean

By Michael Horovitz

Volunteer clearing fishing nets from wreck off Sicily says fingers trembled while videoing creature; hopes it doesn’t spark hunt for endangered species, which was spotted far from shore

More Headlines

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, talks to the media during an informal EU defense meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, June 8, 2026. (AP/Petros Karadjias)

EU sanctions two Iranians, IRGC unit for participating in Hormuz blockade

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Director-General of the Religious Services Ministry Yehuda Avidan, attends Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on June 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Religious Affairs Ministry director questioned in corruption probe

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Motorbikes drive near the residence where the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shown on a banner, was killed in US and Israeli strikes on February 28, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Bat Yam man to be charged with working for Iranian intelligence

By Charlie Summers

Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for US Senate, speaks to an overflow crowd outside a campaign event, June 7, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

Anti-Israel US Senate candidate draws support despite Nazi tattoo, allegations of abuse

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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