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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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US Vice President JD Vance appears on 'Hannity' on June 15, 2026, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Trump: Iran has agreed to never have a Nuclear Weapon!

Vance ‘confident’ Israel will join deal, as US and Iran prepare for signing and talks on Friday

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Iran’s FM says new nuclear talks to follow formal signing in Switzerland; Vance says uranium removal, IAEA inspections ‘core part’ of deal; CIA chief said to tell Trump intel shows regime won’t make the necessary nuclear concessions

Left: US President Donald Trump arrives for the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 15, 2026; right: Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 11, 2026. (AP/Vadim Ghirda; Pakistan Prime Minister Office via AP)

US says Trump, Vance and Iran’s Ghalibaf ‘digitally’ signed Iran deal on Sunday

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 15, 2026. (Olivier Fitoussi/POOL)

Opposition slams PM's disingenuous answers at rare press conf.

Netanyahu distances himself but avoids criticizing US-Iran deal, claims war’s main goals have been achieved

By Nava Freiberg and Lazar Berman

PM asserts that ‘we saved Israel from annihilation’ in war, admits he and Trump don’t always ‘see eye to eye,’ stresses troops will remain in south Lebanon, admits he does not know all details of deal

Displaced people pack their belongings as they prepare to return to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, June 15, 2026. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)

US-Iran deal met with despair in Israel, joy in Lebanon and hope in Iran

By ToI Staff and AFP

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Aanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/ AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 16 – What’s in and out of Iran deal: A war of narratives

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Displaced people hold Iranian and Hezbollah flags as they drive by a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanon village of Chehabiyeh, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Live updates (closed)

June 16: Iran’s military command threatens retaliation if Israel keeps up southern Lebanon offensive

Israel said concerned Iran will use 60-day negotiating period with US to fast-track nuclear program * Revised draft of proposed Basic Law on Torah study to no longer compare Talmud study to military service — report

6:48 pm

Iran's military command warns it will respond if Israel keeps up southern Lebanon offensive
6:48 pm

UTJ lawmaker Porush says Haredim may have to go after attorney general ‘with sticks and stones’
5:53 pm

Shas leader’s son to be appointed to senior JNF-KKL position

Promoted ContentNotes of Strength

Traumatized IDF soldiers need treatment before returning to duty

After 300+ days of combat and witnessing severe trauma, a soldier on break appeals for therapy funding to heal for his family’s sake before returning to active duty.

A Israeli military vehicle moves past destroyed buildings in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, June 15, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)

Amid US-Iran deal, IDF says Hezbollah continues attacking troops in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Beirut says 1 dead in Israeli strike on car; no injuries reported after terror group fires anti-tank missile and mortars at Israeli soldiers; UNIFIL observes decrease in violence

An Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jet takes off from an airbase in Israel for strikes in Iran, in a handout photo published on March 2, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli Air Force chief confirms major strike on Iran was called off last week

By Emanuel Fabian

An MH-60R Sea Hawk Helicopter prepares to land on the flight deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) during a replenishment-at-sea with the Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler USNS Henry J Kaiser (T-AO-187), June 5, 2026. (US Navy photo)

US has been using Iranian smuggling tactics to sneak Gulf oil past Hormuz blockade

By Feras Dalatey, Jonathan Saul, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Edward Carron

Analysis

We don’t know if Trump loves or hates Netanyahu, and there’s the rub for the PM

The premier long claimed, credibly, that he had a keen understanding of the US. Now his greatest American ally ever is belittling him over and over, right as an election approaches

US President Donald Trump greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Policemen walk in front of a huge banner showing Iranian flag at the Islamic Revolution square in Tehran, Iran, June 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisAs war ends, Iran’s regime now has to face its own angry, embittered people

By Parisa Hafezi and ANGUS MCDOWALL

Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests. (John MacDougall / AFP)

Iran executes two over anti-government protests

By AFP and ToI Staff

An apology from your American Jewish parents

We raised you in exile to succeed in the culture of our oppressors. Now we need you to do the one thing we never taught you: defy us

The Bennett-Lapid alliance offers a different kind of politics

Religious and secular Zionists serve and sacrifice together every day. Exhausted by division, many Israelis now want a government that does the same

Foreign Ministry denies agreement has been 'canceled'

Smotrich says he’s ‘abolished Hebron agreement,’ given Israel more power in flashpoint city

By Jeremy Sharon and Jacob Magid

Minister says he’s undoing accord with PA on zoning authority over Hebron Jewish settlement, Tomb of the Patriarchs, as part of effort to extend control throughout West Bank; US in response warns against annexation

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the new settlement of Doran in the Mount Hebron region of the West Bank, June 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Parade participants wave flags at spectators during the Israel Day Parade, May 31, 2026, in New York. (AP/Emil T. Lippe)

Awaiting full details, American Jewish leaders express alarm at emerging Iran deal

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish Democratic Council says Trump ‘willing to push Israel aside,’ as Zionist Organization of America calls terms ‘deeply problematic’ and AIPAC lays out goals for final agreement

US President Donald Trump waves to reporters as he arrives for the G7 summit, June 15, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump’s Iran deal greeted with skepticism and scrutiny on Capitol Hill

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and JOEY CAPPELLETTI

US President Donald Trump stands with Gulf leaders for a group photo during a meeting he attended with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh on May 14, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

AnalysisGulf states could be left in the lurch and exposed by the US-Iran deal

By Aya Iskandarani, Callum PATON and Sofiane Alsaar

Ben Gvir said to cancel US trip at last moment due to visa complications

US embassy calls on far-right minister to provide his fingerprints, after which he reportedly decides to ditch travel plan

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a meeting of his Otzma Yehudit faction at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

The Knesset House Committee votes to grant immunity from criminal prosecution to Likud MK Tally Gotliv, Jerusalem, June 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Knesset panel votes to grant Gotliv immunity for exposing Shin Bet officer’s identity

By Ariela Karmel

Israel Police spokesman Aryeh Doron visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel Police spokesman calls Yair Golan a ‘defiler of Israel,’ drawing backlash

People walk on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, February 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Cornell student turns down interview, saying ‘not interested in working for a Jew’

Austin Franco, 19, had applied for summer internship with VryfID co-founders the Einhorn brothers; in follow-up, he explains his ‘experiences with Jews have not been pleasant’

OneDay volunteers from the Hefer Valley in central Israel during training to become emergency rescue workers. (Courtesy, OneDay)

Inside story'It's not a question of if, but when'

Jarred by Israel’s lack of readiness, volunteer rescuers train for quake they know is coming

With country 99 years into century-long cycle but still well behind on reinforcing structures, social org prepares civilian teams to dig through rubble of thousands of buildings predicted to collapse in temblor

Diego Lopes celebrates during a featherweight bout against Steve Garcia during UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House, June 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP /Mark Schiefelbein)

FBI foils explosive-drone, sniper-fire terror plot targeting White House UFC fight

By AFP

Several suspects in custody after ‘multi-state operation’ to thwart plan for drone attack, mass shooting, and storming of White House gates; event took place Sunday without incident

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, left, and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar open Somaliland's embassy in Jerusalem, June 15, 2026. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Visiting Somaliland president opens embassy in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullah launches site in capital’s Har Hotzvim hi-tech park; foreign minister reveals guest was in Israel 2 months before recognizing it

Settlers attack Palestinians and activists near Hebron, vandalize vehicles

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

IDF troops declare area a closed military zone, forcing Palestinians to leave their farmland; elsewhere, Palestinian say settlers destroy olive trees near Bethlehem

People survey damage caused to Palestinian vehicles by violent settlers who attacked a group of Palestinians and Jewish activists near Halhul, in the Hebron area of the West Bank, on June 15, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Right-wing agitator Mordechai David arrives for questioning at a police station in Tel Aviv on February 1, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police detain far-right provocateur, after harassment of Arab journalist Lucy Aharish

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

An aerial photograph of Room B in the 101 Building at Tel 'Eton in the southeastern part of Israel's Judean Shephelah. At the bottom left corner, the two segments of a standing stone (massebah). According to a 2026 study, the stone might have been repurposed following the religious reform by biblical King Hezekiah in the 8th century BCE. (Photo by Griffin Aerial Imaging; prepared by Dvir Rotem/Tel 'Eton Archaeological Expedition)

'He smashed the pillars' (II Kings 18:4)

Rare cultic stone from Israelite mansion may testify to King Hezekiah’s biblical reform

By Rossella Tercatin

A massive 2,750-year-old artifact found at Tel ‘Eton might have been repurposed after a clampdown on worship outside the Temple in Jerusalem

Trump-backed congressional candidate supports Israel, says Antichrist will be Jewish

By Andrew Lapin and Grace Gilson

Jackson Lahmeyer favored in Tuesday’s primary for solidly Republican Oklahoma district with large Jewish community, amid widening evangelical divide over Zionism

Then-US Senate candidate Jackson Lahmeyer, a Tulsa-area pastor, speaks to Edmond resident Winona Heltzel on March 15, 2022, at the H&H Shooting Sports gun range in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo by Sean Murphy_File)

Archaeologists Eliran Oren and Michael Sorotskin with the statues discovered in Binyamina. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'The really big discoveries always turn up on the last day'

‘Wondrous’ Roman busts unearthed in ancient winepress in northern Israel

The 1,700-year-old marble sculptures, possibly secreted away from early Christians, may depict prominent figures from the Greco-Roman world, researchers say

More Headlines

L-R: Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025. (Democracy Now screenshot/YouTube); A resurfaced photo from 2016 shows Abu Safiya wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group. (Medical services – Gaza Strip)

Supreme Court rejects appeal of Gaza hospital chief, a Hamas officer detained by Israel

By Jeremy Sharon

Fans cheer after the World Cup Group G soccer match between Iran and New Zealand in Inglewood, Calif., near Los Angeles, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Iranian team draws boos, cheers at US World Cup debut as politics overshadows sports

This image taken from video provided by KABC shows law enforcement responding to the scene of an aircraft crash, June 15, 2026, near Edwards Air Force Base, California. (KABC via AP)

8 people killed after US B-52 bomber crashes during test mission in California

By Christopher Weber and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN

Governor Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal, May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

California Gov. Newsom says Trump’s Justice Department investigating him, his wife

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

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