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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 18, 2026

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US President Donald Trump (left) seen signing the Persian-language version of the memorandum of understanding with Iran, at the Palace of Versailles in France, June 17, 2026. (Screenshot/White House via X); Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signs the MOU in a photo released June 17, 2026, by the regime-run IRNA news agency. (IRNA via X)

Friday summit said still on, but Tehran says it's not needed

War-ending deal is signed by US and Iran, takes effect; commits Israel to terms it opposes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘This was not easy,’ says Trump as he inks agreement; Iran gloats it achieved ‘everything’ it wanted; Hormuz to open ‘immediately’ but Tehran says tolls to be charged after 60 days; Netanyahu has distanced himself from deal

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 18 – Signed and sealed, Iran-US deal launches with Trumpian fanfare

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Op-edTrump’s deal is a catastrophic capitulation to Iran’s aggressors, leaves Israel vulnerable and constrained

By David Horovitz

US official: Iran asked us not to release the text of MOU

As deal takes force, Trump says ‘it’s okay’ for Iran to have some ballistic missiles

US president claims at G7 that additional strikes would have led to global economic catastrophe, before again threatening to bomb the Islamic Republic if it doesn’t comply with deal

US President Donald Trump (C) addresses the media during a closing press conference of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Full text‘Shall not develop nuclear weapons’: The 14-point memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran

A man rides a scooter past a giant billboard that shows the former Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, center, and his son, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, with Arabic writing that reads: "Thank you Iran," in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Live updates (closed)

June 18: Khamenei okays MOU in written statement, says talks with US do ‘not mean accepting its views’

Ben Gvir claps back at Vance on Iran: Fight back against ‘the Nazis of the 21st century’ * Cautiously pushing back on Trump, Israel’s US envoy says Iran shouldn’t get to keep missiles

8:26 pm

Poll: 71% of Israelis don't trust Trump to look out for them in Iran deal; just 11% say Israel won war
8:20 pm

ICC sets July 24 vote on whether to remove chief prosecutor Karim Khan, WSJ reports
8:08 pm

Polls show Eisenkot's party overtaking Bennett's, gaining on or matching Netanyahu's

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.

An Israeli flag covers a part of a damaged building in southern Lebanon seen from northern Israel, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel and Iran harden stances on Lebanon pullout, risking Trump’s deal

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Reuters

Iranian official says MOU will be void if IDF does not fully withdraw, while source close to PM vows not to back down; army posts fresh map of buffer zone, says troops will remain

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem, is seen on a screen during a sermon marking the first day of Ashoura, at the grave of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, left, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/ Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah chief: Iran deal a ‘great victory,’ can be used to expel Israel from Lebanon

By AFP and ToI Staff

Displaced residents hold an Iranian and a Hezbollah flags as they pass by a destroyed building that was hit in a previous Israeli airstrike in the southern village of Chehabiyeh, Lebanon, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/ Mohammed Zaatari)

Hezbollah expecting major cash injection from Iran once deal sealed with US — sources

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

Trump’s unfiltered commentary on Lebanon is leaving Israel with an impossible choice

Clearly tired of what Israel sees as an urgent fight, the US president is making the contradictory claims that the war on Hezbollah is both not speedy enough and not careful enough

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, June 16, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

FILE - President Donald Trump answers a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

'Hamas is very silent. You haven’t read anything about them'

Trump suggests Israel in no place to criticize Iran deal since it backed out of 2020 strike on Soleimani

US president spends much of G7 press conference haranguing Israel, which he calls a ‘very small partner’ as he lashes out at ‘those so-called geniuses who… didn’t blow up’ the Iranian general

Master Sgt. (res.) Alexander Filin (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reserve soldier killed, 7 wounded by Hezbollah explosive in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Master Sgt. Alexander Filin, 29, immigrated alone aged 12, later foiled an attack and got presidential award; senior officers among injured in blast during patrol along Litani River

Asst. Prof. Assaf Zinger, left, of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology with PhD candidate Ofri Vizenblit in the Zinger lab. (Courtesy/Rami Shelush, Technion Spokesperson’s Office)

Triple-negative breast cancer accounts for 40% of mortality

Israeli drug-free nanomedicine gives fresh hope in battling aggressive breast cancer

By Diana Bletter

Technion scientists halt ‘triple-negative’ tumors in female mice models; particles made of materials already deemed safe for humans by international regulatory bodies

Analysis

Canceled flights, high prices: Is the golden age of American Jewish travel to Israel ending?

Trips to Israel were long seen as the best defense against declining rates of Jewish affiliation and support for the Jewish state. But for years, getting here has been an ordeal — and it’s unclear how many people still want to come

Young Jewish adults participate in the Tel Aviv Urban Experience track of Birthright in an undated photo (Courtesy)

From the blogs

Now it’s urgent: Israel must rebuild support among Democrats

The Iran deal exposes the risks of Netanyahu’s decision to tie Israel’s fortunes ever more closely to one party and one leader

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) participate in a press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

AnalysisWhy US presidents from both parties end up cursing Benjamin Netanyahu

By Andrew Gawthorpe and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) arrives to a ceremony for Somaliland's President Abdirahman Abdullahi Mohamed, at president Isaac Herzog's residence in Jerusalem, June 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas talks to the media during an informal EU defense meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, June 8, 2026. (Petros Karadjias/AP)

FM Sa’ar severs contact with EU foreign policy chief over alleged apartheid comparison

By Nava Freiberg

Minister pans as ‘blood libel’ reported remarks by Kaja Kallas; she responds that she is still willing to hold dialogue with Israel, but declines to confirm or deny the report

Iran is using Lebanon to win a war that isn’t Lebanon’s

Disarming Hezbollah and reasserting Lebanese sovereignty aren’t obstacles to peace, but prerequisites for it. The Islamic Republic won’t allow either

The cities powering Israel’s future deserve more in return

Data centers, energy projects and AI infrastructure create huge value – and huge disruption. The benefits should flow to residents, too

We need Trumpian negotiations – say, open streets for cash flow and we’ll address army service later. But only if you accept that you too are Israeli citizens

The look I still remember

The Rebbe never stood in front of a classroom full of traumatized Israeli kids, but his gaze showed me how to teach them

Explainer

In full comptrol: Why Netanyahu fought so hard over the state comptroller election

Critics of Michael Rabello’s appointment argue Netanyahu’s longtime lawyer and adviser may adopt a politically partisan approach to what he does and does not audit

Likud Knesset Faction Secretary Aliza Barashi reacts during the state comptroller election in the plenum of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Likud MK Tally Gotliv in the Knesset plenum, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 17, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

Knesset grants Likud MK Gotliv immunity from prosecution for exposing Shin Bet agent

By Ariela Karmel, ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Vote follows chaotic hearings in which coalition lawmakers rally behind firebrand colleague; opposition lawmakers decry move as ‘disgrace’ and ‘slap in the face’ to security forces

Analysis

Rossella Tercatin

West Bank archaeology conference unearths controversy as politics takes center stage

Jerusalem event attracts hundreds, including dozens of scholars, but many in the field stay away and international participation is down; attendee calls event ‘highly politicized’

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks at a conference on archaeology in the West Bank in Jerusalem on June 17, 2026. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Graffiti daubed by Jewish settlers that reads, "A good Arab is a dead Arab" stains the walls of the Palestinian Huwara Secondary School, where an Israeli flag reportedly placed on the school's roof by Israeli settlers was removed and the Palestinian flag restored by the school in Huwara, south of the city of Nablus in the West Bank on March 23, 2026.(Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

UN chief warns settlers could be blacklisted over alleged harm to Palestinian children

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A man clears the rubble as writing in Hebrew on the wall reads 'revenge, regards to the arrested, people, wake up,' at one of the West Bank mosques that were vandalized and partly set on fire by Israeli settlers overnight, in the village of Jiljilya, north of Ramallah, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Settlers set fire to two West Bank mosques overnight

By AFP

DC Council member Janeese Lewis George speaks to the crowd during an election night party at the Howard Theatre, June 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democratic socialist who accuses Israel of genocide leads DC mayoral primary

By Shira Li Bartov

Janeese Lewis George says she will meet with groups that don’t share values, adding pro-Palestinian advocacy and ‘commitment against antisemitism’ do not conflict

US Senate candidate Mike Collins celebrates during an election-night watch party after winning the Republican nomination, June 16, 2026, in Jackson, Georgia. (AP Photo/Colin Hubbard)

ExplainerWhat to know about Georgia’s Jewish senator calling newly minted GOP opponent an antisemite

By Andrew Lapin

'There was significant interest in the trade of seashells'

Rare mother-of-pearl seal highlights movement of goods and ideas across Assyrian empire

2,600-year-old shell, used for a tiny seal stamped with an Assyrian-era religious symbol, originated in the Indo-Pacific. How did it reach the Holy Land?

‘Prototype’ Stonehenge unearthed close to England’s world-famous sun-aligned prehistoric monument

More Headlines

Pro-Israel counter-protesters face the main protest against the Great Israeli Real Estate Event at Edgware United Synagogue on June 14, 2026 in London. (Denise Baker/Getty Images via JTA)

UK organizers of Israel real estate fair apologize after West Bank properties surface

By Kelly Hartog

A fundraiser for Cornell student Austin Franco, who said he was 'not interested in working for a jew,' raised nearly $20,000. (Screenshot via JTA)

Far-right streamer raises nearly $20k for Cornell student ‘not interested in working for a Jew’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF chief stresses men and women won’t serve in same tanks as part of pilot program

By Emanuel Fabian

Khaled (right) and Hanan Jamal (left), husband and wife from Qalansawe who were shot and killed while driving in the central Arab city on June 18, 2026. (Facebook)

Couple fatally shot while driving in Arab city in central Israel

By Charlie Summers

BTL factory workers meet, following an announcement of the closure of the production line and planned layoffs, December 4, 2022. (Courtesy/ Histadrut labor federation)

After more than 50 years, US engine-maker Pratt & Whitney is shutting down Israel factory

By Sharon Wrobel

A general view shows a street in the Cypriot resort town of Ayia Napa on July 18, 2019. (Matthieu Clavel/AFP)

Israeli arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of attempted murder in knife brawl

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