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What Matters Most On Friday, June 19, 2026

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Vice President JD Vance speaks to reporters in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, June 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

VP tells Israel: Weapons protecting you are American ones

Vance slams Israeli ‘freakout’ over Iran deal, says Trump only world leader who still likes Israel

By ToI Staff, Leon Kraiem and Jacob Magid

VP lambasts Israeli ministers who called on Netanyahu to disregard accord, insists Iran won’t get relief without final deal. Scolds Israel: ‘You can’t just kill your way out of solving every problem’

US Senator Bill Cassidy heads to a closed-door Republican policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, on June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Some Republican hawks in US Senate, usually allied with Trump, break with him on Iran deal

By AFP

Former US President Barack Obama talks with then-President-elect Donald Trump before the state funeral for former US President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, on January 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

AnalysisHow Trump’s 14-point Iran deal compares with Obama’s 160-page nuclear agreement

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A man waves an Iranian flag as people beat their chests during a religious mourning ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Witkoff reportedly says Iran to invite UN nuclear inspectors

Opening round of US-Iran talks canceled as Tehran said to demand halt to Lebanon fighting

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Announcement comes after White House said Vance wouldn’t go to Burgenstock overnight; diplomat to CNN: Iran seeks ‘guarantee’ of Israel-Hezbollah truce, mediators working on issue

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, speaks during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

US ends blockade of Iran, warns of return to war if Tehran doesn’t fulfill deal

By ToI Staff, Agencies, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

Lt. Col. Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon, 32. (Israel Defense Forces)

Fighting comes amid pressure for truce during US-Iran talks

4-person IDF tank crew, including battalion chief, killed by Hezbollah in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Five soldiers hurt, including reservist officer who’s seriously wounded, in same village hours later, IDF says; Lebanon reports 18 killed, 33 hurt in Israeli strikes since midnight

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, June 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump: ‘We expect a complete ceasefire’ between Hezbollah and Israel

By Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

People injured in a Hezbollah missile strike on Kiryat Shmona arrive at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, northern Israel, March 23, 2026. (David Cohen/Flash90)

ExclusiveThree Hezbollah terrorists treated at northern Israel hospital, sources say

By Nava Freiberg

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, June 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Live updates (closed)

June 19: Trump calls Netanyahu ‘warrior PM,’ touts ‘great relationship’ with Israel

Vance meanwhile claims pro-Israel Americans don’t delineate between US and Israeli interests, conflate criticism of particular gov’t with Jew hatred * Ambassador to the US says Israel ‘firmly committed to immediate ceasefire’ with Hezbollah

10:04 pm

Report: US officials working to establish informal channels with Israel's opposition
9:58 pm

One dead, dozens injured after two trains collide in UK
8:49 pm

Rubio to reportedly visit Kuwait, UAE and Bahrain next week

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

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Trump says he’ll ‘most likely’ endorse Netanyahu but wants to see who else is running, as survey underscores deep discontent among Israeli public over US-Iran deal and PM’s conduct

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on a video from Israel to the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2019. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Inside storyJewish groups push back against Trump’s Iran deal — but for now more quietly than in 2015

By Andrew Lapin

Analysis

Trump rehashes old grudge with Netanyahu as space for GOP criticism of Israel expands

For first time in over 2 years, US president brings up purported last-minute Israeli abandonment of op to kill Soleimani, as Jerusalem’s policy in Lebanon risks torpedoing MOU with Iran

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)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is seen in the Gaza Strip, June 7, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

ExplainerIsrael took control of more land from its neighbors since Oct. 7 than it has in decades

By AP and ToI Staff

Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

New poll sees Eisenkot sail past Bennett to tie with Netanyahu’s Likud

Zman Yisrael survey finds Zionist opposition would still be a seat short of forming coalition

The symphony of war has returned

5 movements, from the deep thud as guns fire and shells whistle overhead to the voices of children in a future of strength, purpose, and life

I spent a day trying to break the OU’s Torah AI

I got it to make a few errors, but where it got me was its propensity to plead ignorance rather than hallucinate falsehood. What other chatbot does that?!

Illustrative: Iraqi Muslim women hold portraits of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a protest against the US-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran, in the Shi'ite district of Kazimiyah in Baghdad, Iraq, April 25, 2026. (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard set up Iraqi cells to attack Gulf neighbors, sources say

Cells’ covert establishment, posing a challenge to new Iraqi PM’s balancing act between DC and Tehran, may have been spurred by other local pro-Iran factions’ readiness to disarm

France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on June 10, 2026. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

French FM: Paris will support UN sanctions relief only after ‘major concessions’ by Iran

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth delivers remarks before a NATO Defense Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on June 18, 2026. (JOHN THYS / AFP)

Hegseth blasts NATO over Iran war, says US will review troop deployment in Europe

High Court urges Knesset to redo state comptroller election ‘cleanly, properly’

By Jeremy Sharon

‘In simple Hebrew: do it again,’ Deputy President Sohlberg tells parliament, after expressing concern that MKs who recorded their vote violated requirement for a secret ballot

Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg presides over a hearing on petitions seeking to overturn the election of Michael Rabello as state comptroller, June 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Keir Starmer, right, speaks to Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Deep dive

Special election win by Starmer rival could lead to UK PM’s fall: 5 key players and where they stand on Israel

By Robert Philpot

Vote won by Andy Burnham seen as proxy battle over Labour’s future, with would-be successors in party positioning themselves to take a run at the premiership. But are they good for the Jews?

Labour’s Andy Burnham wins special election, setting up showdown with Starmer to lead the UK

By Jill Lawless

Analysis

NYC primary elections test anti-Israel congressional candidates’ aspirations

In Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, upstart candidate Chevalier challenges longtime representative Espaillat, with implications for far left’s campaigning centered around Israel

At left, US Rep. Adriano Espaillat; at right, Darializa Avila Chevalier. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.; Screenshot via YouTube)

Dream Security co-founders Shalev Hulio, former CEO of cyber espionage firm NSO Group (left); and former chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz. (Courtesy of Dream/Eclipse Media)

Valued at $3 billion, Israeli cyber unicorn aims to help governments own and control their AI

By Sharon Wrobel

Founded by Shalev Hulio, former CEO of spyware firm NSO, and ex-Austrian chancellor Kurz, Dream looks to secure and protect government data in the AI cyber warfare race

Inside Story

Enraged by arrests of draft evaders, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community is in revolt

Yeshiva students are blocking roads and breaking into police stations as Haredi parties hold coalition’s legislative agenda hostage. PM said to be considering halting detentions

Motti Babchik, a senior UTJ political operative, and thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest outside an IDF Military Prison near Kfar Yona, central Israel, against the jailing of seminary students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, June 17, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Illustrative: Stray dogs. (JDMaddox/ iStockphoto, Getty Images)

Explosion of feral dog population threatens big cities with rabies, nature expert warns

Chief Scientist of Israel Nature and Parks Authority notes huge increase in dogs with rabies, wider distribution, while blaming poor sanitation

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett (ToI) / Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men scuffle with police during a protest against military recruitment and call for the release of detained draft resisters outside a military prison near Kfar Yona, Israel, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Former prime minister Naftali Bennett: This existential moment

By Tal Schneider, David Horovitz and Naftali Bennett

Editor David Horovitz and political correspondent Tal Schneider meet the former PM in his Ra’anana headquarters, where he pleads his case on why he should be the next leader of Israel

Alex Bores attends the Human Rights Campaign 2026 Greater New York Dinner at Marriott Marquis Times Square on February 7, 2026, in New York City. (Manoli Figetakis/Getty Images/AFP)

'His campaign must be saying, what is happening right now?'

The ‘Boalition’: How Alex Bores unites pro-Israel moderates and progressive left

By Joseph Strauss

NYC Upper East Side assemblyman’s focus on AI regulation helped him assemble a rare diverse support base in a crowded congressional race to succeed Jerry Nadler

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Black smoke rises from the area of the Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft's Moscow oil refinery on the south-eastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18, 2026. (AFP)

Moscow oil refinery set ablaze as Ukraine launches biggest drone attack in years

By AFP

Palestinian gunmen from Hamas and Islamic Jihad gather next to Eid al-Fitr prayers in Gaza City, March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

California man charged with fundraising for Hamas through sham charities

Charlton Allen testifies in the US Senate at his confirmation hearing. (C-SPAN via JTA)

Trump nominee defends college cartoon of Jewish student with devil horns

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Times of Israel reporter Zev Stub (third from left) was among the recipients of the B'nei B'rith award for excellence in Diaspora reportage, June 18, 2026 (Bruno Charbit)

Times of Israel reporter Zev Stub receives award for Diaspora coverage

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