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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 21, 2026

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A sign for the Lake Lucerne Summit at the Bürgenstock during a meeting between US Vice President JD Vance and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for high-level talks aimed at advancing a deal to end the Middle East conflict, in Obbuergen, Switzerland, June 21, 2026. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)

US VP: Trump wants to 'turn over new leaf' with Tehran

US, Iran kick off talks on Lebanon, nuclear issues; Vance says progress already made

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Officials gather for first meetings in Switzerland after MOU signed; Tehran says Lebanon tops agenda, is vital to reaching deal; Iran’s president insists on right to enrich uranium

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, and Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, right, confer at the Burgenstock resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, early on June 21, 2026. (Urs Flueeler/Keystone, Pool via AP)

US, Iran set for new talks; Trump threatens US tolls in Hormuz if deal not reached in 60 days

By ToI Staff and Agencies

News editor Ben Sales joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI / AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 21 – Can a critical Vance have Israel’s back in Iran talks?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ben Sales

Analysis

US-Iran talks in Switzerland shunt Israel to the sidelines, but it’s not out of the fight

After years of weakening Iran and its proxies, Israel can only watch as Tehran gains leverage over its most important ally, but it’s unlikely to simply accept whatever is decided in talks it’s not party to

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (C) speaks next to US Vice President JD Vance (L) and Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani during a quadrilateral meeting between the United States, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar at the Burgenstock luxury hotel complex overlooking Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, on June 21, 2026. (Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari, 21, who was killed fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon, overnight June 19-20, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Smotrich says Israel will remain in Lebanon for years

IDF soldier killed, 13 injured in overnight Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari is killed amid effort to capture terror group’s ‘strategic’ underground facility beneath Ali Taher ridge; 3 more troops killed in Friday incident named

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Live updates (closed)

June 21: IDF chief says goal in Lebanon ‘clear and unchanged — defending the north’

Tasnim news agency says negotiations will be suspended if Israel stays in south Lebanon * High Court: Knesset must explain why state comptroller vote should not be annulled

8:58 pm

Soldiers shoot dead 2 Palestinians hurling Molotov cocktails at W. Bank settlement
8:43 pm

Qatar reports explosion at factory in Ras Laffan, several injured
8:28 pm

Syria willing to help in Lebanon, but won't act militarily against Hezbollah, leader Sharaa says

US President Donald Trump (R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands as they arrive to speak to journalists during a joint press conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP)

Trump claims he can control IDF actions in Lebanon because Israelis respect him

Nonetheless, Israel said to rebuff private US request to withdraw from Lebanon; president says relationship with Netanyahu is ‘good, but we have to keep him a little bit sane’

Home Front Command search and rescue forces work amid the rubble of a residential building struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, April 6, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Poll: 92% of Israelis believe Iran emerged as winner after war and deal with US

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iran cites Ben Gvir’s call to ‘burn all of Lebanon’ as proof of Israel’s ‘genocidal’ intent

Call sparks international condemnation; Netanyahu and Sa’ar silent, while candidate Bennett dismisses minister as a ‘clown’ with no real influence over military policy

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks with reporters ahead of his Otzma Yehudit party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi in an online performance, which earned her and a group of seven fellow artists 74 lashes from the Islamic Regime, June 19, 2026. (Screengrab: Parastoo Ahmadi via Youtube)

lran to lash prominent female singer for performing online without hijab

By AFP

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir waves the Israeli flag as he tours the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. May 14, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Op-ed

Netanyahu is letting extremist ministers dismantle Israel’s global standing

With allies losing patience over incendiary rhetoric from Ben Gvir and Smotrich, the prime minister’s refusal to rein in his radical cabinet partners threatens to completely isolate the nation

Alex Sinclair in an undated photo and his kippa before and after a Palestinian flag was cut out of it, as pictured on April 23, 2026. (Alex Sinclair/Courtesy)

'It’s everything that Hamas is against: coexistence, Israel'

Keeping his head: Educator detained for dual Israeli-Palestinian flag kippa dons replacement

By Rossella Tercatin

In April, Israel police tore the Palestinian flag off Alex Sinclair’s kippa. Now he managed to buy a new one from the same Jerusalem store and remains undeterred

Mona Khalil looks at a turtle on the coast of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre, August 12, 2002. (Jihad Seqlawi/AFP)

Renowned Lebanese turtle conservationist succumbs to wounds sustained in Israeli strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

Mona Khalil, 76, was the founder of a sea turtle sanctuary near Tyre; IDF says she wasn’t a target, but acknowledges carrying out strikes in the area after an evacuation warning

From the blogs

The story we carry: A letter to the Jewish People

No president can be the author of Israel’s existence. Our story began thousands of years before us – it will continue long after us

Shlomi Nahumson

Father’s Day without a father: Lessons from children of Israel’s fallen heroes

The nation remembers its heroes, but children need to remember their fathers as people: Did he like fishing? Football? Dad jokes?

Charles E. Savenor

To infinity and beyond: The wisdom of Toy Story

Like Woody the cowboy, I used to worry my kids would outgrow me. Instead, I have new assignments

Education Minister Yoav Kisch (left of center) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right of center) sit with students at the Dekel Vilnai Middle School in the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim in the West Bank, to launch an AI-powered English language program on June 11, 2026. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Inside story'This is a revolution'

With massive teacher shortages, Israel plans on teaching English to middle schoolers through AI

By Rossella Tercatin

PM and education minister announce national program to move English lessons on screens. Since 40% of 19,000 English teachers don’t have training, could AI do much worse?

Inside story

Backed and armed by Israel, Gaza militias talk big but make little headway against Hamas

Groups boast of gains in reshaping the enclave, but experts say they’ve had almost no impact, and Israelis should be questioning if apparent bid to replace Hamas with gun-toting gangs is a good idea

Fighters from the militia led by Ghassan Dehini operating in the Rafah area of Gaza, in a still made from video posted in February 2026. (screen capture: Facebook / Counter-Terrorism Apparatus)

Turkey-based Hamas operatives revealed by the Shin Bet on June 21, 2026. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it foiled dozens of Hamas attacks led by Turkey-based operatives

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Residents inspect the rubble of the apartment of the Palestinian Safadi family in Gaza City, June 20, 2026, following an overnight Israeli airstrike. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF says it killed Hamas sniper who moonlighted as Al Jazeera cameraman

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Yaacov Agam, Israeli artist, reclining on one of his works at the Georges Pompidou Art Center, June 28, 2003, in Paris, where his works of kinetic sculpture were on exhibit. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Obituary

Yaacov Agam, pioneering Israeli kinetic artist and Israel Prize laureate, dies at 98

By Biranit Goren and Jessica Steinberg

Sculptor celebrated for his vibrant geometric shapes and interactive works created the iconic Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square, among numerous other pieces

Pioneering kinetic artist Yaacov Agam receiving the Israel Prize on April 20, 2026, at the Yaacov Agam Museum of Art (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook‘Creativity is the basis of Judaism’: Yaacov Agam, father of kinetic art, receives Israel Prize

By Jessica Steinberg

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Top Shas rabbi: US-Iran deal is divine punishment for arrests of Haredi draft dodgers

Ex-Sephardic chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, known for controversial remarks on matters of religion and state, also says ‘garbage’ attorney general to blame for Trump’s ‘turn against’ Israel

A voter casts a ballot in Tel Aviv during Israel's parliamentary elections on November 1, 2022. (Jack Guez/Pool Photo via AP)

Over 90% of first-time voters plan to cast ballots in upcoming election, poll finds

By Shira Silkoff

Illustrative: A laboratory technician at bioMérieux's Salt Lake City, Utah, manufacturing facility on June 11, 2026, prepares a sample of a diagnostic test that detects the Ebola Bundibugyo strain responsible for recent outbreaks in Central and East Africa. (Niki Chan Wylie/AP Content Services for bioMérieux)

Second person hospitalized in Israel for possible Ebola after trip to DR Congo

By Diana Bletter and ToI Staff

Health Ministry says man not confirmed to have contracted deadly disease, has been taken to Sheba Medical Center for testing; results expected in coming days

Health workers attend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara treatment Center in Ituri, Congo, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Suspected Ebola patient being treated at Haifa hospital after recent trip to DRC

By ToI Staff, Diana Bletter and AP

David Pinto of Pinto Winery, on May 24, 2026 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We make the wine because of the Negev'

Celebrating new appellation, Negev winemakers uncork plans to take their bottles global

By Jessica Steinberg

Showing that perseverance and grit pay off, desert wineries Yatir, Pinto and Carmey Avdat cheer international designation as they look to extend footprint

More Headlines

A settler watches as his sheep graze on Palestinian land in the village of Sinjil, in the West Bank, on June 20, 2026. (Screenshots: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers filmed grazing livestock inside Palestinian village in central West Bank

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

A knife-wielding assailant during an apparent anti-Muslim rampage in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 19, 2026. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Counterterror police probe after 5 hurt in apparent anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh

By Jill Lawless

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with local residents as he visits a housing development in north London, June 19, 2026. (Peter Macdiarmid/Pool Photo via AP)

UK’s Starmer set to announce timeline for resignation on Monday — report

By AP and ToI Staff

Protesters take part in a rally in Tirana, Albania, Tuesday, June 9, 2026, against the construction of a massive coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump at Narta lagoon area, western Albania. (AP Photo/Hameraldi Agolli)

Thousands rally in Albania amid growing opposition to Kushner-linked resort project

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