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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 23, 2026

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This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor shows the Natanz Nuclear Facility near Natanz, Isfahan province, in central Iran on March 7, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor / AFP)

Iran says 'working group' to be set up on 'nuclear affairs'

Contradicting Trump and Vance, Iran says no plans for IAEA inspections, asserts sovereignty at Hormuz

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Trump claims Iran okayed inspections ‘long into the future’; regime leaders hold talks with Oman on charging fees at waterway; in another pushback, envoy says Iran will be ‘only country’ to determine how to use its unfrozen assets, warns Lebanon clash poses risk to deal

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House during an executive order signing about quantum computing, June 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump: If Iran doesn’t abide by deal, ‘I will do what I have to do’ to prevent nuke

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

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

Pentagon seeking around $80 billion from a divided Congress to fund Iran war

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO

Analysis

Netanyahu can’t run the playbook he used to fight the 2015 Iran deal — and Trump knows it

Faced with Obama’s deal, the PM addressed Congress and pro-Israel groups waged a fierce battle. That effort failed, and changed times make a repeat impossible

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands as he leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, after addressing a joint meeting of Congress in a speech opposing the imminent Iran nuclear deal. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

From left, Democratic congressional candidates Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier on stage during a rally ahead of New York's primary election, June 18, 2026, in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Explainer

Israel, AIPAC and Zohran Mamdani take center stage in Tuesday’s NY primaries

By Joseph Strauss

From country’s most Jewish congressional district to left-wing challenges against incumbents, contests will test where Democrats stand on Jewish state

These children are not only symbols of national tragedy, they’re also children. (iStock)

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after disembarking Air Force One at Reading Regional Airport, June 23, 2026, in Reading, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Live updates (closed)

June 23: Trump says anyone in US Congress critical of deal with Iran ‘has to be educated’

US president promises nuclear inspectors will be allowed into Iran ‘at the appropriate time’ * Moroccan soldiers arrive in Israel to join international Gaza force

8:51 pm

Oman announces temporary maritime corridor for Hormuz traffic
8:26 pm

Chair of NYC's Jewish caucus and antisemitism task force says Mamdani invoked 'age-old antisemitic tropes'
8:07 pm

Rubio: Lebanon is part of Iran talks only due to Tehran's support for Hezbollah

US-Iran Lebanon mechanism to include Iran, Qatar, Pakistan, exclude Israel – report

By Nava Freiberg

Framework would reportedly limit Israel’s ability to respond to threats, allowing it to do so only when they are ‘imminent’; Netanyahu insists Israel faces ‘no restrictions’ in Lebanon

A man with a Hezbollah flag drives past a damaged building following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in the town of Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, June 22, 2026. (AP/ Mohammed Zaatari)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reserve combat officers in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, June 23, 2026. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

As talks sideline Israel, Netanyahu says ‘we need to free ourselves of dependence’ on US arms

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Premier says fight with Iran and its proxies ‘not over yet,’ requires domestic weapon production, in comments made to IDF soldiers in West Bank against backdrop of US-Iran talks

Michael Mizrahi, a Jewish Canadian-Israeli man killed during a shooting in Montreal on June 22, 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jewish Israeli man killed in Montreal shooting that also left a police officer dead

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Reports indicate that shooter was motivated by ‘incel’ ideology and did not target Jewish neighborhood; Michael Mizrahi remembered as someone who ‘always had a kind word’

This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel shows Israeli tanks positioned along the border with southern Lebanon on June 22, 2026. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

On eve of direct Jerusalem-Beirut talks, Israel vows to maintain presence in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

5th round of negotiations in DC kicks off Tuesday; Lebanese PM says he won’t let ‘any other party’ negotiate for Beirut, after Tehran insists halt to IDF strikes there is precondition to its own talks with US

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's Daily Briefing podcast (ToI/Emanuel Fabian)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 23: Underground Hezbollah base put all of Israel in range

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

Rep. Dan Goldman, Democrat-NY, speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol, in Washington, July 2, 2025. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP)

NYC cafe bars Jewish congressman for Israel ties: ‘We don’t serve genocide enablers’

By Luke Tress and Agatha Khishchenko

Poetica Coffee says Rep. Dan Goldman not welcome, suggests cash he used to purchase drink came from AIPAC; NY Mayor Mamdani defends calling lobby group ‘monsters’

Illustrative: An anti-Israel protest led by high school students, in New York City, November 9, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US feds open probe into alleged antisemitism at leading teacher union

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Get Out The Vote rally ahead of New York's primary election, June 18, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/Ryan Murphy)

Some Jewish allies of Mamdani denounce his use of ‘monsters’ to describe AIPAC

By Andrew Lapin

A loyalty test for a latte

A Brooklyn coffee shop’s public shaming of a Jewish congressman exposes a society sliding into bigotry – one ’we don’t serve your kind’ at a time

In the US-Iran memorandum hammered out in Pakistan’s capital, Israel’s exclusion was not a flaw – it was the point

Bennett: I'm right-wing, but I'm not a schmuck

Bennett calls to dismantle illegal settlement outposts, draws right-wing leaders’ ire

Head of Together party stresses he’s ‘in favor of legal settlement in Area C,’ but not on Palestinians’ private land or areas A and B, which are to be part of ‘Palestinian autonomy’

Chairman of the “Together” party and former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Analysis

Fiercely critical High Court seems poised to annul keystone judicial overhaul law

Conservative justices are joining their liberal colleagues in assailing the bid to politicize the appointment of judges, placing the government’s signature bid to constrain judiciary in jeopardy

Justice Yechiel Kasher (left) explains his objections to a law passed by the coalition increasing political control over judicial appointments law, alongside Justice Gila Canfy Steinitz (right), June 21, 2026. (Screenshot/Judicial Authority/GPO)

Security forces stand guard as ultra-Orthodox Jews gather to protest against the detention of Haredi draft evaders outside the Bet Lid military prison in Kfar Yona on June 17, 2026. (Ilia Yefimovich/AFP)

Officials agree to election-day moratorium on draft dodger arrests

Citing ‘importance of right to vote,’ Central Elections Committee, AG, police remove threat of detention from thousands of ultra-Orthodox evaders

Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri in the Knesset, June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Almost all bills removed from Knesset agenda as Haredi boycott enters second week

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, June 21, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu set to gain unprecedented control over Likud slate in battle over primaries

By Ariela Karmel

PM seeking 8-10 reserved slots for handpicked candidates amid resistance to his broader plan to replace primaries with a selection committee

A doctored image of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid standing alongside members of Israel's Arab political party lists that appeared on the Likud’s official social media accounts on January 22, 2026. (Original photo from X. Added graphics by The Times of Israel)

Election officials push to label AI-generated political campaign materials

By Ariela Karmel

An Israeli Sa'ar 6-class corvette war ship with an Iron Dome missile battery patrols off the shore of Eilat, February 10, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief said to fear Oct 7-style attack on Eilat, despite no intel on threat

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Zini also reportedly displeased with idea of Arab Israelis moving to the southern resort city, portraying it to government as an attempted ‘takeover’

This image released by the IDF on June 22, 2026, shows Hamas terrorist Sabaei Zahir Abd al-Hamid Abu Hasna standing alongside hostage Omer Shem Tov upon the latter's release on February 22, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Oct. 7 terrorist who held Omer Shem Tov hostage killed in recent Gaza strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Sabaei Zahir Abd al-Hamid Abu Hasna, a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force who forced Israeli captive to kiss him upon release, was targeted in Saturday airstrike, says military

Analysis

Investors sour on Israel as US moves to end fighting, blunting market’s wartime gains

As stocks rise across the globe on news of war with Iran ending, Tel Aviv sees sharp declines amid waning confidence in prospect of new Mideast and improved geopolitical landscape

Tel Aviv, June 22, 2026. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

More Headlines

Presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella of the opposition Defenders of the Motherland movement speaks to supporters from inside a bulletproof booth at a celebration rally after runoff election results showed him leading in Barranquilla, Colombia, June 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Trump-endorsed, pro-Israel populist poised to become Colombia’s next president

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A health official uses a thermometer to screen people in front of Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, May 16, 2026. (Hajarah Nalwadda/AP)

Ebola suspicion ruled out, as expert says ‘very low’ chance current strain will reach Israel

By Diana Bletter

Search and rescue workers descend from the rubble pile at the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida, July 2, 2021. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

Florida’s collapsed Champlain Towers South were not built to standard, probe finds

By Hallie Golden

An illustrative file photo of an ambulance on August 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man shot dead near northern Arab Israeli town of Kabul

Pedro Hernandez, the murder suspect in the case of missing child Etan Patz. (YouTube screenshot)

US Supreme Court restores conviction in 1979 Etan Patz NYC murder case

This April 4, 2009, file photo, shows a gas production facility at Ras Laffan, Qatar. (AP/Maneesh Bakshi)

13 dead, dozens injured in blast during restart at giant Qatar fuel terminal

By Andrew Mills

American-Israeli teenager Michael Kadar (R), accused of making dozens of antisemitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, is escorted by guards as he leaves a Rishon Lezion courtroom on March 23, 2017. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Extradited US-Israeli indicted in Florida for 2016-2017 threats to Jewish institutions

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

People shop at the at BIG Fashion in Glilot on March 4, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Court rejects petition to force closure of shopping mall on Shabbat

Clive Davis, chief creative officer of Sony Music, appears during press day in Beverly Hills, California, on Jan. 23, 2014, prior to Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala. (Casey Curry/Invision/AP)

ObituaryInfluential Jewish rock-and-roll executive Clive Davis dies at 94

Hundreds of yoga enthusiasts at the Tel Aviv Port on June 21, 2026, for the International Day of Yoga (Harold Silberg/ Indian embassy)

Light exerciseYoga enthusiasts salute the Tel Aviv sun

By Jessica Steinberg

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