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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 24, 2026

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Democratic congressional candidates, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila Chevalier gesture on stage with Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Get Out The Vote rally ahead of New York's primary election in New York City, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Chevalier joined rally celebrating Oct. 7 attack

2 far-left anti-Israel candidates win NYC congressional primaries in sweep for Mamdani

Claire Valdez and Darializa Chevalier win elections, indicating mayor’s rise in New York City politics was not a one-off; Democratic Socialists set to double representation

Democratic US Congressional candidate Brad Lander takes the stage during an election eve rally at Silo on June 22, 2026, in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

Brad Lander, Jewish Mamdani ally and Israel critic, wins NYC Congressional primary

Public Defender Eli Northrup (left) and Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay (Photo by Joseph Strauss and courtesy photo via JTA)

NY primary between rabbi, Jewish lawyer serves as referendum on Mamdani and buffer zones

By Shira Li Bartov

In this handout photo, Iran Parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf steps off a plane on June 21, 2026, as he arrives in Zurich, Switzerland, to attend the talks with the US delegation. (Hamed Malekpour/ICANA via AP)

Deal a ‘declaration of US defeat,’ chief Iran envoy says, as IAEA vows inspections

By Agencies and ToI Staff

UN nuclear agency’s pledge follows clashing claims by US and Iran; next round of talks to occur in coming week, Pakistan says; Iran’s FM speaks with Hamas about MOU

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, June 23, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US Senate approves Iran war powers resolution for first time, in symbolic rebuke to Trump

By AP and ToI Staff

A banner shows a graphic depicting Iranian-built drones with a sign in Farsi that reads: "Arash drone is the nightmare for Iran's enemies," as an Iranian flag waves at left, in Tehran, Iran, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US pilot downed over Iran reported seeing jellyfish-like drone formation — report

By Michael Horovitz

Diplomats take part in direct Israel-Lebanon talks hosted at the US State Department in Washington on June 23, 2026. (Courtesy Israeli Embassy)

Leiter: Hezbollah must be defeated; instead, it feels bolder

‘A train wreck’: As Jerusalem and Beirut hold talks, Israeli envoy pans linkage to US-Iran deal

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg, AFP and ToI Staff

First talks held since inking of MOU, with partial IDF withdrawal from south Lebanon said under discussion; Hezbollah chief says timetable must be set for full pullout

People check destroyed cars following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in the village of Maifadoun, southern Lebanon, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

IDF says it hit Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, as new Jerusalem-Beirut talks begin in DC

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

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In Trump’s delusions of peace with Iran and efforts to bully Israel, dark echoes of appeasement

Desperate to end the war, he reassures nobody but himself that the regime in Tehran is new, nice and not at all radical, and turns up the heat on Israel for daring to raise inconvenient concerns about survival

Left to right: US President Donald Trump in Macungie, PA, June 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke); Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 11, 2026. (Pakistan Prime Minister Office via AP); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); US, Iranian and Israeli flags background image (Ruma Aktar/iStock)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio upon his arrival at Al Bateen Executive Airport, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 23, 2026. (Eric Lee/Pool Photo via AP)

Rubio: Iran will not be allowed to charge tolls in Strait of Hormuz under any final deal

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Trump insists Iran agreed to give UN inspectors access to nuclear sites despite Tehran’s claims to the contrary; Iranian president says without missiles his country would be ‘just like Gaza’

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's Daily Briefing podcast (ToI/Israeli Embassy)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 24: Who has Trump’s ear on Iran and Lebanon: Vance or Rubio?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi, center, is welcomed by Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, center right, as he arrives in Doha, Qatar, Feb. 21, 2022. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Foreign intel report said to show Qatar aiding Iran economically, militarily for years

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men holding mocking posters of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on their way to attend a rally against the imprisonment of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders, in the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem, June 24, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

June 24: Haredi politicians pledge to keep protesting until arrests of draft dodgers are halted

Ultra-Orthodox demonstration ends after over four hours, with most protesters failing to reach military prison * Rubio confirms Jerusalem, Beirut discussing possible scale-back of IDF from Lebanon

8:46 pm

Trump claims he stopped 'great leader' Erdogan from bringing Turkey into Iran war
8:29 pm

ICC judges sue Trump administration over sanctions it imposed on them
8:03 pm

IDF says soldier moderately injured in 'operational accident' in southern Lebanon

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Board of Peace members to ‘recalibrate’ at Cyprus resort after rocky first six months

Representatives from various committees established by US to oversee postwar Gaza reconstruction look to get on same page after limited results for Gazans since January unveiling

US President Donald Trump, center, poses with international leaders after the signing of a Gaza Board of Peace charter during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Illustrative: Members of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces stand guard as they take part in the 21st edition of the African Lion military exercise, in Tantan, south of Agadir, Morocco, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Moroccan military officers arrive in Israel to join nascent international Gaza force

By AFP

Shmuel Ben Ezra. (Elisha Grosberg/GPO)

New national security adviser said to hold urgent meeting on getting Gazans to leave

Shmuel Ben Ezra’s short-notice summons to rehash ‘encouraging voluntary emigration,’ despite lack of countries willing to cooperate, reportedly catches officials off-guard

I’m no Bibi fan, but why condemn him and not others?

US progressives paint Netanyahu as uniquely malevolent, and they don’t even mention the Mideast leaders who have truly terrible human rights records

The two antisemitism legacies of Keir Starmer

The British PM made his party safer for Jews, but they feel less safe in the rest of the country. Will his successor do any better?

Steve Rabinowitz

The critics of Obama’s Iran deal owe us an explanation

Washington hardliners said diplomacy was stupid. But their failed war is going to leave Tehran holding on to its missiles, its uranium, and its grip on power

The Palestinians – and Israelis – who believe in peace

The people I know are committed to seeing each other’s humanity, even through grief and despair

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen Eyal Zamir (center) monitors Israeli strikes on Iran from the IAF war room on June 8, 2026. (IDF)

IDF chief to rabbis: We’re short thousands of troops, need female combat soldiers

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

In meeting with religious Zionist leaders angry over women’s inclusion in tank crews, Zamir says integration is ‘of tremendous operational importance’

US President Donald Trump, right, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a special plenum session in honor of Trump at the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘All the Jews are sick of you,’ Trump said to have told Netanyahu in 2025 phone call

New book says US president blew up at PM amid efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, while Jewish top White House aides Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were also on the line

Netanyahu wraps up trial testimony after 98 hearings across 18 months

By Jeremy Sharon

PM launches fierce attack on prosecutors, accusing them of politically motivated indictment that put him and his family ‘through hell’ and ‘found nothing’

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the courtroom of the Tel Aviv District Court in the trial against him, October 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'The feeling of being powerless and violated still lingers'

Ex-hostage to UN official who doubted Oct. 7 rape: ‘I am living proof’ of Hamas sexual violence

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

At rights council, Ilana Gritzewsky addresses UN special rapporteur on violence against women, who falsely claimed no independent probes have found proof of rape during onslaught

Freed hostage Ilana Gritzewsky speaks at a session of the UN Human Rights Council on June 23, 2026. (Screenshot)

David Zini at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on August 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Zini cancels Shin Bet Pride Month event, pulls budget from LGBTQ group – report

By Stav Levaton and Shira Silkoff

Event organizers reportedly not given reason for last-minute cancellation; employees said to decry move as departure from agency’s values of equality and inclusion

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

Justice Sohlberg says national emergency could justify limited delay of elections

Supreme Court deputy chief, who leads the Central Elections Committee, reportedly says delay would have to be ‘last resort,’ and that ‘only a fool wouldn’t see we’re in a crisis’

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

Haredi parties deny report of deal with Netanyahu to pass array of pre-election laws

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Mohammad Barakeh, chair of umbrella organization for the Arab community, the High Follow-up Committee in Jerusalem on November 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former MK detained for alleged incitement during 2022 Ramallah speech

By Charlie Summers

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announces the dismantling of a major hospice fraud scheme that defrauded the state of $267 million in Los Angeles April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Israeli citizen in LA charged with cheating Medicare out of roughly $27 million

Faithful shelter from the hot sun as they wait for the weekly general audience with Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican on June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

France reports 50 weather-related deaths as record heat wave sweeps Western Europe

AppsFlyer founders Reshef Mann, left, and Oren Kaniel. (Courtesy/Appsflyer PR)

Backed by Google and Meta, Israeli ad performance company raises over $1 billion

By Sharon Wrobel

This handout photo taken and received from the NSW Premier's Department on December 15, 2025, shows Ahmed Al Ahmed, the man who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach terrorists, at St George Hospital in Sydney. (Handout/ NSW Premier's Department/AFP)

Bondi Beach attack hero Ahmed al Ahmed pleads not guilty to assaulting father

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, speaks at an event with President Donald Trump at Rockland Community College, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pro-Israel Democrats battle to take on vulnerable GOP House member Mike Lawler

By Shira Li Bartov

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