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What Matters Most On Friday, June 26, 2026

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US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a meeting between President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2026. (Aaron Schwartz / AFP)

Vance: Pro-Israel UAE talking to Iran thanks to MOU

Vance: US-Iran deconfliction cell has IRGC, CENTCOM reps ‘hanging out’ in Doha

Vice president reveals extent of coordination established with Revolutionary Guards, a US-designated terror group; Gulf ministers tell Rubio that Iran’s missiles, proxy support must be addressed in final deal

Cargo ships are pictured off the coast of the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in Sharjah Emirate, along the Gulf of Oman on June 19, 2026 (AFP)

UN says Hormuz evacuation halted after ship struck in Iranian attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tankers and cargo vessels are seen in the Gulf of Oman, along shipping routes linking the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo)

Hormuz traffic rebound returns oil to prewar rates, as US reassures wary Gulf allies

Officials applaud following a trilateral framework signing ceremony at the US State Department with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, top center, and, seated from left, Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, counselor Dan Holler and Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh on Friday, June 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Live updates (closed)

June 26: Israeli envoy says IDF withdrawal not based on fixed timetable, but Hezbollah disarmament

Bucking threats from Hamas, hundreds in Gaza seen protesting terror group for 1st time in a year * Trump says Iran still has ‘some’ military capability, but ‘not much’

8:35 pm

Iranian media report sound of explosion in southern Iran's Sirik
8:24 pm

Israeli envoy: IDF withdrawal not based on fixed timetable, but on Hezbollah disarmament
8:14 pm

Trump indicates US response coming after Iran's purported targeting of ships in Hormuz

Inside story

As settlers rampage, IDF soldiers accused of aiding violence, theft against Palestinians

Israeli activists describe a pattern of troops standing by or actively taking part as settlers from illegal outposts assault, harass and loot from Palestinians in the West Bank

IDF soldiers stand behind a masked settler swinging a slingshot while hurling stones at Palestinians who had gathered for the annual olive harvest season, during an attack by Israeli settlers on the West Bank village of Beita, south of Nablus, on October 10, 2025. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Promoted ContentChaiFlicks

Now on ChaiFlicks: ‘Embezzlement’ – a shocking Israeli true crime thriller

Based on a true story. An Israeli bank clerk bankrupts her own bank to bail out her gambling addicted brother. Starring Yehuda Levi (Fire Dance) and Dana Ivgy (Oxygen).

A Lebanese boy flashes the victory sign as he stands in the back of a truck driving past the rubble of destroyed homes and businesses following Israeli military strikes. in the southern Lebanese village of Srifa on June 24, 2026. (FADEL itani / AFP) /

Israel-Lebanon talks extended an extra day as deal on IDF withdrawal remains elusive

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and Nava Freiberg

Third day of negotiations sees more progress than previous days of current round, which began with mutual frustration at US over Iran deal’s Lebanon truce stipulation, though gaps remain

Israeli soldiers cross with a tank from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

4 IDF soldiers injured in Lebanon clash with Hezbollah gunman, ahead of another day of talks

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

A cheering crowd at Ben-Gurion Airport raises a soldier in the rescue squad that freed the hijacked hostages from Uganda earlier in the day, July 4, 1976. In the background is the C-130 transport plane which took part in the raid. The rescuer's face is obscured for security reasons. (AP Photo/Pool)

50 years since EntebbeRescue mission that became the stuff of Israeli legend

‘Zero hour is coming’: How Israel went from negotiating over hostages to the daring raid at Entebbe

By Ben Sales and Stav Levaton

The Entebbe rescue operation, whose 50th anniversary is approaching, is the stuff of Israeli legend. A new trove of archival documents shows how the government took the fateful decision — despite the risks

Residents and rescue workers search through the rubble of a building that collapsed in an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela, June 25, 2026. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela does not have diplomatic relations with Israel

Israel making ‘immediate preparations’ to send aid team to quake-stricken Venezuela

By Nava Freiberg, Sue Surkes and Agencies

No Israelis known to be harmed in devastating natural disaster that has killed more than 150; Israeli nonprofit NATAN sends team as ZAKA, IsraAid prepare to mobilize

A vehicle is crushed at a building that collapsed after earthquakes struck La Guaira, Venezuela,June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Javier Campos)

Venezuelans dig through rubble as quake toll reaches at least 920 with over 51,000 missing

By AP

US considering moving Gulf bases hit by Iran westward, including to Israel — report

WSJ says Iran’s retaliatory strikes did greater damage to the Middle East’s only US Navy base, in Bahrain, than the Pentagon has acknowledged

An undated handout photo provided by the US Navy shows the front walk-in entrance of the US Naval Support Activity in Bahrain near Manama. (US Naval Support Activity / AFP)

Rafael Grossi, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General and a candidate for United Nations Secretary-General, responds to a reporter's question during a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, June 26, 2026. (Hiro Komae/AP)

US-Iran deal grants UN inspectors access to nuclear sites, IAEA chief says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Workers restore Jewish gravestones in Damascus, 2026. (Syrian Mosaic Foundation)

Work started to restore historic Jewish cemetery in Damascus, heritage group says

Syrian Mosaic Foundation posts clip of graves being cleaned, repainted; resting place of Rabbi Nissim Nadavo, local rabbi who was with Eli Cohen before execution, said renovated

A woman watches as Lebanese Shiites beat their chests and bleed from self-inflicted ceremonial head wounds during Ashura, when Shiites commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, amid buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, June 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Massive Shiite crowds gather across region to mark Ashura in shadow of war

By AP and ToI Staff

Goodbye, America. Hello world

Israel’s special relationship with the US may be on the rocks, but the Global South has a lot to offer for the long term

Everybody has a donkey they ignore

Human beings rarely see the world as it is. We see it as we are (Balak)

Over 700 rabbis denounce Mamdani’s AIPAC ‘monsters’ speech as ‘dangerous’ to Jews

Leaders of prominent NY congregations, variety of denominations say mayor has ‘put a target on the backs of American Jews’

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at an event for Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, in New York City, June 23, 2026. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Michigan Democratic Party Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Sen. Chris Van Hollen. (Collage/AP)

Progressive senator breaks with Democratic leadership to back far-left Michigan candidate

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI

Steven Fransblow (left) and Adam Katz (right) look at the real-time dashboard at the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate command center in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

'In comments, people compare Jews to rats, pigs, monkeys'

Inside Boston’s Gillette Stadium, a high-tech command center is fighting antisemitism

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Wall-sized screens that once ran plays during Patriots practice now display real-time data on hate-speech for Blue Square Alliance, the nonprofit founded by team owner Robert Kraft

Massachusetts principal under fire for apologizing for antisemitism discussion

By Andrew Lapin

Knesset to hold marathon discussions next week to fast-track Basic Law on Torah study

By Ariela Karmel and Stav Levaton

Parliament’s legal adviser warns lawmakers against accelerated process, as MKs seek to push through legislation before Knesset’s expected dissolution ahead of elections

United Torah Judaism MK Yitzchak Goldknopf (left) and his senior aide Motti Babchik attend a meeting of the Knesset House Committee in Jerusalem, June 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a cadets' graduation ceremony at the Bahad 1 officers' school in southern Israel, June 25, 2026. (Screenshot/Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief says military needs ‘every male and female combat soldier’

By Emanuel Fabian and Nava Freiberg

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a press conference at the Knesset, May 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judicial Selection Committee to convene on Sunday for first time in a year and a half

By Jeremy Sharon

State Attorney Amit Aisman speaks at a legal conference at Haifa University on June 25, 2026. (Screenshot/YouTube)

State attorney warns against ‘deliberate erosion’ of public trust in law enforcement

By Charlie Summers

Top prosecutor criticizes politicians’ refusal to heed police summons as blow to rule of law, says placing agency that probes police under justice minister will politicize investigations

Esther Schreiber, whom Heritage Minister Amichai Elyahu selected on May 12, 2026, as the new head of the Israel Antiquities Authority, pending final approval by the IAA council and the government, is seen in an undated photo. (Flash photography)

Vetting panel disqualifies heritage minister’s nominee for Antiquities Authority chief

Journalist Uri Misgav speaks at a conference of the Haaretz newspaper, held in Tel Aviv on March 28, 2019. (Flash90)

At lawsuit hearing, Netanyahu accuses journalist of seeking to expose him to danger

PM says Uri Misgav is ‘obsessed’ with revealing his location in real-time so that Iran targets him; claims he’s more open with medical reports than other premiers have been

Jonatan Urich is seen following a hearing on journalist Omri Assenheim’s refusal to provide police with materials from a program he broadcast about Eli Feldstein, after the District Court ruled that journalistic privilege does not apply, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court rules Netanyahu aide can return to work despite indictment over leaked documents

By Jeremy Sharon

A sign captioned 'I remember and demand' calls for recognition of the Armenian genocide in Jerusalem's Old City, August 28, 2025. (Nava Freiberg/The Times of Israel)

FM to propose cabinet resolution to officially recognize Ottoman genocide of Armenians

Proposal cites ‘moral and historical obligation’ for Israel to recognize the WWI atrocities as genocide, in move likely to provoke rival Turkey

Amitai Hazan, CEO of auction house Tiroche, at the 2025 auction of Israeli artworks (Courtesy)

Rare works by Israeli artists Rubin, Gutman head to auction valued at $300,000

By Jessica Steinberg

Tiroche auction house aims high, with sale of long-awaited museum-grade pieces from private collections overseas returning home to a surprisingly bullish local market

Analysis

Albanian protests against Jared Kushner resort development see emerging antisemitism

Messages demonizing Israel and playing into anti-Jewish tropes grow on fringes of mass anti-government uprising, but in country historically kind to Jews, some see outside hand

A protester holds an antisemitic placard during a demonstration in Tirana, Albania, June 3, 2026, opposing a luxury coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. (AP/Hameraldi Agolli)

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President Isaac Herzog speaks at a memorial event in Jerusalem for the 2014 Gaza war, June 25, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Herzog’s helicopter makes emergency landing after hitting birds

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addresses the Knesset on January 28, 2026. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Smotrich vows long-sought assistance plan for Israeli tech harmed by strong shekel

By Sharon Wrobel

People cool off in a fountain at the Cinquantenaire Park in Brussels, June 25, 2026. (AP/Omar Havana)

Europe continues to bake under heat wave that has killed dozens, disrupted power

Belgian police conduct their investigation outside a synagogue that was his by a blast overnight in Liege, Belgium, March 9, 2026. (John Thys/AFP)

Seven arrested over March bombing of Belgian synagogue

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Misan Harriman, left, at a demonstration organized by the NGO Choose Love Europe outside the Houses of Parliament in London, May 29, 2025. (Photo by Justin TALLIS / AFP)

Chair of Britain’s largest arts center to step down amid antisemitism scrutiny

By Kelly Hartog

A relative of Dimitris Vafeiadis kisses his personal belongings during a ceremony for the return of personal belongings of Greek prisoners from Nazi forced labor camps to their families, held as part of the international StolenMemory campaign, at the Greek foreign ministry in Athens on June 25, 2026. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP)

Greek Holocaust victims’ belongings from Nazi camp returned to their descendants

By Marina RAFENBERG

The scene of a deadly shooting in Jaffa on June 25, 2026. (Israel Police)

Teenage boy shot dead, second injured, in Jaffa shooting

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Houston guard Emanuel Sharp prepares to shoot a free throw during the first half against Texas A&M in the second round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, March 21, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)

NBA’s Sacramento Kings draft Tel Aviv-born Emanuel Sharp

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