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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 30, 2026

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Rabbi Aryeh Yazdi curses the IDF chief of staff at a Bnei Brak event against the arrest of Haredi draft dodgers, June 29, 2026 (Video screenshot)

Haredi rabbi’s rant against ‘accursed’ IDF chief sparks political firestorm

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

Netanyahu, Shas issue condemnations of Rabbi Aryeh Yazdi’s invective during Bnei Brak rally, Bennett vows to end state funding for ‘anyone who preaches against Zionism’

US Vice President JD Vance (L) waits, alongside US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff (C) and Jared Kushner, to meet with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (not seen), at the Burgenstock luxury hotel complex overlooking Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, on June 21, 2026. (Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

US envoys in Qatar to meet mediators, but no direct talks with Iran set for coming days

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Contradicting Trump, Doha says Witkoff and Kushner to discuss negotiations with Iran and other issues, but without meeting Iranian officials; separate technical talks on MOU go on

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, embraces National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir as ministers attend a meeting on the planned state budget, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

June 30: PM says Haredim, far-right will be part of ‘broad’ coalition he seeks to form

Asked how he has changed since Oct. 7, PM quips that he has lost weight, sparking outcry * Iran says it won’t meet with US envoys, clouding prospects for peace deal * Armenia PM: Israel’s genocide recognition weaponizes issue

8:32 pm

Eisenkot slams Netanyahu for joking 'I've lost a little weight' when asked what has changed since Oct. 7
8:30 pm

Iran was unable to export any oil during US blockade, has since exported 40M barrels -- Ghalibaf
8:22 pm

Board of Peace parts ways with deradicalization director after 3 months, official tells ToI

Rescuers search a building for earthquake survivors in La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, June 28, 2026 (AP/Matias Delacroix)

Inside story'I don't know anyone who didn't have damage'

Impoverished Venezuelan Jews open synagogues to help shelter hundreds of earthquake victims

5,000-strong Jewish community, already diminished by decades of political turmoil, provides aid while straining depleted resources as rescue efforts continue

Ministers, coalition MKs push pardon for PM after judges urge dropping of key charge

Levin, Eliyahu, Katz and others again call for clemency or for dismissal of all charges, as judges repeat recommendation that prosecutors withdraw Netanyahu’s bribery count

L to R: Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir are seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, ahead of a failed vote on MK Ayman Odeh's proposed expulsion from the body. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli rescue teams evacuate a wounded person by helicopter near the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Comptroller flags key failures in evacuation, rehabilitation, of October 7 wounded

Lengthy report finds lack of policy, coordination, data, and funding, as well as poor effort to synchronize between government, volunteers, and donors

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman visits Kibbutz Misgav Am on the Israeli border with Lebanon, March 18, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

High Court rules state comptroller exceeded his authority in several Oct. 7 probes

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir holds a strategic assessment, June 29, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief marks 1,000 days since Oct. 7 attack ‘on very existence of Jewish people’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Zamir tells senior officers we’re ‘at a significant and strategic crossroads’; multiple unofficial memorial events and protest rallies planned for Thursday milestone

Inside story

Board of Peace finalizing plans for Gaza, but implementation timeline up in the air

With disarmament talks stalled, committee of Palestinian technocrats tasked with replacing Hamas remains outside Strip, attending workshops on how they’ll govern if or when they enter

US President Donald Trump (R) sits with US Vice President JD Vance as they attend the inaugural meeting of the 'Board of Peace' at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Illustrative: The IDF General Staff visits the F-35 stealth fighter jet squadron on the Nevatim air base in southern Israel on July 10, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

AnalysisHow Israel’s ‘campaign between the wars’ risks further straining ties with US

By Amy McAuliffe

1,000 days after: How will the voices of October 7 be heard?

In an era of misinformation, denial, and information overload, preserving survivor testimony is no longer enough: We need a living archive of the present

Hannah Rosenthal

The US is about to sabotage its own fight against antisemitism

The Trump administration’s plan to merge its Holocaust envoy and antisemitism envoy offices risks failing both survivors and Jewish communities worldwide

Israeli military vehicles and personnel seen at a border crossing into Lebanon, June 28, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/FLASH90)

Defense minister says Trump stopped IDF destroying Hezbollah

Katz: Israel has ‘no territorial ambitions’ in Lebanon, will stay until Hezbollah disarmed

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Iran fighting could restart within ‘2 days,’ says minister; Lebanese president tells CENTCOM chief army will deploy up to border; IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others watch, seated from left, Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, counselor Dan Holler, and Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh, sign a framework agreement at the State Department, June 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Kevin Wolf)

Document‘Eventual IDF redeployment from Lebanon’: Full text of Israel-Lebanon deal security annex

Israeli military vehicles and personnel seen at a border crossing into Lebanon, June 28, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/FLASH90)

AnalysisIsrael-Lebanon deal may entrench stalemate rather than end war, analysts say

By Samia Nakhoul

This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website via SEPAH News shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers taking part in a military drill near the island of Abu Musa, off the coast of the southern Iranian city of Bandar Lengeh (SEPAH NEWS / AFP)

2 IRGC members shot dead at home in Iran, in what state media calls ‘terrorism’

By AFP

IRGC outlet says ‘anti-government and separatist’ agents were killed in an operation after attack; separately, state TV accuses ‘Zionist-American mercenaries’ of killing couple in their car

News editor Ben Sales appears on the Daily Briefing podcast with host Jessica Steinberg (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 30: Why Netanyahu won’t publicly take on Trump over Iran

By Jessica Steinberg and Ben Sales

Yashar party chief Gadi Eisenkot attends a press conference in Tel Aviv on May 5, 2026. (Flash90)

Eisenkot accuses Bennett and Lapid of weakening Zionist opposition with merger

Yashar party chief says ‘Together’ heads turned down his earlier offer of three-way ‘super-party,’ reportedly rejects Smotrich as coalition partner, which Bennett has not

Opposition leader Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 22, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Lapid says Netanyahu building ‘satellite parties’ because he expects election defeat

By Ariela Karmel

Father of soldier killed on Oct. 7 heckles him during speech

Smotrich says plans drawn up to establish 3 Israeli settlements in Gaza

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Finance minister urges Netanyahu to approve communities in northern Strip, asserts move will boost security; US opposes Jewish settlements in Gaza; move unlikely to go ahead

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a ceremony for the construction of 1,000 new housing units, in Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, near the border with the Gaza Strip, southern Israel, June 29, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Bill to ban Red Cross visits to Palestinian prisoners fails as Haredim boycott vote

Coalition chief reportedly asked opposition MKs not to vote against measure but was rebuffed; Ben Gvir feuds with Shas as he rails at the ultra-Orthodox party for boycotting vote

Members of the Red Cross watch while Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release from Ketziot Prison as part of a deal in exchange for hostages held in Gaza, on February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends a committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud said to be courting Ra’am for help on passing media overhaul law

By Ariela Karmel

Yair Rosenberg, who writes The Atlantic's 'Deep Shtetl' newsletter, was named to a new religion beat at The New York Times focused on Jewish American life. (Yair Rosenberg; Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

New York Times hires Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American life

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Beat is NYT’s first dedicated to Jews, in city with world’s largest Jewish population; paper has complex relationship with many Jewish readers, especially after Oct. 7; Rosenberg has critiqued some coverage

People walk by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, created by internationally renowned architect Antoine Predock on August 13, 2023, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)

Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens ‘Nakba’ exhibit despite pushback from Jewish leaders

By Grace Gilson

Jewish group calls to hold museum’s leadership ‘accountable for this egregious mishandling,’ which led sole Jewish board member to resign

Dillon Perez waves a Jewish pride flag at the New York City Pride March on June 29, 2026. (Grace Gilson/ JTA)

'As much hate as we received, we also received positivity'

A tale of two marches: LGBTQ Jews face cheers and heckles at NYC Pride

By Grace Gilson

Contrasting receptions of Jewish contingents at parade reflect complex reality for Jews facing increasingly rampant anti-Israel sentiment in LGBTQ spaces

Reiterating his views, Mamdani says ‘I can’t tell you I support’ Israel as a Jewish state

By JTA

Doron Ben-David, left and Lior Raz in the fifth season of 'Fauda,' with two episodes depicting the bloody Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Viewers warned latest episodes of new ‘Fauda’ season are disturbingly real

By Jessica Steinberg

Producers of Israeli action drama offer special alert regarding episodes 7 and 8 of Season 5, which portray the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack

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Magos Systems' drone detection radar system. (Courtesy)

Radar tech AI startup clinches deal for drone attack warning system to Israeli army

By Sharon Wrobel

View of a massive wildfire near Latrun, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, April 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

KKL-JNF allots NIS 13 million for firefighting gear in 94 forest-adjacent communities

Police forensics work at the scene where six people were killed in a shooting in Stade, northern Germany, June 29, 2026. (Ibrahim OT / AFP)

Six shot dead at German youth welfare center in ‘family tragedy,’ police say

By Ibrahim Ot and bryn Stole

From the French version of 'The Baker and the Beauty,' sold to Spanish and Ukrainian markets in June 2026 (Courtesy)

A taste of Israeli TVAdaptations of ‘Baker and the Beauty’ spread worldwide

By Jessica Steinberg

US President Donald Trump holds a signed presidential memo in the Oval Office of the White House, June 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to overturn sexual assault judgment

By AFP

Members of the Saraya al-Salam Shiite militia attend a ceremony marking the start of the process of handing over their weapons to Iraqi state forces in Samarra, north of Baghdad, Iraq, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Iraq gives pro-Iran militias until Sept. 30 to dissolve

By AFP

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