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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 4, 2026

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Mourners attend the start of the dayslong funeral ceremonies for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

'We will kill he who killed our imam'

Mourners chant for ‘revenge’ as Iran’s regime choreographs mass, days-long Khamenei funeral

Crowds urge ‘death’ to America and Israel; millions set to flood Tehran’s streets in organized show of force as slain supreme leader’s casket starts journey through cities in Iran and Iraq; unclear if his son and successor, Mojtaba, will appear

Iran said to bar Mojtaba Khamenei from father’s funeral, fearing Israel could kill him

Officials nixed supreme leader’s request to perform burial rites for his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei, as Mojtaba’s public absence fuels conservative infighting, NYT says

Iranian army soldiers stand in front of a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a pro-regime rally in Tehran, Iran, on April 29, 2026. (AFP)

Commercial vessels are seen in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, June 30, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)

Live updates (closed)

July 4: Iran says it will ‘definitely’ charge Hormuz fees, friendly nations may get ‘special treatment’

US-Iran negotiations reportedly set to resume July 11, will include nuclear talks * Satellite images show new Iranian activity around tunnel complex near Natanz, in apparent MOU violation

8:00 pm

Iran envoy says friendly nations to get 'special' Hormuz fee treatment
7:50 pm

Satellite images show Iran reconstructing Pickaxe Mountain tunnel complex, in apparent MOU violation
7:37 pm

Report: Shin Bet to receive funds to tackle Arab crime through weapons smuggling crackdown

Analysis

New Lebanon deal revives Jerusalem’s hopes of curbing Iran’s influence

Trilateral pact formalizes IDF coordination with Lebanese army and ties Israeli withdrawal to Hezbollah’s disarmament, but certainly doesn’t guarantee peace on the northern border

IDF soldiers are seen at a memorial site on the border with Lebanon in northern Israel, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli soldiers drive in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

IDF shells Hezbollah sites after soldier hurt in clash with gunman in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Tribal and Bedouin fighters in al-Dur village in Syria's Druze-majority southern Sweida governorate as they mobilize amid clashes with Druze gunmen on July 18, 2025. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Syria starts trials over deadly 2025 violence in Druze heartland

By AFP

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Netanyahu’s office says he spoke with Trump, they agreed to meet soon

PM congratulates US president on the country’s 250th Independence Day amid tensions over Washington’s ongoing negotiations with Iran

Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels as they raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 9, 2025. (AFP)

Inside story'Disturbing rise in anti-Zionist ideology'

Report alleges NGOs exploited Gaza suffering to raise funds, dismissed antisemitism claims

Survey of current and former staffers at humanitarian organizations by new advocacy group raises accusations of bias and efforts to shape an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian narrative around Gaza war

Illustrative: IDF troops operate in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on April 26, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Legal group files complaint in Italy against Israeli man for alleged Gaza war crimes

Five-year-old Ella Rosenkovitch is held and kissed at celebrations following the return of return of Israeli hostages from Entebbe, July 4, 1976. 'I don't know who the man in this picture is,' she says. (Courtesy)

Interview

Rescued at Entebbe 50 years ago, former child hostage feels her experience resonating today

Ella Rosenkovitch was on her way to visit grandparents with her family when their flight was hijacked to Uganda by terrorists. Half a century later, the memories pushed her to speak out

Analysis

At Entebbe reunion, ex-hostages say Oct. 7 shattered their faith in Israel’s promise of rescue

Fifty years on, Israelis snatched by Palestinian terrorists to Uganda as children honor the paratrooper who was paralyzed in the audacious rescue operation

People rescued in the Entebbe raid and their relatives pose for a group photo at a 50th anniversary reunion of the operation, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Jaffa on June 29, 2026. (JTA)

This Fourth of July, I feel the heartache – and hope – of two homelands

As my family puts down roots in Israel and the United States, I believe American Jews can transcend polarization

Mihran Kalaydjian

America, seen through Armenian and Jewish eyes

In the country where persecuted people found safety, Independence Day reminds me that we must speak out against hate before silence becomes complicity

Jacques Rothschild

Entebbe at 50: The soldier who came to celebrate life

It is time to remember Surin Hershko, the often-overlooked hero whose sacrifice did not end on the runway in Uganda

The joy of scavenging furniture in my new country

To Soviet Jewish immigrants, Brooklyn’s curbs offered more than discarded lamps and chairs. They offered a first step toward fulfilling America’s promise

The Hasmonea Lwow team in 1924. Zygmunt Steuermann is standing on the far left. (Public domain)

Interview'Great players were buried with the ashes of European Jewry'

‘Digging Deep’ for legacies, author finds missing Jewish soccer players killed in Holocaust

By Lianne Kolirin

David Bolchover’s dark detective journey unearths a star footballing ‘team’ whose memories were erased by the Nazis, and shows that the dearth of Jewish greats in the sport today is no accident

Illustrative: Palestinians and activists clash with Israeli settlers near the Ramallah-area Palestinian village of Abu Falah, in the West Bank, July 3, 2026. (Flash90)

Elderly man said injured as settlers attack Palestinians, foreign volunteers in West Bank

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Footage shows dozens of settlers throwing stones, pepper spraying locals, activists in Abu Falah; 3 said injured in settler attack on separate Ramallah-area village

Soldiers and settlers are seen at an under-construction Palestinian home that the settlers seized in the northern West Bank village of Jalud, in a video published by Palestinian media in late June 2026. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian says settlers took over West Bank home he was building for newlywed son

By Reuters and ToI Staff

MK Yuli Edelstein delivers a statement at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 15, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Senior Likud renegade Yuli Edelstein leaving party to forge a ‘new political path’

Ex-refusenik, who broke with government over its efforts to exempt Haredim from IDF service, said to be in talks to join possible ‘statesmanlike’ alternative to Netanyahu’s party

Activists with The Democrats party seen being attacked in south Tel Aviv's Hatikvah Market on July 3, 2026. (Screen captures: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police arrest 2 for allegedly attacking Democrats party activists in south Tel Aviv

By Noam Lehmann

Deputy mayor, who is running in left-leaning party’s primary, accuses Netanyahu of fostering a ‘new reality’ where she can’t canvass in city’s Hatikvah Market, a Likud stronghold

US President Donald Trump steps on stage to deliver remarks during the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2026. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Ushering in America 250, Trump hails US exceptionalism before evoking Red Scare

By STEVEN SLOAN, Steve Peoples and Michelle L. Price

‘Mortal threat’ of communism is greater than world wars and 9/11, Trump says, veering into darkly political speech at Mount Rushmore, as stifling heat forces some celebrations to scale back

Aerial view of Emek Hefer. (Guy Shmueli)

Push for gas-fired power plants throws rural Israel into turmoil

Plan for up to 13 new stations to bolster country’s electric grid divides communities, as state puts sensitive land deals in hands of private entrepreneurs

Debris clearance is underway at the site of collapsed buildings in Caraballeda, La Guaira state, Venezuela, on July 3, 2026. (MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP)

Venezuela quake death toll rises to 2,645

By AFP and Reuters

Interim President Delcy Rodriguez rejects claims her government reacted too slowly to the destruction

Noam Bettan from Israel walks onto the stage carrying his country's flag ahead of the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, May 16, 2026. (AP/Martin Meissner)

Eurovision chief rules out another vote on Israel: ‘Membership spoke conclusively’

Martin Green dismisses concerns about contest facing financial difficulties after anti-Israel boycott by 5 nations: ‘We’ll be around for many, many, many, many, many years to come’

Hossam Hassan, head coach of Egypt, holds a Palestinian flag after his team's victory through the penalty shootout during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 32 match with Australia, July 3, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (Molly Darlington /Getty Images via AFP)

Egypt’s manager raises Palestinian flag after World Cup knockout win

By ToI Staff and AP

Video shows Hossam Hassan holding flag to chants of ‘free free Palestine’; Wimbledon backs Turkish player, says watermelon racket dampener not disruptive to game

More Headlines

Abdelkader Bousloub, left, with Adam Bedoui. (Metropolitan Police)

Two men given suspended sentences after going ‘fishing for Jews’ in London

Protesters scuffle with police officers before a party convention of Alternative for Germany, or AfD in Erfurt, Germany, July 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

German police clash with protesters trying to disrupt far-right AfD party convention

By david keyton, PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO and EBRAHIM NOROOZI

Illustrative: A police car is seen in Jaffa on November 8, 2025. (Israel Police)

US national studying at Jerusalem’s Mir yeshiva charged with spying for Iran

Armed Yemenis rally in solidarity with Lebanon and Iran on the outskirts of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on July 2, 2026. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Yemen’s Houthis threaten Saudi Arabia for allegedly preventing Iranian plane landing

By AFP

Pouria Zeraati hosts a segment broadcast on London-based dissident Persian-language news channel Iran International and published online on April 5, 2024. (Screen capture: Youtube/Iran International)

Two Romanian men jailed for 2024 stabbing of dissident Iranian journalist in London

By Jill Lawless

FILE: Greek left-wing member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou makes statements outside a court in Mytilene, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

EU lawmaker probing Pegasus spyware reportedly hacked by it, sparking outrage

By AFP

NSN Cycling Team's Israeli rider Nadav Raisberg celebrates on the podium with the sprinter's green jersey after the 8th and final stage of the Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes cycling race in the French Alps on June 14, 2026. (Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)

Israeli-founded cycling team enjoys calmer Tour de France after axing Israel from name

By Vincent Daheron

A Taylor Swift fan wearing a wedding veil sits at a restaurant next to New York's Madison Square Garden where a 'JUST&T MARRIED' sign is displayed during Taylor Swift's wedding with NFL star Travis Kelce on July 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Love StoryAdam Sandler officiates Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce NYC wedding

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and ANDREW DALTON

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