Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy Your Privacy Rights

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Sunday, September 26, 2021

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Burning tires block the entrance of the Palestinian village of Burqin, west of Jenin, in the West Bank, following exchanges of gunfire during an arrest raid by Israeli forces, on September 26, 2021. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Five Palestinians killed; at least 4 were terror operatives

IDF believes members of Hamas cell targeted in West Bank raid still on the loose

By Judah Ari Gross

2 soldiers wounded during overnight clashes likely hit by friendly fire; IDF chief says raids prevented ‘significant terror attacks’ within Israel

Illustrative: IDF soldiers search for the perpetrators of the terror attack that killed Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the northern West Bank village of Burqin, on February 4, 2017. (IDF spokesperson)

IDF: At least 4 terrorists killed in predawn clashes; 2 soldiers seriously hurt

By Judah Ari Gross

Iraqis listen to Sahr al-Ta'i at the conference of peace and reclamation organized by US think-tank Center for Peace Communications in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region, on September 24, 2021. (Safin Hamed/AFP)

Iraq orders arrests of ministry official and tribal leader who urged Israel ties

By Aaron Boxerman

Baghdad says it will arrest all 300 participants at event in Kurdistan that called for peace, once it can establish who they are; Sahar al-Ta’i, Wisam al-Hardan were main speakers

Dr. Sahar al-Ta'i, an Iraqi advocate of normalizing ties with Israel, speaks at a peace conference in Erbil, Kurdistan, on Friday, September 24, 2021. (Screenshot)

InterviewIraqi culture official: We will push for peace with Israel until our leaders act

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett on Iraqis’ call for normalization: ‘Israel extends its hand in peace’

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 26 – Bennett to differ from Netanyahu in maiden UN speech

Editor David Horovitz discusses PM’s trip to the UN and German elections, while Arab affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman looks at Iraq, PA and internal Arab violence

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on September 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett departs for the US on September 26, 2021 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Leaving for NY, Bennett dismisses ‘failed’ anti-Israel minority in US House

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a counterterrorism conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, on September 12, 2021. (Ronen Topelberg)

Gantz: Abbas’s 1967 lines ultimatum ‘will be hard to climb down from’

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks during a press conference at Pfizer's factory in Puurs, Belgium. (John Thys/Pool/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Pfizer CEO says vaccine data on ages 5-11 will be filed to FDA within days

By Michael Bachner

Albert Bourla announces key step toward approval of shots for kids; also predicts eventual annual COVID vaccine

6:29 pm

COVID czar says Bennett okayed limiting large gatherings, drawing denials
6:19 pm

Progress reported in budget talks, as Liberman to divert billions toward Arab sector
6:07 pm

UN watchdog says Iran has violated deal on monitoring nuclear sites

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on September 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett to meet with Bahrain, UAE ministers ahead of UN General Assembly speech

Talks will be PM’s first with Gulf officials since taking office; Foreign Minister Lapid said to have quietly met Jordan’s king last month

Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh. (WAFA)

Palestinian Authority urges Sudan to hand over assets it seized from Hamas

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Nazi flag attacked to electrical cables in the Palestinian village of Beit Ummar in the West Bank, on September 26, 2021. (Screenshot/Instagram)

Palestinians fly Nazi flag near Hebron; IDF soldiers shoot it down

In this August 26, 2021 file photo, medical professionals treat patients in the coronavirus ward at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, Israel. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Unvaccinated are also refusing lifesaving antibody treatment – initial reports

‘They’re under heavy pressure from their community and family to refrain from it,’ says health fund official; top doctor: Unvaccinated have basically decided to die by suicide

An attendee shows off a "green pass" (proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 coronavirus disease) upon arrival at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on March 5, 2021, before attending a "green pass concert" for the vaccinated, organized by the Tel Aviv municipality. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Recovered COVID patients will require vaccine dose to receive Green Pass

View of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

MKs exclude themselves from showing Green Pass at Knesset; staff said furious

Stephen Daniel Arnoff

Power, powerlessness, and Sukkot in ‘Borgen’

Like the stars shining through the sukkah, my new favorite fictional head of state reminds me that we are at the mercy of nature, feeling our way through the dark

Peace with the Palestinians? Entirely possible!

When 15 peace organizations unite to bring hundreds of Arabs and Jews to eat, enjoy music, listen to speeches, and dialogue together, of course, I have hope

A coronavirus ward at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM resists new COVID restrictions, as number of ventilated patients rises

Rejecting further caps on gatherings, Bennett said to tell health officials that government policy is: ‘Not quarantines, lockdowns, more and more restrictions… but solutions’

A man and a boy enter a sample collection centre for COVID-19 in Shenzhen, southeastern China, on September 26, 2021. (Noel Celis/AFP)

Experts say COVID-19 pandemic far from over, despite declining cases

By AFP and ToI Staff

Marcel Goldhammer, left, Julian Potthast and Robert Eschricht at an Alternative for Germany event in Berlin, June 14, 2021. (Courtesy of Goldhammer)

Jewish male model is running for Germany’s parliament – on the far-right ticket

By Cnaan Liphshiz

34-year-old Marcel Yaron Goldhammer, a dual German-Israeli citizen and former IDF soldier, is no. 6 on the AfD list in Berlin

Top candidates for the upcoming German general elections (Left to right) Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats SPD; Annalena Baerbock of Germany's Greens (Die Gruenen); and Armin Laschet of the conservative CDU-CSU party union pose for pictures before a "Triell" television debate, on September 19, 2021, in Berlin, ahead of Germany's general elections scheduled for September 26. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Germany votes in pivotal election ushering in post-Merkel era

By Femke COLBORNE

Conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats are neck and neck and pollsters say the race is ‘wide open’

Olaf Scholz (M), Finance Minister and SPD candidate for Chancellor, waves to his audience and supporters during a campaign event at Schillerplatz in Nürtingen. (Bernd Weißbrod/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

ExplainerAs Germany votes, here’s where the leading parties stand on Jewish issues

By Toby Axelrod

Christian Democratic Union CDU leader and chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel react on stage during their campaign rally in Aachen, western Germany, on September 25, 2021, one day ahead of the German federal elections. (Ina Fassbender / AFP)

Merkel makes final push for successor in Germany’s knife-edge polls

By Yann Schreiber, Raphaelle LOGEROT and Hui Min NEO

Interview'The defense actually made a pretty good case'

Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV, yet his trial was no slam dunk

By Rich Tenorio

In new book ‘Kennedy’s Avenger,’ Dan Abrams and David Fisher dig deep into the trial of the Jewish nightclub owner, who shot JFK’s assassin and sparked endless conspiracy theories

This Monday, Dec. 8, 2008, courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (center) and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash (left) attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP/Janet Hamlin, Pool, File)

Explainer

Lisa Hajjar at University of California Santa Barbara

20 years after 9/11, why are alleged mastermind, 4 others, still awaiting trial?

Delays are the inevitable result of an irreconcilable conflict: US government’s desire to convict and execute the men, and the fact that the defendants are victims of CIA torture

An Afghan boy sits on a wheelbarrow as he waits for customers at a street fruit and vegetable market in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

UN agency warns of ‘imminent’ famine in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan

By Ana Fernandez

A fireball erupts from the site of an explosion that reportedly targeted a joint Turkish-Russian patrol on the strategic M4 highway, near the Syrian town of Ariha in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 14, 2020. (Mohammed Al-Rifai/AFP)

Alleged Russian airstrike kills at least 7 Turkey-backed fighters in north Syria

By AP

Attack on Hamza Division comes amid increasing tensions between Assad’s forces and insurgent groups who still have a stronghold in parts of the country

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, on September 21, 2021, at the UN headquarters. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey could buy more Russian missiles, in defiance of US warnings

By AP

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) makes comments to the press alongside his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow, on September 9, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Russia said asking Israel to push US on holding trilateral Syria talks

More Headlines

William Shatner participates in the 'William Shatner Spotlight' panel at C2E2 at McCormick Place, on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Chicago. (Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP)

The final frontierWilliam Shatner, at 90, set to boldly go to space

Police at the scene of a shooting in Lakiya on Septembe 25, 2021 (Israel Police)

Woman shot dead in south, in 4th fatality in Arab community in 48 hours

By Emanuel Fabian

Adverts for drugs. (Dov Lieber)

12 teens hospitalized after taking illegal synthetic cannabinoid drug

The Babi Yar memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, is defaced with swastikas, in September 2014. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Ukraine bans antisemitism with new law, but does not stipulate punishments

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Then-director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico Tomas Zeron listens during a press conference at the Attorney General building in Mexico City, on October 27, 2014. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)

Mexico asks Bennett for Israel’s support on extraditing ex-investigator

US Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on February 26, 2021. (AP/John Raoux, File)

Gaetz: ‘Racist’ ADL called for Fox’s Carlson to be fired for supremacist theory

Avi Alkalay, former editor at Walla news, arrives for a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, on March 10, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial: Judges say police can re-question key witness over new evidence

By Raoul Wootliff

Israeli software startup ProteanTecs' management team in Israel. (Courtesy)

Koch Industries, Porsche invest in Israeli deep data startup proteanTecs

By Ricky Ben-David

Emil Laufer (courtesy)

12-year-old dies day after fire at Petah Tikva home

By Emanuel Fabian

Police at the scene of a shooting in Lakiya on Septembe 25, 2021 (Israel Police)

Man stabbed to death in brawl in central Israel

In this January 6, 2021 photo, people march with those who say they are members of the Proud Boys as they attend a rally in Washington, DC in support of then-US president Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Informant sent live updates to FBI while storming US Capitol on January 6 — NYT

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York, attends a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bruges in Bruges, on September 7, 2019. (John Thys/AFP)

UK’s Prince Andrew accepts he has been served in Epstein sex assault lawsuit

By AFP

View Edition by Date

August	September 2021					October
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
Your Privacy Rights
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.