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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 21, 2023

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US President Joe Biden, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 20, 2023. (Avi Ohayon, GPO)

Biden says he will host Netanyahu in White House this year

Meeting Netanyahu, Biden talks up Saudi deal hopes, calls to uphold democratic values

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

PM pledges to safeguard democracy as leaders hail prospect of Saudi normalization; senior Israeli: Netanyahu told Biden ‘Palestinians should be part of process but can’t have veto’

US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Full text: Biden and Netanyahu’s public remarks at their New York meeting

President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 21 – Potential Saudi-US defense pact: Performative politics?

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the APEC Leader's Informal Dialogue with Guests during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC summit, November 18, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

Saudi crown prince: Israel and Saudi Arabia moving closer to normalization ‘every day’

MBS: Would be biggest deal since end of Cold War; will work with ‘whoever runs Israel’; Palestinians ‘important’; US official: PM knows ‘very hard things’ needed on Palestinian front

President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi holds a news conference in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Iranian president says Israel-Saudi ties would be ‘stab in the back’ to Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi departs after holding a news conference, in New York, September 20, 2023. (Jason DeCrow/AP)

Iranian president sees no obstacle to establishing ties with Egypt

By ToI Staff and AP

File: Incoming Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, left, and his predecessor Yair Lapid meet for a handover meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Foreign Ministry)

Lapid: Must not give Riyadh a path to nukes; FM: Could have Saudi deal in months

Opposition warns of ‘nuclear arms race’ in Middle East if Saudi Arabia granted permission to enrich uranium, as foreign minister says normalization agreement possible in early 2024

(L) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. (Saudi Press Agency via AP); (C) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem (Alex Kolomoisky/ Pool/ Flash90); (R) US President Joe Biden on November 2, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Michael A. McCoy / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / via AFP)

Netanyahu told officials to cooperate on Saudi bid to enrich uranium – report

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) meets with his Emirati counterpart Abdullah Bin Zayed on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, September 20, 2023 (Foreign Ministry)

Israeli, Emirati foreign ministers meet to talk 3 years of Abraham Accords

By Lazar Berman

Op-ed

‘Irish optimism’? Biden touts a Saudi deal; Netanyahu raises expectations even higher

In 2020, the Saudis denied the PM had flown in to meet with MBS; this time the crown prince is on board. So how does Netanyahu think he can square the domestic political circle?

US President Joe Biden (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Op-edUnnoticed, Netanyahu promises a ‘minor correction’ with devastating consequences

By David Horovitz

Inside story

Annual Yom Kippur mass prayer tests the limits of Tel Aviv’s vaunted liberalism

City has prohibited the placing of a divider between men and women at popular street event that draws 2,000 Orthodox and secular participants; as things stand, it won’t go ahead

A bird's-eye view of about 2,000 worshipers as they attend the Yom Kippur Ne'ilah prayer in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on October 5, 2022. (Courtesy of Rosh Yehudi)

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein makes his way through protests in Tel Aviv on September 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protesters hound homophobic rabbi in Tel Aviv amid uproar over religious group

This image purports to show the site of an alleged Israeli drone strike near the Syrian town of Beit Jinn, September 21, 2023. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel accused of killing two in Syria drone strike, close to border

By Emanuel Fabian

Undated photo of the US Embassy in Aukar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo)

Shots fired outside US embassy in Lebanon, no injuries reported

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, September 21, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

DR Congo embassy will be moved to Jerusalem, leader tells Netanyahu at UN sidelines

Israel to open an embassy to Kinshasa, Israeli leader tells President Félix Tshisekedi in New York

12:47 am

Dozens rally in Netanyahu's support outside NYC hotel, near protest against PM
10:30 pm

DR Congo to move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem, leader tells Netanyahu at UNGA
8:30 pm

Israeli UN envoy says Abbas speech shows he's 'not a partner for peace'

Can a toddler really apologize? (And other thoughts on Yom Kippur)

There’s telling them to ’say you’re sorry’ and then there’s cultivating personal responsibility, kindness and empathy

Doing the Daf as Israel implodes

Why must I help fund lifelong study of texts about men falling naked off roofs into the waiting bodies of women below?

Needed urgently: An Abraham Accords dividend

Three years after the deal’s signing, time is running out to show young people that cooperation and prosperity go hand in hand

Is the Saudi deal a dream or a nightmare?

Why has ’normalization’ suddenly become so important? The answer is frighteningly simple: Netanyahu needs the photo-op

The scene of a suspected car-ramming attack at the Qalandiya Crossing near Jerusalem, September 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Security guard lightly hurt in suspected ramming at Jerusalem checkpoint

By Emanuel Fabian

Driver who hit 32-year-old civilian at Qalandiya Crossing detained; police say he is apparently suicidal

View of the closed Erez Crossing, also known as the Beit Hanoun Crossing, between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip, on August 18, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Gaza pedestrian crossing remains closed for 7th day, may open only after Yom Kippur

By Emanuel Fabian

Members of the pro-Fatah Tanzim militia reading out a statement against the Iran ties of rival Islamist Palestinian factions, West Bank, September 19 (via Twitter, screenshot)

Amid tensions, Fatah offshoot accuses Islamist rivals of turning West Bank into Syria

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Anti-overhaul activists protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he meets with US President Joe Biden, in New York City, September 20, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Anti-overhaul demonstrators prod US for support as Netanyahu meets Biden

Hundreds chant ‘we’ll never give up’ in New York City, as Israeli protest leaders and city comptroller fire up the crowd

Israelis protest against the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, in Moshav Neve Ativ, northern Israel, August 8, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Golan moshav asks Netanyahus to scrap repeat vacation plan after previous chaos

Shas minister, Otzma Yehudit MK castigate MK backing effort

Campaign to free Israeli killer of Palestinian family raises over NIS 1.2 million

6,000 people donate, reportedly including right-wing rabbis, head of ultranationalist Lehava, singer Ariel Zilber; Shalom Hanoch, Aviv Geffen back out of concert with Zilber

Amiram Ben Uliel, convicted of the Duma arson murder in July 2015, in which three members of the Dawabsha family were killed, attends a hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative: A woman undergoing an MRI scan (Povozniuk via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli researchers develop noninvasive method to assess iron levels in brain

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Using MRI images and physical calculations, team led by Hebrew University PhD student gains vital data previously available only via autopsy or tissue sample examinations

Illustrative image: a woman undergoes a mammogram (gorodenkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Health officials remind Israeli women of new mammogram guidelines

By Renee Ghert-Zand

MK Simcha Rothman leads a hearing of the Knesset's Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, September 20, 2023 (Noam Moskowitz / Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Rothman silences courts representative at Knesset hearing, threatens ethics complaint

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Constitution Committee head lambastes Hanit Avraham-Becher after she suggests hearing is aimed at eroding public trust in judiciary

Shlomo Ben Eliyahu leads the first committee meeting on creating a new National Guard, held at the Ministry of National Security in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir’s ministry chief quits, cites personal reasons; reports indicate pair clashed

By Michael Horovitz

More Headlines

Police working at the site of a suspected murder in Hadera on August 27, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man indicted for murdering his father, attempting to murder his mother

Illustrative: the Netanya train station, February 19, 2008. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

19-year-old soldier killed in accident at Netanya train station

Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane lands at at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Airport Authority: GPS jamming is forcing planes to land using alternative routes

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative image of innovation, AI, machine learning and robots. (ipopba; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel allocates NIS 30m to fund projects for AI applications in Hebrew and Arabic

By Sharon Wrobel

Works by Austrian expressionist artist Egon Schiele are on display at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)

7 artworks to be returned to heirs of Jewish cabaret star murdered in the Holocaust

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Ombudsman of the State Representatives in the Courts Menachem Finkelstein (left), May 17, 2023. (Flash90)

Ombudsman says 30% of complaints against law enforcement officials justified

By Jeremy Sharon

File: This video grab made from the online Neuralink livestream shows a drawing of the different steps of the implantation of a Neuralink brain implant device seen during a presentation on August 28, 2020. (Neuralink/AFP)

Musk’s Neuralink starts recruiting volunteers to test brain implants

By ToI Staff and AFP

Bomb parts found in a prison cell in southern Israel, September 20, 2023. (Prison Service)

Materials for makeshift bomb found in cell of maximum security prisoner

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