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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 23, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows a map of 'Israel in 1948' as he addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 22, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

'We’ll build a new corridor of peace and prosperity'

Netanyahu tells UN that Israel ‘at the cusp’ of historic peace with Saudi Arabia

By Lazar Berman

With Saudi diplomat in attendance, PM offers vision of ‘new Middle East’ and AI-enabled future, but ignores bitter fight over judicial overhaul back home and on NYC streets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses a red marker on a map of 'The New Middle East' as he addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

SpeechFull text of Netanyahu’s UN address: ‘On the cusp of historic Saudi-Israel peace’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CNN about Saudi normalization, September 23, 2023 (CNN screenshot)

PM: Saudi deal likely but time is short; MBS a ‘visionary’; coalition would back accord

Netanyahu tells US TV there are ‘major issues’ on enrichment; regarding concessions to Palestinians, says far-right partners’ ‘talk a talk’ but ’eminently sensible’ on decisions

Israel's Foreign Ministry offers a message of congratulations to Saudi Arabia for its National Day, September 23, 2023 (X screenshot)

‘Peace and good neighborliness’: Israel congratulates Saudis on their National Day

Op-ed

Netanyahu predicts a new Middle East, is silent on the havoc he’s unleashed in Israel

At the UN, the PM hails imminent Saudi peace, sees the breakthrough as personal vindication; says not a word about his divisive judicial overhaul, while thousands protest outside

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to use a red marker on a map of 'The New Middle East,' as he addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Israeli-led protesters rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside UN Headquarters in New York City, September 22, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

2,000 protest against Netanyahu outside UN as he addresses General Assembly

Israeli-led demonstrators chant ‘democracy’ and ‘we’re not afraid,’ culminating week of rallies against PM’s New York City visit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the United Nations on September 20, 2023 in New York City. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images/AFP)

In meet with US Jewish leaders, PM dodges criticism of extremist coalition partners

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Far-right leaders Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Ben Gvir: Far-right will bolt coalition if Saudi deal sees Palestinian concessions

Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism will not countenance any such moves, he warns, after Netanyahu’s UN speech; Lapid slams PM for ignoring Saudi nuclear demands, judicial overhaul

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 22, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Palestinian officials fume after Netanyahu UN speech, call address ‘arrogant, racist’

Mahmoud al-Habash, an adviser to Abbas, charges Israeli PM’s speech ‘full of lies and contradictions,’ says there can be no regional stability when Palestinians rights violated

Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)

Yair Netanyahu shares post backing Jewish terrorist while attending dad’s UN speech

Tweet shared by PM’s son casts doubt on guilt of extremist who killed Palestinian family in 2015 firebombing: ‘After two minutes of torture you too would sing whatever they’d ask’

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)

US blasts ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ after far-right MK hailed Jewish terrorist

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) embraces Likud activist Itzik Zarka during a party faction meeting at the Knesset on July 9, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud court restores member who said ‘6 million more’ Ashkenazim should burn

Protest outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem against the government's judicial overhaul on September 11, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Speakers to include relatives of those killed in 1973 war

‘No forgiveness for dictatorship’: Protesters to rally against overhaul for 38th week

On the eve of Yom Kippur and 50th anniversary of war, protest groups decry ‘incitement against American Jewry and High Court judges’ by Netanyahu and his coalition partners

Erel Margalit, owner of Jerusalem Venture Partners, holds a meeting of hi-tech entrepreneurs in New York, September 21, 2023. (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)

Anti-overhaul activists meet NY tech leaders: ‘We’re facing a protracted campaign’

By Tal Schneider

Analysis

Adam S. Ferziger

Selihot prayers in Jerusalem as counter-rallies

As all walks of Israeli society meander through Jerusalem this high holy day season, their organic gatherings smack of a new mode of prayer

Netanyahu can’t deliver on Saudi Arabia

It would be a sweetheart deal, but the PM no longer has the political capital, public support or moral authority for it

One book to rule them all

Since nobody can know everything, focus on what is essential – whether it’s found in an encyclopedia or in the Torah (Haazinu)

Screen grab of IDF troops responding to Lebanese heavy machinery that crossed the Blue Line, September 23, 2023 (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF fires stun, smoke grenades as Lebanese heavy machinery strays over Blue Line

In response, two stun grenades fired toward UNIFIL troops in area, apparently by Lebanese army; no injuries; incident resolved without further escalation

Firefighters work to extinguish fires set by incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip, setting vegetation ablaze near the Israel-Gaza border, September 22, 2023.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF strikes Hamas posts in Gaza after incendiary balloons spark brushfires in south

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians also riot along southern frontier for sixth day in row, setting off explosives on Israeli border barrier; 26 said wounded

'People are still looking for nostalgia, and come here'

After 80 years, hat shop in old garment district still has Tel Aviv covered

By Gavriel Fiske

Multi-generational Dalia’s Hats has been at the same Nahalat Binyamin location for decades, remaining essentially the same even as the neighborhood transforms around it

An Iranian Kaman-22 drone is carried on a truck during an annual military parade marking the Iran-Iraq War, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran unveils ‘longest-range drone in the world,’ threatens Israel at military parade

Event marking Iran-Iraq War includes display of numerous UAVs and missiles, Hebrew and English signs warning ‘prepare your shelters’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on during a meeting with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in New York, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Bing Guan/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken: Iran not a ‘responsible actor’ on nuke program after booting UN inspectors

Esmail Qaani, the head of Iran's Quds Force, speaks during a ceremony on the occasion of first anniversary of death of the force's previous head Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, January 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Head of Iran’s Quds Force visits Syria to oversee joint military drill

By AFP

Siggy Flicker, left, poses with former president Donald Trump, center. (Courtesy Siggy Flicker via JTA)

‘Real Housewife’ defiant after Trump shares Rosh Hashanah post against ‘liberal Jews’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

‘Who cares if they found it offensive?’ says Israeli-born Siggy Flicker, who once voted Democrat before becoming a devotee of the former GOP president, a fellow ex-reality star

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Polish director Agnieszka Holland poses with the 'Special Jury Prize' award for 'Zielona Granica' after the closing ceremony for the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sept. 9, 2023. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)

Polish ministers compare migration drama to Nazi propaganda, denounce director

By Vanessa Gera

Agnieszka Holland, whose family members were killed in Holocaust, threatens to sue justice minister and says campaign reminds her of Communist regime’s antisemitism

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US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides speaks at an event in Jerusalem on February 19, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Wells Fargo taps former US envoy to Israel Tom Nides as vice chairman

Then-US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Democratic senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, right, and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, pose for a photo on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 20, 2022. (AP Photo/ Susan Walsh, File)

US Senator Menendez, wife charged with bribery over alleged scheme to aid Egypt

By Jake Offenhartz, Eric Tucker and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Police investigating a hit-and-run in the southern town of Hura, September 23, 2023 (Israel Police)

19-year-old killed in Hura hit-and-run; police investigating if it was deliberate

This image taken from UGC video shows smoke rising from the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea, September 22, 2023. (Crimean Telegram channel via AP)

Ukraine: ‘Senior’ Russian naval officers among ‘dozens’ killed in Black Sea HQ strike

By AFP

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