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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 24, 2023

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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2023. (Leonardo Munoz / AFP)

Israeli diplomat reportedly present for speech on Shabbat

In UN speech, Saudi FM urges Palestinian state, doesn’t mention normalization, Israel

Bin Farhan says Mideast security requires ‘just, comprehensive solution to Palestinian issue’ and ‘independent state’ on 1967 borders; denounces ‘unilateral steps’; meets Iran’s FM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during a meeting with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Netanyahu denies squeezing Israel’s nuclear agency not to oppose Saudi enrichment

Then-defense minister Moshe Dayan makes a speech during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in an undated photograph. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Defense Ministry Archive)

Yom Kippur War: 50 years'The weight of the war was on his shoulders'

Did Moshe Dayan secretly want to die on the front lines during the Yom Kippur War?

By Abraham Rabinovich

Reports of seemingly reckless visits to the battlefield and a rumored mental breakdown in the war’s early days may cast light on the defense minister’s feelings of responsibility

Protesters gather in New York on September 23, 2023, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's convoy departs for the airport following the premier's six-day trip to the US. (Screenshot: X/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu wraps up US visit as protesters shout ‘shame’ at departing convoy in NY

PM makes his way back to Israel ahead of Yom Kippur, touts ‘many achievements’ during trip where anti-overhaul demonstrators followed him everywhere

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sep 24: If you will it? PM hails looming peace with Saudi Arabia at UN

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a hand gesture toward a protester shouting "Shame!" at him on a street in New York, September 22, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu filmed making dismissive hand gestures toward protester in New York

‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ ‘The Midnight Library,’ and Jonah

When the prophet runs from God, he influences those he meets along the way for good, so maybe he took the route he was supposed to take after all

Russell P. Subin

I am a sinner; don’t judge me

My mind wanders on Yom Kippur, and I’ll likely cast aspersions on the people I see. Do I atone for that now, or can it wait for next year?

Yom Kippur War through the eyes of an Irish volunteer

I had to figure out how to fix the machines needed to make sleeping bags for the soldiers; the engineers had all been called up

Frederick L. Klein

Cultivating faith when life does not makes sense

After the Shoah, Israel’s founding and the 6-Day War, it was clear the Redemption was underway. Then came Yom Kippur, ’73

Section of the Pesher Habakkuk scroll, as displayed in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (Wikipedia Commons)

Soldiers sent to force mystics to transgress on 'wrong' date

First recorded evidence of Yom Kippur depicts day of affliction as sectarian struggle

By Gavriel Fiske

Prof. Yonatan Adler, author of ‘The Origins of Judaism,’ cites dramatic passage from the Dead Sea Scrolls that shows Hasmonean-era jostling for religious authority

Relatives of Yom Kippur War fallen speak at Kaplan St. rally

Vowing not to ‘fall for spin’ on Saudi peace, overhaul protesters rally for 38th week

Over 100,000 estimated in Tel Aviv; protest leader Shikma Bressler says a deal with Riyadh won’t stop dictatorship, blasts coalition members for backing convicted murderer

A photo provided by an anti-government activist shows judicial overhaul protesters in Tel Aviv holding up a banner during a weekly rally, September 23, 2023. (Gilad Furst)

Illustrative: IDF Chief of Staff David Elazar looks over the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War, October 1973. (State Archives)

'Thousands of people were protesting in the streets'

50 years after the Yom Kippur War, veterans see echoes in Israel’s current crisis

Those who lived through it remember how Israel’s battle for existence divided society and shook Diaspora Jewry, much like its internal battle over the judicial overhaul today

Then-US president Donald Trump (right) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Trump's departure to Rome at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, on May 23, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO via Flash90)

Netanyahu says he was unfazed by Trump’s rage at him following 2020 election

PM tells CNN he’s learned to only judge policy and by that metric greatly appreciates former president; notes that Trump congratulated him on his recent election win in Israel

Israeli soldiers seen near an IDF tank stationed near the Gaza border on April 7, 2023. (Flash90/File)

IDF reinforces troops on Gaza border as violence rises; arson balloons spark fires

Military sends another battalion to frontier region, defense minister tours border; firefighters bring three blazes under control

Masked Gazans prepare to launch fire-sparking balloons toward Israel in the Gaza Strip, September 23, 2023 (Palestinian social media)

IDF hits Gaza Hamas post after border rioting that included gunfire at troops

A view of Birzeit University, north of Ramallah (YouTube screenshot)

Israel arrests 8 Palestinian students suspected of planning terror attack

In Beirut, leaders of Hamas, PIJ and PFLP agree to ‘escalate’ fight against Israel; 3 shootings at Israeli West Bank targets cause no casualties

The Palestinian city Tulkarem, situated on the western edge of northern West Bank, on July 18, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Two Palestinians killed in exchanges of fire during IDF operation near Tulkarem

Left: Max Fried delivers a pitch in a spring training game against the Tampa Bay Rays, March 21, 2021. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images via JTA); Right: Dean Kremer pitches for the Baltimore Orioles in a spring training game against the Minnesota Twins, March 9, 2021. (Mark Brown/Getty Images via JTA)

Free to fast

MLB has more Jewish players than ever; none has Yom Kippur dilemma

By jacob gurvis

About 2,000 worshipers attend the Yom Kippur Neilah prayer at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 5, 2022. (Courtesy of the Municipality of Tel Aviv)

Orthodox group says will hold Tel Aviv public prayer despite ban on gender divider

Though municipality and courts rejected request to segregate genders in public space, Rosh Yehudi reverses its declared intention to nix its two Yom Kippur events

Men and women sit together at an event held by Rosh Yehudi on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2022. The event featured a mechitzah, or divide. (Courtesy of Rosh Yehudi)

Supreme Ct. rejects gender divider for Yom Kippur prayers at central Tel Aviv square

By Michael Horovitz

Kibbutz Ortal in the Golan Heights has created three-day tours commemorating 50 years since the Yom Kippur War, visiting battlefields and wineries, including its own Shifon Winery (Courtesy Kibbutz Ortal)

Yom Kippur War: 50 years

On anniversary of war, a Golan kibbutz invites visitors for historic, cultural tours

By Jessica Steinberg

Kibbutz Ortal holds three-day visits with discussions, musical events and visits to battlefields, wineries and farms, where one can see what’s happened over the last half-century

From filmmaker Amos Gitai's 2000 film 'Kippur,' featured in Tel Aviv Museum of Art exhibit marking 50 years since the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)

'I didn't want to remember'

50 years on, filmmaker Amos Gitai remembers Yom Kippur War in museum exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Controversial creator of ‘Kippur,’ ‘Kadosh’ and dozens of other works, who was shot down in battle, draws on difficult memories for ‘Kippur, War Requiem’ at Tel Aviv Museum of Art

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An Israeli passport on January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel expects US announcement on entry into visa waiver program next week

Hussein Dawabsha, center, grandfather of a Palestinian toddler who was burned to death with his parents at their family home, stands with Knesset members Ayman Odeh, left, and Ahmad Tibi, during the trial of the two Jewish men suspected of carrying out the attack, on June 19, 2018 at a court in the town of Lod. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Relative of slain Palestinian family urges end to wave of support for perpetrator

Maurice de Vlaminck's 'Landscape by the Water,' an art piece looted by the Nazi-allied regime in Croatia during the Holocaust and restored in September 2023 to its rightful owner, undated. (Archives of the Zagreb National Museum of Modern Art)

In apparent first, Croatia restores looted art to grandson of Holocaust victim

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former Egyptian lawmaker and opposition figure Ahmed Altantawy. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Researchers discover bid to target top Egyptian opposition figure with spyware

From left to right: Bashar Abu Zajilah, 18, shot dead in Rahat on September 24, 2023, and Edmund Dibi, in his 50s, shot dead in Haifa on September 23, 2023. (Courtesy)

2 Arab men killed in separate shootings, taking year’s toll in community to 180

By Michael Horovitz

Lior Simon, right, and Gili Raanan, partners at cybersecurity VC fund Cyberstarts. (Yossi Zliger)

Israel’s Cyberstarts closes $480m fund for cybersecurity investments

By Sharon Wrobel

Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate Joerg Prophet poses as he campaigns for local elections in Nordhausen, central Germany, on September 21, 2023. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)

German far-right candidate tipped to win mayoral race in city near former Nazi camp

By Femke COLBORNE

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, left, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene of a terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, outside of Jerusalem, August 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir pans Shabtai after he claimed minister tried to politicize police — report

By Michael Horovitz

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