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What Matters Most On Monday, September 25, 2023

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Secular and Orthodox Israelis at a contested public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Friction at Haifa, Herzliya, Jaffa, Ramat Aviv, Zichron events

Activists block public Tel Aviv Yom Kippur prayers as Orthodox group sets gender divider

Angry scenes at Dizengoff Square gatherings on Sunday, Monday after Rosh Yehudi group defies courts, puts up improvised flag barrier between men and women; similar tussles elsewhere

Reporter's Notebook

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Segregated Yom Kippur prayers spark slurs and bitterness, not atonement, in Tel Aviv

Angry tussles mar Judaism’s holiest day, as Orthodox and secular tensions hit a boiling point at court-barred, public gender-divided prayer event in the liberal heart of Israel

Activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer event in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 25, 2023. (Itai Ron/ Flash90)

Secular activists take down a gender divider made of Israeli flags that was set up by the Rosh Yehudi group at a public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tel Aviv prayer furor

PM slams ‘left-wingers rioting against Jews’; Lapid: Messianists brought religious war

Netanyahu condemns extremist hatred at Tel Aviv prayers; Lapid raps him for backing ultra-nationalists who defied public gender-separation ban; Ben Gvir: I’ll pray there Thursday

Wiesenthal group: Unit carried out mass murder in Holocaust

Canada’s parliament, Trudeau and Zelensky give inadvertent ovation to Nazi war veteran

Speaker apologizes to Jews worldwide for encouraging parliament to hail Yaroslav Hunka, 98, a volunteer fighter in a Waffen SS unit, as a ‘Ukrainian and Canadian hero’

New study suggests anti-COVID drug may be causing virus to mutate

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Merck’s molnupiravir has been used in Israel and other countries since late 2021 to treat symptomatic patients with risk factors that could lead to hospitalization or death

Merck's new antiviral medication molnupiravir. (Merck & Co. via AP, File)

Medics treat over 3,000 during Yom Kippur, deliver 4 babies

Magen David Adom emergency service says 307 bicycle, scooter and skateboard riders injured on the roads; man in serious condition in Haifa after falling from bike

People ride their bicycles along the empty Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, September 25, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

The Saudi deal must deliver a route to Palestinian statehood

Anything less than a bold plan will not bring peace and will devastate Israel’s democracy movement

Diane Joy Schmidt

Coyote tosses the stars and why AI can’t help us

On days when I stare at screens for too long, reality loses some of its texture, and the computer won’t ask what’s missing from my experience

A largely empty departure hall at Ben Gurion Airport as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his delegation arrived back in Israel following a six-day visit to the US, September 24, 2023. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu lands back in Israel at largely empty airport shortly ahead of Yom Kippur

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

On flight home, PM hails ‘many achievements’ on trip that saw Saudi peace hopes grow, promises more ‘good news’; was dogged by protesters on entire US trip but none seen at airport

Saudi Ambassador Nayef Al-Sudairi (L) presents his credentials to Palestinian Authority diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khalidi at the Palestinian embassy in Jordan on August 12, 2023. (Wafa)

Saudi delegation to visit West Bank this week as Israel normalization talk increases

New non-resident ambassador to lead delegation and present his credentials to PA’s Abbas; Riyadh condemns Israeli ‘extremist’ provocations as Jews pray on Temple Mount

A commuter takes pictures with his mobile phone of a decorated wall along a street ahead of presidential elections in The Maldives, in the capital Male on September 6, 2023. (Mohamed Afrah / AFP)

Maldives follow Saudi lead in restoring ties with Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

Clashes between Palestinian rioters and Israeli troops near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on September 25, 2023 (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Israel strikes Hamas post near Gaza border amid violent rioting

Military says UAV hit position operated by terror organization; 2 Palestinians wounded by gunfire, Hamas-run ministry says; 2 suspects detained trying to cross from Gaza to Israel

A bomb explodes during clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli security forces east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the Israel-Gaza border fence on September 23, 2023. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel strikes Hamas posts in Gaza amid violent rioting on border

A Palestinian archaeologist removes the sand from a skeleton in a grave at a Roman-era cemetery in Jebaliya northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, September 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Archaeologists unearth largest cemetery ever found in Gaza, with rare lead sarcophogi

Over 100 graves studied at 2,000-year-old, Roman-era site, which was discovered during construction work last year; sarcophagi with grape leaves, dolphins seen as exceptional finds

Vehicles pass under a billboard supporting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi for the coming presidential elections, erected by Egypt's political party of Homat Watan, the Protectors of the Nation, in Cairo, Egypt, on September 4, 2023. Arabic reads, 'Yes for stability.' Egypt will hold a presidential election over three days in December, officials announced Monday, September 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Egypt sets December presidential election, with Sissi set to retain power till 2030

By AP

No challenger likely to prevent a fresh six-year term for Sissi, who led the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and was sworn in as president almost 10 years ago

George Segal's 'Sacrifice of Isaac,' newly restored and on display at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art through January 13, 2024 (Courtesy TAMA)

Biblical recreation

George Segal’s ‘Sacrifice of Isaac’ brings back memories of Yom Kippur War

By Jessica Steinberg

The pop artist modeled his biblical sculpture, last seen in public some 46 years ago, on Menashe Kadishman and son Ben, in precursor to 1973 crisis

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