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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 26, 2023

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Palestinian youths launch incendiary balloons towards Israel near the border east of in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, on September 26, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

IDF hits Hamas targets in Gaza after fresh border riots, incendiary balloons

Arson balloons start fire in Sha’ar Hanegev; rioters try set fire to military post alongside border as Hamas pushes unrest along frontier

6:20 pm

Canada House speaker resigns over inviting a man who fought with Nazis to parliament
6:13 pm

Tel Aviv soccer derby delayed amid crowd trouble, 70 arrested for stockpiling weapons
6:01 pm

Coalition partners slam Ben Gvir for further incitement over Tel Aviv public prayer

President Isaac Herzog speaks at a state ceremony marking 50 years since the Yom Kippur War at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, September 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Battle over gender segregation in public 'shocking, painful'

Herzog on Yom Kippur prayer clashes: Polarization a ‘true danger to Israeli society’

By Michael Bachner

At ceremony marking 50 years since Yom Kippur War, president urges Israelis to set aside differences and unite like in 1973, since ‘internal threat is the most acute of all’

Two Israeli soldiers sit beneath a road sign, with a tank in the background, somewhere in the Sinai Desert, October 8, 1973. (AP Photo/Robert Dear)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sep 26: Yom Kippur prayer leads to furor in TA; 1973 war remembered

Zachary Roseman

Dizengoff Square on Yom Kippur eve: A stain on Tel Aviv

They screamed at my pregnant wife and pushed me as I held my toddler – and it had nothing to do with gender separation

Anarchy on Yom Kippur

The organizers refused to comply with the court decisions and went ahead with its plans for gender segregated prayers

My first encounter with Jews changed my life

Growing up, the term ’Jew’ became synonymous with ’monster,’ but it wasn’t Israel who killed so many of my fellow Syrians

American Jews are partners in the destiny of our people

Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War, Israel faces a new existential threat and We must continue to make our voices heard

Inside story'We'll abandon ICC probe if Israel freezes settlements'

PA officials: If Israel stops unilateral actions for Saudi deal, we’ll stop ours

Saudis ‘told us they’re not brokers between us and Israel. They’re our partners,’ Palestinian official says, expressing confidence Riyadh won’t forget their cause

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace on October 16, 2019, shows King Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) receiving Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) in the capital Riyadh. (AFP / Saudi Royal Palace / Bandar AL-JALOUD)

This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows PA President Mahmoud Abbas (R) receiving the credentials of Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Palestine Nayef al-Sudairi, at the former's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 26, 2023. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)

New Saudi envoy meets Abbas, backs Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital

Amid Israel normalization talks, Nayef al-Sudairi presents credentials as first ambassador to PA, heading kingdom’s first delegation to West Bank in 30 years; may visit Al-Aqsa

Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman leaves the podium after his speech at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on October 31, 2022. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

Saudis commit to full UN atomic agency inspection of nuclear activities

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Erdogan says Netanyahu may visit Turkey in coming months, then he’ll reciprocate

Turkish president, who last week sat with Israeli leader in first known meeting, says PM could make trip in October or November

A Shahab-3 surface-to-surface missile is on display next to a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at an exhibition by Iran's army and paramilitary Revolutionary Guard celebrating 'Sacred Defense Week' marking the 39th anniversary of the start of 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, at Baharestan Square in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Suspected explosion hits area of Iran missile base; Israeli involvement speculated

Residents of Khorramabad said to hear ‘terrible sound,’ feel the ground shake near Imam Ali underground base, which makes Shahab-3 missiles capable of hitting Israel

Iran's domestically built missiles are displayed during the annual rally commemorating Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s defense ministry boasts of capabilities of ‘Israel-striker’ missiles

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian holds a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart in Tehran on September 13, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

US says it refused Iranian foreign minister’s request to visit Washington

By Shaun Tandon

DC said fuming at Cohen's 'audacious' premature announcement

FM: Israel joining US Visa Waiver Program; State Department: No decision made yet

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Eli Cohen hails ostensible acceptance into program as ‘important news for all Israelis’; Washington is widely expected to announce decision later this week

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen seen during an interview at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israeli police patrol central Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Police chief warns of dozens of alerts for terror attacks in coming days

Kobi Shabtai orders that officers be refreshed on procedures ahead of coming Sukkot holiday, during which thousands of cops will be deployed to secure public events

Arnaud Mimran vacationing with Benjamin Netanyahu in Monaco in 2003 (Photo courtesy of Mediapart)

Report: Jailed French tycoon said he funded Netanyahu vacations, gave him $1 million

Arnaud Mimran, PM’s longtime associate who previously testified he’d given him $200,000, said to claim from prison that he bought Netanyahu array of luxury gifts; premier: ‘Lies’

18-year-old Shahad from Gaza is the first child to be implanted with a new kind of heart pacemaker in Israel. It was also the first time the implantation was done through a catheter in the neck rather than the groin. The procedure was done at Wolfson Medical Center, September 2023. (Courtesy of Save a Child's Heart)

In Israeli first, Gazan girl receives new kind of pacemaker in innovative procedure

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Teams of doctors from Save A Child’s Heart at Wolfson Medical Center implant cardiac device, identical to the one given to Netanyahu, through 18-year-old patient’s neck

New research shows previously unidentified pathway used by HIV to infect cells

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Study led by professor at Touro University’s Nevada campus sheds light on how AIDS-causing virus enters a cell’s nucleus so it can replicate, finds possible drug countermeasure

HIV virus (yellow) infecting a human cell (© Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash/Courtesy of Touro University)

Inshirah and Ibrahim Shahin, Egyptians who served as spies for Israel along with their children in the 1960s and 1970s. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

New documentary follows Israeli who discovers family’s past as Egyptian spies

By Michael Horovitz

The Shahins were recruited by IDF after Six Day War for espionage; after execution of father, children and mother fled to Israel, changed name to Ben-David, converted to Judaism

In this image from video provided by NASA, technicians in a clean room examine the sample return capsule from NASA's Osiris-Rex mission after it landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020. (NASA via AP)

Will help us better understand how Earth and life formed

NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space, 4.5 billion years old, land on Earth

Samples taken to lab for careful examination after release from spacecraft at conclusion of seven-year journey

Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks to supporters during a rally before stepping down as mayor in order to run for president, in Mexico City, June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

PrimerWith a win, she'd join a short list of Jewish heads of state

Everything you need to know about the Jewish woman leading Mexico’s presidential race

By Jacob Kessler and Gabe Friedman

Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is polling double-digits ahead of her closest competitor, and will mark 2 firsts for the US neighbor if she’s successful

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In this satellite photo provided by Planet Labs, smoke billows from a headquarters building for the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, after it was struck in a missile attack launched by the Ukrainian military. (Planet Labs via AP)

Ukraine says Russia’s Black Sea Fleet commander killed in Crimea missile strike

By ILLIA NOVIKOV

Striking writers take part in a rally in front of Paramount Pictures studio, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Los Angeles. A tentative deal was reached, Sunday, September 24, 2023, to end Hollywood’s writers strike after nearly five months. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Writers’ union reaches tentative deal with Hollywood studios to end historic strike

By ANDREW DALTON

Police at the scene of a mass shooting in Abu Snan, August 22, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

2 shot and killed in separate incidents as Arab community toll reaches 182

Rose Nakasi, a Ugandan computer scientist, checks her computer during an interview, in New York, September 22, 2023. (Jennifer Peltz/AP))

AnalysisCan the United Nations become the global monitor of artificial intelligence?

By Jennifer Peltz

Israeli startup's remote teleoperation software to be be deployed by Serve Robotics, a maker of sidewalk delivery robots. (Serve Robotics)

Uber-backed delivery robots to deploy Israeli startup’s remote human operator tech

By Sharon Wrobel

Screen capture from video shows smoke rising after a fuel depot explosion near Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, September 25, 2023. (Twitter via AP)

At least 20 dead, 200 injured in Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion

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