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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 27, 2023

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Passengers at Ben Gurion International airport on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

US official: 'Not a favor to Israel; it's mutually beneficial'

US admits Israel into Visa Waiver Program, in major boost to bilateral ties

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Israelis will be able to travel to US visa-free in 2 months after the country meets all requirements, including easing restrictions on Palestinian-Americans

'API is not what's on the table,' senior official says

Saudis putting aside Arab Peace Initiative amid Israel normalization talks – officials

Riyadh will continue to pay lip service to proposal conditioning peace with Israel on Palestinian state, but those involved in effort say kingdom ready to normalize ties for less

A Saudi diplomat listens to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2023. (Prime Minister's Office)

Palestinians seen on the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 17, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

New Saudi envoy to PA said to cancel visit to Al Aqsa to avoid Palestinian backlash

By Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

Tourism Minister Haim Katz poses next to a UNWTO poster in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on September 26, 2023. (Courtesy: Haim Kaitz)

In first, Israeli minister leads official delegation to Saudi Arabia

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the state ceremony marking 50 years since the Yom Kippur War at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on September 26, 2023 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 27: Saudi talks and the PA; Netanyahu talks tachlis with NY Jews

Investing in AI: Meet the CEOs online this Thursday

How can you invest in new AI technology? Join OurCrowd’s online event to find out how you can gain exclusive access to Israeli AI startup deals.

Palestinians set off explosions amid cross-border clashes with Israeli security forces near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 27, 2023. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel threatens to step up strikes on Gaza terror groups as border heats up

By Joshua Davidovich

Defense minister points to surprise May offensive that targeted Islamic Jihad commanders in speech at war memorial after incendiary balloons spark fires in south

6:34 pm

IDF chief warns against assuming army immune to societal rifts
5:59 pm

Gallant threatens to ramp up Gaza strikes, points to surprise May offensive
5:42 pm

Haifa neighborhood shutters schools amid fears of more violence

Orly Erez Likhovski

Yom Kippur and the fight for Israel’s soul

Israelis have been content for too long to let Orthodox Judaism define what is considered legitimate Jewish practice

There was magic too: Yom Kippur, Tel Aviv, 5784

In Habima Square, hundreds joined a hastily organized Ne’ila prayer service with no divisions, just astonishment

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

The state of our brokenness

Something elemental has been desecrated in our shared Israeliness, and Yom Kippur has again forced us to face ourselves

File: National Security Itamar Ben Gvir visits south Tel Aviv, September 3, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Otzma Yehudit minister backs service, slams secular 'terror'

Pressure mounts on Ben Gvir to ‘lower the flames,’ call off Tel Aviv prayer rally

By Michael Horovitz

Many in coalition, including PM, urge minister to stay away following Yom Kippur clashes; Opposition Leader Lapid tells secular activists not to give him limelight by protesting

A woman argues with Rosh Yehudi activists at a mass street prayer for Yom Kippur on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Ben Gvir, protesters plan rival Dizengoff prayer rallies, drawing broad rebuke

By Canaan Lidor

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By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

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Inscription in Koine Greek from the Book of Psalms, found at the Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert. (Courtesy)

Archaeology'Guard my life, for I am faithful to you'

Unique Byzantine Psalm inscription in New Testament Greek discovered in Judean Desert

By Gavriel Fiske

First organized excavation at ruins of Hyrcania sheds light on King Herod’s forbidding fortress, where a small 5th-century monastic community waited out the region’s regime changes

Rare bronze mirror found in 2,300-year-old grave of Greek courtesan in Jerusalem

By Gavriel Fiske

Explainer

Sequel to constitutional showdown pits government against court on PM recusal law

Petitioners and attorney general argue that law blocking High Court from removing an incapacitated premier from office is unfit to be part of Israel’s constitutional arrangement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raises a toast at the weekly cabinet meeting ahead of the Jewish New Year, September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seen before the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Knesset can’t allow court ‘to lead us into void,’ says minister ahead of key hearing

By Jeremy Sharon

Jerusalem Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar praying for forgiveness (Selichot), at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, early on September 25, 2022, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

High Court: State must explain why it hasn’t disciplined Jerusalem chief rabbi

Official text on UN website says 'credible military threat'

Tehran accuses Netanyahu of threatening to nuke Iran in his UN speech

By Michael Bachner

PM said Iran must face ‘credible nuclear threat,’ with his office quickly clarifying he misspoke; Iran UN envoy ignores this, condemns ‘alarming’ remark, warns of decisive response

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, visits an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements, at his office compound in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Via AP)

US ‘open to diplomacy’ on nuclear program, wants to see de-escalatory steps from Iran

A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him speaking before students and clerics during a rally in Tehran on July 12, 2023. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iranian leader said to okay direct talks with US on reviving nuke deal

Security forces evacuate an illegal West Bank outpost, "Sde Givat Yonatan," September 27, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

4 arrested during razing of illegal Israeli West Bank outpost, drawing settler outcry

By Michael Horovitz

Police say they’ll probe commander who told residents he’ll ‘rip you into eight [pieces]’ during scuffles; occupants decry move by government ‘elected with the votes of settlers’

The speaker of Canada's House of Commons Anthony Rota delivers a speech following an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, September 22, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s House Speaker resigns after organizing ovation for ‘hero’ Nazi war veteran

Anthony Rota steps down after meeting party leaders amid fury over his invite to veteran of Waffen-SS unit; Polish minister says he will seek 98-year-old’s extradition

Beachwood High School is located in one of the country's most Jewish suburbs. (Courtesy of the Cleveland Jewish News via JTA)

Ohio high school football coach resigns after players use ‘Nazi’ in play calls

By AP and JTA

Illustrative: Police patrol in Alsdorf, near Aachen, western Germany, November 17, 2015. (Hermann J. Knippertz/AP)

Germany bans far-right group that tried to indoctrinate children with Nazi ideology

By AP

Soldiers and emergency responders gather around ambulances carrying wounded people after a fire broke out during a wedding at an event hall, outside the Hamdaniyah general hospital in Al-Hamdaniyah, Iraq on September 27, 2023. (Zaid AL-OBEIDI / AFP)

At least 100 killed in Iraq after fire breaks out at wedding event hall

More than 150 injured in event in Iraqi town of Al-Hamdaniyah, in a predominantly Christian area in Nineveh province

Ali Shoeib, a reporter for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar news outlet, stands next to an Israeli tank in the Mount Dov area along the border between Lebanon and Israel, while peacekeeping UNIFIL forces stand behind him, September 26, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah journalist films self within touching distance of IDF tank on border

By Gianluca Pacchiani

‘This tank will leave, while we children of this land will remain here,’ claims Ali Shoeib, as UN peacekeepers separating between Israeli and Lebanese forces appear to stand by

Palestinian protesters burn tires during clashes with Israeli security forces along the frontier with Israel, east of Gaza City, September 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel strikes Hamas sites after border unrest leaves 11 Gazans wounded

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv financial business district skyline. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Investment in Israeli tech firms drops 38%, but downward trend stabilizes – report

By Sharon Wrobel

Capital raised by Israeli companies in the third quarter declines by a moderate 14% compared with the second quarter, but is down 38% year-on-year, IVC-LeumiTechdata shows

Illustrative: The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on December 10, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

Gallant heads to Berlin to sign $3.5 billion Arrow 3 air defense deal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Israel’s largest-ever defense contract was okayed in August by the US, which partnered with Israel Aerospace Industries to produce the anti-ballistic missile system

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Knesset Finance Committee chair MK Moshe Gafni during a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Knesset panel okays Haredi education funds, gives limited nod to Arab towns’ budget

Illustrative: A 2008 photo of Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, where a number of foreigners and dual nationals have been detained over the years. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)

Prisoner dies in Iran’s notorious Evin prison; US denies he was American

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Hapoel Tel Aviv against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the final of the State Cup in at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, June 2, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

At least 120 arrested as Tel Aviv soccer fans clash with cops ahead of rivalry match

Former President Donald Trump pauses before ending his remarks at a rally in Summerville, S.C., Sept. 25, 2023. (AP/Artie Walker Jr., File)

Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers while building real estate empire

By Michael R. Sisak

From 'Kol Od Balevav' (Memory Forest), a Kan educational drama nominated for an International Emmy in the Kids: Live Action category (Courtesy Kan)

Israeli teen drama about Holocaust trip to Poland nominated for International Emmy

By Jessica Steinberg

Chef Eyal Shani (left) at Dvora, the kosher restaurant at the entrance to the Brown Debrah hotel that is one of several kosher Brown hotels (Courtesy PR)

Hip Brown hotel chain embarks on holy quest for Tel Aviv’s religious visitors

By Jessica Steinberg

Jeffrey Epstein, on March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

JPMorgan to pay $75 million over claims it enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes

Matt Nosanchuk, right, meeting with then-President Barack Obama and then-National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice, Aug. 4, 2015. (White House Photo Office)

New US point person on tackling book bans is a longtime progressive Jewish leader

By Andrew Lapin

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