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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 26, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on September 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Western diplomat says Israel had given green light to truce

Netanyahu vows to keep hitting Hezbollah ‘full force’ as his allies pan truce report

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Ben Gvir threatens to withdraw his party from coalition if PM agrees to proposal by US, France and other nations for a 21-day lull to negotiate an end to fighting

A cloud of smoke erupts during an Israeli airstrike on a village outside Tyre in southern Lebanon as the IDF pounded Hezbollah targets on September 26, 2024. (Photo by Kawnat HAJU / AFP)

Lebanon ceasefire talk whips up widespread opposition from Netanyahu allies, critics

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in the southern village of Kfar Rouman, seen from Marjayoun, southern Lebanon, September 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Pentagon says US not providing intel help for Israeli operations against Hezbollah

A view shows a damaged building at the site of an alleged Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, September 26, 2024. (Reuters/Mohamed Azakir)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 26: IDF says warplanes struck some 220 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Thursday

By Elana Kirsh, Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Macron urges Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, says Lebanon can’t ‘become new Gaza’ * Netanyahu lands in New York, as PA’s Abbas argues Israel should lose UN membership

10:24 pm

Despite impasse, Qatari official tells hostage families Doha committed to securing deal
9:02 pm

Israeli envoy to expat protesters: I'll push US Jewish groups to issue call backing hostage deal
9:00 pm

US: We announced Lebanon ceasefire initiative because Netanyahu told us he was on board

People take cover at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Sept. 26, 2024. (X screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Halevi: 'We need to continue attacking Hezbollah'

Israel kills Hezbollah drone chief in Beirut, rockets fly at north as truce rebuffed

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF also hits bridge on Syria-Lebanon border, used by Lebanese terror group to smuggle arms; Beirut says nearly 2 dozen Syrians killed in strike

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French President Emmanuel Macron (R) meets with US President Joe Biden during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 25, 2024. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

US, France lead joint call for immediate 21-day truce between Israel and Hezbollah

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Multiple countries sign on statement urging diplomatic settlement; Israel and Lebanon expected to give answers in coming hours; Iran vows to back Hezbollah to the hilt

Hezbollah supporters carry a flag depicting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as they ride a scooter following the funeral procession of Hezbollah commanders Ibrahim Kobeisi and Hussein Ezzedine in Beirut's southern suburb, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Biden warns ‘all-out’ Middle East war possible, as Netanyahu greenlights truce talks

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the Summit of the Future on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 23, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

US affirms Israel’s right to defend itself against Hezbollah but pushes diplomacy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

Israel is pounding Hezbollah, but in war the Iran-backed force will be a lethal foe

The bulk of the Lebanese group’s capabilities remains intact, and maneuvering IDF troops will have to contend with anti-tank missiles, mines, and drones — not to mention tunnels

Gunmen from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a media interview while attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations in New York, on September 25, 2024. (Leon Neal/Pool/AFP)

UK sends troops to Cyprus anticipating mass evacuation of its nationals from Lebanon

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israeli tanks in Metula, near the border with Lebanon, October 11, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

US stopped Israel from launching Hezbollah war in October based on false alarm – report

Damage from a drone impact is seen in the Eilat port area, September 25, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Drone from Iraq hits Eilat port, causing damage and lightly injuring two

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says warship intercepted another drone heading for southern resort city; Iran-backed Iraqi coalition claims responsibility

Editor's Note

A fateful, devastating year; a little about ToI’s work; a thank you to ToI Community

As the High Holidays and first anniversary of October 7 approach, ToI’s editor looks back and ahead, and discusses how ToI goes about its journalism

An Israeli missile defense system intercepts rockets fired from Lebanon over Safed on September 25, 2024 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati speaks during a meeting of the Security Council, September 25, 2024, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 26: Day 356 – Lebanon truce proposal sparks opposition in coalition

People walking outside the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, September 16, 2024.(Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Israeli population expected to top 10 million within weeks

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (foreground) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant hold a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, December 16, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

PM said to exclude Gallant from recent security consultations he held with ministers

Israeli TV says Netanyahu has convened ad-hoc forum 3 times in past week, with exclusion of defense minister seen as ‘political hazing’ in wake of reports he is set to be ousted

Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport on September 2, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel issues warnings, guidelines for travel abroad ahead of Jewish holidays

Eli Albag, father of Gaza hostage Liri, demonstrating outside a Likud event in Netanya, September 25, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hostage’s dad protesting outside Likud event attacked with eggs, berated as ‘cancer’

Apparent activist from ruling party tells father of Liri Albag, one of 5 female troops abducted from IDF base, that ‘Sinwar is funding you’; Likud minister: ‘This isn’t our way’

This combination of six undated photos shows hostages, from top left, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi; from bottom left, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat. (The Hostages Families Forum via AP)

Relatives of 6 slain hostages say countless world figures failed them, urge action

This image released by the IDF on January 20, 2024, shows the inside of a Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis where hostages were held. (Israel Defense Forces)

On World Lung Day, Israeli groups highlight plight of hostages who ‘lack even air’

By Diana Bletter

Neighbors gather in front of a Kibbutz Sa'ar house that suffered a direct hit from a Hezbollah rocket attack on September 25, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)

Reporters notebook'Zero seconds to take cover'

‘That could have been us,’ say Kibbutz Sa’ar residents after direct rocket hit on house

By Diana Bletter

Residents describe how their pastoral home has been turned into a community of fear, where they have almost no time to respond to warning sirens of incoming rockets

When we appeal to God as victims of rape

Until now, pre-Rosh Hashanah penitential prayers evoked suffering that echoed a bygone era. After October 7th, it’s as if they were written for us

The New York Times likes Iran and its proxies – um, what?

That’s the most recent reason I can’t regard the paper previously of record as a serious news source

Miri Berger, left, and Aryeh Katz, right, co-founders of 6Degrees, donate their MyMove, virtual reality game, to Tamir, a soldier recently wounded in fighting in the Gaza Strip at Sheba Medical Center on August 28, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

'There are 200 different definitions for pain'

Israeli virtual reality game helps dozens of new war amputees reduce phantom pain

By Diana Bletter

Start-up 6Degrees says their immersive approach cuts phantom pain faster than current treatments; amputees do physical therapy on their own in an over-stressed healthcare system

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), attends the IAEA's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on September 9, 2024. (Joe Klamar / AFP)

IAEA chief: ‘Ship has sailed’ on Iran reversing ban on uranium enrichment inspectors

Rafael Grossi seeks meeting in Iran next month with new President Masoud Pezeshkian in attempt to resolve stand off over nuclear activity

Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Mint Hill, North Carolina, on September 25, 2024. (Logan Cyrus/AFP)

Trump: Iran should be ‘blown to smithereens’ if it’s involved in hit on US candidate

By AFP

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout image published September 25, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Over 40 Hamas operatives killed in past day as IDF launches fresh raids in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Reuters

Military says commanders and members of rocket and propaganda divisions killed, as troops enter Beit Lahiya area in north to destroy Hamas infrastructure

File: People surround a container transporting bodies of Palestinians that were taken and later released by Israel, ahead of a mass funeral at a cemetery in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 5, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Israel said to return 88 bodies to Gaza, Hamas health officials refuse to bury them

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Inside story

US officials weighing steps Biden could take to preserve two-states after election

Sanctioning Ben Gvir and Smotrich is at the top of a list that would get longer if Harris wins, US officials tell ToI; could also include leveraging US security aid to Israel

Then-US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Aiming for resurrection and hope, southern kibbutz plans Oct. 7 memorial for Simhat Torah

By Jessica Steinberg

Organizers of ceremony see the Gaza border community of Yad Mordechai as a symbol ‘that represents the might of the people’

Brandeis University President Ron Liebowitz speaks during a press conference on October 2, 2017 in Waltham, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images/AFP)

Brandeis head quits after no-confidence vote citing budget crisis, anti-Israel protests

By jacob gurvis

Ronald Liebowitz to step down Nov. 1; in motion calling for vote, faculty take particular issue with university’s decision last year to ban Students for Justice in Palestine

Yael Bartana's 'CRISIS-CRYSIS-CRYCIS,' 2020, Neon, and Guy Zagursky's 'No Lifeguard on Duty (Black Flag),' 2024, Ceramics at the 'I Don't Want to Forget' exhibit at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, opening September 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

'Art is a way to remember what happened'

Tel Aviv art museum marks Oct. 7: ‘Take time to visit quietly, you will find light’

By Jessica Steinberg

Institution and its ‘Hostages Square’ plaza have become focus for protests and healing; new exhibit features works showcasing responses by artists, including from Kfar Aza survivor

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A ring worn by a man from East Jerusalem with the Seal of Muhammad on it, an inscription declaring "Muhammad is God’s messenger. He was arrested and put in detention by the police on suspicion that the ring expressed identification with the ISIS terror organization, although a district court judge dismissed the allegation. (Courtesy)

East Jerusalem pharmacist arrested, held overnight on false claim he wore ‘ISIS ring’

By Jeremy Sharon

Egyptian New Kingdom-era sword engraved with the name Ramses II that was discovered in the Nile Delta, in an undated photo. (Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities)

ArchaeologyAncient sword engraved with the name Ramses II unearthed in the Nile Delta

By Gavriel Fiske

Israeli low-cost airline Air Haifa. (Courtesy)

New Israeli low-cost carrier can’t take off from Haifa amid Hezbollah rocket fire

By Sharon Wrobel

Screen capture from video of the short film 'Sevap/Mitzvah' (A Good Deed). (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sarajevo film premiere spotlights rare Muslim-Jewish harmony

By Reuters and ToI Staff

In second deal this month, Salesforce buys Israeli data management provider Zoomin

By Sharon Wrobel

US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew with Israeli artist Doron Adorian and her painting, 'Green,' at the ambassador's Jerusalem residence on September 20, 2024 (David Azagury, U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)

If these walls could speakUS ambassador fills home with Israeli art showing post-Oct. 7 resilience

By Jessica Steinberg

Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event, September 20, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

US Muslim advocacy group endorses Harris, warning Trump greater threat

By Reuters and ToI Staff

New York City mayor Eric Adams speaks to members of the press at a news conference in New York, Monday, September 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York mayor Eric Adams indicted, charges to be unveiled Thursday

By Jake Offenhartz, Larry Neumeister and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE

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