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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 3, 2025

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(L-R)Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents as they participated in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

ExclusiveLana Nusseibeh: Israel 'moving toward a point of no return'

UAE warns Israel: Annexing West Bank is a ‘red line’ that would ‘end regional integration’

Emirati envoy Lana Nusseibeh appeals directly to Israelis in Times of Israel interview, as Netanyahu and his ministers weigh controversial response to Western recognition of Palestine

Illustrative: A Jewish settler comes to pray in the Eviatar outpost in the West Bank, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 3: Day 698 – Israel weighs annexation as countries call for Palestinian state

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gestures toward a map of the West Bank during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich proposes annexing 82% of West Bank in bid to prevent Palestinian state

As UAE warns annexation a ‘red line,’ finance minister threatens PA with ‘destruction’ in plan that would isolate Palestinian population centers, leave them outside Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other officials attend a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 6, 2025. (Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO)

Netanyahu said to mull annexing West Bank parts in response to Palestine recognition

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and supporters attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 3: IDF said set to warn there will be no choice but military rule if Gaza City op goes ahead

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Police use water cannon to disperse protesters in Jerusalem * Trump tells Hamas to give back ‘all 20 Hostages’ and ‘IT WILL END’ * Houthi missile carried cluster warhead

9:16 pm

Argentine police recover Nazi-looted painting that went missing after being spotted in property ad
8:29 pm

Netanyahu dismisses Hamas readiness for comprehensive deal as 'more spin'
8:17 pm

Katz responds to Hamas: Surrender or see Gaza City destroyed

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A recycling bin and a car are heavily damaged after the bin was set alight in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Israel Police)

Two men in 60s and 80s arrested for suspected arson

Car burns near Netanyahu’s home as activists torch dumpsters; PM: Protesters like ‘fascist militias’

By Sam Sokol, Charlie Summers, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Activists disavow blaze, raise NIS 200,000 for family to replace car; coalition MKs decry ‘terrorism,’ blame AG; reservist whose vehicle was burnt says he’s not angry: ‘We all do stupid things’

Protestors calling for an end to the war with Hamas and the release of the Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza rally outside the National Library in Jerusalen, September 3, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A plurality of right-wing Israelis support deal that would end Gaza war – poll

Op-ed: Day 698 of the war

Is there a grand plan, or is Israel about to expand a war its own army chief wants to pause?

Trump is publicly urging Israel to get the war over with, but that goal is intertwined with the necessity for a ‘day after’ mechanism. Zamir’s warning that Israel will become the ‘military government’ of Gaza suggests no such mechanism is taking shape

L-R: Defense Minister Israel Katz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, and IAF Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Omer Tischler, at the IAF's command center, August 24, 2025. (Elad Malka/ Defense Ministry)

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Dermer said to tell mediators Israel hasn’t actually ruled out partial hostage deal

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a Knesset Finance Committee meeting in Jerusalem, January 6, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State comptroller: Netanyahu and others neglected home front before and after Oct 7

By Nava Freiberg

France's President Emmanuel Macron attends a joint press conference with Germany's chancellor in Toulon, southeastern France, on August 29, 2025. (Manon Cruz/Pool/AFP)

Macron slams ‘unacceptable’ US decision to bar PA officials from attending UN confab

By Lazar Berman

French president touts upcoming NYC conference on two-state solution that France is cohosting with Saudi Arabia, which PA’s Mahmoud Abbas is now unable to attend due to US visa ban

A memorial plaque remembering US-born Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, who were both killed while working in Syria, at St Brides Church on Fleet Street in London on February 22, 2012. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

France seeks arrest of Bashar al-Assad over deadly 2012 attack on foreign journalists

By AFP

A doctor in Belgium was suspended after this diagnosis he allegedly wrote (pictured) indicated that a nine-year-old patient’s health problems related to her being Jewish. (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Belgian hospital suspends doctor after ‘Jewish’ medical diagnosis causes uproar

Doctor who allegedly wrote the case summary found to have posted dozens of antisemitic messages

Analysis

Critics accused of quietly rewriting meaning of genocide to fling charges at Israel

Israel advocates say groups have broadened definitions of crimes against humanity to encompass Jewish state’s actions, but others maintain updates needed for decades-old formulation

Displaced Palestinians walk through a makeshift camp along the beach in Gaza City, August 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel successfully launches Ofek 19 spy satellite, an ‘eye on our enemies’

By Stav Levaton

Rocket streaking skyward causes worry in central areas, as some mistake it for a missile interceptor; initial assessment shows satellite performing as planned

The launch of the Ofek 19 spy satellite from Palmachim air base, September 2, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

Thanks, Chris Martin, for letting Israelis know that they’re human

Israelis are the only people whose humanity must be proclaimed. That’s not nice, it’s condescending – and it’s rooted in antisemitism

11 questions to help students hold on to their momentum as leaders

The highest achievers in high school should be adding to their leadership skillset during their gap years

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks to reservists reporting for duty at Nachshonim base, after having been called up in preparation for the military's conquest of Gaza City, September 2, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief: War ‘will not stop’ until Hamas is defeated; PM says ‘decisive stage’ starting

By Stav Levaton, Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF urges Gazans to evacuate to humanitarian area, but few of the million in Gaza City have left; tens of thousands of reservists called up for conquest of city set to start in mid-month

Hamas terrorists move towards the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip, during the terror group's onslaught on October 7, 2023. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

IDF's probes into Oct. 7Brave actions by troops prevented greater losses at coastal outposts on Oct. 7 — probe

By Stav Levaton

Satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC shows the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near the city of Dimona, Israel, July 5, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite photos show intense work at Dimona nuclear reactor site, AP reports

By Jon Gambrell

Experts consulted by wire service divided on purpose of major construction project, assessing it could be for new heavy water reactor or for assembling alleged nuclear weapons

Tankers are seen at the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in the Sharjah Emirate, along the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway through which one-fifth of global oil output passes, on June 23, 2025. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

US sanctions network for transporting Iranian oil as nuclear talks remain stalled

By Reuters and ToI Staff

An interceptor missile is launched to take down a Houthi ballistic missile fired from Yemen, on September 3, 2025. (X Screenshot)

IDF shoots down missile from Yemen that sets off sirens in central Israel

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

No injuries reported; missile is first fired by Houthis to trigger sirens since Israeli airstrike killed terror group’s PM, other leaders in Sanaa

Houthi officers carry the coffin of Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, who was killed along with others in Israeli airstrikes on Thursday, out of the Shaab Mosque during his funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Katz: Top Houthis ‘escaping Sanaa’ after IDF killed Yemeni terror group’s PM, ministers

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

A 4th-century Samaritan estate has been recently uncovered in Kafr Qasim, central Israel, during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority, ahead of the construction of a new neighborhood, in a discovery announced on September 2, 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology'The largest Samaritan site outside the Samaritan homeland'

Mosaics, mikvehs and oil lamps found at grand estate shed new light on ancient Samaritans

By Rossella Tercatin

Unprecedented 4th century site recently uncovered by archaeologists in central Israel offers insights into the life of the Israelite sect — and opens many new questions

Cheers for Hamas, calls to ‘take out’ opponents at US pro-Palestinian conference

People’s Forum for Palestine brings together prominent activists from around North America who urge disrupting F-35 supply chains, working for Israel’s collapse

Anti-Israel socialist protesters in New York City, June 5, 2024. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Jim Walden speaks during a mayoral forum at Columbia Journalism School in New York City on April 14, 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

Quitting race, NYC mayoral candidate calls to unite against Mamdani’s ‘antisemitic obsessions’

By Joseph Strauss

South African interviewer fired for challenging comparison of Gaza war to Holocaust

Juliet Newell called the juxtaposition ‘provocative,’ noted the issues are different, prompting SABC broadcaster to boot her under pro-Palestinian pressure; Yad Vashem: ‘A moral failure’

SABC presenter Juliet Newell (L) debates Mamphela Ramphele on South African television, August 2025. (Screenshots: YouTube, clause 27a of the copyright law)

Freed Israeli hostage Or Levy speaks at an event organized by the Jewish National Fund South Africa (JNFSA) in in Glenhazel, near Johannesburg, on August 31, 2025. (EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP)

Former Hamas hostage Or Levy brings awareness of captives’ plight to South Africa

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tamar Paluch (left) and Deborah Conway, editor and contributor to 'Ruptured: Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life Post-October 7' (Courtesy)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Deborah Conway & Tamar Paluch: Australia is rife with antisemitism

By Jessica Steinberg

Both the editor and a contributor to ‘Ruptured,’ a book of essays on the female Australian Jewish experience post-Oct. 7, speak about how antisemitism is rupturing their homeland

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The Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker kept a record of his holdings in a pocket notebook in the 1930s. Among the paintings he owned when he died was one that has reappeared in a real estate ad in August 2025 in Buenos Aires. (Black book by Marcel Antonisse/AFP via Getty Images via JTA; real estate photograph from Robles Casas & Campas via JTA)

Argentina arrests daughter, son-in-law of Hitler’s financial adviser over looted painting

By AFP

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox girls make their way to school in Jerusalem, November 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education Ministry intervenes after Haredi schools refuse to admit Sephardim

By Sam Sokol and Rossella Tercatin

An armoured vehicle of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) moves past destroyed buildings along a road in the village of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon near the border with northern Israel on August 27, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

UN force in Lebanon accuses Israel of drone attack on peacekeepers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A view of Times Square. (Leo Cunha Media via iStock by Getty Images)

‘Dramatic growth’: NYC is home to 560 tech startups founded by Israelis, report finds

By Sharon Wrobel

President Isaac Herzog (L) meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 18, 2025 (Maayan Toaf / GPO)

Herzog to meet Pope Leo at the Vatican; each claims the other initiated the meeting

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: UK Police officers are seen in west London on March 21, 2025. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

UK police arrest man suspected of shooting Jewish teen in head with air rifle

Israel's Khadeen Carrington (3) goes for a bucket over teammate Tomer Ginat (41) and several Belgian defenders during a EuroBasket game in Katowice, Poland, on September 2, 2025. (fiba.basketball)

BasketballIsrael seals spot in EuroBasket final 16 for the first time in a decade

Sasson Gabay and Miri Mesika will star in a limited run of musical 'The Band's Visit' at Tel Aviv's Shlomo Group Arena in January 2026 (Credit: Nir Selikman)

The band plays on‘The Band’s Visit’ musical coming to Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

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