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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 10, 2025

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This frame grab taken from an AFPTV footage shows smoke billowing following an Israeli strike on the Hamas headquarters in Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025. (PENNEY / AFPTV / AFP)

Report: Turkey, Egypt warned Hamas heads weeks before attack

Israeli officials said to doubt success of strike on Hamas leaders in Doha

Top defense officials cited as having opposed strike’s timing; Israel, US reportedly promised Doha that Hamas wouldn’t be hit in Qatar; Trump ‘not thrilled about whole situation’

Footage posted to social media shows explosions in Doha, Qatar on September 9, 2025. (X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel strikes Hamas Qatar-based leadership, awaits result; Hamas claims attack failed

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Lazar Berman

Mourners react as a trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd at the beginning of a funeral procession in the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, February 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

ExplainerWho were the terror leaders killed by Israel since Oct. 7, prior to the Doha strike?

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (R) and US President Donald Trump sit side by side at the Royal Palace in Doha on May 14, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump tells Qatari leaders no such thing will happen again

Trump pans Israel for striking in Doha but says ‘eliminating Hamas’ is a ‘worthy goal’

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

‘Very unhappy’ US president says he tried to alert ‘strong ally’ Qatar of attack targeting Hamas chiefs but Witkoff couldn’t relay message in time; spoke with Netanyahu, who ‘wants peace’

Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted part of a building that hosted Hamas's leaders in Doha, Qatar, September 10, 2025. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 10: Day 705 – Fallout from bold attack on Hamas leadership in Doha

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Emanuel Fabian and Nava Freiberg

US President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaks to reporters outside the restaurant Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Washington on September 9, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump jeered by pro-Palestinian protesters at DC restaurant, called ‘Hitler of our time’

By AFP

Op-ed: Day 705 of the war

Netanyahu takes a calculated risk on a legitimate target in a deeply problematic location

The world loves a winner, but failure is an orphan. Successfully striking Hamas’s terror chiefs inside Qatar would not necessarily have proved the first cliche. Failing to kill them would certainly confirm the second

Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted part of a building that hosted Hamas's leaders in Doha, Qatar, September 10, 2025. (REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

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Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani addresses a press conference following Israeli strikes in Doha on September 9, 2025. (Karim JAAFAR / AFP)

‘State terrorism’: Qatar PM leads Arab world fury at Israel for striking Hamas leaders in Doha

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Illegal and unethical for ‘rogue player’ Netanyahu to target ‘negotiators from the other side’ being hosted by the mediator, says PM Al-Thani; Saudis ‘deploying all capabilities’ to support Gulf ally

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Shin Bet's command center during strikes on Hamas in Qatar, September 9, 2025. (Shin Bet)

Netanyahu says Gaza war can end ‘immediately,’ after Doha strike on Hamas chiefs

By Sam Sokol, Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

PM says immunity for terror leaders abroad is ‘over,’ decision to strike followed Monday’s deadly attacks in Jerusalem and Gaza; politicians praise operation

Thousands attend a protest march in Jerusalem, calling for a deal to end to the war and secure the release of all the hostages from Hamas captivity, September 6, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

As IDF targets Hamas leadership in Qatar, FM says Israel accepts US hostage proposal

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Doha strike a huge blow to Hamas and Qatar, opportunity for Israel… if it succeeded

Attack on Hamas could bring more flexible leaders to fore, with Egypt taking central mediating role. And with Trump pushing to end the war, it could also give Netanyahu his victory image

A composite image of the five members of Hamas's temporary joint leadership. Top row from left: Zaher Jabarin, Khaled Mashaal, Khalil al-Hayya. Bottom row from left: Muhammad Ismail Darwish, Nizar Awadallah. (Credits: Mahmud Hams/AFP, Louai Beshara/AFP, Hamas, Ashraf Amra/APA/ZUMA Press via Alamy)

Families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza and their supporters protest outside a US Embassy event in Jerusalem, calling for the release of the hostages, September 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hostage families express ‘grave fear’ that Doha strike could endanger the captives

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

Families forum warns of ‘price the hostages may pay’ for attack on Hamas chiefs, says prospect of their loved ones’ return from Gaza now more uncertain than ever

A demonstrator holds a placard that reads 'You are all an audience to genocide' during a march in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, during the Film Festival in Venice, Italy, August 30, 2025. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino/Invision/AP)

Inside story'Israel is complex; it's not just victims and occupiers'

Amid Gaza war, Israeli filmmakers battle international condemnation and isolation

By Abigail Macias

In festivals from Venice to Toronto, Israeli creators face protests and boycotts, forcing them to choose: blue-and-white filmmaking — or having their work seen under another flag

Israeli film on Oct. 7 rescue at Toronto fest deepens industry split over Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted a compound that hosted Hamas's political leadership in Doha, Qatar on September 10, 2025 (AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 10: Source says top Qatari official questioned partnership with US after Israeli strike

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Doha rethinks mediation role, says response to Israeli strike to come * Canada ‘evaluating’ Israel ties * Israeli academic Elizabeth Tsurkov lands in country after being freed from captivity in Iraq

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Macron talks to Trump to discuss Middle East tensions after Israeli strike in Qatar
8:50 pm

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8:47 pm

Trump says conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at event

Hindel Schwartz Swerdlov

Replacing my fear with pride: A Haredi mom and her 2 IDF sons

I thought I supported my sons when they drafted, but when one of them pushed me to see their service as they do, I found I had a long way to go

With the entire nation’s soul in need of healing, this simple question helps us connect and care for each other

Elizabeth Tsurkov during a visit to Istanbul on June 2, 2017 (Facebook/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mother hopes 'all families of hostages get the same news'

Elizabeth Tsurkov, released from captivity in Iraq, to return to Israel on Wednesday

Graduate student abducted in 2023 by pro-Iran militia to receive similar care to that given to hostages freed from Gaza; Lebanese report says Iraqi prisoners to be freed in exchange

Elizabeth Tsurkov in an undated photo (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli-Russian graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov freed from captivity in Iraq

By Agencies and ToI Staff

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives her annual State of the Union address during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on September 10, 2025. (SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

EU chief presses bloc to sanction Israel, slash trade ties over Gaza war

By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Decrying ‘man-made famine’ in the Strip, Von der Leyen says war has ‘shocked the conscience of the world’; Sa’ar says her remarks echo Hamas propaganda

Religious Zionism party party chief Bezalel Smotrich (right) and Otzma Yehudit party chief Itamar Ben Gvir are seen during a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Spain bans far-right lawmakers Smotrich, Ben Gvir in latest reciprocal rap

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

A screen grab of a video apparently showing a blaze on a boat in a flotilla aiming to break the Gaza blockade, allegedly caused by a drone, on September 10, 2025 (X used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gaza activists claim second boat in flotilla attacked by drone

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ancient ruins in Avdat, a Nabatean, Roman and Byzantine site in the Negev desert in southern Israel, in 2016. (Doron Horowitz/FLASH90)

'This is just the beginning'

Unburied treasures: Israel unveils online database of 4 million archaeological finds

By Rossella Tercatin

Antiquities Authority archive offers scholars and the public free access to artifacts, images and 3D models of sites, making Israel’s trove of ancient history accessible worldwide

Faculty, staff driving antisemitism against professors on US campuses — survey

Some 73% of Jewish faculty have heard antisemitic statements from other staff members, and 53% said university responses weren’t helpful, an ADL report reveals

Demonstrators walk in an encampment on the UCLA campus after clashes between protesters demonstrating about the Israel-Hamas war, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

‘L’chaim Intifada’: New Jewish group spurns anti-Zionist JVP as insufficiently radical

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Illustrative: Anti-Israel BDS activists in New York City, May 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

UMass Amherst rejects BDS at upcoming academic conference

Interview

Recent killing of Hamas’s masked spokesman won’t silence its propaganda war, expert warns

Counterterror researcher says that while Abu Obeida’s death leaves a vacuum, Hamas’s PR machine — spanning Iran, regional proxies, and Western campuses — remains potent; several of those targeted by Israel in Qatar have played a direct role

A woman walks past posters depicting Yahya Sinwar (L), the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and Abu Obeida (R), the masked spokesman of Hamas's Qassam Brigades, plastered on a wall in the Burj al-Barajneh camp for Palestinian refugees in Beirut's southern suburb on February 5, 2024. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State comptroller exposes gaps in emergency response during war with Iran

By Stav Levaton

Despite civilians’ resilience in face of missile attacks, new report highlights systemic shortcomings in evacuation, housing, compensation, and shelter management

Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (C) meets with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi (L) and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi in Cairo on September 9, 2025. This is the first meeting between Tehran and the IAEA since Iran suspended cooperation following a 12-day war in June during which Israel and the United States struck Iranian nuclear facilities, after which Tehran has said future cooperation with the agency will take "a new form." (Photo by Ahmed HASAN / AFP)

Iran agrees on new cooperation framework with UN nuclear watchdog

Beit Yaakov seminary students in their uniforms in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, on October 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ministry sanctions Haredi schools for refusing Sephardi students; 55 still stuck at home

By Rossella Tercatin

With new sanctions and hearings looming, officials confront entrenched bias in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh that has left entire 9th-grade classes without a place to study

Ultra-Orthodox students study Talmud at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva in Rishon Lezion, June 11, 2025. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Lawmakers mull lowering military exemption age for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students

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By Diana Bletter

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks on stage for the March on Wall Street, August 28, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

NYC voters favor Mamdani’s campaign rhetoric on Israeli-Palestinian conflict — poll

First graders sit in their classroom on the first day of school in Jerusalem, September 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel has 2nd-most crowded classrooms, but pupils get above average hours — OECD

By Ariela Karmel and Sue Surkes

Two Polish Air Force Russian-made Mig-29s fly above and below two Polish Air Force US-made F-16 fighter jets during an air show in Radom, Poland, August 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)

Poland says it downed Russian drones that violated its airspace during attack on Ukraine

Energy Minister Eli Cohen attends the conference for Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-FM Eli Cohen grilled by cops over diplomatic passports for Likud mayors, PM’s son

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters wave flags and shout as the peloton rides by in Poio at the start of the 16th stage of the Vuelta a Espana on September 9, 2025. (Miguel Riopa/AFP)

Vuelta director vows cycling race to go ahead after latest anti-Israel disruption

Left to right: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen after a visit at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on August 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG: Ben Gvir damaging ‘professional, politically neutral’ character of police

By Jeremy Sharon

Motorists drive past billboards depicting a Lebanese army soldier saluting the national flag with the Arabic slogan "We are all with you" along the highway leading to Beirut International Airport in southern Beirut on September 5, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon says Hezbollah will be disarmed south of Litani within three months

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police officers in Munich secure the area after a shooting near the Israeli consulate and the building of the Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism on September 5, 2024. (Lukas Barth-Tuttas/AFP)

German human rights group seeks to prosecute IDF soldier over Gaza war role

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Protesters celebrate at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal's government's various ministries and offices, after it was set on fire during a protest against social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Prakash Timalsina)

Israeli travelers stranded in Nepal as deadly protests shut down country

The Gong team at the Israeli R&D center, September 2025. (Courtesy)

AI startup Gong embarks on hiring spree to bump up Israel R&D office

By Sharon Wrobel

Robert Jay Lifton in a 2009 documentary based on his book, "The Nazi Doctors." (Wolfgang Richter/National Center for Jewish Film via JTA)

Robert Jay Lifton, a pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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