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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 13, 2025

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This handout picture made available by the Qatar Amiri Diwan, shows Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani (C) attending the funeral of people killed in an Israeli strike Hamas leaders two days earlier, at Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque in Doha on September 11, 2025. (Photo by Qatar Amiri Diwan / AFP)

Hamas says al-Hayya survived, performed funeral rites for son

Mossad said to have refused to carry out ground op to kill Hamas leaders in Qatar

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Reports emerge of widespread dissent among top security leaders ahead of op, which WSJ says involved air-launched ballistic missiles fired at Doha from over the Red Sea

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends an event of the Netzah Yehuda Association at the Western Wall tunnels, in Jerusalem’s Old City, September 11, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

AnalysisNetanyahu’s gamble on striking Qatar may have failed, but he’s not backing down

By Agencies and ToI Staff

From L-R: Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, US Vice President JD Vance, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meet in Washington, DC, September 13, 2025. (Qatar's Foreign Ministry/X)

Thani says Doha to 'take all measures to protect its security'

Trump and Witkoff dine with Qatari PM in NY, days after Israeli strike on Hamas in Doha

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Qatar says it was a ‘great dinner,’ with no further details; Doha says Vance, Rubio praised Qatar’s mediation efforts in earlier meeting, called Doha a ‘reliable strategic ally’

This frame grab from AFPTV footage shows Qatari foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari speaking during a media briefing in Doha on June 17, 2025. (Jacqueline PENNEY / AFPTV / AFP)

Arab, Muslim leaders to meet Monday in Qatar to denounce Israel’s Doha strike

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gestures as he speaks during a joint press conference with Ecuador's Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld (out of frame) at Carondelet Presidential Palace in Quito on September 4, 2025. (PRodrigo Buenida/AFP)

Rubio to visit Israel in show of US support despite unease over Doha strike

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution endorsing the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, September 12, 2025 (UN)

UN overwhelmingly endorses non-binding call to establish Palestinian state without Hamas

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Resolution passed 142 to 10 condemns Oct. 7 massacre, calls on Hamas to free hostages; Israel, US vote against; Israel slams declaration, says it is a reward for Hamas

Condemn 'a war that threatens to topple Israeli society'

Hostage families ahead of weekly rallies: ‘Witnessing another attempt to sabotage a deal’

By Michael Horovitz

Relatives say protests come after ‘tumultuous week’ including Doha strike and widening Gaza City offensive; families to march in Tel Aviv, hold selichot prayers at Hostages Square

A massive banner calling for US President Donald Trump to push a hostage deal in Gaza is unfurled at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv during a protest on September 6, 2025. (OM/Hostages Families Forum)

US President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on September 11, 2025. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Trump claims ‘a couple’ of hostages could have been killed in recent days

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)

UAE summons Israeli envoy over ‘blatant and cowardly’ Doha airstrike

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Abu Dhabi also slams ‘hostile and unacceptable’ remarks by Netanyahu, who warned Qatar to expel or bring Hamas officials to justice, otherwise Israel would act

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in this composite image. (AFP)

Spain summons Israeli chargé d’affaires over ‘slanderous’ comments by Netanyahu

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Imaging technician and camera operator Shay Halevy shows on screen fragments of a newly discovered script found by Israel Antiquities Authority researcher, Oren Abelman in "Cave 11" near Qumran, at the IAA department in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, on May 2, 2018 using multispectral imaging. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

'With the scrolls, even reading one more letter is good'

Computers taught to read Dead Sea Scrolls in hunt for clues hidden from human eyes

By Rossella Tercatin

By combining multispectral imaging with computer vision methods, Tel Aviv University researchers give scholars new tools to read, match, and study the 2,000-year-old artifacts

Rebecca Fischer

Hate is on the rise but guns don’t make Jews safer

History shows that our security comes not from weapons, but from resilience, solidarity, and investing in the wellbeing of our communities

My congregant was stabbed for being Jewish. Then this happened.

A tale of two women who embody the message: We are here. We are strong. We are proud. We will not be broken.

Erika Kirk gives a press conference after her husband Charlie was killed, September 12, 2025 (TURNING POINT USA/AFP)

Charlie Kirk’s widow says her ‘cries will echo around the world like a battle cry’

Wife of prominent conservative activist killed in Utah on Wednesday says she will continue his work: ‘You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife’

A TV monitor displays a picture released by the Utah Governor's Office of Tyler Robinson, the suspected assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, in Orem, Utah, on September 12, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Trump says suspect in Charlie Kirk killing taken into custody, ending fierce manhunt

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Newsmax, on September 12, 2025. (Newsmax screenshot)

Netanyahu pans ‘insane’ conspiracy theories blaming Israel for Charlie Kirk killing

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Speaking to US media, PM cites long history of antisemitic conspiracy theories that are ‘prelude’ to massacres; laments Kirk won’t make planned trip to Israel

Charlie Kirk holds an Israeli flag outside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in the West Bank in an undated image (Itamar Ben Gvir/X via JTA)

In Israel, tributes to Charlie Kirk include naming of Netanya traffic circle in his honor

By JTA and ToI Staff

Sharon Alony Cunio at a rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square on September 13, 2025. (Lior Rotstein/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Live updates

Sept. 13: Hostage’s wife says she’s ‘not prepared to be a widow because of hesitancy or torpedoing’ of deal

IDF presses Gaza City strikes as hostages’ families say government endangering their loved ones’ lives * Army again calls on city’s residents to leave * Thousands attend Berlin rally accusing Israel of ‘genocide’

7:13 pm

IDF says rocket sirens on Gaza border were false alarm
7:06 pm

Rocket sirens sound on Gaza border
6:45 pm

Wife of hostage: 'I am not prepared to be a widow because of hesitancy or torpedoing' of a deal

Paramount denounces film industry pledge to boycott Israel: ‘Doesn’t advance peace’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

First major studio to come out against boycott call, which over 4,000 actors and industry figures have endorsed, urges ‘more engagement and communication — not less’

Israel Philharmonic maestro Lahav Shani performing a live broadcast concert on October 22, 2023, playing to the faces of the Hamas hostages. (Courtesy)

Berlin hall to host Israeli conductor after Belgian festival scraps performance

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's President Ahmad Al-Sharaa meeting with a US delegation lead by the new head of the US military's Central Command in the Syrian capital Damascus on September 12, 2025.(SANA/AFP)

Sharaa says Syria, Israel negotiating deal that would see pullback of Israeli forces

By AFP and ToI Staff

Syrian leader tells state television that agreement calls for Israel to remove troops from areas it occupied after Assad’s ouster

Lebanese army soldiers and security forces deploy near a vehicle that was hit by a reported drone-strike at the entrance of the village of Barja, about 30 kilometres south of Beirut, on September 9, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

Hezbollah operative killed in Israeli strike on south Lebanon town

By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

An interceptor missile is fired at a ballistic missile launched at Israel from Yemen, as seen from Jerusalem, August 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF downs Yemen missile aimed at Tel Aviv; Houthis claim it had cluster bomb warhead

Attack triggers sirens across central Israel overnight; no reports of damage or injuries from interception debris

Hanna Solf gives testimony at the Nuremberg Trials, April 1947. (Public domain)

Interview'These were people at the very peak of German society'

In German high society, secret Nazi-hating rebels saved Jews, tried to end Hitler’s regime

By Robert Philpot

Jonathan Freedland’s new book ‘The Traitors Circle’ examines the Solf Circle, a clandestine group including countesses, diplomats and politicians – and their betrayal and dark fate

Cosmetics firm Weleda to examine Nazi ties amid revelation of role in Dachau experiments

By Toby Axelrod

In book published this week, historian reveals that 300 prisoners were submerged in ice water for hours to verify claims company’s skin cream could protect from frostbite, killing 80-90

US Rep Sara Jacobs (L), a California Democrat, speaks at a rally at the US Capitol on April 10, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Fair Share America/AFP); US Rep. Nancy Mace (R), a South Carolina Republican, participates in a House Oversight Committee's Task Force, at the US Capitol on September 9, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

GOP rep. to Jewish colleague: ‘I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done’

By Andrew Lapin

Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace, who has opposed campus antisemitism, uses antisemitic stereotype during row with Democratic representative over gender-affirming care

King Willem-Alexander (Center, walking) at the celebration the 350th anniversary of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, September 7, 2025 (Esnoga/Noesha)

In face of rising antisemitism, Amsterdam’s Portugese synagogue celebrates 350 years

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands attends anniversary event for what was once the largest synagogue in the world

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters rally in Auckland, New Zealand, September 13, 2025. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian rally in Auckland, call for Israel’s elimination

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Protesters chant ‘We don’t want no two states, we want all the ’48’; organizers say march is New Zealand’s largest since war began; police say no arrests

A protestor shows her red-tainted hands during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration in front of the Israeli Embassy in Madrid, on September 6, 2025. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

Israelis withdraw from Spanish chess tournament after being barred from using national flag

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A screenshot from security camera footage of the suspect in attacks on Jewish institutions in London. (Shomrim/Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

London police nab man suspected of smearing feces on synagogues, other Jewish sites

By AFP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Students walk to board a bus amid heavy police presence at the Evergreen Library after a shooting at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, September 10, 2025. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via AP)

Colorado school shooting suspect expressed neo-Nazi views online, says ADL

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the flag-raising ceremony and central oath-taking rally to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, in a picture taken on September 9, 2025. (KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) /

North Korea’s leader to unveil new policy expanding nuclear arsenal and military

By AFP

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