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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 17, 2025

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas outside the Government Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, May 22, 2025. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

ExclusivePA working to have new program audited amid US ghosting

PA document shows ‘pay-to-slay’ has been scrapped, new system in place

By Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Ramallah says 3,000 people who received stipends based on prison sentence length are now ineligible, while 2,000 households will be added under new program based on financial need

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange seen on April 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 17: Tel Aviv shares plunge again as EU mulls cutting trade over Gaza offensive

Dermer said meeting US envoy Witkoff in London in last-ditch effort to revive talks * Ultra-Orthodox riot outside military prison, try free detained draft dodgers * Starmer to recognize Palestinian state this week

8:21 pm

Syria's Sharaa says security pact talks with Israel could yield results 'in coming days'
7:58 pm

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia sign mutual defense agreement
7:47 pm

Starmer said planning to recognize Palestinian state after Trump's UK visit

Inside story

With tents and transport south in short supply, Gazans flee bombs into the unknown

Evacuating Gaza City means paying exorbitant sums for shelter or a ride, forcing those without means to stay put, while shortages lead some who left to now return to a city under attack

Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders for Gaza City on September 16, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

A Palestinian boy, who was injured by gunfire while waiting for aid trucks entering the northern Gaza Strip through Zikim crossing, is taken out of an ambulance after arriving for medical care at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 27, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

Gaza’s makeshift clinics at risk of collapse as urgent supplies run out, study says

By Stav Levaton

In this July 17, 2019 photo, young Palestinians sit among ancient artifacts displayed inside Shahwan private museum in a basement of a building in town of Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Thousands of archaeological relics rescued in Gaza ahead of IDF strike

By Melanie Lidman

Promoted ArticleYad Ezra v'Shulamit

How a poor Jerusalem boy and New York lawyer united to feed Israel’s hungry

Joseph Gitler and Aryeh Lurie came from different worlds. How did their orgs., Leket Israel and Yad Ezra V’Shulamit, join forces to feed 336,000 of Israel’s hungry?

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks in a video from the Gaza border, September 16, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief insists it’s his duty to warn of Gaza City op’s ‘risks and opportunities’

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Zamir appears to defend reported objections to ongoing assault, calls return of hostages a ‘moral commitment’; IDF spokesperson says military will do its best to safeguard captives

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (right) speaks with 98th Division commander Brig. Gen. Guy Levi and other officers in Gaza City, September 16, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 17: Day 712 – Zamir rallies troops as IDF moves into Gaza City

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops patrol the border fence with Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 23, 2025 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Israel presented Syria with detailed proposal for new security agreement – report

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Top Israeli, Syrian and US officials said to meet in London to discuss plan that would see no Syrian troops near Israeli border, air corridor that would enable Israel to strike Iran

Israeli troops fix a Druze flag attached to the antenna of an army humvee at a position along the barbed-wire fence near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 19, 2025. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Israel said arming, paying salaries of Druze militia in Syria’s Sweida area

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Vehicles carry caskets during a funeral for Houthi military media members who were killed the previous week in an Israeli airstrike, outside the Saleh Grand Mosque in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa, on September 16, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Israel strikes Houthi-held port of Hodeida in response to drone and rocket fire

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says attacks target military infrastructure at western Yemen port; Katz says they’re part of ‘blockade’ on rebels; Houthi missile shot down shortly after strike

In Beirut's southern suburbs, the remains of exploded pagers used by Hezbollah on display at an undisclosed location, on September 18, 2024, in a stealth attack blamed on Israel. (AFP)

A year on, some Lebanese bystanders hurt in Israel’s pager attack still recovering

By Reuters and ToI Staff

International Red Cross (ICRC) vehicles drive in Deir el-Balah as they transport US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander on May 12, 2025, after he was handed over by Hamas. (Eyad Baba / AFP)

Red Cross visits to Palestinian inmates a ‘security threat,’ prison officials claim

By Charlie Summers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference on September 16, 2025. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

'A misunderstanding supposedly shook the stock market'

Under fire, Netanyahu scrambles to defuse his own claim Israel may become ‘super Sparta’

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Facing torrent of criticism for suggesting radical self-reliance was the way forward, PM claims Israeli economy has ‘amazed the entire world,’ is stronger than ever

Illustrative: Playtika at high-tech development centers in Herzliya, October 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Tech sector resilient but job growth and creation of new startups slowing — report

By Sharon Wrobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, September 16, 2025.(Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu says Trump to host him on Sept. 29, issues dire warning to Hamas over hostages

By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

PM attacks Qatar as supporter of Hamas, says intel on results of Doha strike ‘not fully conclusive’ and claims negative response from markets to his ‘Sparta’ remark a ‘misunderstanding’

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, September 7, 2025. (Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan won’t recognize Palestinian state at upcoming UN General Assembly — report

Members of the media work outside Windsor Castle, in Windsor, during US President Donald Trump's second State Visit to the UK, on September 17, 2025. (Paul ELLIS / AFP)

Britain rolls out royal red carpet for Trump’s state visit

MK Tally Gotliv reacts during a Knesset conference on June 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Interview

From conspiracies to court-bashing, Likud rabble-rouser Tally Gotliv demands to be heard

Known for boisterously butting in, the freshman MK is eyeing the Justice Ministry as she inveighs against judges and a constitution, insisting she’s above being made to pipe down

Gadi Eisenkot founds new party, two months after resigning from Knesset

By Ariela Karmel

After quitting Benny Gantz’s National Unity, the former IDF chief unveils ‘Yashar! With Eisenkot,’ joined by senior political, military, and tech figures

National Unity MK Gadi Eizenkot speaks at a conference organized by the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on November 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

David Zini at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on August 6, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

4 ex-Shin Bet heads file objections to appointment of Zini as security agency chief

Daniel Gordis (courtesy) / A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer detains a protestor while clearing a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment after dispersal orders were given at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, on May 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Daniel Gordis: The lonely man of Zionism

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Daniel Gordis

The writer, scholar, rabbi and sometime activist speaks during this pre-holiday period about the need for the Diaspora to view the warts of the Jewish state and still fight for it all

It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday… and almost Rosh Hashanah

Rather than ’drink alone,’ we can turn our regrets into generosity, our pauses into action, and our longing into a community that sings together

It’s time to replace the human rights NGOs

When those who claim to be representatives of humanity and impartiality declare ’F*ck Israel,’ they are anything but

We should be planners

A willingness to bear today’s burdens while aiming for a better future is exactly how Jewish patience is manifest in the world

Sparta? Really, Bibi?

If it’s the Battle of Thermopylae that caught the premier’s admiration, he should note that the Spartans all died – and the war ended with a peace treaty

From 'The Sea,' the 2025 Ophir Award-winning film directed by Shai Carmeli-Pollak (Courtesy)

Government cuts off funding for Ophir awards after film about Palestinian boy wins

By Jessica Steinberg

Culture minister pans film, set to represent Israel at the Oscars, as a ‘slap in the face of Israeli citizens’; academy says selection a ‘powerful response’ to boycott attempts

Screenwriter Hagai Levi poses for a picture during an interview with AFP on January 7, 2020 in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

TV writer Hagai Levi says artists want to leave Israel, boycott is hurting wrong people

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

The renovated swimming pool at Kibbutz Or HaNer near the Gaza Strip. (Aviv Management and Consulting)

90% of pre-Oct. 7 residents have returned to Gaza border area, joined by 2,500 others

Government agency tasked with rehabilitating region says new arrivals include more than 50 new families who have settled in 13 of the communities worst affected by Hamas-led attack

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk speaks at a Turning Point event for Republican US vice presidential nominee JD Vance, September 4, 2024, in Mesa, Arizona. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

US Jewish security officials call on community to take lessons from Kirk killing

Assassination is a reminder of the need for defense at communal events, reflects worsening political climate in US that can affect Jews, experts say

Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray speaks during a news conference announcing charges filed against Tyler Robinson, accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, September 16, 2025, in Provo, Utah. (AP Photo/Alex Goodlett)

Kirk killing suspect charged with aggravated murder; prosecutor seeks death penalty

Illustrative: The California state capitol in Sacramento. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

California lawmakers approve narrowed bill targeting antisemitism in schools

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Birds congregate at fish ponds in Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael on the northern coast. (Yigal Zalmanson Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons)

Startups dive in to keep birds off fishponds, help swimmers improve their game

Illustrative: A man holds a smartphone showing the app for ride-sharing service Uber in London, on March 17, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)

Uber ride hailing may be allowed in Israel next year, transportation minister says

Israel's offshore Leviathan gas platform. (Albatross)

Leviathan partners ink $610m deal for new pipeline to boost gas exports to Egypt

By Sharon Wrobel

Operator Chevron says 65-kilometer export route will transport gas from the offshore field to Egypt; deal will bump up state revenue from gas royalties

Co-founders of digital lender Esh Bank Israel, Nir Zuk (right) and Yuval Aloni (left), and its chairman Shmuel Hauser (middle), September 15, 2025. (Courtesy)

Israel’s newest digital bank to start offering zero-fee accounts in early 2026

By Sharon Wrobel

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Paramedics and police at the scene of a shooting in Ramle on September 17, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Woman shot dead; young son, teen sister wounded; husband and his mother arrested

Screen capture from video of Canadian reporter Élisa Serret, March 2024. (YouTube)

Radio-Canada journalist says Jews control ‘a big machine,’ US cities, Hollywood

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protestors hold a 'Wanted' poster depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during the 21st and last stage of the Vuelta a Espana 2025, in Madrid on September 14, 2025. (Oscar DEL POZO / AFP)

Spanish police clash with French fans, Palestinian flag banned ahead of soccer match

By AP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters interrupting a class at the University of Pisa, September 16, 2025. (X)

Italian professor beaten by pro-Palestinian protesters during class

By Stuart Winer

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi looks on during a meeting with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, at Tahrir Palace in Cairo, September 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Elfiqi)

Iran’s FM to speak with European powers to avert sanctions on nuclear program

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Robert Redford attends the premiere of "Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia" during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor, director and indie patriarch, dies at 89

An illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Iran executes man accused of spying for Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

'Tinder Swindler,' a true-crime documentary about Israeli con man Shimon Hayut, was released on Netflix, on February 2, 2022. (Courtesy: Netflix)

‘Tinder Swindler’ victims describe relief at news of his arrest

By AFP and ToI Staff

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