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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 18, 2025

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Smoke billows amid Israeli strikes in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Tibnit on September 18, 2025. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Live updates

Sept. 18: IDF says Lebanon strikes targeted elite Hezbollah unit’s weapons caches

By Michael Bachner, Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

IDF urges temporary freeze on Gaza-bound aid trucks being brought through Jordan after attack * Houthi drone slams into Eilat hotel, other launches intercepted * German sign banning Jews from store sparks outrage

8:05 pm

US vetoes latest Security Council resolution on Gaza ceasefire
7:49 pm

Germany to decide on backing for EU sanctions on Israel by October meeting -- Merz
7:35 pm

Mourning slain soldiers, Netanyahu vows to 'continue striking enemies forcefully'

Exclusive

Revealed: Tony Blair’s US-backed proposal for ending the Gaza war and replacing Hamas

After receiving Trump’s blessing, the former British PM has been rallying international stakeholders to form a transitional authority to govern the Strip before it gets handed over to the PA

A handout picture released by Bahrain's official news agency (BNA) shows White House adviser Jared Kushner and former British prime minister Tony Blair at the closing session of the US-sponsored Middle East economic conference "Peace to Prosperity," in Manama on June 26, 2019. (Bahrain News Agency)

Former British Prime Minister and Middle East envoy Tony Blair (center) visits Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip, in his first visit to the Hamas-run enclave since being appointed, March 1, 2009. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 18: Day 713 – Tony Blair plans for postwar Gaza, without displacing residents

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

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: Gaza a potential real estate ‘bonanza,’ Israel talking with US about dividing it up

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)

Report says UAE won’t cut Israel ties if West Bank annexed; Gulf sources push back

By Reuters and ToI Staff

After Reuters reports Abu Dhabi is not considering severing relations entirely, officials tell Ynet that in fact, ‘all options’ would be on the table

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, left, embraces Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after signing a joint defense pact in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 17, 2025. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi Arabia signs mutual defense pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan

By AP and ToI Staff

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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)

Syria’s Sharaa: Security pact talks with Israel could yield results ‘in coming days’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

‘It’s a difficult case — you have negotiations between a Damascene and a Jew,’ Syrian leader says of US-mediated contacts while ruling out discussions on Golan as premature

The Gazan influencer Malak Fadda, in one of the videos she posted on her Instagram page, August 2025. (Screenshot: Instagram; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After Palestinian influencer leaves Gaza, critics claim she raised money and fled

By Nurit Yohanan

‘Malak Fadda,’ a young woman who rose to fame during the war with videos showing her helping Gazans, has departed citing medical needs, sparking questions surrounding her activity

Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad (left) speaks in an interview to Al Jazeera, on September 17, 2025. (Al Jazeera Arabic screenshot)

Senior Hamas official makes first appearance since surviving Israeli strike in Qatar

By Nurit Yohanan

The 'Iron Beam' laser-based air defense system is seen intercepting a target during a test over southern Israel, in a handout photo issued on September 17, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

Laser-based ‘Iron Beam’ interception system declared operational

By Emanuel Fabian

System set to be delivered to IDF by end of year after successful final tests; defense minister says Israel ‘first country to possess this capability’

US Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a hearing to examine reviewing recent events at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and implications for children's health on Capitol Hill, in Washington, September 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Bernie Sanders accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza, the first US senator to do so

On heels of UN report, Vermont socialist cites death toll, destruction, and Israeli leaders’ rhetoric as evidence; demands truce, aid surge, and moves toward Palestinian statehood

Mahmoud Khalil, center, at an anti-Israel protest in New York City, August 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US judge orders deportation of Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader Khalil

Florence Pugh addresses the "Together for Palestine" concert in London on September 17, 2025. (X screenshot)

British celebrities hold sold-out anti-Israel concert in London to fundraise for Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a news conference in the East Room of the White House on February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump tells aides Netanyahu ‘f—king me,’ but won’t break publicly with him – report

US president’s public accommodation of Israel belies private frustration over ongoing Gaza war and attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar, WSJ says

L: Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); R: US envoy Steve Witkoff speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 28, 2025. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Dermer meeting Witkoff in London in last-ditch effort to revive hostage talks

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife, Lady Victoria Starmer, arrive for the Beating Retreat military ceremony at Windsor Castle, England, on September 17, 2025, on day one of US President Donald Trump's second state visit to the UK. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP, Pool)

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

The Times reports that British PM is under massive pressure from Labour to grant Palestinian statehood recognition before UN General Assembly, when France and others plan to do so

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’s top body presents proposal to suspend free trade agreement with Israel

By Lazar Berman

Anne Doliwa, a Catholic pilgrim from California, visiting Rome with her family, in St. Peter’s Square on September 15, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In St. Peter’s Square, pilgrims hail new ‘Millennial’ saint, unaware of anti-Jewish undertones

By Rossella Tercatin

Illustrative photo of podcasters. (Fenton Roman/iStock by Getty Images)

'This is a new iteration of what we've been fighting'

Podcasts, going off-script, now fertile ground for antisemitic sophistry, critics warn

As long-form podcasts and other types of alternative media bring Holocaust denial and anti-Zionist revisionism to fresh audiences, a newcomer to the field aims to correct the record

Jerry Greenfield (right) and Ben Cohen (left), co-founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, attend a protest in Washington on November 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Amid lawsuit over Gaza, Jerry Greenfield quits Ben & Jerry’s for being ‘silenced’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police officers at an anti-Israel protest at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, January 6, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Man who attacked Jews in NYC becomes cause célèbre for anti-Israel activists

Jewish and Christian worshipers pray at the Temple Mount in honor of Charlie Kirk on September 17, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Jewish and Christian worshipers sing and pray at Temple Mount in memory of Charlie Kirk

By Charlie Summers

Jimmy Kimmel attends the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 7, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images North America/AFP)

ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show over remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death

By David Bauder

A protester wears a keffiyeh and an 'Antifa' t-shirt during a rally against Islamophobia, in Paris on May 11, 2025. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

After Kirk murder, Trump says he’s designating Antifa a ‘terrorist organization’

By AFP

Ilana K. Levinsky

Bardem, the Grand Inquisitor

The actor’s remarks at the Emmy’s were not clever or innovative; centuries of anti-Jewish hate beat him to the punch, including, of course, in his native Spain

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As Jews prepare to celebrate the world’s birth, we face a moment when AI may grant humanity the power to synthesize worlds of our own

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks at a ceremony for outgoing Supreme Court Justice Yosef Elron at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general scolds government for threats to flout High Court rulings

By Jeremy Sharon

At retirement ceremony for Supreme Court justice Elron, court president Amit chides justice minister for failing to appoint new judges to fill empty spots on the bench

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police during a protest against the conscription of yeshiva students on Route 4 near Bnei Brak, September 11, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

IDF manpower chief: Arrests of Haredi draft dodgers ineffective, sanctions needed

By Sam Sokol and Emanuel Fabian

Travelers walk with their luggage following the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, June 25, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Another 25 Haredi draft dodgers said detained at airport trying to head to Uman

Social Equality Minister May Golan (L) seen outside a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on September 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Ehud Gabay, an attorney who is a suspect in a fraud probe of Golan, in an advertisement for his law firm uploaded on March 28, 2022. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Confidant said to back out of signing state witness deal against Likud minister

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Ehud Gabay, attorney and ex-adviser to Social Equality Minister May Golan, was reportedly close to inking agreement with prosecutors before reneging

L-R: Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman attends a rally for the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip in Jerusalem, February 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Yarden Mann seen at a court hearing at the Rehovot Magistrate's Court, September 17, 2025. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Woman acquitted of alleged 2024 assault on Environment Minister Idit Silman

On stage, Gianmarco Soresi jokes about being the son of a Jewish mother and an Italian Catholic father. (Dalvin Nichols via JTA)

Interview

Jewish comic Gianmarco Soresi makes a punchline out of his mixed feelings for Israel

The ‘comedian to watch,’ who built a following of over 1 million on TikTok alone with videos of his ad-libbed banter with club audiences, releases a new special on his YouTube channel on Sept. 19

Tel Hazor, an ancient Canaanite city dating back to some 3,500 years, as seen in 2007. (Chen Leopold/Flash 90)

Analysis

Rossella Tercatin

Ancient Levant farmers used irrigation to thrive amid millennia of drought, study shows

International scholars find that Bronze and Iron Age farmers proved resilient in the face of climate change, cultivating grapes and olives in increasingly complex societies

Corals in the Gulf of Aqaba off the shores of Eilat in southern Israel. (Prof. Maoz Fine)

New research confirms Eilat corals’ remarkable resilience to rising temperatures

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Three brothers shot dead as illegal weapons deal goes bad in south

Illustrative: A prisoner holding the bars of a jail cell. (Channel 2 news screenshot)

Two Israelis sentenced to years in US prisons for separate fraud scams

By Stuart Winer

Families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and their supporters attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, September 13, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, 71% of Israelis view national mood as poor, survey finds

By Michael Horovitz

Then-MK Gadi Eisenkot holds a press conference after announcing his resignation from the Knesset and his departure from the National Unity party, in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Despite founding new party, Eisenkot still looking at merger with other factions

Anti-Israel protesters wave flags in Times Square, New York City, June 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Times Square billboard demands Israeli national soccer team be barred from competing

By Reuters and ToI Staff

From left: Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the Fijian embassy in Jerusalem on September 17, 2025 (Rafi Ben Hakoon/GPO)

Flower-bedecked Netanyahu and counterpart from Fiji open new embassy in Jerusalem

By Nava Freiberg

An old oil tank can be seen close to a dilapidated apartment building on Deganya Street in Kiryat Haim, northern Israel, July 2, 2025 (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Work starts on removing polluting oil tanks near homes and school in north

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz addresses guests during a Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) Rosh Hashana reception, on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, on September 17, 2025, at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Germany’s Merz warns criticism of Israel used as guise for ‘poison of antisemitism’

By Agencies and Zev Stub

Schoolchildren visit the Colleville American military cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer, western France, June 6, 2018, on the 74th anniversary of the D-Day landing. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

US House passes bill to identify Jewish American soldiers buried under crosses

Glilot Capital Partners team from right: Arik Kleinstein, Rinat Semler, Lior Litwak, Kobi Samborsky, and Nofar Amikam. (Courtesy)

Israel’s Glilot Partners raises $500M to back young cyber and AI software startups

By Sharon Wrobel

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