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What Matters Most On Friday, September 19, 2025

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L-R: Maj. Omri Chai Ben Moshe, Cpt. Eran Shelem, Lt. Eitan Avner Ben Itzhak, and Lt. Ron Arieli, who were killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Gaza's Rafah on September 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Four IDF soldiers killed in roadside bomb attack in southern Gaza’s Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian

Casualties named as company commander Maj. Omri Chai Ben Moshe, and cadets Cpt. Eran Shelem, Lt. Eitan Avner Ben Itzhak, and Lt. Ron Arieli, bringing ground op death toll to 469

Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas politburo member, speaks in an interview with Qatari outlet Al-Araby on September 18, 2025. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Hamas official who survived Doha strike threatens Israel, warns Gaza op endangers hostages

Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani speaks during a press conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam (not pictured) in Doha on June 24, 2025. (Karim JAAFAR / AFP)

Qatar meets with ICC head to seek legal action over Israeli attack on Hamas leaders

By AFP and ToI Staff

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (L) watches as US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack speaks during a press conference in Damascus on September 16, 2025. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 19: Senior Trump aides discuss Jerusalem-Damascus ties with visiting Syrian envoy

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Security Council nixes resolution aimed at preventing ‘snapback’ sanctions on Iran, as deadline looms * UN General Assembly adopts resolution allowing Abbas to deliver speech virtually after US ban

8:35 pm

Hamas agency says 450,000 have fled Gaza City, providing figure very similar to IDF's
8:31 pm

Four suspected work migrants detained by IDF near Jordanian border, army says
8:23 pm

Humanitarian services overstrained by influx of civilians fleeing Gaza City, UN says

Israeli security forces near the scene of a deadly attack at the Allenby Border Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, September 18, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Security forces find several rifles, gun parts near crossing

After deadly attack, IDF chief halts Gaza aid entering from Jordan; Allenby Crossing shut

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Zamir urges continued strategic-security cooperation with Jordan, vows to ‘draw lessons’ from incident; PM seeks boosted checks on trucks, drivers after 2 soldiers killed in border attack

Israeli security forces near the scene where two Israelis were killed in an attack at Allenby Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, September 18, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Two soldiers killed by knifeman driving Gaza-bound aid truck at West Bank-Jordan crossing

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

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Exclusive: ToI in SyriaIf we don't succeed, said the minister, 'Syria will be gone'

48 surreal hours in Damascus — an Israeli reporter’s travelogue from an enemy capital

By David Horovitz

I had no idea what to expect from a visit to Syria, accompanying a US Jewish group to holy sites and meetings with Sharaa government officials. I found a nation poised between healing and fresh chaos, reaching out to its former Jews, and aware that these are fateful moments for its destiny

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Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: An Israel-Syria security pact in the Jewish New Year?

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US President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer hold a joint press conference at Chequers near Aylesbury, England, September 18, 2025. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)

Meeting UK’s Starmer, Trump says he disagrees with plan to recognize Palestinian state

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Reuters

US president says issue is one of ‘few’ disputes he has with British leader, but approves when PM says no room for Hamas in future Palestinian governance

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (L) shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on May 13, 2025. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Japan’s FM pledged not to recognize Palestinian state at UN, Israel says

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

A general view shows the United Nations Security Council meeting on Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York on September 18, 2025. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

US vetoes ‘unacceptable’ Security Council resolution on Gaza over failure to condemn Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US official also slams measure, which goes further than past resolutions in highlighting ‘deepening of suffering’ in Strip, for ‘wrongly legitimizing false narratives benefiting Hamas’

Employees of United Nations agencies hold placards in front of the UN Offices Geneva, on September 18, 2025, to honor the memory of the 370 UN employees killed in Gaza, calling for the end to the Israel-Hamas war. (Elodie Le Maou/AFP)

US, Israel dispute UN staffers’ impartiality on Gaza war as latter protest outside Geneva HQ

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Like sheep or like soldiers?

When we ’stand firmly’ before God on Rosh Hashanah, we must do so intentionally and honestly, awake to the fact that judgment is imminent (Nitzavim)

For a good new year, start with gratitude

Hate drives humanity to commit terrible acts, but love, born of humility, awakens us to beauty we too often take for granted and enables us to endure

Sign saying "JEWS are banned from here!!!", posted by a store in Flensburg, Germany, September 2025. (X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

German shop sign banning Jews sparks wide condemnation, police action

Flensburg store owner claims ban ‘not even antisemitism. I just can’t stand you’; Israeli envoy: ‘The 1930s are back’; German official slams sign as Jew hatred ‘in its purest form’

A giant banner reading 'Free Palestine' is displayed before the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Atletico Madrid at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on November 6, 2024. (AP/Michel Euler)

Efforts to punish Israel over Gaza war intensify in sports and cultural arenas

By AP and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) attends a joint press conference with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on September 18, 2025. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Germany to decide on backing for EU sanctions on Israel by October meeting — Merz

People gather during the "Stand with Gaza" protest at Bryant Park in New York on August 16, 2025. (Leonardo Munoz/AFP)

Growing number of Americans say Israel has ‘gone too far’ in Gaza war, poll shows

By AP and ToI Staff

Survey finds few Americans think negotiating a ceasefire should be the top US priority, and just 2 in 10 believe it ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ important to provide military aid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and China's President Xi Jinping (R) shake hands ahead of their talks at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, on March 21, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Etienne Oliveau)

China ‘deeply concerned’ by Netanyahu claim it seeks ‘political blockade’ against Israel

Protestors gather outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse, where Harvard University appeared to challenge $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration, July 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

US Jews concerned about college antisemitism, but few support pulling research funds

Some 2 in 3 Jewish Americans say Trump uses Jewish students’ safety as an excuse to attack universities but doesn’t truly care; results very closely track how respondents voted

Illustrative: Protesters rally in support of detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia University in New York on March 14, 2025. (AP/Jason DeCrow)

University leaders endorse US Jewish letter decrying Trump’s campus antisemitism wars

By Andrew Lapin

A pro-Israel protester outside Columbia University in Manhattan, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Survey: US Jewish staff say internal rifts worse for morale than antisemitism, Gaza war

By Grace Gilson

Houthi drone smashes into entrance of Eilat hotel; missile sparks sirens in center

By Emanuel Fabian

No injuries reported in Eilat attack, while missile intercepted without causing damage; two more drones shot down

Damage is seen following a suspected drone attack in Eilat on September 18, 2025. (Screenshot: X)

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

Wave of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon targets Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Col. (res.) Yoav Yarom, in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

Former senior officer to face charges over deaths of researcher, soldier in Lebanon

By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A hoard of bronze coins from the time of the Gallus Revolt (351-352 CE), the third Jewish revolt against the Romans, was discovered in a hiding complex lying beneath the ancient settlement of Huqoq in the Lower Galilee, in a discovery announced on September 18, 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

There is almost no archaeological evidence for the rebellion

Rare proof of Galilee’s forgotten 4th-century Jewish Revolt revealed in hidden coin hoard

By Rossella Tercatin

22 bronze coins found secreted in Huqoq near the Sea of Galilee show Jews used subterranean hideaways during the little-known Gallus Revolt of 351 CE

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Syria rising: Buried threats on Israel’s edge

In this episode of ‘Through the Land,’ retired IDF colonel and security analyst Miri Eisin weighs Syria’s shifting regimes, border minefields and the uncertain role of a new ruler

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine speaks at the unveiling of the Gate of the Exonerated along a Central Park perimeter wall in New York City on December 19, 2022. (AP/Ted Shaffrey)

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By Joseph Strauss

Jewish candidate likely to become Big Apple’s chief financial officer, a role often seen as a check on the mayor. Should anti-Israel Zohran Mamdani be elected, things could get interesting

9,000 Israelis sign petition to recognize Palestinian state ahead of UN summit

By Ariela Karmel

Organized by grassroots group Zazim, backed by bereaved families of October 7 victims, petition calls on world to endorse Palestinian statehood as only path to peace

Illustrative: Riyad Mansour. the Palestinian Authority's envoy to the United Nations (at podium), speaks during a meeting of the UN General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City on June 12, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Senator Jeff Merkley speaks during a transgender rights rally at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Democratic-led US Senate motion seeks recognition of Palestinian state

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Makeshift rockets found by IDF troops during a raid in the Ramallah area of the West Bank, early September 19, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF busts West Bank terror cell manufacturing rockets to be launched at Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says troops operating near Ramallah found dozens of rocket parts and two completed rockets that did not yet have a warhead; three suspects arrested

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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2025. (AP/Eraldo Peres)

Ahead of UN vote on sanctions, Iran claims it made ‘fair’ proposal to avert snapback

By AFP and Reuters

Technion students taking a break on the grass on a sunny winter day when entrepreneurs flocked to the Haifa campus to talk to students December 19, 2019. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Two Israeli universities listed in top 10 global producers of entrepreneurs

By Sharon Wrobel

Jeremy Fistel, right, who is suspected of threatening Zohran Mamdani, sits at the defense table during his arraignment in Queens criminal court, in New York, September 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Dean Moses, Pool)

Man charged with hate crimes for threatening NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani

Social Equality Minister May Golan at a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on September 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Minister at center of graft probe said to spirit mom out of police station during grilling

Maj. Gen. David Zini, head of Training Command and General Staff Corps, during a ceremony on July 9, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Advisory panel said to delay decision on David Zini’s fitness to serve as Shin Bet chief

Jonatan Urich, a suspect in the so-called Qatargate investigation, arrives for a court hearing the Lod-Central District Court, August 19, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/ Flash90)

Court extends ban on key Qatargate suspect from returning to Prime Minister’s Office

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: A badge of the New York City police department, June 29, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

95-year-old accused of murdering Holocaust survivor in NYC nursing home

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