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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 21, 2025

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Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud speaks at a United Nations conference on a two-state solution at UN headquarters on July 28, 2025 in New York City. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 21: Saudi Arabia said to warn of serious repercussions if Israel chooses to annex West Bank

By Joshua Davidovich, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

PM briefing Likud lawmakers not to push publicly for annexation, fearing fallout * France won’t open embassy inside Palestinian territory until all hostages freed

10:38 pm

Charlie Kirk lauded at Arizona memorial as galvanizing force for conservatism
8:27 pm

Sa'ar speaks with Reform UK leader Farage after country's recognition of Palestinian state
7:17 pm

Portugal joins UK, Canada, Australia in formally recognizing independent Palestinian state

A trail of smoke is seen over Ashdod during a rocket attack on September 21, 2025. (screen capture/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Third IDF division deployed to Gaza City

Two rockets fired at Ashdod; IDF says ‘many’ Hamas fighters killed in Gaza City push

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF kills sniper it says was Shifa Hospital chief’s brother; Hamas-run health ministry says 75 more killed; 10 soldiers lightly injured when vehicle flips

Smoke billows amid Israeli strikes on the al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City, on September 18, 2025. (Omar ak-Qattaa/AFP)

Gazans say Israel’s building demolitions fuel fears of permanent displacement

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israeli troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a handout photo dated September 20, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel presses Gaza op, said to ask US to rein in Egyptian military buildup in Sinai

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AP

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)

Qatar said conditioning resumption of mediating role on Israeli apology for Doha strike

Report says Doha willing to be flexible on wording of apology, will allow Netanyahu to apologize for inadvertently killing Qatari security official rather than for targeting Hamas

Protesters in Jerusalem unfurl a banner urging President Donald Trump to 'be our savior' in securing the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, September 20, 2025. (Omer Tuval/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

At weekly protests, hostages’ families demand Netanyahu ‘atone’ ahead of High Holidays

By ToI Staff, Noam Lehmann and Charlie Summers

Netanyahu to convene meeting Sunday on Syria security pact, amid reported US pressure

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Dermer expected to update ministers on talks; report says Washington pushing Israel to compromise, as sticky issues appear to be withdrawal of IDF troops and fate of Druze

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to staff at a Shin Bet facility, June 29, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO); Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the signing of an agreement for a regional energy project, in Damascus, Syria, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Times of Israel Editor David Horovitz and academic Jill Joshowitz stand near the Dura-Europos Synagogue wall paintings in the Damascus National Museum in Syria, September 16, 2025. (Times of Israel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 21: Day 716 – ToI editor’s surreal 48 hours in Damascus

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Ambulances donated by Saudi Arabia arrive in Damascus on September 7, 2025, as part of the Saudi aid campaign to Syria (Haitham EL-TABEI / AFP)

With cash, doctors and bulldozers, Saudi Arabia pursues soft power push in Syria

By Haitham el-Tabei

The players line up before the UEFA Super Cup soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Tottenham Hotspur in Udine, Italy, August 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Israel said scrambling to prevent Tuesday vote on expelling country from European soccer

By Michael Bachner

Reports say Qatar, following Israeli strike in Doha, is pressuring UEFA to hold a vote; however, Israeli federation implies the reports are inaccurate

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump (unseen) following their meeting at Chequers, in Aylesbury, central England, on September 18, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

UK set to recognize Palestinian state, with Starmer said also planning Hamas sanctions

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

Police officers surround Likud MK Eli Dallal after he fell to the ground while walking through a crowd of anti-government protesters outside a Likud event in Kfar Saba, central Israel, on September 20, 2025. (Screenshot, X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

PM assails anti-government demonstrators after Likud MK falls in crowd of protesters

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

MK Eli Dallal says experience was like ‘being lynched,’ even as he acknowledges that he fell when he bumped into protester, and wasn’t pushed by anyone

(Clockwise from top left): The Democrats chief Yair Golan, Yesh Atid chief and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, Blue and White chief Benny Gantz and Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition chiefs form ‘permanent forum’ to work on ousting PM; Bennett, Gantz stay away

Lapid, Liberman, Golan, Eisenkot to meet again next month on ways to defeat Netanyahu, expect Bennett, Gantz to join them; aim to set up team to draw up ‘guidelines of next government’

How polarized are Israelis? A call for nuance

On the moderate left and right, judicial views don’t dictate war positions. There is a path forward that can break our suffocating deadlock

Shayna Goldberg

Waiting… for Rosh Hashanah

With hostages in Gaza, ongoing war, sirens wailing, and a profound desire to return to normalcy, we can find strength in the idea of God having a master plan

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

Jordan opens West Bank crossing three days after attack, then Israel shuts it again

By Emanuel Fabian, Sharon Wrobel, ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli authorities say they don’t know when Allenby Crossing will reopen following assault last week by aid truck driver who killed two IDF soldiers

Israeli security forces operate in the West Bank city of Nablus, August 27, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF to deploy reinforcements in West Bank in preparation for Jewish holiday season

By Emanuel Fabian

Additional companies to remain deployed until mid-October, bolstering Judea and Samaria Division to equivalent of 23 battalions

Then-Joint List MK Hanin Zoabi attends an Education Committee meeting in the Knesset, November 22, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Former Balad MK Hanin Zoabi detained for alleged terrorist incitement

By Sam Sokol, Charlie Summers and Ariela Karmel

Retired Israeli legislator told conference in Vienna that ‘you cannot differentiate between Hamas and the Palestinian people,’ says October 7 attackers ‘entered their own land’

Ambulances are parked outside a hotel acting as a reunification center after a shooting at a country club in Nashua, New Hampshire, on September 20, 2025. (AP/Michael Casey)

1 killed in New Hampshire shooting; witness says gunman yelled ‘Free Palestine’

By AP and ToI Staff

Suspect detained, charged over shooting at country club in Nashua that also wounded 2; state official says law enforcement still investigating motive

Mossad deployed over 100 foreign agents in Iran war, its largest ever mission – report

Channel 13 details unprecedented operation that saw missile systems smuggled into Iran, reveals transcripts of PM saying it was important Trump saw ‘pyrotechnics’ during 12-day war

This graphic image compares Iran's Fordo nuclear facility before and after the United States bombed the site on June 22, 2025. (AP Graphic/Imagery by Maxar Technologies/Graphic by Phil Holm)

This combination of pictures shows (from top L to down R) German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot, and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi .(AFP)

Iran halts IAEA cooperation after Europe triggers UN sanctions snapback

By AFP

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

Police now suspect embattled minister Golan of accepting bribes — reports

Social equality minister was already suspected of fraud and breach of trust, but evidence against her is said to give rise to new potential charges

Michael Bennett Lewis's scenic design for 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' features images of the chamber opera's two real-life protagonists: legendary YIVO head Max Weinreich, left, and the linguist Yudel Mark. (Courtesy YIVO via JTA)

'They were resurrecting the Jewish people through language'

At NY’s YIVO, a legendary unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Premiering this week, ‘The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language’ tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization

The Musaf prayer for Rosh Hashanah in a page of the rare 15th century Lisbon Mahzor now at the National Library of Israel. (Courtesy Kedem Auction House via JTA)

15th-century Portuguese High Holiday prayer book completed with discovery of lost pages

By Grace Gilson

Rare manuscript was divided into 3 sections at some point in history; final 2 parts found when they came up for auction, were purchased on behalf of National Library of Israel

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff Tzachi Braverman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Cabinet approves Netanyahu’s chief of staff Braverman as next ambassador to UK

By Lazar Berman

Passengers walk at Terminal 1 of Berlin Brandenburg BER Airport Willy-Brandt in Schoenefeld, southeast of Berlin, on September 20, 2025, after major European airports were hit by "cyber-related disruption" affecting automated check-in and baggage drop systems and causing delays. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Cyberattack sparks chaos at several European airports, with delays and cancellations

By Sabine Siebold, Christoph Steitz and Muvija M

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