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What Matters Most On Monday, September 22, 2025

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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: We favor 'serious diplomacy' over 'performative' steps

World summit to meet on two-state solution; 6 more nations set to recognize Palestine

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel, US to stay away; Israel rejects NY conference as a ‘circus,’ has vowed response to wave of recognitions announced on eve of UN General Assembly; Abbas to appear via video

Officials attend a flag raising ceremony of the Palestinian flag outside Saint-Denis town hall, near Paris, on September 22, 2025. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

Defying government, French town halls fly Palestinian flags to mark state recognition

By AFP

Pro-Palestinian students take part in the general strike organized by the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB Union) in Turin, northwestern Italy on September 22, 2025. (MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)

Italian roads, ports blocked as anti-Israel protesters try to bring country to ‘standstill’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in an image published on September 22, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 22: IDF chief said to tell captive families he’s pushing for hostage-ceasefire deal

Abbas tells UN Hamas must surrender weapons * Hamas pens letter to Trump asking for 60-day Gaza truce in exchange for half of hostages * Netanyahu says upcoming year will be a time of struggle to destroy Iranian axis

9:25 pm

Prince of Monaco announces Palestinian statehood recognition
9:14 pm

Indonesia reiterates offer to provide troops for post-war peacekeeping force in Gaza
9:08 pm

Abbas appeals directly to Israelis and global Jewry, 'rejects confusion between solidarity with Palestinians and antisemitism'

Exclusive

French proposal envisions multinational Gaza force tasked with gradually disarming Hamas

Paris circulating draft, obtained by ToI, aimed at operationalizing internationally-backed NY Declaration to marginalize Hamas; but it’s mum on coordination with Israel

Egyptian army soldiers man an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) deployed near the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 23, 2024 (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

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Left: Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2021 (Miriam Alster/Pool via AP); Right: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a virtual G-20 summit held over video conferencing, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 22, 2020. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Saudis said to warn Israel annexing any part of West Bank would be a red line

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Riyadh reportedly could declare prospect of normalization dead, again close airspace to Israeli flights; Abraham Accords said at risk; European officials: We won’t take annexation lying down

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, third from left, convenes a cabinet meeting on September 21, 2025. (Maayan Taof/GPO)

Coalition figures push West Bank annexation as response to Palestinian state recognition

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol, Ariela Karmel, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Struggling to make moral sense of the Gaza war

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Yossi Klein Halevi

Hartman Institute senior fellow may not have the answers to the questions facing ‘the world’s most ethical army,’ but the discussion is imperative, for both Israelis and Diaspora Jews

L-R: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures at 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); Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on September 18, 2025. (Yuri Cortez/AFP); Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends a flag-raising ceremony marking Papua New Guinea's 50th independence anniversary in Port Moresby on September 16, 2025. (Andrew Kutan/ AFP)

Netanyahu says nations are 'handing a huge reward to terror'

UK, Canada, Australia, Portugal announce recognition of Palestinian state; PM: Won’t happen

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Netanyahu says Israel’s response will come after his US trip, settlements will expand; Hostages Forum says countries turning ‘blind eye’ to terror group still holding 48 captives

A Club Palestino fan waves a Palestinian flag during a local league soccer match against Santiago Wanderers at La Cisterna stadium in Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)

ExplainerWho recognizes the State of Palestine, who doesn’t, and why does it matter?

By AFP

Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre (L) speaks to supporters after losing the Canadian Federal Election on April 29, 2025 in Ottawa, Canada. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images North America/AFP); Britain's main opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch in conversation at the Institute of Chartered Accountants' Hall, in central London on September 9, 2025. (Adrian Dennis/AFP)

UK, Canada face opposition criticism for ‘disastrous’ Palestinian state recognition

Analysis

Israel unites against hollow recognition of Palestine, but PM could be pushed too far

As Hamas exults, opposition joins coalition in blasting Palestinian state tsunami. Netanyahu has to respond, and his coalition wants annexation, but Arab partners will be pressing Trump against it

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

Sharaa is in the US to speak at UN General Assembly

11 members of Syrian Jewish community in NY attend meeting with visiting President Sharaa

By ToI Staff and David Horovitz

‘One offered to donate $100,000 to help rebuild Syria. The president laughed and said it wasn’t enough,’ says US-based Syrian Jewish businessman who was present; Israel was not discussed

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks to hundreds of US-based Syrians, including several members of the Jewish community, in New York on September 21, 2025. (X screeshots, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, third from left, convenes a cabinet meeting on September 21, 2025. (Maayan Taof/GPO)

PM reports progress in talks with Syria as US official says security deal ‘99%’ done

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a joint press conference with the French president after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on May 7, 2025. (Stephanie Lecocq / POOL / AFP)

Syrians to select a new transitional parliament on October 5

By AFP

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Praying for peace

I can’t see a path to peace now, but I believe that God can guide us to a reality where we can stop holding weapons, and instead plow with both hands

How to create a new world

Imagining a more perfect world helps us move into the future with optimism, which in turn helps us make that vision a reality (Rosh Hashanah)

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Moments of light

This Rosh Hashanah, many of us feel like we’re carrying the world’s weight. With a little grace, though, we may yet keep ourselves from crumbling under it

I want to reclaim the watermelon

I want the emoji to represent a summer picnic with sweet sticky juices dripping down my arms, not a threat of terror by Palestinians and their fans

Inside story

In southern Gaza, new anti-Hamas enclave emerges under militia claiming Israeli backing

Working in apparent coordination with Abu Shabab, which also claims arms and other support from Israel, Hossam al-Astal says hundreds flocking to his base for food, power and escape from Hamas

Hossam al-Astal (center) is seen surrounded by armed members of his group, 'Strike Force Against Terror,' in an undated picture from the Gaza Strip posted on Facebook. (Courtesy: Hossam al-Astal via Facebook)

IDF forces operate in the Gaza Strip, September 22, 2025. (IDF)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 22: Day 717 – IDF says half of Gaza City emptied as troops roll in

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a handout photo dated September 21, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops push deeper into Gaza City, as half a million residents said to have left

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Levav Weinberg, a farmer in Metula, stands in his apple orchard with a view of the border with Lebanon and Kafr Kila, once a Hezbollah stronghold, in the background, on September 18, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'These trees are like my children, I couldn't abandon them'

In war-ravaged northern Israel, farmers replant apple trees hoping for sweeter years ahead

By Diana Bletter

With some 99,000 acres of farmland in the north destroyed during the Hezbollah conflict, growers face a bittersweet return as they judge whether to save orchards or start from scratch

IDF investigating after strike on Hezbollah operative also kills 4 Lebanese civilians

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Tucker Carlson speaks at a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, September 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tucker Carlson appears to blame Jews for killing Charlie Kirk with story on Jesus’ death

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Speaking at memorial service for slain conservative activist, Carlson amplifies the conspiracy theory Israel was behind the assassination, sparking widespread criticism

US President Donald Trump, left, embraces Erika Kirk at a memorial for her husband, assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, September 21, 2025. (AP Photo/John Locher)

At mega memorial, Trump, US officials praise Charlie Kirk’s faith, impact on politics

Ulfat Haider (left) and Nazanin Afshin-Jam Mackay (right), speaking on a panel at the inaugural Women's Champions for Change summit at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa, September 18, 2025. (Women's Champions for Change)

Afghan-born MC 'got a lot of backlash' for coming to Israel

In shadow of war, Iranian, Afghan women join others in Tel Aviv to push for change

By Ariela Karmel

Israeli, Emirati, Saudi, Lebanese, other leaders attend inaugural Women Champions for Change summit to brainstorm solutions for regional progress

Palestinians inspect the destruction at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 11, 2025. (AFP)

InterviewStudy criticizes Israel's March-May withholding of aid

Gaza genocide claims are based on skewed facts, sometimes deliberately, says study author

By Jeremy Sharon

Prof. Danny Orbach and his colleagues say the amount of aid being let into the Strip has been miscalculated, Israel’s motivations misattributed, and Hamas’s use of human shields ignored

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during the Israel Information Technology Conference in Ness Ziona, May 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bennett vows that nobody will be ‘allowed to postpone or disrupt’ 2026 election

By Ariela Karmel

Ex-prime minister urges those in public service to not bow to ‘pressure’ to ‘bend the law,’ as coalition ministers claim he is fabricating concerns

A collage of events that happened in the past year, 5785. (JTA illustration by Grace Yagel)

Rosh Hashanah 5786

What are Jews in the pews most hungry to hear this new year? Rabbis weigh in

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In a time of turmoil in the United States and Israel, clergy offer High Holiday messages of hope and resilience

Jewish men at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 21, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Tens of thousands of Israeli pilgrims head to Ukraine to mark Jewish new year

Despite initial reports that Israel would spend millions to bolster infrastructure to smooth path for worshipers, ‘there is no deal and there is no money,’ says Moldovan source

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Israeli security forces guard as Jews tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, September 20, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF bolsters fronts as commander warns of West Bank escalation over holiday

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

French director Michel Gondry poses during a photo session on the sidelines of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Zoulerah NORDDINE / AFP)

Oscar-winning French director pulls film from Cinema South Festival as Israel boycotts mount

By Jessica Steinberg

A young Jewish boy eats at the Yad Ezra V'Shulamit center in Jerusalem, which serves hot lunch every day to more than 1,200 children under the poverty line. September 27, 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

More than a quarter of Israeli families suffer from food insecurity, report finds

By Sharon Wrobel

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

Attorney general asks High Court to reject government’s terms for process to fire her

By Jeremy Sharon

Icelandic singer Bjork attends the closing of Marina Abramovic's 'The Artist is Present,' hosted by Givenchy at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. on June 1, 2010. (Stephen Lovekin/ Getty Images/ AFP/ File)

Singer Bjork appears to yank her streaming songs from Israel

Tourists visit the Egyptian museum in Cairo, Egypt, November 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egyptians outraged after pharaoh’s bracelet stolen from museum, melted for gold

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