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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 23, 2025

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Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour (L) greets French President Emmanuel Macron (C) as he arrives for a United Nations Summit on Palestinians at UN headquarters during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 22, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Macron conditions opening of embassy on hostages' release

France leads group of European nations recognizing Palestinian state at UN summit

Macron and others recognize Palestine in defiance of US and Israel, which says two-state solution ‘off the table’ after Oct. 7; Abbas insists PA prepared to govern future state

Palestinian men play cards together at a coffee shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 22, 2025. (John Wessels/AFP)

West Bank Palestinians shrug off France’s statehood recognition: ‘What will this bring us?’

By AFP and ToI Staff

French President Emmanuel Macron greets delegates upon arriving inside the UN General Assembly hall, September 22, 2025, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

‘Will encourage more bloodshed’: Franco-Israelis slam Macron for recognizing Palestine

By AFP and ToI Staff

'Stress importance of unifying Gaza, West Bank under the PA'

France, Saudi Arabia in warning to Israel: ‘Any form of annexation is a red line’

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Nations call for end to settlement activity and settler violence; Israeli official: US privately cautioned against annexation, but PM will discuss matter with Trump in Washington

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper speaks to the BBC in an interview broadcast September 22, 2025. (Screen capture: BBC)

UK, Germany warn Israel against West Bank annexation amid Palestine recognition wave

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 23: Hamas lauds Palestinian state recognition, but claims right to retain weapons

Trump: ‘I’m on the side of Israel’ * EU foreign policy chief says Iran must take ‘real action’ to avoid sanctions snapback * Palestinian shot dead by off-duty soldier during clash with settlers in West Bank

9:52 pm

Erdogan says meeting on Gaza between Trump, heads of Muslim states was 'very fruitful'
8:53 pm

Trump, at start of meeting with leaders of Arab and Muslim countries, insists he will ‘end the war in Gaza’
8:16 pm

EU foreign policy chief says Iran must take 'real action' to avoid sanctions snapback

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Maj. Shahar Netanel Bozaglo, upon entering the role of a company commander in the 7th Armored Brigade's 77th Battalion in early September 2025. Bozaglo was killed in Gaza on September 22, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Dozens of nations call to reopen medical corridor to W. Bank

IDF officer killed in Gaza City combat, the first fatality in army’s new offensive

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military assesses some 640,000 Palestinians have heeded its calls to flee southward; Hamas says 38 Gazans killed in 24 hours

A Palestinian child raises a Palestinian flag as he climbs on the rubble of a destroyed building at the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on September 22, 2025.(Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

Officer seriously hurt in Gaza City as Palestinians report 29 killed by IDF across Strip

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Hamas executes 3 ‘collaborators’ in Strip as it faces rising challenges from militias

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Palestinian analyst says action shows growing worry in terror organization of threat posed by rival groups

Palestinians accused of collaberation with Israel are seen blindfolded moments before their execution by Hamas gunmen in a Gaza street, September 22, 2025 (Social media)

Friends and relatives of Israeli hostages held captive by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attacks, stage a sit-in protest next to prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, calling for their release ahead of the Jewish New Year on September 22, 2025. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Hamas pens letter to Trump asking for 60-day truce in exchange for freeing half of hostages

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Analysis

As Abraham Accords turn 5, Israel’s willingness to use its military might becomes concern for allies

Historic agreements have proven resilient during Gaza war, but Jerusalem’s aggressive posture post-October 7 has region wondering if Israel is out to become a hegemon, not partner

This handout picture released by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows, (L-R) Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Jassim al-Budaiwi, Kuwait's Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah, Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Oman's Deputy Prime Minister for Defense Affairs Shihab bin Tarik Al Said, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Bahrain's King's Personal Representative Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and the UAE's Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, posing for a group picture during the 2025 Arab-Islamic emergency summit in Doha on September 15, 2025. (Saudi Press Agency / AFP)

Trump to meet Muslim leaders to discuss proposal for ending war in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US official reportedly says meeting ‘could be fairly significant,’ as Trump seeks support for ‘the contours for ending the war’

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press prior to boarding Marine One as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 16, 2025. Trump is heading to the UK for a State Visit. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, and Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrive ahead of a meeting at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, September 22, 2025. (Bing Guan/Pool Photo via AP)

US says Rubio and Sharaa discussed Israel-Syria relations

As Israel and Syria negotiate security deal, Sharaa balks at potential normalization

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

In NYC, Syrian leader says he hopes for agreement that ensures ‘sovereignty of Syria and resolves some Israeli security fears,’ questions whether Jerusalem has ‘expansionist designs’

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 23: Day 718 – They tried to kill us; we survived; let’s eat

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jessica Steinberg

For Rosh Hashanah, ToI’s culture editor Jessica Steinberg takes us to a newly thriving bakery in Kibbutz Be’eri, a whisky event in Tel Aviv and a culinary adventure in the north

A field of pomegranate trees in Moshav Kfar Achim, south-central Israel, September 8, 2019. (Mila Aviv/Flash90)

Fruit represents abundance, love and God's blessings

Why pomegranates, a Rosh Hashanah staple, are disappearing from Israeli farms

Loved by King Solomon, the fruit is valued for its beauty and health benefits. But farmers of this ruby-red member of the Seven Species complain that growing it is overly expensive

Holocaust distortion disguised as activism

The outline of Gaza around a well-known concentration camp number promotes an historically false and morally bankrupt analogy

Joshua Hammerman

Should rabbis endorse candidates?

We are in the midst of a catastrophe that is caused by people who have names – people who should be publicly condemned

US judge orders Trump administration to restore UCLA grants frozen over Gaza war protests

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Over $500 million in federal funding to be restored after judge says suspensions likely ‘arbitrary and capricious’; on Rosh Hashanah, Trump vows to end ‘scourge of antisemitism’

Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting at the United Nations during which France recognized a Palestinian state and south to galvanize support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sept. 22, 2025, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Speech

Full text of Macron speech recognizing Palestine: ‘Time has come to deliver justice’

French president, at special UN summit organized by France and Saudi Arabia, calls recognition of Palestinian state ‘the only solution that will bring peace to Israel’ and ‘a defeat for Hamas’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas is displayed on a screen as he speaks remotely during a United Nations Summit on Palestinians at UN headquarters during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 22, 2025. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

SpeechFull text of Abbas speech at 2-state summit: ‘We demand a ceasefire’; Hamas must hand arms to PA

Jewish men near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Uman clouded by arrests of yeshiva students in Israel

By Theia Chatelle

Crackdown on draft dodgers amid Gaza war adds additional challenge for pilgrims visiting Hasidic sage’s grave in Ukraine, where the airspace remains closed due to the conflict with Russia

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP/Omar Havana, File)

US may soon sanction entire International Criminal Court over Israel war crimes probe

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Sources say UN court has paid salaries in advance, taken other steps to mitigate fallout if Trump administration imposes ‘entity sanctions’

New books out for the High Holidays in 2025 include ones about celebrations in Hong Kong and Uganda. (Collage by Ilana Zahavy via JTA)

Rosh Hashanah 5786

New High Holidays children’s books take place in Uganda, Hong Kong and a Sephardic home

By Penny Schwartz

This new crop of kids titles is perfect for this time of celebration and reflection, starting anew and welcoming guests

Librarian Olga Sivak holds up a newspaper from 1913, Bessarabian Life, at the Jewish Museum of Moldova in Chișinău. (Photo by Larry Luxner via JTA)

Most Moldovan Jews fled decades ago. Local Jewish life is now fueled by their descendants

By Larry Luxner

Decimated by pogroms, the Holocaust and years of Soviet rule, the small but tenacious community is coping with antisemitism, poverty and an influx of refugees from neighboring Ukraine

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Dua Lipa attends the 50th Chaplin Awards Gala, honoring Pedro Almodovar, at Alice Tully Hall on April 28, 2025, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Dua Lipa denies dropping Jewish agent who urged Kneecap’s removal from Glastonbury

By Grace Gilson

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, European powers hold last-ditch talks on averting restored nuclear sanctions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Firefighters respond to a blaze at the Chabad of Charlotte County, Florida, on September 19, 2025. (Punta Gorda Police Department)

Suspect detained for alleged arson at Florida Chabad center, local police say

By JTA and ToI Staff

Danish police patrol at Copenhagen Airport, Denmark, Monday September 22, 2025. (Steven Knap/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Airports in Copenhagen and Oslo reopen after unidentified drones cause massive delays

The Palestinian state flag flies at the entrance of the City Hall in Saint-Ouen, in the northern suburbs of Paris on September 22, 2025. (BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)

Over 80 French towns wave Palestinian flag, flouting government directive

By AFP and ToI Staff

Portrait of Israeli architect and architectural historian of Jerusalem David Kroyanker, at his exhibition "Jerusalem in Detail" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, on November 09, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

ObituaryDavid Kroyanker, chronicler of Jerusalem’s architectural history, dies at 86

By Charlie Summers

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