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What Matters Most On Friday, September 26, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 26, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 26: PM upbeat on peace with Syria, Lebanon; says victory over Hamas will enable ‘dramatic expansion of Abraham Accords’

Netanyahu at UN slams gutless Western leaders ‘insanely’ recognizing Palestine: ‘Like giving Al-Qaeda a state 1 mile from NYC after 9/11’ * Greek PM says Israel risks losing its remaining friends as Gaza war continues

8:44 pm

El Al, Israir to send rescue flights to Romania for stranded Hasidic pilgrims
8:37 pm

Iran dismisses impending reimposition of nuclear sanctions as 'legally void'
7:42 pm

UN Security Council rejects Russia and China's last-ditch effort to delay sanctions on Iran

US President Donald Trump, from left, gestures as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

'There’s been enough. It’s time to stop now'

‘It’s not going to happen’: Trump says he won’t allow Israel to annex West Bank

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Luke Tress

Bombshell declaration could well squelch dream of PM’s far-right allies, putting his coalition at risk; US president again says Gaza deal ‘close,’ but he needs to meet Netanyahu first

IMAGE: Lazar Berman (courtesy) / A sticker on a desk reads 'State of Palestine' at the Palestinian mission to France, one day after France recognized Palestinian statehood, September 23, 2025, in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

ToI podcastFriday Focus with Lazar Berman: Who’s afraid of a Palestinian state?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

After Trump rejects West Bank annexation, right-wing MKs urge PM to do it anyway

Far-right office-holders say US leader is a friend to Israel, but call on Netanyahu to defy him and ‘apply full sovereignty’ in response to nations recognizing Palestinian state

L: MK Avi Maoz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); C: MK Dan Illouz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); R: MK Zvi Sukkot in Moshav Avivim, December 1, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Promoted LivestreamJPPI

Rebuilding Northern Israel

When Israel’s north emptied after October 8, Nissan Zeevi of Kfar Giladi stayed. Now he wants to bring families back. A story of fear, resilience, and the fight to rebuild the Galilee.

Vehicles move through congested traffic along a main street in Ramallah in the West Bank on September 22, 2025. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

Donor states pledge to send emergency funds to PA, as Israel withholds tax revenues

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

States pledge at least $170 million, as cash-strapped Palestinian Authority struggles to stay afloat after Jerusalem cuts off most of its budget in bid to strangle PA economy

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, on September 24, 2025. (Leonardo MUNOZ / AFP)

Meloni tells UN Italy will back some EU sanctions on Israel, war has ‘crossed line’

By Michael Horovitz and AFP

IDF trucks with loudspeakers seen on the border of the Gaza Strip, apparently preparing to enter, readying to broadcast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN to Palestinians, September 26, 2025. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF ordered to broadcast Netanyahu’s UN speech to residents of Gaza Strip

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

PM’s office asserts loudspeakers will only be along border, but IDF confirms they were placed inside Strip; hostages’ families note captives may hear PM: ‘Don’t shatter their hope’

Israeli anti-government activists protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York City, September 25, 2025. (Courtesy)

Israeli anti-government protesters rally outside Netanyahu’s Manhattan hotel

By Luke Tress and Nava Freiberg

Analysis

Israel is speeding toward global pariah status, with Trump as its only shield

In the face of genocide accusations, Palestinian recognition, ICC warrants, cultural boycotts and possible sanctions, Netanyahu has pushed Israel to a ‘tipping point’ of isolation

An Israeli flag flutters near destroyed buildings inside the Gaza Strip as pictured from the Israeli border, on September 25, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

A ship that is part of the Global Sumud Flotilla prepares to depart to Gaza to deliver aid amidst Israel's blockade on the Palestinian territory, in the Tunisian port of Bizerte, September 13, 2025. (AP/Anis Mili)

Gaza aid flotilla set to depart Greece for Gaza, to arrive early next week

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara pose for a photo before departing Ben Gurion Airport to New York early on September 25, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Slovenia bans Netanyahu from country in support of ICC warrants

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video, September 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Virtual address to UNGASa'ar: 'Israel will not be deceived once again'

In UN speech, Abbas denounces Israeli ‘genocide,’ rejects ‘what Hamas did on Oct. 7’

By Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

PA president vows Palestinians ‘will rise from under the rubble,’ says Hamas must disarm and give up Gaza rule, opposes conflating Palestinian cause with antisemitism, ‘which we reject’

View of the road leading to the Allenby Crossing after it was closed by Israeli authorities following last week’s stabbing and shooting attack, September 24, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Israel to reopen West Bank-Jordan crossing after holiday closure, deadly attack

By AFP

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, September 25, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Meeting Erdogan, Trump hints he may lift ban on sale of F-35s to Turkey

By AAMER MADHANI

Israel, sole owner of F-35s in Middle East and anxious to to preserve its military edge, has expressed concern over sale of advanced fighter jet to NATO ally and others in region

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters march during a demonstration in Barcelona, Spain, September 18, 2025, as they show their solidarity with the people of Gaza. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain cancels third arms deal with Israeli defense company in weeks

Celtic fans lift a protest banner about Israel during the UEFA Champions League playoff first leg soccer match between Glasgow Celtic and Bayern Munich at the Celtic Park Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland on February 12, 2025. (AP/Scott Heppell)

UEFA heading to a vote next week on booting Israel from European soccer

By AP and ToI Staff

Clear majority of governing body’s executive members said to be in favor of move; would ban Israeli club and national teams from competing in any international competitions

Israeli fans cheer for Yuval Raphael as she performs 'New Day Will Rise' during the second semifinal of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Switzerland, May 15, 2025. (AP/Martin Meissner)

European Broadcasting Union to vote in November on barring Israel from Eurovision

Microsoft said to block IDF from cloud system over use in surveillance of Palestinians

Jonathan Muskat

Does Erika Kirk have the right to forgive her husband’s murderer?

In Judaism, forgiveness often demands repentance, reconciliation, and repair, but sometimes, even in the face of evil, we forgive anyway – it’s imitating God

Every year anew

The cycle of holidays, with their rituals and readings, remind us, as we confront our foibles again, that we truly have the tools to build a better world

Missile sets off sirens in central Israel, is intercepted

In largest strikes yet, IAF jets bomb Houthi military sites in Yemen after drone attack

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says 20 fighter jets dropped 65 munitions on military compounds, including top HQ, weapon depots; Katz says ‘many dozens of Houthi terror operatives’ killed

Footage posted to social media on September 25, 2025, purports to show smoke rising in Sanaa, Yemen, following Israeli airstrikes. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a scorched launch pad at Iran's Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Semnan province, Iran, on September 24, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iran likely carried out undeclared missile test last week, satellite photos indicate

By AP and ToI Staff

Launch pad shows scorch marks characteristic of solid-fuel missile launch, after social media lit up with sightings of a projectile on Sept. 18; lawmaker says Iran tested ICBM

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shake hands during their meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Tehran to ink $25bn deal with Moscow to build nuclear plants in Iran, as sanctions loom

Portraits of former Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah, right, and Hashem Safieddine, are projected onto the landmark Raouche sea rock during an event commemorating their deaths in Israeli airstrikes nearly a year ago, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 25, 2025. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah honors fallen leaders with light show despite Lebanese PM’s ban

By AP

A hoard of 97 pure gold coins dating back to the 6th and 7th centuries CE, unearthed during archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Hippos (Sussita), near the Sea of Galilee, in a discovery announced on September 25, 2025. (Dr. Michael Eisenberg/University of Haifa)

'Gold coins started appearing one after another'

Fabulous 1,400-year-old trove of gold coins sheds light on Galilee Christian city’s demise

By Rossella Tercatin

Metal detector beeps lead archaeologists to nearly 100 coins and jewelry hidden during the 7th-century Sassanid invasion at Hippos (Sussita), including an unusual mix of denominations

14th-century ‘machzor’ book at Israel’s National Library reveals lost Yom Kippur prayers

By Rossella Tercatin

Newly digitized prayer book from Crimea’s Kaffa rite preserves liturgical poems unknown elsewhere, giving a glimpse of traditions lost when prayers were largely standardized

The final pages of a 14th-century Yom Kippur prayer book including previously unknown liturgical poems unveiled by the National Library on September 25, 2025. (Courtesy of Kedem Auction House)

The sun rises over Tel Aviv, October 2019. (ZZ3701 via iStock by Getty Images)

Unprecedented 83,000 new apartments now for sale

Israel’s home prices have finally started falling. It’s not only about the Gaza war

Experts say insane prices, high interest rates and glut of new homes are causing prices to drop as much as 15-20% in some areas. Diaspora Jews eager for foothold in Jewish state are snapping them up

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in September 2025

David Zini at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on August 6, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Advisory committee approves candidacy of David Zini for next Shin Bet chief

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

Cabinet now expected to vote in favor of Netanyahu’s nominee to head security agency, after panel dismisses concerns that former IDF general is unfit for role

Campers2Gether brought more than 700 Israeli teens to Jewish overnight camps across North America, including Camp Pinemere in Pennsylvania, above, in the summer of 2025. (Jennifer Roman for The Jewish Agency via JTA)

US Jewish summer camps offer Israeli teens a break from war pressures at home

By Madeleine Kashkooli

Campers2Gether, a Jewish Agency for Israel program, enables youngsters who experienced Oct. 7 horrors firsthand to clear their minds with a change of scenery and friendship

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Aron Bell, center, light candles at an unveiling ceremony of a monument to the Heroes of Resistance at Nazi concentration camps and Jewish ghettos during the World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, Russia, June 4, 2019. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Aron Bell, last of famed partisan Bielski brothers, dies at 98

By Grace Gilson

James Comey speaks at a Barnes & Noble on May 19, 2025, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

Ex-FBI chief Comey indicted as Trump ramps up retribution campaign

By Kanishka Singh, Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch

Police officers monitor protesters holding a banner during a protest in support of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, in Trafalgar Square, central London, on June 23, 2025. (Henry Nicholls / AFP)

UK government attempts to block Palestine Action from challenging terror proscription

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves in front of his wife French-Italian singer Carla Bruni after the verdict in his trial for illegal campaign financing from Libya for his successful 2007 presidential bid, at the Tribunal de Paris courthouse in Paris, on September 25, 2025. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)

French ex-president Sarkozy sentenced to 5 years for seeking funds from Gaddafi

By Juliette Jabkhiro, Lucien Libert and Ingrid Melander

A worker hangs a banner showing portraits of the late Iranian armed forces commanders, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, top, Gen. Gholamali Rashid, center, and Gen. Hossein Salami who were killed in Israeli strikes in June at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Female prisoner dies in Iranian jail; rights groups blame authorities’ neglect

By AFP and ToI Staff

Members of the band Kneecap arrive at Woolwich Crown Court in London on September 26, 2025. (AP/Joanna Chan)

UK court drops terrorism charge against Kneecap rapper on technicality

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ma Kashur, the comic trio who star in 'Saving Shuli San,' the box office-breaking sequel to 'Saving Shuli' now in theaters in September 2025 (Courtesy)

Comic reliefSlapstick Israeli comedy flick offers respite in troubled times

By Jessica Steinberg

Memorial stickers that have appeared around Israel since October 7, 2023 (Credit: Youval Hai Shai Sharabi)

Sticker storiesNational Library asks public for Oct.7-related memorial stickers, documents

By Jessica Steinberg

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