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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 28, 2025

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Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Nava Freiberg/Times of Israel); IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir in Jerusalem on March 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Sept. 28: Security cabinet, IDF chief excluded from talks on potential Gaza war deal – report

IDF soldier killed in West Bank car-ramming attack * Prisons chief, Ben Gvir aide questioned amid probe into tolerance of settler violence * Hamas says contact lost with 2 hostages

7:58 pm

IDF announces soldier killed in West Bank car-ramming attack earlier today
7:48 pm

ER of Gaza City's Shifa Hospital said evacuated, another hospital reportedly struck by IDF
7:25 pm

Netanyahu says he still believes there are 20 hostages alive in Gaza, out of 48 total

Two women walk past a huge banner showing the late commander of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard expeditionary Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone attack in 2020, and two late Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah, center, and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in 2024, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square, in Tehran, Iran, September 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

UN arms embargo, other sanctions reimposed on Iran; West says diplomacy still possible

By Michelle Nichols

Tehran recalls its ambassadors to Britain, France, Germany for consultations, as country’s currency hits record low amid nuclear deal’s collapse; US demands direct talks

People walk in front of a billboard depicting slain Lebanese Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah (C) and his successor Hashem Safieddine (R) as well as the late Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, on September 28, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran slams ‘illegal’ reimposition of UN nuclear sanctions, urges countries not to comply

By Agencies and Nava Freiberg

Illustrative: Iranians walk past shops at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran on September 27, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Explainer‘Snapback’: What are the sanctions that have been reimposed on Iran?

By AFP and ToI Staff

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Prince Faisal bin Farhan addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2025, at UN headquarters. (AP/Pamela Smith)

UN General AssemblyUAE minister: Palestinian state should be without terrorists

Arab leaders decry Gaza ‘genocide,’ urge Palestinian state in impassioned UN speeches

‘The Middle East is at the point of implosion,’ warns Egypt’s foreign minister, as Riyadh castigates international community for inaction over the past two years of war

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)

Shin Bet probing how it botched strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar – report

Delegates leave the General Assembly hall as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steps up to the podium to speak at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Khamenei mocks Netanyahu UN walkout: ‘Most despised regime in the world’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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Israelis attend a protest march in Jerusalem calling for an end to the war and the release of hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza, on September 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Brother of slain hostage slams PM’s ’empty’ UN speech, blames him for Oct. 7 ‘holocaust’

By Noam Lehmann, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

As thousands attend rallies, families demand Netanyahu return from US with deal as ceasefire momentum grows, castigate him for thwarting deals, failing to name slain captives at UN

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech attend a meeting of the Knesset National Security Committee, September 28, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson/ File)

Ignoring legal advice and warning on hostages, MKs advance death penalty for terrorists

By Charlie Summers, Sam Sokol and Nava Freiberg

Hostage coordinator Gal Hirsch says he has urged Netanyahu to delay Knesset plenum vote on controversial legislation, warns of potential risk to those held captive in Gaza

Icelandic parliamentarian Birgir Thorarinsson (left) meeting in Baghdad with Rayan al-Kildani, the Assyrian Christian leader of the Babylon Movement party and its militia, the Babylon Brigade, May 3, 2025 (courtesy Birgir Thorarinsson )

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By Lazar Berman

Former lawmaker Birgir Thorarinsson used connections, persistence, and nationality to convince a dangerous militia to drop its ransom demand for a kidnapped Israeli researcher

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Microsoft’s kill switch threatens Israel’s national security

The push of a button on the West Coast can blind IDF counterterror operations or block air raid sirens from sounding on the national emergency app

Donniel Hartman

What’s really behind this wave of Palestine recognition?

The allies now taking unilateral steps are neither foolish nor venal. Israel needs to take a good, long look in the mirror

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answers a question, as US President Donald Trump looks on, during a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)

Far right, settlers urge Netanyahu to defy US and annex West Bank, not end Gaza war

By Michael Bachner, Stav Levaton and Nava Freiberg

Settler leaders stress decision is Netanyahu’s, not Trump’s, send delegation to US; Ben Gvir, Smotrich warn PM as US truce plan envisions pathway to Palestinian state

IDF forces operate in the Gaza Strip in this September 28, 2025, handout. (IDF)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 28: Day 723 – Trump’s 21-point Gaza plan, broken down

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Palestinians check the damage outside a house hit by an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip on September 27, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

IDF says 780,000 have fled Gaza City; Hamas says dozens killed in unrelenting strikes

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Army says it hit some 120 ‘terror targets’ over past day; Shifa hospital director says tanks approaching as UN says airstrikes every few minutes hamper aid and evacuation efforts

Then-Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump (R) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during a roundtable at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, October 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US envoy to Israel said set to visit Egypt, as Gazan officials ask US to work for truce

By Nurit Yohanan, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Prof. Daniel Yamin, left, and Dr. Flavio Jean Schmidig of Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)

Eyes don’t lie: Groundbreaking study tracks eye movements to measure memory

By Diana Bletter

Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s non-verbal memory-testing protocol allows assessment in infants, brain injury victims, severe Alzheimer’s patients

Hezbollah supporters attend a ceremony marking the first anniversary of Israel's assassination of their longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27, 2025. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Drones circle overhead as thousands in Beirut mark anniversary of Hezbollah’s chief’s death

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Nasrallah’s successor vows never to disarm; IDF shares intel on terror leader’s final days; Lebanese media release what they say is last photo of him, pictured with map of Israel behind him

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talks during his press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Zelensky says Israeli Patriot missile defense system is operating in Ukraine

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel has denied supplying Kyiv with weapons, saying that the systems were American and returned to the US, which reportedly refurbished them and sent them to Ukraine

Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Four dead in massive Russian drone, missile attack on Kyiv

By AP

A woman exiting a voting booth waits in line to cast her vote during a parliamentary election, in Chisinau, Moldova, September 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Moldovans vote in tense election plagued by Russian interference claims

By STEPHEN McGRATH

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Agriculture Ministry staff work in protective gear to clean up dead cranes infected with Avian Influenza (bird flu) from the Hula Lake Reserve in northern Israel, January 2, 2022. (Moraz Brom/Flash90)

Hebrew U-led research team calls for global wildlife tracking to help curb pandemics

Biologging animals’ movement and temperature to spot diseases that spread from creatures to people said much more cost-effective in reducing human deaths than taking later measures

Yigal Yehoshua, 56, was killed by rioters who pelted his car with bricks while he drove home in Lod, May 11, 2021. (Courtesy)

7 Arab men jailed for 12-14 years for role in death of Jewish man in 2021 Lod riots

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Family of Yigal Yehoshua, who died after being hit in the head by a brick when a mob stoned his car, will ask state prosecutor to seek a harsher sentence, lawyer says

Lital Yael Melnik. (Facebook)

Man who buried 17-year-old girl alive, causing her death, is cleared of murder

Cars stand in traffic as construction is underway at HaShalom Bridge in Tel Aviv. September 28, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Ban on Shabbat repair work at key bridge causes major Tel Aviv traffic snarls

Lapid says government ‘doesn’t care for the citizens,’ just politics, as Ayalon Highway renovation takes place on weekdays due to ultra-Orthodox parties’ opposition to Sabbath work

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Team Israel Premier Tech's riders compete during the fifth stage of La Vuelta a Espana cycling tour, a 24.1 km time-trial team race in Figueres, on August 27, 2025. (Josep LAGO / AFP)

Israel-Premier Tech team barred from Italian cycling race for ‘security reasons’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Alex Witkoff address the United Hatzalah Gala in New York Jun 12, 2025. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Witkoff’s son solicited billions from Qatar as his dad negotiated ceasefires — report

IDF troops carry out a home demolition of a terrorist, in the West Bank town of Qubeiba, on September 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF demolishes West Bank home of terrorist who carried out deadly Jerusalem shooting

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Chief Inspector Arnon Zmora, who was killed in a mission to rescue hostages held in the Gaza Strip, June 8, 2024. (Israel Police)

Hamas terrorist who killed officer in hostage rescue op slain in IDF strike in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

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