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What Matters Most On Monday, September 29, 2025

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This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas applauding as he gives a video address to a UN summit on a two-state solution in New York City, from his headquarters in Ramallah on September 22, 2025. (Thaer GHANAIM / PPO / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 29: Palestinian Authority welcomes Trump’s ‘sincere and determined efforts’ to end Gaza war

Islamic Jihad says Trump’s Gaza plan ‘a formula for igniting the region’ * Netanyahu: If Hamas rejects it, Israel will ‘finish the job’; says no role for Hamas or PA in post-war Gaza

10:04 pm

UK's Starmer calls for all sides to work together to implement Trump's Gaza plan
9:36 pm

Palestinian Authority welcomes Trump's 'sincere and determined efforts' to end Gaza war
9:09 pm

Eight Arab, Islamic foreign ministers praise Trump's Gaza plan, say ready to work with US to actualize it

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)

Israel said pushing to limit Qatar's role in post-war Gaza

US signals optimism on Gaza deal, as Netanyahu meets Witkoff, Kushner before Trump

By Jacob Magid, Sam Sokol and Agencies

Smotrich sets ‘red lines,’ at odds with demands of PA, Arab states; settlers fret West Bank annexation fading; hostages’ families urge Trump to ‘stand firm’; Hamas says it’s received no proposal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Fox News, September 28, 2025. (Screenshot)

Trump: Gaza deal ‘in final stages’; Netanyahu: Working on it, but it’s not yet done

By Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

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)

IDF chief said to have warned PM, Katz that Gaza City op has ‘no political endgame’

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces the creation of an antisemitism task force in City Hall, New York City, May 13, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams drops reelection bid, boosting pro-Israel Cuomo against Mamdani

Incumbent campaigned as a supporter of Israel and Jewish communities but polled in single digits; move narrows field ahead of November vote, draws praise from local Jews

Promoted Content

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Analysis

Gaza discord has Netanyahu scrambling ahead of DC meet, but Trump offers him way out

Netanyahu clears schedule to avoid another Oval Office surprise, while president’s plan to end war looks like PM’s best option for day after – yet requires Hamas to go along with its own defeat

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a news conference in the East Room of the White House on February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

AnalysisNetanyahu’s dilemma becomes Smotrich’s as Trump’s 21-point plan nears decision

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Maj. Gen. Nimrod Aloni, the outgoing head of the Depth Corps, speaks at a handover ceremony, September 29, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Outgoing general slams IDF for not taking responsibility for failures

By Emanuel Fabian

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi massacres at Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 27, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

'There are hundreds of years of Jewish history in Ukraine'

84 years after Babyn Yar massacre, names of 1,000 previously unknown victims revealed

Under the shadow of Russian invasion, researchers scramble to digitize artifacts of Ukrainian Jewish life, providing new insights into the murder of 33,771 Jews in Kyiv in September 1941

Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in a photo released September 28, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Organizer of Hamas hostage release ceremonies killed

Five IDF soldiers seriously hurt in Hamas attack on army encampment in Gaza City

By Emanuel Fabian

Two rockets launched from Gaza, both fall short inside Strip; Gazan authorities report 18 killed in attacks as Israeli military conducts 140 strikes

IDF's Givati Brigade operates in Gaza City in this September 29, 2025, handout photo. (IDF)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 29: Day 724 – Gaza City nearly encircled as IDF deepens operations

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

The weekly rally at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, in support for the release of the Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza, on September 27, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Hamas says it has lost contact with two hostages amid IDF push into Gaza City

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

An Israeli reserve soldier kissing goodbye to his child in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Statistics show 50% of reservists’ spouses experience marital troubles in ongoing war

By Diana Bletter

First state report on families of reservists finds 63% of spouses see a negative change in their children’s mental state if parents serve more than 200 days

Paramedics at the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack at Jit Junction in the West Bank, September 28, 2025; inset: Staff Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kav, who was killed in the attack. (Magen David Adom; courtesy)

IDF soldier killed by gunfire during car-ramming in northern West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Staff Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kav hit as his comrades shoot attacker, a resident of Nablus; military seals off city, villages in area

Netanyahu left my son’s name out of his UN speech. That’s when I walked out

Overwhelmed with grief and rage, I wondered: Is the PM subtly admitting he is no longer focused on bringing home all the hostages?

Megyn Kelly’s friends deserve tougher questions

The journalist is pro-Israel, but she gives a pass to Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, who spout conspiratorial narratives about the Jewish state

Prof. Yuval Gadot examines mysterious channels at an archaeological installation at the City of David, Jerusalem, August 2023. (Arik Marmor/Damka Jerusalem Production House)

Archaeology'All archaeological sites are like Swiss cheese'

Breaking ground without digging: In first, archaeologists ‘X-ray’ Jerusalem’s hidden layers

By Rossella Tercatin

Israeli researchers use muon detectors, which detect elementary particles akin to heavy electrons, to reveal subterranean cavities; hope method will be deployed across the world

from the blogs

I went to Syria to ask about peace. The answers still echo as talks resume

Speaking with taxi drivers and jihadists during two long-ago visits, I learned that peace is not just brokered by leaders

Members of the group of ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza are seen moored at the small island of Koufonisi, south of the island of Crete, on September 26, 2025. (Photo by Eleftherios ELIS / AFP)

Turkey saves activists from leaky ship, as Gaza-bound flotilla nears Israeli waters

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Red Crescent coordinates evacuation of 12 activists, after malfunction on one of 50 vessels aiming to break blockade on Strip and deliver symbolic humanitarian aid

Members of the group of ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza are seen moored at the small island of Koufonisi, south of the island of Crete, on September 26, 2025. (Eleftherios ELIS / AFP)

47-boat Gaza flotilla sails again, hoping to reach enclave later this week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

With ‘super-Sparta’ speech, Netanyahu snarls a tech sector already entangled by war

Saying out loud what many quietly understood, PM’s talk of an increasingly isolated economy seen as unhelpful for an industry struggling to navigate effects of global anti-Israel sentiment

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference in Jerusalem on September 16, 2025. Right: The statue of King Leonidas of ancient Sparta stands over the battlefield of Thermopylae in central Greece on March 9, 2007. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL; PARIS PAPAIOANNOU/AFP)

Security officers on bicycles flank runner Beatie Deutsch at the Berlin Marathon, Sep 21, 2025 (Courtesy)

'I felt a lot of support for Israel, with people cheering'

Under shadow of anti-Israeli protesters, ‘Marathon Mother’ runs Berlin without a hitch

Wearing Israel on her T-shirt and a knee-length skirt, Orthodox runner Beatie Deutsch receives precautionary personal security guards after activists spoiled sporting events elsewhere

An interceptor missile is seen as it is launched to shoot down a Houthi missile fired at Israel, early on September 29, 2025. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF intercepts Yemen ballistic missile; Houthis say it had cluster bomb warhead

By Emanuel Fabian

Sirens sound in central region and West Bank sending hundreds of thousands to shelters in middle of night; no reports of impacts or injuries

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran hangs ‘one of most important spies’ for Israel amid wave of executions

By AP and ToI Staff

Case of Bahman Choobi-asl wasn’t previously known to Iranian activists; judiciary says he passed information to Mossad that aimed to breach Iranian data centers

People withdraw money from an ATM machine in the Iranian capital Tehran on September 28, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

EU confirms reimposition of Iran sanctions after UN move, freezes central bank assets

Screen capture from video of Francisco Sanchéz receiving an Ig Noble prize for Ben Gurion University's research on drunken bats, September 18, 2025. (YouTube)

Winging it

Israeli team wins Ig Nobel for batty research on drunk chiropterans

By Stuart Winer

Team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev finds that plying leather-winged mammals with alcohol impairs their ability to fly and echolocate

More Headlines

French police stand guard in Yerres, outside Paris, France, on March 25, 2025. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

‘Dirty Jew, I’m going to kill you’: Man injured in antisemitic attack in Paris suburb

By AFP and ToI Staff

Chanamel Dorfman seen after his interrogation at the Department of Internal Police Investigations offices, in Jerusalem, February 4, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir aide, prisons chief grilled in probe of alleged police corruption

By Jeremy Sharon

The suspect in the terror attack at Kibbutz Tzuba on September 12, 2025, in police custody. (Israel Police)

Palestinian charged with attempted murder with terror motive for Kibbutz Tzuba stabbing

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets Germany's then-opposition leader, now Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

AnalysisGermany’s stalwart support for Israel in shadow of Holocaust strained by Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Founders of Israeli defense tech startup Kela Technologies (from left to right): Jason Manne, Hamutal Meridor, Alon Dror, and Omer Bar-Ilan. (Courtesy Kela)

Defense tech firm Kela buys AI startup to bolster platform for modern battlefield

By Sharon Wrobel

In this image taken from video released by Julie J, @Malkowski6April, Massive flames and smoke rise from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles north of Detroit, September 28, 2025. (Julie J, @Malkowski6April via AP)

Four dead, at least eight injured in shooting and fire at Michigan Mormon church

By ISABELLA VOLMERT and Corey Williams

Igor Grosu, president of Moldova's parliament and leader of the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity, speaks to the media after the parliamentary election, in Chisinau, Moldova, September 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Pro-EU party narrowly wins Moldovan election marred by claims of Russian meddling

Explosives cleared from an old Syrian military position in the Golan Heights that is now open to the public in a photo published on September 29, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

Former Syrian base in Golan to open for visitors for 1st time after being de-mined

By Stav Levaton

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