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What Matters Most On Friday, September 11, 2026

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Fighters loyal to the Houthi authorities, march during a rally to recruit more fighters, in Sanaa on September 10, 2026. (Mohammed HUWAIS/AFP)

Senior Iranian official hails 'resounding victory'

Houthis seize key Red Sea islands, complete takeover of vital Bab el-Mandeb shipping lane

By AFP

Advance by Iran-backed rebels gives Tehran effective control of two of the Middle East’s most important waterways; Houthis insist no cause for concern to international shipping; US diesel prices top $6 for first time

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a dinner in the East Room of the White House, November 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump said to reject Saudi request for strikes on Houthis, as they complete Bab el-Mandeb takeover

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A security personnel officer stands guard in front of a huge image depicting a missile with “Palestine” written on its side, during a rally by supporters of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon amid the Middle East war, in the capital Sanaa on April 17, 2026. (Mohammed HUWAIS/AFP)

Anthropic says it foiled apparent Houthi effort to use its AI chatbot to develop guided missiles

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 11: In Jewish New Year greeting, Netanyahu says US-Israel alliance ‘stronger than ever’

Masked men with tzitzit filmed trying to break into Palestinian home during overnight raid * IDF rejects testimonies in documentary about AI-powered civilian killings in Gaza

8:54 pm

Iraq orders investigation into Saudi East-West pipeline attack
8:35 pm

Gal Gadot blows shofar in 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' on eve of Rosh Hashanah
8:10 pm

Saudi Arabia says East-West oil pipeline was targeted by drones from Iraq

Shivi Drori and volunteers crushing wine on the threshing floor in a refurbished winepress, September 2026 (Noga Friedlin/Ariel University)

'This is a once‑in‑2,200‑years event'

How did ancient Israelites make wine? Scientists are stomping grapes to find out

Researchers use reconstructed Hasmonean winepress, four tons of Merlot and modern sensors in attempt to recreate how residents of Holy Land prepared their libations

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“The war’s quiet toll no one is talking about

Thousands of elderly Israelis are quietly going hungry. One organization is changing that, one meal, one smile, one open door at a time.”

Next round of Israel-Lebanon talks set for next week in Rome

IDF blows up Hezbollah’s ‘strategic’ complex beneath south Lebanon’s Ali Taher Ridge

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Military says it used 1,100 tons of explosives to raze 2kms of tunnels under hill in southern Lebanon, following reported Iranian warnings; blast triggers 4.1-magnitude tremor

Footage shows the demolition of Hezbollah's tunnels beneath the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon by the IDF, September 10, 2026. (Israeli Defense Forces)

This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor shows vehicles at the western entrance of the Pickaxe Mountain tunnel complex adjacent to the Natanz Nuclear Facility near Natanz, Isfahan province, central Iran, on June 21, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor/AFP)

UN nuclear watchdog chief says construction observed at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain

By Lazar Berman

Underground site in Natanz likely used to store nuclear material, according to Western intel; Trump also cites ‘a little activity’ at Pickaxe, warns Tehran ‘not to get cute’ there

US Vice President JD Vance participates in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity during the Republican convention in Dallas, September 9, 2026. (Eric Lee/Pool via AP)

Skeptical Vance reportedly sought direct intel from US generals on state of Iran war

By ToI Staff and Reuters

US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent speaks during the Republican National Midterm Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on September 9, 2026. (Kent NISHIMURA/AFP)

US slaps new sanctions on networks aiding Iran’s proxies in Middle East

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A Rosh Hashanah message to the Jewish people

After all the pain and longing, the majestic notes of the shofar carry three calls that bring us into a better future

Rushing forward, seized with fear

Crises like the terror attacks of 9/11 summon us with the trumpet of bravery and the still, small voice of love, as we write our stories with our deeds (Rosh Hashanah)

Talyah Ginsberg

‘One day’ is not a day of the week

Recently attuned to the risk that everything I postpone won’t eventually get its turn, I find myself willing to take the first steps to finding out how far I might go

The wells we cannot see

The biblical Hagar discovers that the water she desperately needs was there all along. What might we find if we learned to look again?

Illustrative: View of the entrance to the city of Bnei Brak on Shabbat, January 27, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

In new Bnei Brak neighborhood, religious-secular tensions escalate over Shabbat driving

Residents say conflict over driving on day of rest becoming increasingly dangerous, weeks after 3-year-old girl hit and lightly injured by car during clashes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) in Jerusalem on September 7 and Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot in Rosh HaAyin on September 7, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

ToI poll finds Likud and Yashar neck and neck on 23 seats as deadlock continues

By Tal Schneider

Neither bloc headed by Netanyahu’s and Eisenkot’s parties gets a Knesset majority; unlike in other recent surveys, Ofer Winter’s new party fails to enter parliament

Left to right: Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Gadi Eisenkot, Yair Golan and Avigdor Liberman. (Composite photo; credits: Flash90)

Main opposition factions ink surplus-vote deals in bid to maximize Knesset representation

By Ariela Karmel

Interview

Somaliland president says country could contribute troops to Gaza peacekeeping force

Abdirahman Abdullahi tells ToI he could offer 2,000 soldiers, but US hasn’t asked, as move would likely anger Gaza mediating countries who oppose African state’s split from Somalia

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi at the MEAD conference on September 10, 2026. (Itzik Belenitzki)

Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Israel Julien Lerisson. (courtesy ICRC)

Red Cross meets officials at Israeli detention facility, not allowed to see Palestinian prisoners

By Nava Freiberg

Palestinians inspect a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas terrorist behind 2003 shooting that killed MK’s husband slain in Gaza airstrike, says Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli film about killing of Gazan civilians gets 25-minute record ovation at Venice premiere

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘NAZA,’ short for ‘collateral damage’ in Hebrew, features interviews with 24 IDF troops about what filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor describe as ‘calculated’ mass killings

Filmmakers Rachel Szor, left, and Yuval Abraham attend a red carpet event for the screening of 'NAZA' at the 83rd International Venice Film Festival, in Venice Lido, Italy, on September 10, 2026. (Tiziana FABI/AFP)

Muhammad Abdul Salam al-Yazouri, slain commander of Hamas's Khan Younis Brigade, is seen in an undated photo shared to social media after his death in an IDF airstrike, September 11, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF kills commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade in southern Gaza airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians sit beside the bodies of people killed in an Israeli strike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, September 10, 2026. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli airstrike said to kill family of four, including two children, in north Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Lazar Focus podcast

Yossi Abravanel: Despite sanctions, Israel must keep communication open with Europe

By Lazar Berman

The UK, France, and Canada announced unprecedented sanctions against settlements. Domestic politics might be behind the moves, but Israel must not go too far in its response.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Signaling support for UK sanctions, Olmert decries ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank

Anti-Israel Green leader Polanski will contest Starmer’s old seat in UK Parliament

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jewish head of party embroiled in antisemitism scandals will run in Holborn and St. Pancras by-election on Oct. 8; two years ago, an independent anti-Israel candidate got 19% of the vote there, and Greens got 10%

Britain’s leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, addresses supporters, one of whom is holding a Palestinian flag, during a rally in south London, on June 24, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS/AFP)

Director General of MI5 Sir Ken McCallum delivers the annual Director General’s Speech at Thames House, the headquarters of the UK’s Security Service in London, October 16, 2025. (Jonathan Brady/Pool via AP)

Next 9/11 shock might be being planned where we’re not looking, UK’s MI5 chief says

Domestic security service director warns against preparing to fight ‘yesterday’s enemy using yesterday’s methods,’ points to foiled plot to kill hundreds of Jews in Manchester

Drones recreate the Twin Towers over the New York Harbor on September 9, 2026, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

9/11 families, responders recreate Twin Towers in light over New York Harbor

US President Donald Trump greets US Vice President JD Vance onstage after Vance delivered remarks during the second day of the Republican National Committee midterm convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on September 10, 2026. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Trump and Vance team up at GOP convention as party faces midterm risks, eyes what’s next

By Michelle L. Price and LISA MASCARO

US president suggests $5,000 checks for every American at Republican confab in Dallas ahead of November elections, hoping to avoid traditional midterm tumble for ruling US party

(L-R) Vice President JD Vance speaks at the Republican convention September 10, 2026, in Dallas; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives a joint news conference with Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori at the presidential palace in Lima, Peru, September 10, 2026; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis during a news conference on August 12, 2025, in Tampa, Florida; US Senator Ted Cruz speaks at the Republican convention, September 10, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, AP Photo/Martin Mejia, Pool, AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

Vance? Rubio? DeSantis? Cruz? At Dallas confab, Republicans ponder who comes after Trump

By Thomas Beaumont, Jill Colvin and Michelle L. Price

August was hottest month ever recorded worldwide, European climate monitor says

By Nick Perry and Ali BEKHTAOUI

El Niño pattern that triggered extremes expected to peak in 2027, but scientist warns that ‘record-shattering months will simply keep on coming’ as long as humans burn fossil fuels

A man cools himself with water on Flisvos Beach during a heat wave in Athens, Greece, August 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Image courtesy of Ruth Efroni (Israel Story)

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Joel Lion, Israel's top envoy to Turkey. (Armenian Technology Ministry)

Israel’s new envoy to Turkey takes up post as relations remain strained

By Lazar Berman

Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor, left, and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation.' (Public domain)

Switzerland releases 200-page intelligence dossier on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele

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Deputy Prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang takes his seat in court for the verdict of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

ICC interim chief prosecutor hopes Netanyahu, Putin will end up on dock: ‘Nothing’s impossible’

By AFP

This handout image provided by the UAE Ministry Of Presidential Affairs shows (R to L) UAE Presiednt Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan meeting with Saleh Boucha, the special envoy of the president of Algeria, at the Sea Palace in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi on January 24, 2023. (Mohamed AL-HAMMADI/UAE’s Ministry of Presidential Affairs/AFP)

Algeria severs diplomatic ties with UAE, citing its ‘provocative or hostile’ actions

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, right, and Nauru’s Vice President and Foreign Minister Lionel Rouwen Aingimea inaugurate Nauru’s embassy in Jerusalem, September 7, 2026. (Shlomi Amselam/GPO)

‘The connection is spiritual’: Pacific island nations see prophecy in Jerusalem embassies

By Steven Trask

Protesters hold signs, including one on the left that calls on Jews to 'get out,' at a rally in front of Israeli embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, September 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thais rally against Israeli tourists in protest laced with antisemitism

By ToI Staff and AP

Demonstrators associated with Hoosier Jews for Choice gather outside the Monroe County Courthouse on July 31, 2023, before Indiana’s near total abortion ban began. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA).

Case pitting Indiana Jews against an abortion ban heads back to court

By Andrew Lapin

US film director Quentin Tarantino arrives for the screening of the film “Nouvelle Vague” (New Wave) at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2025. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP)

'Snorts like SpongeBob'Tarantino laughs loudly at the movies, including his own, some Israelis say

By Jessica Steinberg

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