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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 17, 2026

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L to R: National Unity MK Gadi Eisenkot at the Knesset on March 24, 2025; Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman at the Knesset on May 19, 2025; former prime minister Naftali Bennett visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem day, May 26, 2025. (All photos Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Eisenkot on Ofer Winter: 'Which bloc does he belong to?'

‘Old politics’: Eisenkot accuses Bennett, Liberman of damaging opposition’s chances

By Ariela Karmel

Yisrael Beytenu hits back after Yashar chief scolds leaders for refusing to say they’ll support head of largest party for PM; Golan to allies: ‘We’ll all support same candidate’

Yashar party chair Gadi Eisenkot (L) in Rosh HaAyin, September 7, 2026, and Ra'am party chair Mansour Abbas in Jerusalem, September 7, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Eisenkot denies claim he promised Bedouin leaders he’d bring Ra’am into government

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a press conference in the Knesset, May 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin allows Shin Bet final say on providing security to political party chiefs

In turnaround, TV poll shows Netanyahu’s bloc slightly ahead of opposition

Coalition wins 54 seats in survey, opposition Zionist bloc just 52, but neither side has clear path to coalition; Herzog says he’ll do everything he can to prevent a second round of voting

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot in his Likud party primary elections ahead of the general election in October, in Jerusalem, August 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool)

Interview

A Jewish Zionist running with Ra’am, Segalovitz tells ToI he aims to smash the political paradigm

Former senior cop and Yesh Atid lawmaker admits differences on social issues with Islamist party, but says main concern is tackling rampant crime and advancing coexistence

Yoav Segalovitz, right, reaches for the hand of Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas at a press conference in Nazareth on August 31, 2026. (Michael Giladi/FLASH90)

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Far-right protesters rally at home of filmmaker's parents

PM pledges bill to strip citizenship from those who smear IDF abroad amid ‘NAZA’ outcry

By Lazar Berman, Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Herzog says revoking citizenship ‘has no chance’; Israel said to realize outcry over film is fanning flames, as diplomats signal that PM’s proposal isn’t in country’s best interest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the groundbreaking of a memorial for fallen Arabic-speaking Christian IDF soldiers, September 16, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO)

US bureau chief Jacob Magid appears on the Daily Briefing with host Jessica Steinberg (AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 17: Foreign Ministry tells diplomats to dial down attacks on ‘NAZA’ film

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Culture minister urges Shin Bet to probe whether Hamas helped ‘NAZA’ filmmakers

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)

State Dept.: This is a consequence of PA's failure to reform

US rejects Abbas’s entry visa, forcing him to again address UN virtually

Palestinian official tells ToI that State Department notice on rejection of PA president’s own request for a visa cites alleged association with a terror group but doesn’t elaborate further

Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad at the US State Department in Washington, April 14, 2026. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Lebanese and Israeli envoys hold ‘positive’ meeting in DC as Aoun arrives in Paris

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

Attendees watch as the six candidates for the United Nations Secretary-General position debate at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York, on July 23, 2026. (Leonardo MUNOZ/AFP)

'A toxic legacy'Critics say upcoming UN Durban commemoration whitewashes antisemitic 2001 conference

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a Jewish New Year greetings event attended by members of the Likud party in Tel Aviv on September 17, 2026. (Jack GUEZ/AFP)

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Sept. 17: Netanyahu to reportedly meet Rubio, not Trump, at UN, as PMO says schedule not finalized

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

US to allow Iranian president to attend UN assembly after barring PA’s Abbas * Chief intel officer of Gaza Division on October 7 formally dismissed from the IDF

8:24 pm

Iran summons Swedish, German ambassadors for diplomatic offenses
8:14 pm

At Likud campaign event, Netanyahu vows to 'take land instead of giving it'
7:57 pm

After US bars his entry, UN votes to allow Abbas to address assembly by video

Riyadh in a 'very difficult position' -- regional official

Saudis reportedly won’t budge on Israel normalization, even as they seek help against Houthis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Regional officials say kingdom is asking allies for aid in defense against missile and drone attacks from Yemen as interceptors run low, though there have yet to be signs of military support

Illustrative: Members of the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group burn an effigy of a US aircraft and a Saudi flag during a demonstration against US and Saudi interference in Yemen, after Friday prayers in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Young men gather beneath a billboard depicting Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in Sanaa, Yemen, September 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis met US officials in Oman, promised not to hit American, Israeli ships — sources

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) welcoming Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang in Riyadh, on September 11, 2024. (SPA/AFP)

US intelligence repeats warning F-35 sale to Saudis could expose tech to China — report

Women chat in the Jewish neighborhood, or 'mellah,' in the village of Tagadirt in Morocco's oasis region of Tata on February 28, 2023. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

Level 3 travel advisory no deterrent for Israeli tourists

Israeli travelers returning to Morocco as direct flights resume after three years

Travel industry sources report renewed interest in Morocco’s synagogues, cemeteries and historic Jewish quarters, as well as kosher travel and heritage tours

Israel and Morocco agree to appoint ambassadors, upgrade ties as FMs meet

By Lazar Berman

Generation Right: Young voters are shaping Israel’s unapologetic future

Israelis casting their first ballots value security and self-reliance – busting Western assumptions that all youth are progressive

I never let my children fundraise, until now

When the Israeli government cut its subsidies for Haredi Torah study, the rabbis enlisted the community to make up the shortfall. Even the girls. Even my daughter

Menachem Creditor

The hard work of apologizing and forgiving

For the one who has caused harm, a casual ’sorry’ is not repentance. Neither is a vague apology for ’anything I may have done’

David Charles Pollack

What my great-great-uncle told the Supreme Court about the Bible

Solomon Grayzel warned in 1963 that even a seemingly universal sacred text can divide a classroom. The push to post the Ten Commandments in schools renews his warning

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Shin Bet’s most senior female agent speaks of how she heard daughter die on Oct. 7

Mira Shoshani was in Kfar Aza when terrorists invaded, but to this day mourns being unable to save Ofir, an off-duty soldier who was murdered in her home in the kibbutz

Screen grab from video of Mira Shoshani, a senior Shin Bet agent whose daughter was murdered on October 7, 2023, during the Hamas-led attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, as she speaks to Channel 12 in an interview broadcast September 16, 2026. (Channel 12)

Clockwise from top left: Omer Neutra, Oz Daniel, Shaked Dahan, Nimrod Cohen. (Courtesy, IDF, Channel 12 screenshot)

IDF says Hamas commander who took tank soldiers captive on Oct. 7 killed in Gaza airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Head of Realign for Palestine Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for this week's What Matters Now. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

What Matters Now podcast

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas is to blame for October 7 and Gaza’s ‘collateral damage’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

The head of Realign for Palestine speaks about how being an anti-Hamas Gazan means he’s not in lockstep with the zeitgeist, including those who gave a 25-minute ovation for ‘NAZA’

Elliott Gould attends the Los Angeles premiere of “Only Murders In The Building” Season 2 at DGA Theater Complex on June 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)

Interview

Elliott Gould talks faith, family, Barbra Streisand and his new movie

By Brigit Grant

Actor lends his voice to new animated film ‘Legend of Destruction’ about the end of the Second Temple, directed by Israeli filmmaker Gadi Dar, now streaming worldwide

Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio speaks during an interview with AFP in the offices of Law Zero in Montreal, Quebec, on September 15, 2026. (Andrej Ivanov/AFP)

‘We’re losing control,’ AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio urges public to be aware of risks

By Fanny Alarcon

Acknowledging that artificial intelligence destroying humanity is an ‘extreme,’ Canadian Jewish prof nevertheless warns that AI agents could threaten democracies, says international community must cooperate

US artist Peter Max poses for a photo during his retrospective with the Road Show Company exhibit, September 6, 2014, in Northbrook Court mall in Northbrook, Illinois. (Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP)

Obituary

Peter Max, whose psychedelic pop art came to symbolize the 60s, dies at 88

By Beth J. Harpaz

American-Jewish artist was born Peter Max Finkelstein in Berlin in 1937; family fled Nazi Germany to China, then lived in Haifa before settling in NYC when he was a teen

CENTCOM reports broad damage to US facilities, equipment

New images appear to show heavy damage from Iranian strikes on US bases in Middle East

By AFP and ToI Staff

Photos from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait provided to CBS News by anonymous service members who lament that the damage hasn’t been ‘communicated to the American public’ until now

This UGC image posted on social media on March 29, 2026, and verified by AFP staff appears to show a destroyed US Air Force Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, primarily used for air traffic control, in the aftermath of a projectile strike at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia. (UGC / AFP)

In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2022. (AP Photo)

Amnesty says Iran committed ‘crimes against humanity’ in crackdown on 2022 protests

By AFP

Pedestrian walk past a billboard depicting a Persian legendary hero and flying figure hitting US aircraft carriers alongside the message in English and Farsi: “From the Persian Gulf a new power rises” “The army of Satan will be drowned in the Persian Gulf, “ at Islamic Revolution square in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran hesitant to enforce mandatory headscarf law as war and economic pressures mount

By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY

Sale of Channel 13 to government critic approved; minister calls decision ‘unlawful’

By Jeremy Sharon

Acquisition of major commercial channel is at center of political, legal fight, after communications minister’s apparent efforts to stymie the deal were blocked by High Court

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem, September 2012. (Flash90)

High Court won’t reverse AG’s decision to bar state-funded memorial for Shas Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

By Jeremy Sharon and Ariela Karmel

Israeli settlers gather to celebrate the inauguration of a newly built synagogue at the West Bank outpost of Homesh, September 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Court freezes key step in government’s controversial West Bank land registration process

By Jeremy Sharon, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

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Israeli national Ben Hassin, who was jailed for killing a taxi driver in an unnamed Arab country, where he went to fight Islamic State. (Courtesy)

Israeli-Kurdish Jew freed from Iraqi prison after 11 years for killing cab driver

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Kapparot ceremony in the ultra orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, on September 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

13 municipalities to bar use of live chickens in pre-Yom Kippur ‘kapparot’ ritual, NGO says

Alexander Granovsky (via social media, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man given 13.5 years in jail for spying for Iran, in harshest such sentence yet

By Noam Lehmann

Black and white photographs of the Adam and Eve Diptych painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder. (Goudstikker/von Saher archive)

LA Federation sues museum for custody of looted paintings once hoarded by Hermann Göring

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Officers stand near the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, January 31, 2024. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

Sweden expels Iranian embassy employee for threats to Jewish, Israeli sites

By AFP

Rep. Sander Levin on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jewish Democratic elder statesman Sander Levin backs Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race

By Andrew Lapin

Local residents block a road to prevent oil tankers from the Rmeilan oil fields from passing during ongoing protests against higher fuel prices at the entrance to Tal Tamr, northeastern Syria, September 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Tensions flare in Syria’s Kurdish northeast as government integration deal moves ahead

By HOGIR AL ABDO and ABBY SEWELL

US Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., holds up a Trump Bible as he questions Attorney General Pam Bondi in the House Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington, February 11, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US Rep. Moskowitz uses Holocaust footage in campaign ad, citing family history

By Sharon Udasin

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (C-L) and Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman (C-R) exchange folders as US President Donald Trump (L) and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) look on during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP)

US senators call for release of more information on Trump’s Saudi nuclear proposal

By Patricia Zengerle

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, center, walks with US President Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner, right, and Steve Witkoff at Mariinsky palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 6, 2026. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

US House passes Russia sanctions bill championed by Graham, sending it to Trump

By KEVIN FREKING

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, listens to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, during the annual State of the European Union at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, September 16, 2026. (Pascal Bastien/AP)

EU chief wants Canada to become bloc’s first ‘associate member’

By Julia Payne and Ingrid Melander

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