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What Matters Most On Friday, September 25, 2026

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Master Sgt. (res.) Ofek Moalem (left) and Master Sgt. (res.) Nadav Kali (right), who were killed when an IDF drone exploded during operations in the Gaza Strip on September 24, 2026. (Courtesy)

Two reservists killed in IDF drone explosion accident during operations in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Armed FPV drone crashed inside army post for unknown reason during takeoff, then detonated when soldiers came to check it; Army grounds all small strike drones as it investigates

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a Starlink device during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, September 24, 2026. (Screenshot/United Nations via YouTube)

PM to 'antisemite' Mamdani: 'You can’t silence me'

In fiery UN speech, Netanyahu blasts Iran, Qatar, Turkey, slams Gaza genocide accusation

By Lazar Berman

PM calls genocide allegation ‘lie of the century,’ defends IDF’s morality, underplays settler violence; many envoys walk out before he starts; he doesn’t mention Saudis or Abraham Accords

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, September 24, 2026. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)

Full textNetanyahu’s UN speech: Israel prevented ‘the genocide Mamdani’s Hamas buddies would have done to us’

L: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, September 24, 2026. R: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to the press in July 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Mamdani hits back at Netanyahu after UN speech, says PM trying to ‘sanitize his genocide’

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The PM worked to dismantle the foul genocide allegation, and belatedly denounced Qatar. But his omissions, and his assertions of national unity in a society whose rifts he has widened, will have stung for many Israelis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to speak during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on September 24, 2026. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

NY correspondent Luke Tress and US bureau chief Jacob Magid join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 25 – The PM’s speech: Fiery rhetoric, inside and outside the UN

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jacob Magid and Luke Tress

A woman holds a Palestinian flag during a demonstration at Republic Square in Paris, September 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

France says ICC warrant posed no obstacle to Netanyahu overflight en route to UN

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A protester with a bag on their head next to an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a noose, in New York City, September 24, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Anti-Zionist protesters put Netanyahu effigy in a noose outside UN headquarters

Demonstrators compare Israeli prime minister to Satan, call Israel a ‘child killer regime,’ during rallies outside General Assembly in New York City

A protester in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the United Nations in New York City, September 24, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NY Jewish groups, Israelis protest against Netanyahu as he addresses UN

Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier (L) is detained alongside another protester during an anti-Israel protest during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, September 24, 2026. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

NYC’s Chevalier, Susan Sarandon arrested at anti-Israel protest outside UN

Macklemore hits back with ‘Free Palestine Tour’ after being dumped from Ed Sheeran tour

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US rapper announces three shows in London, Paris and Dublin for late October, with US dates in the works; says other artists will be announced soon

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British doc alleging IDF misconduct in Gaza nominated for International Emmy

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Daniel Rosenbaum, left, and Rabbi Elchanan Kuperman hold sets of the Four Species in front of the synagogue ark at the Wellington Jewish Community Center, in Wellington, New Zealand, September 22, 2026. (Courtesy of Daniel Rosenbaum)

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks via pre-recorded video during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, September 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

UN General Assembly'Palestinians won't accept displacement and won't disappear'

PA’s Abbas at UN: Israel trying to force Palestinians out with ‘genocidal war,’ ‘settler terrorism’

In virtual address, leader rejects US justifications for visa ban extension, insisting that Ramallah rejects terrorism and has ‘completed’ pledged reforms, targeting Israel in ICC is ‘peaceful’

Palestinian fishermen work on their fishing nets in the morning at the damaged port of Gaza City, September 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

UN agency report details Gaza’s ‘unprecedented socioeconomic collapse’ since Oct. 7

By AFP and ToI Staff

Protesters outside the United Nations, in New York City, September 24, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

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A television channel advertisement featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and his main election rival Gadi Eisenkot ahead of the Knesset election, in Ramat Gan, September 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Sufian Abu Zaida speaks to Alghad TV, September 24, 2026. (Video screenshot)

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By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan

Shin Bet chief David Zini is seen at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem during Memorial Day, April 21, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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By Reuters, AFP and ToI Staff

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British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meet on the UN General Assembly sidelines on September 25, 2026. (Screen capture/X)

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Left: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks at UN headquarters, September 23, 2026. (Heather Khalifa/AP); Right: Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam speaks at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France, April 21, 2026. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP).

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Prison guards escort Yosef Haim Ben-David, convicted of murdering Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014, as he arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for his appeal, on February 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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By Diana Bletter

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By ToI Staff and Agencies

Supporters of the Houthis march as they hold placards showing the Kaaba reading 'For it, we willingly offer our souls' during a protest against the Saudi intervention in Yemen and against Saudi Arabia’s recent accusation that the Houthis fired at the holy city of Mecca, in Yemen’s western Red Sea city of Hodeida on September 18, 2026. (Zayed Al-Waqidi/AFP)

Saudi Arabia says it intercepted Houthi missiles; group claims strikes on Riyadh, Aramco

By Mohammed Ghobari and Timour Azhari

In this December 21, 2014 file photo, late light falls on Wheeler Hall, South Hall and the Campanile on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

In legal settlement, UC Berkeley promises snubbed Israeli dance scholar a job offer

By JTA and ToI Staff

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