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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 26, 2026

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip on November 19, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

PM said not to tell security brass of warning from UAE leader

Despite pre-Oct. 7 warnings, PM reportedly opposed strikes on Hamas leaders, feared harming Saudi peace talks

NYT says Netanyahu pushed back on security chiefs’ proposals for strikes in Gaza, stressing need for calm; separate report says Egypt spymaster flew to Israel to warn Hamas was mobilizing

Trump rejects Iranian ceasefire proposal, reportedly plans to renew strikes after midterms

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Iran official says plan would halt all hostilities and reopen Strait of Hormuz within seven days, but WSJ reports Trump sees a likelihood of renewing bombing campaign later in year

US President Donald Trump attends a tea with first lady Melania Trump, China’s President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan in the Red Room of the White House, September 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Analysis

What Netanyahu didn’t say at the UN was as telling as what he did

PM didn’t present promised new Iran intel or issue additional threats against the regime, or talk about Saudi peace, or even lavish praise on Trump. Here’s how to understand those omissions

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves after addressing the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 24, 2026. (Leonardo Munoz/AFP)

(Left) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledges audience applause after his address to the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew); (right) Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a union rally on Park Avenue, in New York, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

‘Not helpful’: NY Jewish Dems slam Netanyahu for saying Hamas and Mamdani are ‘buddies’

By Joseph Strauss

City Council speaker, who has opposed NYC mayor over Israel and antisemitism, suggests ‘what the PM said can really incite violence’ and calls ‘to turn the temperature down’

US Congress received intel Saudis haven’t ruled out nuclear weapons program — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Group of Democratic senators tell Rubio that terms of agreement are ‘all but certain to allow Riyadh to acquire the means to enrich uranium’ and in turn potentially develop a nuke

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a bilateral meeting, in Riyadh, May 20, 2017. (Evan Vucci/AP)

A child waves a flag bearing the image of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Price Mohammed bin Salman from a vehicle during the 96th Saudi National day celebrations in Riyadh on September 23, 2026. (Fayez NURELDINE/AFP)

Saudi coalition says intercepted Houthi drones headed for Riyadh

By AFP

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to the media during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, September 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 26: Iran’s Araghchi says Tehran yet to receive official US position on Hormuz proposal

Hamas leader: Gaza roadmap we agreed to includes establishment of Palestinian state * TV report says days before Oct. 7, Netanyahu ordered that Israel ‘act to contain, minimize the escalation’ in Gaza

9:29 pm

Iran's Araghchi says Tehran yet to receive official US position on Hormuz proposal
8:07 pm

Hamas leader: Gaza roadmap we agreed to includes establishment of Palestinian state
7:55 pm

Netanyahu again denies Egyptian spymaster warned him before Oct. 7 of potential Hamas attack

Ireland’s players pose for the team picture before the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Kosovo and Ireland in Pristina, Kosovo, September 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

After players vote, Ireland decides to play soccer match with Israel; 1 player withdraws

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Team was thrown into turmoil after Gavin Bazunu said he would boycott upcoming Nations League fixtures; players to wear black armbands to mark ‘all lives lost in the conflict’

Fans arrive outside the Etihad Stadium ahead of the UEFA Champions League second leg semi-final football match between Manchester City and Real Madrid in Manchester, north west England, on May 17, 2023. (Paul ELLIS/AFP)

UAE-owned Manchester City guilty of massive, yearslong breach of Premier League financial rules

By AFP

Author Helene Wecker. (Sheldon Wecker)

Interview'I asked what book 3 would be about. My brain said: legacy'

Golem and Jinni bid bittersweet goodbye in final book of gripping fantasy trilogy

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In long-awaited ‘The Gates of Midnight,’ author Helene Wecker moves mystical action ahead to eventful 1930 and explores legacy of Jewish immigration and assimilation in America

Michelle Philippon

What this former evangelical found in a Reform synagogue

After growing up in megachurches, I took a job at a Reform synagogue and discovered a very different way of thinking about God, sin, belonging — and myself

Talyah Ginsberg

The year is new. Israel is already double-booked.

The High Holidays promise renewal, but family, romance, travel plans and life in Israel have apparently declined to clear their calendars

Then-US ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann touches the freshly laid 'Stolpersteine' (stumbling stones) for members of her family in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria, on May 30, 2023. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP)

Future commemorations will be at local cemetery's memorial

German town bans new Holocaust-memory ‘stumbling blocks,’ with center and far-right support

By Emanuele Berro and Friederike Heine

Snubbing city administrators recommendation, Heidenau council votes to reject future installations of brass plaques commemorating Nazi victims

The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, carries the Torah scroll during the inauguration ceremony of the rooms of the first military rabbinate of the German Armed Forces Bundeswehr in Berlin, Germany, on July 4, 2024. (RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP/File)

Jewish group urges far-left vote winners in Berlin to tackle antisemitism

By Céline LE PRIOUX

Essa Suleiman who is charged with attempted murder over a knife attack during which two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, appears via video link at the Old Bailey as his trial date has been set for next March, in London, Britain, May 15, 2026, in this courtroom sketch. (Julia Quenzler/Reuters)

Man who stabbed 2 Jews in Golders Green pleads not guilty to attempted murder

By Michael Holden

Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) speaks with journalists before US Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) addressed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) briefing for Senators on September 16, 2026 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images/AFP)

Ro Khanna calls to release Marwan Barghouti, in apparent first for US lawmaker

After acknowledging a possible presidential run, Democrat who represents California speaks out on behalf of prominent imprisoned Fatah terror convict

Israelis enjoy a day at an ancient archaeological site known as Herod’s Pool, near the Israeli settlement of Petzael, which was filled with water earmarked for Palestinian farmland, in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley, on June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Settlers divert West Bank spring waters as Israel pushes heritage site takeovers

By AP

Palestinians say moves are leaving them without water for farmlands in latest effort promoted by Israel’s hardline government to expand Israeli control over the territory

View of the new Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Arugot in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, September 3, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

UN blacklists 61 more firms operating in West Bank settlements

‘Deterred’ by protests, IDF said to halt proactive arrests of Haredi draft dodgers

Police sources tell newspaper that arrest operations were suspended at the initiative of the military, which maintains that it’s continuing to seek detention of draft evaders

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police during a protest against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews to the Israeli army, on Road 4 near Bnei Brak, August 8, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Together party chairman Naftali Bennett (front), together with Opposition Leader Yair Lapid and party members (right), present the party’s candidate list ahead of the upcoming general elections in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2026. (Flash90)

Man arrested for throwing salt shakers at Bennett during campaign stop in Bnei Brak

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Israeli children seen on the first day of school at the Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Baby Einsteins

Israeli study finds 68% of young kids innately think like scientists

By Diana Bletter

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Patras, Greece, say that young children can be taught scientific reasoning if asked ‘how’ things work, not ‘why’

An Armenian flag and a remembrance day poster hang in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, as the community marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, on April 24, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Report: Armenian Christian boy maced in Jerusalem while riding bike with headphones during Yom Kippur

Israeli TV says cops have reopened case after initially closing it despite assault being caught on video; boy’s mother says he is now scared of outwardly Jewish-looking people

Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building which was hit by a Russian jet drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine September 25, 2026. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Israeli teen killed in Russian drone attack on Kyiv apartment building

By Lazar Berman and Reuters

Family said to request body of 14-year-old Daniel Umansky be flown to Israel for burial, after deadly blast kills four others and injures at least 20 people in Ukrainian capital

The first film to include spoken dialogue, 1927's 'The Jazz Singer,' is the focus of this week's The Reel Schmooze. (courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘The Jazz Singer’: How the world’s first ‘talkie’ could not be more Jewy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor delve into the 1927 Al Jolson tale of a cantor’s son who just had to put on black face to make it to Broadway

A man uses a large plastic tube to wade through floodwaters in the Bang Bua district of Bangkok on September 26, 2026. (WIKUS DE WET/AFP)

Canals full, roads underwater as Bangkok declares flood disaster amid torrential rains

By Yonradee THUVAVONG

Authorities say they will focus on draining floodwaters and keeping roads and drainage systems clear, tell public not to panic about food shortages

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