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Yom Kippur

British police near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following a terror attack targeting the synagogue during Yom Kippur services. (Oli Scarff/AFP)
October 3, 2026, 4:47 am
2 Iranians accused of chlorine bomb plot against same Manchester synagogue attacked last year
Suspects arrested at start of Yom Kippur; police say they obtained materials to make an IED, scouted targets; interior minister says the pair arrived in UK on a small boat, one was granted asylum
By Agencies
William, a nine-year-old Armenian Christian boy from Jerusalem, who was pepper-sprayed by a Jewish extremist on Yom Kippur, speaks to Channel 13, in an interview aired September 26, 2026. (Screenshot)
September 28, 2026, 1:42 pm
Suspect arrested in Yom Kippur pepper-spraying of Christian child in Jerusalem
Police say 22-year-old from Haredi-majority settlement of Ganei Modi’in arrested in northern Israel after assault, in which extremists attacked child upon hearing him speak English
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
An anti-Israel protest outside a Yom Kippur service in Toronto, September 21, 2026. (X/Neil Herland)
September 27, 2026, 4:51 am
Canadian reporter said censured for video of anti-Israel rally at Yom Kippur service
Report says CBC pulled Jewish reporter Neil Herland off air, held hearing after he posted clip of rally outside his synagogue, where activists shouted ‘Zionist alert’ and ‘baby killer’
By Michael Horovitz
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)
September 26, 2026, 6:47 am
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
By ToI Staff
Vancouver Police watch as city workers begin to clear the scene where a driver killed multiple people during a Filipino community festival April 29, 2025, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
September 25, 2026, 10:44 am
Gunman shouted ‘you’re going to die for the Jews’ at cop during Ontario synagogue attack
Officials say ex-Canadian soldier targeted Yom Kippur service and was equipped for potential mass killing; officer shot multiple times helped keep him out
By Rob Gillies
Democratic US Congressional candidate Brad Lander takes the stage during an election eve rally at Silo on June 22, 2026, in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)
September 22, 2026, 8:19 pm
At Yom Kippur service, NYC’s Lander, Mahmoud Khalil accuse Israel of ‘genocide’
US House candidate and anti-Zionist activist focus holiday gathering on ‘complicity’ in alleged Israeli crimes
By Luke Tress
September 22, 2026, 2:42 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 22: Did muting Macklemore make his message louder?
News editor Ben Sales discusses backlash following the dismissal of rapper from Ed Sheeran’s tour and examines why economic platforms rarely win Israeli elections
By Gabriella Jacobs and Ben Sales
Family and friends attend the funeral of Netanel Shukrun, who was killed in a terror shooting attack at a spring near Neve Tzuf in the West Bank, at the cemetery in his community of Alei Zahav, September 21, 2026. (Hilel Ben Or/Flash90)
September 22, 2026, 6:40 am
Terror victim Netanel Shukrun laid to rest as his son thanks him ‘for saving my life’
Yoav, 16, says his father shouted a warning to him in his last moments during Sunday’s shooting at West Bank spring; widow Meirav says ‘everything was perfect’ for 18 years
By ToI Staff
A Magen David Adom paramedic rides an emergency motorcycle on Jaffa Street in central Jerusalem, August 23, 2026. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 21, 2026, 10:12 pm
Palestinian found dead in Umm al-Fahm; 2 killed on roads over Yom Kippur
Illegal entrant from West Bank reportedly fell from height, declined treatment for fear of prosecution; emergency service treats over 3,300 people nationwide during 25-hour fast
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A view of the Kol HaNeshama synagogue building in Jerusalem, July 8, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
September 21, 2026, 9:40 pm
Jerusalem Reform synagogue vandalized on Yom Kippur, in third attack in a month
Assailants damage Kol HaNeshama days after youths pelted worshipers with eggs; Reform movement says recent incidents cannot be treated as isolated
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City delivers a speech at the synagogue, May 27, 2026. (Courtesy/Lenny Medina/RetroLenz Photography)
September 21, 2026, 7:58 pm
Leading US Reform rabbi in Yom Kippur sermon: Unhinged, obsessive loathing of Israel is corrupting US values
Ammiel Hirsch warns that if antisemitism is allowed to spread, ‘it is not only Jews who will pay the price, America will too’; says Jewish voters should only back politicians ‘who support us’
By Luke Tress
Canadian police at the scene of a shooting near Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, September 20, 2026. (Screenshot/CBC)
September 21, 2026, 7:21 pm
Gunman opens fire outside Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur; police officer seriously wounded
Shooting took place at start of Sunday Yom Kippur eve services at Sons of Jacob Synagogue, nobody hurt inside building; dozens of bullets fired; police say likely a hate crime
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People ride bicycles in Jerusalem on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, September 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 20, 2026, 2:26 pm
Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur, after deadly West Bank terror shooting and with IDF on high alert
Public transportation and airspace close on eve of Day of Atonement; poll finds most Jewish Israelis will fast, including about half of those who identify as secular
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is seen on the Lebanon border, September 16, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 18, 2026, 11:50 pm
Ahead of Yom Kippur, IDF bolsters forces on all fronts; Gaza crossing to close Sun-Mon
Air Force and Navy also placed on heightened readiness
By Emanuel Fabian
Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Kapparot ceremony in the ultra orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, on September 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 16, 2026, 6:49 pm
13 municipalities to bar use of live chickens in pre-Yom Kippur ‘kapparot’ ritual, NGO says
Tel Mond, Yeruham, Mevaseret Zion, Yavne join cities including Tel Aviv, Beersheba in prohibiting ceremony where birds are swung around practitioners’ heads to remove sins
By Zev Stub
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