Attention opened on the UN General Assembly, where Syria's al-Sharaa said talks with Israel reached 90% but the problem lies in Jerusalem and the Golan will remain Syrian, while Iran's Pezeshkian cast Tehran as a victim of terror and set Hormuz conditions after Witkoff-Kushner contacts.

By midday focus shifted to the Central Elections Committee, which voted to bar MK Ofer Kasif, Balad leader Sami Abu Shahada and the Ra'am list from the Knesset race, with chairman Justice Sohlberg unusually joining the vote on Abu Shahada. All decisions require Supreme Court approval.

Afternoon coverage turned to a car-ramming at the Maccabim checkpoint on Route 443. The driver struck a police vehicle, critically wounding a reservist before being shot dead. The victim was identified as the son of Israel's ambassador to Washington, whose elder son fell in Gaza, and underwent emergency brain surgery as his father returned home.