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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 27, 2021

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Illustrative: Delegates arrive at the assembly hall of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

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UN rights council orders unprecedented permanent probe critiquing Israel

Open-ended investigation will also look into the recent fighting in Gaza between the Israeli military and the enclave’s Hamas rulers

6:20 pm

Biden ends Trump's waiver for US oil company to operate in Syria
6:03 pm

Netanyahu rails against UN rights council's 'blatant anti-Israel obsession'
5:56 pm

Bennett meets with Gantz despite denials of contacts with 'change bloc' -- TV

French Ambassador to Israel Eric Danon in 2019 (Courtesy Foreign Ministry)

Israel dresses down French envoy for FM’s ‘Israel at risk of apartheid’ warning

By ToI Staff and Agencies

FM Ashkenazi tells ambassador that comment by Le Drian was ‘far from reality’ and a prize to terrorists; says Israel expects its friends not to drive anti-Israel activities

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar holds the child of an Al-Qassam Brigades member who was killed in the recent fighting with Israel, during a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)

Hamas Gaza chief threatens new, heavier onslaught if Israel ‘violates’ Al-Aqsa

By Agencies and Aaron Boxerman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (r) meets with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on March 26, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu slams France for ‘insolent’ claim Israel at risk of apartheid

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to Channel 12 news, in an interview broadcast on May 26, 2021 (video screenshot)

Says Iran more dangerous, closer to bomb, since US quit deal

Blinken: Israel ‘took very significant steps’ to avoid hitting Gaza civilians

In interview with Israeli TV, top US diplomat laments lost lives, ‘especially children’; underlines Biden’s support for two-state solution and return to Iran accord

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabi Ashkenazi talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of Cyprus, Greece, Israel and United Arab of Emirates in city of Paphos, Cyprus, April 16, 2021. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou Pool via AP)

FM Ashkenazi to visit Egypt for Gaza talks next week

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Hamas police walk through debris from a destroyed building that was hit by an airstrike previous to a ceasefire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, Saturday, May 22, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Egypt said to invite Israel, PA, Hamas to Cairo for long-term ceasefire talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing May 27 – When the antisemitism volcano erupts, who is to blame?

Welcome to our 100th episode! Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

Mark Ruffalo appears at the "I Know This Much is True" panel during the HBO TCA 2020 Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on January 15, 2020, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Mark Ruffalo apologizes for suggesting Israel committed ‘genocide’ in Gaza

By Gabe Friedman

Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah, the UAE's first ambassador to Israel (right), meets in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 23, 2021 with Eitan Na'eh, Head of Mission of the State of Israel to the UAE (via Twitter)

Israel envoy to UAE warns of ‘Kristallnacht’ moment after antisemitic attacks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Can US help rebuild Gaza without rehabilitating Hamas?

Biden administration says it wants to use post-war opportunity to strengthen the PA; past efforts have failed to benefit Gazans and prevent terror rulers from rearming

Members of the Izz-Al Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas terror group, march in Gaza City on May 22, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

A Palestinian pupil walks past United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA) and USAID humanitarian aid, on June 6, 2010 in the Shatie refugee camp in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Biden administration adds $38.5 million in aid to the Palestinians

By JTA and Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in Jerusalem on May 26, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

‘You can always count on us’: UK top diplomat visits Israel after Gaza fighting

Interview

At a moment of crisis for Israel in US, ex-ADL head warns: Israel has no vision

‘Israel, moving right, is interacting with an America which is at best being more progressive,’ says Abraham Foxman. The Hamas war exposed the fault lines, and time is running out

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian marchers in New York, Thursday, on May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Gaza: 10 steps on the road not yet traveled

Remove Hamas and its ilk from the picture, and Israeli-Palestinian peace is possible: two states for two peoples living side by side in peace and security

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

UN rights chief: Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza may constitute ‘war crimes’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Palestinian woman walks past a destroyed building in the al-Rimal commercial district in Gaza City on May 22, 2021, following a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian terror groups. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

People are accusing Israel of genocide. These human rights lawyers beg to differ

The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus waits for the Swiss interior and health minister for a bilateral meeting on the sideline of the opening of the 74th World Health Assembly at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, on May 24, 2021. (Photo by LAURENT GILLIERON / POOL / AFP)

World Health Organization passes motion alleging Israel violating health rights

Ahmed Al Mansoori, founder of Crossroads of Civilization private museum, passes by a painting presenting UAE and Israel friendship at an exhibition commemorating the Jewish Holocaust, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 26, 2021. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

After Gaza ceasefire, UAE and Israel get back to developing ties

By AP and ToI Staff

No momentum lost in normalization between countries as fighting raged with Palestinian enclave; Israeli envoy says local authorities showed ‘understanding’ of situation

People clean the streets of debris beside a building that was previously damaged in an air-strike following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Qatar says it will contribute $500 million for Gaza reconstruction

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves upon arrival at Queen Alia International Airport, in the Jordanian capital Amman, on May 26, 2021. (Alex Brandon/POOL/AFP)

Blinken visits Jordan, wrapping up Mideast tour to shore up Gaza truce

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A screenshot from video aired by the Kan public broadcaster of the moment when Janna Kiswani is hit in the back by a rubber bullet fired by a police officer outside her home in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. (Screen capture: Twitter)

7 cops questioned over shooting of Sheikh Jarrah girl in back with sponge round

Police Internal Investigation Department suspends 3 officers for 1-2 weeks; clip shows girl, 16, shot as she enters her East Jerusalem home and a stun grenade is then thrown inside

Israeli police standing near the body of Fadi Yaloon, a Palestinian who allegedly stabbed a 15-year-old, outside Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday morning, October 4, 2015. (Flash90)

Lauded for killing terrorist 6 years ago, police officer now probed over death

By Stuart Winer

BDS supporters protesting in New York, October 2015. (BDS Facebook page)

San Francisco teachers group becomes first US K-12 union to endorse BDS movement

By Gabriel Greschler

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, speaks during the official endorsement ceremony of President Hassan Rouhani, right, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Analysis

Was Khamenei behind the barring of moderate presidential candidates in Iran?

After conservative council paves way for hardliner to win, determining the supreme leader’s stance may hold key to anticipating Iran’s next moves in Vienna nuke talks

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a video conference with a group of university students, in Tehran, Iran, on May 11, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei urges Iranians to ignore calls to boycott vote as hundreds disqualified

By AFP

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, January 6, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Rouhani urges more ‘competition’ after Iran presidential candidates banned

Jonathan Rynhold

Netanyahu’s responsibility for the Jewish-Arab meltdown in Israel

The Prime Minister empowered and emboldened Itamar Ben-Gvir and his racist, thuggish followers, who were key in triggering the inter-communal violence

Gary Rosenblatt

A rabbi’s accuser wanted me to tell her story. Here’s why it took 20 years.

My source went public after longstanding sanctions were lifted against the rabbi who committed sexual improprieties. Had he repented enough? She thought not

Organizers of a mass virtual rally against antisemitism on May 27, 2021 are urging participants to post images, such as this one, on social media and include #ActAgainstAntisemitism. (Actagainstantisemitism.org)

Thousands to take part in US virtual rally against antisemitism

Major Jewish organizations call online protest to demand meaningful policy changes, action against anti-Jewish hate

Rep. Dean Phillips (R) and Rep. Ilhan Omar in Washington. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via JTA)

Jewish Democrats accuse colleagues of antisemitism over Israel criticism

By JTA and Jacob Magid

Protesters attend a Palestine solidarity rally against board members of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) who they accuse of supporting Israeli military efforts, outside MoMA in Manhattan, New York on May 21, 2021 (Ed JONES / AFP)

Hundreds protest New York’s Museum of Modern Art board’s Israel ties

Ayelet Shaked and Bezalel Smotrich visit at a protest tent of settler leaders, outside the Prime Ministers Office in Jerusalem, February 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina, Religious Zionism trade blame for lack of right-wing government

Shaked doesn’t rule out prospect of forming coalition with ‘change bloc’ after Smotrich accuses Yamina of pretending to drop negotiations with Netanyahu’s rivals

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 25, 2019, when Rivlin tapped Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90

Ex-Walla CEO testifies he led a campaign against Rivlin on Netanyahu’s behalf

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Detail from 'Quarantine Blues' by Ciera Amaro, visual art submission to 'Dispatches from Quarantine' (Courtesy of 'Dispatches from Quarantine' project)

Project invokes teens’ Holocaust diaries to inspire youth to reflect on Covid

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Leaves of a control potato plant (L) and a genetically engineered one. (Courtesy, Shilo Rosenwasser)

Potatoes that glow when stressed: Scientists tap into tubers in trouble

Hebrew University researchers implant gene with fluorescent protein that changes color according to levels of stress indicated by quantity of potentially harmful free radicals

Archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar and several of her prominent finds. (Hebrew University/Ouria Tadmor)

Obituary

Fearless pioneering biblical archaeologist Eilat Mazar dies at 64

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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A 29-year-old man is taken into custody in the suspected murder of Vladimir Shchukin in Nikolayev, Ukraine, May 25, 2021. (National Police of Ukraine)

Jewish history and Holocaust studies scholar murdered in Ukraine

By JTA

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah coughs during a May 25, 2021, address (Twitter screenshot)

After cough-filled speech, Israeli military hints Nasrallah may have COVID

By Judah Ari Gross

A lappet-faced vulture visits the Hai Bar Nature Reserve at Yotvata in southern Israel, April 29 2021. (Noam Weiss/ International Birding and Research Center, Eilat)

Vulture thought extinct from Israel for 30 years spotted twice in a month

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma cast their votes at a polling station in Douma, near Damascus on May 26, 2021, as voting began across Syria for an election guaranteed to return Assad for a fourth term in office. (Photo LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Assad dismisses critics as Syria votes to extend his grip on power

By Maher Al-Mounes and Rouba El Husseini

From 'Thou Shalt Not Hate,' one of the films being shown at the upcoming Eighth Italian Cinema Festival, opening June 3, at Cinematheques around the country (Courtesy Cinema Italia)

Viva la cinemaA cinema paradiso comes to Israel with Italian film fest

By Jessica Steinberg

Pope Francis talks with Lidia Maksymowicz, a Holocaust survivor, who was prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, before leaving San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican for his weekly general audience, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope kisses Holocaust survivor’s Auschwitz tattoo

By AP

Illustrative: In this March 15, 2018, file photo, Uighurs and their supporters rally across the street from United Nations headquarters in New York. Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group are calling on China to post videos of their relatives who have disappeared into a vast system of internment camps. The campaign follows the release of a state media video showing famed Uighur musician Abdurehim Heyit, who many believed had died in custody. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Israel-based cybersecurity experts expose ongoing hack attacks on Uighurs

By Shoshanna Solomon

A sandwich from Daughter's Deli in los Angeles. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

Progress on rye6 US Jewish delis run by women that you need to know about

By Rachel Ringler

Illustrative: An Israeli man at a "lotto" booth in the center of Jerusalem. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Now I am a rich manGrandfather takes biggest-ever Israel lottery jackpot of NIS 76m

By Stuart Winer

In this March 6, 2019 file photo, attorney Alan Dershowitz leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York. (AP /Frank Franklin II)

Alan Dershowitz sues Netflix for $80M over Epstein show

By AP

Elliot Resnick, then editor-in-chief of The Jewish Press, seen in the crowd during the breach of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press editor who entered Capitol on Jan 6, to be replaced

Bazooka bubble gum. (Design by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)

Early American chewsThe Jewish history of Bazooka bubble gum

By Joanna O'Leary

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