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Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett (left) and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid during the swearing-in ceremony of the 24th Knesset, at the Knesset building in Jerusalem, April 6, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Report: Bennett, Lapid reach agreement on forming coalition to oust Netanyahu

Unsourced TV claim says announcement expected in coming days, but Yamina may not have all MKs on board, as Likud attempts to portray right-wing party as propping up left

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Caesarea on May 28, 2021, imploring right-wing political rivals not to join a "left-wing government" with Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Netanyahu swipes at Yamina, woos Sa’ar in bid to pry right-wingers from Lapid

Israelis held in Gaza in a 2021 combination picture: Clockwise from top left: Oron Shaul, Avera Mengistu, Hadar Goldin and Hisham al-Sayed. (Flash90/ Courtesy)

Egypt said to convey to Hamas long-term truce with Israel must see prisoner swap

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel reportedly demands ceasefire and reconstruction discussions include negotiations on return of captives; Egyptian intelligence head to visit Israel Sunday for talks with PM

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Cuyahoga Community College Metropolitan Campus, May 27, 2021, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden budget to maintain Israel support, restore Palestinian assistance and ties

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) walks alongside US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during an honor guard ceremony at Israel's military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni)

Gantz speaks with Pentagon head as IDF chief said planning US visit

Rutgers University-Camden in Camden, NJ, on Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Rutgers University condemns antisemitism, then apologizes for doing so

Following backlash from New Jersey school’s Students for Justice in Palestine, chancellor says he’s sorry for original statement and promises to be ‘more sensitive and balanced’

US President Joe Biden speaks at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Va., Friday, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden again calls out antisemitism; Congress pushes appointment of special envoy

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at an America First Rally on May 27, 2021 in Dalton, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images via AFP)

Far-right US lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene: Democrats ‘just like’ Nazi party

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians protest outside the District Court in Jerusalem against Israel's plan to evict Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, on May 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court pushes off ruling on evictions of Palestinian families in Silwan

Judges decide to wait until Supreme Court hands down decision on similar appeal against other evictions in same East Jerusalem neighborhood, amid heavy international pressure

Illustrative: Otzma Yehudit member Benzi Gopstein (with microphone), head of the radical group Lehava, leads a demonstration against the Jerusalem Pride Parade on June 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reform movement legal arm calls to classify extreme-right Lehava as terror group

Palestinian protesters use slingshots to hurl stones at Israeli security forces amid clashes in the village of Baita, south of Nablus, in the West Bank on May 28, 2021. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian shot dead during clashes with Israeli troops near Nablus

By Aaron Boxerman

Reporter's notebook'If you look for a synagogue you'll find an empty one first'

With popular Instagram account, Europe’s abandoned Jewish sites aren’t forgotten

By Yaakov Schwartz

Budapest-based Matyas Kiraly has amassed 14k followers in his travels to over 100 ruined cemeteries and synagogues, which he documents in an homage to a once-flourishing community

Rabbi, imam, pastor lay foundation stone for Berlin multi-faith ‘House of One’

By AFP

As antisemitism spikes we must cultivate spaces for learning and growth

This kind of hatred is not just found on the right: My Jewish friends on the left have been asking where their allies are, and it took me a while to hear them

In Hungary, a vicious antisemitic rant against Antony Blinken: Here’s why it matters.

The vile tirade by a mouthpiece for Victor Orban suggests that 75 years after the Holocaust, it is acceptable again to operationalize the scapegoating of Jews

People gather during a pro-Israel demonstration in front of the Israeli Embassy in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Banner reads in Spanish: "No to antisemitism." (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

As hate surges, prominent European Jews worry war against antisemitism is lost

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Attacks have spiked before during times of conflict in Israel. But this time Jewish leaders, from Paris to Berlin, are sounding very pessimistic and questioning their future

UK education minister warns schools to act over ‘abhorrent’ rising antisemitism

May sees more antisemitic incidents in UK than any month since records began

The Biran family, with Eitan on the right. (Courtesy)

Israeli boy orphaned in Italy cable car crash starts to ask about his parents

Report says Eitan Biran has so far only been told that he’s been asleep for a few days; mayor says Italian families offer to adopt child; Jewish community raises money for him

Danielle Wolfson, 43, becomes the first Israeli woman to reach the Mount Everest summit. (Courtesy)

Danielle Wolfson becomes 1st Israeli woman to reach Mount Everest summit

Tel Aviv lawyer issues message for coexistence back home after climbing all 8,849 meters; a skiing accident a decade ago left her bedridden for months

In this photograph taken on May 2, 2021, mountaineers, sherpas and team expedition members prepare for a ritual to pay their respects to Mount Everest before attempting to climb at Everest Base Camp in Solukhumbu district (Prakash MATHEMA / AFP)

Base camp virus outbreak fails to deter climbers aiming for Mt. Everest’s summit

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA

On showThis isn’t just a museum exhibit, it’s a house of horrors

Louise Bourgeois’s mix of Freud and gore makes gut-clenching, mind-bending art

By Jordan Hoffman

Now on display at NY’s Jewish Museum, a provocative – and thought-provoking – display featuring beheadings, castrations and menstrual blood also contains deep psychological insight

In this file photo from Jan. 6, 2021, Trump supporters beset a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

GOP senators block bipartisan commission into Capitol riot

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Six Republicans back probe, but rest of party votes to torpedo formation of panel looking into deadly January 6 attack, with many lawmakers still in thrall of Trump

An interview subject from 'Final Account.' (Courtesy of Focus Features LLC/ via JTA)

Film review

Surviving former Nazis give their ‘Final Account’ in new documentary

By Andrew Lapin

Now in select theaters in the US, documentarian Luke Holland’s posthumously released last title reveals the psychology of Hitler’s genocidal machine via its younger members

In this file photo taken on March 30, 2020, a health worker, wearing protective clothing amid concerns of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, conducts a swab test on a woman in her house in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

Vietnam says new hybrid Indian-British virus variant is highly contagious

By AFP

Health minister claims new COVID-19 mutation spreads quickly in the air; authorities call on people and businesses to donate money to help procure vaccines

Illustrative: A row of cabins at a summer camp in Fayette, Maine, June 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

US health agency loosens mask guidance just in time for summer camps’ return

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A vial of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 in Seattle, January 24, 2021. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

EU regulator green lights Pfizer vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds

By AP

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas addresses the media during a statement at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 28, 2021. Germany has reached an agreement with Namibia that will see it officially recognize as genocide the colonial-era killings of tens of thousands of people and commit to spending a total of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion), largely on development projects. (Tobias Schwarz/Pool Photo via AP)

Germany acknowledges colonial-era killings in Namibia as genocide

By Isabelle Le Page

Berlin promises a billion euros in financial support to descendants of victims, but activists say this is only a first step and call for direct reparations for 1904-1908 massacres

In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 file photo skulls of Ovaherero and Nama people are displayed during a devotion attended by representatives of the tribes from Namibia in Berlin, Germany. Germany has reached an agreement with Namibia that will see it officially recognize as genocide the colonial-era killings of tens of thousands of people and commit to spending a total of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion), largely on development projects. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Namibia: The first in a dark century of massacres

By AFP

Surviving Herero after an escape through the arid desert of Omaheke in German Southwest Africa (modern day Namibia), circa 1907 (Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin)

In Germany’s extermination program for black Africans, a template for the Holocaust

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A view of the Royal Courts Of Justice, which houses the High Court, in London, Jan. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

British court rules brain-damaged Jewish girl’s life support can be withdrawn

An Iranian walks across a campaign banner hanging on the facade of a building in the capital Tehran on May 28, 2021. - Iran's presidential election campaign officially kicked off, without fanfare and in an atmosphere of indifference as many say the result is a foregone conclusion. ( AFP)

Low-key kickoff to an Iran election that is seen as a forgone conclusion

By AFP

French gendarmes inspect the site where a suspect has been seen after a municipal policewoman was attacked with a knife on May 28, 2021, in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, near Nantes, western France. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

Islamic radical known to French authorities shot dead after knife attack

By Sylvie MALIGORNE and Fanny ANDRE

Illustrative: A man wears a jacket with writing on the collar which reads 'White Power' at a neo-Nazi rally in Berlin, October 10, 2009. (AP Photo)

Germany charges 4 far-left activists in attacks on neo-Nazis, other extremists

By AP

Syrians hold up national flags and pictures of Bashar Assad as they celebrate hsi election at Omayyad Square, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, May 27, 2021. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Emboldened by vote, Syria’s Assad vows to ‘defeat all enemies’

By AP

Illustrative: Israeli Border Police officers at a temporary "checkpoint" in Jerusalem on April 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

4 Border Police hurt as car tries to flee checkpoint in Arad

Samir Sfeir in an interview with al-Jadeed TV on May 28, 2021. (screen capture: YouTube)

Saudi Arabia releases Lebanese singer ‘held over Hezbollah support’

By SARAH EL DEEEB

Military personnel direct F-35 jets and helicopters on the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth as it participates in the NATO Steadfast Defender 2021 exercise off the coast of Portugal, May 27, 2021 (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)

Amid simmering Russia tensions, NATO conducts massive war games

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