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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 30, 2021

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Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett at a press conference in the Knesset, in Jerusalem on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud: Bennett wants to be prime minister 'at any price'

With his party’s support, Bennett says he’s heading into government with Lapid

All Yamina MKs but one say they will back leader in joining bloc of parties seeking to oust Netanyahu; unapologetic Bennett insists coalition won’t be leftist

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in the Knesset on July 29, 2013, with Naftali Bennett (left) and Gideon Sa'ar. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)

Last-ditch offer: Netanyahu says Sa’ar can be PM 1st in 3-way deal with Bennett

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-transportation minister Israel Katz attend the inauguration ceremony for a new train station in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, September 17, 2018. (Flash90)

Katz says he suggested Netanyahu step aside for a year to allow right-wing gov’t

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett gives a televised speech at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Bennett declares he’s working to form gov’t with Lapid: It’s unity or elections

Yamina chief says Netanyahu has no options for assembling a right-wing coalition, calls it a ‘complete lie’ to say otherwise; PM accuses him of instigating ‘scam of the century’

7:24 pm

Palestinian armed with knives caught entering southern Israel from Gaza
6:26 pm

Likud ministers said angered Netanyahu didn't let one of them form right-wing gov't
6:10 pm

Gantz gives Egyptian spymaster Israel's view on how to ensure calm in Gaza

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid during a ceremony at Netiv Ha'avot, at the West Bank's Elazar settlement, on July 23, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

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Head of the Yamina party Naftali Bennett gives a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 5, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police said investigating threats against Bennett on social media

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A car is set on fire during clashes between Arab and Jews in Acre, northern Israel, May 12, 2021 (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Netanyahu sought social media blackout during Jewish-Arab unrest — reports

PM said to have suggested move twice, pushed plan to block access to TikTok during major riots in mixed cities earlier this month; legal officials blocked proposal

Border police patrol the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod after riots. May 19, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Police minister said seeking Shin Bet involvement to curb ethnic unrest

The study's authors found '...significant numbers of scaleless fish remains, especially catfish.' (iStock)

Analysis

Joshua Berman and Ari Z. Zivotofsky

Those fishy reports on ancient Israelites eating non-kosher seafood

Analysis of fish remains in ancient Israel actually confirms what the Bible tells us and indicates these laws were widely known during the biblical period

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Forty-five people died at Meron. Why are Haredi parties blocking a probe?

Ultra-Orthodox political leaders resist an independent investigation of Israel’s worst civil disaster, sparking growing anger within the community

Ultra-Orthodox Jews light candles and mourn for the 45 victims of the deadly crush during Lag B'Omer celebrations at Mount Meron, at the scene of the fatal disaster. May 1, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Illustrative: Demonstrators hold placards as they march in support of the Palestinians in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 20, 2021.(Daniel SLIM / AFP)

Pro-Palestinian rally in Washington seeks end to US aid to Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

More than 1,000 demonstrate on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as ceasefire between Israel and Gaza terror groups holds

Illustrative: A woman covers her face in the style of Palestinian and Lebanese militants as she holds a Palestinian flag in a pro-Palestinians gathering in Tehran, Iran, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah coordinated Gaza fighting in joint war room — report

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj. Gen. Esmail Ghaani is seen in this undated photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran Quds Force chief: Zionists should rebuy homes in Europe before prices rise

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (R) meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi (L) at the Tahrir Palace in Cairo, Egypt, May 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Ashkenazi visits Egypt in 1st trip by Israeli foreign minister in 13 years

By ToI Staff and AP

At same time, Egyptian intelligence chief heads to Israel for talks with PM on Gaza truce, rebuilding; Ashkenazi: Israel ‘above all’ committed to return of captives held by Hamas

Fire and smoke rise from the al-Jalaa Tower, which housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, as it is destroyed in an Israeli airstrike after the IDF warned the occupants to leave a building it said was a Hamas asset, Gaza City, May 15, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Aware or not, AP Gaza staff had coffee with Hamas men, IDF chief reported to say

The shield of David: A tribute to the work of Dr. Eilat Mazar ob”m

What impressed me most, a Haredi woman who teaches Torah, was not the hunch that led to her City of David excavations, but her absolute commitment to truth

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Losing the Insta-fada, but winning the war

There are 14 million Jews, total. Bella Hadid has 43 million Instagram followers. We have no chance in the fight for public opinion, but it almost doesn’t matter

Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, northern Italy, May 23, 2022. (Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Piemontese via AP)

Suspects in Italy cable car crash released from custody; 1 sent to house arrest

Judge determines 3 men don’t pose flight risk, won’t tamper with evidence; they face manslaughter charges over disaster that killed 14, including 5 members of Israeli family

Isaac Yosef opened the kosher Frena Bakery and Cafe in 2016. (Courtesy of Yosef/ via JTA)

'He treats us like family'

In San Francisco, Israeli bakery makes waves hiring formerly incarcerated staff

When Isaac Yosef took a chance on an ex-con who’d learned Hebrew to bolster his Bible study, he opened the door for others people were reluctant to hire — and who are now thriving

A yellow Star of David Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis, is seen with other belongings of Holocaust survivors from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp that are on display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, January 24, 2005 (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Backlash against US store selling yellow star anti-vaccination patches

By AFP

Nashville store excoriated on social media and targeted by protesters; iconic hatmaker Stetson says it will no longer do business with shop selling ‘not vaccinated’ badges

A patient receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at a temporary vaccination center in Versailles, France on May 29, 2021. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

Pfizer shot less effective, but still protects against Indian strain — study

By AFP

In this April 24, 2021 file photo, people visit the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo, April 24, 2021 (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt hopes new discoveries from ancient times will tempt post-pandemic tourists

Officials looking to Egypt’s ancient history, especially recent discoveries, to revive an industry that had been ravaged even before coronavirus

Customers sit in a terrace bar in downtown Barcelona, Spain, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

As summer rolls around, Europe sees dramatic fall in COVID cases

By Nicole Winfield, Frank Jordans and Colleen Barry

A play for a pandemic, performed at a former leper colony

By Jessica Steinberg

Director Aya Kaplan says audiences need this cathartic adaptation of I.L. Peretz’s short story about patients isolated from their communities, at Jerusalem’s Hansen House

As summer vacations near, health chief says no change to travel quarantine rules

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File: Israeli sculptor artist Dani Karavan poses for a picture in the Knesset on July 11, 2013 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dani Karavan, creator of Knesset wall carving and works around world, dies at 90

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Pregnant woman dies along with fetus; doctors suspect amniotic fluid embolism

In this file photo taken on May 6, 2021, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and partner Carrie Symonds arrive at Methodist Hall in central London to cast their votes in local elections. (AFP)

British PM Johnson marries fiancée in secret ceremony

Illustrative image of a doctor with digital icons (chaiyapruek2520, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli digital health startups raise $700m in Q1, nearly equal to all 2020

By Shoshanna Solomon

Eilat's Red Sea Hotel, where an alleged gang rape took place in mid-August 2020. (Channel 12 screenshot)

1 suspect in Eilat gang rape of teen convicted of indecent assault in plea deal

William Shakespeare (John Taylor, National Portrait Gallery, Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

A man can die but onceArgentine TV reports William Shakespeare died after COVID vaccine

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli actor arrested for attacking his mother with swords

Illustrative: An unidentified defendant, back to camera, stands before a judge at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran, February 18, 2012. (ILNA,Houshang Hadi/AP)

Iran confirms spying, propaganda charges against French detainee

By AFP

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