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What Matters Most On Monday, May 31, 2021

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Yamina party head Naftali Bennett gives a press conference at the Knesset on May 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Move could bring end to Netanyahu era, but PM still fighting

Saying Netanyahu-led effort futile, Bennett opts for unity government with Lapid

Yamina leader portrays move as only alternative to more elections; Netanyahu accuses him of scamming voters and claims right-wing MKs can still defect and torpedo ‘left-wing’ bid

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett (L) with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid in the Knesset on September 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Negotiations advance, with Lapid said set to announce government within 1-2 days

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

Planned Lapid-Bennett security cabinet would have right-wing majority

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, seen during a visit at the COVID-19 vaccination center in Zarzir, northern Israel, on February 9, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Edelstein to challenge Netanyahu for Likud leadership if party in opposition

Health minister planning bid to replace longtime party leader if Lapid-Bennett government is formed

6:20 pm

Most remaining COVID restrictions to be lifted Tuesday
5:57 pm

Edelstein could challenge Netanyahu for Likud leadership
5:55 pm

UN watchdog: Access to key Iranian data lacking since Feb 23

Use of 'traitor' echoes incitement before Rabin was killed

Shaked to get extra security amid threats to Yamina ‘traitors’ for joining Lapid

Knesset Guard to boost protection for party No. 2 as she, Bennett face harassment and threats from right-wingers; brother of Netanyahu’s wife accuses Yamina lawmakers of treason

Blue and White party leader Defense Benny Gantz speaks at a ceremony in memory of Israeli soldiers who were killed in the First Lebanon War- Operation Peace for Galilee at the National Hall of Remembrance at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on May 26, 2021. (Flash90)

Gantz: Right-wing threats to Yamina show lesson of Rabin’s killing not learned

Right-wing protesters outside the home of Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2021. The sign with a picture of Shaked and Yamina leader Naftali Bennett reads 'Lapid's collaborators' (Flash90)

Op-ed

If Netanyahu is not careful, there will be blood

He is uniquely capable of calming the hotheads, of delineating the line between legitimate political struggle and darkness. He owes it to himself, and to all of Israel, to do so

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 31 – The ‘far-fetched’ PM: Bennett says he wants a revolution

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett greets his supporters after first exit poll results for the Israeli election at his party's headquarters in Petah Tikva, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Who is Naftali Bennett, the man who could be Israel’s next prime minister?

By AFP

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Will a Bennett-Lapid government end the Netanyahu era? Join Israel Policy Forum for an exclusive conversation with Channel 12 Chief Political Analyst Dana Weiss.

What’s wrong with the NY Times’ report on children’s deaths? So much.

It’s a one-sided article that obscured whether Hamas was an information source, which deaths were caused by ’friendly fire,’ and why Israel used force at all

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

I will not be a lamb on the altar of your purity

Once I felt if only I explained more, if only I explained better, surely you would understand that I’m fighting for my life. Not anymore.

Water supplies, once an obstacle, can now be an impetus for peace

Ecological interdependence between Palestinians and Israelis is not just a fact, it’s potentially the basis for a roadmap to end the conflict

Anti-Israel liars are inciting antisemitism

Hamas decided to launch a murderous terror campaign targeting Israelis. Somehow, that got left out of the story.

File: The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations executive vice chair Malcolm Hoenlein (R) and CEO William Daroff at The Times of Israel offices in Jerusalem. (Times of Israel)

US antisemitism far worse than reported, say Conference of Presidents leaders

By Lazar Berman

Vast majority of incidents go unreported, argues Malcolm Hoenlein; intersectionality seen as major driver of latest wave of attacks

US protesters supporting Palestinians hold a rally on May 18, 2021, in Dearborn, Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Police chief in Michigan apologizes for liking pro-Israel Facebook post

Bill Maher arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, February 26, 2017. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Bill Maher defends Israel’s Gaza operation on his HBO show

By JTA and ToI Staff

Blue White MK Yair Lapid speaks at the Maariv conference in Herzliya, on December 25, 2019. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Lapid’s great gamble: Once the government is in place, the Haredim will join

A narrow, fractured coalition needs the ultra-Orthodox parties to survive. Bennett is trying a conciliatory approach to achieve that, while Lapid opts for blunt force trauma

UAE envoy Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah, left, meets Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Shalom Cohen in Jerusalem, May 30, 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Top ultra-Orthodox rabbi tells UAE envoy Temple Mount shouldn’t concern Jews

Shas party spiritual leader Shalom Cohen and Emirati ambassador Al Khajah meet, agree that recent violence at Jerusalem holy site is ‘crazy’

Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi (R) receiving a Beitar Jerusalem fan club membership card from club owner Moshe Hogeg at an event in Barcelona, Spain, in December 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

3 of Israel’s most-hyped initial coin offerings were scams, ex-employees allege

By Simona Weinglass

An assistant to the Beitar Jerusalem owner sues his boss, claiming that Moshe Hogeg and his associates stole $250 million raised through Stox, Sirin Labs and Leadcoin ICOs

Participants of the joint Israeli-Arab-Palestinian "tech-pitch" event in Jerusalem organized by JVP. The images of some of the participants are blurred to protect their identity and security (Courtesy)

Israeli-Arab-Palestinian tech-pitch night brings sliver of hope to fraught ties

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Jerusalem tech event hosted by venture fund JVP brings together, some by Zoom, 60 entrepreneurs from Jerusalem, Gaza, Nablus, Rahat and the UAE

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 29, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Chief justice slams Knesset speaker’s attacks on High Court, warns of ‘anarchy’

Esther Hayut rails against ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ comments by Yariv Levin, who accused justices of a ‘coup’ after they rebuked Knesset for amending Basic Law

Bottles apparently prepared for use as Molotov cocktails by Jewish right-wing extremists for an attack on Palestinian workers near Afula, May 2021. (Screenshot: Channel 12 news)

Jewish extremists reportedly attempted major firebomb attack on Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Group gathered Molotov cocktails and arranged to target bus stop used by West Bank workers near Afula this month; attack didn’t happen since they failed to find the hidden weapons

Four Jewish suspects accused of stabbing an Arab man at the Mahane Yehuda market are brought to the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing, May 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Four Jews charged with terrorism after allegedly stabbing Arab in Jerusalem

By Aaron Boxerman

IDF troops map out the home of a Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a drive-by shooting, ahead of its potential demolition, in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, May 6, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF moves to demolish home of suspect in deadly West Bank terror shooting

Screen capture from video of community security officer Andrei Dustov describing how he fought hand to hand with a knife-wielding terrorist from the Gaza Strip, May 31, 2021. (Channel 12 News)

Security officer tells of life-or-death struggle with knife-wielding Gazan

By Stuart Winer

‘I understood that there is a terrorist with me in the car,’ recalls Andrea Dustov of moment a Palestinian lunged at his head with a blade

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, hosts Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel at his official residence in Jerusalem, May 30, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu meets Egyptian spy chief, demands return of captives in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

File - Israeli security forces search the area where a Palestinian man was suspected of having entered southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on May 30, 2021. (Hamal Darom)

Security officer stabbed in south by man who entered Israel from Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Yossi Cohen receiving an honorary doctorate at Bar-Ilan University on May 30, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/Bar-Ilan University)

Exiting Mossad boss urges expansion of activity against Iran

Yossi Cohen, a close confidant of Netanyahu, says Tehran needs to be taught consequences of ‘crossing the line’

Iran President Hassan Rouhani (L) and Saudi Arabia King Salman. (AP)

Iran says ‘good atmosphere’ in talks with Saudi Arabia on restoring ties

By AFP

A picture shows supertanker Grace 1, suspected of carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, after it was detained off the coast of Gibraltar on July 4, 2019. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP)

Documents show US seized Iranian crude oil off UAE coast, sold it for $110m

By Jon Gambrell

Rabbi Stephen Slater at the entrance of Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama. (Kim Eriksson/ via JTA)

'I was a frum Christian before I was a frum Jew'

Rabbi Stephen Slater credits his Baptist missionary parents for his spirituality

While he’s not the only Jew by choice serving as a pulpit rabbi, he’s the only one whose parents spent decades bringing Jesus to the Ivory Coast — and his devotion reflects it

The Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Israel reportedly set to ease export quotas of natural gas

By Shoshanna Solomon

An inter-ministerial committee recommends increasing exports from 40% to 52% of total yearly production and imposing no export curbs on fuel from new fields

Novidea founder and CEO Roi Agababa (David Garb)

From the webIsraeli insurtech co Novidea raises $30 million

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Migdal Capital Markets becomes first investment house to track new green index

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Medical workers at a vaccination center, in Tel Aviv. March 8, 2021. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Vaccination of children aged 12-15 reportedly expected to start next week

Guangzhou, China, December 2019. The Shangxiajiu pedestrian street in Liwan District, a main shopping district of the city and a major tourist attraction (Parichart Thongmee; iStock by Getty Images).

Israel-China medical fund to raise $300m for joint drug development ventures

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Linoy Ashram of Israel performs with the ball during the 36th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 29, 2020. (AP/ Efrem Lukatsky)

Israeli gymnast Ashram snags gold, two silvers at Italy World Cup

Illustrative: Police cars are parked at a main square in the Swedish city of Vetlanda on March 4, 2021, one day after a stabbing attack. (Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)

Non-Jewish man wearing kippah in solidarity with Jews is assaulted in Sweden

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Women protest sexual assault laws during the trial of alleged rapist Yarin Sherf in Tel Aviv, March 12, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Report on alleged rape of minor slams administrators of quarantine hotel

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Nashville hat shop hatWRKS apologized for selling yellow star patches opposing coronavirus vaccination policies (Google Maps/JTA)

Nashville hat shop sorry for selling ‘Not Vaccinated’ yellow Jewish stars

German Chancellor Angela Merkel uses her mobile phone during a debate at the Bundestag in Berlin, December 8, 2020. (MACDOUGALL/AFP)

US reported to have spied on Merkel, European allies with Danish help

By AFP

French-Polish director Roman Polanski stands on the red carpet of the 45th Deauville US Film Festival, in Deauville, northern France, September 7, 2019. (Lou Benoist/AFP)

In new film, director Polanski revisits the horrors of his Holocaust boyhood

By AFP

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