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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 1, 2021

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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)

Live updates (closed)

Blue and White and Yesh Atid close in on coalition deal

Government talks continue into the night; TV says Yesh Atid chief hoping to announce a prospective ruling coalition by 11 a.m. Wednesday

6:23 pm

Gantz's Blue and White set to ink coalition deal with Yesh Atid in next hour
6:18 pm

Plans for West Bank waste incineration plant scrapped
6:10 pm

IDF recommends thickening bomb shelter window covers in Gaza border communities

(R) Naftali Bennett and (L) Yair Lapid (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid, Bennett, Sa'ar and Liberman to meet Tuesday afternoon

Rivlin’s office rebuts Likud, says Bennett can be PM 1st with Lapid as alternate

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Yesh Atid leader expected to declare on Tuesday he has coalition to oust Netanyahu; Meretz MK says her baby was threatened; Haredi party: Lapid gov’t in ‘defiance of Heaven’

Jewish Home's Naftali Bennett seen with Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, after the Draft law passed unanimously in the Knesset, March 12, 2014. (Flash90)

Lapid, Bennett said hoping to tell Rivlin Tuesday they can form government

This combination of photos shows Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas, right, and Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked. (Yonatan Sindel, Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ra’am chief meets Shaked, reportedly demands deputy interior minister role

Analysis

As antisemitic violence sweeps US, progressive Zionists jostle for space on left

Jewish social justice activists show up for other causes unconditionally – but many find themselves alienated after Israel-Hamas conflict

Pro-Israel LGBTQ activists with the Jewish group Zioness protest a ban of Star of David flags at the Dyke March in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)

Instagram app icon on the screen of a mobile device in New York, on August, 2019. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Instagram changes algorithm after claims of anti-Palestinian bias

Israelis attend a movie at the Cinema City theatre in Jerusalem on May 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Back to normal: Israel lifts nearly all COVID restraints as virus fades away

Tuesday marks end of Green Pass and Purple Badge requirements, meaning all venues can open to all people, with no limit on crowds, as nation looks to put pandemic in rear-view

Prof. Galia Rahav, Head of Sheba Medical Center's Infectious Disease Unit and Laboratory, looks at data on COVID-19 patients (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

Vaccine panel adviser gets death threats over planned inoculation of children

Illustrative: An outdoor market in the city of Prague, Czech Republic, on April 23, 2019. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Czech Republic opens to inoculated Israelis; unvaccinated can show negative test

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing June 1 – How Palestinians see the emerging Israeli government

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Palestinians wave national flags during a protest against normalization of ties between the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain with Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 15, 2020. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Palestinians happy to see Netanyahu go, but fear more of the same in Bennett

By Aaron Boxerman

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)

Edelstein to challenge Netanyahu as Likud leader if party goes to opposition

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Steven Greenberg

Dock or no dock, we need to steer the ship towards a two-state solution

Not to be aligned with American’s (nonexistent) leftward swing, and not for the Palestinians’ sake, but because it’s Israel’s only truly viable option

The danger of that #nosejob trend on TikTok

Today I wear my ’Jewish nose’ as a badge of honor, but it hasn’t always been that way. These videos are a nightmare for those with nose insecurities

Hamas then, Hamas now

Two decades after a terrorist murdered 21 young people at a Tel Aviv disco, the group’s central goal is the same: The end of Israel

Why I support Isaac Herzog for president

After a wedge was driven between Israel and many US Jews, ’Bougie’ is the right person to heal the country’s painful relations with our ultimate ally

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Illustrative image: A Shaare Zedek medical worker wearing safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward on February 3, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'We have returned ... [but] the world is still under attack'

As virus curbs canceled, top doctor sees curtains for COVID, but risks remain

By Nathan Jeffay

Israel has triumphed over coronavirus and is likely seeing herd immunity, says Prof. Dror Mevorach, but his research also shows a link between the vaccine and a heart condition

WHO to use Greek alphabet for COVID-19 variants

China confirms 1st human case of bird flu strain, says risk of spread low

By AFP

Former MK and Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren speaks during a segment of Behind the Headlines, May 30, 2021. (Times of Israel)

Behind the Headlines

Michael Oren is an open book: Join ToI Community for Q&A with former diplomat

In a special Behind the Headlines for Community members, the author, historian, ex-MK and former envoy to the US talks about his true calling and the challenges facing Jews today

An elderly couple walking on Jaffa street in central Jerusalem on February 20, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Being optimistic can extend your life, Israeli study finds

Hebrew University researchers followed 1,200 elderly Jerusalemites for some 30 years and measured their positive outlook on life

Agnes Keleti reacts to fireworks going off on her birthday cake in Budapest, Hungary Monday Jan. 4, 2021. At 103, she is one of the oldest Holocaust survivors living in 2023. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

Israeli scientists extend mice’s lives by 23%, say method may work on humans

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: Yahya Sinwar (R), Hamas' political chief in Gaza, embraces General Abbas Kamel (L), Egypt's intelligence chief, as the latter arrives for a meeting with leaders of Hamas in Gaza City on May 31, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Hamas says willing to hold ‘immediate negotiations’ with Israel on prisoner swap

By Aaron Boxerman

Announcement comes as Egyptian spy chief visits Gaza; terror group’s deputy in the Strip says he rejects any attempt to condition reconstruction on issue of captives

Illustrative: Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces near the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus May 18, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Amid shaky Gaza ceasefire, Hamas calls for West Bank ‘Day of Rage’ on Friday

By Emanuel Fabian

The area near the community of Sdeh Avraham in southern Israel where a Palestinian man attacked a security guard, after entering Israel from the Gaza Strip on May 30, 2021. (Israel Police)

IDF: Gaza stabber wasn’t spotted crossing border, due to ‘human error’

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Analysis

After Gaza ceasefire, Egypt surges to the fore as regional player

In a nearly unprecedented public show of its Israeli ties, including a spy chief photo op with Netanyahu, Egypt seeks to dispel international human rights concerns

A Fire and Rescue Services vehicle is parked next to a field that was burnt by a suspected balloon-borne incendiary device from the Gaza Strip on May 31, 2021. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Suspected Gaza arson balloon sparks fire in south in apparent violation of truce

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing a ceremony to hand over control of the Mossad intelligence agency from outgoing director Yossi Cohen to his replacement David Barnea, June 1, 2021. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu: We’ll defend against Iranian threat even at cost of friction with US

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM says Israel will ‘do everything, but everything’ to prevent Tehran from getting nuclear weapons; Gantz: Differences should be solved discreetly, not with ‘defiant rhetoric’

President Hassan Rouhani, second right, is shown new centrifuges and listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran ducking questions about uranium at undeclared sites, UN watchdog says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors (2nd and 3rd left) and Iranian technicians at the Natanz nuclear power plant, south of Tehran, on January 20, 2014. (Kazem Ghane/IRNA/AFP/File)

UN nuclear watchdog says no access to key Iran enrichment data since February

By KIYOKO METZLER and David Rising

Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, new Mossad chief David Barnea, center, and Yossi Cohen, at a farewell ceremony for departing Shin Bet chief Cohen, on May 31, 2021. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

We penetrated ‘heart of hearts’ of Iran, outgoing Mossad head exalts at farewell

Yossi Cohen and Benjamin Netanyahu talk up raid on nuclear archive, other unspecified activities against Tehran, as head of spy agency leaves post

People gather to view the rubble of the al-Jalaa building in Gaza City, Friday, May 21, 2021. The building housed The Associated Press bureau in Gaza City for 15 years. (AP/John Minchillo)

Gantz, IDF backpedal from claim that AP journalists ‘drank coffee with Hamas’

By AP and ToI Staff

Defense minister, army spokesperson say ‘cafeteria’ comments from IDF chief regarding bombing of Gaza tower housing both media and terror group wing were meant to be figurative

Defense Minister Benny Gantz addresses the media in Jerusalem on May 31, 2021. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Gantz says Gaza rebuilding hinges on return of captives, long-term quiet

Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, on May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/ Sebastian Scheiner)

In Israel, Ted Cruz says Biden showed ‘weakness,’ emboldened Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The old gateposts to the Sylt concentration camp on the island of Alderney, 2012. (CC BY-SA 2.0/ John Rostron)

Uncovered report reveals details of UK island’s Nazi concentration camp killings

British intelligence officer compiled document on WWII German camps on Channel Islands where hundreds of people, many of them Jewish, were killed or died under brutal conditions

The state prison in Florence, Arizona that houses the state's gas chamber, on July 23, 2014. (AP Photo)

Arizona said looking to restart executions with gas used by Nazis at Auschwitz

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

Lebanese report claims Nasrallah sick with pneumonia and allergies, not COVID

By Emanuel Fabian

Sources close to Hezbollah chief say he is under medical supervision but does not need hospital treatment

In this January 14, 2020 file photo, anti-government protesters smash a bank widow during protests against the Lebanese central bank's governor and against the deepening financial crisis, at Hamra trade street, in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP/Hussein Malla)

World Bank says Lebanon’s financial crisis among world’s worst since 1850s

By Jean-Marc Mojon

The Israeli woman who crossed into Syria and was returned in a deal brokered by Russia, in a picture shown by Channel 13 on February 20, 2021 (Channel 13 screenshot)

Israeli woman rescued from Syria found after fleeing welfare program – report

More Headlines

Statues found during the excavation of the basilica in the Tel Ashkelon National Park. (Yaniv Cohen/ Nature and Parks Authority)

Ashkelon park renovation to unveil Israel’s largest Roman basilica to public

Illustrative: Police clash with Palestinians outside Jerusalem's Old City on Jerusalem Day, May 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

2 Palestinians charged with terrorism for rock attack that injured baby

Oil shale rock burns on its own once lit with a blow torch. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

Planning committee greenlights next stage of oil shale and plastic waste factory

A man stands amid the debris at the entrance of a field hospital in the the village of Atareb in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on March 21, 2021, after it was reportedly targeted by regime shelling. (AAREF WATAD / AFP)

Move to grant Syria seat on WHO board sparks backlash

By AP

The Asi Stream at Kibbutz Nir David. (Shlomi Mishali, Pikiwiki Israel, Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5)

State sides with public over access to picturesque kibbutz stream

Selahaddin Gulen, a nephew of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, stands between Turkish flags in this photo provided by Turkish intelligence service, on May 31, 2021, in Ankara, Turkey. (Turkish Intelligence Service via AP)

Turkish agents snatch nephew of Erdogan foe in Kenya

By AFP

The Israeli and United Arab Emirates flags seen on the side of a road in the city of Netanya, August 16, 2020. (Flash90)

Israel, UAE sign tax treaty to encourage investment, boost economic cooperation

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Israeli Heron military drone flies over the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on November 13, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Israel signs $200 million deal to sell UAVs to Asian country

The DayTwo app in action (Courtesy)

DayTwo, a maker of diet advice app based on gut bacteria, raises $37 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

CyberArk's President and CEO Udi Mokady (Courtesy)

CyberArk inaugurates new cybersecurity R&D center in Beersheba

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Rafael stand at the GISEC Global 2021 Cyber Security Expo in Dubai, May 31 to June 2, 2021 (Courtesy)

Defense contractor Rafael sets up consortium to tackle industrial hacks

By Shoshanna Solomon

An illustrative image of a spider web and spider silk (Roman Budnyi; iStock by Getty Images)

The other web: Startup says it has produced material as strong as spider silk

By Shoshanna Solomon

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