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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 2, 2021

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Head of the Yamina party Naftali Bennett (left) and head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid seen in the plenum hall of the Knesset during the voting in the presidential election, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hours before deadline, talks with Ra’am, Yamina on forming government said stuck

By Raoul Wootliff

Lapid still struggling to close gaps with Ayelet Shaked and Islamist party before midnight; prospective vote to swear in new government won’t be held for 12 days

Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 31, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judicial appointments the remaining snag as Lapid bids to declare government

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Joint List MKs (from L) , Aida Touma-Suleiman, Ayman Odeh, Ahmad Tibi, Sami Abou Shahadeh, and Ofer Cassif visit the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on May 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Most Joint List MKs to vote against unity government that would oust Netanyahu

Illustrative: Isaac Herzog outside the Knesset (Courtesy)

Herzog: Will work with all PMs; PM: Let's not get into that!

Isaac Herzog elected Israel’s 11th president, with 87 votes of Knesset’s 120

By Raoul Wootliff

Jewish agency head, former Labor chief and son of 6th president defeats educator Miriam Peretz, says he’ll work to ‘build bridges’ within Israeli society and with Diaspora

Isaac Herzog raises a toast at the Knesset after he was elected by lawmakers as Israel's 11th president, June 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Mazel tov, Mr. President!’: Herzog feted after winning vote in landslide

AnalysisWednesday’s presidential race is a microcosm of Israeli Jews’ deeper divides

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Yamina chief Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid are seen on Wednesday evening, as they inform President Reuven Rivlin they have succeeded in forming a government, June 2, 2021 (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Change bloc clinches majority in 11th-hour talks, aims for swift swearing-in

Parties of potential coalition could try to oust Speaker Yariv Levin if he delays vote; leaders fear intense Netanyahu effort to break up bloc before vote takes place

10:35 pm

Bennett holds 'good' meeting with MK mulling mutiny
9:45 pm

Netanyahu allies decry new government as center-left celebrates
9:22 pm

Return of Iran nuclear deal needs only 'will,' Rouhani says

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Presidential candidates Miriam Peretz and Isaac Herzog (Meir Elifor, courtesy)

MKs to elect Israel’s 11th president: A political prince vs. a bereaved mother

Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg at the Muqata'a compound, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 10, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Meretz MK flees her home after right-wing threats to her baby, protests outside

By Raoul Wootliff

Prospective gov’t minister Tamar Zandberg comes under attack after article on right-wing site falsely claims she wants to imprison Chabad members who offer phylacteries to minors

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Poll shows nearly half Likud members back Netanyahu taking time out

By Stuart Winer

Likud MK Miki Zohar seen at the Knesset, October 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu loyalist condemns right-wing threats against rival politicians

Personnel standing on support ship Kharg, the largest vessel in the Iranian navy, after it caught fire in the Gulf of Oman and later sank, June 2, 2021. (Asriran.com via AP)

Largest ship in Iranian navy catches fire and sinks

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell

Crew evacuated from support vessel Kharg after blaze breaks out on board in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz

The explosion of a Syrian post along the Israel-Syria border seen through an IDF night sight (Screencapture/Channel 13)

Israel destroys Syrian army post in Golan Heights

By AFP and ToI Staff

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The end of democracy in Israel as we know it

Putting Naftali Bennett at the helm will mark the first time in the history of democracies that someone with less than 5% voter support is made prime minister

Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria protect all of Israel

In Gaza, we disengaged and rocketfire steadily got worse. In the West Bank, Jews remain in our ancestral land and terror groups have posed no similar threat

Shayna Goldberg

The time I took my own advice… and wrote a book

I wanted to write about how fear gets in the way of good decision-making. About how trust is the key. I was sure it would help people. But I was afraid

America is over. I’m moving to Israel

I don’t know if another Holocaust is possible in the US, but after what I’ve seen lately, I do believe that at some point Jews will no longer be welcome here

From right to left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, new Mossad chief David Barnea and the intelligence's agency's outgoing leader Yossi Cohen, on June 1, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

New Mossad chief: Even as it negotiates, Iran working toward ‘dream’ of nukes

Speaking at swearing-in ceremony, David Barnea says Tehran seeking ‘an international guise of protection’ as it takes strides ‘toward a weapons of mass destruction program’

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

From the blogs

First came the Farhud: The 2-stage ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jewry

Eighty years after slaughter, rape and robbery, after expulsion and dispossession, Iraqi Jews are denied access to a precious archive of their communal history

US President Joe Biden applauds during the commencement for the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, May 19, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Biden scores 70 percent approval rating among American Jews

American Jewish Committee poll finds wide overall support among Jewish community for Democratic US president while Orthodox voters generally disapprove of his administration

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, fist-bumps US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel on April 12, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz expected to seek $1 billion Iron Dome restock during snap US visit

Israeli medical staff cheer an Israeli airforce acrobatic team flying over Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on Israel's 72nd Independence Day, April 29, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As Israel’s COVID restrictions end, two experts offer advice for other countries

By Nathan Jeffay

Top epidemiologists reflect on what the world can learn from Israel’s successes, and failures, when it comes to kids, borders, long-term planning and more

Illustrative: An Israeli health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in a gymnasium in the central Israeli city of Hod Hasharon, on February 4, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel reports link between Pfizer 2nd shot and heart problem in males under 30

Myocarditis side effect is extremely rare and in most cases mild; experts say finding unlikely to affect decision on vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds

Illustrative: Students receive COVID-19 vaccine injections, at Amal high school in the southern city of Beersheba, March 17, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel to begin vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds next week

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

In this photo from March 26, 2017, Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip pray as they wait on the Israeli side of the Erez terminal to cross into Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Despite ceasefire, most Gazans seeking medical care still can’t enter Israel

By Aaron Boxerman

Many treatments, including chemotherapy, unavailable in Hamas-ruled enclave; Israeli military says only ‘urgent’ cases allowed into Israel due to security situation

The scene of a direct rocket hit on a building in Sderot, southern Israel, in which Ido Avigal, 5, was killled, on May 12, 2021 (Sderot Municipality)

After boy killed, IDF calls to reinforce bomb shelter windows in Gaza-area towns

Willie Zabar, left, is the host of a new podcast about his family's business. Zabar's General Manager Scott Goldshine, right, appears on the show. (David Zabar/ via JTA)

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Willie Zabar’s podcast takes you behind the scenes of his family’s iconic store

As pandemic sends him back to the family business, a scion to the NYC supermarket known for its lox and other delicacies gives listeners a taste of its colorful day-to-day life

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to reporters on the roof of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, June 1, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Time of Israel)

GOP senator: Arab leaders say they’ll enrich uranium at levels approved for Iran

By Lazar Berman

In Jerusalem, Lindsey Graham says Israel will request $1 billion to replenish Iron Dome after Gaza conflict; citing strong bipartisan support, he predicts Congress will approve it

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

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Scene of an incident in which two police officers were stabbed, leaving one critically injured and another lightly injured in the Givat Ze'ev settlement, June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

2 officers injured, one critically, as they approach man suspected of vandalism

By Stuart Winer

Jordanian Bassem Awadallah, then vice president of the King Abdullah II Fund for Development (KAFD), speaks to media in the ancient city of Petra, June 20, 2006. (Joseph BARRAK / AFP)

Jordan refers 2 to security court over alleged plot tied to king’s half-brother

By AP

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Man suspected of killing wife who was leaving him, then killing self

A view of the Dead Sea Works factory on February 2, 2018. (Issac Harari/Flash90)

State allows Dead Sea Works to pump more water, even as iconic lake recedes

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

Israeli boy orphaned in Italy cable car crash out of intensive care

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israelis take part in a protest march to demand immediate action on climate change, Tel Aviv, March 29, 2019. The sign reads: 'What green do you see?' (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Israeli businesses told to think sustainability or sink financially

The monday.com team, June 2020 (Shlomi Yossef)

Workplace collaboration firm monday.com eyes $6 billion valuation in Nasdaq IPO

By Shoshanna Solomon

A SPYDER surface-to-air missile is fired in a test in an undated photograph. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.)

Israel’s military exports hit $8.3 billion in 2020, second highest-ever total

By AFP

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Unemployment benefits for young Israelis to end in July as economy reopens

Colourful yarn spools for use in the textile, garment industry (Ja'Crispy; iStock by Getty Images)

Textile maker Delta teams up with startup Sonovia to pilot innovative fabrics

By Shoshanna Solomon

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