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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 3, 2021

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Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (L), Yamina leader Naftali Bennett (C) and Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas sign a coalition agreement on June 2, 2021. (Courtesy of Ra'am)

'We will do everything to unite Israeli society'

Lapid informs president he can form government removing Netanyahu from power

But coalition won’t be finalized until Knesset vote in up to 12 days; right-wing MK could oppose it, possibly dooming bid; Ra’am is 1st Arab party in decades to ink coalition deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a face mask due to the coronavirus outbreak, seen in the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu assails nascent coalition, urges defections, calls meeting of his bloc

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)

Israel media reviewMy so-called coalition: What the press is saying about Lapid’s new government

By Joshua Davidovich

Head of the Yamina party Naftali Bennett gives a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (Closed)

Bennett: ‘I told my kids their father will be the most hated person in Israel’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

PM-designate defends teaming up with Lapid: ‘My core vow was to get Israel out of the chaos’ * Retracts his pre-election remarks that Ra’am leader Abbas is a ‘terror supporter’

9:27 pm

Civil society NGOs urge Biden to establish international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace at G7
9:16 pm

Democratic senators pan 'anti-Palestinian hate' after community center receives bomb threats
6:59 pm

High Court petition against Netanyahu urges appointment of 35 ambassadors, consuls

Yamina head Naftali Bennett (L) and Labor chair Merav Michaeli in the Knesset plenum for the election of Israel's 11th president, June 2, 2021. (Dani Shem Tov/ Knesset)

Coalition of firsts: A national religious PM, most Arabs, most female ministers

Many records will be broken if the Lapid-Bennett government is sworn in, from the most factions to the most journalists to the most ex-Netanyahu aides

Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin at the swearing-in of the 24th Knesset on April 6, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

Change bloc seeks to replace Knesset speaker; Yamina MK says he won’t back move

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

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)

Analysis

Lapid and Bennett have a coalition on paper, but Netanyahu will fight to the end

Drawing together eight wildly disparate parties was immensely difficult. The PM can be relied upon to make the lead-up to the Knesset’s vote of confidence more tortuous still

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after an address from the Knesset, Sunday, May 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Pool via AP)

AnalysisIsrael eyes end of era after Netanyahu foes reach deal, but he has time to fight

By Daniella Cheslow

Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid, center, seen in the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US lobby groups welcome broad coalition, fret over efficacy of ‘ragtag’ members

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Ra'am party chief Mansour Abbas speaks with reporters following coalition talks in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 (Tal Schneider/The Times of Israel)

History made as Arab Israeli Ra’am party joins Bennett-Lapid coalition

By Aaron Boxerman

The first Arab party to join a government in decades, Islamists make good on promise to seek change from inside, winning billions in promised state funding for community

Israeli right-wing protesters chant slogans and hold flags during a demonstration against the forming of a new government in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Right flank of change coalition lays low as Netanyahu backers fume at alliance

People protest against the unity government outside coalition talks at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan on June 2, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protester against would-be coalition threatens ‘execution’ of rival activists

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Meretz party chairman Nitzan Horowitz, center, attends a protest of the LGBTQ community in Tel Aviv, July 14, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Meretz says coalition deal includes push for LGBT rights; Ra’am vows to oppose

Thousands of people take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands of police officers deployed to Jerusalem for Pride march

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A man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, California, November 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google diversity head said Jews have ‘insatiable appetite for war, killing’

US tech giant under fire for hiring Kamau Bobb after resurfacing of 2007 blog post, in which he suggests Jewish suffering in Holocaust irreconcilable with Israel’s conduct

Senator Cory Booker speaks during a news conference in Hoboken, New Jersey, May 6, 2021. (Seth Wenig/AP)

US Sen. Booker launches new group of Black, Jewish senators against antisemitism

From the blogs

Elie Wiesel’s son: Too many of us have again become ‘The Jews of Silence’

We have spoken up for every cause but our own, but if you think antisemitism could never happen here, take a look around

Sharon Nazarian

Assaults, chants, vitriol: Antisemitism has reached global crisis level

The ADL is finding a harrowing spike in speech and acts targeting Jews as Jews. Governments and civil society must act now

Conversion students are asking me if it’s safe to become Jewish. This is what I tell them.

To become Jewish is to become heir to a history and a way of being in the world. When bad things happen, there’s nowhere I would rather be than with my Jewish family

Matthias Schmale, UNRWA's director in Gaza, speaks during a news conference in front of the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UNRWA Gaza chief recalled after uproar over claim that IDF strikes ‘precise’

Despite apology, Matthias Schmale and his deputy leave Strip indefinitely for consultations in Jerusalem after angering Hamas

An ambulance passes into Rafah through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza from Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2021 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

WHO ramping up health aid for Palestinians after Gaza conflict

By AFP

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier arresting a suspect after a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, on March 18, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel arrests senior Hamas commander in the West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

The military's nearly completed Prison 10 complex, built to replace the Israel Defense Forces' existing British Mandate-era prisons. (Israel Defense Forces)

Intelligence officer dies in military prison under unclear circumstances

By Judah Ari Gross

Suicide suspected in heavily censored case, first revealed last month, involving a serviceman indicted for an undisclosed offense

Eli Seliger looks at a baby in London, April 2021. (Courtesy of Eli Seliger/ via JTA)

'When I woke up, the world was unrecognizable'

How a community call to prayer helped save a COVID-stricken Jewish Brit

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Early in the pandemic, Eli Seliger, a father of 7, got hospital care when a relative learned of his situation; round-the-clock support helped him recover after a 2-month coma

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the Saban Forum in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Biden congratulates Herzog on presidential win

US president says Israeli president-elect has demonstrated unwavering commitment to strengthening Israel’s security, looks ahead to Rivlin visit; Putin also sends greeting

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

Isaac Herzog prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on June 1, 2021, a day before he was selected by Knesset members as Israel's 11th president. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Isaac Herzog: Israel’s unassuming and pedigreed new president

By AFP

An Israeli investigator unwraps bricks of hashish smuggled into the country from Lebanon on June 2, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF foils gun, hashish smuggling operation; Hezbollah involvement suspected

By Judah Ari Gross

2 Arab Israeli men arrested in possession of 15 pistols, dozens of ammunition magazines, 36 kilos of drugs, all believed to have been brought into Israel from Lebanon

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)

US Senate Democrats push Blinken to address ‘humanitarian emergency’ in Gaza

17 lawmakers sign letter calling on Biden administration to take lead on reconstruction efforts and increase engagement on issue

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

More Headlines

Illustrative. A coronavirus ward at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, at the height of the COVID crisis. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Reduced to ‘begging’ for funds, 7 hospitals to boycott pandemic victory ceremony

By Nathan Jeffay

Iran's Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Kazem Gharib Abadi, Political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, and Deputy Secretary General and Political Director of the European External Action Service (EEAS), Enrique Mora leave the Grand Hotel Vienna where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP/Lisa Leutner)

Europeans see return to Iran nuke deal coming together next week

By AP

An Egyptian fruit bat (Seregraff via iStock by Getty Images)

Sick bats self-isolate, helping avert COVID-type crises — Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

A picture taken on June 2, 2021, shows smoke billowing from the site of a refinery fire in the Iranian capital Tehran. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Massive fire breaks out at oil refinery near Iran’s capital

By AP

Eric Lander, the incoming director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, participates in a swearing-in ceremony with US Vice President Kamala Harris in her ceremonial office, as his wife Lori Lander holds a 13-page fragment of a Pirkei Avot text from 1492 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on June 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden science adviser takes oath on 500-year-old Jewish text

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Lucia sings Hatikva at her Uruguay Got Talent audition on June 1, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

International hopeSinger belts out ‘Hatikva’ at ‘Got Talent Uruguay’ audition

A herd of gazelles seen in Mitzpeh Naftoah, Jerusalem, March 26, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Mass of green events mark World Environment day, World Oceans day

Israel's ambassador to the UAE, Eitan Na'eh, left, talks with an Emirati official during the Global Investment Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on June 2, 2021. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

As Israelis and Emiratis meet over investments, little mention of Palestinians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A woman wears a face mask, to prevent against the spread of coronavirus, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, May 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Belgium to return Nazi-looted painting to German Jewish family

By AFP

Representatives of Tel Aviv University and UAE officials at the signing of an MOU to set up joint water research institute in Abu Dhabi in the UAE (Tel Aviv University)

Tel Aviv University, UAE to set up joint initiative for water research

By Shoshanna Solomon

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