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What Matters Most On Friday, June 4, 2021

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Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked arrives for a meeting with Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett and fellow Yamina MKs, at Bennett's home in Ra'anana, on June 4, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

'Bennett managed to keep everyone around him'

‘Change bloc’ heads to meet Sunday; Yamina MK confident no more defections ahead

PM-designate Bennett convenes party to counter Likud pressure; Yesh Atid, Yamina reject Knesset speaker’s demand to release unofficial coalition deals; Hanegbi: We’ll fight to end

A view of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on June 23, 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Bennett, family not planning to move to PM’s official residence — report

Yamina leader and PM-designate Naftali Bennett speaks in a Channel 12 interview, June 3, 2021 (Channel 12 screenshot)

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

By Raoul Wootliff

People protest against the unity government outside the home of Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv on June 3, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Likud said targeting 4 Yamina, New Hope MKs in bid to torpedo unity government

Right-wing activists protest against the 'change government' outside Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked's home in Tel Aviv on June 3, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Hundreds rally near homes of Yamina’s Shaked, Orbach, urge them to oppose gov’t

Yamina MK Nir Orbach. (Flash90/File)

Yamina MK seems to signal he won’t rebel, but hope of quick gov’t approval fades

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas speaks to the Kan public broadcaster during an interview from his home in the northern town of Maghar on June 3, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Abbas: Talking with Netanyahu first legitimized Ra’am across political spectrum

Report says Likud leader this week offered similar or better promises to Islamist party leader than those he got from ‘change bloc’

Former Yesha Council chairman and head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council in the West Bank David Elhayani at a protest tent outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

InterviewSettler leader: Bennett, Sa’ar have promised there will be no settlement freeze

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett arrives to speak from the Knesset on May 30, 2021, in an address at which he said he was working to firm a unity government with Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid. (Yonatan Sindel/Pool via AP)

Judicial reforms, recognition of Bedouin villages: Details from coalition deals

By Raoul Wootliff

US State Department spokesman Ned Price takes questions from reporters at the State Department in Washington on March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

As Netanyahu faces ouster, US assures support no matter who leads Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

State Department and White House spokespersons say strategic alliance will continue regardless of what government is in place

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) gestures to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, on June 3, 2021, at the State Department in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Gantz urges softer tone with US on Iran, seems to knock Netanyahu’s ‘provoking’

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles during talks in Moscow, Russia, September 24, 2020. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Iran’s foreign minister cheers Netanyahu being sent ‘to the dustbin of history’

Israel’s political striptease show

These fools destroy everything we evangelicals have sacrificed our lives to build – I will use every bit of my energy and power to destroy them before they destroy the nation

God bless this government

This prime minister will need to play ’quarterback,’ harnessing his colleagues’ strengths to work together to respond to the needs of a diverse electorate

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Hamas is winning… online

The globally designated terror group has mastered the manipulation of the press, convincing the world to ignore both its bloody history and its violent present

The promised and problematic land

If moving to Israel meant you had to keep the laws of the Torah, would you move? Maybe the spies’ reluctance isn’t surprising, after all (Shelach)

Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze that threatens Tzur Hadassah, outside of Jerusalem, on June 04, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

400 families evacuated as fire threatens Tzur Hadassah near Jerusalem

35 firefighter teams and 10 aircraft battle blaze that erupted in a forest near the town; residents taken to nearby sports hall

Palestinians gather as Hamas members parade at a rally just over a week after a ceasefire was reached in an 11-day war between the terror group and Israel, May 30, 2021, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Hamas threatens to renew fighting if Qatari funds don’t enter Gaza next week

By Emanuel Fabian

Unnamed sources in Palestinian terror group tell Lebanese media it will consider options for escalation if Israel doesn’t approve the entry of tens of millions of dollars

In this May 19, 2021, photo, an Israeli artillery unit fires shells toward targets in Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Top IDF general says last month’s Gaza battle was only ‘first stage’ of campaign

By Judah Ari Gross

A general view of the wooden footbridge leading up from the Western Wall compound to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, December 11, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Bridge for Jews entering Temple Mount in immediate danger of collapse — report

By ToI Staff and AFP

Engineer says the makeshift wooden Mughrabi Bridge is ‘in a state of extreme dryness,’ but any attempt to replace it is likely to trigger angry response from Jordan, Palestinians

Rabbi Mordechai Eliezer (Zsolt) Balla, appointed as the chief rabbi of the German army, speaks to the Kan public broadcaster on June 3, 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube)

German army taps chief rabbi for 1st time in a century, 76 years after Holocaust

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rabbi Mordechai Eliezer (Zsolt) Balla says he will ‘help all Jews live a Jewish life,’ and will aim to curb far-right extremism; new military rabbinate budgeted 5 million euros

A man holds a placard during a protest organized by Jewish associations, who say justice has not been done for the killing of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, at Trocadero Plaza near Eiffel Tower in Paris, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Antisemitism — where far-left and far-right extremists meet and greet

Israeli scholar Adi Kantor offers a disturbing look at the trend of increasing antisemitism that is sweeping the globe from both sides of the political and societal spectrums

Analysis

Is pro-Israel advocacy in crisis? How Gaza war exposed US political fault lines

Stalwart Israel supporters are now also openly speaking up for the Palestinians, while those hostile to Israel are finding support for efforts to challenge US military aid

Pro-Israel demonstrators gather outside the Federal Building during a rally in support of Israel in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Tina (far right), an Arab resident of Acre, with some of her neighbors. She tried to protect the Jewish-owned gallery where she worked during the recent unrest in the mixed city, and is asking how and why this happened in her city (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

In Acre, known for Arab-Jewish coexistence, residents grapple with recent unrest

By Jessica Steinberg

Following a week of chaos and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, locals regroup and try to move forward

A woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, California, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google reassigns diversity head who said Jews have ‘insatiable appetite for war’

Kamau Bobb remains at tech giant despite revelation of 2007 blog post, but will now focus on research; Google says he has apologized for ‘unquestionably hurtful’ comments

Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen in court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018, (FLASH90)

Yair Netanyahu temporarily blocked from social media for protest call

By ToI Staff and AP

Thousands of people take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, June 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

7,500 march in Jerusalem Pride Parade under heavy security

Police bolstered on capital’s streets for annual event; 2 teens detained for putting up posters against event; anti-gay Lehava group demonstrates against participants

Illustrative: Bernard Madoff, right, leaves US District Court in Manhattan, New York, after a bail hearing, January 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Interview'It was a Jewish affinity crime'

Before dying, Bernie Madoff lifted veil on the biggest Ponzi scheme in history

By Rich Tenorio

Business radio personality Jim Campbell releases ‘Madoff Talks,’ which covers 9 years of revealing interviews with the financial mastermind – up to his death in April behind bars

Police enter a building on May 11, 2021, in connection with an 'action day' against alleged investment fradusters. (Rheinland Pflaz Police)

Israeli and European police arrest suspects in Israel-run investment fraud

By Simona Weinglass

On May 11, police in several countries carried out arrests and searches in connection with the allegedly fraudulent websites: Tradorax, Tradervc, Kayafx, Kontofx and Libramarkets

MK David Bitan at a Likud party rally in Tel Aviv, on November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

AG said set to indict Likud MK David Bitan for bribery, money laundering

More Headlines

Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 2, 2016. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)

Diaspora minister urges ‘formal acknowledgement’ of liberal Jewish streams

A high school football coach and his staff in Canton, Ohio, are in hot water for disciplining a Jewish student by forcing him to eat a pepperoni pizza. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images, JTA)

Hebrew Israelite student in Ohio forced to eat pork after missing practice

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, shakes hands with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at United Nations headquarters July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Iran loses voting rights in UN General Assembly over debt blamed on US sanctions

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A US passport. (vlana/iStock/Getty Images)

With major COVID backlog, US citizens in Israel struggle to renew passports

By Jessica Steinberg

Protesters hold placards and banners in London, May 22, 2021, as they take part in a rally supporting Palestinians. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

London Jewish schoolteachers quit union over call to join pro-Palestinian rally

By Cnaan Liphshiz and ToI Staff

The Jerusalem Orchestra East West will perform 'Waiting for Nissim' with conductor Tom Cohen, and the book's authors, Shira Gefen and Etgar Keret, at the Israel Festival on June 17, 2021 (Courtesy Hayim Yafim Barblet)

Fiction becomes realityChildren’s book by Keret and Gefen comes to life with musical rendition

By Jessica Steinberg

A still from director Nadav Lapid's film 'Ahed's Knee.' (Courtesy of Shai Goldman)

Bonne chanceTwo Israeli film directors competing at Cannes

By Jessica Steinberg

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Jerusalem on October 29, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Honduras to open embassy in Jerusalem this month, president to travel to Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

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