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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 5, 2021

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Party leaders in the emerging coalition: This combination of pictures created on June 2, 2021 shows (Top (L to R) Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman, (bottom L to R) Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas, and Labour leader Merav Michaeli. (Photos by AFP)

Confidence vote for new government likely on June 14

TV: Anti-Netanyahu coalition seen increasingly likely to secure Knesset majority

MK Nir Orbach, regarded as greatest potential threat to Bennett-Lapid government, privately says he won’t torpedo it, according to multiple reports, but nail-biting 10 days ahead

Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin during a special session honoring Jerusalem Day at the Knesset on May 24, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset to meet Monday on Lapid-Bennett government, vote likely on June 14

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and newly appointed ambassador to the UN and the US Gilad Erdan attend the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on July 5, 2020. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

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

Israelis wave national flags during a Jerusalem Day march, in Jerusalem, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Nationalist groups reschedule controversial Jerusalem march scuttled by rockets

Young Jewish men dance with Israeli flags near Jerusalem's Old City on Jerusalem Day, May 10, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

PM’s opponents warn J’lem march a bid to thwart coalition; Hamas issues threat

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Footage aired by the Al Jazeera network of the Hamas tunnel system under the Gaza Strip, June 5, 2021 (Screen grab)

Sinwar says next fight will reshape region, denies IDF crippled tunnel network

Hamas’s Gaza chief claims only 3% of so-called ‘metro’ ruined, after Al Jazeera airs new footage from subterranean passages

Israelis held in Gaza in a 2021 combination picture: Clockwise from top left: Oron Shaul, Avera Mengistu, Hadar Goldin and Hisham al-Sayed. (Flash90/ Courtesy)

Israel-Hamas talks on prisoner swap delayed by political uncertainty – report

Palestinian boys cycle past a convoy of bulldozers provided by Egypt arriving at the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave on June 4, 2021 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Egypt sends engineering convoy into Gaza to aid reconstruction

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his Miami Beach apartment, October 10, 1978. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Interview'Those who fear God are the ones who do not hurt each other'

1952 prayer by Bashevis Singer found scrawled on rent slip in unpublished trove

By Yaakov Schwartz

Unseen collection comes out next spring; writer and scholar David Stromberg discusses the Nobel laureate’s religious ambivalence, and why his liturgical Hebrew plea resonates today

Israelis need to know US Jews stand with them – that’s why we went there

As the first group of senior US Jewish leaders to visit Israel post-COVID, we saw the extensive missile damage as well as the Israelis’ indomitable spirit

Jessica Kirzane

Yiddish writers have what to teach us about the Tulsa massacre and beyond

These early 20th century thinkers knew from pogroms and many, though not all, wrote about anti-Black racism from a position of solidarity and justice

Louis Vuitton monogram keffiyeh stole (LouisVuitton.com)

Louis Vuitton pulls $705 blue and white ‘keffiyeh stole’ after backlash

Luxury fashion brand accused of cultural appropriation, with some taking further offense over the fact that scarf is in Israel’s national colors

The City Hall of Belfast (Giorgio Galeotti/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Belfast City Council calls for expelling Israeli ambassadors from UK and Ireland

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Then-Jewish Home party chairman Naftali Bennett (R) is interviewed by Brookings Executive Vice President Martin Indyk at the Brookings Institute in Washington on December 6, 2014. (Brookings Institute)

Analysis

A PM Bennett won’t fix tensions with Dems, but ties with Biden should endure

Progressives’ issues with Israel extend beyond Netanyahu, and won’t be alleviated by his departure alone; still, some in the party view new prospective gov’t as cause for optimism

Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro participates in the Meir Dagan Conference for Strategy and Defense, at the Netanya College, on March 21, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Biden said considering ex-Israel ambassador Dan Shapiro for a Mideast envoy role

Democratic Representative Ted Deutch of Florida during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, at Capitol Hill in Washington, February 6, 2019. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Jewish Rep. links antisemitism spike to comments made by Democratic colleagues

Undated illustrative image of Waffen-SS 'Wiking' division in Russia. (CC BY-SA Bild National Archives, Wikimedia Commons)

Exclusive'It's the only Anglo-Saxon country not to take action'

New Zealand still not opening files on ‘resettled’ alleged former Nazi emigres

By Lance Morcan

Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff supplied a list of 50 suspected war criminals decades ago, but successive governments keep classified the immigration documents that could implicate them

An online bake sale to combat antisemitism has drawn many Jewish participants; Daniela Weiner, right, is among the few non-Jews to participate (Sale ad courtesy of Whitney Fisch; other pictures courtesy of Weiner)

US bake sale against antisemitism draws Jewish foodies, few non-Jewish allies

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Organizers hope to use funds to fight growing expressions of hate in America; but they also say some social justice and civil rights advocates have ‘straight-up ignored’ them

American author Elin Hilderbrand in June 2021 (CBS video screenshot)

Author Hilderbrand removes Anne Frank passage from novel after criticism

By AP

Children play outside the Federal Palace in Bern, Switzerland, July 21, 2009. (CC BY Floofy/Wikimedia Commons)

Switzerland adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

By JTA

Ghufran Almusawi, proprietor of Al Basha Grocery in Tucson, Arizona, speaks with a Jewish customer. Her store sells both kosher and halal products in an effort to create a 'melting pot' for Jews and Muslims. (Michael Zaccaria/Keeping Jewish/ via JTA)

This Muslim market in Tucson offers kosher food and intercultural dialogue

Then-US president Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, January 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Two more years: Facebook extends Trump ban for inciting Capitol riot

By Barbara Ortutay

Former president calls decision ‘an insult’; social media giant says it’ll heighten penalties for public figures during times of civil unrest, will reassess risk at end of period

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

People hold up their phones with the light on in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on June 4, 2021, after police closed the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 which the authorities have banned citing the coronavirus pandemic and vowed to stamp out any protests on the anniversary. (ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)

Israeli hosting firm Wix removes Hong Kong democracy website after police order

By AFP

This photo released on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 by the Iranian Army, shows Iran-made warship Makran (Iranian Army via AP)

Two Iranian warships round tip of Africa for first time, sparking US concern

By ToI Staff and Agencies

As Makran and Sahand appear to head for the Atlantic, some American officials worry they are carrying weapons for Venezuela; others expect them to turn back soon

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a video conference with a group of university students, in Tehran, Iran, on May 11, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran to review disqualification of presidential election candidates

By ToI Staff and AFP

Oil-slicked waters spread out from the partially sunk Iranian navy vessel Kharg in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of Jask, Iran, in this Thursday, June 3, 2021, satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Satellite photos show hulk of what was biggest Iran warship

By AP

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Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ Flash90/ File)

15-year-old boy stabbed, seriously hurt in Ashkelon in fight over cigarettes

Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 2008 (video screenshot)

Whipping up some troubleNazis make a return for Indiana Jones’ 5th film

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)

Super-presidentMan of the people: President-elect Herzog spotted grabbing groceries

Arnon (Noni) Mozes arrives for a court hearing at Jerusalem District Court on April 5, 2021 (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Mozes seeking plea deal in Netanyahu case – report

Children living in a slum receive free meal distributed by a voluntary organization during a lock down to curb the spread of coronavirus pandemic in Kolkata, India, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Rights group warns children risk ‘generational catastrophe’ from COVID pandemic

By AFP

Ahmed Moualek (Screen capture/YouTube via JTA)

French court gives Holocaust denier 5 years for death threats against Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this Wednesday, May 19, 2021 file photo, Belarusian journalist Katsiaryna Barysevich, who was sentenced to six months over her investigation into a protester's death, shows her yellow prison's label to colleagues upon her release from the prison in Komarovka, Belarus (AP Photo)

Yellow tags mark political prisoners in Belarus, evoking Nazi yellow stars

By YURAS KARMANAU

This Oct. 8, 2019, file photo shows Democratic candidate for the 28th district for the Virginia Senate, Qasim Rashid, in Fredericksburg, Virginia (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

US court upholds man’s conviction for lynch threat to Muslim political candidate

By Michael Kunzelman

A picture taken on June 2, 2021 in Paris, shows the new French edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf", 'Historicizing Evil, A Critical Edition of Mein Kampf' (Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

New French edition of ‘Mein Kampf’ published to reflect ‘badly written’ original

By AFP

The Lozenetz Hospital in Sofia, Bulgaira (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

Top Bulgarian hospital’s management fired over illegal transplants

By AP

Jon Scheyer looks on during a Duke game at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina, Dec. 1, 2018. (Lance King/Getty Images via JTA)

Ball's in his courtJon Scheyer to replace Mike Krzyzewski as Duke basketball coach

The Eiffel Tower is illuminated in Paris, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. France is putting itself back on the menu as a destination for international tourists who have had coronavirus jabs. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Vaccinated Israelis can now enter France without virus test as country reopens

By John Leicester

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