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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 6, 2021

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on June 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vows to bring down gov't fast, 'if God forbid it is formed'

Netanyahu bemoans incitement, raps ‘dangerous left-wing’ coalition, claims fraud

As he faces losing power to his rivals, PM decries ‘effort to frame the right as something violent,’ declares Israel seeing ‘greatest election fraud’ in history of democracies

Yamina MKs (L) Idit Silman and (R) Nir Orbach (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) and

Extra security for Yamina MKs Silman, Orbach amid change bloc opponents’ threats

Yamina MK Idit Silman 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)

Yamina MK requests additional security after threats, says she was followed

(L-R) Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Yamina chair Naftali Bennett and New Hope head Gideon Sa'ar at a meeting of the heads of the would-be-coalition in Tel Aviv, June 6, 2021. (Ra'anan Cohen)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett to Netanyahu: ‘Let go. Let the country move forward’

After meeting with would-be-coalition partners, Yamina chair defends formation of new government, says ‘there is a good spirit and a desire to get to work as soon as possible’

6:26 pm

Police said to approve Jerusalem flag march in principle
6:07 pm

Germany: Merkel's party fends off far-right challenge in state vote
6:03 pm

Ex-head of Israel space program dies weeks after injured in Acre hotel attack

Head of the Shin Bet security service Nadav Argaman attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting at the Knesset on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shin Bet head in rare warning: Stop violent discourse now, someone will get hurt

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Citing spike in online incitement, Argaman urges leaders to speak out; statement comes as ‘change government’ set to oust Netanyahu, who posted Friday about the Biblical spies

Yamina MK Nir Orbach 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)

Live updates (closed)Hundreds rally outside home of Yamina MK, urge him to vote down coalition

MK Betzalel Smotrich and right-wing demonstrators at a protest against the unity government outside the home of Yamina parliament member Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv on June 3, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yesh Atid's Stern: Rabbis are 'playing with fire'

Top rabbis urge followers to ‘do everything’ to thwart new government

Chaim Druckman, one of the national religious leaders who signed letter, disavows incitement and violence after Shin Bet chief warns of rising threat of political violence

Yamina chair Naftali Bennett (C) and party members seen with supporters at a party event in Petah Tikva after election day, March 23, 2021. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Bennett to inform party chiefs that 6 Yamina MKs will back coalition — report

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

Knesset speaker may hold vote on new government as soon as Wednesday

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

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

Security officials warn Jerusalem right-wing parade could ‘set the area alight’

Several former senior police commanders call for Thursday’s planned march to be prohibited, with an ex-top cop in the city calling it ‘an attempt to ignite East Jerusalem’

Israeli forces arrest Al Jazeera journalist, Givara Budeiri, during a protest in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, June 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Oren Ziv)

Al Jazeera reporter detained in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah for ‘assaulting’ cops

By Emanuel Fabian

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

Gantz indicates he’ll demand cancellation of Jerusalem right-wing parade

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israelis protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Prime Minister's official residence in Jerusalem on June 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing June 6 – Shin Bet head: Inflammatory rhetoric a ticking bomb

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

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)

Poll: Public prefers Bennett-Lapid gov’t to election, but few expect it to last

Yamina MK Nir Orbach arrives for a meeting with party leader Naftali Bennett at the latter's home in Ra'anana on June 4, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yamina MK backs PM’s son over social media ban for posting his address for rally

Former US president Donald Trump addresses the NCGOP state convention, on June 5, 2021, in Greenville, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump accuses Biden of ‘criticizing’ Israel during Gaza fighting

Former US president hits out at Democrats over ‘betrayal’ in Congress, says ‘everybody’ used to back the Jewish state but ‘I guess it’s just not in vogue’

Then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 11, 2021 (Courtesy)

Op-ed

When Shin Bet warns of political violence, Israel’s history requires we listen

25 years after the Rabin assassination, the man charged with protecting Israel and its leaders from internal security threats fears a repetition. His warning must be heeded

A young teen receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Misgav Ladach hospital in Jerusalem on June 6, 2021, as Israel begins its coronavirus vaccination campaign for 12- to 15-year-olds. (Menahem KAHANA/AFP)

Kids line up for COVID shots saying they want to protect family, go on vacation

As Israel starts vaccinating children, many of the newly eligible say they want to travel abroad or reduce risk for high-risk relatives; over 10,000 appointments made

Israelis sit near a vaccination center at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign for 600,000 children aged 12-15

Israelis and vaccinated tourists wearing masks for COVID-19 protection arrive to Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on May 23, 2021, after a partial re-opening of the border to inoculated tourists from 14 countries. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Health Ministry issues travel warning for Namibia over COVID infection rates

Living on the fault line of the world

Lapid’s coalition offers a vision of how to navigate the same polarization plaguing the US and elsewhere, where the right thrives on demonizing its opponents

American Jews, how ‘Jewish’ are you?

Jewish pride has replaced the humiliated Jew of history, but where Israelis are entrenched in the trappings of Jewish identity, American Jews must choose

An illustration of radar technology developed by IAI's Elta subsidiary (YouTube screenshot)

From swords to scalpels: IAI, Soroka hospital to use army tech for medical edge

By Shoshanna Solomon

IAI’s subsidiary Elta and Soroka will set up joint innovation center for medical tech where doctors and defense engineers will brainstorm and seek out solutions

Illustrative image of a unicorn (Ellerslie77; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech firms reach unicorn status at double the pace in last decade: study

By Shoshanna Solomon

A net greenhouse in Los Pinos, Mexico, the largest greenhouse tomato project in the country, developed with Israel's Netafim drip irrigation and greenhouse technology. (courtesy, Netafim)

US-Israel agriculture fund chooses 20 joint projects for $6.7 million investment

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli pilots pose for a photograph in front of an F-35 fighter jet ahead of an air force exercise in Italy in June 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

In first, Israeli F-35s train in Italy — with Iran in their sights

By Judah Ari Gross

Advanced stealth fighter jets take part in exercise alongside Italian, US, UK pilots in their largest, farthest-away drill yet

An Iranian vendor watches candidate Saeed Jalili speaking during the first televised debate between Iran presidential candidates, at a shop in Tehran on June 5, 2021. (AFP)

In TV debate, Iran presidential hopefuls trade blame over economic woes

By AFP

Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern speaks during a conference for Young Leadership programs, at the University of Haifa, on April 11, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Emerging coalition will back Elazar Stern as new Jewish Agency head, sources say

By Raoul Wootliff

Yesh Atid MK will be supported as candidate by his party leader Lapid and PM-designate Bennett

'The Fight for Free Speech' (NYU Press) by author and free speech legal expert Ian Rosenberg. (Portrait photo by Larry Bercow)

InterviewOnline and off-hours students' speech the next battlefields

US free-speech lawyer: Government legislation a threat to First Amendment rights

By Cathryn J. Prince

In his new book ‘The Fight for Free Speech,’ author, professor, and ABC News legal counsel Ian Rosenberg cites 10 contemporary cases that highlight how fragile that freedom is

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Efraim Gordon, an Israeli man shot dead in Baltimore on May 2, 2021. (Courtesy)

3 Baltimore teenagers charged with murder of Israeli man

By AP

Legos used to repair a wall struck by a Gaza rocket in Ramat Gan on May 15, 2021. (Raz Sror)

Building blocksStudent uses Lego to repair Ramat Gan wall damaged by Hamas rocket

Screen capture from video of the underwater national park at Caesarea, Israel. (Channel 13 News)

Divers welcome to explore the past at Israel’s first underwater national park

By Stuart Winer

A view of the city of Ulm, Germany. (Video screenshot)

German police search for suspect in attempted arson attack on synagogue

By AP

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers at the IDF Headquarters, the Kirya, in Tel Aviv, on January 15, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

3 Arab Israelis arrested after breaking into Defense Ministry HQ

The military's nearly completed Prison 10 complex, built to replace the Israel Defense Forces' existing British Mandate-era prisons in March 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Family rejects possible suicide in death of imprisoned intelligence officer

By Judah Ari Gross

Motti Babchik seen in the Knesset on March 3, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Litzman aide, adviser arrested for alleged corruption involving Tnuva company

By Stuart Winer

World War II reenactors gather on Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, June 6, 2021, the day of 77th anniversary of the assault that helped bring an end to World War II. (David Vincent/AP)

Still under shadow of coronavirus, Normandy commemorates D-Day with small crowds

By Sylvie Corbet

The official opening ceremony of the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer, on the 77th anniversary of D-Day, on June 6, 2021. (Sameer Al-DOUMY / POOL / AFP)

British memorial to D-Day fallen opens in France

By Chloé COUPEAU

From Left, European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni, Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe, President of the World Bank David Malpass, Italy's Economy and Finance Minister Daniele Franco, France's Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, Managing Director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva, Germany's Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Mathias Cormann, and Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso pose for a family photo the second day of the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting, at Lancaster House in London on June 5, 2021. (HENRY NICHOLLS / POOL / AFP)

Wealthy nations agree on global minimum tax targeting giant corporations

By Anna MALPAS and Ben Perry

Illustrative: The image from video provided by the US Department of Defense, from 2015, shows an unexplained object as it is tracked while soaring high among the clouds, traveling against the wind. (Department of Defense via AP)

US report on UFOs: No evidence of aliens, but phenomenon remains unexplained

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and Robert Burns

An aerial file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq, December 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

US army shoots down drones over Iraqi military base

By AFP

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