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What Matters Most On Monday, June 7, 2021

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Yamina leader and Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett speaks at the Knesset, June 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

'Israel is not a monarchy; no one has monopoly on power'

Bennett to Netanyahu: Let Israel go, don’t leave ‘scorched earth’

In speech, PM-designate decries premier’s tactics in pressuring rightist MKs to oppose change government, urges Knesset speaker to call vote on coalition this week

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony honoring medical workers and hospitals for their fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, in Jerusalem, on June 6, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

New Hope, Yamina reject idea Netanyahu considering stepping down: ‘It’s a trick’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Channel 20 on June 6, 2021. (screen capture: Channel 20)

Echoing Trump, Netanyahu says election stolen, ‘deep state’ within new coalition

In interview with right-wing TV outlet, using language reminiscent of former US president, prime minister also claims Bennett is a ‘habitual liar’ who is ‘holding a fire sale’

Likud MK May Golan on the Knesset Channel, June 6, 2021. (video screenshot)

Likud MK says Bennett, Sa’ar like ‘suicide bombers’ facing ‘death sentence’

Israeli police officers stand guard as right-wing protesters chant slogans and hold signs showing Naftali Bennett and other members of the Yamina party with Arab politicians Ahmad Tibi, right, and Mansour Abbas, left, during a demonstration in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan, June 2, 2021. The Hebrew sign reads, 'Don't form a left-wing government with supporters of terror.' (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Rabble rousers against politicians get warning calls from law enforcement — TV

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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In letter to president, family of IDF officer who died in jail alleges ‘murder’

After military says soldier seriously harmed national security and acted out of ‘personal motivations,’ report says relative says incident resembles ‘darkest regimes’

7:47 pm

Canadian police say family run down was targeted as Muslims
7:40 pm

Yamina denies emerging coalition will prevent Netanyahu from running for Knesset
7:27 pm

Family of IDF officer who died in prison alleges it was 'murder'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony to honor medical workers and hospitals for their fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, in Jerusalem, on June 6, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

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

Knesset to meet on setting date for vote on new government, likely June 14

Illustrative: Participants in the flag march in Jerusalem's Old City on May 10, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90

Police nix contentious Jerusalem flag march, angering nationalists

Authorities say event will be reconsidered if date and route changed, but head of Religious Zionism party and others fume that decision is ‘capitulation to terror’

From the blogs

Kamal Abdel-Malek

For an Egyptian teenager like me in 1967, an Israeli victory was inconceivable

In an excerpt from his memoir, a professor of Arabic literature describes the horror at learning his country had lost the Six Day War and the shockwaves that followed the defeat

An Israeli child receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit vaccination center in Petah Tikvah, on June 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Study finds 1 in 3 young teens had COVID, fueling debate over need for vaccine

By Nathan Jeffay

Government launches campaign for minors as planned, though immunity from illness more widespread among them than previously believed

A government ceremony thanking health workers for their efforts during the pandemic, on June 6, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel to drop indoor mask requirement on June 15, as daily cases near zero

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the first batch of Pfizer vaccines to arrive in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, December 9, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Netanyahu likens arrival of 1st vaccines in Israel to Pearl Harbor bombing

How a ‘wokestorm’ is misleading a generation about Israel

If the ’woke community’ really sought to awaken, it would realize that Jew-hatred is the oldest of hatreds. Apparently, Jewish blood is still cheap

Think Israel’s current transition is unique? Think again.

Rivals uniting to oust an incumbent? Been there. Rotation leadership? Done that. The many parallels abroad can light a path to better and stable governance

Lapid’s clueless claim that Netanyahu can’t work with Biden

The likely alternate PM and foreign minister has a thing or two to learn about what relations between country leaders are all about

What I’m learning about almost dying

Some facial paralysis, 32 staples in my skull, and overwhelming concern from loved ones have given all kinds of new meaning to ’the show must go on’

Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In blow to Palestinian residents, AG won’t weigh in on Sheikh Jarrah evictions

Mandelblit informs Supreme Court he won’t join deliberations about contentious East Jerusalem neighborhood; reportedly believes evictions can’t legally be stopped

Muna al-Kurd testifies before the UN Human Rights Council on May 27, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Police arrest Sheikh Jarrah activist twins, claiming they participated in riots

The victims of a fatal stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Saturday October 3, 2015: Nehemia Lavi, 41 (left) from Jerusalem, and Aharon Banita (Bennett), 22 (right) from Beitar Illit. (Courtesy)

Palestinian Authority pays $42,000 to family of terrorist who killed 2 Israelis

Money said to compensate family of Muhannad Halabi for housing costs after IDF destroyed their home following murder of Rabbi Nehemia Lavi and Aharon Banita in 2015

Israeli soldiers clash with Palestinians during a protest in the village of Beit Dajan, near the West Bank city of Nablus on May 7, 2021 (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian said shot, badly hurt in clash with Israeli troops

Hungarian Jews on vacation in Marienbad, the Czech spa town near the border with Germany (public domain)

In pre-WWII Marienbad bubble, rabbis and royalty alike came to take water ‘cure’

By Matt Lebovic

Family memoir portrays spa town Marienbad’s heyday, when Jews from all over Europe flocked there for medical treatments, reunions, and healthy doses of politics

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

By AFP

Gilad Shalit is seen during his time in Hamas captivity, in footage aired for the first time on June 6, 2021 (video screenshot)

Hamas issues footage of Shalit in captivity, voice of another ‘captured soldier’

Al Jazeera airs new videos of soldier being held in Gaza cell; calls for ‘help’ heard in separate audio purporting to be of another captive, but parents says not their sons’ voices

Benny Kuznitz, attorney for the family of a Military Intelligence officer who died in custody last month, speaks to reporters before a hearing in a military court in IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on June 7, 2021. (Flash90)

IDF court hears request to remove gag on case of officer who died mysteriously

By Judah Ari Gross

From left, incoming IDF Spokesperson Ran Kochav, head of IDF Operations Aharon Haliva, outgoing IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman salute during a ceremony at the IDF Spokesperson's Unit's headquarters in northern Tel Aviv on June 6, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Entering position, new IDF spokesman vows to remain truthful

By Judah Ari Gross

Aby Har-Even, a former head of the Israel Space Institute, during a lecture at Bar-Ilan University, in February 2013. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Ex-head of Israel space program dies of Acre hotel attack injuries, weeks later

Rocket scientist Aby Har-Even, 84, succumbs to wounds sustained when rioters torched Efendi Hotel at peak of Arab-Jewish violence last month

Saeed Mousa, an Arab Israeli who was assaulted by a Jewish Israeli mob, at Ichilov Medical Center, May 14, 2021. (video screenshot)

Fresh charges leveled over Jewish mob attack on Arab man

Screen capture from video of a sinkhole that opened in the parking lot of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, June 7, 2021. (Twitter)

Giant sinkhole swallows cars in Jerusalem hospital parking lot

By Stuart Winer

Pit opens up outside Shaare Zedek Medical Center apparently after tunnel collapses, taking with it vehicles; no injuries reported

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi addresses the media during a news conference regarding the agency's monitoring of Iran's nuclear energy program at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, June 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

Iran failed to answer questions on uranium find, says IAEA head

By AP and ToI Staff

UN nuclear agency head Grossi has been pushing Tehran for answers on three sites dating back many years where inspections revealed traces of uranium of man-made origin

A suspect is arrested after entering Israel from Lebanon. June 7, 2021 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests 2 men who entered Israel from Lebanon; terror not suspected

By Judah Ari Gross

In this Dec. 11, 2006, file photo, top cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, center, speaks during a conference on denying the Holocaust with Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman, left, from Austria, and Rabbi Ahron Cohen, right, from England, in Tehran, Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian Hezbollah founder, who survived alleged Israeli book bomb, dies of COVID

'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

Illustrative: A man wears a kippah at a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

24% of 'Jews of no religion' said to own Hebrew prayer book

What’s a ‘Jew of no religion’? 3 American Jews on their non-religious identities

By Gabe Friedman

A recent Pew survey breaks Jewish Americans down into 2 broad categories based on beliefs – but while God may not be on the menu, some say this distinction doesn’t work for them

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Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem District court on February 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sex offender rabbi who defrauded followers gets 18 months in plea deal

In this photo taken on September 9, 2017, a banner showing a turtle, the symbol of neo-fascist movement CasaPound, is hung at the group's national meeting in Borgo Sabotino, near Latina, Italy. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italian police arrest neo-Nazi group that called for anti-Jewish attacks

By AFP

(L) Aviad Moshe (Courtesy) and (R) Shira Isakov (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man awaiting trial for nearly killing wife now suspected of further threats

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A newborn rhinoceros stands next to his 11-year-old mother Rihanna, at the Ramat Gan Safari, an open-air zoo near Tel Aviv, on June 6, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Big newsRhino calf born at Ramat Gan zoo named ‘Ruvi’ for the president

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

Displaced women prepare food on February 8, 2021, in the Kaya camp, 100 kilometers (some 62 miles) north of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (AP Photo/ Sophie Garcia)

Jihadists kill 160 civilians in deadliest Burkina Faso attack since 2015

OutSense's IoT device transforms toilet bowls into smart systems that can warn of ailments (Courtesy)

Smart-toilet bowl startup gets more funds in the tank to rev up production

By Shoshanna Solomon

An illustrative image of a cotton field plantation (Mailson Pignata; iStock by Getty Images)

Crop-monitoring startup PlanetWatchers raises $3.5 million from investors

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former CEO of Walla news website Ilan Yeshua arrives for his testimony at in the case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his trial on allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, at the District Court in Jerusalem, June 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Walla CEO: Story on Sara Netanyahu taking bottle-deposit cash was removed

Bhad Bhabie (Courtesy/Atlantic Records)

Lyrical loveBhad Bhabie and Lil Yachty invest $1 million in Jewish dating app

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