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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 8, 2021

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File: (L-R) Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Yamina chair Naftali Bennett, New Hope chair Gideon Sa'ar, Blue and White head Benny Gantz, Ra’am chair Mansour Abbas, Labor head Merav Michaeli and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz at a meeting of the heads of the would-be-coalition in Tel Aviv, June 6, 2021. (Ra'anan Cohen)

Lapid celebrates on Twitter: 'It's happening!'

Swearing-in of Bennett-Lapid gov’t that would replace Netanyahu set for Sunday

By Michael Bachner

Knesset Speaker’s announcement means coalition deals must be published by Friday, giving PM’s bloc 48 hours to scrutinize them; MK Orbach backs coalition, for likely 61-59 majority

File: (L-R) Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Yamina chair Naftali Bennett, New Hope chair Gideon Sa'ar, Blue and White head Benny Gantz, Ra’am chair Mansour Abbas, Labor head Merav Michaeli and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz at a meeting of the heads of the would-be-coalition in Tel Aviv, June 6, 2021. (Ra'anan Cohen)

‘Change government’ agenda: Electoral reform, budget and Jerusalem building boom

An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian farm shed in the West Bank village of Masafer in Area C, in February 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Report: Tiff over West Bank construction a last-minute obstacle to coalition

United Torah Judaism party chief Moshe Gafni holds a press conference (together with UTJ MK Yaakov Litzman and Shas head Aryeh Deri) at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi party chiefs: Jewish state in danger if wicked Bennett succeeds Netanyahu

In assault on PM-designate, Litzman says Yamina leader should remove his kippa, Deri says he’ll ‘destroy Shabbat, conversion, kashrut’; Bennett dismisses ‘hysterical outburst’

George Birnbaum (right), an adviser to Naftali Bennett, appears on MSNBC with anchor Mehdi Hasan. (MSNBC/Screenshot)

Top Bennett adviser suggests he has ‘evolved’ beyond past inflammatory rhetoric

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri leads a Shas faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on April 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Deri: I now understand why Ovadia Yosef called Bennett’s party ‘non-Jewish home’

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’s Orbach declares he’ll back ‘change government,’ preserving its majority

By Michael Bachner

Rejecting threats, pressure to defect to Netanyahu’s bloc, MK says decision, made with heavy heart, is necessary to prevent Israel’s collapse: ‘I chose what’s good for the country’

Then-minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett unveils a temporary platform built for pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in August 2013. (Ezra Landau/Flash90)

Unity government to approve Western Wall egalitarian plaza frozen by Netanyahu

Yamina MK Idit Silman talking to Channel 13 news in an interview from her home, June 8, 2021. (Screenshot)

‘I feel unsafe’: Yamina MK Silman speaks of threats against her and her children

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Jerusalem on June 6, 2021. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Op-ed

Netanyahu was long appreciated for keeping Israel safe. Now he’s endangering us

Desperate to retain power, the prime minister is fomenting domestic hatred with unprecedented vigor, peddling conspiracy theories, ignoring his own security chiefs’ warnings

Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he votes at a polling station in Jerusalem on March 23, 2021, in the fourth national election in two years. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Yamina denies seeking law that would bar Netanyahu from running for Knesset

In this November 24, 2019, photo, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit an army base in the Golan Heights, on the Israeli-Syrian border. (Atef Safadi/Pool via AP)

‘Change bloc’ bill said to call a lengthy PM tenure ‘democratic market failure’

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An ultra-Orthodox news site in Israel blurred the face of the only woman in a photo published on June 7, 2021. (Screenshot from Behadrei Haredim via JTA)

Face factsUltra-Orthodox site blurs face of Labor’s female leader

By JTA and ToI Staff

US evangelical leader Mike Evans speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on June 7, 2021 (Screen capture/YouTube)

Top evangelical leader warns: Israel could lose our support if Netanyahu ousted

Mike Evans says his 77 million followers will ‘go into the opposition’ with Netanyahu; decries coalition that seeks to replace PM as anti-Zionists who’ll surrender to radical Islam

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves upon arrival at Queen Alia International Airport, in the Jordanian capital Amman, on May 26, 2021. (Alex Brandon/POOL/AFP)

US will work with any Israeli government, says Blinken

Holocaust'What historians are going to find is not very pleasant'

German royal family lawsuit could backfire and reveal nobles’ support for Nazis

By Robert Philpot

While the aristocracy is often lauded for the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler, evidence in a compensation claim sought by the Hohenzollern house may expose a closet full of skeletons

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

Live updates (closed)

Jerusalem flag march to be held next Tuesday, two days after vote on new gov’t

Compromise backed by Netanyahu and Gantz, depends on police okaying parade’s route

6:14 pm

New government's swearing-in to be held Sunday at 4 p.m.
6:02 pm

Security cabinet: Contentious Jerusalem flag march can be held next week
5:46 pm

Netanyahu, Gantz said meeting on flags march compromise

What Apartheid is – and what it isn’t

Likening Israel to one of the evilest systems of domination in the world insults S. African blacks who suffered under its yoke and all who died to overthrow it

William Echikson

Europe’s unequal treatment of its Jewish denominations

Letting governments pick and choose which Jews they like and dislike affects not only Progressive Jews, it impacts the future of all European Jewry

Is Zionism guilty of zoological extermination?

Claims that Jewish pre-state settlers eradicated wildlife are unfair and untrue – conserving the environment has practically been a religious priority in Israel

An Ethiopian-only town: Segregation or cultural preservation?

The plan is a recipe for ghettoizing a community that sees itself as part of Israeli society and needs real solutions to its complex problems

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

Security cabinet to decide whether to allow rerouted Jerusalem flag march

Debate reportedly comes at insistence of Gantz, with PM having sought to hold discussion in smaller forum; security official: ‘Someone is insisting on setting Jerusalem ablaze’

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

After meeting Netanyahu, police chief to present options to enable flag march

Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar speaks during Jerusalem Day celebrations in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Jerusalem chief rabbi compares gay pride marchers to ‘wild animals’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, second right, listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Blinken: Iran may cut nuclear breakout time to weeks if it keeps breaching deal

By Jacob Magid and AFP

US secretary of state admits he’s unsure Tehran interested in rejoining pact; IAEA chief adds to skepticism, saying ‘space narrowing’ for a temporary deal

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and former IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz, center, award IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi with the first campaign medal marking Israel's 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, at a ceremony north of Tel Aviv on June 7, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF begins distributing campaign medals to troops who fought in southern Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

Supporters of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood take part in a protest in the village of Sweimeh, near the Jordanian border with the West Bank, on May 21, 2021. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Charges said dropped against knife-carrying Jordanians who entered Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

A man stands outside his heavily damaged home, next to the rubble of a building that was hit by airstrikes during an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, June 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

UNRWA: Tunnel found under Gaza school hit by Israel in last month’s conflict

By Judah Ari Gross

Announcement comes after head of the UN group is thrown out of the Strip for saying IDF launched ‘precise’ strikes in recent battle; school was empty when IDF hit

Yossi Cohen receiving an honorary doctorate at Bar-Ilan University on May 30, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/Bar-Ilan University)

Former Mossad chief says Qatari payments to Hamas got ‘out of control’

Shas MK Moshe Arbel attends an emergency Knesset conference on disasters at construction sites in Israel on May 27, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90/ File)

Violating army order, Shas MK smuggles building materials to West Bank outpost

Prof. Ygal Rotenstreich, director of Sheba Medical Center's The Retinal Research Laboratory, demonstrates a new blood test device that works by analyzing blood vessels in the eye (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

Invented in Israel, no-needle blood test will blast off for testing in space

By Nathan Jeffay

Handheld device gathers data by scanning blood vessels in eye, sends results directly to doctors; is due to leave Earth for International Space Station in October

In this 2019 photo provided by Biogen, a researcher works on the development of the medication aducanumab in Cambridge, Mass. On Monday, June 7, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration approved aducanumab, the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn’t been shown to help slow the brain-destroying disease. (Biogen via AP)

Despite expert criticism, FDA approves first new Alzheimer’s drug in two decades

By MATTHEW PERRONE

Illustrative: In this May 8, 2014, file photo, an overweight person is seen in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

FDA approves injectable obesity drug that helps people cut weight 15%

By LINDA A. JOHNSON

A car belonging to an Arab family sits torched from recent clashes between Arabs, police and Jews in the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Lod, central Israel, May 25, 2021 (AP Photo/David Goldman)

‘We’re not interested in mingling’: Mixed city of Lod still on edge after unrest

By Ilan Ben Zion and David Goldman

Uneasy calm settles over Jewish-Arab city after last month’s violence; some Arab residents point to election of mayor as turning point due to his ties with national-religious group

The ensemble cast of 'Hamefakedet,' from Kan 11, about a team of officers and their basic training recruits (Courtesy Kan)

Commander in cheek: IDF misfit and oddball charges turn army quirks into hit TV

By Jessica Steinberg

Series puts awkward officer in charge of training squad of outsiders, in a dramedy based on co-creator’s own army service

Israeli fans let off post-COVID steam for alt-metal band Walkways

By Natalie Lisbona

Environmental activists mark World Oceans Day on June 8, 2021, by protesting at the Knesset against an agreement to allow the transfer of Gulf oil to Europe using Israel as a landbridge. (Twitter)

On World Oceans Day, green groups go to Knesset to protest UAE oil deal

Organizations warn that massive environmental disaster may result from secretive plan by Israel state company and binational consortium to channel Gulf oil to Europe via Israel

An illustration of ‘Cooper’, the largest dinosaur found in Australia. (Vlad Konstantinov/Queensland and Eromanga Natural History museums)

New gigantic dinosaur identified in Australia, among the world’s largest

By AFP

Rasela Mizrahi, right, speaks to a colleague during a cabinet meeting in Skopje, North Macedonia, January 14, 2020. (Courtesy of the Parliament of North Macedonia/ via JTA)

'It has changed how I see my country'

North Macedonia’s first Jewish lawmaker breaks taboos, is hit with antisemitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

As Rasela Mizrahi becomes a hero to some on the right, others on the left unleash the biggest post-Holocaust torrent of hatred ever seen by the country’s Jewish community of 200

Vienna university offers $9,000 scholarship for young Jewish studies researchers

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Headstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine and Romania

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Illustrative. An Israeli military police officer, right, directs two imprisoned Israeli soldiers through a door at Prison Four, Israel's largest military prison, at the Tzrifin military base in central Israel on April 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

IDF: Officer who mysteriously died in prison seriously harmed national security

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Jamie Lee Curtis poses at the Big Screen Achievement Awards at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 4, 2019. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Synagogue in eastern Hungary to get facelift thanks to Jamie Lee Curtis

By Yaakov Schwartz

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan casts his vote for Israel to join the United Nations Economic and Social Council on June 7, 2021. (Israel at the UN)

Israel elected to UN economic council for the first time

Violent protesters, loyal to US President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP/ John Minchillo)

US Senate probe reveals sweeping failures around January 6 Capitol storming

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Illustrative: Amazon packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon warehouse facility in Goodyear, Arizona, December 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Large swaths of internet temporarily downed by outage at cloud company Fastly

President Ruby Rivlin with Nechama Spiegel Novak, the first ultra-Orthodox woman pilot, whose portrait is portrayed in 'Hamsa Aleinu,' a new exhibit at Ben Gurion Airport (Courtesy GPO)

Portrait galleryOn the way to the plane, photos show pieces of the Israeli jigsaw

By Jessica Steinberg

The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, where Alta Fixsler has been treated since her birth. (Wikimedia Commons)

Health minister appeals to UK counterpart to intervene in case of ill toddler

Illustrative. A hacker breaking into a computer. (gorodenkoff via iStockPhoto)

Israel researchers find four security flaws in Microsoft Office software

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel's Gefen Primo reacts after her fight against Uzbekistan's Diyora Keldiyorova, in the bronze medal match of the women's under-52kg category during the 2021 Judo World Championships at 'Papp Laszlo' Arena in Budapest, Hungary, on June 7, 2021. (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Israel’s Gefen Primo wins bronze at World Judo Championships

People attend a memorial at the location where a family of five was hit by a driver, in London, Ontario, June 7, 2021 (Brett Gundlock/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian family killed in ramming were targeted for being Muslim — police

Cans of Zyklon B on display at Auschwitz. (photo credit: CC BY Jaysmark, Flickr)

AJC slams Arizona plans to restart executions with ‘Zyklon B’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A view of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

American Jewish Committee opens UAE office, its first in an Arab nation

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